NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2010

An attempt is underway Monday in the Northwest Passage to re-float a fuel tanker that has been stuck in a sandbar for nearly two weeks.

If British Columbians vote against the HST in a referendum, the province will dump the controversial tax, says B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell.

The NHL has come down hard on the New Jersey Devils for deliberately circumventing the league's salary cap in their original attempt to sign forward Ilya Kovalchuk.

CBC has been on the front lines of many battles to try and pry information from the federal government, but on Monday morning, lawyers for the public broadcaster will stand in a Montreal court and argue that they should not have to be put under the same s

Michael Moore, in his recent composition for RSN, spoke against the cherished desire of anti-ground-zero-mosque Americans, and in fact, urged and wished a mosque constructed not two blocks away from Ground Zero, but exactly on Ground Zero.

VANCOUVER -- Roberto Luongo is relinquishing his captaincy of the Vancouver Canucks. The goaltender offered no reason for the decision in a release from the team Monday. But GM Mike Gillis has said being an NHL captain in a Canadian city can entail a l

The detectives trying to unlock the mystery of whether life ever existed on Mars have uncovered a new clue that they believe will help solve the cold case. For more than three decades, it's been widely accepted that the red planet is lifeless.

A rowdy frat party at the University of British Columbia came to a violent end on Saturday when partygoers assaulted a number of RCMP officers who had come by to break up a fight.

Gordon Campbell put on a brave face Sunday, responding to the increasing calls for his resignation and news that his approval rating is the lowest of any sitting premier in Canada.

Thousands of tall pine trees killed from the inside out. Large swaths of lush forest turned brown.

A show by Canada's top aerobatic team was disrupted Sunday afternoon when one of the jets hit a bird.

Several hundred people were forced out of their homes early Sunday morning after several fires started in an apartment complex in southwest Calgary.

Which country has the most generous people in the world? A poll of 153 countries ranked global philanthropy in three categories: individual donations, volunteer time, and the number of people willing to help a stranger. Gallup�s 2010 World Giving Index

Canadian author Margaret Atwood is a free-speech activist. She is the vice-president of International PEN, the advocacy group for imprisoned writers.

Canada sold more wheat to Iraq last year than any other country except the United States, a tantalizing trade relationship that has piqued Ottawa's interest.

Canada's spy agency says it would use information obtained through torture to derail a possible terrorist plot - a position critics argue will only encourage abusive interrogations.

The Coast Guard is building a new headquarters on the shore of the Bedford Basin near Halifax.

An email that purports to offer free pornography but actually contains a virus is spreading like wildfire across the internet, security experts have warned.

Hackers create 57,000 new web pages every week in a bid to infect web users with malicious software, says PandaLabs.

Turks approved sweeping changes to their military-era constitution Sunday _ a referendum hailed by the government as a leap toward full democracy in line with its troubled bid to join the European Union.

Two militants and the head of the local administration were killed on Sunday during a special operation carried out by Russian security forces in the southern republic of Dagestan, local police said.

Artificial electronic skins that can detect the gentlest of touches have been developed by two independent US research groups. The skins could eventually be used in prosthetics, or in touch-sensitive robotic devices.

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said the current restrictions on the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will not remain in place, though there will be some limits on future construction.

OTTAWA - The federal government announced Sunday a three-week extension of its pledge to match all private donations to registered charities to bolster aid efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan.

TORONTO - A computer storing the names of hundreds of Tamils who arrived in Canada last month has been stolen from the Toronto office of a group that is helping them stay in touch with their families in Sri Lanka, a spokesman for the group said Sunday.

GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, N.L. - A Pennsylvania woman who says she fatally shot her husband on a hunting trip after mistaking him for a bear goes on trial Monday in central Newfoundland.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers won the seventh renewal of the Banjo Bowl by blasting the Saskatchewan Roughriders 31-2 on Sunday afternoon.

Family members of a Winnipeg father who was attacked and set on fire say they are stunned by the apparently random act of brutality. Gerald Dumas, 47, was doused with a flammable liquid and set ablaze around 11:30 p.m. CT Friday in a back alley off the 50

A 20-year-old female is recovering from unknown injuries after a third-storey balcony came crashing down at an apartment just off Whyte Avenue.

NDP Leader Jack Layton says that allowing his party's MPs to vote freely on a bill to scrap the long-gun registry does not contradict his own stance: that the registry must be saved.

Willow Smith's new hip-hop song hit the web Tuesday. And you know what, it's not half bad. In fact, it's kind of awesome. The nine-year-old actress -- who worked with her dad on I Am Legend and her mom, Jada Pinkett Smith, on Madagascar 2 -- shows off her

Four Manitobans are set to meet U.S. President Barack Obama as members of a championship college hockey team.

The Alberta government is hoping to change negative public perceptions of the oilsands by running a series of ads in New York's Times Square.

Tensions remain over a U.S. pastor's threat to burn copies of the Qur'an, even though he has cancelled those plans.

Authorities at Manila's airport found a newborn baby in a garbage bag that was apparently unloaded from an airplane that landed Sunday from the Middle East, officials said.

An Iranian prosecutor says an American woman who has been detained in a Tehran jail for more than a year will be released on $500,000 bail due to health problems, local media reports said Sunday.

Six people are dead and five others are missing after an enormous natural gas explosion tore through a suburb south of San Francisco, destroying homes, sending flames roaring through the hills and injuring dozens.

A massive ice island four times the size of Manhattan that broke off the Petermann Glacier early last month has split in two.

Thousands of spectators flocked to Shearwater, N.S., on Saturday to watch the Snowbirds do tricks in the sky or to climb on board other planes on display at the Nova Scotia International Air Show.

Fallen firefighters from across Canada are being remembered in Ottawa this weekend, and for the first time Ottawa Fire Services is remembering those who did not die in emergencies.

British Columbia could start to see more frequent cases of contaminated drinking water in smaller communities across the province, an expert warns.

More than 4,000 riders donned Lycra and jumped on their bikes Saturday to pedal to Whistler from downtown Vancouver.

Going boldly where no scientists have gone before, a group of Australian researchers have developed a working model of a tractor beam like Star Trek's fictional mass mover.

Two dozen Canadians killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center were remembered in public and private ceremonies across the country on the ninth anniversary of their deaths.

A draft contract is due to land on the desk of B.C. Solicitor-General Mike de Jong this fall, outlining the terms of a new deal that would bind the province to the RCMP for another two decades.

Jayson Nickol hasn't yet seen his 30th birthday but thanks to a five-month tour in Afghanistan he is already suffering from arthritis and chronic pain. The 26-year-old Glenlawn Collegiate grad was shot by an insurgent wielding an AK-47 in June 2008. The b

A black bear was shot and killed after wandering into Hope, B.C., on Saturday, upsetting a crowd of concerned locals who simply wanted to see the animal relocated.

Saturday was a day of remembrance for the towns of Appleton and Gander in eastern Newfoundland. The communities became giant hostels for thousands of airline passengers nine years ago when the Sept. 11 attacks shut down American airspace and 77 flights ca

For the last seven years, Everett Bunnell has laboured to ensure a little-known part of aviation history doesn't slip through the cracks.

The creepy comeback of bedbugs in Canada has an Ontario politician calling for a national health strategy to track the tiny bloodsuckers.

People living near the area where a train carrying propane and butane derailed in central Alberta Saturday morning have been evacuated.

Two weeks ago, Aces Mark, a six-year-old gelding, was looking for a race. Sept. 2 looked good at New York State's Saratoga track, until the stewards announced there weren't enough horses to run. Same thing happened the next day.

Arctic Ocean sea ice has experienced another severe meltdown this year, with the approaching end-of-summer minimum representing the third-biggest thaw since satellite monitoring began about 30 years ago.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Americans must "stay true to who we are" to pay tribute to the thousands who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an anniversary that was marked Saturday in sombre ceremonies in New York, Pennsylvania and at

Coalition forces in Afghanistan will go on the offensive this fall, says Lt.-Gen. Marc Lessard, the commander of Canadian troops overseas.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The commander of Canada's troops overseas says it was a tough summer in Kandahar. Lt.-Gen. Marc Lessard says things regressed in the Panjwaii district, the hottest spot in Canada's newly focused area of operations in the province.

Quarterback Adrian McPherson may have been the new name on the marquee, but it was an older set of actors who sent the Montreal Alouettes to a 27-6 win over the host Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is releasing a handmade photographic autobiography that will cost �445 ($708 Cdn). The 700-image, leather-bound book is set for release in late September and will be limited to only 2,500 copies.

A double-decker bus headed to Toronto from Philadelphia crashed in central New York state early Saturday, killing four people and critically injuring others, authorities said.

Police in Regina say they have been picking up people intoxicated from drinking hand sanitizing liquids which contain alcohol.

What women want is the age-old question. And Mel Gibson figured this one out when he was able to read minds in the 2000 Hollywood flick. Now, however, reading minds is no longer a thing of the movies, thanks to an American neuroscientist.

Freshwater turtles are in catastrophic decline, according to a new analysis by Conservation International

A celestial event seen by the ancient Greeks may be the earliest sighting of Halley's comet, new evidence suggests.

The US is preparing to mark nine years since 9/11 amid controversy over plans for an Islamic centre nearby and a threat to burn the Koran.

Russia is positioning itself for active reinvolvement in Afghanistan, the country's Foreign Minister indicated yesterday.

The owners of a proposed lead-zinc mine on the Yukon-Northwest Territories border wants to rebuild a long-forgotten road that runs through part of Nahanni National Park.

Canada's most northerly community has a new monument that pays tribute to Inuit who were relocated there by the federal government in the 1950s.

An Alberta man convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of Eric Olsen at a house party three years ago has been sentenced to three years in prison by a judge in Edmonton.

Police have charged a 16-year-old boy in connection with an alleged sexual assault involving a 12-year-old girl at a school field in northeast Calgary.

It is essential that people who willingly live in polygamous communities testify at a B.C. Supreme Court hearing if the court is to determine whether Canada's laws against polygamy are constitutional, a lawyer says.

Canadian pot activist Marc Emery has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. federal prison for selling marijuana seeds south of the border.

Tenants in Vancouver and New Westminster are complaining that they're being unfairly evicted so that landlords can raise their rents, and they're calling on the provincial government to do more to protect them.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland was on hand in Weyburn, Sask., Friday for the unveiling of a statue honouring his grandfather, Tommy Douglas. Douglas, a former premier of Saskatchewan, is credited with introducing universal, publicly funded medical insurance in t

A Florida minister who had been considering burning copies of the Qur'an to mark the anniversary of 9/11 will not go ahead with the plan on Saturday, his son said.

CAIRO - Far from the din and controversy roiling interfaith relations in the West, Muslims worldwide thronged mosques, cafes and parks in a solemn and joyful end to the fasting month of Ramadan.

The Calgary Stampeders have a new rushing king. Running back Joffrey Reynolds became Calgary's all-time rushing leader Friday night while helping guide the Stampeders to a 36-20 victory over the lowly Edmonton Eskimos at Commonwealth Stadium.

Students were quarantined and a hazardous materials team had to be brought in after an exploding can of sauerkraut caused a botulism scare at a high school in Prince George, B.C.

A routine speeding violation turned into another doda drug bust for the RCMP this week.

In a world where supplies of fresh water are shrinking, countries, companies and individuals should be aware of the value of water, Yvo de Boer told a water seminar in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday

Parks Canada disciplined a small number of employees after an email containing a racist joke was distributed throughout its offices. The offensive email, which portrayed aboriginals and African-Canadians in a negative light, was reportedly forwarded to 1

Nearly three-quarters of adults in Ontario are overweight or obese and have a strong occurrence of high blood pressure, according to new research that adds to the evidence linking weight and heath.

British Columbians, more than Canadians in other provinces, are the most likely to embrace newcomers to the country, even as the national attitude toward global migration appears to be hardening, a new survey by Angus Reid Public Opinion shows.

Popping a pill might seem a small price to pay for a peaceful night's sleep. But beware of the long-term cost - those who pop sleeping pills are a third more likely to die prematurely than those who don't, says latest research.

A fter being charged with environmental offen-es by the provincial government, a spokesman for oilsands miner Suncor Energy said Thursday there was no environmental harm and the company did not intend to mislead regulators.

A long-shot Canadian proposal for banking reform suddenly seems considerably less far-fetched. The Basel Committee, the body that sets international banking standards, last month endorsed the idea of embedded contingent capital, an instrument to avert tax

An electronic monitoring system using global positioning system technology will be tested out by Alberta policing and corrections agencies.

President Obama said Friday that if the midterm elections become a referendum on which political party has the most effective agenda to improve the economy, rather than a decision on its current state, "the Democrats will do very well."

Progressive Conservative Leader David Alward is reaching out to seniors by promising anyone over 65 that he will freeze their property tax assessments permanently.

Premier Gordon Campbell may have the support of his cabinet and caucus, but others are still expressing doubts about his leadership.

Conservatives, particularly in Western Canada, are reportedly angry at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's willingness to use federal dollars to fund sports arenas and stadiums across the country.

TORONTO - A suspect known as the Vaulter Bandit is bouncing across the GTA. The pistol-packing bank robber who jumps over counters and takes command of staff and customers during his heists has now claimed a Hamilton bank.

RCMP Commissioner William Elliott is coming under fire for wearing a police uniform and carrying a gun even though he is a civilian, not a trained police officer.

The province is preparing to extend the moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the fertile fishing grounds of Georges Bank, Premier Darrell Dexter said Thursday.

Israel has scored guarantees of billions of dollars of work on the stealth fighters Canada eventually hopes to buy even though, unlike Canada and other nations, it has not invested any money in the development of the aircraft.

A Conservative MP is demanding an apology from a B.C. Liberal riding association president who compared the government's plans for combating human smuggling to making a deal with the Nazis.

A new statue honouring Terry Fox and his campaign to raise money for cancer research will be built in St. John's.

What's at stake....For Edmonton (2-7), not much after two embarrassing losses by a combined 88 points in Calgary over the past month. Just potentially the coach's future, continuing employment status for several underperforming players, that sort of thing

A mosque destined for the Arctic is inching closer to its final home in Inuvik, N.W.T., having made it on time to the final barge of the year.

Documents released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say genetically modified salmon being reared on P.E.I. is safe, provoking some alarm on both sides of the border.

A former Anglican priest was imprisoned Friday, soon after he pleaded guilty to owning pornography depicting children as young as six months.

Officials confirmed Friday that at least four people are confirmed dead in an explosion and fire that tore through a neighbourhood near San Francisco.

The second of two Siberian tiger cubs born unexpectedly at the Calgary Zoo has died, zoo officials said Friday.

FATHOLLAH, Afghanistan - The soldiers of Bravo Company, 5 Platoon, prepare for battle. Some check, double check, then triple check their equipment. Some chat quietly. Others just rest, for they know they're about to pick a fight.

A third New Democrat MP says he's changed his mind and will vote against a bill to do away with the long-gun registry. Claude Gravelle, the member for Nickel Belt, says he wants the registry fixed, not killed.

CTV News has learned the special reward for any information that may lead to the discovery of Lyle and Marie McCann has topped $50,000.

A group of 24 marines swooped on the German-owned M/V Magellan Star and took control of the ship from nine pirates who had captured it on Wednesday.

The ongoing disintegration of Arctic sea ice cover is posing a particular hazard for the narwhal -- one of Canada's iconic polar species -- according to a new U.S. study that details how the slow-moving whale with the spiralled tusk is increasingly threat

(Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi demanded on Friday that Japan unconditionally free a Chinese fishing boat captain seized in disputed waters, raising the pitch of Beijing's latest territorial quarrel with Tokyo.

A Somali militant group that has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda has turned to piracy to finance its effort to topple Somalia's government, posing new risks for shipping companies and the international naval forces patrolling the waters off the horn of Afr