NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2011

The father of an 11-month-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after the child was slashed several times at a home in Calgary early Saturday morning.

Six people were rushed to hospital Sunday afternoon after gunmen opened fire on a sport utility vehicle outside an upscale hotel in Kelowna, B.C.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers scored touchdowns on their first two second-half possessions in a 30-17 defeat of the B.C. Lions for their fourth consecutive win Saturday.

Hamilton quarterback Kevin Glenn threw for two touchdowns and the defence held on for a 37-32 win over the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday night.

Fishermen on the Fraser River were back at work for a few hours this week, but didn't find anything like the record bounty of sockeye that came streaming a year ago.

Commercial Street... Nanaimo, BC Le petit Champlain... Quebec, QC The Forks... Winnipeg, MB

Cannon was invited to the event by the Liberals but few people knew he was attending until he walked in.

West Vancouver police say a brass propeller that was once attached to a vessel owned by infamous rum-runner Al Capone has been stolen from a local home.

Dining together at a secret rendezvous point in Niagara-on-the-Lake, 400 people ushered in Ontario's first Diner en Blanc last week, a gourmet event that has recently become popular in Canada after first starting 23 years ago in France.

The Berlin Wall's construction 50 years ago must be a constant reminder to citizens today to stand up for freedom and democracy, the city's mayor said Saturday as a united Germany commemorated the bitter anniversary.

Surfing the Web from a campsite in the great outdoors may seem odd to some Canadians, but it's becoming easier for patrons of the country's provincial parks to go online.

Residents fled from Syrian tanks sweeping into the coastal city of Latakia, as President Bashar Assad appears to shrug off international condemnation against his deadly crackdown on protesters.

Small Canadian towns are painfully aware of the existential predicament they face. Few are strangers to the sobering realities of declining and aging populations, young people fleeing to cities, difficulty maintaining infrastructure, and sky-high unemploy

A number of smaller Alberta communities are losing Greyhound bus service, effective this October.

How did British rioters manage to loot and ransack their neighbourhoods for four straight nights? Police claim the culprits used smartphones to quickly organize and avoid getting caught, sparking questions of how much leeway law enforcement has to crack i

Keon Raymond intercepted a pass in his own end zone and returned it 117 yards for a touchdown as the Calgary Stampeders rolled to a 45-35 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday.

An overnight fire in Alexandria, Ont., has claimed three members of a family -- a mother and her two children.

Ontarians are being asked to grab some insect repellent to combat West Nile virus, which officials say is on the rise in mosquito pools across the province.

Investigators say a suspect armed with a screwdriver who came at a Calgary police officer was shot four times and died in hospital.

A five-member administrative panel will hear the case of a man who admits he stabbed his children to death, and will have to decide whether he should walk free.

A teenager accused of getting drunk and urinating in the cabin of a JetBlue flight from Portland, Ore., to New York could be facing a federal misdemeanour charge of indecent exposure.

Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters shouted for President Bashar Assad's death Friday in a dramatic escalation of their rage and frustration, defying bullets and rooftop snipers after more than a week of intensified military assaults on rebellious citi

Canada has struck a free-trade deal with Honduras, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced during the final day of his Latin American tour, saying the country has taken steps to improve its shaky human rights record.

A group of employees at an Ottawa manufacturing plant say they won the $7-million Lotto 6/49 prize Wednesday, the same day their company announced massive layoffs.

Thorium is a naturally occurring, slightly radioactive rare-earth element discovered in 1828 by the Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius, who named it after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. It is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils, where it is

Posters of the east Vancouver native dressed in his Boston Bruins gold and black were reportedly defaced outside a cultural community centre. His eyes were poked out. His face scribbled on.

BC Hydro will be asking for a rate hike that's half of what it originally wanted and eliminating up to 1,000 jobs following a government review, the Crown corporation announced Thursday.

An experimental aircraft touted as the fastest plane ever built failed a test flight Thursday, according to officials with the Pentagon.

A construction worker in West Vancouver made an explosive discovery while excavating a site this week when he dug up a live artillery shell dating back to the early 20th century

A cattle rancher from B.C.'s Cariboo region is facing criminal charges after SPCA investigators say they discovered his farm littered with dead and starving animals

As commercial fishermen filled their nets with Fraser River sockeye salmon Thursday afternoon, some called for more chances to fish, like their First Nations counterparts.

Anthony Calvillo became the fourth professional quarterback to reach 400 touchdown passes with a pair of first-half strikes to Jamal Richardson, sending the Montreal Alouettes on to a 27-4 win over the Edmonton Eskimos on Thursday night.

Residents of Kelowna, B.C., are cleaning up after an intense storm hit Wednesday evening, battering the city with heavy rain, wind and lightning.

An enormous jawbone found in Kazakhstan is further evidence that giant birds roamed - or flew above - the Earth at the same time as the dinosaurs.

RCMP investigators will travel to Texas to determine whether more than two dozen teenage girls were trafficked across the Canadian border to the United States "for sexual purposes."

Animal care workers are optimistic that three young black bear cubs whose mother was killed by conservation officers this week could lose their taste for garbage and eventually be released back into the wild.

An unseasonably cold spring and summer could mean a better than expected return on sockeye salmon in the Fraser River.

A sharp rise in the number of arsons this summer in Winnipeg has put the city on alert.

Parks Canada has paired with a railway to take a closer look at how to reduce the number of bears killed on the tracks in Banff National Park

A New York state regulation intended to protect the St. Lawrence Seaway from invasive species may cripple shipping and hit Canada's economy hard, the shipping industry warns.

A big oil price drop over the last few days could come with one perk -- lower gasoline prices.

The tsunami caused by the 11 March Tohoku earthquake in Japan crossed the Pacific and broke off large chunks of ice from Antarctica, a study has shown.

Scientists have proposed a viable solution to the growing problem of space junk. The idea involves launching a satellite to rendezvous with the largest space debris, such as spent rocket bodies.

The 300m (990ft) carrier has been one of China's worst-kept secrets, analysts say. The Chinese navy's first aircraft carrier has begun its sea trials, the state-run Xinhua news agency has said.

Canada will lose out to Russia's Arctic shipping routes because it is too small to finance the infrastructure, France's ambassador for the polar regions said Monday.

At least two of four Libyan diplomats are attempting to stay in Canada after Ottawa ordered the officials out of the country within five days.

Parks Canada is undertaking a special project that will take abandoned piping plover eggs from three Maritime national parks and send them to a New Brunswick zoo where they will be sheltered until they are ready for release.

It's now easier than ever to stay connected in provincial parks across Canada, but not all visitors are happy campers about it.

The British capital saw a night of relative calm, with 16,000 police patrolling the streets. But rioting spread to new areas of the country as the worst unrest England has seen in a generation persisted for a fourth consecutive night.

Fresh from their own revolution, Egyptian bloggers tried to make sense of the scenes of looting and burning buildings coming out of the United Kingdom Monday.

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage follower he took as a bride in what his church deemed a "spiritual marriage." The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter

Hudema said he thinks this is the first time in Alberta, if not in Canada, that Greenpeace members have been given criminal records as a result of their activism. The seven protesters each pleaded guilty in June to one count of mischief for wilfully ob

Consumers concerned about the past life of their meats are about to get clarity from one chain of organic grocery stores.

Inscribed in black ink on calfskin vellum, the names in the Seventh Book of Remembrance are meant to last 600 years. Each page is lined in gold and coloured in pigment much like the ancient manuscripts once drawn by cloistered monks.

A Harvard-trained legal scholar was sworn in Monday as new head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, taking over from the Dalai Lama as leader of his people's fight for freedom.

It's taken 15 years and nearly a half a billion dollars, but the curtain is beginning to come down on one of Canada's largest environmental cleanup projects.

Residents of an area north of Lac Saint-Jean in northeastern Quebec are scrambling to clean up the mess Monday after at least one tornado hit the area Saturday night, tearing apart buildings and bringing down trees.

A large swath of trails near Squamish, B.C., has been closed to users as conservation officers hunt down an aggressive cougar that's been stalking people.

A mother black bear that was shot and killed after it attacked a man in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Anmore had been a fixture in the community, said the mayor.

Somewhere along the South Saskatchewan River is a secret aboriginal burial ground owned and operated by the provincial government.

A painting that honours Canadians who have died while serving in Afghanistan is making its way through Saskatchewan this month.

Authorities say a family argument in Ohio ended in the shooting deaths of eight people in two places, including an 11-year-old. Another person was wounded.

A thin band of antimatter particles called antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time.

Phill Michael first made headlines in 2008, when he successfully rescued two people lost on Mount Rainier.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume certain mussels that may contain Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP) biotoxin.

Nazi prisoners of war who spent much of the Second World War in a Manitoba logging camp purchased mail-order items from the Eaton's catalogue, kept themselves impeccably groomed and even staged "temporary" escapes into the nearby countryside.

A small, peaceful demonstration against the killing of a man in north London turned violent Saturday night as hundreds of rioters broke windows, set fire to cars and looted local shops.

Activists say Syrian troops killed at least 52 people as they surged through a central town and parts of an eastern city, defying a UN request to stop the use of military force against civilians.

Plummeting stocks marked the opening of most Middle East markets on Sunday following an unprecedented downgrade of the United States' credit rating.

Rory (The Water Boy) MacDonald of Quesnel, B.C., improved to 12-1 with a TKO win over American Mike Pyle. MacDonald, who trains in Montreal, put Pyle down at 3:54 in the first round.

Joffrey Reynolds and Jon Cornish had rushing touchdowns as the Calgary Stampeders defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 32-20 in the lone CFL game on Saturday night.

TORONTO -- Rebekah Boscariol was fighting against a strong current Saturday morning. Muscle fatigue, the sting of cold water and the darkness of night had worn the 17-year-old swimmer down.

HMCS Annapolis was a durable destroyer escort in the Canadian navy at a time when Canada was known as a peacekeeper. It was part of an oil-and-arms embargo for almost a month in 1994 after a military coup in Haiti. Otherwise, its public military record do

Scientists say current concerns over a tipping point in the disappearance of Arctic sea ice may be misplaced.

Four survivors of an Arctic polar bear attack that left a UK teenager dead are recovering after surgery, Norwegian hospital staff have said.

WINNIPEG - A family dog is being hailed a hero after she clashed with a full-grown black bear in cottage country earlier this week.

A Nova Scotia man has set up a live webcam inside a lobster trap, and it's drawing tens of thousands of curious viewers a day.

There's gold in every Girl Scout Cookies box. Actually, it's graphene -- a single-atom-thick sheet of the same material in pencil lead -- that can be made from just about any carbon source, including food, insects and waste

A humpback whale was rescued off the east coast of Vancouver Island near Tofino, B.C. Friday after being tangled in ropes from a crab trap for days.

Japan's prime minister, marking the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, said his country is "working toward a society with a reduced dependence on nuclear energy."

Two Czech tourists jumped into an icy river in an attempt to escape with fossils from B.C.'s Burgess Shale Formation last week.

The gritty north London neighbourhood of Tottenham exploded in anger Saturday night after a young man was shot to death by police.

A man was standing by a car in the 4600 block of 4th Street N.W. around 6:30 p.m. when he was suddenly swept under surging water. Passersby tried to rescue him, but were unsuccessful and called 911.

The survey, which interviewed 17,601 respondents in 23 countries, shows Canadians have a relatively upbeat attitude toward immigration in general, compared to other countries and to the global average.

Geroy Simon caught seven passes, including one for a 63-yard touchdown, as the B.C. Lions registered their first win of the CFL season 24-11 over the struggling Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday night.

Canada is deploying unmanned surveillance aircraft to the High Arctic for the first time, as part of Operation Nanook, the largest military exercise ever in the Far North.

Alexandria, Minn. - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials have been unable to identify a mystery carcass found in Douglas County with certainty, prompting further investigation.

Buck Pierce threw for two touchdowns and ran one in himself as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers handed the visiting Edmonton Eskimos their first loss of the season with a 28-16 victory Friday night.

Police released a man accused by his girlfriend of stabbing her after they learned the woman's wounds were actually self-inflicted.

Myrtle Rose was taking a short flight over suburban Chicago when the 75-year-old aviation enthusiast looked out her cockpit window to see two F-16 fighter jets. She assumed the military pilots were just slowing down to get a closer look at her antique pla

Between deep-fried butter and bacon-wrapped confections, The Canadian National Exhibition has built a reputation on serving up gastronomically-shocking dishes.

The spacecraft, named Juno, blasted off aboard an unmanned rocket Friday from Cape Canaveral. It will take Juno five years to reach the largest planet in the solar system.

It's hard to believe that a marathon video game session could turn deadly, but that's exactly what it did to a 20-year-old man in the United Kingdom earlier this year.

Could Facebook be turning your teen into a narcissist?

A new drug has just been approved by Health Canada for hepatitis C that might put the word "cure" within reach of some patients -- something unheard of with current treatments. But the drug comes with a hefty price tag and it's unclear who will be paying

The lawyer for a Canadian man facing child pornography charges in the United States says he is reviewing the legal options should the justice minister approve his client's extradition.

A sombre Jack Tobin warned others today about the "nightmare" of drunk driving as he apologized again to the family of a close friend he accidentally killed.

A Mexican judge says he dropped criminal charges related to a hotel explosion that killed seven people, including five Canadians, because it would be best handled as a civil lawsuit.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says authorities have headed off as many as four human-smuggling operations bound for Canada in the last year.

Penticton RCMP are now turning their attention to tracing the movements of the 35-year-old man arrested Wednesday for a 12-hour attack on a young Penticton mother.

Seven Greenpeace activists have been fined for the mischief they caused when they rappelled from the top of a tourist attraction and hung a banner criticizing the oil industry.

A bizarre attack by a llama has turned a summer vacation in B.C. into a harrowing ordeal for a 75-year-old woman from Montreal.

A bizarre crash occurred at a popular mall late Friday afternoon. Witnesses report a car drove through the doors leading to the food court of Kingsway Mall.

They've spent years trying to clear their names from any suggestion of terrorist ties. But a CSIS document leaked to Montreal's French-language newspaper La Presse now suggests why Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui have been terrorism suspects for s

The Katz Group is still in negotiations with the city for a downtown arena, but the group admits it is open to alternatives in the Edmonton region.

Edmonton police are on the look-out for a 17-year old woman, who is allegedly engaging in unprotected sex with a number of partners without revealing her status as being HIV positive.

The Vancouver Canucks have signed veteran forwards Owen Nolan and Todd Fedoruk to professional tryout contracts.

Environment Canada has sent notice to hundreds of employees that they will be affected by a wave of job cuts that will take place over the next 90 days.