NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2008

DETROIT - Canada faces "a big gap" in the cost of building cars versus the United States and other countries that will hit home within two years if nothing changes, says a top-ranking executive of Chrysler LLC.

The beleaguered Toronto Maple Leafs are taking steps to try to replace general manager John Ferguson Jr.

Karzai spoke of the need to continue fighting terrorism "head on," while his foreign minister and parliamentary house leader emphasized the need for the Canadian Forces to stick to their primary purpose in Kandahar - fighting the Taliban insurgency.

Looking to take the work load off Miikka Kirpusoff for the stretch run, the Calgary Flames have signed veteran goaltender Curtis Joseph.

The Canadian navy's underwater de-mining specialists are diving into the dust of Afghanistan, and their efforts -- for which they trained at CFB Esquimalt -- are being heralded as heroic and life saving.

VANCOUVER -- Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Friday that it doesn't matter if Laibar Singh is hiding out in a place of worship or a mall, he's still not entitled to stay in Canada.

Unlike a crippling writers strike that has dragged on for months, Hollywood's first big awards show was over in a flash, with no key winners, no stars in sight and no real fun for fans of show business glitz.

Christina Aguilera has given birth to a boy, the pop singer announced on her website Sunday

A hearing will be held Monday in Newfoundland Supreme Court in St. John's on the sentencing of a physician convicted of drug trafficking and sexual assault.

An American lumber industry group is crying foul over Ottawa's plans to help struggling Canadian communities and unemployed workers in industries such as forestry, fishing and manufacturing.

In experiments that would make Dr. Frankenstein jealous, US scientists have coaxed recycled hearts taken from animal cadavers into beating in the laboratory after reseeding them with live cells, according to a study released Sunday.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and driving under the influence after a Ventura County car crash that killed a man and injured Avary's wife, authorities said.

A unique memorial has transformed the site where seven young basketball players were killed into an evocative representation of the game the boys loved.

Fears that the world is running out of redheads have scientists and fans of carrot tops firing back

2 were treated, released late in the day, other 2 expected to be released Monday

For the first time, a team of UBC scientists have mapped the elusive \"dark matter\" in a supercluster of stars in the night sky.

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jack Layton says Stephen Harper is trying to "blackmail" opposition MPs by tying a $1-billion aid package for beleaguered workers and industries to passage of the next Conservative budget.

Daniel and Henrik Sedin combined for five points in regulation, and Roberto Luongo stopped all three shootout attempts to lead the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday.

One of the biggest worries about global warming has been its potential to affect the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet, a vast storehouse of frozen water that would inundate the world's coastal regions if it were to melt because of a warming climate.

The starting goaltenders are expected to be back in action Sunday night when the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues face off for the second time this season.

As the federal Liberal leader was wrapping up a visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, a roadside bomb blast injured four Canadian soldiers in the dangerous Panjwaii district, military officials said.

Flying through space high above the Earth, the iconic Canadarm is waving goodbye en route to America, and our nation's most advanced surveillance satellite is also heading south.

Pranksters silently drop trousers on subway in Toronto and other cities in brazen bid for startled reactions

"We are convinced after the day we've had that we will have plenty of things to do that will involve, yes, to take risks, but anywhere we will go whether Darfur or Haiti, there are always risks," Dion told reporters in Kabul.

STE-ADELE, Que. - Canadian aerialists earned five medals at a Noram freestyle ski competition Saturday.

China's state media says accidents in the country's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year. The toll of 3,786 deaths was actually a 20 per cent improvement over 2006, but still leaves China's mines the world's deadli

CALGARY - Inspired by Canada's win at the world junior men's hockey championship last week, the country's under-18 women's team wants a gold medal too.

Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin stunned the NHL this week by agreeing to a 13-year, $124 million contract.

Lead in your lipstick? Mercury in your mascara? Recent headlines about harmful ingredients hiding in beauty products are enough to make even the vainest among us want to go back to the good old days of rubbing strawberries on our lips to make them red

The Phoenix Coyotes scored two power-play goals in the final 13 seconds of the second period to pick up a rare victory in Vancouver, 4-3 over the Canucks on Friday night.

KABUL - Stephane Dion says Canada should be looking for non-combat roles in Afghanistan.

The iPhone is definitely a sexy phone. It's also the perfect vehicle for bringing mobile porn to Americans, according to adult content producers at the annual AVN convention in Las Vegas.

A fiddling demonstration from Premier Rodney MacDonald was not enough to lure David Letterman to Nova Scotia.

The federal government lost another court challenge to its controversial medical marijuana program, and now has 30 days to decide whether to appeal the ruling that declared one of its key policies unconstitutional.

VANCOUVER -- A tearful Vancouver police officer says he's sorry he left a chronic alcoholic in an alley to die and that he'll carry the emotional scars of the tragedy for the rest of his life.

SIDNEY, B.C. -- In earthquake-prone British Columbia, which experiences about 1,500 quakes a year, a preoccupation with The Big One is never far from the surface

Text-message spam is becoming a costly nuisance for cellphone customers, as service providers struggle to block the millions of messages sent every day.

A Whitehorse man has won a court challenge of his breathalyzer test, after telling a judge he is too "cheap" to buy enough drinks to be impaired.

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Buddy Holly's widow is trying to keep the woman whose name was made famous by the 1950s hit song "Peggy Sue'' from selling a book about her friendship with the rocker.

A Manitoba lawyer has asked the judge to consider evidence from American doctors in the case of an elderly man whose family wants to keep him on life support, despite his doctors.

A known gang member arrested at a funeral home in Calgary was ordered deported almost four years ago, officials say. Tran Trong Nghi Nguyen, who goes by the name Jackie Tran, was arrested on an immigration warrant Thursday night, police said.

Call it the Katrina effect: it\'s no longer enough to just report the weather; it has to be entertainment

The victim of a rape and savage knife attack described how she lay motionless on her blood-soaked mattress, her head, face and hands slashed with a butcher knife, playing dead in the hopes her attacker would finally leave.

Winnipeg Sun Editor-in-Chief Stephen Ripley talks about the Sun's Hockey Moms contest on Washington Capitals radio.

The economy dominated a working dinner between the premiers and the Prime Minister at his Ottawa residence Friday night.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper ratcheted up his government's attack on the head of the country's nuclear regulatory agency Thursday, saying her refusal to allow the restart of the Chalk River reactor had put Canada's health system in jeopardy.

Today's Canadian Forces are feeling the effects of former prime minister Jean Chretien's "flippant and callous" 1993 decision to cancel the $4.8-billion contract to replace the military's aging fleet of Sea King helicopters

PASADENA, Calif. -- The possibility of a collision between Mars and an approaching asteroid has been effectively ruled out, according to scientists watching the space rock.

For the first time, a team of UBC scientists have mapped the elusive "dark matter" in a supercluster of stars in the night sky.

The health of former Indonesian dictator Suharto, who maintained a brutal grip on the Asian nation for more than 30 years, has worsened, according to hospital officials.

An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it too

Interest from at least five teams is believed to have been narrowed to two with Curtis Joseph contemplating the resumption of his NHL career in either San Jose or Calgary.

A public inquiry will look into former prime minister Brian Mulroney's business dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday.

A proposed levy on digital storage devices, known as the "iPod tax," has been quashed by the Federal Court of Appeal after opponents argued it assumed illegal behaviour on the part of Canadian consumers.

Canada's Helen Upperton and Heather Moyse earned a silver medal in women's World Cup bobsleigh action on Friday in Cortina, Italy.

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators were admittedly below their best Thursday night, but their performance was still good enough to beat the struggling Buffalo Sabres.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Though Evgeni Nabokov and Roberto Luongo are the Western Conference's top two goalies by most measures, the San Jose star has loomed large over his Vancouver counterpart whenever they've gone mask-to-mask this season.

LOS ANGELES - Jason LaBarbera started out with practically nothing to do, facing one shot during the first 11 minutes. He got plenty of work later on.

EDMONTON - In danger of falling out of playoff contention, the Edmonton Oilers knew they needed to come up big during their five-game homestand.

OTTAWA -- The auditor-general rang warning bells months ago about "a significant deficiency" found in a special examination at Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., it was revealed late Wednesday.

OTTAWA -- Members of the U.S. Marine Corps were among the first western soldiers into Kandahar in 2001, and now they are coming to the rescue again.

The absence of a Christmas liquor ban in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, last month led to more RCMP calls in the hamlet over the holidays, some residents said.

A man from Kingston, Ont., has been charged for allegedly threatening to kill U.S. President George W. Bush.

VANCOUVER -- Pressure from the Canadian government hasn't yet been able to get the International Olympic Committee to bend on letting women ski jumpers compete in the 2010 Olympic Games.

Canada's major air carriers have been ordered to offer disabled travellers the same fares as everyone else.

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to establish a limited public inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber saga after receiving a report from an independent third party, CTV News has learned.

Emergency crews airlifted two passengers involved in a helicopter crash to hospital after their chopper went down in the north end of St. John's, Newfoundland.

Four people were sent to hospital with minor injuries after the roof of a three-storey building collapsed on Toronto's Danforth Avenue in the early-morning hours on Friday.

Canadian pedophile suspect Christopher Paul Neil pleaded not guilty in Thailand Friday to charges relating to the molesting of young boys.

Sea Kings safe but

A leading human rights group is challenging a claim by the Canadian government that it's free, under international law, to collaborate with foreign regimes that practise torture in the name of fighting terrorism.

There are an alarming number of guns in Toronto schools and sex assaults are increasing at a "disturbing" rate with the vast majority going unreported, an advisory panel probing school safety found in its report yesterday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Pervez Musharraf warned U.S. troops will be regarded as invaders if they cross into Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan in the hunt for al-Qaida or Taliban militants in an interview published Friday.

Canadians who are prescribed marijuana to treat their illnesses will no longer be forced to rely on the federal government as a supplier following a Federal Court ruling that struck down a key restriction in Ottawa's controversial medical marijuana progr

Evgeni Nabokov may not be able to say he's in Roberto Luongo's class quite yet, but he sure knows how to get the better of his team.

A PIG genetically modified in China to make it glow has given birth to fluorescent piglets - proving such changes can be inherited

Canada was the top purchaser of U.S. military products and services in the Americas during the past eight years, according to a newly released congressional report.

OTTAWA - Corrections Canada officers in Kandahar have been unable to persuade Afghanistan's notorious intelligence agency to stop clapping prisoners in irons for months at time, but insist they are making progress, court records show.

CALGARY - Nisha Gill believed she was looking at her two-year-old daughter for the last time during 15 seconds of terror Thursday morning as Air Canada Flight 190 plunged through the skies.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - U.S. President George W. Bush, summing up meetings with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, said Thursday that a peace accord will require "painful political concessions" by each. Resolving the status of Jerusalem will b

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted "hero" awards to scientists backing Russia's claim to a mountain range under the Arctic Ocean that is believed to contain huge oil and gas reserves.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled Francesco Aquilini should retain ownership of the Vancouver Canucks.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.

Three conservation groups notified the U.S. government Wednesday they intend to sue to get polar bears listed as a threatened species due to global warming, in a case that could have a major effect on Inuit hunting guides in Canada.

An Air Canada flight that rolled suddenly from side to side then plunged in the air may have suffered technical problems, according to passengers interviewed after the plane was diverted to Calgary.

To celebrate my return to this frigid, yet comparatively sane country, I felt it worthwhile to relay a list of five items which I saw during my travels which the locals thought was perfectly normal (I presume), but which freaked the heck out of me as a Ca

John Parisella is knocking on doors in New Hampshire to help Barack Obama win the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidency.

All but one of 10 Alberta oilsands mines received a failing grade on environmental performance in a report released Thursday by the Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund.

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The Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks are having stellar seasons, thanks largely to goaltenders Roberto Luongo and Evgeni Nabokov.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled a billion-dollar aid package on Thursday aimed at supporting Canadian communities hit by economic upheaval.

HALIFAX - Gen. Rick Hillier is welcoming news that the United States is preparing to send at least 3,000 marines to Afghanistan in the spring.

Emergency crews have rushed to Calgary International Airport after six to 10 airline passengers were reported to be seriously injured following a rough landing on Thursday morning.

Marie-Philip Poulin had three goals and an assist as Canada blasted Finland 17-0 Wednesday to advance to the semifinal of the inaugural world women's under-18 hockey championship.

When local actress Tracy McMahon found herself face-to-face with Renee Zellweger, the first thing that popped into her mind -- surprisingly -- had nothing to do with their shared craft.

US bombers and fighter jets have dropped 40,000lb (18,144kg) of bombs on suspected al-Qaeda targets on the edge of Baghdad in a 10-minute air strike.

More fuel was thrown on the fire regarding Steve Downie's sucker punch Wednesday, with Philadelphia Flyers Senior Vice President Bob Clarke holding the gas can.

The long-awaited arrival of new military helicopters to replace Canada's worn-out Sea King fleet has been delayed by as many as three years, CanWest News Service has learned.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts worked the media into a lather by stating that 150Mbps connectivity would be a reality for the company "within less than a couple years."

VANCOUVER - The International Olympic Committee is sticking to its guns and is refusing to permit female ski-jumpers to compete in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Darryl Catton was a young man of 18 in 1957 when he was told he was being sent far into the Canadian Arctic to build a military installation at a place called Alert

The Pentagon released dramatic footage last night showing how American warships were seconds away from opening fire on Iranian gunboats that swarmed around a US Navy squadron as it entered the crowded Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.

Canada's oldest ice, the Barnes Ice Cap, which covers close to 6,000 square kilometers of Baffin Island, is shrinking at a dramatically accelerating rate

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says Canada must "remain engaged" in Afghanistan but at the same time give its military the flexibility to deploy elsewhere.

OTTAWA - Canadians may abhor torture, but when it comes to fighting global terrorism their government often has to collaborate with regimes that aren't as respectful of human rights, says a federal lawyer.

OTTAWA - Canada's Defence Department is planning to buy a lot of big guns, but has muzzled the defence industry in the process.

Another large earthquake has hit off the southern tip of B.C.'s Queen Charlotte Islands, but many residents did not seem to notice Wednesday morning's tremor

With travel demands and his wife expecting a baby, the Vancouver Canucks have allowed netminder Roberto Luongo to skip the NHL All-Star Game on Jan. 26 and miss the team's first game back after the break.

If Milt Stegall has indeed played his final game in the CFL, the future Hall of Famer apparently finished his career playing with a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder.

VANCOUVER - Katie Willis believes her dream of competing at the 2010 Olympics has moved closer to reality now that the federal government has said it will try to convince the International Olympic Committee to include women's ski jumping at the Vancouver

The Carolina Hurricanes have claimed forward Sergei Samsonov off re-entry waivers from the Chicago Blackhawks.