NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2008

BRANTFORD, Ont. - A 17-year-old boy has been charged with assault with a weapon following an alleged stick-swinging incident

Phone firm says it had Ontario address for Calgary family as tot's death is investigated

An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is calling for more study of the health risks posed by stun guns. The opinion piece released on Thursday argues that Taser use is a public health issue, and Canadian officials should not be relyi

EDMONTON -- Alberta is under heavy pressure to strengthen its environmental standards as the fallout from the death of 500 ducks in a toxic wastewater pond gets stickier than the province's oilsands.

The 24-year-old father of two little girls who froze to death at a Saskatchewan reserve in late January has been arrested and charged by police, according to the girls' mother.

MONTREAL -- Veterans at a Royal Canadian Legion branch in a Montreal suburb were in tears Thursday after vandals spray painted their building with slogans like "Free Quebec'' and the letters FLQ.

Sweden's Saab Aerospace rolled out what may become the fighter aircraft that sets the standard for the future of the military aerospace business. What Saab is calling the "Next-Generation Gripen" (Gripen N/G for short), is a substantially modernized ve

MONTREAL - A preteen girl was clueless during years of sexual abuse by the leader of a fringe Christian church that he had claimed her as his wife, a Quebec court heard Thursday

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The ship was laden with tonnes of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins - and cannons to fend off pirates.

WASHINGTON -- Low-oxygen zones where sea life is threatened or cannot survive are growing as the oceans are heated by global warming, a new study warns.

Two reserve soldiers who pleaded guilty to killing a man in a downtown Toronto park in 2005 have been sentenced to a total of more than 15 years in jail.

The average industrial wage in the United States is about $22 (U.S.) to $23 an hour, but workers at the auto makers are paid in excess of $50, Mr. Stronach told reporters after Magna's annual meeting in Toronto. "Is that right?" he asked. "You just wo

KHENJAKAK, AFGHANISTAN -- Canadian troops are reaching out to the Taliban for the first time, military and diplomatic officials say, as Canada softens its ban on speaking with the insurgents.

MacDonald Dettwiler &Associates Ltd. said yesterday it does not rule out selling ownership of Radarsat 2 to the Canadian government if it means salvaging a $1.33-billion deal with a U.S. company.

A provincial court judge has sentenced Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger to a one-year driving ban and a $600 fine on Thursday after he was convicted of drunk driving.

Nine people are dead and 10 were wounded after roadside bombs hit a NATO patrol and two other vehicles in Afghanistan, officials said.

One of Vancouver's top restaurants says it would consider taking wild salmon off its its menu if it proves to be unsustainable

A court hearing will be held next week to determine what will happen with a ship seized after a protest against Canada's East Coast seal hunt

SCRANTON, Pa. - Canadian Nathan Smith, the captain of the AHL's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, has been charged with indecent exposure after a police officer saw him running naked on a downtown street early Sunday.

Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger has been ordered to appear in a Surrey courtroom on Thursday to be sentenced for drunk driving.

A Calgary toddler has died after his family's 911 call via an internet phone service reached a call centre in another city, leaving them waiting for an ambulance, officials said Wednesday. The family, located in the north end community of Coventry Hil

A Taser failed to subdue a teenager who pulled a knife on Calgary police and bit an officer, said police. The 911 centre received an emergency call from a home on Hubalta Road S.E. on Wednesday night, but the caller hung up without saying anything. Whe

MONTREAL -- One of Canada's original six astronauts is calling it quits after almost 25 years in the space business.

TORONTO -- Almost a decade after the deadline by which the House of Commons was unanimously resolved to eliminate child poverty, Statistics Canada says there are still almost 900,000 children living in the poorest of homes.

OTTAWA -- Canada's age of sexual consent will be bumped up two years to 16 beginning Thursday

TORONTO -- A national survey by Century 21 Canada brokers suggests the Canadian house market has definitely cooled but hasn't suffered the big collapses that have been experienced in some parts of the United States.

Peel police spent several hours talking to passengers of a flight from Moscow after a 41-year-old man believed to be heavily intoxicated died before the plane landed at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.

A speeding bus filled with Canadian and European tourists overturned and caught fire Thursday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing at least nine and injuring 28, officials say.

"Look, I love being generous, but sometimes you can't afford to be that generous," he said, emphasizing Ontario's economy is "not growing fast enough" relative to places like resource-rich Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland, and booming British

"The bill should not be amended," he told reporters yesterday. "A tax bill is a confidence bill. We all know that."

Dion is said to have told his MPs at yesterday's caucus meeting that with the economy deteriorating and Conservatives' fortunes waning in the polls, the summer will present an opportunity for Liberals to put their own vision on the table.

EL-ARISH, Egypt - A speeding bus carrying dozens of Canadian and European tourists overturned and caught fire Thursday on a desert highway in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing at least eight passengers and wounding 27, including two Canadians.