NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2009

Astronomers have detected the strongest radiation blast from deep space ever known, exceeding the power of almost 9,000 exploding stars.

In contrast with the National Battlefields Commission, organizers of the annual re- enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg, the U.S. equivalent in political terms to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, say their annual recreations are not a source of soci

The Lost City of Atlantis is still lost - despite hopes that Google Earth had located the fabled city on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Re-enactments - we've been denied a valuable lesson - Desmond Morton

TORONTO - Since classes began in the fall, 16-year-old Lindsay Hyde has complained to her Mississauga high school about being bullied by a pack of mean girls.

Six rebel monarch butterflies who haven't done their homework seem to have disproven a long-held theory that monarchs east of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the U.S. migrate to Mexico for the winter, while their western cousins hang out in California d

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's first nuclear plant will begin long-delayed pilot operations on Wednesday, the state atomic energy agency said.

As governments and companies around the world race to find a solution to an emerging international energy crisis, a cluster of companies located in Greater Vancouver may hold a vital key to combating climate change.

Homicide investigators are piecing together what they believe to be a double murder and attempted suicide northwest of Montreal, involving two young children.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says more U.S. troops in Afghanistan will help "share the burden" with Canadian soldiers, but repeated criticism that other NATO countries are failing to pull their weight in the country.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan forces were credited Sunday with bringing down a Taliban leader who was responsible for directing a campaign of roadside bombings in Kandahar province.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two CH-146 Griffon helicopters lifted off into the dim, grainy dusk above Kandahar Airfield one night last week and made straight for the mountains, in a new and completely unheralded chapter in the Afghan war.

OTTAWA - Up to half of some 2,000 foreign criminals thought to be hiding in Canada may have already slipped out of the country, a new report suggests.

The three-week trial is set to begin for the man charged with murdering Cameron's daughter and her RCMP partner while they were involved in a high-speed chase on a dusty back road near Spiritwood, Sask., in July 2006.

Eight young basketball players from northern New Brunswick have proven it's possible to triumph over tragedy.

A Spanish fishing trawler has sunk off Newfoundland and all 22 crew members have been rescued by a Canadian Coast Guard vessel in the area.

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China early Sunday killed at least 74 miners and trapped or injured dozens more, according to state media reports.

Nearly 1,000 people lined the shores of Nova Scotia's Baddeck Bay Sunday morning to watch a former Canadian astronaut fly a replica of the Silver Dart, a day before the 100th anniversary of the first powered flight in Canada.

Even before the economic crash last fall, government figures show the CBC had already rung up another $59 million in red ink for the year ending Aug. 31, 2008 -- on top of its usual handout that was 8% higher last year than 2007.

Mats Sundin scored on the third try of the shootout to lead the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.

A single chair on Whistler Mountain's Harmony Express chairlift tumbled to the ground early Thursday morning in what resort officials are calling an isolated incident.

YOU are what you eat, or so the saying goes. But Richard Wrangham, of Harvard University, believes that this is true in a more profound sense than the one implied by the old proverb. It is not just you who are what you eat, but the entire human species. A

The chief of the West Moberly First Nation near Chetwynd says he wants First Coal Corp., a Vancouver-based coal exploration and development company, to stop work in an area where caribou are at risk.

DesRosiers says the Japanese, in particular, concentrated on building four or five key products for the marketplace, and that ultimately hurt the North American carmakers who offered much more choice."We've known for 15 years, GM has had too many products

The price of cocaine is set to plunge further because Europe is being flooded with the drug through new smuggling routes, the United Nations drugs chief Hamid Ghodse has warned.

Blueprints of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, found recently in a rubbish skip, have been put on display in a Berlin shopping centre as a public challenge to Holocaust deniers.

Municipalities will lose the power to decide how close wind turbines can be to residential properties and environmentally sensitive areas under proposed green-energy legislation being tabled Monday.

Saturday's Lotto 6/49 jackpot is estimated at $48 million, the highest ever. But the final amount will likely spike as a result of a surge on ticket sales, says a Western Canada Lottery Corporation official.

President's taste leads to rush on pastries, cookies and keychains

OTTAWA - For a guy who's never bought a lottery ticket at a corner store, Jeff Rosenthal has sure hit it big.

TORONTO - A Leaside couple has had its mail delivery cut off because its two-year-old Lhasa Apso/American Eskimo dog is too scary.

TORONTO - A national strategy being proposed by Canada's environment ministers could spell the death of those oversized, impossible-to-open plastic packages that ubiquitously line store shelves

Now you see him--now you don't. When the pickpocket and performer Apollo Robbins snatches a mark's wallet, he may well be exploiting a loophole in the way the human visual system and brain interact

What if you could get your daily nicotine fix without also inhaling the hazardous chemicals found in conventional cigarettes?

A full slate of action is on tap for CBC's Hockey Day in Canada on Saturday. Three games involving all six Canadian NHL teams plus day-long festivities in the host town of Campbellton, N.B., and all over Canada will mark the occasion.

A Newfoundland and Labrador member of Parliament is calling on the federal government to station a coast guard icebreaker on the island's northeast coast full time.

BROSSARD, Que. - It has been a week of turmoil for the struggling Montreal Canadiens.

TORONTO - As Mats Sundin prepares to make his first ever appearance at Air Canada Centre with a visiting team, it's worth remembering that he never wanted to make such a return in the first place.

OTTAWA -- In the wake of Barack Obama's trip to Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and one of his senior ministers will travel to the United States next week.

Most of NATO's member nations have said they are willing to offer more military or civilian support to the mission in Afghanistan, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.

Undaunted by an overnight snowstorm, more than 100 Campbellton residents turned out Friday for a morning skate with several hockey legends and a chance to pose with a national treasure

The Canadian women will begin their quest for a third straight Olympic hockey gold on Feb. 13 at the 2010 Vancouver Games, with the Canadian men scheduled to play their first game three days later.

Canada's Alexandre Bilodeau won his fourth straight World Cup moguls event on Friday, clinching the first overall title in the discipline.

For the last two months, Campbellton Middle School students have decorated their entire building with hundreds of ties and images of Don Cherry as the northern New Brunswick community prepared for Hockey Day in Canada.

A CH-124 Sea King helicopter from 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron saw some action last month when it took part in Exercise Western Spirit on the HMCS Calgary in British Columbia.

Canada's federalists accepted meekly the nationalist distortion that a re-enactment of the events on the Plains of Abraham was to be a "celebration" of the French defeat. In fact, re-enactments, whether of Gettysburg, Waterloo, Hastings, or Culloden do n

The kerfuffle over re-enacting the battle of the Plains of Abraham has ended, as expected, with a humiliating sacrifice of our history on the altar of political correctness. Possibly I should be glad they didn't restage it with Montcalm awakened by Jean C

TORONTO - Installing electrical wiring in a new aircraft prototype wasn't a high-ranking job, but in 1959 Claude Sherwood knew he was helping build something remarkable: the Avro Arrow.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says that he was charmed by President Barack Obama on a personal level and feels he has a partner on a political level.

WASHINGTON - Canadians, it seems, weren't the only ones left swooning in the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama's whirlwind visit to Ottawa and the apparent cross-border love affair it has sparked.

Kyrgyzstan has given U.S. forces six months to leave a leased airbase used by planes ferrying troops and cargo to American and NATO operations in Afghanistan.

VERNON, B.C. - Members of the Vernon RCMP detachment in British Columbia's North Okanagan are used to seeing crooks hauled through their doors

Two Montreal researchers have proposed a new theory for a question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists: How did a mechanism thought to help build life self-assemble?

A Canadian property developer died Thursday after being riddled with bullets in his car outside his condominium in Phuket, Thailand.

CALGARY - With UN talks on climate change scheduled for Copenhagen this December, work on a new clean-energy strategy and how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will begin immediately with the U.S. administration, federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Time was, Canadian troops were among those having to hitch rides around the Afghan battlefield on board the transport helicopters of other NATO allies.

A small fire started Friday aboard a Canadian navy vessel in Bermuda.

Among the thousands of people waiting to see Barack Obama in Ottawa Thursday was a group of Inuit who donned traditional clothing, danced and sang while they waited to catch a glimpse of the U.S. president.

One of three Nunavut communities under consideration will be the site of Canada's new High Arctic research station, Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said Friday.

The infamous Mad Trapper was, among other things, an American or Scandinavian who was in his 30s when police shot him dead nearly 80 years ago, according to scientific analysis of the Arctic outlaw's remains.

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly confirmed to Hockey Night in Canada's Jeff Marek that the league is investigating a report in Friday's edition of La Presse that links two Montreal Canadiens players to a man arrested in a recent sting operation.

Strange floating objects and eerie bright lights were among the record number of Unidentified Flying Objects that Canadians spotted in the sky in 2008, according to Winnipeg-based Ufology Research.

Distressed by the suffering of a group of trapped dolphins, men in a small Newfoundland outport took matters into their own hands on Thursday and cut a path through ice in a bay.

The federal and Ontario governments may have to cough up as much as $10-billion to keep the Canadian subsidiaries of Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. afloat.

The province's "have" status celebrations will not be going ahead as originally planned.

Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years

SEAL COVE, N.L. -- A group of men in a boat cut a quarter-kilometre path through ice off this tiny community Thursday and led three white-beaked dolphins that had been trapped since the weekend to freedom.

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that North Korea's leadership situation is uncertain and the United States is worried there may soon be a succession crisis to replace ailing Kim Jong Il.

The Ottawa Senators have turned things around under rookie head coach Cory Clouston, but few teams have impressed more of late than the Vancouver Canucks

Two members of the Navy were honoured with Meritorious Service Medals (Military Division) during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa February 13.

A French battleship sunk in 1917 by a German submarine has been discovered in remarkable condition on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea.

U.S. is not asking for troops beyond 2011, but signals that it hopes for a change of heart

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff got the 30 minutes he wanted with President Barack Obama Thursday.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The traditionalist bishop whose denials of the Holocaust embarrassed the Vatican was ordered Thursday to leave Argentina within 10 days.

The way President Barack Obama's trip to Ottawa was covered by the Canadian media, he might as well have been accompanied by angels from on high, rather than serious looking secret service agents.

OTTAWA - The first black president of the United States and Canada's first black Governor General knew theirs was a historic encounter - and they appeared to revel in it from the moment they met Thursday.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Thursday he raised the case of Canadian Omar Khadr in his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at Ottawa International Airport.

A storm was moving east through the province on Thursday. By 10 a.m., Yarmouth airport reported seven centimetres of snow. Snow was expected to hit Cape Breton by evening.

While residents of a town on Newfoundland's northeast coast are calling for an icebreaker to free five trapped dolphins, a marine biologist warns such a move may make things worse

Police in Metro Vancouver say they rescued an 18-year-old Chinese student, who was kidnapped on the weekend, in a dramatic early morning takedown.

Two new baby killer whales have been spotted off the southern coast of Vancouver Island, raising the count of the beleaguered southern resident population to 85.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama pledged a common approach to tackle climate change and the global recession during talks in Ottawa, but Obama said he did not press Canada to extend its mission in Afghanistan.

There has been a change in command in the top echelons of Canada's military personnel in Afghanistan.

Selling Canada's identity to the highest bidder!!!

They borrow leftover prescription drugs from friends, attempt to self-diagnose ailments online, stretch their diabetes and asthma medicines for as long as possible and set their own broken bones. When emergencies strike, they rarely can afford the bills t

Sources from both countries say they expect Harper and Obama to announce an agreement that would serve as a building block towards a continental cap-and-trade system. One American official said the leaders are expected to take a modest first step Thurs

Nasa and the European Space Agency have decided to forge ahead with an ambitious plan to send a probe to the Jupiter system and its icy moon Europa.

In a new recording allegedly from al Qaeda, the group claims responsibility for the December kidnapping of two Canadian diplomats in Niger.

The founder of Facebook says the social networking website will return to its previous terms of service regarding user data, after critics complained recent changes had eroded user privacy.

In the wake of the Lower Mainland's 12th incident of gunplay in just over two weeks, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is pleading for the creation of a regional police force to stop the bloodshed.

The City of Vancouver has taken over $700 million in financing from a New York-based hedge fund to complete the construction of the troubled Olympic Village project.

The mayor of a small, coastal village in Newfoundland has appealed to the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to send out icebreakers to save five dolphins that have become trapped in the community's harbour.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York Post cartoon Wednesday drew fire from civil rights activist Al Sharpton and others who say the drawing invokes historically racist images in suggesting an ape wrote President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package.

Hammer or nail, Maciocia is convinced he just signed the best running back in the league to a one year and option contract very similar to the one which made linebacker Maurice Lloyd an Eskimo the day before.

Defence chiefs are facing an inquiry into the safety of the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent after British and French submarines, each laden with missiles powerful enough for 1,248 Hiroshima bombings, collided while submerged in the mid-Atlantic.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has warned that the future of NATO is at stake if some of the alliance's members don't do more in Afghanistan.

Vancouver and its suburbs have been under attack as criminals trade shots in an undeclared gang war that's taken as many as half a dozen lives and wounded several people in the last few weeks

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has announced a dramatic increase in the number of U.S. troops that will be fighting alongside Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan just ahead of his trip to Ottawa to discuss the war and other issues with Prime Minister St

WASHINGTON -- An odd, greenish backward-flying comet is zipping by Earth this month, as it takes its only trip toward the sun from the farthest edges of the solar system.

American journalists devoted to covering presidential politics got a crash course in Canadiana on Tuesday as they prepared to travel with President Barack Obama on his voyage to Ottawa later this week.

CALGARY -- Canada's first astronaut to blast off for a six-month sojourn into orbit says he's ready for life in cramped conditions that will slowly wear down his body and mind but could also help secure the future of manned travel to the moon and Mars.

Heavy security measures will create traffic delays and road closures for Ottawa residents Thursday when Barack Obama visits Canada for the first time as the U.S. president.

General Motors will cut 47,000 jobs and may need up to US$30 billion to survive, while Chrysler is shedding 3,000 jobs and three vehicle models, in U.S. restructuring plans that hint at similar action north of the border.

Pavol Demitra scored the decisive goal in the shootout as the visiting Vancouver Canucks prevailed 4-3 over the Calgary Flames at the Pengrowth Saddledome on Tuesday night

Health Canada has warned doctors to expect a shortage of medical isotopes after an unscheduled shutdown this week at the Chalk River, Ont., nuclear plant that supplies them.

RCMP have identified the woman shot dead while driving through a Surrey, B.C., intersection on Monday morning.

Government critics wasted little time in lashing out at the budget announced by British Columbia Finance Minister Colin Hansen on Tuesday

B.C.'s Liberal government will invest $14 billion on an infrastructure plan it hopes will cushion the province from the worst effects of the world economic crisis and create up to 88,000 jobs over the next three years, according to the provincial budget r

Sealers have killed 200 grey seals on a tiny island off Cape Breton, a week after their buyer unexpectedly backed out of taking any pelts, putting the controversial hunt in limbo.