NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2008

The oldest resident orca on B.C.'s south coast is believed to have died.

A Coquitlam, B.C., woman needed surgery to repair damage to her head, torso and arms after she was mauled by a bear in her yard Wednesday morning.

Perhaps it's not so surprising that there's been a lot of teen talk surrounding Canada's medal hopes for the Beijing Olympics.

Police have arrested one man during an Olympic protest outside of Vancouver, B.C.'s Chinese consulate building.

The head of the AIDS Committee of Ottawa is challenging Health Minister Tony Clement to provide evidence for his assertion that safe injection sites don't help drug addicts but instead lead to a form of "harm addition."

Four people died Wednesday when their helicopter crashed into the icy Kitsault River in northwestern British Columbia.

Paris Hilton spoofs John McCain campaign ad

A new map of the Arctic has been drawn up by British cartographers which reveals the squabbling among countries staking a claim to its vast natural resources.

U.S. swimmer Amanda Beard unveiled a demure nude photograph of herself urging women "Don't wear fur" on Wednesday, hours after Chinese authorities had prevented her from her staging a news conference for "safety" reasons. The Athens 2004 Olympic gold m

Anyone with a life probably didn't hear the one about the Canadian foreign affairs minister who dropped his secret briefs on the doorstep of a former biker chick's townhouse and dashed upstairs all revved up to "retire" for the night.

He left his Ottawa home yesterday morning after the RCMP issued an arrest warrant calling on him to start serving his sentence.

Diving commodity prices, including oil spiralling below $120 US a barrel on grim economic news from the United States and Europe, shook investors while pointing towards some relief for Canadian consumers.

Experts working with Parks Canada say flooding and erosion at Nunavut's Auyuittuq National Park are related to a flood that hit the nearby hamlet of Pangnirtung in June.

A Toronto police officer said Tuesday he has heard "disturbing" third-hand information about the life of a seven-year-old girl who was found dead on Sunday, and now he's pleading for people with first-hand knowledge to come forward with details.

OTTAWA -- A Commons committee is serving an extraordinary 31 summonses to unwilling witnesses it wants to testify at a probe into the Conservative "in-and-out" advertising scheme.

Bogus websites purporting to sell tickets for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing have scammed hundreds of ticket buyers out of Olympian-sized payments.

A veteran chuckwagon driver and 14 horses are dead after his tractor-trailer smashed into a pickup truck Tuesday in northwestern Alberta.

TIANJIN -- Defender Candace Chapman and striker Kara Lang scored goals as the Canadian women's soccer team defeated Argentina 2-1 Wednesday in their first ever game at the Summer Olympics.

An elderly Ontario woman who spent 44 hours lost in the woods has described a terrifying ordeal complete with wild animals, injury and near death experiences before her eventual rescue.

With its plan to construct a new fleet of navy supply ships in disarray, the Defence Department dispatched a retired admiral to the Netherlands for discussions that some in Canada's maritime industry worry could lead to the vessels eventually being built

The Canadian women's soccer team won its debut Wednesday at the 2008 Beijing Games, defeating Argentina 2-1 in Group E action

A record low number of salmon in Yukon rivers this summer has hit food retailers in the territory, who say regular supplies of wild salmon have all but dried up.

Officials with the Department of National Defence say they are moving ahead with plans to build a military deep-sea port in Nunavut's High Arctic, with a team surveying the site this summer

A new seven-year study of the Arctic's shrinking sea ice - which is headed for another above-average melt this summer - concludes that the polar cap is not only losing vast swathes of surface area but also experiencing a "drastic thinning"

Pamela Anderson had her first taste of KFC in Vancouver Monday after years of campaigning against the fried-chicken chain.

Man decapitated in Greyhound attack had cited use of ecstasy by passengers

Canada is making plans to send a Halifax-based frigate to waters off the horn of Africa to stop pirates from attacking food shipments bound for Somalia.

The Canadian women's soccer team will make its first Olympic appearance, as well as kick off the 2008 Beijing Games, against Argentina on Wednesday (CBC, 4:45 a.m. ET).

A 24-year-old woman lost control of her car while backing out of a residential driveway "at a rapid rate of speed" in the 100 block of Saddlecrest Close N.E., said Calgary police

Greyhound Canada is removing all ads that were part of campaign related to "bus rage" in the wake of last week's horrific attack against a Greyhound passenger travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg.

TORONTO -- Federal Health Minister Tony Clement says Canada will spend $45 million toward fighting the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa.

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market regained back some of its early losses but remained down nearly 300 points in Tuesday morning trading as falling energy stocks and an eroding Canadian dollar continued to wreak havoc on trading.

Trucks, vans, SUVS don't have to comply with bumper regulations

The Canadian government is set to embark on the biggest search ever for the fabled British shipwrecks Erebus and Terror, which were lost in the Canadian Arctic in the 1840s during the ill-fated Franklin Expedition

OTTAWA -- RCMP spies infiltrated the women's movement in the early 1970s, monitoring marches and rallies to keep an eye on feminists including Rita MacNeil, who would become a much-admired Maritime songstress.

A Vancouver man is in police custody following a series of violent attacks in the midst of otherwise peaceful gay pride celebrations in Vancouver Sunday. Police say the incident began when a 31-year-old man was chased into the street by a shop owner af

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- America's first war crimes trial since the Second World War went to the jury Monday as a panel of six U.S. military officers began deliberating whether to send Osama bin Laden's former driver away for life.

Officials from the Wasagamack First Nation are speaking out about what they call a "senseless killing of a First Nation youth." They are planning to hold a news conference Tuesday morning outside the Simcoe Street house where 26-year-old Craig McDouga

OTTAWA -- A Montreal court may be about to make Canadian legal history in a case that could see offenders considered guilty until proved innocent.

BEIJING -- The food is good, the beds are comfortable and the venues great. The Olympic flame won't officially be lit until Friday but so far Canadian athletes and support staff like what they see at the Beijing Summer Games.

The survivor of a plane crash that killed five people sent text messages about his location from a nearby hill, so rescue crews could narrow their search. The aircraft went down in northern Vancouver Island and burst into flames.

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been seriously injured in a car accident in Mississippi and is in hospital in Memphis.

NEW YORK -- Oil prices plunged in a massive selloff Monday, falling below US$120 a barrel for the first time since early May after Tropical Storm Edouard appeared unlikely to threaten oil and natural gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico

OGDENSBURG, N.Y. - A state trooper and a Canadian man were electrocuted while fixing a flat tire on an antique fire truck when the truck's ladder touched a high-voltage power line in northern New York state

"The Liberals have a deep structural problem, I can't believe how slow they've been to adapt to the new reality, that new reality is that you can't raise money from corporations anymore and second, you can't raise more than $1,100 a pop from individuals .

A man shot by a cop after stabbing a city police dog is suing for $1 million, claiming he requires on-going medical care and has suffered a loss of income.

Obama had held a nine-point lead in the Gallup Poll tracking survey as of July 26, but that lead completely eroded by Saturday, when the two were tied at 44 per cent.

The mother of 7-year-old Katelynn Sampson was overcome with grief yesterday after finding out the woman accused in her daughter's murder was a close friend who had been given legal custody of the little girl.

Another Cuban baseball player has gone missing from a junior baseball tournament in Edmonton.

SURREY, B.C. -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Sunday for the 1914 Komogata Maru incident in which hundreds of Indians seeking a better life in Canada were turned away.

An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead. Xinhua, China's official news agency, cited local police in calling Monday's event a "suspected terrorist attack."

A woman who was doused with gasoline and set ablaze is in critical condition at Vancouver General Hospital with second- and third-degree burns to half her body, police said Sunday.

Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening

GILGIT, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least nine climbers have perished on K-2, the world's second highest peak, in Pakistan in one of the blackest days in the sport of mountaineering

BEIJING - It's four days before the official start of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and a first glance upon arrival in this remarkable land has revealed that the Chinese have pretty much everything under control. Or, controlled.

OTTAWA -- The Harper government might be overestimating how much its climate-change plan will lower greenhouse gases, says a federal advisory panel.

The man accused of fatally stabbing a 22-year-old man on a Greyhound bus, and then beheading his victim as horrified passengers fled for safety, once worked as a custodian at a Winnipeg church.

Search and rescue crews in British Columbia have made contact via cellphone with one of the passengers aboard an airplane that crashed earlier today on northern Vancouver island

A First Nation in southeastern British Columbia, declared legally extinct by the Canadian government more than 50 years ago, is making a land claim.

OTTAWA - Gay and lesbian refugee claimants struggling to shed old-world views of their sexuality are turning to new-age technology to make their case

SHERBROOKE, Que. - Quebec Liberal youth won't see their dream of a more bilingual province become a reality any time soon.

SURREY, B.C. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has apologized for the Komogata Maru incident from 1914 in which hundreds of Indians seeking a better life in Canada were turned away.

Upon further review, the Canadian Football League has determined the ejection of Calgary Stampeders' linebacker JoJuan Armour from Saturday's game with the Saskatchewan Roughriders was unwarranted.

Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.

VANCOUVER -- In 1971, infamous fugitive D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane in Seattle, demanded US$200,000 in ransom and four parachutes.

MOSCOW -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure

It's the B.C. Day long weekend, time to celebrate the 150th anniversary of, um, what?

Russia has begun a push to claim a vast chunk of disputed Arctic territory in an aggressive campaign to win control of the region's oil and gas resources.

VANCOUVER - Cut down trees, protect the forests. Drill for oil, cut greenhouse gas emissions. Build new highways, encourage less driving.

An athletic shoe, containing bones and flesh has been discovered on a Strait of Juan de Fuca beach, just south of the U.S-Canada border

British Columbia's Sea to Sky Highway, blocked by a rock slide since Tuesday, is open again

A search and rescue mission was underway Sunday after a small plane with eight people aboard was reported missing in the area of northern Vancouver Island.

CARSON, Calif. - Pierre Luc Gagnon of Montreal snagged himself a gold medal Saturday in the Vert final at the X-Games.

A man is dead after choking on a golf ball-sized bag of crack cocaine as Surrey RCMP tried to arrest him. Brandon Whitelaw, 22, was riding in a car with another man at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when RCMP drug section members pulled them over for minor t

A B.C. man has filed a human-rights complaint alleging religious discrimination after a TV personality flew a plane pulling a "Jesus sucks" banner over Toronto. Dean Skoreyko of Coldstream, B.C., filed the complaint against Kenneth Hotz and Showcase TV

Guests of the McLennan Hotel in northwest Alberta got an early wake-up call after a car barrelled through the building.

Less than two months after a motorcycle rider struck a bear in Kootenay National Park, another rider collided with one of the large carnivores and lived to tell the tale.

Police in Winnipeg shot and killed a man early Saturday morning. Police have released few details about the incident, but they said it occurred when they responded to calls for help at a city residence

And the winner is...

A farmer wearing a military jacket fires shells from a double-barrelled 37-mm anti-aircraft gun into the sky over Beijing, aiming at clouds drifting toward the Bird's Nest stadium. The shells contain silver iodide -- a chemical that makes clouds weep. If

With the win, Saskatchewan improved its record to 6-0, tops in the CFL. Calgary dropped to 3-3 and is tied for third in the West Division with the B.C. Lions.

A chilling recording of a radio transmission between RCMP officers responding to the killing of a man who was stabbed and dismembered aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba, was leaked on the Internet and received widespread attention Saturday.

Last minute preparations are underway for the 2008 Vancouver Pride Parade on Sunday. This year it's expected to attract hundreds of thousands of people, a testament to Vancouver's diversity and acceptance.

A father who is accused of snatching his seven-year-old daughter during a supervised visit to the US is now in custody in Baltimore, the FBI has said.

MONTREAL - Veteran road racer Ron Fellows won an historic NAPA Auto Parts 200 in which NASCAR drivers raced in rain for the first time only to see the Nationwide series event stopped due to dangerously low visibility after only 48 laps on Saturday.

A young man who was beheaded while travelling on a Greyhound bus was a summer carnival worker at Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition.

In a move sure to agitate privacy advocates, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed last week that federal agents have now been given the power to seize and detain laptops and certain other electronics without any suspicion of wr

KABUL - The accidental shooting deaths of two Afghan children by Canadian troops and threats of revenge from their father are unfortunate but such incidents are becoming increasingly rare, says Canada's outgoing ambassador to Afghanistan.

A federal government report on the missing classified documents that cost former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier his job concludes that his ex-girlfriend may have broken Canada's secrets laws.

TORONTO -- If you're a city slicker lost this long weekend in the wilderness with no food or water, not to worry: There are more than enough leaves to lick and bugs to barbeque until you find your way back to paved civilization.

Environmental groups are trying to bully First Nations into abandoning their logging plans in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt says.

It's been an out-of-this-world experience. That's the best way 25-year-old Calgary driver Wheeler Boys could sum up his time so far this week at Montreal's NASCAR Nationwide Series stop.

Machinegunner Tony Spiess, a Seaforth Highlander from Vancouver, was having nightmares, drinking heavily and causing enough trouble to get himself repeatedly arrested.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The latest Canadian casualty in Afghanistan isn't a soldier and wasn't wounded in an enemy attack.

Spotting him squeezed into a tiny cubicle in the middle of CBC's Ottawa bureau on Friday was surreal. Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein has, after all, spent three decades demonizing the network as a hostile, left-leaning, fat-cat operation, animosity

Passengers who witnessed a grisly killing aboard a Greyhound bus prevented an even greater tragedy by getting off and locking the accused killer inside, according to one local self-defence expert.

VICTORIA - It's Canada's youngest province, its westernmost and, arguably, one of its wackiest. It is way over on the left-hand side of the map and, some might say, it is the most left-leaning.

DELHI, Ont. - The heart of Canada's century-old tobacco-growing industry took another step toward its inexorable demise Friday as hundreds of farmers and their families turned out to hear Ottawa announce $300 million to help them leave their once proud an

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro slammed Edmonton Thursday in an Internet column addressing the two baseball players who defected during a junior tournament in the city.

VANCOUVER - New forensic evidence uncovered by a B.C. criminologist suggests the crew aboard King Henry VIII's favourite warship sank in 1545 because the mostly Spanish crew didn't understand the captain's orders.

Raw video:August 01/08:The total eclipse of the Sun, seen over the Canadian Arctic,

U.S. authorities now have the power to seize and detain travellers' electronic devices, including laptops and cellphones, and make copies of their contents at an off-site location, under newly disclosed customs policies.

The Sea to Sky Highway, the primary route between Vancouver and 2010 Olympic sites in Whistler, could re-open late Sunday, the B.C.'s chief geotechnical engineer says.

The water coming out of Mildred Dyck's tap doesn't worry her despite what happened in 2001. That's when parasites contaminated the supply for North Battleford, Sask., where she lives and 50 people ended up in hospital. Another 2,000 got sick

The rediscovery of an important century-old map of the Canadian Arctic created by Quebec explorer Joseph-Elzear Bernier -- the legendary ship captain credited with cementing Canadian control over its polar frontier -- gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper an

A provocative new study of the record-setting Arctic thaw that's unlocking the Northwest Passage and transforming Canada's polar frontier has, for the first time, drawn a clear connection between rising global carbon pollution and the retreat of sea ice.

COSMETIC surgery to "rejuvenate" the vagina has been blacklisted by Australian gynaecologists who say more women are being injured by the dangerous procedures.

The family of 22-year-old Tim McLean, stabbed and decapitated Wednesday in a vicious attack on a Greyhound bus, are angry the RCMP took so long to inform them that he was the victim.

A 17-year-old girl and three 19-year-old men face assault charges after a Toronto man was beaten and stabbed in Owen Sound during an attack Tuesday night that may have been racially motivated.

Sailors who survived the devastating fire aboard HMCS Chicoutimi almost four years ago could be eligible for the same kind of benefits consideration as veterans of the Afghan war, if one federal department has its way.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a strong message for Liberal leader Stephane Dion Thursday: work with the government to pass legislation or prepare for an election.

VANCOUVER -- Canada Border Services Agency has charged four B.C. men for reselling replica handguns meant to be used for TV and film productions.

Almost half of CBC's 10,000 employees suffer from "high levels" of psychological distress related to their working conditions, according to a 2005 "wellness" survey of 4,630 staff obtained through the Access to Information Act.

MONTREAL -- Canada's two major tobacco manufacturers, Imperial Tobacco Canada and Rothmans Benson & Hedges, have pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting in the smuggling of cigarettes and loose tobacco in the 1980s and 1990s and have agreed to pay fines and