NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2010

WINNIPEG - The Queen's visit to Winnipeg Saturday is expected to be warmer and less eventful than her last in 2002, when the British press had a royal field day after her water taxi broke down on the Red River

RAYMORE, Sask. - Severe weather continued to cause havoc in Saskatchewan on Friday, as a tornado destroyed about a dozen homes and damaged many others on the Kawacatoose reserve near Raymore, Sask.

The 11th Inuit Circumpolar Council general assembly wrapped up its conference Friday in Nuuk, Greenland, by calling for an urgent Inuit leaders summit on resource development.

A surge in the Atlantic salmon population has fishermen and tourists alike flocking to the Exploits River in central Newfoundland.

Getting behind the wheel has long been considered impossible for the blind, but that could soon change.

A federal review panel says a proposed open-pit gold and copper mine 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, B.C., would pose significant threats to the environment.

Bags of recycling may have saved the lives of two teens who fell seven storeys down a dumbwaiter shaft in Vancouver on Thursday night, police say.

She doesn't look it, but Alice Treister is about to turn 100 years old. How have Treister and other centenarians managed to live such long lives? That's a question that researchers feel they're a little closer to answering.

Spam may well be one of those IT problems that never completely goes away, like rust on a ship. There are filters and services that can keep it to a manageable level, but even those don't get rid of the problem entirely. Some of it still creeps through sp

A Canadian lawyer has launched a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the Internet site duped users into letting their private information be sold for profit.

BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico.

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, one of South America's bloodiest military rulers, went on trial Friday for the first time since he was convicted of crimes against humanity 25 years ago.

A Pakistani man held on an immigration violation in the northeastern state of Maine while police were investigating the attempted Times Square car bomb in New York City will soon be free on bail, his wife said Friday.

Six suicide bombers stormed a USAID compound in northern Afghanistan before dawn Friday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said. At least two of the dead were foreigners.

A Manitoba woman who travelled to Egypt to receive a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis said she's noticed a major change in her health.

She and her husband demanded better care for cancer patients fro and after putting up a fight with Alberta Health Services Ann Reynar passed away Thursday.

An Edmonton man who has spent most of his life in wheelchair thought he was going to die Sunday when his wheelchair got stuck in a pothole and tipped over into a puddle of water.

Prominent members of Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community are asking the head of the national spy agency to meet with them and explain his recent allegations that some B.C. politicians are under foreign influence.

A small float plane crashed into a row of trees near Penticton, B.C., just past noon on Friday during an emergency landing attempt.

More than a day after B.C.'s new harmonized sales tax took effect, confusion at the till means that consumers may be paying more -- or less -- than they should.

It's been 40 years since Air Canada flight 621 crashed into a ravine while trying to land at Pearson Airport.

An east-central Saskatchewan city was in "dire straits" Friday as a flash flood turned streets to rivers and sent people fleeing for higher ground, in some cases by canoe or in the bucket of a front-end loader.

A court in South Africa has dropped the marijuana-smoking case against Paris Hilton.

Queen Elizabeth met with Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff at Rideau Hall Friday, on a day when the Royals Couple is taking a break from their hectic visit to Canada.

Suspicions that a U.S. submarine may have accidentally sunk a French fishing boat, killing five sailors, will be investigated by magistrates, a French appeal court ruled on Friday.

It was this officer who, for over 20 years, kept the misunderstood and continually budget-starved Royal Canadian Navy in a state of respectable operational readiness and, toward the end of his career, virtually saved our navy from annihilation by a govern

Hundreds of people attended a funeral on Friday in Nova Scotia for a soldier recently killed on his fourth and final tour of Afghanistan.

Children often ask the question "Who am I?" as they come of age, but that's nothing like the identity crisis now confronting the sons and daughters of four couples accused of spying for Russia.

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There's no question that BP has lied extensively over the past few months about the growing Gulf oil disaster. The company has bullied journalists, fudged numbers, and even deployed fake journalists to the Gulf to write about how everything is fine. Now B

An explosion has torn through a Canadian Armed Forces recruitment centre in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.

EDMONTON - A military amputee was forced to hobble down the Commonwealth Stadium stairs for an event honouring soldiers after being refused elevator service, says his fiancee.

Sandra Jean Burke has lived, worked, paid taxes, raised three boys and even voted in government elections in Canada since her grandparents rescued her from a U.S. orphanage at age 6 and brought her here in 1951.

Afghans will die if Canada does not play a part in the Afghanistan recovery after the planned military withdrawal in July 2011, Kabul's man in Ottawa said Wednesday.

The Canadian Space Agency is seeking advice from its Russian counterpart in a long-term project to put a satellite over the North Pole.

The first solid sign of an economic payoff from hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics is here in the form of new statistics revealing a spike in spending by visitors to B.C.

LAHORE, Pakistan - Two suicide bombers struck a popular Muslim shrine in Pakistan's second largest city late Thursday night, killing 35 people and wounding 175 others in the second major attack in Lahore in a month, the city's top official said.

Dan Hamhuis is now a member of the Vancouver Canucks, who signed the sought-after defenceman on Thursday, according to CBCSports.ca's Tim Wharnsby.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A ring of security was set in place on the major routes in and out of Kandahar city on Thursday - NATO's first major step to try to bring a degree of calm to Afghanistan's second largest city.

OTTAWA - The Queen, one of the most enduring symbols of Canadian heritage, helped ring in the nation's 143rd birthday Thursday in a joyful bookend to the spirit of patriotism and community that coursed through the Vancouver Olympic Games.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadian soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan marked Canada Day with beer, barbecue _ and a rocket attack. An afternoon of red and white Maple Leafs combined with beige combat fatigues had all the earmarks of a Canada Day at home.

Fifty years ago, the Canadian government granted First Nations people the right to vote in federal elections without losing their treaty status. The anniversary, however, brings mixed emotions for many of Canada's first people.

The country's first Maple Leaf flag is being unveiled Thursday at The Military Museums in Calgary as part of a swath of Canada Day events in Alberta.

Some B.C. politicians say officials should consider a native group's suggestion that Vancouver's Stanley Park revert to its original First Nations name, Xwayxway.

Calgarian Andre Geurts pondered the wonder of hearing his daughter's words for the first time in her 12 years of life.

A frightened homeowner who thought his house was being broken into and called police learned his home invaders was just a member of the local wildlife.

A U.S. Airways flight from Atlanta bound for New York City was forced to return to the gate after maggots began spilling out of an overhead luggage compartment as the plane was taxiing down the runway.

A hazardous material leak alert at a Sudbury, Ont., chemical plant Thursday morning was the result of a plume of sulphuric acid that was accidentally released into the air during a transfer, according to a press release from Vale Sudbury.

Worshippers at St. James Cathedral, where the Queen will pray on Sunday, are in shock after the body of a man was found outside the 157-year-old church on Canada Day.

When the Montreal Alouettes open the CFL season on Canada Day, most of the key players from their 2009 Grey Cup season will be there.

Labour organizers plan to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Regina Riot in the Saskatchewan capital Thursday.

The HST is not the only new levy that B.C. residents start paying Thursday. The province's carbon tax on gasoline and other fuels also goes up more than one cent per litre, meaning higher prices at the pump, at home and elsewhere, according to the Cana

Israeli company upped its offer twice, Radio-Canada reports.

A valuable bronze statue stolen from Assiniboine Park has been recovered from a Winnipeg alley.

Scenic St. Andrews By-the-Sea is one of the country's foremost tourism destinations for boaters, RVs and car daytrippers and they will be joined this weekend by upwards of 10,000 motorcycles.

Government wildlife teams in the Northwest Territories are working to control an anthrax outbreak about 80 kilometres southeast of Fort Resolution, south of Yellowknife.

A surgeon dubbed "Dr. Death" in Australia for a string of botched operations was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for killing three patients and permanently harming another.

California lawmakers have approved a $20-million US settlement with the family of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a girl and held captive for 18 years by a paroled sex offender.

Queen Elizabeth told 100,000 people on Parliament Hill on Thursday that she could think of no better reason to celebrate than Canada's 143rd birthday.

I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me. I regret having had to cancel so many engagements at such short notice.

OTTAWA - The former chief statistician of Canada says he would have quit his job if the Conservative government had tried to axe the long census form, as they're doing now.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. says it estimates that the National Research Universal reactor will resume medical isotope production by the end of July.

When talk in Ottawa's halls of power turns to Afghanistan, he's known as the immovable object.

Turning 143 is kind of a big deal. That's why Canadians will be out in mass today celebrating with picnics, fireworks, impromptu road hockey games and other various forms of shenanigans.

It may take your mother or grandmother one hour -- tops -- to make and bake a batch of oatmeal cookies. But it took several months to develop Canasnacks -- cream-filled sandwich cookies that first went into space with now-retired Canadian astronaut Dave W

The normally informal, boisterous festivities on Parliament Hill are to kick off at noon with the arrival of Her Majesty and Prince Philip in a horse-drawn landau, complete with a mounted RCMP escort.

Next time you get change back at the store, check for a newly released loonie commemorating the 100th anniversary of the navy.

There's gold somewhere in them hills and Whitehorse RCMP are hoping to recover some that was stolen from a customer at a local hotel.

AUCKLAND - A lock of hair cut from Napoleon Bonaparte's head after he died has sold for US$13,000 at an auction in New Zealand. Extra phone lines were installed for the sale to cope with an expected rush of international buyers seeking to snip up the hair

As the petition against British Columbia's controversial harmonized sales tax circled the province in recent months, an angry Matthew Harty made sure he signed it to protest higher costs for things like haircuts and vintage clothing

Although the harmonized sales tax is imminent, many B.C. consumers and grocers are confused over what foods the tax applies to and why.

Hurricane Alex has reached land in northeastern Mexico, bringing with it heavy rain and powerful winds that slammed into surrounding villages.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle the affect of global warming on the last remaining glacier in the Pacific. He's worried he got t

The Magna Carta, the almost 800-year-old Great Charter of Liberty, may be paying a visit to Winnipeg. Issued in the year 1215, when it was signed by King John in England, the Magna Carta is the first document to limit the monarchy and enshrine the rights

A rookie RCMP officer in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., is being praised for pulling two people out of the Beaufort Sea early Wednesday morning.

Former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm drove a one-tonne moving truck to the front of the Elections BC office in Victoria Wednesday and helped unload boxes full of anti-HST petition forms.