NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2009

The chihuahuas, which weigh about three pounds each, had cornered the mountain lion. She says the big cat appeared to be angry

A Calgary woman with a coyote and three pups living under her garden shed said her backyard visitors are cute, but she wants them gone before a child or small animal is hurt.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is willing to meet Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff to discuss his demands for changes to the employment insurance system to avoid triggering a summer election.

A judge has decided the inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski will be allowed to make findings of misconduct against the four RCMP officers involved. The officers who stunned Dziekanski with a Taser at Vancouver's airport challenged Commissioner

June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Paul McCartney, the former Beatle and vegetarian pop star, asked fans to go meatless on Mondays to help slow global warming by reducing the amount of gaseous emissions from farm animals. Cows, pigs and sheep bred for human consum

Published: Monday, June 15, 2009 Mark Cuban is not versed in the intricate details of the bankruptcy court drama unfolding this month in Arizona, but as the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he has come to learn a thing or two about the nature o

A four-star U.S. general took charge of roughly 88,000 American and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan Monday in a move the Pentagon hopes will help advance efforts to end the increasingly violent eight-year war.

A Trout River man says he ran for his life when a mudslide tore through his property on Saturday.

Health officials have told residents of a small community on Labrador's coast to be wary of possible contamination from an abandoned military site in their midst.

Supporters of a grocery store owner in Toronto's Chinatown say they want charges of forcible confinement and kidnapping against him dropped.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Vancouver's Brent Hayden led a Canadian medal barrage Sunday -- and he did so with a stunning victory over swimming's golden boy.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff listed a series of conditions on Monday that he said Prime Minister Stephen Harper must meet to avoid the Liberals toppling the minority Conservative government and triggering a summer election.

OTTAWA - The federal prison system is looking for help to nurture more zen in the Pen.

TORONTO -- The gentle nature that a Mozambique native lived by may have got her killed during a freak weekend accident at the Toronto Zoo.

REGINA - The man who left his two young daughters to freeze to death on the Yellow Quill First Nation last year is being moved out of Saskatchewan Penitentiary.

Faced with massive costs here for a life-extending drug with a dark history, many desperately ill Canadian cancer patients are turning to Mexico, Brazil and other developing countries for far-cheaper supplies of Thalidomide.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - A B.C. Supreme Court judge is expected to decide today if a lengthy public inquiry can pass judgment on the actions of four RCMP officers who confronted Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport. Justice Arne Silverman has

PARK CITY, Utah � Western premiers and U.S. governors on Sunday hailed their push to develop a cross-border Western Energy Corridor that will be the largest on the planet and one that develops both non-renewable and clean-energy options

After decades of women's rights advocacy and slow but steady social change, women have legitimized their right to work outside the home. But for those who still choose to forgo a career to manage the household, the battle for recognition of their often-be

Leaders of Canada's pregnancy specialists are urging doctors not to induce labour unless there are compelling medical reasons. The call is part of a campaign to "normalize" childbirth and efforts to reduce Canada's soaring cesarean section rate. Some s

TEHRAN -- Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi called off a planned protest rally in Tehran on Monday after the Interior Ministry declared it would be illegal and treated as sedition.

The Snowbirds, Canada's iconic military aerobatic team, have had their wings temporarily clipped while investigators probe a technical problem with their aging fleet of 20 CT-114 Tutors.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for creation of a limited Palestinian state for the first time, saying it would have to be disarmed.

A Quebec architect and his wife have transformed seven old steel shipping containers into a contemporary architectural gem in Ste. Adele, Que., and are hoping now to build a business out the project.

A day after being criticized by Detroit Red Wings forward Kris Draper for not shaking hands with Nicklas Lidstrom after Game 7, Sidney Crosby gave his side of the story.

Japan's emperor will visit Ottawa next month for the first time in 56 years.

OTTAWA -- Economic data can sometimes bring you down, but on the brighter side, economists say that for the first time in 15 years Canadians are paying less for goods than they were a year earlier.

KABUL - Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a four-star American general with a long history in special operations, was to take charge of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Monday, a change of command the Pentagon hopes will turn the tide in the eight-year war.

B.C.'s newest bridge has seen its first traffic jam and it didn't involve a single car.

Members of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba have voted to accept a land claims settlement worth $126 million. The money will compensate for land that was illegally taken in 1907. Under the proposed settlement, every adult member of the band would recei

A Canadian soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan on Sunday when an improvised explosive device he was trying to defuse blew up, the military said.

The Scotch Whisky Association has lost its fight to stop a small Nova Scotia distillery from incorporating the word "Glen" into the name of its single malt whisky.

MONTREAL � Two Montreal English bands may be dropped from a St-Jean-Baptiste concert after one of the backers threatened to pull out over language issues.

While celebrations are on-going this year to mark Charles Darwin's bicentenary, there's at least one place that won't be toasting his memory - a creationist museum in Kentucky, US.

A South Florida teenager was arrested early Sunday and accused of killing and mutilating the cats of his neighbours - a disturbing string of deaths that has horrified residents and shaken animal lovers in two Miami-area communities.

VANCOUVER -- Expensive utility bills leave many Canadians sporting a frown, but some who tear open their monthly statement might soon have a happy face smiling back at them.

MONTREAL -- Looking for a correct answer to a Canadian history question? It all depends where you ask. Prince Edward Island, the birthplace of Confederation? Ontario, Parliament Hill's home province? Guess again.

MONTREAL -- A Montreal woman says Canadian border agents made her strip to see if she had a pink tattoo on her buttocks after mixing her up with an alleged criminal.

A Toronto man who was convicted of killing a 21-year-old from Etobicoke is still on the loose after escaping from a minimum-security prison in Kingston, Ont.

A starship swooped into small-town Alberta on Saturday with blasting smoke and phasers firing, as hundreds lined the streets of Vulcan for the 16th annual Spock Days parade.

WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa - An umpire has emptied the stands at a high school baseball game, ejecting the entire crowd of more than 100 fans for being unruly.

Members of an outlaw biker gang are planning a weekend camp outside Red Deer and Mounties are getting ready to ensure public safety

Fans of NBC's "Seinfeld" might find it impossible to imagine anyone other than Jason Alexander playing Jerry's neurotic wingman George - but the role almost went to a late night talk show bandleader. According to The New York Daily News, "The Late Sho

OTTAWA - Canada's acrobatic flying team, the Snowbirds, has been grounded due to a technical problem with the ejection seat system.

Despite public pledges to accelerate infrastructure spending, the federal Conservatives have spent just a quarter of their $15 billion infrastructure fund, new figures show.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in the U.S. (the same agency that crash tests hundreds of cars every year to figure out which are safest) has just tested seven of the most popular small cars � the smart ForTwo, Chevy Aveo, Mini Cooper,

Chrysler LLC will build its upcoming Alfa Romeo 169 sports sedan at its Brampton, Ont. assembly plant, according to a projection by research firm IHS Global Insight Inc. It would mark the first time a high-end European luxury car will be made in Canada.

DETROIT - The Red Wings can accept that Pittsburgh is the Stanley Cup champion. Getting snubbed by Sidney Crosby is another matter.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea responded to new U.N. sanctions with more defiance, promising Saturday to step up its nuclear bomb-making program by enriching uranium and threatening war on any country that dares to stop its ships on the high seas.

The deaths bring to four the number of fatalities at McKinley this climbing season, which runs through early July.

Canada and the United States will renegotiate the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday in Niagara Falls, Ont.

A Toronto man is accused of animal cruelty after subway goers watched a dog being dragged by a leash around its neck yesterday, police said this morning.

Beef jerky from Hamel's Meats in Cold Lake has been feasted on in places as remote as Singapore and South Africa and as familiar as Ontario and Nova Scotia. Now it's going to outer space.

Canada is moving to collect such biometric data as photos and fingerprints on every visitor from every country by 2013, the incoming spy chief said

Current TV, the user-generated news network founded by Al Gore, just got the green light to operate in Canada. NOTE: June 12 article.

The US said today it would not demand that China commits to binding cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions, marking an important step towards agreement on a global treaty to fight climate change. The move came at the end of the latest round of UN climate

Woman who inspired Beatles' song reconnects with childhood chum

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo gave the first real indication Saturday that manufacturer teams are prepared to set up their own series if the current crisis with FIA cannot be resolved.

Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer serving a life sentence for killing his disabled daughter, continues to impress members of the National Parole Board, who have granted him permission to make a brief road trip to deliver a vehicle

Anniversary hype, sequel chatter and new video game have fans' PKE metres glowing

HALIFAX -- A Nova Scotia judge will decide whether video footage of a man who died in a correctional facility after being Tasered will be downloaded onto the Internet in a case that's raising fresh questions about how much access the public should have to

Database paired with GPS system beeps at drivers when they approach speed traps, red-light cameras

TORONTO -- The Conservative government has added another plank to their series of initiatives meant to crack down on crime.

A group of Mcgill students build first electric snowmobile!

The Iranian government declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of this week's election with 62.63 per cent support, results disputed by the leader's main rival as tensions between the two sides boiled over in Tehran.

A son of the 88-year-old white supremacist who allegedly started a shootout at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is slamming his father's "cowardice" and apologizing to the family of the security guard his dad is accused of killing.

Like air guitar, air sex requires both hands in play. The first-ever Air Sex World Championships tour hits Toronto tonight at the El Mocambo, showcasing the best of invisible touching.

CALGARY - Nabbed in his force's own sting operation, a city police officer has been charged with luring a teenage girl over the Internet

A Hong Kong man has been arrested at Pearson airport with $33,000 in cash as he was heading to Toronto to allegedly buy 12 infrared thermal imaging cameras and then ship the security-sensitive equipment to China, police say.

A judge told a driver she displayed "moronic stupidity" by deliberately and repeatedly blocking an ambulance which was carrying a dying patient.

CALGARY - City cops say they're confident another arrest will be made soon following charges being laid against a second suspect in the New Year's Day bloodbath that left three people dead.

Michael Thomas C.S. Rafferty, who is being held at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre, made no comment. But his lawyer, Hal Mattson, said he would need more time to review all the evidence he has received from the Crown.

U.S. and Italian authorities said Friday they arrested a group of hackers and conspirators who allegedly stole from phone companies around the world. The illegal profits funded terrorist activities, Italian officials alleged.

Disagreements between Moscow and the West over the status of two Georgian territories Russia has controlled since winning a brief war last year are threatening to force the withdrawal of international observer missions there.

The planned Saturday launch of space shuttle Endeavour, set to carry seven astronauts, including Canadian Julie Payette, has been postponed because of a hydrogen leak.

Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pulled far ahead in Friday's hotly contested Iranian presidential election, according to the country's Interior Ministry, though his biggest rival is also claiming victory.

'It's a great, exhilarating feeling. I don't feel a day over 84'

More than 26,000 Canadians have served in Afghanistan. In the first of a three-part series, we tell the story of one soldier's troubled return

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 180-kilogram gorilla grabbed some low-hanging bamboo to scale a wall at a zoo in South Carolina on Friday, escaping his enclosure and tackling a worker before returning to his pen about five minutes later.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Eat your heart out, Leaning Tower of Pisa. Vancouver's famed Hollow Tree is leaning no more after a work crew, armed with a crane and backhoe, stabilized the dead thousand-year-old red cedar and straightened it out.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Friday that imposes new sanctions on North Korea for its recent missile tests and an underground test of a nuclear device.

Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin completed a rare triple this season, winning the Art Ross Trophy as NHL scoring champion, the Conn Smythe Trophy as top playoff performer and, of course, the Stanley Cup.

Populations of caribou and reindeer, which northern peoples have long relied on, have fallen drastically worldwide over the past three decades, a Canadian study has found.

A Halifax man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the stabbing death of an American sailor outside a downtown bar in 2006.

The weathered lighthouse at Peggys Cove will be repainted after all

The Pittsburgh Penguins are your Stanley Cup Champions as they have defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 in Game 7.

Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX: THI.TO) said Thursday that it will co-brand six restaurants in Ontario with Cold Stone Creamery after launching the concept in the United States earlier this year. The doughnut shop said the six locations, which are expected to b

A Toronto financial planner has added his data to the argument that an NHL club won't work in Phoenix.

In an 8-1 ruling this morning, it overturned a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that had invalidated her conviction following her third trial in a notorious case that horrified the country

Unemployed coach Dave Tippett would be a good fit with Flames, disgruntled trade-seeking scorer Dany Heatley would not

By The Associated Press Fri. Jun 12 - 4:46 AM PHOENIX � The issue of how much Jim Balsillie should pay the NHL to move the Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton will not be the subject of another hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Judge Redfield T. Baum sai

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin - Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama.

OTTAWA -- Police are scouring the heavily wooded area east of the village of Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette after a mysterious, bearded man fired a shotgun at a municipal worker.

TORONTO - Conrad Black's bid for release pending a review of his fraud convictions was denied Thursday but experts said it's unlikely the former media baron will be content to remain behind bars until the U.S. Supreme Court hears his appeal.

OTTAWA - The country was left teetering on the brink of election Thursday after all three opposition parties denounced the minority Conservative government's latest progress report on its economic recovery plan.

DETROIT -- The heat is on the Senators to trade Dany Heatley by Canada Day or it could be costly. Two league executives confirmed to Sun Media yesterday if the high-scoring winger isn't dealt by July 1, Senators owner Eugene Melnyk will be on the hook to

OTTAWA�Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief spokesman says Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., is a "dysfunctional," $30 billion "sinkhole" that will not get any more funding for a new research reactor.

Public Works Minister Christian Paradis said Thursday that the government will ask the defence and aerospace industry to participate more in the process in the hope of avoiding public squabbles like the one that has dogged the $3-billion program to buy ne

WOODSTOCK, Ont. - One of the people charged in the death of Victoria Stafford is due to make an appearance in a Woodstock, Ont., court today. Twenty-eight-year-old Michael Rafferty is to make an appearance via video link.

The Kremlin wants to revamp a top-heavy institution by sharply cutting the number of officers and carrying out a long overdue transition from a cumbersome military machine designed for a land war in Europe to a lithe force that would handle regional wars

For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere � but no longer. A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush govern

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Endeavour is "go" to launch an ambitious mission to the International Space Station on Saturday, NASA managers said today.

Greece would not accept a short loan of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum as it would "legalise their snatching", the Culture Minister said.

The Egyptian culture ministry has agreed to publish Arabic translations of two novels by Israeli writers.

The US Senate has backed a bill giving the government far-reaching new powers to try to curb smoking among Americans.

Usain Bolt won the men's 100-metre sprint in the inaugural Festival of Excellence at Toronto on Thursday night. Bolt, the world record holder and winner of three gold medals at last summer's Beijing Olympics, ran 10.00 seconds in a steady rain at Varsi

As a French submarine searched the Atlantic Ocean for black boxes belonging to Air France Flight 447 Thursday, the airline's chief executive said he was not convinced faulty speed monitors caused the crash of the plane. Replacement external speed monit

Chastity Bono, gay-rights activist and child of performer Cher and the late entertainer and politician Sonny Bono, is in the early stages of transitioning from a female to a male and will be known as Chaz, his spokesman said Thursday

Iranian voters began casting ballots Friday in a colorful and passionate presidential election pitting incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against Mir Hossein Moussavi, the leading reformist candidate.