NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2010

Hundreds of Prince Edward Island pigs are on a journey to Russia, where they'll join thousands of other Island hogs brought in for breeding.

Calgary's police chief slammed the "idiots" behind a rash of food tampering in the city, as two locations of the Real Canadian Superstore became the latest targets.

DNA testing of a variety of fish bought at several Canadian grocery stores reveals products are sometimes mislabelled and some species being sold are endangered

Rescuers heard tapping sounds Friday from the pipes in a flooded Chinese coal mine where 153 workers were trapped more than five days earlier, and another rescue team reportedly heard shouts, an official said.

Though the Ducks have been playing playoff-caliber hockey over the last few weeks, it is the Canucks who again have a chance to lock up a postseason berth tonight.

Strong winds sweeping across Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland caused power outages, damage to one BC Ferries vessel and cancellations on some ferry sailings Friday.

HALIFAX, N.S. - A U.S. meteorologist who studies a rare weather phenomenon says he is convinced a Canadian-based "sailing school" was hit by an intense blast of air moments before it sank off the Brazilian coast.

With less than 10 seconds on the clock, Erik Karlsson scored the biggest goal in his young career. Needing just one point to clinch a playoff berth, the Senators trailed the visiting Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 late in the third period on Thursday night.

A B.C. court has granted Ottawa more time to fix the federal Indian Act after ruling last year that it violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Every year in B.C., tens of thousands of young people play minor hockey, but now the costs are about to go up.

The Bloc Quebecois plans to vehemently oppose a government plan to add 30 new seats to the House of Commons -- none of which are slated for Quebec.

A New South Wales father who attacked one of the four teen boys who assaulted his daughter is facing a more severe punishment than they are.

MAKHACHKALA, Russia - President Dmitry Medvedev made a surprise visit Thursday to the violence-wracked southern province of Dagestan, telling police and security forces to use tougher, "more cruel" measures to fight the "scum" responsible for terrorist at

Reversing course, U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh warned soldiers Thursday that they still can be discharged for acknowledging they are gay, saying he misspoke earlier this week when he suggested the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy had been temp

If you've got a backyard to plant but don't have the green thumb to do it, a pair of Calgary entrepreneurs might have a proposition for you.

It's going to take more than money and an apology to redeem the RCMP's image following the Robert Dziekanski case, some critics say

For a team on the verge of earning a spot in the post-season, the Vancouver Canucks sure didn't play like a club ready to take the next step.

WINDSOR, Ont. - A Canadian missionary who pleaded guilty to sex crimes Thursday is remorseful and hopes to one day resume his work, his lawyer said.

A stray dog found roaming the streets of Winnipeg is set to become part of a world famous sled team in Churchill.

TORONTO - Two men have been convicted in the shooting of an innocent bystander outside the Brass Rail strip club in downtown Toronto.

There's a very good chance that Pat Burns will eventually end up in the Hockey Hall of Fame anyway, however a Facebook campaign is picking up steam in its quest to land the former coach in the Hall as soon as possible.

OTTAWA -- The man accused of beating a female impersonator outside an Ottawa gay bar has been acquitted of assault.

MONTREAL - If you're thinking of pranking an office colleague on April Fool's Day, you'd better think twice.

SYDNEY, Australia - David Beckham an assistant manager for Australia at football's World Cup? It turned out to be just an April Fool's joke that tricked a few people for a while.

KATMANDU, Nepal - A 49-year-old Nepalese Sherpa guide who holds the record for the most conquests of Mount Everest will make his 20th climb this spring and scatter the ashes of Edmund Hillary, one of the first men to reach the top nearly six decades ago.

KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the U.N. and international community Thursday, accusing them of interfering in last year's fraud-tarnished presidential election and seeking to weaken his authority after parliament rejected his bi

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - New evidence from Russian archives suggests Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was alive after Soviets reported that he had died in a Moscow prison, a Swe

A group of space enthusiasts is attempting to preserve objects that have been left on the moon by astronauts.

Nova Scotia's premier fears that a court ruling ordering the province to pay for the medical marijuana of a woman on income assistance may set a costly precedent.

A Montreal blogger pulled some shenanigans on Thursday, reproducing the front page of a popular newspaper website to publish fake headlines, including one that announced the Quebec premier's resignation.

Residents of a Prince Rupert, B.C., cul-de-sac banded together to save a neighbour's dog, Bob, from the jaws of a wolf. But it may have been Bob the pug's pudgy waistline that thwarted the attack.

Spring in Canada will be warmer and drier than usual, Environment Canada is predicting

Iran's top nuclear official is holding talks in China amid signs Beijing may have relaxed its opposition to a new round of UN sanctions against Tehran.

A Malaysian woman sentenced to be caned for drinking beer has had her punishment commuted.

It was 30 years ago on April 16, 1980 that Canada first signed the contract to buy what was then a state-of-the-art fighter jet, the CF-18 Hornet. Now, almost 30 years later, the Department of National Defence is poised to employ a completely modernized

It was a year ago last February 23 that celebrations kicked off marking the 100th anniversary of the first, heavier-than-air, powered flight in Canada. In honour of the year-long celebrations and the men and women who have made the Air Force what it is to

Northern sea ice is nearly back to average levels globally for the first time in at least a decade after years of spectacular declines.

The goal is simple for the Vancouver Canucks in tonight's meeting with the Los Angeles Kings: get one point and clinch a playoff spot. Vancouver will try to do just that at the Staples Center versus Los Angeles, which hopes to get another boost from an un

April Fool's Day used to be a day of jokes, fake news items, and the always popular switching the salt for the sugar prank. These days, fake news items, sadly, still abound. But now, it's all about the web-based April Fool's Day hoaxes.

BEIJING - A gas explosion at a mine in central China killed 12 workers and trapped 32 underground, state media said Thursday, the second major mine disaster in the country this week.

The melting of a giant North American ice sheet 13,000 years ago caused the Gulf Stream to shut down and triggered rapid cooling on a global scale, suggests new research.

A jury has convicted two men of manslaughter in the notorious Boxing Day shootout that killed Toronto schoolgirl Jane Creba over four years ago.

The RCMP intends to offer a formal apology and a financial settlement to compensate the mother of Robert Dziekanski, a Polish man who died at the Vancouver airport after RCMP officers used a Taser to subdue him.

Derek and Wendi McDaniel, daughters Sarah, 4, and Megan, 8, and family dog Sophie recently moved into what's known in the area as the old Pedersen farm near New Denmark, N.B.

A belief that Jesus survived the crucifixion and spent his remaining years in Kashmir has led to a run-down shrine in Srinagar making it firmly onto the must-visit-in India tourist trail.

A Belgian parliamentary committee has voted to ban face-covering Islamic veils from being worn in public.

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico - Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently co-ordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers.