NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2009

Former NHL coach Jacques Demers, who in 2005 revealed he had hidden his struggle with illiteracy, journalist Linda Frum Sokolowski and Tory loyalists were among a slate of Senate appointees announced Thursday.

HMCS Winnipeg returned to Esquimalt August 21 following more than six months away from home. After leaving in February, the ship spent two months as part of a NATO squadron fighting piracy in the Gulf of Aden and took part in two major international milit

AN eagle-eyed Google Earth user claims to have found photographic evidence of the Loch Ness monster.

CTVOlympics.ca is now streaming Team Canada's Red-White Scrimmage

SAN FRANCISCO - A California girl who was kidnapped at the age of 11 in 1991 has been found alive, having spent 18 years living in sheds and tents behind the home of her accused abductor, a convicted rapist who fathered two children with her, police said

HYANNIS PORT, Masschusetts - Crowds bid a silent, fond farewell Thursday to Edward Kennedy as his funeral procession slipped down the narrow roads of this seaside resort at the start of his final journey.

Vancouver police say they have interviewed and released the driver of a truck involved in a deadly collision with a toddler and her mother in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday.

Gary Doer is stepping down as Manitoba's 20th premier, ending his reign as the longest-serving of Canada's current premiers.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane and his cousin pleaded guilty Thursday to a non-criminal charge of disorderly conduct and ordered to send an apology to the cab driver they were accused of roughing up over 20 cents.

It will be more than a standard scrimmage, but something less than an actual exhibition game when Canada's four-day men's Olympic hockey orientation comes to a close Thursday night.

Fifty years ago the Canadair Sabre was king of the sky. It left a legacy that endures to this day

Facebook will make a series of changes to its website operations and privacy policy to better protect its worldwide users from privacy violations, after a series of negotiations with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Former Montreal Canadiens Head Coach Jacques Demers, who led the team to its last Stanley Cup win in 1993, will be named to the Senate on Thursday, a source familiar with the impending announcement tells ctvmontreal.ca.

Comedian Bill Cosby is bringing attention to the story of a small group of Newfoundlanders whose actions taught a black American decades ago that racism didn't exist everywhere.

About 40 men somberly entered a classroom on a recent Saturday morning. About half of them wore shiny wedding bands.

A Vancouver Island family is frustrated that no regulations exist to protect them from potentially dangerous air-borne chemicals that could be emitted from a coffee roaster near their home.

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney has spoken out publicly for the first time about his rift with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

NEW YORK - It's 9 1/2 feet (2.74 metres) wide and 42 feet (12.8 metres) long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its asking price: $2.7 million

LANCASTER, Pennsylvania - A small airplane that flew into restricted air space and caused the evacuation of the White House four years ago has been involved in a similar incident.

HALIFAX, N.S. - A Halifax-area man is demanding a public apology from the region's municipal bus service

These days we're bombarded with diet and nutrition advice: what to eat to burn fat, build muscle, boost metabolism or ward off disease

Canucks goaltender says team has until Sept. 13 to negotiate a new deal before he suspends talks for the NHL season

"The announcement hasn't officially been made but there's no point in hedging on this," May told the New Glasgow News. "I have to leave Nova Scotia for the next election campaign."

A proposed new fish farm in Johnstone Strait has won a qualified approval from the Strathcona Regional District, which takes in the midsection of Vancouver Island and a stretch of the mainland north of Powell River.

For more than a century, the world's fundamental unit of mass has been based on a single, cylindrical piece of metal kept in a subterranean vault at the Paris headquarters of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.

The Horseshoe Bay-Pemberton section of Highway 99 is set to open ahead of schedule this fall, David Crebo of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure told ctvbc.ca Wednesday.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri -- The world's only naturally migrating whooping cranes, and the species' best chance for survival, died at about twice their normal rate last year and will likely see an overall drop in their numbers, a worrying sign for the once ne

TORONTO -- "Corner Gas" creator and star Brent Butt says it's "kinda goofy" that his celebrated show has been shut out of the Gemini nominations this year, adding that he's taking the snub "with a pound of salt."

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A group of Taiwan officials said Wednesday the Dalai Lama has accepted their invitation to visit this month, presenting the island's China-friendly president with an embarrassing political dilemma.

The same chemical compounds that make a glass of wine or ripening bananas so irresistible to fruit flies might also help drive mosquitoes away, scientists said Wednesday.

The Canadian Forces plan to hold Operation Nanook, their major Arctic sovereignty and emergency exercise, in the High Arctic next summer, senior military officials said Tuesday.

The International Olympic Committee declared Wednesday that it was "extremely happy" with the work done by the Vancouver Olympic Committee, and promised further financial support for the cash-strapped 2010 Winter Games.

More than 700 residents of Clinton, B.C., have been told they may have to leave at a moment's notice as the 110-square-kilometre Kelly Creek wildfire creeps closer to the southern Interior community.

"I'm a Canadian," Team Canada's head coach said Monday, "and when you're born Canadian, in my opinion, it's like winnin' the lotto. You're in the greatest country, I believe, playing the greatest game . . . the passion is fantastic.

Quebec might want to turn the Ste. Anne de Bellevue hospital into a long-term-care facility for the general public, but veterans have been told they would continue to be cared for at the hospital.

On the videotape, a couple of mooks are shown blithely filling out a slew of ballots for President Hamid Karzai. Tick-mark. Tick-mark. Tick-mark.

MONTREAL -- Prominent Canadians are lining up to praise Ted Kennedy, hailing the late U.S. senator as a lifelong ally of this country.

MONTREAL -- What happens on Facebook is expected to impact other social networking sites when it comes to respecting their users' privacy.

Manitoba is forming an integrated police task force to review the cases of murdered and missing women, many of them aboriginal.

You remember Wile E. Coyote, right? The always emaciated, terminally bumbling, lovably pathetic creature that entertained or annoyed millions of people for years in the vain pursuit of that "beeping" Roadrunner.

An overheated laptop computer left on a couch caused a fire that killed a 56-year-old Vancouver man, B.C.'s Coroner office has concluded.

A Cape Breton woman is outraged that the man who killed her brother at a McDonald's in 1992 has permission to leave prison unescorted for short periods of time.

One person and two companies are the first telemarketers to be fined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for violating its do-not-call list.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Canada closed out the Little League World Series with a wild win over Germany on Tuesday. Katie Reyes' two-run single helped Canada rally after blowing an eight-run lead to beat the Germans 14-13.

"I am not a lunatic who is hell bent on destruction of Western civilization," said the 22-year-old, who explained that he was a middle-class McMaster University student from a good home. His mistake, he said, arose from a "disagreement on the issue of Can

Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced nearly $110 million in funding for military bases in Quebec yesterday at CFB Valcartier, as he continued on a cross-country tour.

Multiple sources say the RCMP have spoken with the younger half-sister of Ryan Jenkins, CTV's Vancouver Bureau Chief Rob Brown reported Tuesday evening.

OTTAWA -- The Conservative government is facing pressure to help authorities in Kabul investigate allegations of fraud and voter intimidation in the Afghan presidential election.

OTTAWA - The Harper government is denying an accusation that its latest bid to avoid bringing former child soldier Omar Khadr home from a U.S. military prison smacks of racism

Coyotes are increasingly roaming Ottawa's south-end neighbourhoods, reports from residents suggest.

An alleged Calgary gangster who has been fighting his deportation from Canada for five years is booked on a flight to Vietnam on Monday, said his lawyer.

Some UPEI researchers are looking into what is making fish sick in the Alberta oilsands and what can be done about it.

Completion of the new retractable roof for BC Place stadium is going to be delayed, but officials will not say when the $360-million refit might be finished or explain in detail why the original target date will not be met.

A Parks Canada archeologist is pleading with looters to return any artifacts that may have been stolen from the site of a former Acadian village in southeastern New Brunswick.

EDMONTON -- Premier Ed Stelmach yesterday delivered some grim news to a province that was thought to be rolling in dough just one year ago

WINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg firefighter denies having any sexual contact with an intoxicated woman while on duty at a fire hall, telling an internal investigation the pair only kissed during a brief encounter.

TORONTO -- The mystery of a kidnapped Scarborough man is solved: He never was abducted.

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died Wednesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77.

Canadian officials are quietly exploring a possible moratorium on large-scale commercial fishing in the Beaufort Sea, a move that would match a decision announced last week by the U.S. government

A U.S. moratorium on new fisheries in the Beaufort Sea has highlighted a long-simmering boundary dispute with Canada in the Arctic waters north of Yukon and Alaska.

Guarding 2010 Games and G8 summit means compromises elsewhere - even in Afghanistan, defence documents say

CFB VALCARTIER, Que. -- On a day of grim news from Afghanistan, Defence Minister Peter MacKay delivered a blunt message to the U.S. and other NATO allies.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's first rocket launch Tuesday failed to push a satellite into its orbit but the flawed mission may still anger rival North Korea, coming just months the communist nation's own launch drew international condemnation.

The high-seas mystery surrounding a cargo ship that went missing for two weeks en route from Finland to Algeria intensified Tuesday, as Russia's top investigator said the vessel might have been carrying more than just timber, and the country's Foreign Min

In an unexpected move Tuesday, the NHL filed its own bid in U.S. bankruptcy court to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes in an effort to keep the franchise in Arizona.

A large blast made by five car bombs strung together rocked Kandahar city Tuesday night, killing at least 41 people, wounding 66 and damaging dozens of buildings, officials said.

NDP Leader Jack Layton would not say on Tuesday whether his party would support a Liberal non-confidence motion to try and topple the government and send Canadians to the polls.

Federal government lawyers are asking the Federal Court to toss out a legal attempt by a coalition of environmental groups to stop a U.S. research vessel from doing controversial seismic testing off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

A Manitoba lawyer who moonlights as a part-time paleontologist has discovered the fossilized remains of a crocodile estimated to be about 100 million years old.

The cash-strapped B.C. government said in its speech from the throne Tuesday that it will review its health authorities, boards of education and Crown corporations in an effort to find cost savings.

Seven pink piglets in a makeshift pigpen were left outside Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's constituency office on Kilborn Avenue in Ottawa Tuesday morning.

WINNIPEG -- Martial arts instructors are condemning a Winnipeg mother's decision to enrol her bullied son in kick-boxing classes and give him permission to retaliate against his tormentors.

The 46 players who will attend Canada's Olympic hockey orientation camp this week may face unprecedented media scrutiny, but they won't be the first to gather with the heavy burden of a nation's expectations.

Two Dallas Cowboys employees who were seriously injured when the NFL team's indoor practice facility collapsed in May have filed lawsuits against the companies that built the tent-like structure, including a subsidiary of Saskatoon-based Cover-All Buildin

OSHAWA -- Kiss this dream concert goodbye.

Memorial to friend posted 6 weeks ago

The most powerful man in Afghanistan these days, could be a soft-spoken, good-natured, silver-haired former aide to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

MONTREAL -- Former world boxing champ Dave Hilton Jr. is once again in trouble with the law.

REGINA -- Ontario will not try to stop convicted wife killer Colin Thatcher from collecting money on a new book, but Saskatchewan says it has no intention of allowing him to pocket the profits.

It is still not clear who checked a wanted Canadian fugitive into a B.C. motel days before his death, though the agent for a Calgary model says it wasn't her client.

NASA delayed a planned night launch of the space shuttle Discovery early Tuesday because of rain and lightning near the launch site.

TORONTO -- A pre-existing medical condition may have led to the death of a teen who snuck into a Thornhill pool with friends for an after-hours dip.

WINNIPEG -- A Manitoba Major Soccer League player is facing assault charges after an alleged on-field stomping incident left a goalkeeper with bruises and a broken bone in his neck.

Tuesday's speech from the throne in Victoria is expected to kick off a stormy session of the legislature.

The former amateur hockey coach who was the target of an intensive four-day search in northern B.C. says his ordeal began when he turned to place a survey marker on a tree and slipped down a 30-metre slope, suddenly becoming disoriented.

ESQUIMALT, B.C. - HMCS Calgary set sail August 17 for a three-month deployment to Central and South America. An important stop in September will be Panama, where the ship will join other navies for PANAMAX 2009, a joint multinational exercise which runs

Two teenagers who lost their father when the Queen of the North sailed off course and ran into an island before sinking have settled out of court with B.C. Ferries for $200,000.

Surrey, B.C., mayor kyboshes plan to ward off miscreants with chicken manure

Following last week's tornadoes in Southern Ontario, officials are looking at how best to notify residents of small, rural communities in cases of emergency

Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff landed in Yellowknife on Monday afternoon, in part to show his support for the party's latest addition

A 33-year-old man in Kamloops, B.C., has been arrested for allegedly trying to solicit sex with a pre-school aged child, RCMP said Monday.

CALGARY - Players are slowly drifting into town for the start of Canada's men's Olympic orientation camp.

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Miss Venezuela was the fairest of them all once again, winning the 2009 Miss Universe crown for the second year straight and the sixth time since the pageant's creation.

A paleontologist in Montreal plans to manipulate chicken embryos to give them dinosaur features, a first step towards hatching live prehistoric animals.

While television and internet prices are going up elsewhere in the country, some Vancouver residents are getting the deal of a lifetime thanks to an increasingly hostile price war raging between Shaw Communications and upstart Novus Entertainment.

MONTREAL - Protesters in Montreal are calling on the city to yank the name of a controversial British general from its street signs.

Almost 200 members from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment stationed at CFB Gagetown are preparing for a mission to Afghanistan.

People from the Big River First Nation are mourning the death of Cpl. Darby Morin, a soldier serving with the U.S. army.

Montreal could once again host the Formula One Grand Prix, according to a preliminary calendar for the race.