NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2012

A mother with a child needing urgent care for severe dehydration says she was turned away twice at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon.

Hours after a failed rocket launch criticized abroad as a covert test of missile technology, North Korea's new leader underlined the country's "military first" policy with a budget that allocates a sizable chunk of funding to defence spending.

Baseball-sized hail was breaking windows and tearing siding off homes in northeast Nebraska, while tornadoes were spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma on Saturday as forecasters warned residents across the nation's midsection to brace for "life threatening" wea

The federal NDP says the provinces stand to lose millions of dollars in federal funding for the care of veterans after those who served in the Second World War and Korean War die.

Emile (Butch) Bouchard, a longtime Montreal Canadiens captain and four-time Stanley Cup winner, died Saturday. He was 92.

Nicklas Backstrom scored 2:56 into the second overtime Saturday to give the Washington Capitals a 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins and tie their first-round playoff series at a game apiece.

Giving Iran another chance at diplomacy, deeply skeptical Obama administration officials return to nuclear negotiations this weekend looking for quick progress -- or at least enough hope to hold off urgent calls from Israel for military action.

In an unusually early and strong warning, national weather forecasters cautioned Friday that conditions are ripe for violent tornadoes to rip through the nation from Texas to Minnesota this weekend.

Howard Kallender drove more than 1,000 kilometres from Philadelphia to Halifax with his wife and three children to visit a grave he had never seen -- the final resting place of his great uncle, who perished in the Titanic disaster.

The European Space Agency is turning to Canada for help after it lost contact with a satellite that has been providing vital weather and climate information to scientists for a decade.

A B.C. couple is recovering from a narrow brush with death after a lightning bolt tore though their bedroom, just feet from where they were sitting with their baby.

Dustin Brown scored an NHL playoff record-tying two short-handed goals as the Los Angeles Kings beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 in the second game of their Western Conference quarter-final series Friday night.

A case of what is being called possible demonic possession in Saskatoon has prompted local church officials to consider the need for an exorcist.

Bacteria that have never before come in contact with humans, their diseases or their antibiotics, but are nevertheless resistant to a variety of antibiotics, have been discovered in a U.S. cave.

A B.C. woman who recently gave birth at home has learned that if neither a doctor nor a midwife is present, it's difficult to persuade authorities that a baby was actually born.

A pair of B.C.-born Canucks fans living in Alberta are crying foul after being ticketed $402 each for hoisting flags from their truck and honking their horn during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

There aren't many Vancouver Canucks fans in Windsor, Ont., but one of them, Artist Piero D'Anna, is getting plenty of attention after he painted his house in Vancouver colours.

New Brunswick could have its first reported wolf killing in more than a century after a hunter shot an 86-pound animal on the Acadian Peninsula last week.

Heavy snow in the mountains and a cold wet spring are combining to elevate the risk of flooding this spring along the Fraser and several other B.C. rivers.

Canada's Conservative tough-on-crime government quietly changed the rules last month to make it easier for American hunters and anglers with a minor criminal record to come to Canada to spend their tourist dollars.

He weighs in at up to 14 kilograms, but thanks to his enormous feet shaped almost like snowshoes, looks as though he is floating on air as he ambles along the snow.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposes a requirement that automakers include a brake-throttle override system in all their passenger cars and light trucks to help drivers regain control when a vehicle accelerates suddenly.

The Supreme Court of Canada today struck down a law that allows police to tap telephones without a warrant in an emergency.

Suddenly, some leaders are looking to this weekend's summit in Cartagena, Colombia as a perfect opportunity to begin debate on a question that was once taboo: Why not remove the profits of the cartels by making the drug trade legal

North Korea fired a long-range rocket early Friday, South Korean and U.S. officials said, defying international warnings against moving forward with a launch widely seen as a provocation.

Former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Rick Vaive has been found not guilty on two impaired driving charges.

It's a waste of money to buy over- the- counter products for insect bites, a new review suggests.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies to limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals to curb surge in drug-resistant bacteria.

A Toronto man believes he may be one of hundreds of children conceived by a single sperm donor -- and he's on a mission to track down as many of his siblings as possible.

HMCS Windsor was lowered into Halifax harbour Wednesday after spending five years in dry dock for an extensive refit that cost $45 million in 2010 alone.

B.C. movie theatres can now get a licence to serve alcohol during screenings in adult-only auditoriums.

Unions representing federal public service employees say more than 5,000 of their members were notified Wednesday that their jobs are on the line, including engineers, scientists, food safety inspectors and scientists.

Rock and roll veterans The Rolling Stones are heading back into the studio, according to guitarist Ronnie Wood.

Next week's 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the 1982 patriation of the Canadian Constitution seems to have largely escaped the official attention of an otherwise history-conscious Conservative government.

Henrik Sedin could only shake his head and smile when asked about the notoriety his team has achieved during the past year. The Vancouver Canucks captain gets it, though. In a league full of drama, great storylines and heroes, someone has to play the anta

A massive earthquake struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday afternoon, triggering a tsunami alert for the Indian Ocean.

Edmonton lands first pick for third year in a row

Aircraft landed under escort by two F-15 U.S. fighter jets from Oregon

China's ruling Communist Party suspended high-profile politician Bo Xilai from his remaining leadership positions today and named his wife as a suspect in the murder of a British businessman.

The European Court of Human Rights backs terror extraditions from the UK to the US in one of its most important rulings in years.

A new psychiatric examination has found that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is not criminally insane, contradicting an earlier assessment.

The bloodied and battered corpse of a young killer whale whose death may be linked to Canadian war games has prompted an investigation by U.S. authorities.

Bubba Watson saved par from the pine straw and won the Masters on the second hole of a playoff over Louis Oosthuizen.

Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has proven he doesn't only win elections easily, finishing first in a car race he wasn't even supposed to take part in.

A wildlife recovery centre on Vancouver Island says it is overrun with starving animals.

North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity.

Hockey Night in Canada is home to two Canadian NHL teams - the Vancouver Canucks and Ottawa Senators - who will look to provide the country its first Stanley Cup title since 1993.

National Geographic's 2012 adventurer of the year, Erik Boomer, was in Iqaluit last week to help run a polar survival course. He and his partner had to deal with shifting ice, strong winds and an aggressive walrus during their journey around Ellesmere Isl

Operation Nunalivut starts Tuesday near Resolute, Nunavut, marking the military's first official return to the area since the tragic First Air plane crash in August.

People in parts of south and central Saskatchewan woke up on Sunday to a fresh blanket of snow, thanks to a blast of winter weather over the Easter weekend.

Parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I. and eastern Quebec were digging out from a heavy snowfall on Easter Sunday.

CBS journalist Mike Wallace, famed for talking to politicians, celebrities and other public figures in hard-hitting interviews for 60 Minutes, has died at age 93, a spokesman for the network says.

Army drivers are being trained to deliver fuel to petrol stations around the country in anticipation of a possible strike by tanker drivers.

The NHL regular season came to a close on Saturday, finalizing the playoff matchups. Here's how the teams stack up against one another.

They ate pizza off the floor, had dried mucous on their faces, smelled, had lice for six months and they lived in a home that had garbage and broken belongings hoarded in piles, holes in every wall and feces smeared in a child's bedroom.

Annie Rumbolt and her husband Lawrence now sleep with a big game hunting rifle in their bedroom after becoming the latest survivors of polar bear encounters in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Cambridge won a dramatic Boat Race against Oxford on Saturday following a 31-minute mid-race postponement after a man jumped into the River Thames and swam between the crews.

A small 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook the ground near Ottawa early Saturday evening, but there were no immediate reports of any damage or injuries.

The Vancouver Canucks won their second straight Presidents' Trophy as the best team in the NHL following a 3-0 victory against the Edmonton Oilers. The Canucks will face either the San Jose Sharks or the Los Angeles Kings in the first round of the Stanley

Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby needs to avoid the cheap tactics that have drawn fire from critics and concentrate on scoring, Don Cherry said Saturday night during his Coach's Corner segment on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada.

The U.S. defeated Canada 9-2 to open the women's world hockey championship Saturday. The Americans scored five goals within the first six minutes of the game.

A discovery made by scientists at the University of British Columbia could ease the need for ambergris, the product of a sperm whale's digestive system used in high-end perfumes.

The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after its winter break, and running at even higher energies as it seeks new physics and a resolution to the hunt for the Higgs boson.

The well-preserved body of a strawberry blond mammoth discovered in Northern Siberia is revealing new insights into the lives of mammoths and Ice Age humans.

A team of international student volunteers posing for a portrait at the end of their sojourn in Costa Rica are joined by a surprise intruder: a sloth, who slow-bombed the picture at the last second.

Mike Smith made 31 saves in another stingy start, helping the Phoenix Coyotes take the Pacific Division lead with a 4-1 victory over the suddenly beatable St. Louis Blues on Friday night. With the Blues' loss, the Canucks need just one point to clinch the

Experts say Vietnam's surging demand for rhino horn -- where it is widely believed to cure everything from headaches to cancer -- is threatening to wipe out the world's remaining rhinoceros populations.

The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Thousands have gathered in the Philippines to witness devotees nailed to crosses as they mark Good Friday by re-enacting Jesus Christ's suffering. The yearly rites continue even as Roman Catholic church leaders discourage the practice.

The names of 3,700 dead from Northern Ireland's conflict are being read aloud in a Dublin church on the 14th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement.

A string of murders involving the same weapon have raised concerns a serial killer may be on the loose in a Paris suburb, and come as France is still reeling from a wave of terror-related shootings in its south.

An Ohio woman has admitted keeping her nine-year-old granddaughter in a barricaded bathroom when she wasn't in school.

When Gov. Gen. David Johnston talks about history, his eyes light up and his face becomes animated as the teacher within him comes to the fore.

The Winnipeg Jets did so well financially in their return to the NHL that the plan of being a team that relies on revenue sharing went out the window, team co-owner Mark Chipman said Friday.

Bosnians walked silently and sobbed on Sarajevo's main street, leaving flowers and gifts on 11,541 red chairs arranged in seemingly endless rows -- the number represents the men, women and children killed in a siege that ended up being the longest in mode

A number of B.C. municipalities are crying foul after receiving word that Ottawa has mandated pay increases for Mounties that could leave some cities on the hook for millions.

The Mounties on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula have issued another polar bear warning.

More than a thousand Canadian students marched through the streets of London Friday to mark the upcoming 95th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge.

Two young girls were airlifted to an Edmonton hospital Friday in critical condition after falling through the ice near their Red Deer-area home.

A U.S. fighter jet has crashed into a suburban Virginia apartment complex, sending seven people to hospital as emergency officials search the rubble for about two dozen people still missing.

The numbers are positive, but there is still concern about sustainability

The notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the Merchant of Death, has been sentenced in New York to 25 years in prison following his conviction on terrorism charges that grew from a U.S. sting operation, that demonstrated Washington's determination to

A significant increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, rather than changes to the Earth's orbit, was likely the main cause of global warming that ended the last ice age, a new study has found.

Michael Cammalleri scored twice in the third period as the Calgary Flames rallied to beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Thursday. Curtis Glencross also scored for the Flames (36-29-16), who trailed 1-0 heading into the final period.

A White House spokesman said Thursday that President Barack Obama believes women should be admitted as members to the all-male Augusta National, home of the Masters golf tournament.

A Quebec judge granted a stay of execution Thursday for federal long-gun registry data after the province's Liberal government went to court to prevent destruction of the records.

Jim Marshall, dubbed the "Lord of Loud" for his pioneering work on guitar amplifiers used by some of the greatest names in rock music, has died aged 88. A spokeswoman for the company he founded said he passed away in Milton Keynes, southeast England, on T

A dispute is escalating between the American billionaire owners of a massive B.C. cattle ranch and a local fishing group.

Nearly 80 students were arrested in Montreal Wednesday after students protesting tuition hikes overran the posh Queen Elizabeth Hotel.

A shaggy coat of feathers on a toothy, 1.4-tonne dinosaur has surprised Canadian and Chinese paleontologists.

Conditional sentence a blow for public transit drivers who suffer scores of assaults every year with few culprits winding up in prison

Motorists are feeling the pinch at the pumps in much of Central Canada Wednesday as gas prices spiked just ahead of the Easter weekend.

Max Lapierre's shootout goal gave the Vancouver Canucks a comeback 5-4 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night. The Western Conference-leading Canucks (50-21-9) posted their seventh straight win and moved three points ahead of the idle St. Louis B

B.C. Premier Christy Clark says TransLink's top executives are well-paid and shouldn't be getting performance bonuses at a time when so many B.C. residents are struggling financially.

Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area, tearing roofs off homes, tossing trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor-trailers strewn along highways and parking lots.

Two UK-developed telescopes are used to make a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars.

Last month's enduring sunny spells meant that it was the third warmest March on record - and the hottest since 1957 - the Met Office says.

The website, which is now back up, was overwhelmed from the first minute the data was made available on Monday, with 22.5 million hits in the first four hours

When did our ancestors first use fire? That's been a long-running debate, and now a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about 1 million years ago in a South African cave.

Just one day after Metro Vancouver drivers were hit with a two-cent-per-litre hike in the gas tax to pay for transit expansions, cash-strapped TransLink is considering big bonuses for its executives.

People living in the southernmost part of Ontario insist a cougar is prowling in their midst.

The RCMP have shot and killed a polar bear roaming in the community of Greenspond on Newfoundland's northeast coast this afternoon while children were being let out of school for the day.

The federal Correctional Service of Canada has pulled all of its inmates out of an aboriginal healing lodge near Prince Albert, Sask.

A Moose Jaw man who escaped from a massive apartment fire Monday says he might not be alive today if it wasn't for his cat, Chloe.

It was a close call for a young man who passed out on a train track in Thunder Bay Tuesday morning.

Veterans Affairs is changing the way it pays for certain services for former members of the Canadian Forces.

The Miss Universe Organization appears to be wavering on a previous decision to bar a Canadian transgender contestant from an upcoming beauty pageant.

About 600 people have come knocking on Rene Dubois's door in southern Manitoba asking if they can hold and take photos of his new baby.

Former NHL coach and general manager Mike Milbury added more life to the drama between the Penguins and Flyers after calling out Pittsburgh superstar Sidney Crosby on a Philadelphia radio station.

Vancouver hosts Anaheim on Tuesday, the first of three remaining games against non-playoff clubs as the Canucks try to capture the Western Conference No. 1 seed, and, if possible, The Presidents' Trophy.

The Canadian rock band Trooper has come to the aid of a cat in Newfoundland bearing the same name that was just whiskers away from death in late February.

An elderly woman took control of a small plane from her unconscious husband which was dangerously low on fuel and landed it on a runway at a small northeastern Wisconsin airport, the facility's director said.

Watch as rescuers in southwest China use video from a smartphone to save a toddler who fell into a 12-metre-deep dry well.

The old communist East Germany is defended by its former ruler's widow - who also bemoans her "outrageously small" pension.

QUEBEC - Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fournier announced Tuesday that he has filed a request with Quebec Superior Court to preserve the data on Quebec residents in the federal gun registry.

The Defence Department did not run a fair competition to choose the F-35 fighter jet, is likely underestimating the total procurement cost, and made key decisions without required approvals or proper documentation, the auditor general concludes in a repor

As the tide creeps over the sand flats of Pachena Bay south of Bamfield, it brings ashore the flotsam of the Pacific that -- on occasion -- hints at extraordinary travels and a mystery of historic proportions.

Firefighting helicopters are trying to put out a spectacular blaze atop an under-construction Moscow skyscraper, planned to be Europe's tallest building.

The latest fines totalled $41,000, a a relatively small amount compared with the $2.1-million in penalties that the CRTC has levied against telemarketers since the rules were put in place

Roger Ackman, a top executive for Imperial Tobacco Ltd., said he destroyed dozens of documents that outlined the health risks associated with smoking

Walkman Z features superior sound processing and fidelity

Kyle Turris scored twice and had a pair of assists, Milan Michalek added his team-leading 35th goal and the Ottawa Senators clinched a playoff berth with a 5-1 win over the New York Islanders on Sunday.