NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2008

Police arrested several students at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver late Friday night after a protest quickly escalated into an intense confrontation.

You may not be able to buy a stun gun in Canada, but there is a shocking number of websites that will tell you how to make one

Disgraced Saskatchewan MP Tom Lukiwski asked for forgiveness Friday after anti-gay remarks he made in a video from 1991 were released to the public.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said a prayer in front of the Killing Wall Memorial at Auschwitz to pay tribute to those who died in the Holocaust.

An American and a Spaniard have launched a lawsuit to stop scientists from firing up a machine they fear could destroy not just life on Earth but the planet itself.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- On Monday, Michael McDowell had a long talk with Jeff Burton about driver etiquette. After walking away from a wild crash during Friday's Sprint Cup qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway, the next conversation between the two may be abo

Chinese paramilitary police killed eight people and wounded dozens more when they fired on a protest by several hundred Tibetan monks and villagers

A massive blaze tore through one of Canada's landmarks in Quebec City Friday evening, leaving the 124-year-old historic armoury in ruins.

An Argentine couple have been jailed for illegally adopting a baby girl born 30 years ago to parents who were kidnapped by the military government.

GDANSK, Poland - Fresh from declaring political victory at the NATO summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived Friday in Poland for a whirlwind visit that had a whiff of domestic politics.

A Canadian soldier was killed Friday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the military said.

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it's too early to talk about any boycott of the 2008 Olympics, but most athletes would prefer to simply strike the dreaded b-word from the dictionary.

An Ottawa monument dedicated to Canadian peacekeepers has been defaced with graffiti apparently targeting the mission in Afghanistan.

Climate change and a warming Arctic Ocean are having a dramatic effect on the vast network of lakes in the Northwest Territories' Mackenzie Delta, according to a geographer who has discovered rising water levels over the last few decades.

The federal government has appointed a retired navy rear admiral to lead a Canadian Coast Guard investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of at least three seal hunters whose disabled vessel capsized while being towed by a coast guard ic

PARIS - Pirates seized control of a French luxury yacht carrying 30 crew members Friday off the coast of Somalia, the French government and the ship's owner said.

Owl lovers from all over the world are flocking to the Internet to watch a family of owls on a webcam set up by researchers at Thompson Rivers University.

Canada is off to a flying start at the women's world hockey championship in Harbin, China.

ST-PIERRE -- A militant environmental group opposed to the East Coast seal hunt was forced to flee the French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon on Friday after angry fishermen cut the mooring lines of the group's flagship vessel.

EDMONTON -- A preliminary test by the medical examiner indicates truck driver Mark Santos's diabetes played no part in the wild, wrong-way drive down the Yellowhead Trail that ended in his death.

VANCOUVER - Roberto Luongo sat in the Vancouver Canucks dressing room and buried his face in his hands.

TORONTO - His team had just picked up two huge points in the standings - possibly saving their season - but Bryan Murray was fuming.

MONTREAL - Montreal's veteran checking line sent a message: The Canadiens are serious about finishing first in the NHL Eastern Conference.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Marian Gaborik added to his career-high goals total, now 42, on a defining night for a career that began 7 1/2 years ago - the first time the Minnesota Wild took the ice.

A postal carrier in Richmond was pepper sprayed and robbed of his mailbox keys by two thieves in a brazen daylight attack on Wednesday morning.

Website lets readers dig through documents on the life and death of icon Tom Thomson

VANCOUVER -- Several members of Parliament walked the same steps through Vancouver Airport on Thursday that Polish immigration Robert Dziekanski took in the hours before he died.

Members of the gay community are demanding the resignation of Saskatchewan MP Tom Lukiwski after a years-old video surfaced that shows him making homophobic remarks.

$14.5M lottery winner hands out free chicken, cuts staff $5,000 cheques

A group of Canadians ended up in the middle of an attack Friday on an Israeli government official.

Fashion shoots don't always go as smoothly as Michael Kors' fall campaign did on Monday in Los Angeles.

A man was found impaled on a metal bar outside a North York public school this morning after he apparently fell while trying to climb a tree.

All I have to say is WTF?

Gasoline prices rolled closer to record levels across Canada on Thursday, an unwelcome sign that crude prices are high and refiners are getting ready for the summer driving season that's just around the corner.

Soldiers in a convoy opened fire on a vehicle approaching at high speed, killing an employee of a private security firm and injuring three others, the Canadian military confirmed Thursday.

The Fred Flintstone-type vehicle had no windows and no licence plates when four passengers took it on its maiden voyage through downtown Toronto last October.

OTTAWA -- Loons, those serene emblems of peaceful wilderness lakes, are emerging in modern research as bloodthirsty attackers that drive out or kill their neighbours and take over the rivals' families.

Canada's Air Force took delivery of its fourth CC-177 Gobemaster III from The Boeing Company at a ceremony today at the company's Long Beach, Calif., C-17 manufacturing facility.

KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - From down a dusty path reputed to be the second-most dangerous road in the world, a heart-wrenching sight emerged to greet Canadian soldiers Thursday - a group of orphaned children led by a girl of no more than 10 came in

The loonie will fall to about 90 cents US later this year, and will continue to drop into 2009 to about 87 cents by the end of the year, according to the RBC report released Thursday.

NATO leaders worried about the "increasing threat" of missile proliferation have endorsed the U.S. plan to build a missile defence shield in eastern Europe, officials say.

The U.S. weapons maker seeking to purchase a high-tech satellite designed to guard Canadian sovereignty said it plans to use the technology to build a fleet of similar satellites.

A private security employee was killed and three people were injured when a Canadian military convoy fired on their vehicle in southern Afghanistan, the military said Thursday.

BUCHAREST, Romania - It is a question world leaders couldn't bring themselves to ask Prime Minister Stephen Harper, much to his amusement.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called on China to respect human rights but suggested it is premature to think of boycotting the 2008 Olympics opening ceremonies -- though he said he has no plans to personally attend the event.

The survey by the Public Health Agency of Canada of more than 9,500 young people in Grades 6 to 10 shows daily tobacco smoking among both boys and girls dropped significantly in 2006 from four years earlier.

Drivers across the GTA today woke up this morning to higher gas prices, which spiked to as high as $1.12 a litre.

Three international teams of scientists, one led in part by Toronto researchers, have for the first time homed in on the genetic origins of lung cancer, the biggest cancer killer in the country

The pace of economic growth in Canada is expected to slow considerably this year due to a weakening U.S. economy -- the country's largest trading partner -- and ongoing turmoil in financial markets, according to the latest RBC forecast.

OTTAWA -- Momin Khawaja, the first Canadian charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act, had his application to challenge parts of the federal law rejected today by the Supreme Court of Canada.

OTTAWA - Canada's top court has tossed out a treaty claim to much of south Edmonton made by descendants of an Alberta First Nation who say the land was wrongfully surrendered in the late 1800s.

FLESHERTON, Ont. - Police have seized a homemade stun gun from an Ontario student that was made from instructions found on the Internet.

OTTAWA - A former soldier who blamed post-traumatic stress disorder for a sexual assault has lost his attempt to get out of a second trial.

JUAREZ, Mexico - Canada hammered Trinidad and Tobago 6-0 in its opening game of the CONCACAF women's soccer Olympic qualifying tournament Wednesday.

Several Formula One teams have finally spoken out after reports of FIA president Max Mosley's private life surfaced last weekend.

A couple of all-Canadian matchups in the NHL tonight feature two non-playoff teams looking to spoil the postseason hopes for two that are barely hanging on.

TORONTO -- RBC's latest economic forecast says Canada's economy is expected to grow by 1.6 per cent in 2008.

Prosecutors in Britain will begin opening arguments today in an alleged terror plot targeting airliners heading to Canada and the U.S.

Seal hunt protesters who claim their ship was intentionally rammed by a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, will be the ones to face charges, said Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn.

The Canadian government needs a better strategy to protect the country's fresh water in the face of growing U.S. demand, says a report released Thursday by an Ottawa-based think tank.

PERTH, Australia -- Police believe they have found the body of a Canadian tourist washed off rocks on the Australian west coast but formal identification will likely take weeks.

Rather than supporting our troops, I\'d argue it was a cynical political ploy aimed solely at embarrassing the government of Stephen Harper, which has ruled that the flag be flown at half-mast only on Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, or on specific commemorati

U.S. President George W. Bush suffered a diplomatic setback Wednesday when NATO allies rebuffed his passionate pleas to put former Soviet Union republics Ukraine and Georgia on the path toward membership in the Western military alliance

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party has lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since taking power in 1980, according to final results reported early Thursday by the country's state media.

SIERRA VISTA, Arizona - The pilot has gone through his checklist and taxied his plane into position for takeoff.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver could be a distant memory and convicted serial killer Robert Pickton might be in the prisoner's box facing 20 counts of murder at his second trial, his lawyer suggested Wednesday.

VANCOUVER -- A prestigious sports industry magazine has named Vancouver the top-ranked city in the Americas and the fifth in the world among "Ultimate Sports Cities," the B.C. government announced today.

KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - His official job description is to help carry equipment and supplies for Canadian engineers when they head out on their marathon treks across the treacherous Afghan countryside.

Wanted: top-notch Scotch-lovers with $25,000 burning holes in their pockets.

At an emotional press conference Wednesday afternoon, the two surviving sealers from a deadly voyage last Saturday described how they managed to get out of their fishing vessel after it capsized.

At least 22 of the 98 wrecked vehicles repaired at the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia's Burnaby facility were bought by ICBC managers at rigged auctions, an internal investigation has revealed

VANCOUVER - The decision to cut down Vancouver's oldest and most photographed tree has people in mourning.

HALIFAX - Environmental crusader Paul Watson says the deaths of at least three seal hunters last weekend north of Cape Breton are a tragedy, but the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups "is an even greater tragedy."

The Yukon's annual bison hunt has ended with hunters unable to meet the bison harvest target set by wildlife managers for this season.

The House of Commons passed a Liberal motion on Wednesday calling for a moment of silence and the lowering of the flag above the Peace Tower on any day a Canadian soldier is killed overseas

If you're a fan of flaunting "the girls" with plunging necklines and pushup bras, you've got a challenge in store with this season's biggest trend: sky-high necklines that leave everything to the imagination - with no glimpse of cleavage

The singer for B.C.-based power-rockers Nickelback was convicted of drunk driving in a Surrey court today.

The son now alleges pastor Royden Wood physically abused him and others.

Two Sikh sawmill workers have launched a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal after they weren't allowed to work because they refused to wear hard hats over their turbans.

Forget about April showers. The Vancouver Canucks, and perhaps their playoff hopes, got swept away by an Avalanche on Tuesday night.

The chance of a major earthquake striking Vancouver Island will be slightly higher next month as tiny tremors rattle the earth 40 kilometres beneath our feet.

MOSCOW - NATO is facing a damaging split after western European countries vowed to defy the United States by blocking the membership of Georgia and Ukraine in an attempt to "appease" Russia.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Canada may not leave the NATO summit with the extra troops it is demanding, but it has had a major influence on the international road map for Afghanistan's future, Canwest News has learned.

The Canadian government traded accusations with a militant environmental group Monday after a collision between a coast guard icebreaker and a ship owned by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on the third day of the annual East Coast seal hunt.

Today, as the Air Force celebrates its 84th year of service to Canadians, there is much to reflect upon, and much more to look forward to.

Playing their final three regular-season games on home ice could be the key to the Vancouver Canucks clinching their sixth playoff berth in seven seasons.

KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - The federal Conservative government and Prime Minister Stephen Harper need to better define Canada's goals and objectives in Afghanistan and spell them out clearly to Canadians, an outspoken Liberal senator said Tuesday.

Rumours of a reunion first circulated in January after a new untitled song was uploaded on the group's official website.

Starting Tuesday, drivers in Nova Scotia must butt out when children and teens are present and put down their cellphones.

His decision to bow out of politics comes at a time when Liberal fortunes have hit an all time low in Quebec under Liberal Leader, Stephane Dion.

OTTAWA -- Liberals are calling for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to testify at the House of Commons justice committee about comments that sparked the Chuck Cadman affair.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Toy maker Hasbro Inc. on Monday said it bought the intellectual property rights related to Canadian-made Trivial Pursuit from Horn Abbot Ltd. and Horn Abbot International Ltd. for US$80 million.

It has been dead for awhile but Vancouver conservationists have fought hard to keep an iconic part of Stanley Park alive.

OTTAWA -- An expert panel has advised cabinet to oppose a move to lower the Canadian flag on the Peace Tower whenever a soldier dies in Afghanistan because it would debase the honour.

Investigators looking into last weekend's deadly capsizing of a sealing ship off the coast of Cape Breton, N.S., will start taking witness testimony today.

Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire is accusing Canada of hypocrisy for "abandoning" Omar Khadr after his capture by U.S. forces in 2002.

Canada's top representatives at a key NATO meeting are downplaying expectations for the gathering, suggesting Canadians shouldn't expect an announcement of extra troops to help out in Afghanistan -- yet.

Flames fans launch savage attack on man downtown following weekend loss

Sarkozy to deploy soldiers in eastern Afghanistan amid growing political opposition in Paris