NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2010

Officials in Cariboo Regional District, near Williams Lake, B.C., have extended evacuation orders to some 600 homes, as wildfires continue to threaten residents in the area.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay is expected to arrive in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, on Wednesday to observe Operation Nanook, Canada's annual military exercise in the North. This year will be the first time that the U.S. and Denmark are also taking part.

Two people were killed in a fiery crash between a tanker truck and a pickup truck on the Trans-Canada Highway in northern Nova Scotia early Wednesday afternoon.

The ombudsman for veterans came to the defence of employees at Charlottetown's headquarters for the Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday, saying any problems with the department are structural, not personal.

A customer at the bar in Vancouver's Opus Hotel said she was shocked to discover men could watch her on video monitors placed over the urinals in the hotel's men's washroom.

The city of Toronto has imposed a no-fly order on kites in one of its north-end parks, setting off a flood of protests from Afghan-Canadians over the unilateral ban.

The discovery of a rare magnetic star - or magnetar - is challenging theories about the origin of black holes. Magnetars are a special type of neutron star with a powerful magnetic field.

After a nine-month tour in Afghanistan, more than 30 members of Edmonton-based 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron (THS) returned home to the hugs of loved ones earlier this month.

Three-for-one is a pretty good deal, and that is exactly what Canadians stationed at Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert, the world's most northerly permanently inhabited location are getting - now that the Canadian Forces CC-177 Globemaster III has made

Showcasing the Navy, recruiting new sailors and sharing naval centennial celebrations will be the main priorities of HMCS Fredericton as she sails along the St. Lawrence River and into Lake Ontario later this month.

LONDON - Two 11-year-old boys, convicted of trying to rape an eight-year-old girl near her home last year, were given supervision orders on Wednesday.

The deadly tsunami that pounded several South Pacific islands last year was spawned by not one but two monstrous earthquakes, surprising new research reveals.

A fish that had been all but wiped out east of Vancouver Island is breeding after being reintroduced into waters off West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park.

Police in Halifax have charged Jason Wayne MacRae with first-degree murder in the 2005 killing of his wife, Paula Gallant, who was a Grade 3 teacher.

Fire officials in B.C. have issued several new wildfire evacuation orders as an approaching storm front threatens to worsen the situation.

Search efforts continue along the north coast of Baffin Island for the civilian pilot of a helicopter that went missing on Monday.

A military helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon just outside the Shearwater Canadian Forces base near Halifax.

A search is underway in B.C. for a small plane carrying four people that went missing en route to Victoria from Penticton on Tuesday night.

This was supposed to be a rare measuring stick for Toronto FC, and indeed it was just that. But instead of a master class from Mexican side Cruz Azul, it was the home side delivering a rap across the knuckles and the shins of the visitors.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise in water temperatures off northwestern Indonesia caused in part by global warming

The B.C. government may ban all backcountry travel if the wildfire hazard across the province continues to increase.

A UTAH man had a 90 to 95 percent chance of dying after shattering his skull in more than 10 places until a neurosurgeon removed both sides of his head and froze it. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/doctor-freezes-mans-skull-saves-his-life/

Hearing loss in teens has increased significantly, leading researchers to warn teens to turn down their toys

Media reports say craft may have been fighter jet, appeared to run out of fuel

Roughhousing during Toronto concert results in flamboyant singer being pushed into crowd by guitarist Joe Perry

The head of the Canadian Firearms Program who is a strong supporter of the long-gun registry is quietly being bounced out of the position, CBC News has learned.

Police in southeastern B.C. have raided a marijuana grow operation that was apparently guarded by black bears.

Days after complaining to bylaw officers and police about a lewd sign in front of an Ottawa sex shop, a 53-year-old man is now accused of smashing out its front window early Sunday morning.

Junior hockey players will spend two days experimenting with potential rule changes and strategic innovations that could become part of their daily life should they graduate to the National Hockey League.

Spain is investigating Google over its "Street View" mapping feature, becoming the latest country to tangle with the Internet search giant over concerns it violated people's privacy while taking shots of city streets.

U.S. federal prosecutors will not file charges against a school district or its employees over the use of software to remotely monitor students.

It didn't work for the Trailer Park Boys, but two thieves left staff members at the Greater Vancouver Zoo flabbergasted when they took off with an ATM machine in the back of their truck last week.

Evacuation orders are in alert for several B.C. communities Tuesday as the wildfire situation continues to intensify across the province.

The group that created the controversial "Rethink Alberta" media campaign in the United States is bringing its anti-oilsands message to England.

A helicopter carrying four people crashed on Quebec's North Shore on Tuesday.

A resolution could be decided in the case involving a Millet mother charged with killing her two children, which means the accused may not have to go to trial after all.

The first batches of medical isotopes to come out of the Chalk River nuclear reactor in more than a year should start arriving at clinics within days.

Ottawa will take "whatever steps are necessary" to prevent more boatloads of migrants from arriving on Canadian shores, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday.

Ontario Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky says the question of whether wireless Internet technology is safe in Ontario schools is in Ottawa's hands.

A mother who claimed her children drowned when their car careened into a river was charged with murder Tuesday after authorities said she confessed to suffocating the two toddlers to be free of them and then faking the accident.

Hockey legend Guy Lafleur has been cleared by an appeals court of committing perjury to protect his son, and has launched a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the police and prosecutors in the case.

The outgoing veterans ombudsman, retired colonel Pat Stogran, is going out firing his guns at the Conservative government and federal bureaucrats, expressing his anger at how Ottawa treats its veterans.

A Canadian Air Force pilot who ejected from his jet seconds before it crashed to the ground has credited his training for his miraculous survival.

The Insurance Corporation of B.C. is asking the B.C. Utilities Commission for approval to reduce basic insurance rates by 1.9 per cent.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the federal government "will not hesitate" to change its laws to give authorities greater powers to curb human smuggling in the wake of the arrival of a ship carrying hundreds of Tamil migrants in B.C. last week.

Passage in sculptor�s memoirs references colleague who inspired character in Hugo�s Hunchback of Notre Dame, researcher believes

The unusual B.C. Supreme Court hearing of Shirley Anderson, a 71-year-old woman who is suing her estranged children for support, was adjourned Tuesday after a Vancouver lawyer stepped in at the last minute to offer the siblings some pro bono help.

Crew momentarily blinded in Monday incident

Toxic proteins found in athletes who died of ALS, same proteins have been found in the brains of athletes with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)

New research suggests that siblings don't impact social skills

RCMP say man arrested in death of Paula Gallant, 36, found in the trunk of her car in December 2005

National housing sales slowed in July, with the decline almost entirely the result of fewer sales in B.C. and Ontario, real-estate body says

Julia Gillard�s centre-left Labor Party wants to replace monarchy with a largely symbolic president

Stz�uminus community will use water-blockade tactic to prevent divers from harvesting shellfish if Ottawa reopens area for commercial activity

Shawn Ryan was sure he could find the source of the Klondike gold rush. After many years of digging, he now has a �See, I told you so� moment

One day after a report showed Canadian housing sales were down 30 per cent, most major banks announced they were cutting mortgage rates.

Some 20 million flood victims in Pakistan have yet to receive any aid despite a growing international relief effort, the UN said Tuesday.

A three-year-old boy was seriously injured Monday morning after a terrifying fall over the railing at the second floor of the West Edmonton Mall.

A Montreal-area family plans to split up this week so that one of their children can go to an English school in the United States.

Seismic activity is petering out at the Icelandic volcano that caused major European air traffic disruption last spring, authorities in Iceland said Monday

Authorities have issued an air quality advisory for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District due to smoke drifting southwestward from forest fires in the interior of the province.

Immigration officials are expected to begin detention review hearings on Monday in Vancouver for the roughly 490 migrants who arrived in B.C. aboard a cargo ship on Friday.

The fight over B.C.'s HST shifted from the political arena to the courtroom on Monday when supporters and opponents of the harmonized sales tax began arguing their cases in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

A Moncton, N.B., man is facing an array of charges after a weekend hostage-taking and police standoff at a convenience store.

China surpassed Japan as the world�s second-largest economy last quarter, capping the nation�s three- decade rise from Communist isolation to emerging superpower.

After weeks of heated debate over plans for an Islamic community center near Ground Zero - the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York - it seems Muslim leaders will soon back down, agreeing to move to a new site.

A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashed on landing and broke into three pieces at a Colombian island in the Caribbean early Monday. The region's governor said it was a miracle that only one person died.

CALGARY - Knowing they'll face Edmonton twice more this season, the Calgary Stampeders chose their words carefully in the wake of their 56-15 romp over the Eskimos on Sunday.

Is Johnson the architect of his own demise or is it the architect and the PGA of America that did him in

Edmonton's Paula Findlay won her second straight Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series race on Sunday, this time in Kitzbuehel, Austria.

New wildfires were popping up across British Columbia on Sunday, as the province was hit with record-setting heat.

A prominent Winnipeg human rights lawyer says a touring exhibit of dead bodies should be legally prohibited from putting cadavers on display in the city beginning next month.

The renegade flight attendant who cursed out a passenger and emergency-chuted to folk-hero status thanked the world for its support and said he wants to go back to work.

Canada's Competition Bureau has given the go-ahead for Shaw Communications to acquire 100 per cent of the television assets of Canwest Global Communications.

A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children's schools turn off wireless internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick.

The owner of an outdoor supply store is asking hunters to take up the search for an Alberta couple who have been missing for six weeks.

A bus driver appears to have blacked out while transporting passengers on a main Vancouver thoroughfare Friday afternoon, hitting two cars before smashing into a hydro pole, according to Translink.

Richie Hayward, co-founder of Little Feat, an eclectic jam band that maintained a strong cult following throughout the decades, has died. He was 64.

Explosive devices were placed in mailboxes at two Regina homes overnight Saturday, and police were warning the public to watch for suspicious activity.

Police recovered a stick of dynamite and detonating wires on the property of a home that exploded Friday in central New Brunswick, killing one person.

A former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist apparently killed himself inside a Boston jail, where he was awaiting trial, authorities said Sunday.

After 10 days of seeing the world through plastic, a six-month-old black bear cub in Florida has been freed from the plastic jar that was stuck on its head by wildlife officials.

John Santini was a summer intern in the lab of MIT bioengineering wizard Robert Langer in 1993 when Langer presented an intriguing idea: Why not use semiconductor manufacturing equipment to build tiny pharmacies that can be implanted in sick patients?

On New York's Long Island, it's used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it's a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipalities update property assessment rolls and other government data with it. Some in law enforcement use it to supplement reconnaissa

A much beloved two-and-a-half year old is back in our city after spending a month in the Big Apple recovering from his second major facial surgery.

The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts.

The head of the B.C. Medical Association is calling for a Canada-wide ban on mixed martial arts because of the potential for serious brain injury in the sport.

Police have recovered a body inside the rubble of a home that exploded in central New Brunswick.

Vancouver has vowed to become the greenest city in the world by 2010. New condos in Toronto are going up without any parking spaces. Regina is doing away with one-way streets to improve public transit access in a revitalized downtown.

Canadian authorities are spending the weekend processing migrants off the cargo ship intercepted by the navy and RCMP last week.

RCMP say two pieces of fuselage recovered off the coast of Cape Breton are believed to be from a small, twin-engine plane that disappeared off radar more than a week ago.

Researchers are peering deep under the Canadian Shield, in the hopes of unlocking one of the secrets of the universe.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to speed up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Sunday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate, and new torrents inundated villages.

A prosecutor said the evidence didn't back up murder charges against a parolee who had been accused of opening fire outside a downtown restaurant, killing four people and wounding four others, and had the counts dismissed Sunday.

LOS ANGELES � An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered "bodies everywhere" moments after sailing off a jump at a California race Saturday, killing eight people and leaving 12 injured, authorities and witnesses said.

Chrysler's Ram truck division is taking direct aim at hunters with a unique feature on its new line of Outdoorsman pickup trucks - a gun closet.

Parks Canada is teaching people how to frighten coyotes away, should they encounter any of the animals in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Ottawa police have a man in custody after a small fire was ignited outside Prime Minister Stephen Harper's residence Saturday evening. There were no reported injuries, or damages to any property, stemming from the incident.

Chad Owens caught two touchdown passes while Ryan Christian returned a kickoff a club-record 110 yards for another as the surprising Toronto Argonauts stunned the visiting Montreal Alouettes 37-22 on Saturday night.

Well, Anderson Cooper managed to get Rep. Louie Gohmert on his show to talk about his latest "terror babies" conspiracy he was touting in the floor of the House and just one word for what happened here... meltdown.

Coming soon to an Ontario town near you � live mixed martial arts. The Dalton McGuinty government will officially sanction and regulate the wildly popular MMA, allowing matches to be fought within the province�s boundaries.

Friday the 13th proved suitably unlucky for one 13 year-old boy who was struck by lightning before being taken to hospital -- at 13:13 on the dreaded date.

Fats Domino sang so gleefully about it in the '50s, and it seems uninhibited folks here in Ottawa are taking the cue and finding their thrill in the great outdoors.

Just the mention of two-tiered healthcare and cash-for-dash highway tolls can generate a cacophony of debate among Canadians -- most of it angry.

Patsy Mara doesn't doubt the man the FBI calls the "Granddad Bandit," suspected in a string of bank robberies across the country, is her husband. The 61-year-old schoolteacher, however, still has trouble reconciling the image of a holdup man who snatched

WikiLeaks will soon publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents, despite warnings from the U.S. government, the organization's founder said Saturday.

A year before serial killer Robert Pickton is said to have nearly stabbed a woman to death, another survivor says he held her at knifepoint.

As hundreds of illegal Tamil immigrants stepped ashore for the first time in three months and requested asylum, many Canadians were asking: Why didn't the government simply turn the boat back?

Young athletes from around the world are competing in the Olympic spirit today, as the inaugural Youth Olympic Games gets underway in Singapore.

VICTORIA - A ship carrying nearly 500 migrants, including some very young children, docked Friday at CFB Esquimalt near Victoria, sailing into a vigorous debate about how Canada should treat those on board and others who may be planning a similar voyage.

Kevin Glenn threw three touchdowns in the first half and Marcus Thigpen ran in another, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats held back the Blue Bombers in the second half to win 39-28 in Winnipeg on Friday night.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less.

Devastating floods have disrupted the lives of 14 million people across Pakistan, but despite the humanitarian disaster, foreign aid is only trickling in.