NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2009

"We have written a letter to the prime minsiter, to encourage him to go to Cophenagen and to be a constructive leader, to be a real leader in the talks towards a climate change resolution," said Grandi.

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MOSCOW -- Quebec's premier says he is now confident the NHL is keen on bringing a team back to Quebec City. Jean Charest tells The Canadian Press that he discussed the issue with league commissioner Gary Bettman at a Montreal Canadiens game last week.

Howard in driver's seat on men's side, while Bernard clinches a berth in women's final

TAMPA BAY -- It's hard to dangle when somebody is banging you over the head with a lunchpail. Ask the Tampa Bay Lightning, who watched helplessly as all the high-end, high-priced talent they could throw at the Oilers last night was no match for Edmonton's

Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith said reports of private meetings between Alberta's major energy players, in which billions worth of new transmission infrastructure was alleged to have been divvied up, should be investigated.

SYDNEY, Australia -- A monster iceberg twice the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, raising fears that a collision with the continental shelf could cause tremors in the country.

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - John Allen Ditullio is a walking billboard for the neo-Nazi movement: a large 15-centimetre swastika tattooed under his right ear, barbed wire inked down the right side of his face, and an extreme and very personal vulgarity scrawl

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean condemned the killing of an activist opposed to a Canadian mine during the last day of a state visit to Mexico while protesters chanted "Canada, get out."

Homeless people can camp temporarily in public parks if municipalities can't provide them with sufficient alternative shelter, British Columbia's highest court ruled Wednesday

Food-poor ocean waters warmed by climate change likely played a significant role in the death of millions of sockeye salmon in British Columbia's Fraser River ahead of what was supposed to be a bumper year, says a scientific think-tank

A Surrey, B.C., pastor was convicted and sentenced to jail after an explicit video was posted online encouraging the rape of a young teenage girl. Larry Robert Collins was convicted for possession of child pornography. He was sentenced on Tuesday to 1

The head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat has said a leaked text which appears to undermine the existing Kyoto Protocol and on-going UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen is out of date and is unlikely to constitute the final outcome.

The Nato commander in Afghanistan has said that a surge of US troops will reverse the momentum of Taliban fighters within a year, leading to their ultimate defeat.

Research has revealed details of the catastrophic Zanclean flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago.

Canada is sending two surveillance aircraft to Afghanistan in a move some defence analysts see as laying the groundwork for a military mission in Kandahar beyond the announced 2011 pullout date.

Gen. Walter Natynczyk, Canada's top military commander, is now saying a suspected Taliban fighter abused by Afghan police in June 2006 had been detained by Canadian troops, contrary to comments he made Tuesday.

Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned.

Organizers of Vancouver's Chinese New Year Parade say they are reorganizing the upcoming event to get around some roadblocks on the opening weekend of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

The first storm of winter is blowing through parts of Ontario and Quebec, while people on the Prairies are dealing with bone-chilling temperatures.

The Norwegian Metrological Institute has received hundreds of phonecalls from confused observers but so far has been unable to identify its origin.

Forget Hurricane Hazel, a Port Credit restaurateur is picking up the pieces after Mississauga Councillor Carolyn Parrish had a tropical storm of a temper tantrum in his lobby over a poster supporting Mayor Hazel McCallion.

Cheryl Bernard, quite clearly, stopped at the Calgary Stampede Ranch in the Hand Hills area of the province and loaded up a broom bag full of horseshoes before arriving at the Roar of the Rings.

For a while there it looked like it was going to be a death match. Playing on adjacent sheets last night, Randy Ferbey and Kevin Martin were in trouble early. If they'd both lost, today would be a different kind of day

BIG SPRING, Texas - A Texas homeowner who adorned his front lawn with Michelangelo's "David" as a scantily clad Santa got more than just jolly laughs from his neighbours.

OTTAWA - The stress of combat in war-torn Afghanistan hasn't stopped Canadian soldiers from showing up for work, according to new Canadian Forces figures on sick days.

A rare surfing competition has been held in Hawaii as waves reaching 12m (40ft) pounded the north shore of Oahu.

OTTAWA - Stickhandling the logistics of a massive withdrawal of troops and equipment from Kandahar is a "daunting" task, says Canada's top soldier

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A leaked Danish document at the UN climate conference provoked angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries and activists who feared it would shift more of the burden to curb greenhouse gases on poorer countries

Capturing Osama bin Laden is the key to defeating al-Qaeda, the U.S. general in charge of the war in Afghanistan told Congress on Tuesday

A co-ordinated series of bomb blasts on Tuesday left at least 103 people dead and more than 197 wounded in Baghdad.

Martin Erat had his second NHL hat trick and added an assist to lead the Nashville Predators to a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night

An injured swan from Alberta will soon be flying across the Rocky Mountains to Vancouver to hook up with a potential new mate, but it's not clear what sort of matchup could come from the unusual avian blind date.

The federal government says it will spend $5 million to study a proposed marine conservation area in Lancaster Sound at the eastern gate of the Northwest Passage.

A violent sexual offender who Calgary police say violated his prison release conditions has been arrested in a homeless shelter in British Columbia.

New research from the World Meteorological Organisation shows that the past decade has been the warmest since records began 160 years ago.

A young Red Deer mother was bludgeoned to death with a garden tool, according to an agreed statement of facts entered into the record on Monday when her killer pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

A damning report on the conduct of RCMP and the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport was released on Tuesday by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.

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SUNRISE, Fla. -- The Florida Panthers got the first laugh, proudly announcing on their giant scoreboard that the temperature here is a balmy 24 C while the poor suckers in Edmonton are frozen under at -27 C.

Patchwork of laws, enforcement leaves consumers especially vulnerable to credit and identity crimes

Tiger Woods' wife Elin has moved out of their house, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.

Sir Richard Branson has unveiled the rocket plane he will use to take fare-paying passengers into space.

It was to the demilitarized zone - a tension-filled world of stare-downs and one-upsmanship - that Stephen Harper came Monday, no doubt anxious to avoid adding to the long list of provocations that have transpired over the years.

The United Nations' two-week conference on climate change formally opened Monday in Copenhagen, with organizers warning diplomats that the summit was the best chance to reach an agreement to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.

Diabetes is expected to cost Canada about $12.2 billion in 2010, nearly double the level of a decade ago, the Canadian Diabetes Association said Monday

Drugs like OxyContin are killing users in Ontario at twice the rate they were in 1991, a new study suggests.

The driver of a van involved in a crash that killed three farm workers nearly three years ago on the Trans-Canada Highway near Abbotsford, B.C., pointed a finger at the RCMP on Monday when she explained the condition of the vehicle.

OTTAWA - Red-faced Mounties are reviewing their practices after an embarrassing security breach in which 19 Greenpeace protesters managed to climb two of the Parliament buildings and unfurl huge banners in broad daylight.

Donations have been pouring into the Royal Canadian Legion's Fredericton branch to fix or replace the cross on the provincial monument that toppled just days before Remembrance Day.

A number of derailed CN Rail cars carrying liquefied propane, plastic pellets and benzene continued to burn near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border Monday.

A long-running snowmobile race through northern British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska will go ahead as usual next month, a year after a competitor from Alaska was killed in a race-related crash

An Ottawa woman who escaped serious injury after falling into an icy crevasse in Antarctica is continuing on her solo trek to the South Pole.

A study of water quality at 60 sites along the Athabasca River and its tributaries makes it clear the oilsands have added cancer-causing toxins to the environment, a scientist at the University of Alberta says.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new airworthiness directive for the type of helicopter used to ferry workers to Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil platforms.

As the Copenhagen climate change summit opens, Canadian environmental activists are urging the government to go much further than they are planning to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

A civil rights group is expressing concern as Vancouver begins to install dozens of closed-circuit video cameras to monitor activity in parts of the downtown core during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Some East Vancouver tenants say they are being evicted so their landlord can make more money during the 2010 Winter Games.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Martin Brodeur realized he had a good chance of catching Terry Sawchuk, and his teammates helped made sure he finished with a shutout. Brodeur tied Sawchuk's NHL record with his 103rd shutout, leading the New Jersey Devils to a 3-0 vict

Nearing the end of Saturday night's Raptors-Bulls' third quarter action, Raptors point guard Jarrett Jack(notes) held the ball at the top of the key. Noticing his shoelace was undone Jack tucked the rock under his arm while the clock continued to run, ben

Seven-year-old boy reported found not far from parents' home near South Bar, north of Sydney; condition remains unknown

"They don't play with any fear at all. They were having fun and the crowd was so hoping they'd make that double on the eighth end. If they had made that, the place would have erupted." But, uh, Kevin, you're supposed to be a hometown favourite.

A TTC experiment in crowd control at the system's most congested subway station has been deemed a success and will be permanent starting Monday.

Archaeologists have found evidence of mass cannibalism at a 7,000-year-old human burial site in south-west Germany, the journal Antiquity reports.

Search and rescue workers and volunteers were becoming increasingly worried about the condition of an autistic boy, who they believe is facing his second night in the woods on Cape Breton Island, after he wandered off Saturday afternoon.

OTTAWA - On Dec. 11, 1989, Prof. Monique Frize marked her first day as chairwoman of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

The underdogs were anything but on day one of the Canadian Olympic curling trials in Edmonton, as top seed Jennifer Jones and No. 2-ranked Shannon Kleibrink were both upset in their opening matches

The UN's top climate official has given an upbeat assessment on the prospects of a global deal at a climate summit which opens in Copenhagen on Monday.

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD -- Canada's "eye in the sky" -- the CH-170 Heron -- is the unmanned aerial vehicle that's arming troops on the ground with life-saving intelligence.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid tribute Sunday to the Canadian soldiers who died during the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941 and lay buried in the Sai Wan War Cemetery

LOS ANGELES - NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalogue objects posing a danger to Earth.

Canada's women's team raced to a world record en route to gold in the team pursuit Sunday to continue a strong showing for the Canadians at a long-track speedskating World Cup.

OTTAWA - Canada may end crucial training programs for the Afghan National Army when it pulls its troops out of Kandahar in 2011

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - In the five months they have to establish a security zone around the insurgent snake pit known as Kandahar city, Canadian troops will be working to turn local allegiances in an effort to marginalize the Taliban

About 100 people braved a snowstorm Sunday morning to attend a ceremony marking the 92nd anniversary of the Great Halifax Explosion

An Ottawa resident who is trekking solo across Antarctica says she is doing fine despite a "pretty serious fall" down an icy crevasse just two days into her expedition

The Maritime provinces are dealing with power outages, accidents and flight cancellations from the first major winter storm of the season.

PHILADELPHIA -- The NHL has suspended Flyers forward Dan Carcillo four games for his role in a fight that earned him 19 penalty minutes and a game misconduct.

With the right to represent Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games on the line, the cream of Canada's curling crop heads to Edmonton this weekend to compete in the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings.

Roads boss says only one-in-four Calgarians willing to shell out for better snow clearing

CALGARY -- Firefighters braced high winds and treacherous roads to battle a massive blaze that destroyed five houses early yesterday.

Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean will officially open the Paralympic games, in addition to the winter Olympic games, even though Olympic traditions prescribe that the Head of State declare the games open

It was sometime after noon on Thursday when a longtime resident of the New Westminster Quay quietly slipped away to a new home and a new future.

The commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan has told Afghan members of parliament that there will be "significant improvements in security" by the middle of next year.

The Queen has issued a strong warning to newspapers not to publish paparazzi pictures of the Royal Family.

Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral Saturday for a woman and her baby who died aboard a float plane that crashed in the water off B.C.'s Gulf Islands

The House of Commons last week passed the first in a series of votes on implementing a harmonized sales tax in B.C. and Ontario.

In her 105 years, Baltimore-born Sister Constance Murphy has lived long enough to see innumerable history-defining moments, including watching the inauguration of the first black U.S. president.

A snowshoer fell 400 metres to his death Saturday afternoon on the North Shore Mountains.

A year ago it was 3.7 per cent. Last month, it jumped to seven per cent, from 6.9 per cent in October, the federal agency reported Friday.

An Edmonton lawyer has been fined $1,000 and sentenced to 12 months probation for abandoning two horses in deep snow in central British Columbia last year.

According to isotope biogeochemist William Patterson at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, global warming could result in a catastrophic plunge in temperatures resulting in a North American deep freeze.

KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines and Afghan troops have killed at least seven Taliban fighters during the first U.S.-led offensive since President Barack Obama announced a new American war plan this week, Afghan officials said

The NHL is considering a move that would change the name of some individual awards to honour some of the game's all-time greats, CBC Hockey Night in Canada analyst Glen Healy says

Canadian beef exporters have regained access to the Hong Kong market following a meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the former British colony's chief executive

Marc Savard scored a hat trick and Tuukka Rask made 31 saves as the Boston Bruins skated to a 7-2 home win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.

Security forces in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi have launched a hunt for gunmen who carried out a deadly attack on a mosque near the country's army headquarters.

There are substantial variations in the amount of carbon being absorbed by the North Atlantic Ocean, a study shows.

President Gloria Arroyo has imposed martial law in the Philippines province of Maguindanao after the election-related massacre of 57 people.

The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at sceptics' claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been exaggerated.

Thieves recently made off with a totem pole that was meant to bring hope and light to a hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday calling for a deal on climate change at next week's conference in Copenhagen.