NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2009

)A Saskatchewan marriage commissioner who refused to marry a same-sex couple has lost his appeal of a human rights ruling.

A panel will review the child welfare system after recent homeless counts showed a growing number of young people among those with no roof over their head, Children's Services Minister Janis Tarchuk said on Wednesday.

Vancouver city council voted Thursday to pass new bylaws that make sweeping changes to how the city will work during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

A Canadian woman faces deportation from the United Kingdom and an 18-month separation from her husband because of a British law aimed at preventing forced marriages.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 4-3 Friday that a Hutterite community in Alberta must abide by provincial rules that make a digital photo mandatory for all new driver's licences as a way to prevent identity theft.

ST. THOMAS, Ont. - An Ontario Provincial Police officer who crashed into a hydro pole has been charged under the province's stunt driving legislation - resulting in his police vehicle being impounded.

TORONTO -- A young woman's desire to have "perky breasts" through breast augmentation became the worst experience of her life, a hearing was told yesterday.

TORONTO -- Toronto strip joints are in a tug-of-war with massage parlours that are papering patrons' cars with erotic flyers.

A whale-watching vessel with 34 people on board sank Thursday in the Gulf Islands, off the southwest coast of B.C., but rescue officials say everyone is safe.

A family vacation in British Columbia has ended in tragedy as three children died in a cabin fire early Thursday in the Shuswap Lake area of Salmon Arm.

With its establishment last December, the Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF-Afg) Air Wing increased the Air Force's ability to reduce risk to Canadian and coalition troops in Afghanistan by transporting people and equipment by air and providing critical i

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The former judge conducting a public inquiry into Taser use has concluded the stun guns can kill or seriously injure people but that Canadians are better off with the controversial weapons than without them

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Hunched over aging desks with pens clasped in their hands, they hardly look like revolutionaries. But in Kandahar, the city they call home, they are considered dangerous enough that they've been the targets of a brutal campaign of

A toucan's enormous bill works like a built-in cooling tower, helping it beat the heat in the steamy rainforest, Canadian and Brazilian researchers have found.

U.S. health officials said Wednesday they have found cancer-causing ingredients in electronic cigarettes, despite manufacturers' claims the products are safer than tobacco cigarettes.

A study shows global food brands distributed in Canada often contain more salt than their counterparts sold in other countries.

Rising ocean temperatures in the Northeast Pacific have led to fewer low-level clouds in the region, which could lead to even greater warming as more sunlight reaches the ocean, scientists say.

Montreal Alouettes quarterback Anthony Calvillo marked another career milestone on Thursday night against Hamilton, but it was his defensive teammates that really shone in a 21-8 home victory.

If you visit Ireland after October, you'd better watch what you say about God. A blasphemous slip of the tongue could cost you 25,000 euros under revamped legislation that will soon be signed into law.

A day after Toronto Argonauts wide receiver Arland Bruce III ripped head coach Bart Andrus and quarterback Kerry Joseph in the Globe and Mail, Andrus suggested that Bruce might not be able to function in professional football.

To the delight of 28,036 fans at U.S. Cellular Field and one very famous fan in the White House, Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle became just the 18th pitcher in baseball history to throw a perfect game on Thursday

For the first time since arriving home in June, a Canadian man who was exiled in Sudan has spoken publicly about being tortured, and the involvement of Canadian officials.

FINTRY, B.C. -- More than 2,000 residents of a Central Okanagan community have been ordered out of their homes as a forest fire races toward them.

A Montreal family has been charged in the deaths of their three teenage daughters and a 50-year-old caregiver, more than three weeks after police pulled four bodies from a car submerged near Kingston, Ont.

DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) -- Helped by a lightened debt load, Ford Motor Co. posted a surprise second-quarter profit of $2.3 billion Thursday, following the worst loss in company history a year earlier. Shares rose 10 percent in afternoon trading.

Chinese web users couldn't find online any information about a bribery investigation that could involve Hu Haifeng, the sun of President Hu Jintao, as Beijing seemed to have blocked access to any site relating the story.

Some things are starting to worry some Liberals. 1. The economy isn't sinking. It won't propel them to power. 2. The Harper Conservatives aren't going to defeat themselves. 3. Liberals can't win by trying to be all things to all people. Paul Martin tri

Who says any PR is good PR?

When a tall, muscular man wields a 2-foot-long knife on-camera, it's usually not for a thank-you video. But that's what California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has done on his Twitter account, where the Republican actor-turned-governor posted a vide

Three Montreal sisters and a relative who were found dead in a car submerged in the Rideau Canel near in Kingston, Ont. last month were killed for "honour," according to reports Thursday

OTTAWA -- Liberals and Conservatives start negotiations Thursday aimed at determining whether the two parties can find enough common ground on employment insurance reform to avert a federal election this fall.

A retired justice who has been conducting an inquiry into the police use of Tasers is expected to call on police to severely restrict their use of the energy-conducted weapons.

An entomologist is taking a bite out of tales being woven about a scourge of black widow spiders entering Canada.

OTTAWA -- The Bank of Canada is declaring the recession essentially over in Canada and projecting the economy will bounce back at least twice as strongly as in the United States.

The wife of the admitted kingpin behind a huge drug ring that straddled several provinces has avoided jail time, despite her involvement in trafficking.

British Columbia businessman Shawn Atleo became the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations on Thursday morning when his sole remaining contender conceded defeat after the eighth ballot.

Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson slammed the Senate Wednesday for not pushing through new legislation implementing mandatory jail terms for drug producers, smugglers and traffickers.

YAKIMA, Washington - One of the most remote communities in the lower 48 U.S. states is finally set to get phone service.

TORONTO -- An anesthesiologist left the recovery room for a snack while a liposuction patient with weak vital signs lay on what was to become her death bed, a hearing heard yesterday.

With up to $60 billion in new federal shipbuilding programs projected for the future, the government will consult with industry next week on developing a long-term strategy to guide maritime construction

Southern New Zealand has moved slightly closer to the east coast of neighbouring Australia as a result of a massive earthquake last week off the country's South Island, a scientist said Wednesday.

A Canadian Forces soldier has filed a complaint with Fredericton city police and the New Brunswick Police Commission claiming two officers assaulted him outside a nightclub while he was off duty.

Passengers on a bus travelling to a traditional Catholic pilgrimage site in Alberta escaped safely before the vehicle burst into flames.

An officer who fatally shot an elderly woman and her daughter at a suburban Atlanta home was not aware when she was sent to the scene that the younger woman had said she wanted police to kill her, authorities said Wednesday.

Police have made arrests in connection with the mysterious deaths of three Montreal sisters and their older female relative, whose car was found in late June submerged in water near a Rideau Canal lock in Kingston, Ont., CBC News learned Wednesday.

If top professions in Britain are tough to break into for disadvantaged children, as former UK minister Alan Milburn's report on social mobility found, is there a land of opportunity that can serve as a beacon? Yes, but it's not the US, argues University

Al Jebori is only one of many failed refugee claimants who vanish. Canada's auditor-general estimates that 41,000 people in Canada have disappeared after being ordered out.

VIA Rail is acting now to prevent passengers from being stranded in the event of a strike by cancelling some long-distance departures, according to a company spokesperson.

FORT MYERS BEACH: Fort Myers Beach Town Manager Scott Janke says he was fired Tuesday night because the town council learned that his wife is a well-known porn star. A website that follows the adult industry published an article last week entitled "Pol

The row over a controversial advert for an Israeli mobile phone operator, which shows Israel Defense Forces soldiers playing soccer with Palestinians on both sides of the security barrier, continues.

Proposed Vancouver city bylaw takes dead aim at anyone who might express a contrary view or protest during the Winter Olympics By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver SunJuly 21, 2009 In the flush of bidding for and winning the right to host the Olympics, nobo

All three members of a Toronto family pulled unconscious from a swimming pool in a Gananoque hotel over the weekend are now dead.

A camping trip turned into a harrowing run-in with an alleged abductor for a Calgary couple who stepped in to help a screaming woman.

EDMONTON -- The owners of an Edmonton restaurant were fined $23,230 yesterday for "horrible and disgusting" conditions that included having mice skeletons and beetle larvae.

CALGARY -- Four Calgary friends involved in a fiery crash that killed two just wanted to have a fun road trip to celebrate graduation, despite fatherly pleas to stay closer to home

OTTAWA - A gay and lesbian arts festival that was told it met all government criteria under a new tourism stimulus program learned Tuesday it was rejected for funding.

WASHINGTON -- NASA's new boss says he will be "incredibly disappointed" if people are not on Mars -- or even beyond it -- in his lifetime.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - When it comes to sneezing in a spacesuit while in the void of space, it is best to aim well

The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century pitched a swath of Asia into near-darkness after dawn Wednesday, as millions watched the once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone online.

The Grand Canyon, the Matterhorn and the Great Barrier Reef are competing with 25 other spectacular natural landmarks in the final phase of the global poll to choose the "New 7 Wonders of Nature."

After plans to re-enact the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City were cancelled when hard-line separatists threatened to disrupt it, a radio host called on residents to fight another kind of battle.

HONOLULU -- A consortium of U.S. and Canadian universities has decided to build the world's largest telescope in Hawaii.

First came the home-based vegetable gardens. Next, a few agrarian-minded people began toying with backyard chicken coops.

The once sleepy B.C. farming communities of Abbotsford and Mission now have some big crime problems, with the highest homicide rate of any metropolitan area in Canada.

A late thaw at the North Pole has some people optimistic that Arctic sea ice won't shrink to record lows this summer.

At least two homes of evacuees who had to leave West Kelowna, B.C., because of forest fires have been burglarized

CALGARY - In Alberta, we're young, risk-taking trailblazers, according to the mythology. These days, we're young, debt-laden recessionistas, according to the financial numbers.

WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's Justice Department has decided a website that promotes paintings by a convicted killer who cut up his victim in a hotel bathtub does not violate a law that prevents people from profiting from their crimes.

A 62-year-old New Jersey man, wanted for a 1972 double-homicide in Tofino, B.C., has been killed in a shootout with police in New Mexico

The generosity of some Fredericton firefighters has provided temporary shelter for a single father and his four-month-old son who are without a home.

Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday that it has effectively been prevented from submitting an offer for the Nortel wireless business because of its desire to buy other Nortel assets as well.

Halifax Regional Police are appealing to the public for help with the investigation of the latest shooting in HRM. Police got several calls just before 2 p.m. Monday after people heard three gunshots at Spring Garden Road and Robie Street. Four peop

OTTAWA -- A man who testified he was sleepwalking when he was charged with impaired driving walked out of court with no criminal record Monday

CALGARY -- Nortel Networks' Calgary employees have filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $17 million, claiming they were duped out of lucrative severance packages.

Some residents of West Kelowna are anxiously awaiting word on the condition of their homes after forest fires forced more than 11,000 people from their residences in B.C.'s Okanagan region on the weekend

The Canadian navy is taking back a deteriorating former warship that has been tied up in Bridgewater, N.S., for more than a decade.

The United States will temporarily increase the size of its army by 22,000 soldiers to deal with demands placed on the force by wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Monday.

R&B singer Chris Brown publicly apologized Monday for beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna after a pre-Grammy party in February. In a two-minute video posted on his website, Brown calls his actions "inexcusable" and says he's seeking help to live his life

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislative leaders agreed Monday on a plan to close the state's $26-billion US budget shortfall, potentially getting the state back on firm financial ground so it can stop issuing IOUs.

An Indian court deferred a decision on Tuesday whether to accept a surprise confession by the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks last November that left 166 people dead.

Japan's prime minister has dissolved the powerful lower house of parliament and called national elections. Prime Minister Taro Aso has set the vote for Aug. 30.

CNN's Rick Sanchez Interviews Canada's Fmr Minister Of Health Ujjal Dosanjh About Lies About Their Healthcare System

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the 40 years since Apollo 11, some of the key players, most notably Neil Armstrong, have steered clear of the increasingly bright glare of the moonlight cast by the historic lunar landing.

BANGKOK - Millions of people across Asia will witness the longest total solar eclipse that will happen this century, as vast swaths of India and China, the entire city of Shanghai and southern Japanese islands are plunged into darkness Wednesday for about

A massive B.C. wildfire burning dangerously close to homes near West Kelowna is now about 40 per cent contained, but two other fires in the region remain out of control, fire officials said Monday.

TORONTO - A celebration of the 40-year anniversary of mankind's "giant leap" to the moon was tinged with some regret Monday over Canada's missed opportunity to be the first to Lunar walk.

An Indonesian cannibal is seeking love, promising his people-eating days are over

Only luck kept the violent storm that ripped through Edmonton on Saturday night from swirling into a tornado, according to one meteorologist.

An autopsy indicated former boxing champion Arturo Gatti may have committed suicide, been accidentally killed or murdered, according to a Brazilian newspaper that said it obtained a copy of the coroner's initial findings.

OTTAWA -- The Centennial Flame on the edge of Parliament Hill evokes a powerful image of Canadian democracy and unity

WINNIPEG -- Manitoba students regularly skip school because they are caring for young children -- sometimes their own, holding down jobs or taking trips with their parents on northern traplines, says a government study.

A Toronto mother has died after being pulled from a swimming pool in a Gananoque, Ont. hotel over the weekend.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are carrying out two important household tasks Monday -- one, a spacewalk to do maintenance. The other, fix the toilet.

EDMONTON - A Conservative member of the Alberta legislature who was booted from caucus over his fight on behalf of seniors in his constituency is kicking back.

Canadian astronauts Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk spoke from space Sunday, sharing their impressions about living and working at the International Space Station with federal Science and Technology Minister Gary Goodyear and reporters.

The local SPCA in Happy Valley-Goose Bay has turned to the internet to find whoever left an injured puppy to die in the woods near the Labrador community.

Fire crews are assessing the best way to fight three largely uncontrolled fires in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley on Monday, but with no rain and high temperatures forecast, nature will likely provide little help

TORONTO -- Police, who have been actively searching for the remains of Tori Stafford, have found "suspicious" remains in a rural area near Mt. Forest

KABUL - A Tornado fighter jet crashed inside NATO's largest base in southern Afghanistan on Monday in the second major crash on the base in two days, officials said.

The news from Afghanistan is depressing and will remain so for months. But the news from neighbouring Pakistan, which has had an adverse impact on NATO's Afghan mission, is encouraging.

A Canadian soldier who was killed last week had stepped on an explosive device before falling to his death in the Panjwaii district of southern Afghanistan, a military official said Sunday.

The number of residents forced out of their homes because of wildfires in the tinder-dry Okanagan region of B.C. continues to climb.

Tom Watson's magical ride at the British Open lasted exactly 71 holes. He faltered on the 72nd, and after that, things went south quickly in a four-hole playoff.

EDMONTON -- Trees and power lines fell across Edmonton Saturday night, felled by violent winds that were at one point strong enough to rip the bottom out of the floor of one downtown building, crushing several vehicles.

KABUL -- The U.S. military denounced on Sunday the release of a video showing a soldier captured in Afghanistan, describing the images as Taliban propaganda that violated international law.

KANGIRSUK, Que. -- Military and civilian searchers were scouring the rugged terrain of northern Quebec Saturday for a helicopter that has been reported missing.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- The bathroom lines just got a lot longer at the linked space shuttle and space station.