NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2013

Leo Lewis, who played with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers when it won the Grey Cup four times in the 1950s and '60s, has died. He was 80 years old.

Two Canadian warships are returning to port in Esquimalt, B.C. after colliding during an exercise while en route to Hawaii.

Working in his typical fast pace, Buehrle (11-7) pitched seven scoreless innings to pick up his 11th win of the season as Toronto outlasted the Kansas City Royals 3-2 at Rogers Centre.

A man in Quebec's Eastern Townships has received one of the stiffest jail sentences ever handed down in Canada in an animal cruelty case.

Three kittens thrown from a truck near Kindersley, Sask., are in good condition according to a local animal welfare group.

New satellite imagery shows North Korea is conducting major new construction to expand facilities at a launch site from where it fired a rocket into orbit last December, a U.S. research institute said Friday.

Scientists had previously discovered tiny plastic particles in Lakes Superior, Huron and Erie but new small concentrations have also been uncovered in Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario.

"Like some kind of epic battle between a Kermode, and UFO, with sasquatch and maybe a whale thrown in there".

A 96-year-old who wrote a touching love song to his late wife enters the top 10 on the US iTunes chart.

One of the biggest canyons in the world has been found beneath the ice sheet that smothers most of Greenland. The canyon - which is 800km long and up to 800m deep - was carved out by a great river more than four million years ago, before the ice arrived.

It took five years of painstaking work on a remote B.C. hillside near the Alberta border, but last week, paleontologist Richard McCrea and his team finally unearthed the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in B.C.

Two kittens that shut down a New York City subway line for more than an hour have been found and rescued from the tracks.

Officials say Turkey is on alert against possible chemical attacks from Syria and has stocked food and gas masks along their shared border.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada has no plans for a military mission of its own in Syria, although the government supports its allies and has been convinced of the need for forceful action.

A 70-year-old woman who thought she'd won an alarm clock at a Princess Margaret hospital fundraiser last week was surprised when she opened the box to find a wad of bills and a gold bar.

KAZAKHSTAN – After five months in space, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield was shocked to discover his cell phone provider has charged him well over a...

Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days ago, according to South Korean reports.

The White House unveils two executive orders on gun control, after a failed legislative attempt to pass regulations on access to firearms.

All the signals from Washington and London suggest that military action against Syria is now a strong possibility. Contingency plans are being drawn up, potential target lists are being reviewed and various military assets are being moved into position.

The Conservative government will bring in stronger penalties for people convicted of sexual offences against children, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says.

Some B.C. residents are questioning why it took days for a mining company in the Similkameen to inform locals that thousands of litres of tailings had spilled into the Tulameen River.

An Elections Canada investigator alleges in court documents that he suspected Conservative campaign worker Michael Sona was not the only person involved in misleading robocalls to voters in Guelph, Ont. Sona, who worked as director of communications to

From the blog Daily Brew: Chief Theresa Spence rose to national prominence by leading a hunger strike protest demanding the government listen to the voices of all aboriginal Canadians, but she appears to have been returned to her position as Chief of the

The United States is formulating a military plan to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, convinced that the regime is responsible for a recent chemical attack against Syrian civilians.

The youngsters are getting a shot with the Toronto Blue Jays now that the last-place team is essentially focused on next season. Players like Ryan Goins, Anthony Gose and Moises Sierra showed what they could do in Wednesday's 7-2 victory over the New York

President Barack Obama says the US has concluded that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attacks near Damascus last week.

Archeologists have found the first indication that farming was an important activity at The Forks - a historic site at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in Winnipeg - dating back hundreds of years.

Researchers say that the hiatus in global temperatures over the past 15 years can be explained by colder waters in the tropical Pacific.

A massive rocket carrying a spy satellite for the U.S. government launched from the central California coast Wednesday.

Israel ordered a special call-up of reserve troops Wednesday as nervous citizens lined up at gas-mask distribution centres, preparing for possible hostilities with Syria.

Four people have been hospitalized and 160 quarantined after a 15-year-old boy who ate marmot meat died of the bubonic plague last week, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health said Wednesday.

A museum director says an artist whose paintings depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in women's undergarments has fled the country.

Iran has prepared more than 1,000 advanced uranium enriching machines for startup the UN's nuclear agency said Wednesday, a move that is likely to raise concerns among countries who accuse Tehran of wanting to harness enrichment for the production of atom

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council failed to reach an agreement Wednesday on a British-proposed resolution that would authorize the use of military force against Syria.

A jury has sentenced U.S. army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to death for killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

Greenland is about to become substantially greener, according to Danish scientists who have been studying the effects of the warming climate on northern regions.

A judge has ordered two sisters from Ancaster, Ont., to pay their uncle $125,000 in libel damages for falsely accusing him of sexually assaulting them in a rural farmhouse when they were children.

Theresa Spence, who went on a six-week hunger strike last winter in an effort to persuade the federal government to take aboriginal concerns seriously, has been re-elected to a second three-year term as chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation in northern O

Police in northern China have launched a massive search for a woman accused of gouging out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is set to meet with the head of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) this afternoon in Montreal, amid intensifying talk of possible military strikes on Syria.

Vector Aerospace of Summerside, P.E.I., has been awarded a three-year contract with the Canadian Armed Forces.

Bombardier has signed a preliminary agreement with a Russian state corporation for the purchase of as many as 100 Q400 NextGen aircraft in a deal that could be worth up to $3.39 billion US.

The outbreak started when a person who contracted measles overseas visited Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, located about 20 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas. Officials with area health departments said those affected by the outbreak range i

Construction workers and motorists are being credited for saving lives after pulling people out of a fiery crash on Highway 63 that sent six to hospital.

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - A man has left a Dawson City, Yukon, hotel in a bit of a toe jam. The man was at the Downtown Hotel Saturday night drinking the infamous Sourtoe Cocktail, which involves swigging a shot of whiskey with a human toe in the glass and

A GROUNDBREAKING new Irish technology which could be the greatest breakthrough in agriculture since the plough is set to change the face of modern farming forever.

The absence of wood-boring "ship worms" in the Antarctic means old wrecks like Shackleton's Endurance probably remain in good condition, a study suggests.

People in the Northwest Territories community of Tulita are taking a trip back in time by recreating a moosehide boat, the same type of vessel their ancestors travelled on for generations.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is set to release details on hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts that were found at the site where the museum was built.

The part of the cronut burger contaminated with the Staphylococcus aureus toxin, which caused food-borne illness in 223 people at the Canadian National Exhibition last week, was the maple bacon jam topping, according to Toronto Public Health.

A man has left a Dawson City hotel in a bit of a toe jam. The man was at the Downtown Hotel Saturday night drinking the infamous Sourtoe cocktail, which involves swigging a shot of whiskey with a human toe in the glass and allowing the toe to touch the dr

The Royal Canadian Mint will be releasing seven Superman collector coins to celebrate the Man of Steel's 75th anniversary.

A military strike against Syria from the United States and its allies seemed closer to reality Tuesday as the U.S. defence chief said weapons are in position to attack. Syria vowed to use all possible measures to repel any such strike.

US Vice President Joe Biden says there is "no doubt" the Syrian government used chemical weapons and it must be held accountable.

Scientists believe they have located the breeding ground for the endangered North Atlantic right whale in the Gulf of Maine.

Scientists have detected, for the first time, water on the moon's surface that originates from deep inside it.

Yesterday, the ACLU filed a declaration by Princeton Computer Science Prof. Edward Felten to support its quest for a preliminary injunction in that lawsuit. Felten, a former technical director of the Federal Trade Commission, has testified to Congress sev

Assiniboine Park Zoo will show off its snow leopard cubs Tuesday at 11 a.m. The two males were born at the zoo at the end of June.

A Greenpeace icebreaker that entered Russia's Arctic without permission to protest offshore energy exploration is leaving after being threatened with gunfire by that country's coast guard.

R.A. Dickey picked up his 10th win of the season and slugger Edwin Encarnacion drove in a pair of runs as the Toronto Blue Jays kicked off a six-game homestand with a 5-2 win over the New York Yankees on Monday night.

Archaeologists have uncovered a reminder of the heritage items lost by the destruction of Canada's pre-Confederation parliament in Montreal.

The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastati

Former Liberal senator Mac Harb has called it quits and cut a $180,000-cheque to cover the rest of a $230,000 debt to the public purse

Authorities in northern Alberta say a pilot is dead after a plane was found upside-down in a lake.

Five more nets and a fishing boat were seized overnight from people illegally fishing for salmon in the Fraser River, officials said Sunday.

More than 50 women marched through downtown Vancouver on Sunday, baring their breasts in the name of gender equality.

Mark Buehrle allowed one run over eight innings and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied for two runs in the ninth inning to snap a seven-game losing streak with a 2-1 win over the Houston Astros Sunday.

The first national Canadian convention for fans of the animated television show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, was held in Richmond, B.C. Saturday.

The rough-looking stone blades and arrowheads found on Waskaganish territory could reveal how people lived in Canada thousands of years ago.

Organizers at Ottawa's Capital Pride Festival say more young people are taking part in Pride celebrations than ever before, thanks to more outreach and youth activities.

Canada could be sending its first astronaut to the moon under an ambitious long-term plan being developed by a group of space agencies around the world.

Players have started arriving for the start of Hockey Canada's Olympic orientation camp in Calgary, which will be more about explaining logistics than evaluating talent.

Houston manager Bo Porter said early in the season that he thought giving catcher Jason Castro days at designated hitter would keep him fresh late and help the team.

C.J Gable scored two touchdowns as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats beat Winnipeg 37-14 on Saturday afternoon to continue their mastery of the struggling Blue Bombers.

Kory Sheets ran for a pair of touchdowns as Saskatchewan continued to set the pace in the CFL with a 30-27 come-from-behind road victory over the Edmonton Eskimos on Saturday. The Roughriders recorded their second-ever 7-1 start in franchise history with

Two Nova Scotia women say they had a close escape from a black bear while travelling in the Annapolis Valley.

An Ottawa-based Chinese reporter covering Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tour of the North was hauled away by RCMP officers after he was denied the chance to ask a question and grabbed a microphone.

Flood victims in the hardest-hit part of High River heard from provincial officials on Tuesday that inspectors will soon determine whether specific properties should be fixed or demolished.

Law firms involved in the case say class-action settlement pending approval by Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan courts

An 88-year-old World War II veteran was beaten to death by two teens who apparently picked him at random

Banff's Sundance Canyon trail has reopened after a grizzly bear ate a black bear in the popular hiking area west of Calgary earlier this month.

Critics are urging the Harper government to lift the veil that shrouds Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency in the wake of an overseer's report that suggests ordinary Canadians may have been illegally spied on.

Two Toronto firefighters have been suspended indefinitely after a media report published earlier this month alleged they had posted sexist comments on Twitter.

Toronto Public Health says nearly 100 people are now reporting symptoms of food poisoning after eating at the CNE, as a cronut burger stand at the annual fair remains closed while officials investigate to determine if the trendy food played a role in the

Bradley Manning says he plans to live as a woman and begin hormone therapy, a day after the American soldier was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks.

A statue memorializing Jack Layton was unveiled Thursday, a life-size bronze sculpture depicting the former federal NDP leader riding a tandem bike and wearing a broad smile as he rolls along the city's lakeshore.

Managers of Japan's damaged Fukishima nuclear plant told CBC some of the highly radioactive water that leaked from a storage tank could have flowed into the Pacific Ocean.

NASA will reactivate a mothballed infrared space telescope for a three-year mission to search for potentially dangerous asteroids on a collision course with Earth, officials said on Wednesday.

A speeding motorcyclist's collision with a young black bear on a B.C. highway has been captured on tape by a video camera mounted on the driver's helmet.

An American researcher says First Nations women from Thunder Bay, Ont., have been sold on ships in the harbour at Duluth, Minn., a notorious trafficking port.

Canada's physicians have dropped the gloves with NHL owners saying the league is too accepting of hockey violence. Two-thirds of delegates at a Canadian Medical Association meeting in Calgary Wednesday voted to condemn the complacency of the NHL in regard

A B.C. woman is claiming she was refused service at a Richmond McDonald's because staff said they couldn't understand her English.

Stephen Harper took up arms -- albeit antique arms -- on the Arctic tundra late Tuesday in a round of target practice meant as a show of solidarity with Canadian Rangers.

The company awarded the biggest slice of the federal shipbuilding project is on track to deliver the first Arctic patrol vessel in 2018, the CEO of the Irving Shipyard said Wednesday, but questions remain over the number of ships that will be built.

Cutting the wait times for medical procedures is one of 12 recommendations contained in the final report from Alberta's queue-jumping inquiry.

Canada's top cops say handing out tickets for illegal possession of small amounts of marijuana could be more efficient than laying criminal charges.

US court martial jails Bradley Manning for 35 years for leaking secret files to whistleblowing website Wikileaks.

An Egyptian court orders the release of former President Hosni Mubarak on charges of corruption but it is not clear when he will leave prison.

Identical twins have appeared in court in connection with the rape of a woman as they cannot be distinguished by their DNA.

Angela Merkel lays a wreath at the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau near Munich, the first German chancellor to do so.

Japan's nuclear agency proposes upgrading the severity level of a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant from one to three on an international scale.

Jayson Nix hit a tying homer in the seventh inning and a game-ending single in the ninth, lifting the Yankees to their second comeback victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, 3-2 in the nightcap for a doubleheader sweep.

A message on a Fairfield police department's Facebook page says a cable television outage is "neither an emergency or a police-related concern." The post warns that 911 should be used for life-threatening emergencies only and misuse of the 911 system may

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is touting the Canadian Rangers as a pillar of search and rescue in the North -- even as a newly released defence report warns of "glaring weaknesses" in Canada's ability to respond to Arctic emergencies.

A man with an assault rifle and other weapons exchanged gunfire with officers Tuesday at an Atlanta-area elementary school before surrendering, a police chief said, with dramatic overhead television footage capturing the young students racing out of the b

A review board has upheld the firing of a former army sniper from the Edmonton Police Service for urinating on another officer and other misconduct, but the case may not be over yet.

Many students heading back to class in Chicago next week will be greeted by adults who are working with the city's Safe Passage program, which places adults along designated routes to help make sure that the students get to class safely.

The Montreal Alouettes confirmed on Tuesday star quarterback Anthony Calvillo has sustained a concussion and will be unavailable for the team's upcoming tilt against the B.C. Lions.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources is under fire from the Innu Nation after it disposed of dozens of caribou carcasses at a dump in Labrador.

Quebec marine biologists hope to figure out what's behind the alarming increase in dead beluga whale calves washing up on the shores of the St. Lawrence River since 2008.

The mayor of Regina has cancelled a proclamation to declare a week in October European Heritage Week after he says he was fooled by a white supremacy group.

Coastal flooding caused by global warming could cost the global economy $1 trillion a year in coming decades and Vancouver is one of the cities most at risk for losses, says a new study.

In the long history of automotive safety press releases, no carmaker has ever issued a statement quite like the one put out by Tesla Motors on Monday night.

As hundreds of professional cyclists are set to take to Alberta roadways in the Tour of Alberta, Edmonton is serving as host for the first day of the event, and a number of downtown roads will be closed.

The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant says about 270 tonnes of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks there, in its worst leak yet from one of the vessels.

Police chiefs meeting in Winnipeg say handing out tickets for illegal possession of marijuana may be more efficient than laying criminal charges.

Quebec has launched its next debate on minority accommodation -- and this one could make the erstwhile soccer-turban ban look like a leisurely stroll on the pitch.

An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighbourhood was shot and killed by three bored teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said.