NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2011

Canada's beleaguered nuclear Crown corporation, Atomic Energy Canada Limited, is asking Parliament to approve $175.4 million on top of the $696 million it has already been granted for this fiscal year, according to federal financial documents tabled Tuesd

OSLO - Sea temperatures off the Antarctic Peninsula have cooled over the past 12,000 years, according to a study on Wednesday that may help scientists understand the impact of modern global warming on the frozen continent.

TORONTO - A 66-year-old local man needed hundreds of stitches to close 37 stab wounds he suffered in a vicious and apparently random attack Tuesday evening outside his apartment building.

Convicted Canadian terrorist Omar Khadr, now serving time in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Station, is asking U.S. authorities for clemency

Blowing snow was causing poor visibility and treacherous driving conditions in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island on Wednesday morning.

Canadian Milos Raonic advanced to the quarter-final of the SAP Open with a 6-2, 7-6(4) second-round win over American James Blake on Wednesday.

A Vancouver man has been found guilty of luring an underage girl through Facebook, despite his protestations that he thought he was talking to a middle-aged man.

The Transportation Safety Board says there were 16 factors that contributed to the crash that caused the death of 17 people in an offshore helicopter crash off Newfoundland two years ago.

Bobby Ryan scored two goals, including the winner, as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Wednesday night.

The Canada Revenue Agency suspects many Canadians may have received hefty tax refunds or credits for disabilities they or their family members don't have

The House of Commons passed a bill Wednesday that will amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code to protect transgender and transsexual Canadians from discrimination.

A date for a vote on Bill S-10 in the House of Commons had not yet been decided. Both the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois opposed it when it was called Bill C-15.

VANCOUVER - Who needs a home computer when your phone can do most the work? It appears that's the mentality most people have these days, as smartphones have outsold PCs for the first time ever.

Need to seek reconciliation for your sins? Well, thank goodness, there's an app for that.

If the Canadian Soccer Association has its way, Carolina Morace will still be coach of the Canadian women's team after the 2011 FIFA World Cup.

Young sockeye salmon from B.C.'s Fraser watershed are infected with higher levels of sea lice after swimming past salmon farms, a new study has found.

One person is dead after two planes collided in mid-air near Mission, B.C. The planes reportedly clipped wings during the collision last Wednesday afternoon.

A van that police say was driving on the wrong side of the road collided head-on with a school bus north of Montreal, killing four people Wednesday.

Giannis Fetfatzidis scored in the 63rd minute, taking advantage of a defensive miscue, to give Greece a 1-0 win over Canada in exhibition soccer play Wednesday in Larissa.

Shaw Communications is launching talks with customers about what plans should look like before going ahead with charging those who surpass thresholds.

Manitoba's Roseau River Band is voting on a historic land deal Tuesday that could see it receive $80 million from the Canadian government, but some members claim money is being paid for votes.

At the same time convicted serial killer Robert Pickton was prowling Vancouver's downtown eastside for victims, another man was doing the same.

A suggestion that last year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver lacked French content because of a Quebec nationalist hero has gotten a chilly response from sovereigntists.

Long before Richard Zokol and Stephen Ross ever dreamed of entering the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, they stood together on the first tee at Calgary Golf and Country Club.

The Canadian women's soccer team has been involved in some hotly contested matches on the field over the past few years.

There are no catfights, scandal or hard feelings. It's just that the Olympic silver medal-winning team skipped by Cheryl Bernard in Vancouver last year has decided it's better to go out on top.

Moncton will host another regular season Canadian Football League game next fall.

First, it was a brief tour of India. Next stop, a training session in Toronto. Then, the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament in Antigua and Barbados.

For anyone squeamish of needles, going for blood work can be nerve-wracking. But there could soon be an alternative that would allow doctors to do all the testing they need from a single drop of blood.

Kenneth Olsen, a computer industry pioneer and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., has died. He was 84.

A new study is painting a worrisome picture for polar bear populations on Hudson Bay, noting that a loss of sea ice is leading to a rapid decline in the number of bear cubs born every year.

New Yorkers won't have to worry about the green droppings of close to 1,600 Canada geese this year, after wildlife officials rounded them up and gassed them last summer in an effort to improve aviation safety and keep public spaces looking beautiful.

Child killer Marco Trotta wants his conviction quashed because the notorious Dr. Charles Smith lied at his trial.

SURREY - The Pattullo Bridge might get fixed up instead of torn down. Plans to knock down and rebuild the bridge are on hold.

VANCOUVER - It's a message of acceptance ahead of Anti-bullying day on February 23rd. About 300 students in Vancouver busted out their dance moves during a flashmob at Oakridge Mall last month.

VANCOUVER - The only man convicted in the Air India bombing is appealing his perjury conviction and nine-year sentence. Inderjit Singh Reyat calls the sentence "harsh and excessive.''

VANCOUVER - The Kevin Falcon campaign is trying to sort out some questionable Liberal party sign-ups. It's after members of the Kamloops Blazers hockey team joined the party, without their knowledge.

The federal Teddy goes to organizers of the G8-G20 summits for managing to spend a billion dollars on a political chin-wag, ironically organized to discuss how to trim government over-spending

The fort still has its original walls, ramparts, ammunition batteries, and residences, which together make up the biggest collection of original nineteenth-century fur-trade buildings in Canada.

Hundreds of doctors, researchers, scientists and academics oppose the federal government's organized crime act also known as Bill S-10.

Federal officials have organized media events and a cross-country tour to justify the spending and explain why the government felt the need to make the acquisition without going to tenders.

More than 500 health professionals from across Canada have written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and opposition leaders to protest a government bill that would impose mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes

The X-47B jet is being designed by weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman for the US Navy.

In 1966, George Beverly Shea claimed his first -- and what he figured would be his last -- Grammy Award. After all, he was happily settling into what he naturally assumed would be the twilight of his long, illustrious career.

A new study, paid for by the company that manufactures a vaccine against human papillomavirus, is renewing debate about whether boys should receive the cancer-fighting vaccine in school.

A U.S. government analysis says the Great Lakes region could see water shortages in some areas because of climate shifts or increased demand.

Telus says it will begin offering a service to unlock mobile phones that use SIM cards starting next week.

The artifacts from the Egyptian Museum damaged by looters will be restored over the next five days, the country's antiquities head said Monday.

An international search for twin girls whose father apparently killed himself was broadened today as Swiss police searched homes, boats and the waters of Lake Geneva.

A B.C. television reporter facing child sex abuse charges is the subject of a "very large" investigation, and police believe there could be more alleged victims.

The Pakistan-born founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Conservative MP and former cabinet minister Maxime Bernier came under fire from opposition MPs Monday for his comments that Quebec doesn't need legislation to protect the French language.

Christina Aguilera says she flubbed a line as she belted out the U.S. national anthem at the start of the Super Bowl on Sunday night after getting lost in the moment and losing her place.

Forget Lombardi on Broadway. Green Bay has the newest Super Bowl hit: Aaron Rodgers.

VANCOUVER - Many dignitaries and politicians took part in the festivities at this year's Chinese New Year parade in downtown Vancouver.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Sunday released the first complete view of the sun's entire surface and atmosphere.

Fear not, advocates of even-tempered political discourse: Canada's Coffee Party bears little resemblance to the Tea Party movement south of the border.

Fraudulent or fake political party memberships such as British Columbia's Liberal cat are "endemic" of a system that encourages mass member drives and allows parties to police themselves, observers say.

An Ottawa audience whooped in support of free speech on Sunday as a film about Iran's nuclear ambition finally had its national capital premiere.

Police in Italy, Switzerland and France searched on Sunday for 6-year-old twin girls who disappeared after their father died in an apparent suicide.

A wet and windy winter storm was starting to clear Sunday morning over parts of the Maritimes.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest, beset by political troubles, will prorogue the legislature to return with a new inaugural speech.

Investigators in the Dominican Republic have charged two Canadians with murder in the beating death of 19-year-old Jordan Morrison of Barrie, Ont.

Quebec politicians and pundits are slamming Conservative MP Maxime Bernier for claiming a landmark Quebec language law is unnecessary to preserve the French language.

VANCOUVER - Liberal leadership hopeful George Abbott says the latest development in "WhiskerGate" is regrettable.

OTTAWA - Canada spent more than $41 million on hired guns in Afghanistan over four years, much of it going to security companies slammed by the U.S. Senate for having warlords on the payroll.

TORONTO -- It's judgment day Monday for a Toronto church -- the "Church of the Universe" -- that has asked a Superior Court judge for an exemption to the country's marijuana laws for religious reasons.

Lyndon Rush of Humboldt, Sask., drove the Canada 1 four-man bobsled to a bronze medal in a World Cup on Sunday in Cesana, Italy.

ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. - A local bike rider is training for a big cross-country ride to raise money for Canuck Place in Abbotsford.

The son of hockey great Gordie Howe is all in favour of naming a new bridge linking Windsor, Ont., and Detroit after his father.

We all know who Clara Hughes is. She's one of the darlings of Canadian sport. Her exploits in the Summer and Winter Olympics have made her legendary. Her charity work for organizations such as Right to Play have made her beloved.

VANCOUVER - Two Vancouver men have sheer luck to thank for escaping from a herd of angry hippos in Kenya.

B.C. Soccer president Charlie Cuzzetto hailed Saturday as "a watershed moment," as the Canadian Soccer Association membership voted for sweeping governance reform at a special general meeting in Ottawa.

For many of us, a trip into one of Canada's national parks is a chance to leave civilization and technology behind. But if Parks Canada has its way that will change starting this summer. Technology, in fact, may soon be your guide.

After four years of work, Stephen Harper is disbanding the sodium task force and handing the work off to an industry-friendly body. Because self-regulation in food has always worked like a charm.

A Canadian sweep of the halfpipe titles is extending the national team's domination at the freestyle world ski championships.

Playing in the Kontinental Hockey League isn't exactly every Canadian kid's dream when they are growing up.

Now there's a way to commemorate the royal wedding and keep your crown jewels safe at the same time.

Helen Upperton of Calgary and Shelly-Ann Brown of Toronto won a women's two-man bobsled World Cup event Saturday for their first victory of the season.

Six top members of Egypt's ruling party have resigned, according to Egyptian state TV, in what appears to be the latest concession by the country's government to quell mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak.

A 17-year-old youth is dead after being shot by an Edmonton police officer near Rexall Place late Friday night. Police were responding to several weapons and robbery complaints connected to a mugging at the Coliseum ETS station on 118 Avenue, near Wayn

Canadians can expect their monthly grocery bill to go up significantly this year, according to a new projection that says rising agriculture prices will soon trickle down to supermarkets.

A lifelong devotion to global disarmament culminated Friday in a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Doug Roche, a former senator and member of Parliament from Edmonton.

Runways too snowy to receive airliners packed with football fans. Sidewalks too icy for cowboy boots. Temperatures too cold to distinguish Dallas from Pittsburgh or Green Bay.

A U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty that limits the number of atomic warheads the former Cold War foes can possess and allows them to inspect each other's arsenals -- securing a key foreign policy goal of President Barack Obama -- went into effect Saturday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama said that their two countries will work together to ensure better trade, security and economic flow across the shared border.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Saturday of a brewing "perfect storm" of economic woes, political repression and popular discontent across the Middle East and urged regional leaders to embrace democratic reforms despite risks of shor

OTTAWA - After three years of service, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott is set to step down in July. He was the first civilian to hold the job, but his tenure has been troubled.

VANCOUVER - The Mountie who saved a teen girl from being hit by a sandtruck early yesterday morning says he is amazed at the outpouring of support from the public.

Canadian Frank Dancevic is out of the SA Open men's tennis tournament, losing in straight sets to Adrian Mannarino of France in the quarter-finals Friday at Johannesburg, South Africa.

Daniel Sedin scored with four minutes left to take over the NHL scoring lead and lift the Vancouver Canucks to their fifth straight win with a wild 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.

VANCOUVER - David Suzuki accepted a lifetime achievement award in Vancouver last night for close to 50 years of environmental work. But he left the crowd with a dire warning.

If your healthy New Year's resolution is losing its lustre already, maybe this story will get you motivated again. Canadian women are among the leaders in the world's fat race.

If the mother of Shaun Suisham, the Pittsburgh Steelers placekicker, has her way, her son will be kept in the dark about the pre-Super Bowl celebrations underway in his small Ontario hometown.

Christopher Del Bosco and Kelsey Serwa, winners at the Winter X Games, helped Canada enjoy a big day at the world freestyle ski championships Friday.

The top pass catcher in the Canadian Football League is no longer a Saskatchewan Roughrider.

Canadian skeleton rookie Darla Deschamps won the first medal of her World Cup career Friday, taking bronze at the season finale in Cesana, Italy.

The landscape of women's soccer in Canada will undergo a major change this summer, as Carolina Morace, head coach of the Canadian women's team, will quit her post after the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan received five of twenty upgraded Leopard 2 A4M CAN (Leopard 2) tanks between December 2010 and mid January 2011. The new tanks arrived freshly off the production line of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) as part of the tank repl

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is granting Bruce Power permission to ship 16 decommissioned nuclear steam generators through the Great Lakes and across the Atlantic Ocean to Sweden for recycling.

Ferry fares may be heading for a big increase unless the provincial government provides BC Ferries with a bigger subsidy.

Algeria's 19-year-long state of emergency will be lifted "in the very near future", President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (pictured) said on Thursday. The move comes amid mounting pressure from opponents inspired by events in Egypt and Tunisia.

Saskatchewan's only Liberal MP is pushing for Regina's RCMP Heritage Centre to join the big leagues of Canada's museums and be designated national museum status.

VANCOUVER - A young Asian man who snuck into Canada disguised as an old man says he was coached by smugglers before leaving China.

YALE, BC - The quick and selfless actions of an RCMP officer in the Fraser Valley have saved a 15-year-old girl from certain injury or death.