NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2008

Canada's Michael Gilday and Remi Beaulieu-Tinker finished second and third in the men's 1,000 metres at a World Cup short-track speedskating competition Sunday as Canadians won six medals on the track that will host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Activists met in Vancouver Sunday to talk strategy around resisting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Toronto police have issued a Canada-wide arrest warrant for a "very violent" man with a criminal record after a young female bystander was fatally shot outside a bar early Saturday

Alexis Serna kicked a 32-yard field goal to lead the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to a 24-23 victory over the host Montreal Alouettes on Sunday afternoon

Health officials are advising people travelling to South Asia to get vaccinated against typhoid fever after a major spike in the number of British Columbians infected.

TORONTO - Why do nasty norovirus outbreaks seem to happen more often in winter? A new study suggests drinking water supplies may be playing a role.

EUREKA, Calif. - A pair of minor-to-moderate offshore earthquakes have struck the northern California coast

WASHINGTON -- Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases -- one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology -- are on the rise, too.

SANTIAGO, Cuba - Forget the embargo. If you really want to know where U.S.-Cuba relations went wrong, head to San Juan Hill, site of the battle that decided the Spanish-American War

EDMONTON - Ian Bushfield wants God off the program when University of Alberta students line up in caps and gowns next spring to get their degrees

OTTAWA - Parks Canada, a stodgy agency with roots in the 19th century, plans a "branding" exercise next year to refurbish its image and get more visitors out into the woods.

Two people were shot to death and two others were injured in a northeast Calgary restaurant early Sunday

Man is responsible for the greatest extinction of wildlife since the demise of the dinosaurs with a 35% decrease in biodiversity over the past 35 years, according to new research.

The Arctic icecap is now shrinking at record rates in the winter as well as summer, adding to evidence of disastrous melting near the North Pole, according to research by British scientists.

A Canadian soldier is in serious but stable condition after a roadside bomb blast Saturday in Afghanistan

Using their third starting quarterback in as many weeks, the Saskatchewan Roughriders' defence returned two first-half interceptions for touchdowns in a 55-9 pounding of the Edmonton Eskimos at Mosaic Stadium on Saturday night.

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions scored 21 points off turnovers and quarterback Jarious Jackson threw three touchdown passes and ran for one himself in a 55-32 victory over the Toronto Argonauts in CFL play Saturday night

The Vancouver Canucks benefited from four power-play goals to dispose of the Edmonton Oilers 6-3 Saturday night at General Motors Place.

A Canadian soldier was killed and four others seriously were injured Saturday in a training accident at a Canadian Forces base in Ontario.

A deadly explosion in a fifth-floor Vancouver apartment has killed a woman in her twenties and left another man in hospital with serious injuries.

SEATTLE -- Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and presumed dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound's orcas in nearly a decade, say scientists who carefully track the endangered animals.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - After watching jobs vanish and saw mills close down amid the province's troubled forest industry, the mayor of the small northeastern B.C. town of Chetwynd sees hope in the wind.

Provincial archeologists are continuing to investigate the construction site of a new Fredericton convention centre after workers there unearthed human bones on Thursday

Palin debuted both a new set of glasses and a new talking point about the way that the McCain/Palin administration will be smarter about the way government funds important programs

When the B.C. Lions face Toronto on Saturday night (10 p.m. ET) it won't be just the Argonauts who will be playing for their jobs

Part of the main route through B.C.'s Okanagan region, Highway 97, was closed in both directions Friday night after the discovery of an unstable rock face and may remain closed for several days.

David Beckham, Derek Jeter, LeBron James, LaDainian Tomlinson, Sidney Crosby, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Hawk. Add UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre to the all-star crew in the CAA Sports talent pool.

Ordinary Seaman Darren Agius and his infant son, Niekolas, met for the first time Friday when his dad's ship returned from a 6 1/2-month security mission to the Middle East.

Step-by-step instructions show you how to carve a jack-o'-lantern that will impress your kids and the neighbours

VICTORIA, B.C. - Canadian troops in Afghanistan will soon turn their attention to targeting opium-processing laboratories and high-level drug barons in an effort to cut off funding for the Taliban, says Canada's top soldier.

The battle still rages one year after Premier Ed Stelmach decided to get at least $1.4 billion more in royalties from the province's energy sector

Nature of Diamonds exhibition opens tomorrow at Royal Ontario Museum

It's a marijuana "monopoly" that deserves to go up in smoke, activists say. Lawyers representing a group of 30 medicinal marijuana users will be in court Monday to fight the federal government's bid to keep control of large-scale medicinal pot distrib

Microsoft Corp. has doubled the reward money to $50,000 for information about missing Barrie teen Brandon Crisp.

U.S. authorities have arrested a Calgary man for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill an ex-Calgarian as revenge for what he's called a $175-million ripoff.

Robert Wagner as James Bond? In his memoir, "Pieces of My Heart," Hollywood's perennially suave star reveals how Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli "honoured" him in the early 1970s with the suggestion of playing Agent 007.

PARIS, Texas - In a gruesome case with powerful echoes of the dragging death of James Byrd a decade ago, a black man was killed underneath a pickup truck in East Texas and two white men have been charged with murder

A Canadian Junior Football League team in Kelowna, B.C., says police and the parole board should have revealed that one of its players was serving a conditional sentence for sexual assault.

MONTREAL -- Three people have been arrested in connection with a blaze that destroyed a Hells Angels bunker last week in Quebec.

Monique Lepine woke up in a cold sweat on Sept. 13, 2006.

OTTAWA -- Canada's top military commander has no safety concerns about the air force's aging C-130 cargo planes, despite a British coroner's report that recommended an explosion-suppressant system be installed aboard that country's Hercules transports.

REGINA -- Public faith in Saskatchewan's corrections system was again brought into doubt Friday after a dangerous prisoner was mistakenly released in Regina and it took more than a day to notify RCMP and the minister responsible for the error.

VICTORIA -- The salvage operation aimed at raising potentially hazardous wreckage from the ocean floor in Vancouver Island's ecologically sensitive Robson Bight has been put off until spring, B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner said Friday.

Reynolds runs for 128 yards to help Calgary clinch regular-season title

ST. LOUIS - Sarah Palin got a big welcome from St. Louis Blues fans when she dropped the ceremonial first puck. And when the first on-ice fight broke out, the Republican U.S. vice-presidential nominee returned the enthusiasm.

The gas responsible for the foul odour of flatulence and rotten eggs may play an important role in regulating blood pressure, Canadian researchers say in a study released Friday.

The Canadian dollar could quickly recover more than half the massive losses it has sustained this month once banks, hedge funds and other big investors no longer have to buy vast quantities of greenbacks and yen to cover short positions in those currencie

NHL game last night. Toronto - Boston. Great hit, broken glass everywhere ;)

For most Canadians, joining 2-3 fantasy hockey pools is enough to occupy their minds during the long cold winter. For an Ontario man, joining 14,000 pools is barely getting started.

KELOWNA, B.C. - A junior league football player in Kelowna, B.C. has been charged with nine counts of sexual assault.

WINNIPEG -- Never trust a drunk to keep her word.

OTTAWA - The financial turmoil in the United States will limit Canadian economic growth to 0.8 per cent this year but Canada will avoid a recession, says the Conference Board of Canada.

OTTAWA -- The Queen's representative in Canada has racked up the most air miles on the government's fleet of executive jets, performing ceremonial duties and vacationing with family in France and the Caribbean.

Oil prices tumbled Friday despite OPEC's decision to cut its output quota by 1.5 million barrels a day, beginning in November.

Health Canada is ordering retailers in Ontario to pull tens of thousands of items off their shelves after finding they were selling lead-tainted toys and children's products, according to a report.

Nine people have been taken to hospital after an explosion rocked a plastics factory in Edmonton, Alta. on Friday morning.

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Krista and Tatiana Hogan have been a curiosity since the day they came into the world joined at the head, drawing astonished stares and sometimes even sneers from people who say they should never have been born.

OTTAWA -- A new study on the economy and the environment recommends the federal government combat climate change with a "silver buckshot" of policies rather than a single silver bullet.

August's shortfall was all related to a 10.1 per cent spending surge, in transfers to provinces and individuals and in departmental costs. Revenue increased by a modest $100 million, or 0.5 per cent, during the month as a result of higher personal tax

This photo just surfaced, showing presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a pirate when he was a child. I think it is clear, now, that he was not raised Christian as his camp has claimed. The evidence suggests he was raised not as a Christian, or M

The chief medical officer in the Northwest Territories has confirmed one case of flesh-eating disease at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife

MONTREAL - Goaltending coach Roland Melanson had a surprise for the Montreal Canadiens at practice on Thursday - a two-time Olympic gold medallist filling in for sick goalie Carey Price.

OTTAWA - Canadian air force C-130 transports fly into the world's hot spots without the protection of an explosion-suppressant system that a British coroner has now deemed essential for combat aircraft.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The call came in to the small, highly trained and highly secretive Canadian team based on the outskirts of Kandahar - an unknown device had been found near a city school and it was thought to be a bomb.

TOKYO - A 43-year-old player in a virtual-world game became so angry about her sudden and unexpected divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.

LONDON - The cockpit must be completely airtight, the wheels constructed of solid titanium and the driver's nerves made of steel

Dollar's exchange rate means teams will pay out millions more in player salaries

A P.E.I. businesswoman has donated specially designed oxygen masks to all of the Island's fire departments for the rescue of dogs suffering from smoke inhalation

HALIFAX, N.S. - A Canadian navy ship headed out of waters off Somalia Thursday after wrapping up an international food relief mission that saw it keep pirates at bay while gun battles raged on shore

Springhill residents are marking the 50th anniversary of one of the country's worst mining disasters with a plaque and candlelight service

KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S military says a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan killed three U.S. coalition troops, while 18 Taliban fighters died in clashes elsewhere in the country.

Canada's new maritime helicopter should be airborne by the end of the year but a specific date has yet to be set for its delivery to the air force.

NAIROBI, Kenya - The French navy has captured nine pirates near the Gulf of Aden

Microsoft Corp. is issuing an emergency patch for its Windows operating system on Thursday, outside of its regularly scheduled monthly updates.

Premier Gordon Campbell didn't share the details of his plan to cut fares with BC Ferries, even though the company will have to make major changes following the surprise announcement

TORONTO -- A popular Toronto radio station's parody of metrosexual men has gay listeners changing the dial

WINNIPEG -- Parents of North End minor football players say repeated racial slurs are staining their kids' games and claim league officials are doing nothing to try to stop it.

WINNIPEG -- A former St. Theresa Point man who abducted and sexually assaulted a woman after he discovered her husband had been having an affair with his wife has been spared a jail sentence

MAMARONECK, N.Y. - Can you beat City Hall?

A judge has acquitted a Calgary man of luring a teenage girl over the Internet and sexually assaulting her, because there was reasonable doubt the accused knew how young she was

A convicted drug trafficker and known gang member ordered deported four years ago is free in Calgary on $20,000 bond as his appeal process drags on.

With the 10-day search for a missing Ontario teen gaining urgency amid colder weather, local police confirmed Wednesday that a woman spoke to the boy the day he went missing after an argument with his parents.

Montreal's mayor is on his way back to Canada from the U.K., bringing with him a renewed hope of returning the Canadian Grand Prix to his city after a meeting with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone.

KABUL -- A U.S.-led coalition air strike hit an Afghan army checkpoint yesterday, killing nine soldiers, Afghan officials said, and the American military acknowledged that its forces may have "mistakenly" killed allied troops.

Crude oil rose in New York, rebounding from a 16-month low, after Iran said OPEC should cut production by 2 million barrels a day to stave off a decline in prices.

Black Americans could vote in record numbers for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, potentially giving him an edge in some states that are tightly contested with Republican rival John McCain.

Columbus Blue Jackets' Mike Commodore is the latest athlete to become a victim of the digital technology age

The B.C. government will accelerate income tax cuts, provide further tax relief to small businesses, and other measures to help British Columbians deal with the global economic crisis.

A man who admitted killing six members of a British Columbia family has been denied his first request for parole since he was jailed more than 25 years ago.

it not always the destination but the interesting things that can happen during the trip..Dancers entertain at each trolley stations along the way

In his 40 years as a National Hockey League executive and former Broad Street Bully, Bob Clarke has been around some of the game's most interesting and abrasive on-ice personalities. But don't count modern-day NHL agitator Sean Avery among them.

VILNIUS - NATO would abide by its commitment to defend the three Baltic states in case of attack, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday in the face of regional concerns over a newly assertive Russia.

BOWDEN, Alta. -- Relatives of a British Columbia family murdered in 1982 gathered outside the killer's prison Wednesday morning to protest David Shearing's bid for parole

The remains of a child and bones of at least two teenagers have been returned to burial caves in secret locations on the Broken Group Islands by the Tseshaht First Nation.

UBC student recognized for innovations such as ersatz jellyfish diet

Newly appointed as senior adviser to the UN, Maude Barlow tells Chris Cobb that Canada 'desperately' needs to update its laws on water

Premier Gordon Campbell addresses the province tonight about the jittery global economy and his government's plans to meet the challenge

The trend toward skimpier, sexier Halloween costumes for young girls is raising concern among members of a children's advocacy group in Metro Vancouver.

Residents of Whistler, B.C., have one more good reason to make sure bears don't ransack their trash bins or invade their properties looking for food.

Three Canadian Muslims claimed vindication, if not victory, after a long-awaited inquiry report partly blamed Canadian officials for their detention and torture in the Middle East.

Supporters of al-Qaeda have said they would prefer Republican candidate John McCain to win the US election because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Daphne Odjig `one of Canada's finest living artists,' and her life's work is now on display in Kleinburg

A pre-Halloween dusting of snow coated parts of the Greater Toronto Area yesterday while drivers in parts of central and northern Ontario had to cope with near-whiteout conditions.

Since Marty O'Rourke lost his job making furniture late last year, the 39-year-old gave up driving to save money. He gave up take-out dinners. But there's one thing he won't give up, he says, sitting with a friend in a coffee shop: "my mochas, which I

The Canadian dollar briefly fell below 80 cents US on global currency markets on Wednesday, while North American stock markets began the day weakly.

SUFFERING from election blahs? Tired of automated calls from candidates at dinnertime? Can't wait for the attack ads to die? Well, look north, disgruntled voter.

Terrorists may see the change to a new U.S. president over the next six months as a prime chance to attack, no matter who wins the White House, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.

Many of Canada's national historic sites are deteriorating, largely due to lack of adequate funding, says a survey done for Parks Canada

OTTAWA - Canada is taking a more active role in persuading Taliban fighters to lay down arms, but seasoned diplomats say there's still no comprehensive strategy to peacefully dismantle the insurgency in Afghanistan

They may not strike fear into the hearts of hardened criminals, but they can lay claim to being the most environmentally-friendly crime fighting vehicles on the market.

A sharp increase in the number of pilots being temporarily blinded by lasers while landing or taking off has Transport Canada reminding people that conviction for the crime can result in jail time and a large fine.

MONTREAL -- A Montreal woman who logged 10,000 calls to 911 over a 15-month span because of her spite for police has been found guilty of public mischief.

Following in the footsteps of regional rivals China and Japan, India has launched its first unmanned moon mission