NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2010

A decision to fly in bad weather is being blamed for a 2008 seaplane crash off the West Coast of B.C. that killed seven people, according to a report released by the Transportation Safety Board (TSB).

Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings seemed to downplay expectations for his company's video streaming foray into Canada during the Wednesday launch

Acute appendicitis may not require emergency surgery, U.S. and Canadian doctors have found.

Broken car batteries and leaking hazardous waste found at the dump in Baker Lake, Nunavut, have an Arctic researcher raising concern about potential toxicity in the local water supply.

Jackie Burroughs, the stage and screen actress best known for her role as schoolteacher Hetty King on TV's Road to Avonlea, has died at the age of 71.

They've overtaken movie theatres, apartment complexes, clothing stores and military barracks.

Canada's commitment to the Commonwealth Games continued to weaken Wednesday, after two Canadian archers withdrew from the event in New Delhi over concerns about their health and safety.

A man who alleges he was pressured to have sex with a Manitoba judge has dropped his lawsuit against her.

Central Ontario is recovering after a severe storm blasted the region, leaving one person dead and tens of thousands of people without power.

Eastern Newfoundlanders spent Wednesday cleaning up after hurricane Igor, which many residents called the worst storm in recent memory.

Just three days into a new session of Parliament, the minority Conservative government faces a showdown in the House of Commons Wednesday evening over a bid by one of its MPs to scrap the long-gun registry.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana -- What a difference one letter can make. A huge billboard promoting public schools in South Bend, Indiana was missing a very important "L."

Paris Hilton was denied entrance into Japan yesterday, two days after she pleaded guilty to a drug charge in Las Vegas.

Derakhshan, 35, is considered the first blogger to help other Iranians post weblogs in the Persian language. He moved to Toronto in 2000 from his native Iran after the reformist newspaper he'd worked for in Tehran was closed by the authorities. He is now

MONTREAL - Sorry Toronto fellas, it seems Montreal and Vancouver women are having more sex than their Hogtown counterparts.

Alex Tanguay showed Calgary Flames fans exactly what they wanted to see Tuesday night, setting up a pair of goals including Jarome Iginla's winner in a 3-2 pre-season victory over the Vancouver Canucks.

Nova Scotia sailing school students who spent 41 hours adrift in life rafts after their ship, the SV Concordia, sank off the coast of Brazil in February could have been rescued much earlier, suggest documents obtained by CBC.

A Saskatoon woman, shot by police and then convicted of assaulting an officer, has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Canadian officials joined a chorus of concern over the atrocious conditions at the athletes village for the imminent Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The clock is ticking with Canadian athletes scheduled to begin arriving in just three days for the Oct. 3

A rare burrowing owl has been rescued from the world's largest cruise ship, where it had apparently tried to set up home on a miniature golf course.

New computer simulations have shown how the parting of the Red Sea, as described in the Bible, could have been a phenomenon caused by strong winds.

Russian aircraft have buzzed a U.S. navy frigate in the Arctic Ocean in a Cold War-style show of force as the Kremlin steps up its campaign to claim much of the resource-rich region.

KINGSTON, Ont. - Blake McGinness' dad is getting a headstone and the family is thanking pretty much all of Canada for that.

Two frogs and a salamander that were previously believed to be extinct have been found alive in the wild.

People with no phone or access to voice mail can use a new system being offered in Regina.

The popular antidepressant drug Prozac inhibits sexual activity in fish by interfering with sperm production and pheromone transmission, which raises environmental concerns, according to a study by University of Ottawa researchers.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate have blocked an effort to repeal the law banning gays from serving openly in the military.

Incidences of cheating and irregularities in standardized testing of students have been found at 10 Ontario schools, the Education Quality and Accountability Office said.

The worldwide costs of dementia will reach a staggering US$604 billion this year, and those costs will soar as the number of sufferers triples by 2050, a new report warns.

A Canadian-Iranian blogger is believed to be facing a death sentence in Iran.

A NATO helicopter crashed Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, killing nine international troops in a region where forces are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents. It was the deadliest chopper crash for the coalition in four years.

A $2 million mobile dialysis unit assigned to Lac La Biche sits idle because the province hasn't been able to find staff to operate it. And because of this, one resident is forced to travel hours by car to another town for kidney dialysis.

A passenger train running between Portland, Ore., and Vancouver could be cancelled because the Canadian government wants $550,000 a year for extra customs services.

Ten years after she was murdered by Robert Pickton, family and friends of Georgina Papin finally had a chance to say goodbye on Monday.

A man who says he was wearing a Montreal Canadiens jersey when he was punched in the face by Toronto Maple Leaf centre Mikhail Grabovski has filed a civil suit against the player.

The oilsands were called a "Canadian jewel" by three Alberta cabinet ministers who are trying to scrub clean the "dirty oil" image of oilsands development.

A severe storm has forced police to close Highway 141 in several areas in the Huntsville, Ont., region.

Lawyers at the trial of a U.S. woman who shot her husband on a hunting trip to Newfoundland are sparring over whether a statement she gave to police should be admitted as evidence.

Canadian inflation resumed tracking lower last month after an extraordinary spike in July that accompanied increases in sales taxes in three provinces.

Ottawa is warning Canadians planning visits to Mexico to avoid that country's border areas with the United States, lest they become caught up in escalating violence associated with drug cartels.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Tuesday that opposition parties would place Canada's recovery from the recession in jeopardy "just as we enter the home stretch," if they forced an election this fall.

An 82-year-old Alberta farmer who was trapped for more than 20 hours in his combine harvester says he's giving up working the land, saying it's "time to quit farming anyhow."

States of emergency have been declared in at least 30 towns in Newfoundland as Hurricane Igor walloped the province with heavy rain, flooding and high winds, leaving one person missing.

Scientists say they have uncovered firm evidence that Mars's biggest moon, Phobos, is made from rocks blasted off the Martian surface in a catastrophic event.

North Korea's ruling party will hold its first conference in a generation on 28 September, state media reports say, amid speculation that leader Kim Jong-il is about to name his successor.

Accompanied by her husband, Jean-Daniel Lafond and their daughter Marie-Eden Lafond, the Governor General visited members of the 5 Wing team as part of her final visit to eastern Canada.

The number of ships travelling through the Northwest Passage has doubled this year, prompting at least one Arctic sovereignty expert to call for more enforcement in the increasingly ice-free Arctic waterway.

B.C. police will be armed with some of the toughest drunk driving penalties in Canada when they take to the roads Monday.

Researchers in India have developed a genetically modified potato that is packed with up to 60 percent more protein and increased levels of amino acids.

One of Canada's most beautiful natural features has gone viral.

A 29-year-old Hamilton, Ont., woman has been charged with attempted murder after police were called to an apartment building where two women were fighting naked on a third-floor balcony last Monday evening.

Mounties are tight-lipped over a very public feud that resulted in two violent acts of gunplay in Surrey, B.C.

A rich businessman was wearing a diaper when he plotted to murder his wife with his dominatrix-mistress and her ex-lover hitman, a jury heard Monday.

Alberta's looking for some friends across Canada as it tries to drum up support for its controversial oilsands.

Pop star Lady Gaga visited the state Monday on the eve of a key Senate vote to urge its two U.S. senators to help repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.

Government House Leader John Baird said Monday the Tories want to scrap the long gun registry rather than "make criminals out of duck hunters and sportsmen," but it appears the opposition has enough votes to save the registry in a vote later this week.

Residents of Newfoundland are being warned they should expect flooding, power outages and high waves on Tuesday as Hurricane Igor approaches from the Caribbean.

Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell on Sunday chalked up her experimentation in sorcery to being a teenager, saying there's no magical explanation to her 1999 confession that she "dabbled into witchcraft."

A British adventurer has piqued the interest of the Canadian government after reporting the discovery of skeletal human remains on a small, unnamed island in Arctic waters close to where members of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition are known to have disap

A research team reports new findings of stone age tools that suggest humans came "out of Africa" by land earlier than has been thought.

KINGSTON, Ont. - A Kingston, Ont., youngster is holding a special garage sale this coming weekend, hoping to raise enough money to buy his father a gravestone.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that "the future belongs to Iran," and challenged the United States to accept that his country has a major role in the world.

Nunavut is countering the European Union's trade ban on seal products with its own import ban of wines, scotches, spirits and other liquor from EU countries.

Offence puts fans in the seats. Defence and special teams win football games. That theory was on display Sunday at the Rogers Centre where the host Toronto Argonauts beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 17-13 in a defensive war

An Edmonton neighbourhood took some time out from citywide community day celebrations on Saturday to pay tribute to one of its own killed in Afghanistan

It was a painful Sunday for Eric Tillman, as the new Edmonton Eskimos general manager watched his team take it on the chin from the defending Grey Cup champions.

RCMP in British Columbia are warning people not to text message 911 in emergencies.

Across Canada and around the world on Sunday, people took part in the 30th annual Terry Fox run.

The bodies of three election workers, abducted during voting in Afghanistan's parliamentary poll, have been found, the chairman of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has confirmed.

Immigration officials are trying to find out how killer Kevin Michael Sawyers allegedly obtained a Canadian passport to return here after being deported to Jamaica.

Christin Benoit hopes to be around if and when a controversial surgery to treat multiple sclerosis becomes available to patients in Canada.

As MPs return to work Monday, all eyes will be on a cliff-hanger vote Wednesday over the fate of the long-gun registry.

Cops shut down a huge rave in northwest Calgary late Saturday after paramedics treated nine people, two of them hospitalized, who overdosed on drugs.

Alex Hundert, an alleged organizer of G20 violence in Toronto, was arrested Friday night for breach of bail conditions after participating as a forum panelist at Ryerson University.

Over the past 12 months, in scattered cases reported in top medical journals, doctors have done something amazing: They have entered a patient's genetic material into a machine and read out the genetic code embedded in that person's DNA and come up with m

As hurricane Igor lashes Bermuda, forecasters in Canada are warning residents of eastern Nova Scotia and much of Newfoundland to brace for heavy rain on Monday and Tuesday.

Between the $30 million price tag for B.C.'s pending HST referendum and the $1.6-billion the province may have to return to the federal government if it's repealed, some are questioning where they stand on the controversial tax.

A Vancouver rape counsellor says if the criminal justice system fails the teenage girl who was allegedly gang raped at a rave last weekend, there are other ways she can fight back.

Deputies searched a wide swath of Southern California early Sunday for a break-off religious sect of 13 people that included children as young as three and left behind letters indicating they were awaiting an apocalyptic event and would soon see Jesus and

Brace yourself, Canada: There will actually be a winter this year.

Government officials could declare the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico dead Sunday, as they await results from an overnight pressure test.

Firebrand conservative Ezra Levant's new book, Ethical Oil, is a defence of what many consider to be Canada's indefensible environmental black eye: the oilsands.

A lack of provincial court judges in British Columbia has set off a cry for help from current judges as they throw out charges on everything from traffic violations and drunk driving to cocaine trafficking.

Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad Sunday morning, killing at least 31 people, breaking what has been a period of relative calm since the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Just like in last year's presidential election, officials say they have serious concerns about the legitimacy of this weekend's parliamentary voting in Afghanistan.

Calgary - It has been a significant day for the Navy: it was granted permission to celebrate Freedom of the City.

Three flavours of marijuana-laced ice cream went on sale in California last week.

Donato Tersigni had the scare of his life Saturday when he discovered a black widow spider in a crate of grapes he bought to make wine.

Astronomers in Ottawa and around the world turned their telescopes toward the moon Saturday and streamed their images live on the internet.

A man shot dead in Abbotsford, B.C., on Thursday was the father of one of the victims in the 2007 Surrey Six killings, police say.

Police have told the families of two hikers missing in the mountains near Pemberton, B.C., to expect the worst, but the search for the pair will continue this weekend.

An elderly Alberta farmer has been rescued after spending a shivering 22 hours stuck, upside down, in his combine.

Some flood victims in Medicine Hat, Alta., are still living in tents and RVs as they wait for disaster relief funds from the province.

While doing repairs on the pond last week, Andrew Dill thought he found something that might prove the pond's connection to the game's earliest days -- an old hockey puck.

An infant became ill after consuming some powdered infant formula from a can that was tampered with, prompting a warning from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency late Friday.

Better catch Jupiter next week in the night sky. It won't be that big or bright again until 2022.

The Harper government will offer an olive branch of expanded benefits to angry war veterans, whose escalating criticism of "penny-pinching" bureaucrats threatens to derail their fall political agenda.

An online video game where players pretended to be the gunman behind the 2006 shooting rampage at Montreal's Dawson College was removed from the Internet by its creator.

The Conservatives are ensuring that airlines check the faces of passengers before they board any plane, after a YouTube video showed two women walked through a boarding gate without removing their veils.

Pope Benedict XVI met with five survivors of the clerical sex abuse scandal in London to apologize, as thousands of people took to the city's streets to protest the pontiff's four-day visit.

At least 11 civilians and four security force personnel were killed Saturday as Afghan voters took part in the first nationwide election since the fraud-plagued presidential poll last year.

A Windsor, Ont., man has been sentenced for abusing his dog so badly the animal had to be put down. Anjalo Abeywickrema, 51, was sentenced Friday to four months in jail for mutilating the genitals of his young black Lab mix named Tyson.

Mark Lafleur -hockey legend Guy Lafleur's troubled son, on probation for past convictions of assaulting his former girlfriend -was arrested Wednesday night in connection with a domestic violence call in Blainville.

BARRIE, Ont. - Elaine Campione's face twisted and contorted in pain as she stood in the prisoner's box and looked upon photo after photo of her children's dead bodies as they were displayed on a large screen in front of her and the jury Friday.

TORONTO - Bailey Zaveda wasn't just hit by stray bullets -- she was riddled with them.

The dispute is quintessentially Canadian. First there was debate about language, hockey was involved, provincial politicians piled in, a federalist-separatist tussle broke out, and now the Prime Minister's Office has waded into this made-in-Canada melee.

The federal government has quietly tightened screening regulations at airports so passengers boarding flights must show their faces at boarding gates, amid concerns that Muslim women were being allowed to board flights without removing their veils.

Ken Miller almost became public enemy No. 1 in Saskatchewan. The Roughriders head coach made an ill-advised decision in regulation that forced overtime. Fortunately for Miller, his team bailed him out to escape the wrath of the Mosaic Stadium faithful.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld rulings that said denying two chronic alcoholics long-term support payments would violate the province's Human Rights Code.

Doctors should be discouraged from prescribing two popular supplements, glucosamine and chondroitin, for osteoarthritic hips and knees, researchers conclude.

Rescuers achieved a breakthrough in efforts to rescue 33 trapped Chilean miners Friday, reaching the caverns where they are imprisoned with a bore hole that will now be widened so that they can be pulled to freedom.

Anna and Gardie Warne call their son Nolan a miracle baby. In 2007, the family found out they were expecting their first child. But the good news was bittersweet.

A Morinville junior high school teacher accused of sexually assaulting two students has been acquitted on all charges, a judge decided Friday.