NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2010

CALGARY -- Police have charged the stepfather of 17-year-old Brittney Nora McInnes with her murder.

EDMONTON -- Despite continuing a pattern of dangerous driving, a woman whose actions behind the wheel resulted in the death of her friend will not be incarcerated.

An Ottawa man is trying to bring his three-month-old son to Canada after a remarkable odyssey to rescue the child in Haiti.

As far as statement games go, the Calgary Flames may want to try a rewrite.

Suit names company, lawyers, seeks $750-million compensation for more than 200 outlets that were shut down

Alex Burrows tied it late in the second period and Christian Ehrhoff put Vancouver ahead five minutes into the third in the Canucks' 4-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.

International rescue workers are being accused of leading a confused and inefficient search for earthquake survivors at a plush hotel in the hills of Port-au-Prince, where several Canadians were last seen.

Another aftershock hit the late Thursday night in the Haitian capital, sending some earthquake survivors into the streets in the middle of the night.

A B.C. man on trial for allegedly murdering his three children was threatened with eviction from the court after he repeatedly interrupted his trial Thursday while a Crown prosecutor tried to deliver his closing arguments.

OTTAWA-Gunsights with Biblical references inscribed on them are being used by Canadian special forces in Afghanistan, but the military plans to get rid of them as soon as possible.

A group of disabled Canadian war veterans will head to the Supreme Court of Canada today to battle the very country they once served, in an effort to recoup payments they say were unfairly clawed back.

More than 1,000 homes remained under evacuation orders Thursday as an already-drenched Southern California prepared for a fourth powerful storm carrying a threat of mudslides below fire-scarred mountains and big waves pounding the coast.

Henrik Sedin is having a season to remember, and it looks like he is starting to get his twin brother, Daniel, in on the action.

The Ontario Hockey League has come down hard on Windsor Spitfires forward Zack Kassian, suspending the 19-year old for 20 games for his hit to the head of the Barrie Colts' Matt Kennedy on January 14th.

Former Montreal Canadiens hockey great Jean Beliveau has been taken to hospital after he suffered a stroke Wednesday night.

Canada's automotive and forest products sector, in particular, are bound to witness increases in U.S.-bound sales growth, the bank says.

A ban effective the first day of school in 2011 on the sale of junk food in schools is intended to target the rise in childhood obesity.

Federal officials want to keep Burmese pythons and eight other kinds of large snakes out of the country, saying they threaten the environment.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - UNICEF warned Thursday that many of the tens of thousands of Haitian children left homeless by last week's earthquake are being trafficked out of the country.

Most seniors are unaware that after having spent the money and paid the bill they are out of luck and funds come tax time. Shock and anger will be the result and not a renovation tax credit.

PARIS - France's parliament is likely to call in a resolution for a ban on Muslim face veils in public but take longer to turn that policy into law, deputies said on Thursday.

Say good night, Conan. Peace is finally at hand in the late-night talk show wars.

CALGARY - There have been good and bad days for Isaac and Rebecka May these past three months; Wednesday was a good day. First, their baby son - on the same day he was initially scheduled to be removed from life support - moved his legs in a way they h

LONDON - The skeletal remains of one of the earliest members of the English royal family may have been found in a German Cathedral, researchers said on Wednesday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two American soldiers serving under Canadian command in Afghanistan were killed by a roadside bomb Tuesday in the second such incident this month

A Labrador man accused of killing a Toronto woman in December had earlier caused concerns with the National Parole Board over his potential for violence, documents show.

EDMONTON - High-end cars and SUVs stolen in Canada could be financing global terrorism, warns the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

Georges Laraque will not play another game with the Montreal Canadiens. General manager Bob Gainey contacted him Thursday morning and told him that head coach Jacques Martin didn't had any confidence in him anymore and the team believes they can win wi

It's shocking, but it's true: Being a woman who's more than 20 pounds overweight may actually hike your risk of getting poor medical treatment.

Americans traveling to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics are being warned by the U.S. State Department to stay vigilant about terrorist threats.

With the Defence Department already looking to reduce spending, the Harper government has quietly put on hold a multi-billion-dollar purchase of new armoured vehicles for the army

Intrawest ULC said Wednesday that it was operating "business as usual," despite the fact that its creditors had moved to auction off the company's assets, including the Whistler ski resort -- a main Olympic venue.

The Hotel Montana stood gleaming on a hill over Port-au-Prince and was a prime destination for international travellers, including many Canadians. But a week after the devastating earthquake caused the hotel to collapse, the bright resort is now seen as a

ATHENS - Dozens of prostitutes, most using headscarves or hoods to hide their faces, demonstrated in central Athens Wednesday, demanding working licenses for brothels across Greece

The Vancouver Canucks extended the struggles of their Northwest Division rival Oilers with a 3-2 overtime win in Edmonton on Wednesday.

The Canadian Forces are ready to exercise "lethal force" in a worst-case scenario to defend new air space security restrictions being imposed during the 2010 Olympic Games.

The mammals that live on Madagascar are descended from animals that floated there on natural rafts sometime between 20 million and 60 million years ago, a new study suggests.

Ashleigh McIvor has won a silver medal at the skicross World Cup at Blue Mountain in Collingwood, Ont.

The Vancouver Canucks took advantage of a shaky goaltending situation Saturday to end a three-game losing streak. They can possibly do the same on Wednesday, which would send their opponent to a ninth straight loss.

VANCOUVER -Winter Games officials have given up on any help from Mother Nature and will now be trucking in snow for the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at Cypress Mountain, on Vancouver's North Shore.

OTTAWA - The NDP says it will propose legislation to limit the power of the prime minister to suspend Parliament.

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League said in a statement that a decision in connection with Patrice Cormier's elbow on Mikael Tam, a hit which sent Tam to hospital, will be announced on Monday.

An international wildlife trade monitor has rejected a U.S. proposal to ban the international trade of polar bear products from countries including Canada, saying such a measure is not necessary.

Two men and a teenager have been charged with shooting a wild horse in southern Alberta.

The B.C. government is laying off hundreds of workers and freezing MLA pay increases because of tight finances.

A former TV broadcaster from Toronto has been convicted of assault in connection with a mid-flight incident last March that occurred on an Air Canada plane diverted to St. John's, N.L.

Another member of the so-called Toronto 18 group has pleaded guilty to charges of participating in a terrorist group.

The winds of change are blowing through Carolina as the Hurricanes announced that they have named Eric Staal as the team's new captain.

Haitians ran into the streets when a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck near the capital Wednesday morning, frightening survivors of the previous quake that levelled Port-au-Prince last week.

Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley battled for vacant Kennedy seat, result threatens to derail health care reform...

JACMEL, Haiti - Canadian navy sailors from the HMCS Halifax arrived in Jacmel, south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday morning

When First Nations threw their support behind the 2010 Olympic Games, they did so on a promise that jobs would come their way. Those jobs appear to have been delivered.

Seventeen high school students from southeast B.C. who had been stranded for days in Haiti returned home late Tuesday, grateful to be with their families but still thinking about what they had left behind.

A small group of Canadian sailors arrived Tuesday at one of the worst-hit cities in Haiti, finding up to 90 per cent of the buildings destroyed by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Canada is set to win a record number of medals at the 2010 Winter Games, according to an academic who has accurately predicted Olympic medal counts since 2000.

For the past week, the Quebec press has been keeping tabs on the Harper government's handling of the situation, and the overwhelming majority of pundits in the province have concluded the Prime Minister has done an excellent job so far. In fact, it is saf

LONDON - An 18th-century account of how a falling apple helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web, making the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.

A mysterious visitor who left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on the writer's birthday failed to show early Tuesday, breaking with a ritual that began more than 60 years ago.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - A 5.8 earthquake has struck off the Cayman Islands, but no damage or injuries have been reported.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto broadcaster Colleen Walsh appeared to be drunk, combative and said she hoped the plane leaving St. John's without her would "blow up," a police officer testified at her air rage trial Tuesday.

Northern Canadian leaders have given themselves two months to work out a plan for the Porcupine caribou herd, which is believed to be in decline.

Dozens of crew members from the Canadian naval vessels HMCS Athabaskan and HMCS Halifax started going ashore on Tuesday to help with relief efforts in two Haitian towns

The Vancouver and Prince George school boards are considering widespread layoffs or school closures because of funding shortfalls

Workers who blockaded the shuttered Aradco and Aramco auto-parts plants in Windsor, Ont., because they were owed millions in severance pay have reached a financial settlement with the plants' owners.

A Saint John jury has found a 16-year-old teenage girl guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 78-year-old Frank Tonge last June.

One woman is getting a second chance in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new cabinet while another once thought to be on the fast-track faces a detour through demotion after stumbling through a scandal. As many as eight to 10 ministers will be on the

New rules, expected to come into play this year after being approved by Parliament, would ban speed-drinking competitions and all-you-can-drink offers.

WINNIPEG -- A crash course in fisticuffs has been cancelled at the University of Manitoba.

An Acton teen was left with second-degree burns Saturday after having an epileptic seizure inside a KFC outlet and landing face-down in her piping-hot poutine.

Doctors, nurses and volunteers are struggling to treat the thousands of people injured in last week's earthquake in Haiti, where the medical challenges are just beginning

A new employee, believing he was doing a favour, accidently shipped the Stanley Cup directly from Newark, N.J., back to its home in Toronto on Sunday.

OTTAWA - Michael Ignatieff wrapped up Monday the first phase of his "national conversation" about the challenges facing Canada giving few hints about his own vision for the country.

Eight hundred soldiers at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier in Quebec are anxiously waiting to get the green light to deploy to Haiti and help the country recover from last week's devastating earthquake.

An Alberta couple is seeking a court order to prevent an Edmonton hospital from taking their infant son off life-support.

Security personnel are installing hundreds of closed circuit surveillance cameras around downtown Vancouver in preparation for the Olympics, but questions remains about whether or not many of the cameras will be removed after the Games

Kathleen Wynne has moved from Education to the Transportation Ministry while Brad Duguid has been promoted to the high-profile energy and infrastructure post in a major Ontario cabinet shuffle.

Calgary has lost five straight games for the first time since November 2007. Flames captain Jarome Iginla has not scored in nine games.

Otto, the oldest dog in the world, died today just 31 days short of his 21st birthday - in 'dog years' he was 146.

CALGARY - Famed environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under fire for saying that 90 per cent of fish in Alberta are inedible.

Two Quebec women are the latest confirmed Canadian deaths in Haiti, bringing the total number to 14, with hundreds still missing.

The RCMP say a 48-year-old man was found dead after his boat sank at Fulford Harbour on Salt Spring Island, north of Victoria.

OTTAWA - The 1,000 Canadian soldiers departing for Haiti over the next week are facing an increasingly volatile security situation as anger and desperation grow in the wake of last Tuesday's killer earthquake.

Jacmel has become the focal point for Canadian aid in the wake of the earthquake, which hammered the town where Canada's most famous Haitian immigrant used to frolic as a child.

An Air Force loadmaster who was among the first Canadian military crews to airlift Canadians out of Haiti last week says he will remember the mission for the rest of his life.

Heavy rains and flash floods have left seven people dead in Egypt and Israel.

The main organizer of a plot to set off three massive bombs at the Toronto Stock Exchange and other high-profile targets in Ontario was sentenced Monday to life in prison.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to announce a small cabinet shuffle Tuesday with no changes to major portfolios.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Explosions and gunfire rocked the heart of Kabul on Monday as insurgents wearing suicide vests attacked government buildings and a downtown hotel in the most brazen assault on the Afghan capital since last fall.

The ships were preparing Monday morning to meet with a U.S. navy supply ship to replenish their fuel, said CBC reporter Rob Gordon, who is aboard Athabaskan.

Rescue workers are still finding survivors buried underneath the rubble from last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti as desperate attempts to receive aid have sparked violence and looting.

Biologists in the U.S. have found that air loops through the lungs of alligators in one direction, just as it does in the lungs of birds.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants another 2,000 peacekeepers and 1,500 UN police officers deployed to Haiti, as foreign troops and aid workers rush to bring relief to survivors of the deadly quake that levelled Port-au-Prince last week.

The Canadian military commander in Haiti says the Disaster Assistance Response Team will focus relief efforts in the town of Jacmel, which was particularly hard hit by last week's devastating earthquake.

High winds wreaked havoc on the South Coast of B.C. on Monday morning, knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses, shutting down the Lions Gate Bridge, closing schools and forcing the cancellation of some ferries.

Several B.C. students and their chaperones, who where stranded in Haiti after last week's earthquake, have arrived safely back in Canada after being airlifted out by the Canadian military

Twelve Canadians have been confirmed dead and 849 are still unaccounted for in Haiti since last week's devastating earthquake, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday afternoon.

The Ducks trailed by a goal entering the final 20 minutes, but after Perry drew them even at the 7:10 mark, Ryan took a drop pass from Dan Sexton, skated into the right circle and ripped a shot from near the faceoff dot that beat Flames goalie Curtis McEl

Canadian soldiers came to the rescue of a group of stranded B.C. teenagers and their chaperones Sunday, retrieving them from a remote town outside Port-au-Prince and bringing them back to the relative safety of the Canadian Embassy in the Haitian capital.

Police have issued a warning about a rash of what they're calling "distraction thefts" that have evolved into armed robberies in downtown Vancouver and on the city's West Side.

Calling it a mission of mercy to help those suffering in Haiti, WestJet is donating a charter flight direct to the capital of Port-au-Prince this week.

Still reeling from the devastation wrought by this week's earthquake, the people of Haiti now face another foe, unseen but potentially just as deadly. Pestilence, one of the apocalyptic horsemen that follow in the wake of any natural disaster, is silently

A B.C. father says a private U.S. company has offered to fly his son and 16 other high school students home from Haiti at a cost of $100,000 if the Canadian government can't transport them out in the next day or so.

The federal government signed an agreement with the Haida Nation Saturday to jointly manage the planning, operations and management of the waters surrounding southern Haida Gwaii, formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.

The Woodwards redevelopment site officially opened Friday night with the lighting of the iconic 'W' sign and hopes that it will revitalize Vancouver's most troubled neighbourhood - the Downtown Eastide.