NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2013

Canada opened the world hockey championship Saturday in Stockholm, Sweden, with a 3-1 victory over Denmark.

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, his death certificate says.

Officials with Saskatchewan's Water Security Agency captured some amazing video as they were surveying, from a helicopter, an ice-jam on the Saskatchewan River.

Charlottetown city council says it ultimately approved more funding to keep the province's Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team in the city because the team is changing its name from the PEI Rocket to the Charlottetown Islanders.

Ryan White ignited a three-goal second period and goalie Carey Price was back in top form with 29 saves as the Montreal Canadiens downed the Ottawa Senators 3-1 to even their NHL Eastern Conference quarter-final on Friday night.

A geology student from Halifax is investigating a set of fossil tracks he found on the South Shore of P.E.I. that may be 290 million years old.

While Eric Gryba was suspended two games for a blindside hit on Lars Eller in Game 1, the Canadiens were more upset Friday with Ottawa coach Paul MacLean for blaming Montreal defenceman Raphael Diaz for the incident.

The spectacle of buttoned-down Canadian diplomats picketing Canada's embassy drew some fascinated stares Friday from tourists and other passersby in the U.S. capital.

Heavy spring floods are creating chaos in communities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec, washing out roads and highways, and threatening homes.

The B.C. Liberals have improved their standing and now trail the NDP by seven points, according to a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll.

An American military tanker refuelling plane carrying three crew members crashes in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation where the U.S. operates an air base key to the war in Afghanistan.

Ottawa Senators defenceman Eric Gryba was suspended by the NHL on Friday for his hit on Montreal Canadiens forward Lars Eller in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference playoff series.

The FBI has made the fugitive member of a black militant group convicted of murdering a U.S. state trooper, now living in Cuba, the first woman on its list of most wanted terrorists.

A U.S. cargo plane company has released the names of seven people killed in a crash in Afghanistan, with six from Michigan and one from Kentucky, and investigators are trying to discover why it went down right after takeoff Monday.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced new measures related to Canada's search and rescue system that he says will save lives, including more than $16 million for satellite systems.

The Ottawa Senators scored three times in the third period after Montreal forward Lars Eller suffered a serious injury, prevailing 4-2 in Game 1 of an NHL Eastern Conference quarter-final on Thursday night.

Liberal MP Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut and former head of the Canadian Space Agency, is ticked off that he wasn't invited to an event Thursday for the opening of the Canadarm exhibit at Ottawa's space museum.

A former Citizenship and Immigration Canada judge is facing charges for allegedly passing copies of citizenship exams to a Toronto-area immigration consultant.

RCMP officers have faced disciplinary action for acts of bad behavior, from driving a cruiser drunk, to surfing porn on the office computer, to carelessly firing a gun, according to an annual report on

Veteran Boston Bruins defenceman Andrew Ference won't be available to his club for one game after being suspended for an elbow to the head of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mikhail Grabovski on Tuesday night.

The new design harkens back to the wartime navy when the naval ensign had a British flag in the upper corner on an all-white background.

Dan Boyle's third-period goal lifted the San Jose Sharks to a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in the first game of their Western Conference quarter-final series Wednesday night.

The number of soldiers and RCMP officers suffering from mental health injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder has skyrocketed over the last six years, driven in part by the gruelling decade-long combat mission in Afghanistan.

The Canada Border Services Agency last year seized twice the number of weapons at border crossings compared to six years ago, according to a CBC News analysis of agency data, but experts fear little progress is being made in stemming the flow of illegal g

The provincial Liberals are poised to deliver their budget Thursday, with several items to appease the NDP, including lower auto insurance rates.

The Department of Homeland Security paying up to $7,000 each for 30 multi-band radios to be used by Canadian first responders in border cities that share U.S. waterways.

For a Russian immigrant, continuing his career in public transit at the TTC is a minor miracle. Michael Sosedov arrived in Toronto eight years ago without a word of English.