NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2007

Street gangs have opened a virtual front in their turf wars and now Canadian police are trying to turn the internet into an ally in their quest to stem the rising tide of gang violence.

Beer drinkers could have a tough time swallowing a price hike as local breweries face a worldwide hops shortage and scramble to fill their shelves with the vital ingredient.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay warned Monday that growing uncertainty in Pakistan could send refugees into neighbouring Afghanistan and increase the risks facing Canadian soldiers there.

The Canadian Red Cross and Mines Action Canada are calling for an immediate moratorium on cluster bombs.

A high-ranking member of the notorious Big Circle Boys has been gunned down in front of his mansion in Vancouver's upscale Shaughnessy.

A violent 26-year-old Sri Lankan immigrant given an unbelievable second reprieve from deportation was charged with attacking a man with a hatchet while that decision was being mulled.

A Montreal lawyer, who has also worked as a sports commentator, was named the new head of the CBC on Monday. Hubert T. Lacroix was officially given the nod as president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Radio-Can

HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - People in Fort Good Hope are rationing toilet paper. Diesel fuel for home heating is also in short supply. As in many isolated communities in Canada's Arctic, supplies were ordered months ahead of time. But this year the Mackenz

More than 230 power-line and tree-clearing crews continued to work Monday morning to restore electricity for 49,000 Nova Scotia Power customers who were still without power.

Veterans Week is an ideal opportunity to remember those who served Canada in times of war, in armed conflicts and in peace. Now that cameras show us images of war throughout the world, it is too easy to consider the sacrifice of the thousands of people wh

A national testing body is warning parents to be on the lookout for unsafe toys as it releases its 2008 top toy picks.

It took Canadians a while to get used to having loonies and toonies weighing down pockets and purses, but now they might have to get used to a $5 coin.

REGINA -- Politics and football are both blood sports in the nation's breadbasket. But you can forgive the Saskatchewan voter for being a little distracted during this provincial election campaign. The vote comes at an exceptionally bad time for polit

The post-tropical storm, the remnants of a full-fledged hurricane that killed 143 people in the Caribbean earlier in the week, was a much tamer beast by the time it rolled into Atlantic Canada early Sunday.

OTTAWA - More than 1,000 military members flunked the first national physical fitness test the Canadian Forces have conducted in a decade, a newly released report shows.

A comet that has suddenly become a dramatic presence in the night sky is now the subject of intense study and debate by astronomers. Comet Holmes, which appears in the northeastern sky as a yellowish fuzzy ball, can be seen by the naked eye, even in ci

The level of carnivore deaths in Banff is considered stable, but the condition of grizzly bear and woodland caribou populations in Canada's flagship national park are rated as poor.

It's called Veropedia. Its goal: To create something that students and teachers can rely on

With much of their potent defence corps missing, the Vancouver Canucks got a much-needed boost from their offence on Saturday

ARGHANDAB DISTRICT, Afghanistan - The sights and sounds of combat along the north side of the Arghandab river have faded away. The leafy banks, unusually green for southern Afghanistan, now appear tranquil.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - When it comes to his views on Canada's presence in Afghanistan, it's like father like son for the new mullah in the Arghandab district north of Kandahar city.

MONTREAL -Since the founding of Quebec, its schools have given a central place to Christian instruction. Even today, parents in public schools choose whether they want their children to take a course in Catholic, Protestant or non-religious moral educatio

A man who once stood on trial for manslaughter in Toronto's notorious Just Desserts shooting case has been murdered in Jamaica.

The Air Force is wrapping up its search for a 61-year-old pilot missing in British Columbia.

MONTREAL -- The mother of one of two American models who plunged to their deaths says a coroner's report of the incident is based on an inadequate police investigation.

The grandfather who saved three-year-old Kate Williams -- dubbed the "miracle baby" for being the sole survivor of last week's plane crash near Golden, B.C. -- was remembered as a hero on Saturday.

Police have cleared one of the people they arrested in connection with a baby's abduction from a Sudbury, Ont., hospital.

Pakistan's prime minister said about 400 to 500 people have been arrested since emergency rule was declared on Saturday.

More than 170,000 hydro customers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are without power Sunday as post-tropical storm Noel barrels through the Atlantic provinces with winds clocking as high as 180 kilometres.

Frank D'Angelo is the consummate promoter, the seemingly unavoidable face of the brand, which makes it all the more curious to consider his announcement of last Thursday. No longer is Frank D'Angelo the chief executive of Steelback, the come-from-nowher

When the Army calls, the Air Force hauls. The CC-177 Globemaster III recently traveled to Canadian Forces Base Gagetown to load two Air Defence Anti Tank Systems (ADATS) and deliver them to 4 Wing Cold Lake.

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has invoked emergency rule amid growing violence by Islamist militants and a legal threat to his rule.

Veterans exposed to radiation during atomic weapons tests as well as at accidents at Ontario's Chalk River nuclear plant in the 1950s will be offered up to $24,000 each in compensation

The Canadian government has condemned Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for invoking military rule, stating it was "deeply concerned" over the action.

Mike Weaver and Luc Bourdon won't be mistaken for the cavalry, but they'll try to act like one tonight in Denver.

Sports are supposed to be about simple conclusions, full of white hats and black, wins and losses. But the personality of a sports team can be as complex and subtle and ever-shifting as its players.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A team of U.S. technicians will on Monday start disabling North Korea's nuclear complex which makes weapons-grade plutonium, a senior U.S. envoy said on Saturday, under a multinational disarmament deal.

The city's board of trade just can't wait for lunch next week with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It isn't about the menu, but rather the attention.

That jingle you hear is the sound of money as every enterprise now seems to have its own sound track

Al Qaeda's No. 2 figure harshly criticized Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in a new audio tape Saturday, accusing him of being an enemy of Islam and threatening a wave of attacks against the North African country because it improved relations with the U.S.

MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia -- Villagers fled the slopes of one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanos Saturday after seismic readings indicated that an eruption had started after weeks of heightened activity.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - When it comes to his views on Canada's presence in Afghanistan, it's like father like son for the new mullah in the Arbhandab district north of Kandahar city.

Ontario multimillionaire Helmuth Buxbaum, convicted in 1986 for arranging his wife's murder in one of the decade's most lurid trials, has died. He was 67.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has dismissed calls by opposition parties for a public inquiry into reports about cash payments made to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, saying allowing the government to launch probes against former political adversarie

Montreal-based filmmaker Mehrnoushe Solouki will face a closed-door trial in Iran November on charges of intending to spread propaganda, according to The Globe and Mail newspaper.

He's the man that changed the face of music forever, but however much the teens of the day adored him, the establishment was suspicious of what they deemed his lascivious ways. The New York Times is reported to have stated that "when Presley executes h

A woman accused of taking a newborn girl from a Sudbury, Ont. hospital has two children of her own and had told people she was expecting another baby, CTV News has learned.

HALIFAX -- Forecasters say a dangerous storm that is promising to pack a wet and windy punch is churning steadily along the U.S. east coast toward Atlantic Canada.

Toronto police have recovered a stolen vehicle that contained radioactive material in its trunk

Two astronauts from space shuttle Discovery have successfully completed complex repairs on a torn International Space Station solar wing.

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has invoked emergency rule amid growing violence by Islamist militants linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda, state-run TV there is reporting.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Al Arbour traded in his whistle for a sweater and a brown leather jacket. Too many years have passed for him to lead his team on the ice for practice, but not so many that he can't spend one more night behind the bench for the New Y

NEWARK, N.J. - John Madden would have handed out a lot of assists on his go-ahead, short-handed goal late in the third period for the New Jersey Devils.

EDMONTON _ The Edmonton Oilers are starting to resemble the injury-plagued team of late last season, when they lost 18 of their last 20.

The federal NDP have for the first time in history given themselves the go-ahead to spend every last cent allowed under federal election financing laws, hoping to make historic gains at the polls.

The Maritime Junior A Hockey League has cracked down on two teams involved in an explosive fight Tuesday, handing out suspensions to 14 people who will be out from one to 20 games.

Chilling new details in the torture and slaying of a Calgary prostitute whose body was dumped at a southeast landfill last year have emerged in the wake of a guilty plea from one of three accused women.

A Canadian soldier patrolling an area of Afghanistan that was recently seized from the Taliban has been injured by a roadside bomb.

Avril Lavigne takes Solo Artist and Most Addictive Track prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards; Nelly Furtado nabs Album of the Year.

For the record: It was a chilly evening, the first night of November. A brisk wind blowing outside the Bell Centre, the first hockey weather of the season. Inside: Canadiens Saku Koivu, making a bilingual introduction of his teammates on the big screen

LEADING SEAMAN Derek Parsons smiled broadly and held up two fingers for four-year-old Christopher to see.

The Downtown Eastside, the poorest neighbourhood in Canada, has long been a time-bomb this city has never bothered to defuse. Now it's about to explode on the international stage.

The Chinese government has called in Canada's ambassador to Beijing to express its displeasure over the Dalai Lama's VIP treatment by Ottawa.

The Canadian economy created about 63,000 new jobs in October, six times more than expected, driving unemployment to a fresh 33-year low of 5.8 percent, the government said Friday.

SAN MARCOS, Texas - The results are in: The ugly, big-eared animal found this summer in southern Texas is not the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra. It's just a plain old coyote.

Hundreds of deep tremors shook one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanoes Thursday, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people because the mountain could erupt at any time, a government official said.

It is important at times like this to remember that We Are All Canucks. What's that? You've stopped drinking the Canuck Kool-Aid? Apparently, you are not alone. A large number of the 18,630 faithful who filled General Motors Place on Thursday night le

Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the final days of the Second World War, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He was 92.

This weekend, 20-year-old Jessica Scace has something to celebrate. It's not a birthday, or a big date, or an aced exam. It's one year free of breast cancer.

The 2010 Winter Olympics will make Vancouver a prime target for the sex-slave market, warned a report released yesterday.

You're at an altitude of 11,000 feet, flying at more than 2,000 km/hour. Your body is shaking as the adrenaline rushes through your hands and you launch a missile to attack an enemy aircraft just ahead.

Operation ALTAIR is the contribution of Canadian warships to the U.S.-led coalition fleet conducting anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea under Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.

Chaos and competing goals among NATO nations involved in Afghanistan are preventing progress there, according to the British general who commanded the Afghan mission until February.

Insurgents have failed to seize control of a coveted corridor into Kandahar city, leaving only "ineffective" pockets of resistance as they left the scene of a major battle with coalition forces

Twenty years after Rene Levesque's death, the former Quebec premier and spiritual father of the separatist cause is still a huge figure in the province

First of four new C-177 Globemasters will spend winter on tarmac of Canadian Forces Base Trenton

The Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) issued wind, rain and surf warnings Friday for parts of Atlantic Canada as Hurricane Noel heads toward the region.

A top Taliban commander has pledged in a recorded interview to launch an intense winter campaign against NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.

A coroner's jury in Saskatchewan has determined that Ontario university student Kenton Carnegie was killed in a wolf attack.

FENELON FALLS, Ont. - A freezer bag in a safe in the picturesque Kawartha Lakes region holds a puck that may or not have won hockey's 1972 Summit Series for Canada.

The Canadian dollar jumped to a record high of 107.22 cents US on Friday, bolstered by continued high oil prices and a drop in the nation's unemployment rate to a 33-year low.

ANA takes lead role in battle that returns control of area north of Kandahar to government with apparent lack of civilian casualties

The National Hockey League has approved the reinstatement of suspended Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet, effective February 7, 2008. Tocchet has been on indefinite leave since February 7, 2006.

A fundamentalist church that picketed a US soldier's funeral because it believes military deaths in Iraq are punishment for American tolerance of homosexuality has been ordered to pay almost $11m compensation.

BALTIMORE -- The father of a Marine killed in Iraq took the stand in his invasion of privacy suit against a fundamentalist church that pickets soldiers' funerals, saying protesters carrying signs at his son's burial made him sick to his stomach.

BALTIMORE -- The father of a Marine killed in Iraq took the stand in his invasion of privacy suit against a fundamentalist church that pickets soldiers' funerals, saying protesters carrying signs at his son's burial made him sick to his stomach.

The seemingly unstoppable Canadian dollar surged to its highest level yet Wednesday, topping 106.17 cents (U.S.).By cracking through 106 cents, the dollar topped what most observers believe to be the old record of 106.14 cents set on Aug. 20, 1957.

Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle.

Chrysler LLC's latest round of up to 12,000 job cuts will hit hard in Canada, warns Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove.

It was a thrilling lunch hour for about 140 people at the University of Alberta on Wednesday as they roared, shuffles and spun their way through the iconic Michael Jackson dance moves

Tropical Storm Noel triggered mudslides and floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, pushing the death toll to 60 yesterday and forcing some parents to choose which of their children to save from the surging water.

For the most part, being young is a drag. Between the pimples and pubes, the prepubescent-to-pubescent phase has never been one worth inventing time travel for. Personally, I spent mine in braces, a moustache and a mushroom cut. Forget being a drag, my yo

Toronto police shot a man to death in last night in one of two incidents that sent gunshot victims to hospital.

Scary situations can occur anywhere, anytime even at work

The boreal forest, which encircles northern latitudes from Canada to Siberia, contains close to one-third of all terrestrial carbon. There has been speculation the forest will soak up more carbon as the world warms due to climate change and the growing se

The Taliban have opened a new northern front in their push toward Kandahar city, invading a previously secure district and holding parts of their freshly gained territory in a bloody siege that continued into the night.

Japan ordered its naval ships on Thursday to withdraw from a refueling mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan as a political deadlock kept the government from meeting a deadline to extend the activities.

Turkey, Iraq and the US have all taken steps to combat the threat of Kurdish fighters based in northern Iraq and defuse the crisis in the region.

The debate raging in Quebec about reasonable accommodation has entered the locker room of the NHL's Montreal Canadiens.