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Montreal police are investigating after someone defaced the cenotaph at the Lachine branch of the Canadian Legion on the weekend. Members of the legion were preparing for their New Year's Eve party when they discovered large blue letters on the cenota

Miikka Kiprusoff will return to the net on Monday night with a little extra motivation as the Calgary Flames try for the fifth time this season to defeat the Vancouver Canucks.

VICTORIA - A $1.5-billion submarine maintenance contract for Victoria, believed to have sunk under the weight of East Coast lobbying pressure, has resurfaced with negotiations expected to conclude in the new year, says Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn

Canada followed up its disappointing loss to Sweden with a 4-1 victory over Denmark. Oshawa Generals' forward John Tavares set the offensive tone with a goal and an assist and goaltender Steve Mason made 15 saves for the victory.

Ontario's Liberal government is promising a new Family Day statutory holiday in February if it is re-elected on Oct. 10. Workers get statutory holidays off with pay or must be paid overtime if they work.

DAVOS, Switzerland - Canada has won the Spengler Cup. Kirby Law and Ryan Keller scored in the second period to lift Canada to a 2-1 victory over Russian club Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the final of the five-team tournament on Monday morning.

Following Team Canada's 4-3 loss to Sweden on Saturday, head coach Craig Hartsburg has decided to shake up his team in preparation for its match with Denmark today (TSN and TSN.ca, 11:30am et/8:30am pt).

Author J.K. Rowling says she has considered writing another Harry Potter novel, although fans may have to wait another 10 years.

Colts' Darrell Reid Blows Up Titans' Chris Henry

Passing of Ed Mirvish, William Hutt, Richard Bradshaw, June Callwood and others leaves big void

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Trevon Simpson was in bed and drifting off, listening to music, when his sister's scream tore through the calm. "Fire! The house is on fire!" Ieisha shrieked from downstairs.

Revellers around the world watched fireworks and partied into the early hours as they rang in the new year on Monday night

A Santa Fe man owns up to stealing a 61 year old woman's bra from her home.

* With province-wide smoking restrictions set to come into effect Jan. 1, smokers across Alberta are enjoying their last day to light up freely. The new law, one of the toughest in Canada, will ban smoking in any public building, including restaurants

* In early October 1942, Flight Lieutenant Donald McLarty was shot down over Libya on his 199th mission of World War Two. Although he was flying for Britain's Royal Air Force, his uniform was emblazoned with an unexpected word: Argentina.

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VANCOUVER - Roberto Luongo made 21 saves Sunday as the Vancouver Canucks continued their strong play at home by defeating the Anaheim Ducks 2-1 for their fifth win in six games.

Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn has thrown more fuel into an ongoing feud with Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams, with a claim that he has eyes and ears inside Williams's own government.

CALGARY - Kristina Groves of Ottawa won her second gold medal and brothers Denny and Jay Morrison finished 1-2 in the 1,500-metre races at the Canadian single-distances speed skating championships Sunday.

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Team Canada is going to continue their goalie rotation against Denmark on Monday and Steve Mason will get the start in net.

LAS VEGAS - Matt Hughes and his entourage walked into the ring with T-shirts that read "One More Round." After the whooping Georges St. Pierre put on Hughes, the Illinois farmboy won't want any more rounds with the guy who appears to be the future of t

A sport utility vehicle speeding down a muddy road slammed into trees and exploded, killing four people, including two children, and injuring two others, authorities said.

GLENDALE, Ariz. - With top scoring threats Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom out of Detroit's lineup, Pavel Datsyuk knew the job of getting a key goal fall to him.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The maturation of Nikolai Zherdev is pulling Columbus fans out of their seats and leaving a positive impression on his teammates.

PITTSBURGH - Ty Conklin is heating up at exactly the right time, just when the Pittsburgh Penguins are about to venture into the great outdoors

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Steve Bernier helped the San Jose Sharks set a team record. Bernier had a goal and two assists in the Sharks' 5-2 win over the Nashville Predators 5-2 Saturday night, winning a franchise-record ninth straight road game.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Late in the second period, Brent Burns looked down the bench at his teammates. The Minnesota Wild didn't look like a team down by three.

OTTAWA - Alex Ovechkin is used to having good nights - but Saturday was particularly special.

TORONTO - Things went so badly for the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night that GM John Ferguson didn't bother sticking around to watch the third period from his normal spot in the press box.

CALGARY - Jarome Iginla may have scored the game winner, it was an earlier goal by Kristian Huselius that essentially killed the Anaheim Ducks.

KARACHI, Pakistan -- As bloody confrontations triggered by Thursday's assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto continued in Pakistan's largest city and across this troubled country, the Election Commission announced Saturday it would hold a

An unidentified man who apparently bid $3,550 for a snowbank has reportedly backed away from his purchase.

A U.S. military transport plane with a crew of fifteen made an emergency landing in Halifax on Friday because of an on-board fire.

LONDON -- Individual privacy is best protected in Canada but is under threat in the United States and the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and border control, an inter

An explosion has killed a Canadian soldier out on routine patrol in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - With one mighty heave, Tom Brady and Randy Moss took care of the record books. Now it's down to business for the unbeaten New England Patriots: stamping themselves as the greatest team in NFL history.

CALGARY - Jeremy Wotherspoon of Red Deer, Alta., won his second gold medal Saturday at the Canadian single distance long track speed skating championships.

The instability gripping Pakistan following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto could spill over to neighbouring Afghanistan, where Canadian soldiers are fighting Taliban insurgents, a former Canadian diplomat said.

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Tobias Forsberg scored with seven seconds left to hand Canada a heart-breaking 4-3 loss and spoil its hopes of a bye into the semifinals at the world junior hockey championship on Saturday afternoon.

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A booking video showed a DUI suspect bite himself, get Tasered, then expose himself.

Eating a high-fat, high-carb fast food meal produces damaging cellular changes that are greater and longer-lasting in obese people than in normal-weight people, a new study shows.

SAN FRANCISCO California - Cinema fans will argue until the end of time about the best movie car chase ever: The French Connection, Ronin, one of those Matrix flicks. But for those of, um, a certain age, it has to be Steve McQueen eluding a black Dodge

Nearly two thirds of people keep their ex-partner's number on their mobile phone "just in case".

The family of a man who was hit by a car and mistakenly declared dead has sued over the mistake, claiming it led to injuries from which he might not recover.

A man in Cookeville, Tennessee, is thinking about suing Wal-Mart because the MP3 video player he gave to his little girl for Christmas turned out to be loaded with explicit tunes and porn videos.

Christmas Eve robbery masterminded by a nine-year-old. Bonus: the accomplice was five years old

BORMIO, Italy - Bode Miller won the Stelvio downhill Saturday for his first World Cup victory since breaking away from the U.S. ski team, while Calgary's Jan Hudec took bronze.

Jonathan Bernier will get the start in net for Canada as they face Sweden on Saturday.

Ten years ago, six municipalities were merged to create today's Toronto. There are those who still believe amalgamation damaged the city, while others say it will take more time before the benefits are realized.

ISLAMABAD -- Benazir Bhutto's party challenged the Pakistani government's version of the opposition leader's assassination as fresh violence on Saturday stoked fears that Jan. 8 elections could be put off.

Residents of a Winnipeg apartment block spent Christmas in the cold but have been promised heat for the new year. Manitoba's Residential Tenancies Branch is now monitoring the situation because the Wolseley neighbourhood residents have been without he

A representative from the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP is being dispatched to Vernon following an incident Thursday in which police fatally shot a man at a downtown apartment.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- A private funeral service for jazz legend Oscar Peterson on Friday drew hundreds of relatives and close friends, including former premier Bob Rae and Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion.

Calgary is about to impose new health regulations on city restaurants, forcing them to severely limit the amount of trans fats in oils and sandwich spreads.

A fatal Christmas-Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has prompted concern over safety standards for predators in captivity at Canadian zoos.

Foreign Affairs has warned Canadians against "non-essential" travel to Pakistan, where widespread rioting continues after the murder of Benazir Bhutto.

* Pakistan's government blamed al-Qaeda and the Taliban on Friday for the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, claiming intelligence agents intercepted a message of congratulation from a militant leader.

While Toronto is facing a 20-year high murder rate and other Canadian cities such as Winnipeg and Montreal are plagued by homicides and gun violence, Quebec City is poised to turn the calendar on a murder-free year.

Ottawa goaltender Ray Emery left practice before it began Friday with team officials saying he was not feeling well

Nova Scotia police say they suspect foul play in the death of an aboriginal activist who fought for a government settlement worth billions of dollars. Police in Truro, N.S., said Friday that they continue to investigate, but Nora Bernard's death had

Flights throughout the Atlantic provinces have been cancelled or disrupted as a low-pressure system that dumped mixed precipitation on the Maritimes moves over Newfoundland.

The Vancouver Canucks weren't expecting a high-scoring affair with the visiting Calgary Flames, but they still managed to remain dominant against their division rivals.

* A 35-year-old woman allegedly armed with knives was shot by Saskatoon police on Thursday, the second person to be shot by officers in less than a week.

A Mississauga trucker hauling a load of carrots to Georgia on Christmas Eve has been arrested after 25 bags of marijuana were found hidden in his cab, U.S. Customs said

* A New Jersey company that helps run thousands of pornography Web sites acknowledged a major security breach Wednesday, sparking widespread concern in the adult-entertainment industry that consumers' personal data could be endangered

Despite allegedly showing up at the family home of a homicide victim on Christmas Day, an accused killer was back out on bail yesterday. According to Josh's father, Gary Hunt, the now 18-year-old taunted members of Hunt's family outside his house Chri

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Canadians of Pakistani origin say they see a dark road ahead for the country after the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, with some even voicing the fear that unrest could spiral into something close to civil war.

Kyle Turris scored a pair of power-play goals and Steve Mason turned aside every shot he faced as Canada blanked Slovkia 2-0 at the world junior hockey championships on Thursday.

DAVOS, Switzerland - Serge Aubin and Dale McTavish scored in a shootout to lead Canada past HC Pardubice 4-3 on Wednesday in the opening game of the Spengler Cup hockey tournament for both teams.

He's only 20 years old but Sidney Crosby's trophy case is already getting pretty crowded.

* The top weather story of 2007 was about climate change, Environment Canada said Thursday in releasing its annual list of most important, widespread and newsworthy events.

* Customs officials in the Philippines have seized inflatable sex dolls meant to be used for an international campaign against animal cruelty, an animal rights group said Thursday.

* Canadian shoppers may have spent $1.2 billion chasing Boxing Day bargains in the nation's stores, by one estimate.

When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder.

The Canadian junior hockey team kicks off its quest for a fourth straight gold medal in the Czech Republic today at the World Junior Hockey Championship.

Millionaire producer of Girls Gone Wild series rails against U.S. government officials from a Reno jail

* OTTAWA -- Ottawa police are defending the use of a Taser last week to subdue a teenager who was acting strangely in traffic. Staff Sgt. Peter Couillard says Ottawa police were called last Thursday after a 17-year-old boy was found "acting in a stra

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AFP - MONTREAL (AFP) - Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay on Tuesday identified Iran as the origin of weapons used by rebels against the international coalition in Afghanistan.

From terrorism to Tasers, from pensions to the perils of solitary policing, the RCMP have been squarely in the public eye for the last 12 months - though not for the reasons the force might wish.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay touched down at Kandahar Airfield to spend Christmas with the troops.

The Queen used her 50th televised Christmas message Tuesday to urge people to spare a thought for the vulnerable and disadvantaged living on the edge of society.

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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Canadian soldiers joined the renowned Royal Gurkha Rifles Sunday in a battle to eliminate the source of rocket fire that targeted two Kandahar military outposts.

While the U.S. Midwest dug out from under a heavy snowstorm that left 11 dead in road accidents over the weekend, Canada seemed to be easing into Christmas Monday without the same level of climate chaos.

The jazz odyssey is over for Oscar Peterson: the Canadian known globally as one of the most spectacularly talented musicians ever to play jazz piano has died at age 82. Peterson died Sunday night in at his home in Mississauga, Ont., CBC News has confir

Statistics Canada broke its own rules during the 2006 census by neglecting to lock up sensitive records and allowing new hires to start working without proper security clearance, an internal audit says.

Doctors have safely removed a bullet that had been lodged in a Vietnamese man's lung for nearly three decades, his surgeon said Monday.

Slot machines and blackjack tables aren't usually associated with Christmas, but Ontario's government-operated casinos will be open Dec. 25, a day most other businesses are closed.

The Canadian dollar was trading at a one-month high above $1.01 US Monday following a deal to restructure billions of dollars in short-term debt.

Efforts are underway to have Canada's first Olympic gold-medal-winning hockey team honoured at the 2010 Games in Vancouver, nearly 90 years after their victory.

A new study that relies on data from Facebook finds students of African-American and mixed-race heritage are the most likely to have ethnically diverse social groups.

A former CTV Newsnet anchor now working in Chicago was shocked when a vehicle slammed into the street-level studio where he was broadcasting Sunday night.

A 13-year-old student at the National Ballet School of Canada is facing sexual assault charges and police said Monday there could be other alleged victims.

A new book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J Edgar Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even a Soviet spy.

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Children are as excited tonight for a visit from Santa Claus as they were 53 years ago when the American military first began tracking Santa with its sophisticated satellites and radar systems.

The new leaders of France and Australia toured Afghanistan separately on Saturday, with both men vowing to keep their troops in the war-torn country for as long as needed.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Canadian military has agreed to donate 2,500 surplus C7 rifles to the Afghan National Army along with ammunition and training.

Yes, there is a Santa Claus, at least according to researchers at the Christmas Confabulation Centre (CCC) in Mexico City, who are expected to formally release a report, 25 years in the making, on Tuesday.

R. Kelly avoided having his bond revoked in his child pornography case, but was admonished by a judge Friday for missing a court date earlier in the week.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WILSON, Afghanistan - Abandoned in the village of Sangisar after a fierce firefight a month ago, two tiny puppies have found a safe haven with Canadian troops at this remote base in the volatile Zhari district.

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Former child star Danielle Fishel, a teen heartthrob on ABC's "Boy Meets World," was arrested this week on a drunken-driving warrant from Los Angeles County, police said.

Jordan Peterson has an easy way to prove to most everyone they are a person of faith. It is not faith as one normally thinks of it at this time of year -- that the Son of God was born to a virgin Jewish woman in a stable in a not-so-great part of Bethlehe

SASKATOON -- Police were forced to fatally shoot a man who came at an officer with a knife that had been strapped to the suspect's hand with black electrical tape, Saskatoon's police chief said Saturday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has returned to Calgary for the holidays, and in a rare glimpse of his private life, he tells CTV News of his struggle to balance the most demanding job in Canada with his family life.

REGINA -- A juror who sent Robert Latimer to prison for the murder of his disabled daughter thinks the Saskatchewan farmer should be freed from prison and the government should look at changing the law that requires minimum sentences for such crimes.

A roadside bomb injured three Canadian soldiers out on a mine-clearing mission in the Arghandab district of Afghanistan on Saturday. Their injuries are not serious. Two have already been released from hospital at Kandahar Airfield while a third remains

BOSTON - Brad Boyes is probably giving the Boston Bruins trader's remorse. Making his first appearance in Boston since being sent to St. Louis at the deadline last February for defenceman Dennis Wideman, Boyes scored his 21st goal to lead the Blues t

OTTAWA - Jonathan Toews certainly doesn't play his age. The 19-year old Chicago Blackhawks rookie scored 2:08 into overtime Saturday night as the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Ottawa Senators 4-3 at Scotiabank Place. The goal, along with two assist