NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2013

Oil-rich Venezuela is moving to end shortages of basic personal hygiene products by authorizing millions of dollars to buy toilet paper, toothpaste, soap, sanitary napkins and disposable diapers.

The Vancouver Canucks fired head coach Alain Vigneault on Wednesday, just under two years after he guided the club to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup final.

The Toronto Catholic District School board announced Wednesday that it was turfing Mayor Rob Ford from his position as head coach of the Don Bosco Eagles senior football team.

A man is killed in a machete attack and two men are shot by police in south-east London in what government sources say is a suspected terror incident.

Jose Laparra has learned the hard way that money can't buy love -- not even when there's an expensive elixir of love involved. Earlier this year, Laparra, 46, a wealthy Spanish businessman, paid psychic 'spiritual counselor' Lucia Martin...

Members can be suspended, stripped of salary and even expelled, says constitutional expert: an expert on parliamentary rules says the Senate has the power to turf a senator from the chamber, as long as a majority approves the expulsion, and as long as the

Israel's military chief issued a stern warning to Bashar Assad on Tuesday, saying the Syrian leader would bear the consequences of any more attacks on Israeli forces near the Syrian border.

Fewer Canadian kids are commuting by walking or biking as a new report reveals a marked decline among young people using active modes of transportation.

The storm killed at least 20 children and 31 adults, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. Those numbers were expected to climb, officials said, as some media reported a death toll as high as 91 this morning.

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and founding member of The Doors who had a dramatic impact on rock 'n' roll, has died. He was 74.

Was Noureddin Ziani really deported from Spain for being an Islamist extremist or was it because he is a Catalan separatist? BARCELONA - The head of a Muslim group funded by an organization that promotes independence from Spain for the autonomous region

Ottawa Senators winger Colin Greening scored the game winner more than seven minutes into the second overtime to give the Senators a 2-1 win and get them back in the series with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Prince Andrew is in Victoria this weekend, as Scots celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Highland Games.

Two bodies have been found close to a submerged boat off the coast of New Brunswick, a day after a boat capsized with three crew members on board.

Sweden won the world hockey championship Sunday, defeating Switzerland 5-1 in the gold-medal game in Stockholm. The United States took the bronze by beating Finland 3-2 in a shootout.

The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer.

Eighty thousand years ago the Earth began to cool, marking the start of the last Ice Age. Experts are still discovering how the big freeze affected the giant mammals which prowled its dramatically changing landscape.

The good weather has flooded the Wasaga Beach area with people seeking good times this weekend, though police say they are seeing some people enjoy themselves a little too much.

A group of six campers was rescued Sunday morning after becoming lost when they wandered away from their campsite near Gorge Creek Trail.

The federal government has been airing ads touting its Canada Jobs Grant for training workers, but the Conservative government House leader acknowledges the announced program is merely a proposal that needs to be fleshed out.

With his team down 2-0 in their Eastern Conference semifinal against the Pittsburgh Penguins, talented Ottawa Senators forward Jason Spezza revealed after practice on Saturday that he expects to play in Game 3 tomorrow evening.

The United States won its first medal at the ice hockey world championships in nine years, taking the bronze by beating Finland 3-2 in a shootout on Sunday in Stockholm, Sweden.

Paul Henderson is having such a good year, he threatened to steal Mats Sundin's No. 13 at the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame induction in Stockholm, Sweden on Sunday.

Confused Connecticut conservation officers are wondering how a female anteater, who has given birth at the centre, conceived without a male in the pen.

Frustrated Vancouver residents have spent the weekend guerrilla gardening after repeated calls to the city to clean up the area's green spaces have fallen on deaf ears.

Nigel Wright has resigned as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, following revelations he wrote a $90,000 cheque to repay living expenses claimed by Senator Mike Duffy.

The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ago.

North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said.

Polling companies in British Columbia say they're planning to make changes so they can predict future votes more accurately as they face a backlash from the public and their clients following the unexpected election of another Liberal majority government

A team of 15 Canadian soldiers has been dispatched to Kandahar on a month-long assignment to assess whether dozens of military containers are still seaworthy enough to be brought home.

A group of certain Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day.

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that a hydro-electric development in northeastern B.C. should be allowed to proceed without an environmental assessment.

Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.

About 50 to 60 people were injured after a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.

Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy said.

The NHL fined the San Jose Sharks $100,000 on Saturday for general manager Doug Wilson's public comments about forward Raffi Torres' suspension.

Canada's northernmost research lab won't have to shut down after all and will be able to resume year-round operations, with the help of a new grant from the federal government.

A South Korea official says North Korea has launched three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says allegations he was caught on tape smoking crack are ridiculous, following reports that someone had been trying to sell a purported recording of such an event to U.S. and Canadian media outlets.

A 20-year-old woman died Saturday during an event for Jeep enthusiasts held in a parking lot just west of downtown Edmonton.

The IIHF Independent Disciplinary Panel has suspended Swedish defenceman Alexander Edler for a knee-on-knee hit against Canadian forward Eric Staal. Edler will miss the remainder of the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.

All charges against a Nova Scotia woman in the Royal Canadian Navy who is fighting cancer, and who was charged with being absent without leave and facing a court martial have been dropped, the woman and her lawyer say.

Seven students from an Ottawa-area Catholic school have written to Harper asking that he pull the attack ads

A snapping turtle injured by a car in Ontario has been airlifted more than 400 kilometres to an animal hospital, and is now on a slow road to recovery.

Just days after being praised by the Conservative government for his "leadership" in paying back more than $90,000 in expenses, the P.E.I. Senator will now sit as an independent as he faces various potential ethics probes.

The NHL on Thursday suspended San Jose Sharks forward Raffi Torres for the remainder of the team's Western Conference semifinal against Los Angeles for a hit against Kings forward Jarret Stoll in Tuesday's series opener.

Fredrik Pettersson scored the winning goal in a shootout and Sweden defeated Canada 3-2 to advance to the semifinals of the World Hockey Championship in Stockholm on Thursday. Canada captain Eric Staal left the game in pain in the first after taking a kne

Manitoba Justice officials filed an application to have the motorcycle gang included on a list of criminal groups.

With the Victoria Day weekend almost here, gasoline prices are heading up.

An anarchist group appears to be taking responsibility for a fire at a housing complex under construction in East Vancouver early Wednesday morning.

A Toronto mom is taking extreme measures to protect her 11-year-old daughter from alleged bullies, escorting her child to school, to all of her classes, and even spending recess and lunch by her side.

Sharks forward Raffi Torres will have a hearing with the NHL Department of Player Safety on Thursday for a hit on the Kings' Jarret Stoll.

The unofficial start to summer may be a little drier in Ontario this year if the province's Liquor Control Board is unable to strike a deal with the union representing 7,000 workers by midnight Thursday.

At least six people die as a spring tornado outbreak devastates parts of north Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes and injuring dozens of people.

More Canadians say they are seeing unidentified flying objects than ever before, with 2012 numbers nearly doubling the record number of sightings recorded in previous years.

The sun unleashed three massive solar flares in a 24-hour period earlier this week, including one travelling at over 2,200 kilometres per second which was expected to catch up with the earlier two and form a super cloud of dangerous solar energy hurtling

More than a decade after going to war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Canadian government has officially declared them a terrorist group.

Ice melt, CO2 and council membership are among the top issues on the table as the Canadian-led Arctic Council of countries meets in Sweden. Here's our A-F list of agenda items for countries interested in the Arctic environment and resources.

NASA's Kepler planet-hunting telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing a mission that opened up whole new possibilities on life outside the solar system.

Calgary police say an officer shot a man in northwest Calgary after an elderly couple were struck by a vehicle.

A cellphone app is being credited for helping save the lives of a pair of ducklings in Windsor, Ont.

Two Stanley Cup rioters were sentenced to spend several months in jail for beating up a Good Samaritan outside the Hudson's Bay store in downtown Vancouver during the riot.

Premier Christy Clark will head a majority B.C. Liberal government, after leading her party to a stunning come-from-behind victory in British Columbia's 40th provincial election, CBC News projects.

A Toronto man who accidentally shot himself in the leg Sunday found his troubles were far from over, after he claiming to be a victim of a drive-by shooting

Rich and poor pay roughly the same percentage of their incomes for publicly funded health insurance, analysis shows

Yvonne Jones recaptured what has traditionally been safe Liberal ground, rolling up a big victory over Conservative Peter Penashue in Labrador's federal byelection.

A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. With thanks to Emm Gryner, Jo...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the province of Saskatchewan announced yesterday that they successfully used the small Draganflyer X4-ES helicopter drone to locate and treat an injured man whose car had flipped over in a remote, wooded area in near-f

The NDP came out of the gates way ahead in the race, and while recent polls suggest the Liberals have narrowed that lead, Adrian Dix and his New Democrats still appear to have a significant lead in most polls.

Forty years ago this month, nine nervous students from China stepped off a plane at Ottawa's Uplands Airport to begin a remarkable journey, writes Ira Basen.

Nova Scotia has become the second province to ban body checking in all levels of peewee hockey.

A rapidly growing wildfire in a rural area near Ashcroft, B.C., has forced the evacuation of dozens of homes.

The B.C. River Forecast Centre has issued a flood watch advisory for parts of B.C.'s southern Interior.

An evacuation order has been issued to the Alberta communities of Nordegg and Lodgepole due to wildfires burning within a few kilometres of each community.

A young Toronto team whose previous exposure to the NHL playoffs was largely watching them on TV is looking to make a little post-season history of its own.

Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neighbourhood Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19 people, police say.

Over 40 died when two car bombs exploded in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli. A Turkish official says the attackers were in touch with Syria's secret police.

Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call "mounting evidence," bolstered by "forensic hits," that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a gruesome, unsolved triple homicide in 2011,

With a new group of mothers set to graduate from the program on Wednesday, a new assessment by Boston Consulting Group shows that for every dollar invested in the program, the return to society is nearly $4

Transit historian Ed Levy explores a century of big transit plans, bickering and missed opportunities

Police say Lt Col Jeffrey Krusinski faces a charge of sexual battery after allegedly groping a woman in northern Virginia

Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a high-profile conference to be held in Jerusalem in June to support an academic boycott of Israel, conference organisers and the university said on Wednesday.

Developmentally delayed brothers, born with a chromosome disorder, will sit in the third row of the Air Canada Centre to watch the Toronto Maples on Tuesday after classmates raised $2,000 to send to them to the game.

The Royal Canadian Navy is cleaning up after one of its frigates spilled fuel into the Halifax harbour.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of Korean-American Kenneth Bae, who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in the North.

Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.

The dispute over where to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev escalated Wednesday as a Massachusetts police chief urged someone to step forward with a cemetery plot, saying: 'We are not barbarians. We bury the dead.'

Rescue workers pulled a fifth body from the wreckage Wednesday after a cargo ship crashed into the dock as it left Genoa, toppling the busy Italian port's control tower into the harbour.

An investigation is underway after a suspicious package containing elements of an improvised explosive device was found outside Defence Department headquarters in Ottawa.

Driving can be a challenge for people later in life. But new research suggests that keeping senior citizens confident and on the road could be safer for everyone.

Patrick Marleau scored a power-play goal 13:18 into overtime and the San Jose Sharks completed their first playoff sweep in franchise history, beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 Tuesday night.

Prince Edward Island's lobster season is off to a rocky start with more than 70 fishermen vowing not to participate in protest of the set prices.

Kyle Turris scored at 2:32 of overtime as the Ottawa Senators defeated the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 to grab a 3-1 lead in their NHL Eastern Conference quarter-final Tuesday.

U.S. officials say North Korea has taken a step back from its recent escalation of regional tensions by removing from their launch site a set of medium-range ballistic missiles that had been readied for possible test firing.

One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes rumbled to life Tuesday, spewing room-sized rocks toward nearly 30 surprised climbers, killing five and injuring others that had to be fetched with rescue helicopters and rope.

A historic lighthouse in eastern P.E.I. needs to be moved away from a cliff that is rapidly eroding.

Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban was named a finalist for the Norris Trophy on Tuesday. Kris Letang of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Ryan Suter are also in the running for the award given to the NHL's top defenceman.

Steven Stamkos had a goal and three assists as Canada hammered Norway 7-1 at the world hockey championship on Tuesday in Stockholm, Sweden.

A newly identified species of dome-headed dinosaur roughly the size of a large dog once roamed the plains of southern Alberta, a team of Canadian scientists announced Tuesday.

Two Montreal Canadiens fans are trying to put a positive spin on some of the nastiness that has surfaced during the Habs' playoff series with the Ottawa Senators. They're using Brandon Prust's reference to Ottawa coach Paul MacLean as a "bug-eyed, fat wal

The N.W.T. Department of Environment and Natural Resources said parts of more than 50 caribou were found wasted near Gameti in April.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have handed a pair of playoff tickets to a loyal fan who was the victim of an unfortunate assault in Boston on the weekend.

Soldiers who left the Irish army to fight in WWII are to finally receive pardons for being branded deserters.

Second source of revenue, analogous to the flexible pay walls that some newspapers and magazines have adopted

During the Second World War, hundreds of young men from as far away as Australia and New Zealand learned to fly bomber aircraft at the No. 3 Service Flying Training School in Calgary. It was an important aviation hub for pilots bound for overseas comba

Warren Moon has some harsh words on Tim Tebow, saying the now-unemployed quarterback probably couldn't cut it in the Canadian Football League

The Canadian company says that the ban on Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon doesn't apply due to an environmental study conducted more than 25 years ago, in 1986.

With incursions happening almost once a day, Pearson near-collision highlights risk of a jet colliding with another plane or vehicle on the runway.

Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture each scored twice to spoil Cory Schneider's return to the nets for Vancouver and the San Jose Sharks won their third straight game to open the playoffs, beating the Canucks 5-2 on Sunday night.

Historically low water levels in the Great Lakes may seriously impact the environment and consumers.

The 70th anniversary of the single longest battle in Canadian military history is being marked across the country today.

Switzerland defeated Canada 3-2 in a shootout Sunday at the world hockey championship in Stockholm, Sweden.

Canadian James Hinchcliffe won the Sao Paulo 300 Sunday by passing Takuma Sato on the final turn of the last lap.

Joffrey Lupul scored twice and Phil Kessel registered a rare goal against his former employers as the Toronto Maple Leafs rose to the playoff occasion Saturday night to defeat Boston 4-2 and pull even with the Bruins at a game apiece.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says efforts are underway to replace some of Canada's aging search and rescue planes but he described the process as 'challenging' and a 'frustration.'

Five U.S. service members were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against international troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week.