NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2009

LOS ANGELES � New images suggest Mars had a sizable lake on its surface billions of years ago, further evidence that the planet had a watery past.

Usually one of the NHL's biggest jokesters, a serious Alex Ovechkin graciously accepted the Hart Trophy as league MVP for the second season in a row.

Toronto FC pulled off the miracle no one thought they could on Thursday, winning 6-1 over the Montreal Impact to win the 2009 Nutrilite Canadian Championship.

MONTREAL - Hockey legend Guy Lafleur didn't flinch as a judge handed him a suspended sentence on Thursday for giving contradictory testimony in an attempt to help his son nearly two years ago.

Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.

A Russian woman ended up in intensive care after restoring her virginity for the sixth time.

WASHINGTON -- Defence Secretary Robert Gates says he is positioning defences near Hawaii just in case North Korea fires a missile across the Pacific toward the U.S. island state.

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's massive stockpile of chemical weapons is as threatening as its nuclear program, analysts said Thursday

Russia downplayed North Korea's threats Thursday, as a Japanese newspaper reported the reclusive nation could be ready to test fire a long-range missile toward Hawaii within weeks.

Alberta's finance minister is apologizing to people who may have been offended by remarks she made in Toronto Wednesday suggesting that in order to raise children "properly" one parent should stay at home

A grizzly bear was spotted this week in Sachs Harbour, a rare sight in the northernmost community in the Northwest Territories.

Environmental groups have long called the tailings lakes in the Alberta oilsands Canada's toxic secret, but companies operating there will soon be required to disclose exactly what pollutants are there.

Lafleur had no reaction as provincial court Judge Claude Parent announced the Hall of Famer would have to pay a fine of $100 and make a $10,000 charitable donation.

EDMONTON -- The Edmonton man killed in a southern Alberta plane crash was a fighter pilot in the Second World War, friends say

Internet service providers would have to make it possible for police and intelligence officers to intercept online communications and get personal information about subscribers under bills tabled Thursday. "We must ensure that law enforcement has the n

Canada's annual inflation rate came in at 0.1 per cent in May, down from 0.4 per cent in April, owing to a year-over-year decline in energy prices, Statistics Canada said Thursday

RCMP in B.C. have busted another marijuana grow operation in the Kootenays, but how and where they found it has some locals squawking.

The House of Commons has unanimously passed a bill to expand the Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Wednesday afternoon.

Parks Canada staff are on the lookout for an aggressive grizzly bear and her two cubs, who have been spotted uncomfortably close to the Banff townsite.

OTTAWA -- A former soldier who returned his military medals in protest to the Governor General will get a chance to argue for his class-action lawsuit in the country's highest court.

Emily Carr's Wind in the Tree Tops may feature its fair share of green on its canvas, but the 1930s work has now generated even more green at auction.

Formula One racing could return to Montreal as early as next year, CBC News has learned.

Transportation Safety Board investigators say there is reason to believe the pilot of Cougar Flight 491 was trying to make a controlled landing when the helicopter crashed off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 17 people.

OTTAWA -- Canada's top court will hear the case of a Vancouver lawyer who was detained for hours and strip-searched by police after they mistakenly thought he planned to throw a pie at Jean Chretien.

A Continental Airlines flight from Europe has landed safely in Newark, New Jersey, after the pilot died in flight prompting a mid-air emergency.

The NHL puts an exclaimation mark on the 2008-09 season tonight when the league hands out its annual regular season awards show in sunny Las Vegas.

It appears that the Vancouver Canucks will have to break the bank if they want to hold on to the Sedin brothers.

CALGARY -- Yesterday's ruthless and relentless attack on a 92-year-old woman by thieves during a purse-snatching disgusted even veteran police.

EDMONTON -- An Edmonton-based soldier is dead after his truck rolled and crashed on CFB Edmonton grounds, according to military officials.

WINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg teen released on bail after he repeatedly stabbed another teen with a screwdriver wasted no time returning to his violent ways.

TORONTO -- A former Toronto fire captain testified yesterday he panicked when "a nightmare allegation of child porngraphy" threatened to destroy his life.

CALGARY - There's no gorilla warfare going on at the Calgary Zoo.

BARRIE -- A Toronto man now serving time in prison for taking part in the murder of Katlin Cousineau testified he is labelled as a "wheelchair killer" and is afraid he will be slain in prison

The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.

OAKVILLE -- Paul Parkin has served this country well. At 23, he enlisted to fight in the Second World War, refusing to take no for an answer when he was first turned down because of poor vision. He returned with glasses and they signed him up.

WINNIPEG -- An Ontario judge has handed down one of the most egregious sentences I've seen in a long time to a woman who forced a toddler's hands into a pot of boiling water, causing fourth-degree burns.

A shoal of tankers has gathered around popular Mediterranean holiday spot Malta, storing enough oil to supply the EU's smallest island republic for nearly three years, Reuters data show.

Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke let it be known that the Leafs will not be in on the Dany Heatley sweepstakes, and he pulled no punches along the way.

Danny Williams denounced a radio host for "pessimism and crap" during a testy on-air exchange yesterday morning that ended with the sound of the Newfoundland and Labrador Premier abruptly hanging up.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea may launch a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday

The federal government is enhancing protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales by adding two important feeding grounds to the Species at Risk Act.

Mario Lemieux will add another honour to his legendary hockey career when he becomes one of the newest members of the National Order of Quebec on Wednesday

Conservation officers have shot and killed a cougar that attacked a three-year-old B.C. girl while she was picking berries with her mother Tuesday evening.

Third-string quarterback Drew Tate threw one touchdown pass and ran for another to lead the Calgary Stampeders to a 37-30 win over the British Columbia Lions in Wednesday's pre-season opener for both teams.

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - Canada's western premiers are pitching free trade as the shining light out of the recession and the alternative to the "Buy America" stance south of the border.

OTTAWA - The ceasefire between Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff has erased a summer election from the calendar, but party troops are circling November as a distinct possibility for the next federal vote.

The federal government is considering moving a controversial border post from Mohawk territory near Cornwall, Ont., around 100 kilometres southeast of Ottawa.

Residents in a New Westminster, B.C., neighbourhood are annoyed by a new method of keeping the homeless away from a nearby commercial building.

British Columbia's top court will rule next Thursday on the appeal of serial killer Robert Pickton's murder convictions.

Conservation officers in Squamish, B.C., continue to hunt for two more cougars after a rash of attacks, including one in which a mother fought off an attack on her daughter, 3, who couldn't understand why the big kitty didn't want to "play nice."

Autopsies revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France disaster victims, a Brazilian official said Wednesday. Experts said those injuries � and the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic � strongly suggest the plane broke up

NEW YORK - A racy Calvin Klein billboard is raising even New Yorkers' jaded eyebrows, with some passers-by saying the clothing maker crossed the line with its sexy advertisement.

EASTBOURNE, England -- Aleksandra Wozniak hasn't had much luck on grass in her WTA career. Judging by her performance Tuesday, her fortunes may be turning around

The phalanx of naked cyclists at Bloor and Avenue Rd. on Saturday afternoon drew a variety of responses, but I wonder how many people shared mine?

A senior Newfoundland and Labrador police officer has been given a conditional discharge and placed on probation after being convicted of sexual assault.

Charlottetown police have been trying for weeks to convince picketers to take down their giant inflatable rat near property developer APM's head office, and finally arrived Tuesday with an order for its removal.

The idea that addiction is a disease and that addicts do not have control over their disease, has been a pillar of belief of the psychology community for decades. Yet Gene Heyman, a lecturer in psychology at Harvard Medical School, has set off a firestorm

OTTAWA -- Canada's border officers arrest people and carry guns just like the Mounties but lack proper oversight - a void that leaves Canadians exposed, says the RCMP's watchdog.

Five people have been injured in a knife fight that took place at a Mississauga high school Wednesday morning.

CALGARY - Onlookers at the Calgary Zoo were shocked Tuesday when a western lowland gorilla picked up a knife and pointed it at a troop mate, then placed it on a chair for the keepers to remove

The Pittsburgh Penguins' championship-clinching 2-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings on NBC on Friday night averaged 8 million viewers. The network said Monday that's the most since Game 6 of the 1973 Stanley Cup finals between Montreal and Chicago.

Chalack introduced construction guru Mike Holmes as this year's parade marshal. And the Holmes On Homes star said he was thrilled with the honour.

As we are rapidly discovering by his almost compulsive use of the personal pronoun, this is a leader who probably wishes he'd been present at Creation so he could have offered some useful tips. Mr. Harper's invitation to meet has given the Liberal lead

Mason noted Cochrane's sexual relationship with her first victim was initially legal, but became unlawful when Ottawa raised the age of consent. He said Cochrane's affair with her second victim was at first illegal, but is continuing now the girl can lawf

A teenage girl is suing a tattoo artist for �10,000 after she allegedly asked him for three stars on her face - but ended up with 56.

A group of Caledonia residents is trying to organize an unarmed citizens' "militia" to enforce laws they say the Ontario Provincial Police have failed to uphold since their community turned into ground zero of a land-claim battle between an Iroquois commu

Forget the blasted economy for a moment. Ignore the fact that Ford and its American brethren are pinned on the ropes. Set aside any left-brain notions that a 540 hp solid rear axle pony car is hopelessly irrelevant and possesses all the environmental inte

VANCOUVER -- It's called "bleeding the beast" -- a term used by avowed polygamists to describe taking money from government. And few appear to be more adept at sucking up public dollars than millionaire polygamist and self-styled "Bishop of Bountiful"

Editor denies being pushed to fire intern after story on opposition to N.B. premier's honorary degree

WASHINGTON -- Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama's presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the White House.

While payments from 2010 Winter Olympics sponsors are rolling in, Vancouver organizers are still waiting for $30 million in funding from the International Olympic Committee.

Hockey is headed to Las Vegas for the annual NHL Awards from the Palms Hotel on Thursday night (CBC, 8:30 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. NT).

OTTAWA - Canada quietly signed an international agreement on regulating private security companies in war-zones just weeks after a Canadian soldier was allegedly shot by a contractor during a confused firefight in Afghanistan last summer.

Parliament's budget watchdog is woefully underfunded, the Library of Parliament committee said in a report released Tuesday. The committee recommended his 2009-2010 budget be raised to $2.8 million from $1.86 million.

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams said Tuesday a tentative agreement has been reached on expanding the Hibernia oilfield, in a deal that is expected to yield $10 billion to the provincial treasury.

NASA has scrubbed Wednesday's scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour because of a hydrogen gas leak.

Residents in Brackendale, a community in the northern part of Squamish, B.C., were told to be on guard and keep pets indoors Tuesday night while conservation officers tracked a cougar that attacked a three-year-old girl.

It obviously comes as a shock that Braley, the owner of the Lions, has for the past several years also been a secret, de facto financial facilitator of the Argos.

VANCOUVER -- Two Vancouver-area ferries that will soon be rendered obsolete thanks to B.C.'s newest bridge have gone up for sale on Craigslist for $1.1 million each.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will meet again Wednesday in an attempt to defuse a political showdown threatening to spark a summer election.

A judge is shielding the identity of dozens of witnesses to a drive-by shooting last August in downtown Prince George.

B.C.'s new solicitor general, Kash Heed, said he will work to find a solution for search and rescue (SAR) societies needing third-party liability insurance.

A remote volcano in the North Pacific is playing havoc with flights between Vancouver and Asia, as Air Canada, Air China, Asiana Airlines and Korean Airlines all cancelled or delayed flights in and out of Vancouver International Airport on Tuesday.

On 2 June 2009, while HMCS Winnipeg was alongside in Victoria, Seychelles Islands, a number of commendations were awarded, including one Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) Commendation and six Commander Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM) Commenda

NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin says she accepts David Letterman's apology for the joke he made about her daughter.

WASHINGTON -- Declaring North Korea a "grave threat" to the world, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged the U.S. and its allies will aggressively enforce fresh international penalties against the nuclear-armed nation

OTTAWA -- The federal government has put off asking shipbuilders for ideas on the construction of a flotilla of Arctic patrol boats, a sign that the two-year-old program is in trouble.

After three years of construction costing $800 million, Metro Vancouver's new Golden Ears Bridge finally opened to traffic when the first cars crossed just after 2 a.m. PT Tuesday.

A Saskatchewan war veteran says he's saddened after discovering a racist slur written on a war memorial in Regina.

Wildlife officials in Inuvik, N.W.T., have relocated a nest built last week by two ospreys that are making a rare appearance in the Arctic town.

The Maritimes' iconic Bay of Fundy is back in the running to win an international natural wonders contest after a bid by Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park suddenly became extinct.

A retired Manitoba archeologist is accusing the builders of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights of mistreating First Nations heritage.

Haylie Hocking, 27, only found out that strapping 30-year-old fitness fanatic Jason Brake made adult films just weeks before the big day.

"Provocation at the highest level," was the way one Austrian headline described Bruno.

Canada is both a source country for pedophiles travelling abroad in search of victims and a destination for sex tourists, particularly from the United States.

Vancouver city, which took over financing of the controversial and troubled Olympic Athletes Village on False Creek, plans to inject another $21.9 million.

JUNE 12--A North Carolina man is facing criminal charges for creating an amusing piece of public art from construction barrels.

A man reported missing by his wife last week was located Saturday. But he says he wasn't missing -- just following his wife's wishes to go away.

Authorities said a man faces a felony charge after allegedly spitting on a police officer's McDonald's breakfast sandwich.

A British pup had a narrow flush with disaster after his 4-year-old master decided to give him a bath in the toilet.

CALGARY - Two of President Barack Obama's top advisers on energy and climate change said Monday the Alberta oilsands are a key part of the U.S. energy mix, but warned its development must be cleaned up because there's "a lot of concern" south of the borde

TORONTO -- When the governor general awards the prestigious Star of Courage medal to slain Const. Chris Garrett posthumously Friday, none of his fellow Cobourg Police brethren will be in attendance

TORONTO -- An exotic dancer at a well-known male strip club in Etobicoke is facing charges after a female patron complained she was sexually assaulted over the weekend.

A one-year-old child has been found safe after his mother reported her car had been carjacked with her son in the backseat from a Costco parking lot north of Toronto.

As the remains of Air France Flight 447 are still being recovered after last week's crash in the Atlantic that saw all 228 people aboard lose their lives, this story has emerged in headlines today. As the Times online reports, an Italian woman who arrived

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's self-proclaimed role as the education premier will be tested as he embarks on an integrated full-day kindergarten and childcare program with the province facing a mounting deficit and opposition from the country's largest

Iran's top legislative body said on Tuesday it was ready to carry out a partial recount in a disputed presidential election that has prompted the biggest street protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

In the new Canadian film The Baby Formula, opening later this week, two lesbians become pregnant using sperm derived from each other's stem cells. The premise of the mockumentary may be fictional, but with the speed at which stem cell research is evol

CBC Newsworld is reportedly in the midst of a "renewal," poised to embrace a CNN-style format of round-the-clock news with a focus on personalities rather than in-depth coverage, according to several senior CBC staffers.

A staff report to be debated by city council on Tuesday recommends allowing secondary suites as small as 205 square feet to be built within existing apartments.

Bankruptcy judge Redfield T. Baum has rejected the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes to Jim Balsillie and the transfer of the team to Canada. Details to follow

Louis Pasquin appeared remarkably calm for someone who had just been told he'd be serving a 54-month prison term for using his position as a lawyer to facilitate transactions between two alleged drug traffickers.

By The Canadian Press OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians are massively opposed to a federal election this summer.