NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2012

An Edmonton high school teacher says he has been suspended for giving students zeros.

RCMP in Kamloops, B.C., have recovered the corpse of a man that was pulled from a car by a bear and stashed nearby in the woods.

Thunder Bay was declared a disaster area by its city council at an impromptu meeting Wednesday night in the wake of a an unprecedented flood that left the region in a state of emergency. The resolution allows the city to obtain funding from senior levels

A bill that would ban sex-selective abortions failed to muster enough support to pass the House Thursday following a contentious debate.

Sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer is launching a new line of lower-alcohol wines that she hopes will "awaken your senses and arouse you."

The spill and spread of industrial chemicals across the coastline of British Columbia is a possibility as slower-moving tsunami debris from Japan approaches the west coast, according to experts observing its movements.

Orange juice maker Tropicana markets its brand as fresh from the grove, but a series of lawsuits nationwide claim the company's juice is so heavily processed it shouldn't be called "natural."

Villagers have found the flight data recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into an Indonesian volcano three weeks ago and killed 45 people, officials said Thursday. The device could help explain what caused the crash.

A note sent with a severed foot to Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa indicated that more body parts had been sent in the mail, and that the person who dismembered the victim would kill again, CTV News has learned.

The Harper government is considering a proposal to buy at least three high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles in what could be an attempt to salvage its Arctic sovereignty ambitions.

People who fish B.C.'s vital Kokanee fishery in the Okanagan region say the freshwater salmon have all but disappeared.

State legislation drafted ostensibly to prevent voter fraud could prevent thousands of African Americans from voting this year

To help celebrate the 100th Grey Cup, members of the Calgary Grey Cup Committee are trying to recreate the infamous train ride of 1948 to Toronto.

One of the Syrian diplomats expelled today from Canada by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird calls the decision "unfair" and "biased."

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people in the same region still struggling to recover from another fatal tremor on May 20.

Ottawa police are investigating after what appears to be a human foot was found in a package sent to the Conservative Party of Canada's headquarters in downtown Ottawa.

How about a little respect for our neighbors to the north?

Sol Campbell tells Britons: 'Stay at home', EU leaders shun Kiev over its politics and Uefa attacks rip-off hotel prices in host cities

The Harper government is moving to shut down House of Commons hearings into the auditor general's scathing report on the $25-billion F-35 stealth fighter jet project.

Police in Miami, Fla., shot a suspect dead Saturday when they discovered a gruesome scene on a highway off-ramp where a naked man was chewing on the face of another man.

The Canadian public is on a distinct tilt to the left, says a new national public opinion poll, suggesting concern over wealth distribution has traction beyond the Occupy tents and protest parades.

Postmedia Network, the owner of Canada's largest newspaper chain, has announced drastic cutbacks that will see three major city dailies lose their Sunday editions amid an expected wave of layoffs. The company that runs the National Post and dozens of othe

A German teenager has been rescued from a Bosnian couple accused of starving and beating her for years.

HMCS Ojibwa left Halifax on the weekend to begin its new life as a museum in landlocked Ontario community.

The man who managed a disabled woman's finances has been charged with first-degree murder in her death. RCMP arrested Brian Malley, 55, in connection with the death of Victoria Shachtay, 23, in Innisfail.

Ryder Hesjedal has made history. The Victoria, B.C. native became the first Canadian to win one of three Grand Tour events, on Sunday, wrapping up the 2012 Giro wth an excellent performance in the 21st and final stage at Milan.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely.

Members of the iconic Royal Canadian Mounted Police are really living up to their name today, as they stand guard over the Queen at her London residence Buckingham Palace.

Ontario students are planning a massive rally in solidarity with protesters in Quebec and their ongoing fight against proposed tuition hikes there.

Vancouver police have launched an intensive search for a loaded police handgun after an officer lost the firearm during a chase on the city's Downtown Eastside.

Police responded to an emergency call in an affluent neighbourhood where they say they found multiple bodies

Beijing authorities set new standards for public toilets, including a stipulation that they should contain no more than two flies.

The federal government is tightening employment insurance eligibility with new rules on what kind of work jobless Canadians will need to accept in order to receive benefits.

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The federal government is appealing a court ruling that said it broke the law with its plan to strip the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over western wheat and barley sales.

Information shared by intelligence agencies spurred investigation at top-secret naval signals centre, sources say

Thomas Langenbach, 47, of German database company faces four felony counts of burglary that could net him up to five years in prison

The face of Quebec's largest student federation, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois faced a personal fight over the past month as Quebec's rental board signed off on an eviction order against him

A government official says a Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden has been convicted of high treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison.

Scientists from Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institute, and other elite research centres are condemning a decision by the Harper government to shut down a world-class freshwater research program.

Just six months after Google Chrome eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second most popular Web browser, Chrome has also surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become the most-used Web browser in the world, according to Statcounter.

Millions in Asia and the western United States watched as a rare ring of fire eclipse crossed their skies on Sunday.

Friends and family gathered Sunday to pay their respects to a heroic Abbotsford truck driver and father who sacrificed his life saving a colleague from being hit by an SUV.

A tribute to a fallen World War One solider in Glace Bay, N.S. has been restored to its original condition after being smashed into pieces in December.

Mechanical issues on the Queen of New Westminster have forced BC Ferries to cancel sailings between the mainland and Vancouver Island for the third day in a row.

Two people have died in separate fatal collisions near Grande Prairie this weekend.

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People enjoying a coffee break at a Calgary Starbucks this afternoon got more of a jolt than they intended.

A New York Yankees jersey worn by the legendary Babe Ruth sold for more than $4.4 million US Sunday, a record for any item of sports memorabilia.

Shelling by Syrian forces in the central province of Hama has killed 34 people according to the British-based group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and several news reports.

Shane Doan scored two goals, including a first-period power-play marker, and Mike Smith kicked aside 36 shots in the Coyotes' 2-0 win in Game 4 of the NHL Western Conference final on Sunday afternoon.

The remaining Canadian Forces in Afghanistan will come home in 2014 as planned, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says, depite entreaties from NATO to extend their mission as trainers.

A day after a sometimes violent Montreal protest ended in a series of street fires, police were criticized for pepper spraying patrons at a nearby bar patio.

Robin Gibb, who with his brothers Barry and Maurice formed the disco-era hit machine the Bee Gees, has died aged 62, his official website said on Sunday.

One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least four people, toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have landed in Fredericton, with New Brunswick the first stop on their three-province tour.

A German court has allowed a Costa Rican extradition request involving the Canadian founder of an anti-whaling group to move forward.

The International Ice Hockey Federation has added Qatar and Jamaica as its 71st and 72nd member nations.

Student protesters in Quebec have panned a set of laws designed to end three months of demonstrations, predicting that the newly installed legislation is likely to fuel unrest rather than quell it.

Abbotsford firefighters spent several hours Saturday putting out hot spots after the third fire this year hit a B.C. lumber mill early Saturday.

More than a year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a massive nuclear disaster, experts are warning that Japan isn't out of the woods yet and the worst nuclear storm the world has ever seen could be just one earthquake away from reality.

A 12-year-old Ontario girl is causing a stir in financial circles with an online speech that says banks and the federal government are 'enslaving' the people of Canada.

Canadians are used to hearing their country ranks among the world's best places to live, but new research suggests that quality of life can depend a lot on where you live.

A civil rights breakthrough at Miss Universe Canada may not be universal as it's being left to individual franchises to decide whether to carry out a policy paving the way for transgender competitors.

Community groups across the country are scrambling to save some 500 lighthouses the federal government has recently declared surplus.

A group of fishermen have been rescued after spending 10 days stranded on an island off the north coast of B.C. subsisting on a diet of clams and seaweed.

Despite undergoing repairs earlier Friday, the Queen of New Westminster is once again out of commission due to a different problem, according to BC Ferries.

Seniors and people with disabilities are outraged that TransLink plans to eliminate the TaxiSaver program--a service that allows registered HandyDart users to receive a 50 per cent discount on taxi rides.

Astronomers have caught a black hole in the midst of a violent act, watching in real time as it tore a sun-like star apart with gravitational forces so strong that helium gas was flowing in a stream moving at 32 million kilometers an hour.

Rock engravings and traces of painting discovered in southwest France are believed to be from at least 37,000 years ago, making them among the world's oldest cave art.

The federal government has confirmed it will close three coast guard communication centres in Vancouver, Comox and Tofino by 2015. This follows news Thursday that would also close the Kitsilano lifeboat station in Vancouver.

The general who is currently in charge of Canada's overseas headquarters is expected to be named to lead a newly combined organization that's at the centre of the Harper government's overhaul of National Defence.

A report into last spring's Slave Lake disaster says Alberta's forest fires danger has grown to the point where it's beginning to outstrip the province's ability to respond to it.

One man is dead following a hostage taking in Kamloops, B.C. on Thursday night that ended with an explosion destroying a family home.

The expansion of the world's deepest and cleanest underground physics laboratory is now complete in Sudbury. SNOLAB is an expansion of the existing lab constructed for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) solar neutrino experiment two kilometres under t

It's not just the occasional sickly moose succumbing to common causes of mortality, said Lenarz. "We're out in the field collecting dead radio-collared moose, and we were finding other moose that had died along with them."

Ruling opens the door to a possible by-election in Etobicoke Centre should the decision survives a likely Supreme Court appeal

Osiris Therapeutics says that Canadian health regulators have approved its treatment for acute graft-versus host disease

If you know what the most popular birthday is, then you can do the math and figure out what the most popular day of the year to conceive is

A man apparently in dire need of a coffee is now in need of a lawyer after police say he pulled a pellet gun on a fellow Tim Hortons drive-thru customer.

The Manitoba review board on Thursday ruled that Vince Li, who is being treated at a mental facility after beheading a man on a Greyhound bus four years ago, be allowed to make supervised visits into the community.

Protesters on the Tataskweyak Cree Nation in Split Lake, Man., are demanding the resignation of their chief and council over what they say are poor living conditions.

European fire ants are turning up in B.C. gardens for the first time since arriving in North America 100 years ago.

A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice.

Judges enraged by inadequate access to native sentencing services despite an edict from the Supreme Court of Canada requiring it have been reducing prison terms for serious aboriginal offenders in response, recent court decisions reveal. And as courts str

A new study from the Human Resources Department suggests Ottawa is looking at ways to get people receiving employment insurance to move to other regions with more jobs.

No criminal charges will be filed against the Montreal police officers involved in a shooting last year that resulted in the deaths of two men.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is denying reports that the Harper government intends to quietly shelve its controversial online surveillance bill, C-30.

The federal government has pulled the plug on one of Canada's most famous science facilities as part of budget cuts at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

A B.C. fish farm where a virus deadly to Atlantic salmon was detected has been quarantined, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Thursday, as officials scramble to contain the highly infectious disease. Earlier this week, Mainstream Canada announce

At least 30 Toronto officers will face charges under the Police Act in the wake of a scathing report on police action at the G20, which was released by a provincial watchdog on Wednesday.

Jenna Talackova is set to make history as the first-ever transgendered contestant to compete at the Miss Universe Canada pageant.

Christopher Alexander Falconer, a convicted killer who was on parole when Amber Kirwan disappeared seven months ago from a New Glasgow, N.S., street, has been charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder of the 19-year-old.

Singer was known for hits like "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girl"

PORT HARCOURT (Reuters) - A suspected armed robber was killed when explosives his gang was transporting accidentally went off in the centre of Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt on Thursday, police

In a move that shows just how powerful online mapping has become, the AP is reporting that Iran will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on GoogleMaps. The action comes after Google intentionally left the body of water between Iran and t

Canada's Science and Technology Museum has raised the age limit for a controversial sex exhibit after complaints about the content.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews say security concerns raised about a Chinese firm operating in Canada were taken care of, but opposition MPs want proof and more transparency.

Amateur hockey players in southern Alberta are nearing the end of an 11-day marathon game to make it into the Guinness World Record book.

Open fire restrictions are now in place in the Kamloops and Cariboo fire centres in B.C.'s southern and central Interior and, as of Friday, May 18, the same ban will take effect in the Coastal fire centre.

Break out the hand-held fans and locate those sun visors. Most of Canada is poised for sweltering, hotter-than-usual weather this summer, a long-term forecast predicts.

Researchers studying the brains of soldiers exposed to blast injuries have found evidence of a degenerative disease also detected in athletes who have suffered repeated blows to the head, raising a worrisome prospect for thousands of combat veterans.

A 40-year-old man remains in hospital today after bricks from a three-storey building collapsed on him while he was walking on the sidewalk.

City council in London, Ont., has struck out in its attempt to tone down what it calls a sinister image of a new professional baseball team, the London Rippers.

A 14-year-old Nova Scotia boy is recovering from coyote bites to his leg and buttock after he was attacked by an aggressive animal while on a Cape Breton trail on Tuesday night.

Thousands of Vancouver parking meters are still gobbling up the loonies and toonies of unsuspecting customers because they have not been recalibrated to accept the new coins.

A suspect has been arrested in the beating of a woman in a wheelchair and the theft of her iPad at a SkyTrain station last week, Vancouver police say.

Butterflies have migrated across Eastern Canada this spring in unprecedented numbers, reflecting the warm winter throughout North America and raising alarm bells about what it might mean for other species.

Officials in Burnaby, B.C., are investigating the report of a snakehead fish in a local public pond, concerned that the highly invasive animal could wipe out local species and even threaten small household pets.

The mask ban could become law nationwide within months

Canadians will still have numbers, but not the plastic