NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2008

TORONTO - For Al Hebburn, the Royal Canadian Legion has long been a vital part of his life, as it has been for tens of thousands of others who have served the country in war.

The B.C. Lions took advantage of seven Riders turnovers, including a 54-yard interception return for a touchdown by Ryan Phillips, in a 33-12 win in the Canadian Football League's West semifinal on Saturday.

Edmonton's defence turned Thunder and Lightning into a distant rumble and a 25-watt light bulb for most of Saturday afternoon in Winnipeg

CBC journalist Mellissa Fung was released to Canadian officials in Kabul on Saturday, four weeks after she was abducted.

On Remembrance Day we are asked to remember the sacrifice of veterans.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has hit back at critics who said she thought Africa was a country not a continent, calling them "jerks"

All the cards were stacked against Corey Collins last week when he fell out of a small boat off Newfoundland's northeast coast and into the frigid Atlantic Ocean.

In 1986, a lightweight twin-engine aircraft called Voyager flew around the world non-stop for nine days, without refuelling. Around the world, on the fuel it carried on-board when it took off. So how come we can barely drive our cars to the nearest city w

Discovery of process critical to preventing tumours could lead to more effective use of chemotherapies

Judy Steed is a healthy woman. She practises yoga. She eats well. She doesn't smoke. But one day last year, her eyesight began to blur. Before she knew it, she had been diagnosed with an aneurysm that could burst at any time. Here, she tells her story

With new top album and trademark showmanship, Aussie quintet still having fun after 35 years

The melancholic sound of bagpipes playing Amazing Grace ripped through the sombre graveyard of some of Calgary's fallen soldiers yesterday as students laid poppies at a veterans' cenotaph.

Injuries twice that of male counterparts, according to some studies. The question is: Why?

Calgarians expressed disappointment and puzzlement Friday at the federal government's decision to scrap the process of finding a permanent home for the Portrait Gallery of Canada after the city spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bid to host the i

Monique was so frightened when Harold Smeltzer told her what he was going to do to her as he led her to a darkened garage, the 10-year-old asked him to hold her hand.

During tear-filled testimony yesterday, court heard the couple accused of killing five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair asked another girl to pose as their daughter for welfare officials months after she was killed.

Edmonton is the most dangerous Canadian city to drive in - and the design of our intersections is partly to blame.

REGINA - Regina police want to disclose information to the public about a man convicted of killing a girl and sexually assaulting others.

Among hundreds of high school students invading the northeast food court, only a handful of red poppies could be seen

BARRIE -- Flowers, a teddy bear and a card on a quiet country road are all that remain after the three-week flurry of activity in the hunt to find Brandon Crisp.

Babies who were later diagnosed with autism played with toys in unusual ways, spinning or rotating them more than other babies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. Their findings, reported in the journal Autism, might help doctors and parents identi

After seven years of planning and several million dollars of public investment, the federal government has scrapped a project to build a national portrait gallery, Heritage Minister James Moore said late Friday.

Les Stroud, the Canadian host of TV series Survivorman, says he's no longer keen to spend a week alone in difficult terrain without food, water or equipment

David Essary Bill of Brentwood Bay, B.C., was fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to unlawfully trafficking in bald eagle parts following a year-long investigation that involved B.C. Conservation Service Officers, Canadian Wildlife Service, U.S. Fish and

A two-storey school with about 500 students inside collapsed Friday morning outside Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince

The weathered, beret-wearing veteran is a constant image on Remembrance Day.

The Peace Glen Hotel, which was built in 1929, was demolished as the blaze ripped through the complex on Wednesday just before noon, Jan Hamack, manager of the hotel and pub, told CBC News

A standoff between Mounties and a man holding a 10-year-old boy hostage ended just after 10 a.m. today.

GM is running out of money and may not have enough cash to continue running its business. They've burned through $6.8 billion in the last quarter and will exhaust their reserves by the end of 2008 without government intervention or a significant increase

Charest says the auditor general has approved the financial statement which shows a surplus of $484 million.

Students at a P.E.I. high school held a special ceremony Thursday to remember Canadians who fought at Ortona, Italy, in 1943.

Court appearances for a man accused of beheading a passenger on a Greyhound bus last summer have been limited following threats against him.

The Alberta government introduced legislation Thursday to implement the controversial increases in resource royalties it first announced in 2007.

The family of a young girl who died suddenly last month wants to know why coroners at a London, Ont., hospital removed her brain during the autopsy but didn't tell them until after the girl was buried.

Canada's economy defied expectations in October, adding 9,500 jobs, but economists note the boost was largely supported by election-related hiring.

Samantha Kematch and Karl McKay subjected five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair to months of horrifying abuse, and when she died, collected welfare benefits in her name, jurors were told yesterday.

Canada's economy showed signs of slowing in October, pushing the country's official unemployment rate up one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.2 per cent.

Union, administration not talking; students worry about extended break from studies

Bernard Zinman, left, and Daniel Drucker work closely together in diabetes research at Mount Sinai. In their field, says Drucker, "it's pretty rare to find two people from one institution who have complementary skills."

Listeria crisis prompts Ottawa to set up mandatory testing for processing plants

Concerned about bankruptcies and credit risk, Canadian Tire Corp. said it is lowering spending limits on some customers' credit cards, another sign of a clampdown on consumers as the financial crisis persists.

Brandon's fully clothed body appeared so neat, his clothing so unsullied, the hunters thought that, although he'd clearly been there a while, he couldn't possibly have been out there for three weeks, the time he'd been missing since running away from his

Lotto 6/49 winners celebrate their win at Ontario lottery headquarters in Toronto.

Is home theatre going to help heat up the globe?

Why he's passionate about 'Passchendaele'

Roberto Luongo earned his second straight shutout to guide the Vancouver Canucks to a 1-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night at General Motors Place

TORONTO - While officials debate what jersey Team Canada will wear at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, it's clear that player loyalty to the Hockey Canada Maple Leaf logo in question runs deep.

"In a warm exchange, the two leaders emphasized that there could be no closer friends and allies and vowed to maintain and further build upon this strong relationship," said an email about the call between the two leaders from the Prime Minister's office.

The City of Vancouver has agreed to lend up to $100 million to bail out the financially troubled company building the athletes village for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, CBC News has confirmed.

HARTFORD, Conn. - Craigslist is pledging to crack down on ads for prostitution on its websites, under the watchful eye of law enforcement in 40 U.S. states.

Police believe the body is that of Brandon Crisp, 15, who left home after a dispute with his parents over a video game, but authorities are awaiting pathology results to make a confirmation

The Capital Regional District says it's "seriously looking" at placing a sewage treatment plant at the site of an old oil tank farm on MacLaughlin Point in Esquimalt, rather than an existing pumping station at Macaulay Point.

MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could resign from his post in 2009 to pave the way for Vladimir Putin to return to the Kremlin, Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday, citing an unidentified source close to the Kremlin

An upcoming G20 meeting in Washington is an opportunity for Canada to advance its financial policy on the world stage and be a "voice for positive change" Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday

The World Wildlife Fund is condemning Nunavut for maintaining its polar bear hunt quota in the Baffin Bay area, warning that boycotts may follow the decision.

Durham Regional Police said a DayQuil gel cold and flu capsule was found yesterday afternoon in a Smarties box a girl received on Halloween.

OTTAWA -- There were 8,836 bankruptcies in Canada in September, almost 1,400 more than in August and almost 2,000 more than in September 2007.

Sexual advances to superiors' wives, drunk driving and consorting with criminals are among 106 proven cases of misconduct of municipal police officers in B.C. over the past two years, CBC News has learned.

The Canadian government will seek a North American climate change agreement with the new administration of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Wednesday.

The New Brunswick RCMP have ordered an independent review into the slaying of university professor John McKendy, after the province's top Mountie admitted the force erred in discussions of e-mail threats made by the accused killer.

Slain girl's mother outraged while board exec says murderer has 'addressed his issues'

Twelve female high school students sporting only their underwear and duct tape around their breasts ran across a football field during their school team's home game last week in Delta, B.C.

The election of a new U.S. president who has vowed to deploy thousands more troops into Afghanistan won't cause Canada to reconsider its decision to pull out of the country by 2011, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Wednesday

Barrie, Ont. police have found a body, and they believe it could match the description of teenager Brandon Crisp.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Crichton, who helped create the TV show "ER" and wrote the best-sellers "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere" and "Rising Sun," died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, his public relations firm said in a news r

Listeners to the Jeff O'Neil Show on 99.3 The FOX (CFOX-FM) Tuesday were surprised to hear none other than Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan co-hosting the open-phones segment of the show and announcing an upcoming official proclamation that Nov. 28 is AC/DC D

OGEMA, Sask. - A tiny community in southern Saskatchewan is being recognized as one of the most livable places in the world.

LONDON -- Sixty-three years after the Second World War, John Ready had another reminder of the wound he suffered three days before the war ended.

For years, Stephen Walker struggled with basic tasks. Sitting in a chair, tying his shoes, even crossing his legs was difficult.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- There are accusations that U.S. airstrikes struck a wedding party in southern Afghanistan Monday - killing scores of women and children and sending the bride and groom to hospital.

Ottawa may be reconsidering the criteria it uses to award a new Sacrifice Medal, a move that is of particular interest to a Regina family of a soldier killed by accidental shooting in Afghanistan.

Team Canada will have to find a new logo to display on its jersey for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Doctors in this country should have to take rigorous, sit-down exams at least once a decade to prove continued competency in their fields, the University of Toronto's medical school chairperson has written in a top Canadian journal.

Early returns indicate side to ban gay marriage is slightly ahead

At least four people are hurt, two seriously, after the trailer portion of a transport truck plunged from the Highway 427 southbound ramp onto the eastbound QEW, spilling its load and causing rush-hour chaos.

'Their memory will live on,' Mayor Miller says at unveiling ceremony for World War II tributes

An 82-year-old Toronto grandmother postponed receiving her $15.2 million jackpot winnings for eight weeks so that she would be able to hand out Halloween candy and avoid any unwanted attention to her and her home.

Along with "Change," the big theme during Campaign 2008 was one of disbelief. Here was a just-when-you-thought-you'd-seen-it-all brand of amazement, voiced over and over, even by seasoned political observers.

VANCOUVER - The T-Birds jumped over the .500 mark this evening in dramatic fashion as Kelsey Halvorson notched the game winner with just eight seconds left on the clock as the UBC women's team hosted their first weekend series at the brand new Thunderbird

A military source said that although the community is in Canada's area of responsibility, Canadian forces were not involved

For the first time in almost three weeks, police have new evidence in their search for Brandon Crisp

NEW YORK -- NASA says this year's ozone hole over Antarctica is the fifth biggest on record, reaching a maximum area of 27.2 million square kilometres in September.

BERLIN - Around the world, throngs packed plazas and pubs to await U.S. election results Tuesday, many inspired by Barack Obama's promise of change amid a sense of relief that - no matter who wins - the White House is changing hands.

OGEMA, Sask. - A tiny community in southern Saskatchewan is being recognized as one of the most livable places in the world.

Highway crews have begun blasting chunks of rock off the unstable rock face that forced the closure of Highway 97, between Kelowna and Penticton through B.C.'s Okanagan Valley

Discarded by the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kyle Wellwood is proving a valuable asset for the Vancouver Canucks.

VICTORIA, B.C. - A "difficult chapter" in Canadian history has come to an end with an agreement to return to B.C. aboriginals thousands of hectares of reserve lands seized by the government almost a century ago.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has congratulated Barack Obama on winning the U.S. presidency, saying he's looking forward to "building a strong working relationship" with his administration.

John McCain praises rival in concession speech as record numbers turn out to vote in historic election

Democratic candidate Barack Obama made history on election night Tuesday with a victory over Republican rival John McCain to become the nation's first black president.

Former Liberal cabinet minister John Manley has declared he won't be a contender for the leadership of the Liberal party, telling supporters that he has "moved on from the world of elected office.

National Defence is grappling to better understand the phenomenon of "blast injuries" suffered by soldiers in Afghanistan.

OTTAWA - Ottawa's tumbling fiscal fortunes and the possibility of budget cuts could not have happened at a worse time for the battle-worn Canadian military, which is still waiting on replacements for its tired and aged planes, ships and vehicles.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A small group of Canadian soldiers has finally returned to their base in Afghanistan after playing key roles in some of the heaviest fighting this fall

TORONTO - The Queen honoured Canada's war dead from the First World War on Tuesday as a high-tech vigil paying tribute to some 68,000 fallen Canadians flickered onto a wall in London's celebrated Trafalgar Square.

..."Because of the adverse reactions experienced by the students, there exists a possibility that something in addition to marijuana may have been present in the joint," he said...

A man involved in a weekend stun gun incident in Calgary has died, a spokesperson for the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team said Monday.

In a bizarre final sequence, the defenceman got to a loose puck after teammate Mike Comrie lost it in the Columbus zone and fired a shot past Fredrik Norrena. Play continued as Campoli waved his arms to signal that he scored, but to no avail. He then took

Surging Toyota Canada Inc., including the Lexus luxury brand, was again ahead of Chrysler and Ford in second place for the month. It also could finish the year in that spot for the first time. Toyota reported sales jumped 9.4 per cent to a record 15,84

MacKay, the Nova Scotia MP who now represents the province at the cabinet table, says Williams should hold his tongue if he has a problem with a mainlander assuming that role. "This is what he called for," MacKay said Monday in Halifax, referring to Wi

Magna International Inc. has reported a third-quarter net loss of US$215 million, or $1.93 per share, as sales fell nine per cent from a year earlier and it booked sizable restructuring and writedown charges.

Canadian darling Feist fills big space at ACC with soulful slow jams

Words that cannot be said on American television are not often uttered at the U.S. Supreme Court, at least not by high-priced lawyers and the justices themselves.

About a year ago, members of Metric were road weary, questioning the direction of their band and at their lowest point, some were feeling "emotionally bankrupt." Now, the Toronto-based band is preparing to release a new album and is excited to tour aga

Hundreds of mourners streamed into a private funeral service for Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's slain mother, brother and nephew yesterday at a Chicago church. A composed Hudson paused before the bodies of her relatives before giving her mother a final ki

After almost two years of campaigning, the U.S. election is finally here, and it looks as if the undecided voter has finally run out of time. All that's left is the final tally; despite there being an obvious front-runner, some polls say crucial swing sta

Depression-lifting rewards of long-term physical activity may show up after a single half-hour walk

If you're going to fake a Biblical antiquity, keep it simple. And don't mention Jesus.

A video camera for 4-year-olds and a remote-control car that climbs walls attracted special attention from children yesterday at the Canadian Toy Association's sixth annual Christmas preview.

David Frost held such sway over his teenage hockey players that he masterminded threesomes with their girlfriends, court heard yesterday, while his lawyer shot back that group sex is pervasive in the sport and cautioned that "hockey is not on trial."

Pump prices across the GTA have dropped below 90 cents a litre for the first time in 18 months with commuters able to fill up today for about 85 cents a litre.

An Oshawa branch of the Hells Angels suspected they had "a rat" in their midst three years before they found out one of their members was working for the police, a jury in Whitby was told yesterday.

Second person reports seeing Brandon Crisp the day he disappeared

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Supporters of paralyzed refugee claimant Laibar Singh said a tearful farewell as he left the sanctuary of a temple bound for Vancouver's airport.

VANCOUVER - Extreme frustration over property rights and sovereignty - and not environmental radicalism - is likely behind repeated attacks on a natural gas facility in northeast British Columbia, according to a University of Alberta researcher.

Thousands of British Columbians are literally drinking, drugging and smoking themselves to death, says a five-year snapshot of substance abuse by the University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research of B.C.