NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2009

Though Toronto woman Misty Bailey tried to stop boyfriend Darcy Allan Sheppard from riding his bike after drinking before he died in a crash involving former Ontario attorney-general Michael Bryant this week, many don't consider trying to stop an inebriat

UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania - A Pennsylvania history buff who recreates firearms from old wars accidentally fired a two-pound (one kilogram) cannonball through the wall of his neighbour's home.

A former U.S. soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.

NATO has pledged to launch an investigation after it acknowledged civilians likely died in an air strike in northern Afghanistan that officials said killed at least 70 people.

Bike traffic is rising on the Burrard Bridge as riders take advantage of the new bike lanes installed this summer, but southbound vehicles are facing delays of up to six minutes each morning.

A campfire ban that had been in place for B.C.'s south coast since June ends Saturday at noon PT.

Metro Vancouver's TransLink needs to find ways to raise some cash if it wants to avoid slashing service and follow through on its expansion plans, says a report by the region's transportation watchdog.

Victoria's oldest television station is staying on the air because employees and investors secured its purchase from Canwest Global Communications Friday.

As a regular feature, Canwest sports reporter Cory Wolfe gets personal with a sports figure. Today, he corners Krystal Gray - a quarterback with the New York Majesty of the Lingerie Football League. The LFL opens its season on Friday when the Miami Calien

Coca-Cola Co. says it plans to invest an additional $200 million in Vietnam in the next three years.

Roy Halladay pitched a one-hitter to snap a three-start losing streak and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Yankees 6-0 Friday night, ending New York's winning streak at seven games.

Microsoft Corp. can keep selling Word, its flagship word processing software, after an appeals court granted a temporary stay of an injunction handed down in a patent infringement case.

Former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant has been ordered not to drive any motor vehicle until the criminal charges he is facing are "disposed by the courts."

Police in Truro, Nova Scotia, are under fire after a woman held in a jail cell overnight suffered a major stroke and reportedly wasn't taken to hospital for five hours.

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - A U.S. warplane summoned by German troops fired on hijacked fuel trucks in Afghanistan before dawn on Friday, killing as many as 90 people in an incident that could trigger a backlash against NATO.

An advertisement depicting Adolf Hitler engaged in sexual intercourse as a metaphor for the deadliness of AIDS has drawn the ire of groups devoted to spreading awareness about the disease.

Several teenage boys in the Turtleford area are facing sexual assault charges in connection with an incident involving another boy at a drinking party last winter.

MONTREAL -- The Liberal Party of Canada promises that -- if elected -- it will not reduce transfer payments to the provinces to eliminate the federal deficit.

VANCOUVER -- A five-year-old B.C. boy is on the mend after being attacked by a cougar in Washington state.

Canada's economy showed signs of coming out of recession in August, creating a surprisingly strong 27,100 jobs as the country's private sector added workers for the first month in nearly a year.

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney says he may have made some errors in judgment in his lifetime, but he isn't worried that the suggestion of impropriety in his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber will affect his legacy.

Dutch cops raze field of harmless hemp thinking it was pot

WINNIPEG -- The father of a little girl seriously beaten earlier this week is furious the 19-year-old woman accused in the attack was out on bail at the time, despite alleged repeated court-order breaches.

TORONTO -- Forget the luck of the Irish. How about the luck of the lottery retailer?

OTTAWA -- A woman at the centre of a recent scandal that embarrassed a federal minister is the mayor's next communications director.

On Thursday, the U.S. walked off with a 4-2 triumph before 6,833 at General Motors Place in a Hockey Canada Cup game littered with penalties and spectacular saves. The U.S. has now won five of its last seven meetings against Canada, the other superpower i

Military inexperience may have been behind a friendly-fire incident three years ago in Afghanistan that left a Canadian soldier dead, newly released U.S. documents suggest.

Vancouver police have released a sketch of a man they believe sexually assaulted three women and stalked another in downtown Vancouver recently.

Marine experts are reminding people that seals can be dangerous after a seal pulled a five-year-old girl off a West Vancouver dock Tuesday.

Residents in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario aren't the only ones in the country impacted by Greyhound Canada's service cuts.

Toronto lawyer Marie Henein will lead the defence team for former attorney general Michael Bryant, who faces two serious criminal charges in connection with the death of a cyclist in an apparent road rage incident.

New Westminster police Det. Mike MacFarlane pretended to be a 14-year-old girl to help catch an alleged online predator in Australia.

As he celebrated his Canadian record-setting 100th day aboard the International Space Station, Bob Thirsk sent an eight-page note describing his extraterrestrial life. He said he's travelled 70 million kilometres, watched 16 sunrises and sunsets in a sing

The board of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is planning to meet to decide if a former team president jailed for child porn possession should be removed from the squad's hall of fame.

The Arctic communities of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., could be linked year-round by a new road, depending on the results of a feasibility study that the federal government announced Thursday.

P.E.I. now has 13 confirmed cases of swine flu, the province's chief health officer says.

Greyhound Canada said Thursday that unless it gets $15 million in government aid, it will cease passenger bus operations in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario because it is being forced to operate unprofitable rural routes without government help.

Police made an arrest in a case where an agitated man was caught on tape setting fire to a TTC bus yesterday. The incident occurred on a bus working Yonge Street.

WASHINGTON -- It's a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch.

A toddler beaten and left near a Winnipeg playground on Tuesday is making remarkable progress and is expected to recover with no permanent damage, says her mother

A man who pleaded guilty in the so-called Toronto 18 plot aimed at bombing targets in the city's downtown has been sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison, but was credited with seven years for time already served.

The Arctic had been cooling for almost 2,000 years before a recent, sudden warming in the last 50 years, a new study on climate change suggests.

Glenn Healy has resigned from his job as the NHL Players' Association's director of player affairs, just days after Paul Kelly was fired as the union's executive director.

MIAMI - A bank in Florida refused to cash a check for an armless man because he could not provide a thumbprint.

A stack of national security documents former foreign affairs Maxime Bernier left at his ex-girlfriend's house last year contained highly sensitive information about foreign policy and global efforts to fight terrorism, according to a new investigation.

The bigwigs showed up in court, but little was decided Wednesday in the ongoing Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy saga.

MONTREAL -- The founder of the Cirque du soleil may do some clowning around when he visits the International Space Station later this month -- even if his primary goal is serious.

VANCOUVER -- The operators of Vancouver's controversial drug safe-injection site are suing one of its critics for defamation and slander over a two-year-old article.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay came out strong on Thursday saying Canadians don't want another election and if the opposition forces one, the economy will suffer.

TORONTO - A proposal to rename the Toronto Island Airport in honour of Billy Bishop is not flying with the mayor of Owen Sound, Ont.

WINNIPEG -- The Winnipeg Blue Bombers won't be signing Adam (Pacman) Jones after all, and head coach Mike Kelly apologized for the way the situation was handled.

The Liberals are tied for support with the Conservatives as the possibility of a fall federal election looms, a new EKOS poll released exclusively to CBC News suggests.

TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya denied reports Wednesday that the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing was taken to intensive care after his illness from terminal prostate cancer worsened

CALGARY -- Tami Reid and Tara Ternes had no idea who they were running to help last week after hearing a boat crash into the shore while camping near Flathead Lake in Montana.

The federal immigration minister says he's frustrated at difficulties in deporting dangerous foreign criminals from Canada, adding changes to the law may be needed as lengthy delays and appeals could undermine public confidence in the system.

TORONTO -- He shot a uniformed police officer in the head. He shot at two other cops with the intent to kill them. He robbed at gunpoint a convenience store and a beer store. He invaded a home with a shotgun, shooting its occupant in the leg.

LUCAN, Ont. -- His Internet videos have been watched 50 million times worldwide, but yesterday David Rock attracted unwanted attention from local officials who could shut down his growing YouTube empire

A British-based academic has uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest Bible hiding underneath the binding of an 18th-century book.

The 63-year-old actor is set to reprise his role as Vietnam veteran John Rambo for the fifth time next year in a film which will see his character battling drug and people traffickers on the US-Mexico border, says variety.com.

The minority Harper government is arming for political battle this fall rather than seeking peace, dismissing the chances of a deal with the NDP to avoid an election and warning its defeat would jeopardize a popular home-renovation tax credit.

TORONTO -- The city's controversial Africentric school will open with twice the minimum number of students needed to justify its creation, a Toronto District School Board official said yesterday.

With the 2010 Winter Olympics little more than five months away, B.C. native leaders are looking toward the Games as a way to highlight their increasingly rocky relationship with the provincial government.

Homicide investigators say a young man and woman found dead days apart in Abbotsford were a couple, and heavily entrenched in organized crime.

The BC Liberals on Wednesday reversed course on massive cuts to charity groups, but can they reverse their plummeting approval numbers?

A Winnipeg woman is facing charges of abduction and attempted murder after a 14-month-old girl was allegedly seen being beaten in the street.

One of the most exciting and challenging careers the Canadian Forces has to offer is that of search and rescue technician (SAR tech).

A new report says Arctic climate change is happening faster than anyone anticipated and may soon be forcing more rapid warming on the rest of the planet.

With the electoral process in turmoil and suicide bombers seemingly able to strike at will, many generals, politicians and commentators have recently painted a bleak picture of the situation in Afghanistan.

Two Canadian navy minesweepers sailed out of Halifax Harbour Tuesday with six NATO ships for several weeks of joint exercises

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - A massive piece of space junk drifted toward the shuttle-station complex and its 13 astronauts Wednesday, though NASA officials said the threat would not delay an upcoming spacewalk.

JERUSALEM -- Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.

A powerful underwater earthquake has killed at least 44 people in Indonesia and briefly prompted a tsunami warning.

The Andromeda galaxy, the closest neighbour to our own Milky Way, has been growing by scooping up stars from smaller surrounding galaxies, a Canadian-led team of astronomers has found.

Nine mid-shore patrol vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard will be built at the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyard.

Cyclists in Toronto staged another demonstration on a major downtown street Wednesday during afternoon rush hour, part of the aftermath of a fatal encounter between a bike courier and former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant.

Toronto police are investigating whether a cyclist killed in an altercation with a car driven by former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant grabbed the driver or the steering wheel.

Swedish father Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, has entered into an experiment that he hopes will help him breastfeed his future children.

With the Liberals threatening to bring down the government, the Conservatives are giving them an opportunity to do so -- but possibly at the expense of a popular tax credit not yet made into law.

Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology.

The prime minister of Bangladesh has ordered male government employees to stop wearing suits, jackets and ties to save electricity.

VANCOUVER - For one lucky five year-old, a seal that dares jump onto a dock and pull her underwater is more than bold. He's just plain rude.

Production of Fiat car to start in 2012: Report Chrysler will build Alfa Romeo's next flagship sports car in Brampton in 2012, according to a leading U.S.-based auto research and consulting firm. In its weekly update on worldwide auto production plans,

Canadians' upper lips are among the stiffest in the world when it comes to enduring minor health woes, according to a new global study.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that Section 13, Canada's much-criticized human rights hate speech law, is an unconstitutional violation of the Charter right to free expression because of its penalty provisions.

The White House on Tuesday added a new, furry -- and yes, cuddly -- weapon to its flu-fighting arsenal as the United States prepares to combat a resurgence of the H1N1 virus this fall, the Sesame Street muppet Elmo.

REGINA -- Saskatchewan drivers may soon have to let go of their hand-held cellphones and put both hands back on the steering wheel.

Bob Rae on Wednesday called the Conservative government incompetent, ideological and bad, and justified a bid to bring down the minority Parliament by saying it's his job to try to do so.

WARSAW - A Polish-Canadian woman who travelled to Warsaw for the 70th anniversary of the Second World War says Russia has yet to apologize for the atrocities committed by the Red Army.

Vancouver Canucks President and General Manager Mike Gillis announced today that goaltender Roberto Luongo has agreed to terms on a 12 year contract extension through the 2021-2022 season.

HOPE MILLS, North Carolina - Some dogs chase cars. One in a North Carolina town decided to try to eat one.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is visiting the Arctic Circle in Norway to draw attention to the need for action at climate change talks in December.

Unless greenhouse-gas emissions drop drastically, efforts to save the planet could depend on controversial technologies that directly manipulate the environment, according to a report by Britain's top science academy.

The cyclist killed in an altercation with former Ontario attorney-general Michael Bryant had been drinking and was involved in a confrontation with police earlier in the evening.

OTTAWA - A decision by a Canadian immigration tribunal to grant refugee status to a white South African who claimed he was persecuted because of his colour has caused a backlash against Canada and made international headlines.

A pair of hat tricks, a penalty-shot goal and a personal milestone highlighted Canada's 10-2 dismantling of Finland at the Hockey Canada Cup on Tuesday.

OTTAWA - The Governor General has announced 11 bravery awards, including two posthumous decorations to Canadians who died in futile attempts to save people from drowning.

"Michael James Bryant, 43 years of age, of Toronto, is now charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death," said Toronto police Sgt. Tim Burrows at an impromptu news conference outside the headquart

British Columbia has a new distinction to add to its list of accomplishments: the province with the lowest minimum wage in Canada.