NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2009

Brazil's military says 17 bodies have been recovered from the doomed Air France flight that crashed last week.

VOLCANO, Hawaii -- The summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is glowing brightly as molten lava swirls 91 metres below its crater's floor, bubbling near the surface after years of spewing from the volcano's side.

CALGARY- After accepting an invitation to ride in a gay pride parade in Edmonton, Culture and Community Minister Lindsay Blackett has bowed out to instead appear at the official opening of an LRT station in his Calgary ridin

Police Chief Mike Boyd's most recent attempt to clean up the force -- by banning bad words among on-duty cops -- is being applauded for its intent, but is creating confusion as to its execution

Late-night bash at rural house turns deadly as gunfire kills 2, several hurt

The Canadian Press - WHISTLER, B.C. - Canadian municipalities hope they are helping the federal government make a case against the Obama Administration's "Buy American" policy, passing a resolution Saturday that would potentially shut out U.S. bidders fro

The Canadian Press - TORONTO - Canada's Second World War veterans were honoured Saturday during a ceremony at Queen's Park marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.

The Canadian Press - VANCOUVER, B.C. - Vancouver Olympic organizers report brisk sales as a second round of ticket sales began Saturday.

PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut - The fish changed colour. New bird species were spotted. Two bridges were wiped out by a once-in-a-lifetime flood that forced villagers to dump sewage into their pristine waters.

BELGRADE, Serbia - Archeologists say a well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth that is believed to be about one million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia.

MONTREAL - Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe is unwilling to dump his motion to have Quebec's French Language Charter extended to industries operating in the province under federal labour laws, despite it being soundly rejected by Parliament.

OTTAWA -- Phil Fontaine confirmed Thursday that his days as the country's top native leader are ending -- but the notorious political animal left the door open to run as an MP.

President Barack Obama's close friendship with the incoming U.S. ambassador to Canada has Canadian politicians optimistic that the appointment will improve American-Canadian relations.

Detroit rebounded from two losses in Pittsburgh with a statement game on Saturday, drubbing the Penguins 5-0 to put themselves on the cusp of a second straight Stanley Cup

The fate of a derelict Second World War bomber once nicknamed "The Flying Prostitute" is up in the air since two Calgary brothers fished part of it out of a remote Yukon lake.

Firefighters are working to contain a rapidly growing wildfire near Tyaughton Lake, west of Lillooet in B.C.'s Cariboo region.

Paul Waldie Globe and Mail Update, Saturday, Jun. 06, 2009 05:56PM EDT The co-owners of the CFL's Toronto Argonauts are declining to comment on their interest in buying the Phoenix Coyotes and keeping the club in Phoenix.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- David Carradine's wife and his manager disputed suggestions that the actor's death was a suicide, while rescue workers and police in Bangkok, Thailand, said the actor's neck and genitals were found bound with rope.

(CNN) -- A man accused of making threatening statements about killing President Obama has been arrested in Nevada, the Secret Service said Saturday. Daniel James Murray was arrested Friday night in the parking lot of the Riverside Resort Hotel and Casi

Posted: June 06, 2009, 5:45 PM by Sean Fitz-Gerald Hockey, GTA, Legal, NHL, Jim Balsillie, Gary Bettman, Maple Leafs Attorneys working for Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie have trained their sights on the Toronto Maple Leafs, focusing on what they a

Two bodies and debris have been found from the Air France plane which went missing over the Atlantic last Monday, the Brazilian air force has said.

Airbus had detected faulty speed readings on its A330 jets ahead of last week's crash of an Air France (AIRF.PA) airliner, and had recommended clients replace a sensor, French air investigators said on Saturday.

The best way to define the fight between NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Canadian billionaire and owner-wannabe Jim Balsillie is to define what the fight isn't about.

While locals in parts of B.C. have been basking in 30 C temperatures this week, huge swaths of the country have been stuck with unseasonably cool weather.

SAINT JOHN - Blake McCullough sits in his living room in Rothesay, effortlessly recalling events from 65 years ago when he was 22 and the Allies began landing troops in Normandy to take Europe back from the Nazis.

CAEN, France - Young Canadians should be prepared to follow in the footsteps of their forebears and fight for freedom and democratic values, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today.

How would the Internet generation honour fallen soldiers? With an Internet memorial.

Employment insurance reform not important enough to trigger vote, majority tell pollster

Douglas MacDonald was a few months shy of his 21st birthday when he first caught sight of France from the deck of a warship off the coast of Normandy.

"On [D-Day], our squadron was assigned to cover the landings of the British Army units on the beaches of Normandy.

The French navy is dispatching a nuclear submarine to join the search effort for the wreckage of an Air France passenger jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, the country's defence minister said Friday

As the world stops to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Canadian veteran Stanley Fields still isn't sure how he survived the terrifying invasion.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff seems to be facing some serious trouble at the party grassroots -- all revolving around the caucus decision to support this bill -- C-15, which introduces mandatory prison sentences for drug crimes. Here's a sampling of

HMCS Halifax will enter the Halifax shipyard of Irving Shipbuilding Inc. September 30, 2010, to undergo the first of 12 18-month mid-life refits scheduled for Halifax-class ships, spanning nearly seven years.

A monument commemorating the role of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Allies' success on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 was unveiled Friday in France.

Rookie Liberal MP Justin Trudeau reflects on the defeat of his first piece of legislation - a private members bid to begin shaping policy on national youth service

A Southern California man was sentenced to death Friday for setting a 2006 wildfire that killed five federal firefighters.

Average family earns enough to pay year's tax bill by June 6, Fraser Institute says

The dream of another NHL team in Toronto was unveiled today, though even the pitchmen for the project admit it is a long way from coming true.

CAEN, France -- As chaos and carnage raged in Europe on D-Day, there was new life back home.

NORMANDY, France - French children danced and played on the historic stretch of sand called Juno beach today as Canadian veterans made an emotional visit to the coast they stormed 65 years ago.

HALIFAX, N.S. - All four occupants have been airlifted to hospital after their Bell 206 helicopter crashed while trying to land Thursday northwest of Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula.

RECIFE, Brazil - As Brazil and France disagreed Friday about whether pieces of a downed Air France jet have been found in the Atlantic, investigators used the last messages from the plane to try to avoid future disasters.

An 8-year-old New Mexico boy has died and his 10-year-old sister was hospitalized after both contracted bubonic plague, the first recorded human plague cases in the nation so far this year.

The Royal Canadian Mint is withholding employee bonus pay as special auditors enter a fourth month hunting for unaccounted gold that insiders say could be worth as much as several million dollars.

24-year-old not guilty in killing of lesbian lover's boyfriend

Canada has refused a plea from the Obama administration to take in 17 Chinese Muslims imprisoned without charge for more than seven years at Guantanamo Bay.

Canada's premiers have agreed to back Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he moves to exempt the country from Buy American policies that are freezing out Canadian companies from U.S. stimulus funding.

EHealth Ontario paid a consultant who submitted an invoice for eight hours of work in which she said she consulted herself, then followed up with questions for herself.

First women got the Wonderbra, and now after decades of stagnation in the development of men's underwear comes the "wondershirt."

The 5-year-old girl found the note tucked inside a plastic bag and left in a basket used as a flower pot. "Hi Honey I Been watching you," it said. "I am the same person that kidnapped an Rape an kill Aproil tinsely here is a present foR yo you are my

Guest Column: Texas' Concealed Handgun Law - 10 years later By Jerry Patterson Opinion AUSTIN - When the Texas Concealed Handgun Law took effect in 1996, pundits and naysayers predicted anarchy. Any minute, there surely would be mass violence as a

Some Calgary residents are complaining that while they are all for recycling, the city's new blue carts are trashing the look of their neighbourhoods.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that charges against a northern Ontario man accused of raping and threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend four years ago will be stayed due to an unreasonable delay in bringing him to trial.

The Federal Court of Canada has ordered the federal government to allow the return of a Montreal man stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect, arguing his charter rights have been breached.

Canadian wolves transferred to the United States in a repopulation experiment 13 years ago now have American lawyers howling.

TORONTO -- The tragic story made the front page of our newspaper almost exactly two years ago. "Run over after fight," the headline screamed on June 18, 2007. "Man mowed down steps from home, driver charged with murder."

REGINA, Sask - The National Parole Board is continuing day parole for a pedophile who drowned a five-year-old Calgary girl and stuffed her body into a garbage can nearly three decades ago.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Chaos reigned, or perhaps reined, in a New Zealand horse race Thursday when five of the six starters fell and one jockey started on one horse and finished on another.

TORONTO -- A career criminal who has racked up a nine-page rap sheet "bawled like a baby" after a provincial court judge set him free because it took too long for him to get a bail hearing.

OTTAWA - There is mounting evidence that Canada's economy is springing back to life, bringing with it the spirits of ordinary Canadians - except, it seems, when it comes to the question of whether or not they'll have a job to go to next month

Pushed to the fiscal brink by rising electricity costs and the price of a new roof, a small Quebec village mulled whether to shutter a local temple - the indoor hockey rink.

A Nova Scotia man has returned his military medals to the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces to protest the way the federal government treats injured soldiers.

Chinese police were out in force on Thursday to prevent commemoration of the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters around Tiananmen Square 20 years ago, a day after Washington demanded Beijing account for those killed.

To get around Buy American provisions, PM hopes to bring awarding of local contracts under the free-trade umbrella

SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. -- Two 14-year-old boys charged in a double murder were in the care of the province and were missing from a group home at the time of the slayings.

The Natural Resources Minister will not be asked to resign even though secret documents from her office were left at a CTV News bureau in Ottawa after an interview there last week.

A Montreal man got his wife to the Royal Victoria hospital in lots of time for her to have her baby, but he says he still had to deliver it himself because there was no medical staff around to help.

More than 600 police officers raided 36 locations across Quebec early Wednesday morning, arresting 46 people in a series of drug busts targeting organized crime. Provincial police teamed up with Montreal police and peacekeepers from the Kahnawake Mohaw

A number of people claim to have seen UFOs in Cambridgeshire after dazzling orange lights flashed across the night sky.

Vancouver police investigators are continuing to interview persons named on a Facebook hit list allegedly drawn up by a Templeton Secondary School student who was arrested on the weekend when concerned students went to police.

Officials with Halifax Regional Police say they will not comment on complaints about systemic racism in the force.

A Calgary man who made headlines with two robberies and nine carjacking attempts in 10 hours last year is on the run from police.

MONTREAL - Calling it the biggest crackdown of its kind in the country, the Competition Bureau of Canada swept down Tuesday on some 50 businesses and individuals believed to be involved in illegal telemarketing schemes

WINNIPEG -- Now that psycho-killer Vince Li has had his day in court before a sympathetic Criminal Code review board, perhaps we could now convene a hearing for the family of Tim McLean to scope out what needs they have and how the state can help them, to

TORONTO -- A woman is fighting for her life and three others are in serious condition after a wild three-car crash in the downtown core last night.

Jason Jaffray single-handedly assured that the Calder Cup final is not going to be over before it truly began.

The news of the Pittsburgh Penguins demise may have been grossly exaggerated.

The family-run company mortgaged all its assets -- and sold what it could not or did not mortgage -- to pile up a giant cash horde. That money is being used to reinvent the company without the aid of Barack Obama and Stephen Harper, on behalf of you and I

A man who allegedly led Ottawa police on a high-speed chase in an SUV and then collided head-on with a police cruiser was released from custody after he claimed diplomatic immunity, officers say.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said yesterday he will make "a serene and clear decision" -- likely by the end of next week -- on whether to force an election this summer.

Documents related to the Canada's nuclear industry apparently accidentally left behind by Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt indicate the government has invested billions in Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. while cost overruns mount and projects fall behin

Few pieces of Canadian legislation are as contentious as the Indian Act, which was introduced in 1876 and has not had a significant update since 1985. That rewrite 24 years ago sought to end the discrimination in the definition of status Indian as it appl

Canadian auto sales fell 16.5 percent to record their worst May sales since 1999, hit by the turmoil in the industry and the weak economy, industry figures showed, but one analyst said the declines may have hit bottom. Year-over-year sales were do...

The federal cabinet minister responsible for finding a replacement supply of medical isotopes after the shutdown of the Chalk River reactor will have to explain why secret documents about the nuclear industry were left at a national television bureau.

A 55-year-old woman fell to the ground and hit her head after being stunned by a police Taser Tuesday morning, Vancouver police said.

Canada is headed for a series of shocking federal deficits that will put the government more than $172 billion in the hole over the next five years, the TD Bank says in a new analysis. The report, released Tuesday, doubles the $85 billion total in defi

Where in the world do folks work the hardest? A report released this spring from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based group of 30 countries with market economies, offers some clues. Where it's dark outside, i

A grieving couple jumped to their deaths at a notorious suicide spot near Eastbourne with the body of their dead child in a rucksack, police said on Tuesday. Coastguard officers found the bodies of the three about 400 feet (122 metres) down the cliff a

Canada's total debt will jump to almost $630 billion by 2013-14 under current economic conditions, the Toronto-Dominion Bank said Tuesday in a new forecast.

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is executing search warrants today at the Toronto Humane Society, in response to a Globe series about troubles at the shelter.

The Conservative government signalled Monday it won't play ball with an NDP bid to ease access to Employment Insurance before Parliament breaks for the summer. Hence, a proposed NDP bill will likely end up withering on the vine.

An Arkansas man accused of a shooting at a Little Rock military center in which one soldier was killed and another was wounded pleaded not guilty during an arraignment Tuesday, authorities said

EDMONTON -- RCMP are investigating two suspicious deaths after the bloody bodies of a man and woman were found on a rural property east of Edmonton.

KEMPTVILLE, Ont. - A young Kemptville mom and her nine-month-old daughter are dead following a house fire overnight.

OTTAWA -- Michel Drapeau thumbs through a stack of mostly blank pages on the table before him, pointing out the terse notes atop each. "Pages 165 to 177 are withheld ... pages 782 to 795 are withheld ... pages 936 to 1189 are withheld."

VANCOUVER, B.C. - High school students worried about online threats by an 18-year-old prompted police to arrest a teen suspect, who investigators say had a gun, ammunition and 117 names on what police termed a "hit list."

Horrified onlookers followed a burning car Monday afternoon as it sped through red lights toward the Home Street boat ramp and plunged into the St. Lawrence River.

The Harper government has called on Canada Post to explain why it did not go to tenders last year to award a five-year air cargo contract worth over $100-million. The deal to carry Canadian domestic mail was directed to Purolator Courier Ltd., which is

OTTAWA -- The federal Department of Finance has flagged several prominent Crown corporations as "not self-sustaining," including the CBC, VIA Rail and the National Arts Centre, and has identified them as entities that could be sold as part of the governme

The Montreal Canadiens will hold a news conference this afternoon at 2pm et when the club will introduce Jacques Martin as their new head coach.

The daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton has been arrested in Florida on charges of child neglect resulting in the death of an infant, police said Sunday.