NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2010

TORONTO -- Within a few hours, allowing for the time difference between here and British Columbia, Toronto cop-killer Craig Munro will find himself standing before a parole tribunal for the second time in a year.

OTTAWA - MPs began grilling senior Toyota executives Tuesday morning.

A nuclear submarine commander whose vessel ran aground in the Red Sea has been reprimanded by a court martial.

Nearly 30 years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands, a pilot project has begun to rid the territory of some of the 20,000 landmines left behind and clean up land that has been off limits since the conflict

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland says he will only resign over claims he helped cover up sex abuse if he is asked to do so by the Pope.

RCMP investigators continue to probe the scene of a weekend avalanche in Revelstoke, B.C., which left two Alberta men dead and authorities scrambling to confirm that all survivors had been accounted for.

Charlotte Skowronek nearly lost her son Joey on Saturday in the deadly avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C. Today, the boy is fine, and Skowronek says that's thanks to his father

A former municipal director of engineering in Delta, B.C., has been charged with possessing and accessing child pornography.

WHISTLER, B.C. - Brian McKeever will never forget his Olympic disappointment, but the Paralympic gold medal he won Monday helped remind him why he keeps racing.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The final home of Canada's most famous puck is set to be revealed on Tuesday. The International Ice Hockey Federation and Vancouver Olympic officials say they'll announce the permanent abode of the Olympic gold medal puck at a joint news

CALGARY - A Calgary zookeeper has been suspended after a gorilla nearly escaped his enclosure. Shortly before the zoo opened Monday morning, a seven-year-old male gorilla jumped about three metres from a pile of accumulated snow and ice onto the top of th

A Saskatchewan judge has ruled that former politician and convicted murderer Colin Thatcher cannot keep the profits from his recently published book.

Grief counsellors have been called into J. Percy Page High School in Edmonton after a Grade 10 student was killed Monday on a school skiing trip to southeastern B.C.

A drug expert testified Monday that it's unlikely a Calgary man accused of killing a woman near an LRT station mistook the victim for his mother because the effects of the drug he smoked earlier would have worn off by then.

Dozens of protesters were detained after bottles and firecrackers were thrown at police officers during an annual police brutality demonstration in Montreal on Monday evening

A date for your diary: Leonardo da Vinci predicted that the world would end on November 1, 4006, according to a Vatican researcher.

A multibillion dollar plan to buy a fleet of new armoured combat vehicles for the army is back on after the Defence Department has decided that the program should be a priority.

The City of Toronto has denied reports that it is paying for actor Corey Haim's funeral. A U.S. report over the weekend cited Haim's mother Judy Haim as saying Toronto will foot the bill for the funeral service.

Canada's Lauren Woolstencroft decimated the field in the women's standing category slalom race to take Canada's second gold medal of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games with a combined calculated time of one minute, 51.97 seconds.

The companies proposing to build the $16.2-billion Mackenzie Gas pipeline again delayed its proposed startup date on Monday.

Visually impaired cross-country skier Brian McKeever has won Canada's first gold medal of the Paralympics. He finished first in Monday's 20-kilometre race for the visually impaired with a time of 51 minutes 14.7 seconds in Whistler, B.C. Nikolay Polukhin

Uncertainty about whether the seal hunt will go ahead, and questions about who will buy pelts if it does, may make the federal government's announcement that it has increased the quota for this year's East Coast seal hunt meaningless, sealers say.

Washington Capitals superstar Alexander Ovechkin has been suspended by the NHL for the second time this season, drawing the latest ban for his hit Sunday on Chicago's Brian Campbell.

The federal Conservative government is quietly cutting funding to hundreds of libraries and community groups across the country that provide public Internet access.

Joannie Rochette has withdrawn from next week's figure-skating world championships, citing as a reason the emotional toll taken by winning Olympic bronze shortly after the death of her mother.

Ikea Canada is pulling a crib pillow off shelves following a complaint from a Calgary mom that unravelled threading nearly strangled her toddler.

According to many U.K. children, the queen invented the telephone, Issac Newton discovered fire and Buzz Lightyear was the first man on the moon.

Government: No explanation for runaway Toyota

Though his best friend Corey Feldman said Corey Haim died with little money to his name, the late actor's funeral expenses won't fall to his mother.

Tropical Cyclone Tomas battered Fiji's northern islands on Monday evening with gusts of up to 275 km/h (170 mph) and heavy rain, but weather officials had not received immediate reports of damage.

A golden retriever swallowed a three-carat diamond inside a Rockville, Md., jewelry store, taking a $20,000 bite out of the business' inventory.

Disabled veterans from Canada's Afghan mission predicted to swell ranks of Paralympic teams

London, England (CNN) -- They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave.

Researchers at the University of Calgary say they have discovered the unique genes that allow the opium poppy to make compounds used to produce such drugs as codeine and morphine.

A Kimmirut, Nunavut, man convicted of murdering RCMP Const. Douglas Scott in 2007 will soon serve a life sentence behind bars, in a case that the sentencing judge says has profoundly affected others in the territory.

Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says "people want to know as much as possible" when it comes to the court system, in a discussion about former MP Rahim Jaffer's recent plea bargain on a careless driving charge.

Mounties have confirmed the victims of an avalanche outside Revelstoke, B.C., this weekend are both 33-year-old men from Alberta.

The victims of Saturday's killer avalanche in British Columbia were caught in a snow slide powerful enough to destroy a house, one that had been building all season and lacked only a trigger, an avalanche specialist said Sunday.

REVELSTOKE, B.C. - What many feared would be one of the worst death tolls ever in the B.C. backcountry appears to be an almost miraculous story of survival.

In the chaotic few moments between the end of the game and his march to the podium, Kevin Koe stood near the corner of the ice, smiling and just a little stunned as he soaked in the spotlight for the first time in his career.

The Vancouver Canucks extended their homecoming party at GM Place on Sunday, riding three first period goals to dispatch the Calgary Flames 3-1.

Scoring was the last thing on Greg Westlake's mind as the Canadian sledge hockey player dumped the puck into the opposing zone, his team down two skaters after back-to-back penalties.

The northernmost permanently inhabited settlement on Earth lies at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, in the high Canadian Arctic, just 817 km away from the North Pole.

Make it three medals for Canada at the Paralympic Games.

The Canadian women's team pursuit grabbed the gold medal at a long-track speedskating World Cup event Sunday, clinching the overall season title.

If post-Olympic trend holds true, this one might be a corker. After an NHL record 14 straight road games caused by the Winter Games, the Vancouver Canucks came home on Saturday night and crushed the Ottawa Senators 5-1.

MONTREAL - When government funding for a foundation dedicated to climate research dries up at the end of the year, scientists say the aftershocks of its departure will be felt not only in Canada but by researchers around the globe.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The family of a Georgian luger who died at the 2010 Winter Olympics will receive insurance money from the Vancouver organizing committee.

RCMP in Revelstoke, B.C., now say almost everyone is accounted for after an avalanche cascaded down an area mountain on Saturday afternoon, killing two people.

Former general wants statue of Mother Canada replicated, placed in Jacques Cartier Park

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Saturday it has dismantled several U.S.-backed opposition networks that were gathering information on nuclear scientists and finding ways to circumvent controls on the Internet meant to deprive the opposition of its most crucial t

The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called "aggressive attempts" to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading sex scandals of priests in his German homeland and contended he has long confronted abuse cases with courage.

A series of shootings left 24 people dead Saturday in a Pacific coast state plagued by drug gang violence. Nearly half died in one shootout between soldiers and armed men.

The Vancouver Canucks pummeled the Ottawa Senators 5-1 at GM Place on Saturday in their first contest on home ice since their NHL-record 14-game road trip ended.

A 41-year-old man from Charlottetown, P.E.I., was sentenced to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old man with a weapon.

Police in Chatham, Ont., say they arrested a local man when he didn't try to commit his crime in both official languages

It was only fitting for a sledge hockey game that started at 10 a.m. MT that the Canadian team hit the snooze button for the first two periods.

One person has died and at least 12 others have been injured in an avalanche which occurred in the interior of British Columbia, the RCMP says.

TORONTO - This is the weekend most Canadians lose an hour of sleep as they switch from Standard Time to Daylight Time.

Co-workers say the alleged gunman in a fatal shooting at an Edmonton car dealership on Friday was recently suspended for making racial comments. Police say a man with a gun walked into Great West Chrysler near Stony Plain Road and 178th Street at about 7:

The sea of red-and-white will be give way to the more familiar blue-and-green in Vancouver's GM Place on Saturday, and the Canucks couldn't be happier.

Rescuers battled against time and hip-deep mud in a desperate effort Thursday to rescue 16 white-sided dolphins stranded on Cape Cod, but at least two of the animals died and the outlook for eight others was grim.

An image of Jesus has appeared in burned bacon fat at the bottom of a frying pan, it has been claimed. Toby Elles, 22, made the discovery after burning the food when he fell asleep while cooking.

India and Canada are expected to sign a civil nuclear deal during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the country in June that will increase the prospects of bilateral trade between the two countries, a Canadian High Commission official said.

The troubled reactor at Chalk River that supports much of Canadian nuclear medicine won't return to service until late May at the earliest, about a month behind schedule

Another mystery solved: Sidney Crosby's golden goal-scoring hockey stick was bound for St. Petersburg, Russia to become the private property of Sergei Afanasiev, a hockey memorabilia collector.

Montreal is one of several cities where ethnic Canadians are facing rampant discrimination in policing, education and labour, says a wide-ranging report issued by the United Nations.

VANCOUVER -- The 2010 Paralympic Winter Games isn't about capturing the hearts of Canadians. It's about changing their minds.

Stepping up to top-tier soccer in North America will be a year-long challenge for the Vancouver Whitecaps but the euphoria of the 2010 Winter Olympics will help.

Clams with special sauce are one of the specialties at Vina Vietnamese restaurant in West Vancouver. Something else they specialize in is cleanliness.

An 18-year-old man faces first-degree murder charges after a mother and her daughter were shot dead in the small eastern Ontario community of Mountain View, police said Friday.

Germany's top bishop briefed the Pope on the spiralling cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff's native Germany on Friday, and said Benedict encouraged him to pursue the truth and assist the victims.

Thieves are accessing personal financial information using the old-fashioned smash-and-grab method, but what they're grabbing are point-of-sale terminals, not merchandise.

Rogers Wireless is raising the emergency 911 fee cellphone customers pay monthly to 75 cents from the current 50-cent charge.

Heavy snow and dangerous conditions are creating a high risk of avalanches across southern B.C., the Canadian Avalanche Centre is warning backcountry adventurers.

The low levels of snow in B.C.'s mountains could spell trouble for spawning salmon this summer, according to one expert.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Paul Franklin can still vividly remember lying on the ground after a suicide bomber destroyed the armoured jeep he was driving in Afghanistan four years ago. Parts of the army medic's body were on fire, and he could see the bottom half o

Two members of Canada's world junior championship team, Patrice Cormier and Marco Scandella, had appeals denied Friday on their lengthy suspensions by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Greyhound Canada is apologizing and conducting a full investigation into the actions of one of its drivers in Manitoba.

Organizers of the 21st Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alta., say they had no choice but to keep athletes and coaches who were part of last Sunday's opening ceremony in a separate area for two hours before they could enter the main venue.

A Victoria man responsible for three killings since 1995 has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 18 years

The widow of OPP Const. Vu Pham, who was shot and killed in the line of duty this week, said she had always dreamed and feared that one day she would be speaking at her husband's funeral.

Hundreds of people gathered at a memorial service in St. John's, N.L., at the Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Friday to mark the anniversary of a helicopter crash that killed 17 offshore oil industry workers.

A simple "sorry" and an offer to pay his legal fees might have sufficed, but Adil Charkaoui said he didn't even get that courtesy from the federal government

David Ahenakew, the controversial Saskatchewan First Nations figure whose comments on Jews were the subject of several court cases, has died at the age of 76, reportedly from cancer

Two singular journeys that have inspired Canadians for years became inspirations for the world as well on Friday with the start of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

This week Statistics Canada confirmed what every Canadian has long recognized: The country is becoming less white.

A moderate 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of the Japanese island of Honshu early today, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

An evangelical leader is calling for a boycott of Glenn Beck's television show and challenging the Fox News personality to a public debate after Beck vilified churches that preach economic and social justice.

VALMALENCO, Italy -- Canada's Maelle Ricker won a silver medal in a World Cup snowboard cross race today to secure the crystal globe as the overall season winner.

ARE, Sweden -- Canadian Jenn Heil inched closer to clinching a record-tying fifth crystal globe as World Cup overall champion with a silver medal in Friday's women's moguls event.

The federal government is considering making sweeping changes to drunk driving legislation, including tougher penalties for repeat offenders and allowing random breathalyzer tests on Canadian roads.

PETERBOROGH, Ont. - An Ontario man was treated in hospital and released after he was attacked by a three-foot California king snake while he was working at his computer just after midnight Thursday.

Daylight time kicks in on Sunday, which not only means later sunsets but more dangerous drivers.

GRINDELWALD, Switzerland -- Canadian women swept the podium Friday at a freestyle skiing World Cup ski cross race while fellow Canadian Chris Del Bosco took bronze in the men's event.

Broadcast Date: March 12, 1985 One security guard is dead and the Turkish ambassador is severely injured following an attack on Turkey's embassy in Ottawa. At 7 a.m., three well-armed men drive up to the gate of the Turkish Embassy in a rented moving tru

The Canada Border Services Agency has fined WestJet $5,300 for sending international passengers through the domestic arrivals area at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, bypassing customs, CBC News has learned.

WINNIPEG - The family of one of the teenage suspects in the severe beating of a disabled Manitoba man in Australia has blamed the victim for allegedly provoking the boys charged in the incident.