NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2014

Fans of the Saskatchewan Roughriders may want to temper their expectations for slotback Weston Dressler ahead of Sunday's game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

In a new era of expanded replay in baseball, there have been more than 1,000 reviews already.

Canada's Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee raced to a silver medal in the women's lightweight double at the world rowing championships Saturday.

"There is not enough evidence to justify the effort and expense required for such a system-wide program change," said Ontario Deputy Immigration Minister.

Iceland cut its ash alert level for aviation to orange from red on Sunday after raising it to the maximum level earlier in the day because of a fresh eruption from a fissure in the Bardarbunga volcano system.

Canada will send troops, jets and warships to participate in a massive NATO training exercise next year in a deployment that could be the first step towards deeper involvement in the alliance's long-term strategy to counter a resurgent Russia.

DC Comic's Man of Steel is now the man of gold and silver after The Royal Canadian Mint unveilled four limited-edition Superman coins at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto.

City officials expect to be able to issue an occupancy permit for the annual Labour Day classic.

Chester, the false killer whale calf found stranded on a Tofino, B.C., beach in July, continues to show signs of improvement and has been moved to a larger pool at the Vancouver Aquarium.

A manhunt continues in Surrey after a nine-year-old girl was lured to a nearby park from her home and sexually assaulted.

Duarte Almeida has played the same numbers on Lotto 6/49 since 1986. Now, he has collected at $13.6M jackpot.

Almost half of the passengers taken to hospitals after a tour bus flipped over on a British Columbia highway have been released, health officials said Saturday.

The move from small and isolated communities to larger urban centres can be quite jarring for aboriginals who join the Canadian Armed Forces, says a newly released document.

Hunting is becoming increasingly popular for women in Alberta, a promoter of the sport says.

Seven years after Al Gore's warning the Arctic ice cap is far from vanishing and has expanded for the second year in succession.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that a Royal Canadian Air Force CC-177 Globemaster III strategic airlifter has completed its first delivery of military equipment, donated by the Republic of Albania, to security forces in Iraq fighting the Is

A Mississippi "woman" was convicted yesterday of murder in connection to illicit silicone buttocks injections that led to a Georgia woman's death.

O.J. Simpson has been studying the Koran and is converting to Islam, according to reports.

Turncoat MP Douglas Carswell, pictured with Nigel Farage, is set to humiliate David Cameron at the Clacton by-election sparked by his defection.

Ecuador is planning to create what it calls the world's first digital currency issued by a central bank, which some analysts believe could be a first step toward abandoning the country's existing currency, the U.S. dollar.

A tanker loaded with $100 million of crude oil that has been at the center of a dispute over Iraq's oil billions vanished off the coast of Texas on Thursday. The Kurdish tanker disappeared from Coast Guard radar screens...

The two-year relationship started in 2002, when Pontbriand was 32 and the male victim was 15. The victim went to police in 2007

The wheat and barley farmers took up arms, dug trenches and posted gunmen on the rooftops, and against all odds they have kept the ISIS fighters out of town

A B.C. man who has been ordered extradited to the United States for allegedly conspiring to money-launder $1 million for a Mexican drug cartel has lost his appeal.

A lawyer for a man who wants to open a marijuana shop in the small Washington city of Fife is asking a judge to strike down its ban on marijuana businesses.

The assailant shouted a comment about the Holocaust before attacking the politician as he was posing for photos with residents in Notting Hill, west London, his spokesman said.

Internal report labels white supremacists, black separatists, militias, abortion extremists main domestic extremists

A 22-year-old man allegedly burned a Bible and urinated on it in from of rescue mission on Thursday night.

The OPP have cordoned off a Petawawa neighbourhood and deployed their tactical response unit as part of a standoff with an armed man.

A new study provides strong evidence that the experimental drug given to two American aid workers stricken with Ebola in Africa really works and could make a difference in the current outbreak � if more of it could be produced. In the study, all 18 m

Mohammed, whose name has been changed out of fears for his safety, was just 13 when he was made to attend one of the terror group's camps in northern Syria.

The man, 44, was jailed for a robbery in Stockholm in 1997, and has since claimed he hails from Canada, South Africa and Kazakhstan.

The dangers that plastics pose to wildlife and waterways is well known. Most of us have seen pictures of turtles tangled in plastic shopping bags, or seabirds strangled by sixpack rings. What is harder to see and take pictures of is the damage being done

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has to strengthen its position, economically and militarily, in the resource-rich Arctic region, where other countries are vying for influence.

A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed near Waldeck Sask., on Thursday night amid severe thunderstorms and strong winds.

B.C. could set a new record for the total amount of forest burned by wildfires this summer if the forecasts for a warm, dry fall are correct, say officials with B.C.'s Wildfire Management Branch.

A Pointe-aux-Trembles mother is upset after a group of children in her neighbourhood, including two of her sons, were told they are not allowed to play street hockey.

B.C. is taking the lead and boosting speed limits on some provincial highways this summer. But setting the appropriate limit for Canada's roads is proving to be a complex equation of engineering, politics and road safety concerns.

An experimental, lightweight aircraft crashed near the Brantford airport Friday morning, fire officials say, sending two people to hospital with serious injuries.

Seabird experts are deeply worried about the state of Canada's northern gannet population, with chicks appearing to be starving to death while their parents struggle to find food.

Canada is dispatching $2.75 million in humanitarian aid to northern Iraq, International Development Minister Christian Paradis said today, as the government also confirmed the first Canadian delivery of arms to Iraqi and Kurdish forces battling Islamic mi

With the United Nations' climate change panel warning this week that global warming is already affecting the planet, and calling for urgent action, Shell Canada announced it's put in place the final module for its carbon capture and storage project to red

Forget Vegas. Albertans will come here to play instead. Multinational companies will consider setting up their headquarters. Everyone from career-minded university graduates to well-off retirees will want to relocate, even NHL players.

An international law professor says Canada is wasting time and money by sending two icebreakers to the North Pole. Michael Byers says under international law Canada will not be able to claim the Pole.

A jail inmate is dead and police say he died by swallowing drug-soaked underwear.

Canadian companies saw their profits continue to mount in the first half of 2014, a signal they are beginning to benefit from signs of improving domestic and global economies

A federal judge in Utah has issued a final ruling that strikes down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law in a lawsuit filed by the family that appears in the reality TV show 'Sister Wives'.

When the call came from an officer who needed help facing an armed robber at a fast-food restaurant, two members of a reality television show riding along with Omaha police hustled to record the confrontation.

For the first time in the capital city's history, Mohammed is the common name for boys and men, said a study on Thursday.

Originally an innovation of Thomas E. Smith, a former hockey player who battled back from a spinal cord injury due to a hockey accident in 2008 when he hit the boards behind the net headfirst, their introduction into hockey arenas is just beginning.

Police say 56 people have been injured, several critically, in a tour bus crash on the Coquihalla Highway, 30 kilometres south of Merritt, B.C.

The star of the Discovery Channel�s reality show Sons of Guns was arrested Tuesday on charges of aggravated rape of his daughter.

Numerous records relating to civil rights cases have disappeared from the US government's online legal archive. The state-run Public Access to Court Electronic Records (Pacer) service deleted numerous court documents deemed incompatible with a software up

Two columns of tanks and military vehicles rolled into southeastern Ukraine from Russia on Thursday after Grad missiles were fired at a border post and Ukraine's overmatched border guards fled, a top Ukrainian official said.

Forty-three UN peacekeepers are being held by an armed group in the Syrian Golan Heights, amid heavy fighting between rebels and the army.

Canadian fighter jets will be patrolling the edge of Russian airspace next week as part of NATO's response to the unravelling situation in Ukraine.

The NHL is considering expanding by as many as four teams, according to a pair of reports on Tuesday, with Toronto and Quebec City both in the mix to land new franchises.

Alun Phillips and his teenage daughter Morgan told jokes, sang songs and worked to keep each other's spirits up for close to six hours, after a routine afternoon boat trip out of Burlington went sour and his 18-foot catamaran sailboat capsized.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is taking aim at a pilot project in New Brunswick's Kennebecasis Valley that will see hunters targeting more urban deer.

Canadians are among the most scientifically literate people in the world, a new report reveals. But don't get too smug yet.

The mother of a three-year-old says her daughter was injured at a Montreal swimming pool after she refused to comply with lifeguards' request that the child wear a bathing suit top.

A woman has survived eight days in the northern Saskatchewan wilderness after her canoe capsized and her husband perished.

A CEO caught on video abusing his dog in a Vancouver hotel elevator has agreed to donate $100,000 US toward the establishment of an animal welfare foundation.

A judge has taken the rare step of handing a jail sentence to a woman who was convicted of abusing a dog.

The CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent and the CCGS Terry Fox arrived at the North Pole at 7:26 p.m. Wednesday night. A hockey game quickly ensued.

Researchers wrapping up a summer of digging at a �stunning� Rocky Mountain fossil site say they�ve uncovered a dozen new animal species and a better understanding of early evolution.

Canada ranks higher than 10 other developed nations in scientific literacy, or the ability of citizens to read and fully comprehend a lengthy article about science in a newspaper, according to a report released Thursday by the Council of Canadian Academie

Fish that are forced from a young age to walk instead of swim reveal how our ancient fishy ancestors may have emerged from the ocean to colonize the land, an Ottawa scientist has found.

Despite the increase in some energy royalties, the Tories expect royalties for natural gas and its by-products to drop by $35-million to $788-million

A heartless CEO blamed said "minor frustrations" led him to viciously beat his friend's 1-year-old Doberman pinscher.

An American man believed to have been killed in Syria was there to fight alongside an extremist militant group, most likely the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

The climate impacts of the world's fossil-fuelled power plants are being underestimated because of poor accounting, say researchers.

Cody Legebokoff took the witness stand in his own defence to put before B.C. Supreme Court Judge Glen Parrett and a jury

North Carolina State University students create nail polish which detects date rape drugs in drinks

A naked man had to be sedated at a hemp festival in southern Oregon after police said he damaged cars, started fights and kicked officers.

A Denver family is angry at an airline they say lost their diabetic and slightly forgetful mother.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke of how Canada must never drop its guard in the face of growing Russian aggression in a chest-thumping address to troops who took part in a series of military manoeuvres off the coast of Baffin Island today.

A new report says global warming has so altered the Arctic that the Canadian Rangers -- largely aboriginal reservists who patrol the North -- need new equipment to navigate a vast terrain they barely recognize anymore.

Authorities say a shooting instructor has died after he was accidentally shot while showing a 9-year-old girl how to use an automatic Uzi.

The popular lobster camera is back up and running in Halifax harbour.

A whale that was feared dead after becoming tangled in fishing gear in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Nova Scotia is back.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams are joining up with other enforcement agencies to crack down on illegal weapons in the province.

One hundred years ago today a Canadian soldier adopted a black bear cub and named it after his adopted hometown of Winnipeg, launching the saga of Winnie the Pooh.

Two military watchdogs are opening a joint investigation into how ill and injured soldiers are treated during their transition to civilian life.

A smartphone that costs just $36 Cdn and runs Firefox OS has been launched this week in India, a country where smartphone adoption is skyrocketing. The Intex Cloud FX, billed as the country's lowest priced smartphone, was announced by Mountain View, Calif

The federal government should restrict granting citizenship by birth on Canadian soil to children with at least one parent who is a citizen or permanent resident, according to a recently released policy reform proposal.

The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a �Google-like� search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, ac

Study suggests that humans' hungry brains divert energy from our bodies, slowing growth and leading to a long childhood and adolescence

A unique harvest is under way in the rice fields of Cambodia, where tens of thousands of wild rats are being trapped alive each day to feed a growing export market for the meat of rural rodents.

B.C. Hydro insists its spiffy new smart meters have not caused any fires, even though the technology has been blamed for blazes in other jurisdictions.

A lobsterman says one of his traps caught a one-in-two-million crustacean: a blue lobster.

The British embassy in Washington, D.C., was forced to apologize for a tweet playfully commemorating the anniversary of the burning of the White House

The U.S. was caught by surprise: Egypt and the Emirates, both close allies and military partners, acted without informing Washington or seeking its consent

The girls' father told the couple that he would be offended if he could not help rebuild their garage after they returned his kidnapped children

A naval expedition including the Royal Canadian Navy will soon travel through the Northwest Passage in search of the doomed Franklin Expedition, but also to reinforce Canada's claims to the Arctic.

Scientists studying the ravaged caribou habitat of Alberta's northwestern foothills say they have found so much disturbance from decades of industrial use that restoration of the terrain will have to be selective.

Neve is the first stage in the formation of glaciers. The team has also encountered sheets of snow weighing hundreds of tonnes and tunnels and fissures known as bergschrunds. The large, deep cracks in the ice are found at the top of glaciers.

Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in Chicago has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department statistics.

Over recent decades, scientists have watched a climate conundrum develop at the opposite ends of Earth: The Arctic has warmed and steadily lost sea ice, whereas Antarctica has cooled in many places and may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers hav

Researchers say they have discovered more than 500 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the US east coast. The unexpected discovery indicates there are large volumes of the gas contained in a type of sludgy ice called methane hydrate.

The Roughriders' receiving corps has the potential to get a lot stronger in the very near future, as Weston Dressler has been released by the Chiefs.

Tuberculosis spread from people in Africa to seals and sea lions, which spread it to people in South America long before Christopher Columbus set foot there.

Abubakar Shekau claims the town of Gwoza in Borno state, which was seized by the rebels earlier this month, now has 'nothing to do with Nigeria'.

Those with the lab coats do not have a monopoly on evidence

Death Row Records founder and rap mogul Marion Suge Knight was injured in an early morning shooting Sunday in a packed nightclub but was expected to survive, a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant said.

FCC to look into possible misuse of tracking technology that collects location data from carrier databases

Iran on Sunday unveiled two new missiles and two new drones it said have been added to its arsenal, in a ceremony attended by President Hassan Rouhani.