NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2008

Derek Dorsett's first NHL goal was the winner as the Blue Jackets prevailed 4-2 over the visiting Vancouver Canucks at Nationwide Arena on Tuesday night

Warning: some of these are a little painful to watch ;-)

OPEC is all but certain this week to slash oil output in a bid to counteract falling demand and a precipitous drop in crude prices.

Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae have struck an informal non-aggression pact in a bid to avoid turning the coming Liberal leadership contest into another divisive showdown between the two perceived front-runners.

A Calgary woman who isn't a Canadian citizen may have been registered to vote in last week's federal election because of a tax return error, Elections Canada says.

The loonie retreated in the wake of the cut, tumbling to close 82.39 cents US in afternoon trading on currency markets. The dollar has not closed that low since August 2005.

The animated sitcom 'Family Guy' is no stranger to controversy, but on Sunday night the show went into uncharted territory as it seemed to weigh in on the presidential race by likening the McCain/Palin ticket to the Nazi party in World War II.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is warning taxpayers to beware of a recent scam where some Canadians are receiving a letter fraudulently identified as coming from the CRA and asking for personal information. The letter is not from the CRA. A PDF version o

TV viewers who settled down to watch a classic movie yesterday afternoon might have been shocked off of their couches when hard-core porn suddenly flashed across their sets.

Gasoline prices at city pumps have dropped below $1 per litre for the first time since the start of the year, encouraging some motorists to get behind the wheel of vehicles left in disuse over the summer.

EDMONTON -- A high-performance sports car being taken on a test drive ended up in a southwest Edmonton front yard.

Records show a dead person voted in last week's federal election, Liberal candidate Keith Milligan states in his affidavit asking for a recount in the western P.E.I. riding of Egmont.

Senior federal government bureaucrats have decided against giving a precedent-setting payout to a B.C. man who said his family trip was ruined by a passport delay.

A Montreal police officer who fired his gun after barricading himself in a 24-hour gym was arrested overnight Monday.

WINNIPEG -- A poisonous African snake with the longest fangs of any reptile was unaccounted for Monday after biting a Winnipeg man in the face.

Poverty and inequality rates have increased rapidly in Canada since 1995, reaching levels higher than the average developed country, says a report from an international organization of 30 countries.

Millions of Canadians may be inconvenienced by a nationwide failure of the debit card system, Moneris confirmed Tuesday.

In a surprise move Tuesday, the Bank of Canada sliced interest rates by only one-quarter of a percentage point to 2.25 per cent -- a milder cut than what many investors were expecting.

Brandon Crisp, 15, was last seen more than a week ago after fighting with his parents, who revoked his privileges to play the Xbox game "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare."

An Edmonton Oiler can charge all he wants at autograph sessions when he's out of town. But charging the hometown fans for autographs -- even at a collectibles show, where 90% of the people in attendance are more businessman than fan -- is a little unpalat

With two weeks to go until election day, things are hopping at the Registrar of Voters office.

The operators of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in B.C. say it's business as usual, despite reports the owners are struggling to stop it from becoming a victim of the international credit crisis.

North Korean officials could make an announcement on Monday regarding their leader Kim Jong-il, whose health has been the focus of speculation over the past months.

Almost a week after his party received the biggest electoral drubbing since Federation, Mr. Dion today vowed to steer his party through the opening of the 40th Parliament, but his tenure is expected to end at a Leadership convention in May.

VANCOUVER - Cheap power from hydro and coal, and a lack of interest by government, is choking the growth of wind power compared to other developed countries

OTTAWA - Canadians might have problems sending their holiday greeting cards this year if Canadian postal workers, who voted 88 per cent in favour of a strike mandate, follow through and walk off the job in November.

A B.C. man who clubbed a bear to death in self-defence is now defending himself from a smear campaign

OTTAWA - Ralph Goodale and John McCallum are both ready to take the reins of the Liberal party should Stephane Dion announce at a news conference this afternoon that he is stepping down immediately

David Shearing killed family of six as they camped near B.C.'s Wells Grey Provincial Park in 1982

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Muhamudullah Gulalai stands on the balcony overlooking the first row of bleachers and watches the soccer match below him.

OTTAWA - With the Conservative party winning re-election last week, the government is once again in the hands of latte-drinking elites, an Ottawa Citizen analysis comparing voting behaviour and the distribution of coffee franchises suggests.

A motorcyclist who posted footage of himself on YouTube performing "lunatic and grossly irresponsible manoeuvres" at up to 130mph was today jailed today.

OTTAWA -- You pay a price sometimes for loving hockey. Just ask Dave Neilson.

Government, industry looking at ways to prevent driving accidents due to use of mobile devices

CALGARY -- Arson investigators suspect a fire bug is responsible for a string of blazes in the southwest this weekend -- and might be linked to a rash of unsolved fires that caused $2 million worth of damage in the summer.

WINNIPEG -- For some the cold can be uncomfortable, but for those suffering from cold-induced urticaria -- an allergy to the cold -- it has the potential to turn deadly.

VANCOUVER -- A University of British Columbia doctoral candidate has been chosen as one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" list.

TORONTO -- Ontario provincial police have renewed an appeal for information into the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl in northern Ontario 38 years ago today.

LOS ANGELES -- Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86

The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the closing news conference of the Francophonie summit Sunday that Canada would spend $100 million to help developing countries adapt to climate change issues.

OTTAWA - The Canadian military will spend $100 million on surveillance balloons and towers equipped with high-tech sensors, as well as other related equipment, as it tries to deal with the ongoing threat of roadside bombs in Afghanistan.

After a false start to his comeback from a horrible year that included a gruesome leg cut, Kevin Bieksa returned to the lineup Sunday in Chicago only eight days after a fresh knee injury threatened to derail another season.

MONTREAL - Police investigating the destruction of the Hells Angels' most important symbol in Canada are not discounting the possibility the gang took a scorched earth policy to their own clubhouse, sources say.

Vancouver Sun sports editor shares his close encounter with a backyard bear

SOREL-TRACY, Que. - A string of biker-related crimes in the province in the past week are bringing back painful memories for Quebecers of the biker wars of the 1990s.

A long-lost plaque dedicated to four brothers who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War was again installed at Jericho Park on Sunday.

Cruel might be a bit much to describe Vancouver's schedule so far this year, but nasty sounds fair.

Ken Miller had been hoping his Saskatchewan Roughriders would be able to get off the quarterbacking see-saw on Sunday afternoon.

The results of three ridings from Tuesday's federal election are still in question and recounts have been ordered, according to Elections Canada.

The San Diego Reader started out as a bohemian 3 page..and is now the first largest alternative paper in SD...funny ..smart ..irreverent..here some funny Sunday faire from due South

Stalin was 'prepared to move more than a million Soviet troops to the German border to deter Hitler's aggression just before the Second World War'

The protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, Nasa scientists have warned.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants stopped a bus travelling on Afghanistan's main highway through a wild and dangerous part of the country's south, captured some 50 people on board and slaughtered around 30 of them

Even as the price of commodities falls, landfill mining is becoming both more viable and increasingly sophisticated. Is the idea of trash-as-resource finally about to reach its tipping point?

Colin Powell, a Republican who once aspired to be the first black United States president and later became one of the faces of George W. Bush's Iraq war, has endorsed Barack Obama for the White House.

A large fire has gutted a Hells Angels gang bunker in a community about 90 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

The Vatican has given India its first female Catholic saint at a time when Christians have increasingly come under attack in the predominantly Hindu country.

The current Vintages release yields some exceptional values, which are reviewed below. These, ounce-for-ounce, deliver a lot more to the palate than their price tags would indicate.

The strain of E.coli that has sickened 146 people in and around North Bay could have spread as far as Toronto, as local health officials investigate whether a suspected case can be traced back to the fast-food restaurant at the centre of the health crisis

The Environmental Protection Agency in the United States has issued new standards against lead emissions in the air, after being forced by a court order to get tough on industrial polluters.

Steve SmackIntyre, as he's quickly become known around town in the past few days, provided the inspiration for the perspiration which brought the Oilers back from down 2-0 to win 3-2 and create Edmonton's longest start-of-season NHL winning streak in 23 y

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber struck international troops near the western Afghan city of Herat Saturday, wounding five soldiers, officials said.

OTTAWA - For all his efforts - and after more than 40 years of being Canada's go-to environmentalist, there have been many - David Suzuki knows that he'll probably never feel the effects of climate change

Over espresso and cake in Miami's Little Havana, Lidia Arcuri lays bare the way the world's biggest Cuban community in exile is thinking about the upcoming US presidential election.

With the victory, Calgary improves to 11-5 and can wrap up its first West Division championship, and the right to host the division final, since 2000 with a win next week in Hamilton or an Edmonton loss at Saskatchewan next Saturday.

OTTAWA - Like it or not, Steve Yzerman will have the weight of a hockey-crazed nation on his shoulders for the next 16 months.

Friends and foes have called Cuba many things - a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny - but no one has called it lucky, until now .

DAWSON CREEK, B.C. - As members of the RCMP's national terrorism unit continued to gather evidence at the sites of two gas pipeline bombings in northeastern B.C. this weekend, other officers met with about 200 frightened citizens at a public gathering.

Ben Weider, the Canadian who helped turn body building from a fringe activity into a worldwide fitness phenomenon, died suddenly in Montreal on Friday. He was 85.

Too high a hill to climb, too many penalties holding them back and, in the end, far too much Anthony Calvillo to pull it off.

OTTAWA - Precious lives and scarce dollars are being wasted on the futile war in Afghanistan, peace activists cried out during marches and rallies across the country on Saturday.

MONTREAL - Family and friends of Leo Major describe him as a humble man who wore his battle scars with grace.

this article speaks explicitly about the Canadian superscoopers roles in San Diego fires..thx for the FYI WDHIII

Fires rage in San Diego..be sure and read the article on the Canadian Waterbombers too..the Superscooper pick up 1600 gallons of water to use each time the drop water on the fires

Sex shops have been forced to remove a novelty chocolate spread from their shelves over fears that it may contain a toxic chemical.

Eight McIntosh High School cheerleaders have been suspended for being drunk while performing during a varsity football game on Oct. 10, Fayette County schools spokeswoman Melinda Berry-Dreisbach confirmed Friday afternoon.

One of the Green party's most influential and high-profile supporters has quit the party over his disillusionment with Elizabeth May's leadership.

In the past 2,500 years, the temples of the Acropolis have suffered fire, bombing and earthquake. Now, scientists are trying to save them from a new modern enemy: pollution.

Another two Catholic school boards in Alberta have decided against giving out the HPV vaccine in their schools, leaving more families of Grade 5 girls to decide how to get the vaccination that protects against a sexually transmitted infection linked to ce

Women worried that their fashion domain is being invaded by men in manscara and man-bras have another cause for concern.

A German reality TV show caused outrage for including the drama surrounding the sudden death of a 16-year-old contestant's mother as part of the show.

The largest outbreak of E. coli in Ontario since the Walkerton tragedy claimed seven lives in 2000 has spread to 131 people here and in several small towns in the surrounding region, health officials say.

Recycle, or else: Toronto residents will risk getting whacked with a $105 ticket starting next year if they don't use their blue and green bins on garbage day.

An Edmonton teenage hit- man had a friend take pictures of him holding the cash he was paid for shooting a dial-a-doper in the head after luring him to a drug deal.

A member of a defunct Sarnia church has been arrested on more than a dozen sex charges after complaints involving girls ages five to 13.

Anyone can do Sarah Palin's voice, says comedian Tina Fey, who has done a pretty good job of it herself.

The wild, wild west end was the scene of a cowboy-style shootout yesterday involving the drivers of two cars blasting away at each other as they raced through the city.

VANCOUVER - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton is praising Canada's banking system.

Financial markets are tanking, pensions are disappearing and a recession is said to be looming, but there is a silver lining -- gas prices are dropping across Canada.

Canada is expected to formally declare on Saturday that the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is a hazardous substance.

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is expected to announce his resignation Monday afternoon at a press conference in Ottawa.

Buck Pierce and the B.C. Lions aren't ready to give up first place in the Canadian Football League's West Division without a fight.

Five people were arrested Friday for obstructing police when Victoria officers took action to clear a makeshift tent city erected at a downtown park.

GENEVA -- Operators of the world's largest atom smasher say damage caused by a bad electrical connection will take much of the planned winter shutdown to repair, but it will be back in action as planned next spring.

MONTREAL -- The Internet shouldn't be "romanticized" as a place where all content flows equally, and it needs some kind of traffic management as the number of users and the amount of video increases, says a report on Net neutrality.

The U.S. federal government on Friday placed the beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, concluding that a decade-long recovery program has failed to ensure their survival.

The Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction has recognized three Canadian projects in its annual awards for the most environmentally responsible construction projects.

Thomas Vanek netted his league-leading sixth goal of the season and Ales Kotalik scored twice as the Buffalo Sabres easily disposed of the visiting Vancouver Canucks 5-2 Friday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomed French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Quebec City Friday ahead of a working lunch where the leaders will discuss the economy and trade issues.

. . then found safe on the back of a truck.

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver man caught shipping 11 kilograms of cocaine to Montreal has received 40 months in prison - a lesser sentence because he was an aboriginal offender.

RCMP in Nova Scotia say the case of an extremely drunk driver who crashed her SUV with her two young children inside marks an unsettling trend of drivers blowing well over the legal limit.

CALGARY - Two victims are fighting for their lives in hospital while three other people in their early 20s have been treated for bullet wounds after a man walked into a Calgary nightclub and opened fire.

GANDER, N.L. -- The crew of a military helicopter is safe and sound after making a forced landing in Newfoundland and Labrador when the blades of the chopper hit a tree

A 26-year-old Manitoba model has died mysteriously in Milan, Italy after falling off a balcony.

DETROIT - The Vancouver Canucks have never owned Stanley Cup rings. But they're wearing biorhythm bracelets, which the National Hockey League team hopes might help get players the jewelry they really want.

The Martin Mars water bomber based in Port Alberni was poised to assist in fighting raging wildfires near Los Angeles last week but instead got mired in bureaucracy, said the aircraft's owner yesterday.

The company announced yesterday that it will cut its fuel surcharge in half by Nov. 3 to reflect dropping oil prices.

Children's and safety groups have renewed their call for tighter control over access to air guns following the death of a 13-year-old boy who was shot in the head with a pellet gun in Surrey, B.C

ROME - Workers renovating a rugby stadium have uncovered a vast complex of tombs beneath Rome that mimic the houses, blocks and streets of a real city

CLEARFIELD, Pa. - It took Brad Sciullo four hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon - a meat marathon, that is

GANDER, N.L. - A military helicopter based in Newfoundland and Labrador has been damaged after its blades struck a tree during a night training mission

An increase in mining activity and soaring gasoline prices have revived talk of using the sea and rail to haul freight to the Yukon and Alaska

Three days after suffering an embarrassing loss in Washington, the Vancouver Canucks rebounded against the Stanley Cup champions.