NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2008

DENVER - Spot the Minnesota Wild a lead after two periods, and it's game over, thanks for playing.

PHILADELPHIA - Steve Downie was the first of five Flyers suspended this season for vicious blows that earned them comparisons to the ol' "Broad Street Bullies." They were called dirty and put on notice by the league that one more infraction would resul

BOSTON - Boston rebounded from its worst loss of the season to finish a week of dominance against New York.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jonathan Cheechoo, San Jose's leading goal-scorer last year, had trouble finding the net for most of the first half of this season.

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Radim Vrbata had a career game and Zbynek Michalek scored a rare goal. It was a winning combination for the Phoenix Coyotes.

NEW YORK - Two turned out to be the perfect number for the New York Rangers on Brian Leetch night.

DALLAS - A couple of days in Dallas and Derek Roy's two goals gave the Buffalo Sabres a much-needed boost before the all-star break.

LOS ANGELES - Mired in last place in the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Kings needed something to feel good about heading into the all-star break.

WASHINGTON - Don't look now, but the Washington Capitals entered the all-star break only one point out of first place.

Latest death has military exploring ways to counter threat of IEDs

U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that 3,200 marines headed to southern Afghanistan will not provide the Canadian Forces there with the additional troop support recommended by the Manley report.

The emergency landing in 1983 is etched in pilot Robert Pearson's mind, the moment he pushed firmly on the brake pedals with both feet to slow Air Canada's new Boeing 767 jet after it touched down on an airstrip in Gimli, Man.

A girl from a small Gulf Island says that when she was 15, she was assaulted by Victoria police officers, and today her lawyer released a videotape to show the public what took place.

A good fight with your spouse could be good for the health, a new study has found...

A loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding its servers with fake data requests, describing the attacks as punishment for the Church's alleged abuse of copyright l

ANAHEIM, Calif. - The game was spirited, tempers flared, and Detroit's defense and Dominik Hasek made the difference.

VANCOUVER - All-star goalie Roberto Luongo saved his best work for last Wednesday night.

TORONTO - Hold the moving vans, the Maple Leafs aren't done yet.

A Polish military plane carrying 20 passengers and crew crashed in flames in northwestern Poland, killing all aboard including an air force general, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday.

A Canadian soldier was killed and two others were slightly injured when their light armoured vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- An autopsy Wednesday morning on actor Heath Ledger was inconclusive, and a cause-of-death determination will take 10 to 14 days, a medical examiner's spokeswoman said.

The federal Liberals, who want Canada to end its combat role in Kandahar, Afghanistan, just over a year from now, were ducking for cover yesterday after John Manley's assertion that there is "no operational logic" to setting such a firm deadline.

The design of the Virgin Galactic tourist spacecraft was shown for the first time in New York City on Wednesday, with the actual spaceship under construction and about 60 percent complete.

Canadian soldiers halted the transfer of Afghan detainees last November, after a "credible allegation" that a prisoner had been tortured by local authorities in Kandahar, according to a letter from the Department of Justice.

The first supplies in nine days have reached Nunavut's Kivalliq region after a series of blizzards prevented cargo planes from touching down in the area.

LAKE NORMAN, N.C. - Nuclear reactors across the U.S. Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year.

Government officials and two aerospace industry giants announced $341 million in contracts for Western Canada on Wednesday at Standard Aero in Winnipeg.

TORONTO - Ilya Kovalchuk's all-star break started one game early.

Ringo Starr is known for being the amiable Beatle, but the rock star showed his tough side Tuesday when he walked off the set of "Live With Regis and Kelly" rather than cut short one of his songs.

A Quebec labour ministry tribunal has backed the Hull Hospital's decision to exclude an overweight nurse from its operating room because she sweated too much.

President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years followi

The Manley panel's hard-hitting report on Canada's war in Afghanistan has stepped up pressure on the Harper government and the Liberals to refine their positions on the mission -- a challenge that neither side was too keen to tackle yesterday.

John Manley says his new report on Canada's role in Afghanistan points to the progress being made in that country as well as the challenges that still lie ahead.

Sources at NATO headquarters in Belgium and in the United States have indicated in recent days that two marine battalions being sent to southern Afghanistan for seven months this spring with specific orders to assist the Canadians are likely to be followe

CALGARY - With headliner Jarome Iginla mired in his longest goal-scoring slump in three seasons, the Calgary Flames supporting cast came through on Tuesday night.

VANCOUVER - Goaltender Roberto Luongo must play better if the Vancouver Canucks hope to end their recent slide, coach Alain Vigneault said Tuesday.

PHILADELPHIA - All the New Jersey Devils needed to get their slumping power play going was a low-scoring defenceman.

DALLAS - Columbus Blue Jackets defenceman Kris Russell picked an opportune time to score his first two NHL goals. The 20-year-old rookie notched his first in the second period to jump-start Columbus, then struck for the tiebreaker on a power play with

DENVER - A few days off doesn't seem to bother Dan Ellis. Nashville's No. 2 goalie has been playing like a No. 1.

LOS ANGELES - There's a reason Chris Osgood is the starting goalie for the Western Conference in the all-star game.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Joe Pavelski scored a short-handed goal, Christian Ehrhoff finally got his first goal of the season and the San Jose Sharks snapped a four-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night.

TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay needed a desperate finish to finally end its five-game home winless streak.

SUNRISE, Fla. - With Nathan Horton locked in the way he was, it's probably not all that surprising Tanner Glass scored his first NHL goal off an assist from him.

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens shake their heads in wonder at how they always manage to beat the Boston Bruins.

MONTREAL - In a previously undisclosed interview with CSIS investigators, alleged al-Qaeda sleeper agent Adil Charkaoui described how members of Montreal's Arab community were recruiting people for jihad before 9/11.

Students of residential schools who are not receiving compensation money say they are being victimized a second time, a First Nations group says.

Newfoundland and Labrador's premier is not commenting on a complaint from a man who says he saw Danny Williams use a handheld cellphone while driving.

Jason Reitman makes dad weep with news as Juno picks up unexpected 4 nods

An autopsy on the body of actor Heath Ledger performed Wednesday was inconclusive, the New York coroner reported.

An Alberta man who spent four days trapped beneath his all-terrain vehicle in the woods as coyotes circled nearby says he had to go into "survival mode" to make it out alive.

VANCOUVER -- A doctor who looked after a set of severely premature sextuplets in British Columbia last year says blood transfusions seemed to be the least dangerous solution to their medical ills.

HALIFAX -- RCMP have arrested an accused violent offender who was mistakenly allowed to walk free from a Nova Scotia jail last week.

WASHINGTON -- A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attac

The Toronto stock market's volatility continues the day after North America's central banks cut interest rates.

The head of an independent panel that has recommended extending Canada's mission in Afghanistan said an open-ended war would be a concern for many Canadians but that security there, as well as Canada's international reputation, were at stake if the miss

An estimated 5.4 million Congolese died between 1998 and April 2007 because of conflict, most from the rampant disease and food shortages stemming from fighting...

The Canadian military has earmarked $220 million to build a new base for the Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorism unit, with plans calling for the secretive formation to move out of Ottawa sometime after 2010.

When Feliberto Carrasco's family members discovered his body limp and cold, they were convinced that the octogenarian's hour had come, so they immediately called a funeral home, not a doctor.

He was found dead in his bed in one of his residences in Soho by his housekeeper at 3:35 PM ET today. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they believe it was not a crime.

Here's a few tender morsels of a reality our darling Big Media would shy upon if it wasn't for a few intrepid journalists who insist in still doing their job.

A Canadian army captain has lost his fight to be exempt from requirements to display loyalty to Queen Elizabeth.

Halifax's Page received a best actress nod for her turn in the acclaimed comedy Juno - which is also up for best film. Its director, Reitman, was nominated for best director. Juno scribe Diablo Cody was also nominated for best original screenplay.

TORONTO - The lawyer representing the Vancouver Canucks and their owners in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by former NHL player Steve Moore said Monday that recent allegations made against his client are scandalous and could have a prejudicial effe

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Alexander Radulov stood out in a game when so many played well for the Nashville Predators.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - The way things have gone lately for the slumping Carolina Hurricanes, every win is a masterpiece.

GLENDALE, Ariz. - There were stars all around for Phoenix in the Coyotes' rout of Buffalo. As often is the case, Shane Doan headed the list.

EDMONTON - The fate of billionaire Daryl Katz's bid to buy the Edmonton Oilers is now in the hands of individual shareholders after a final meeting on the matter Monday brought not consensus, but renewed confusion.

The Olympic Winter Games will open in Vancouver in just over two years from now on February 12, 2010. One of the highlights of the opening ceremony will be the lighting of the Olympic flame. The choice of who will light the flame is left to the host count

Foxborough, MA (Sports Network) - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was photographed on Monday with what appeared to be a walking boot on his right foot.

A five-year-old from Delisle, near Saskatoon, is recovering from dog bites to her head after a neighbour's pet attacked her.

A succession of blizzards over the last week in Nunavut's Kivalliq region has left grocery store shelves nearly bare in at least three communities.

An Ottawa city councillor wants to speed up a program that would take more than a century to replace all the lead water pipes in the city.

TSN has learned that the Toronto Maple Leafs have fired General Manager John Ferguson Jr. The team informed Ferguson of his fate earlier this morning.

A St. John's university professor said he is still shaking his head over the fact he was able to walk away from a stunning crash last week at London's Heathrow airport.

Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer is under investigation by the Law Society of British Columbia for allegedly overbilling one of her legal clients, including charging for 30 hours of work in a single day, CBC News has learned.

The Toronto stock market opened modestly lower Tuesday but quickly turned around and was charging sharply higher 30 minutes into the trading day.

OTTAWA -- The Conference Board says cities in Western Canada will continue to lead the country in terms of growth this year, although the great east-west economic gap is narrowing.

VANCOUVER -- The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is releasing documents it says were sent to federal government officials detailing reports of torture against Afghan detainees.

The Bank of Canada cut its key rate by one-quarter of a percentage point Tuesday, shortly after the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate as global markets plunged for a second day.

The Manley panel has recommended extending Canada's military mission in Afghanistan indefinitely, with a new emphasis on diplomacy, training and reconstruction.

Atlantic Canadian aerospace companies will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in defence contracts as the result of a move to replace the military's Hercules transport aircraft, two federal cabinet ministers are expected to announce

VANCOUVER - Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored two goals and added two assists as the Minnesota Wild beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 Monday night.

The Manley panel's report will recommend that Canadian soldiers remain in Afghanistan to train the Afghan army and police, but only if NATO provides more troops and equipment, CTV News has learned.

OTTAWA - Krista Erickson, an Ottawa-based CBC-TV reporter who CBC said fed questions to a Liberal MP during the Mulroney-Schreiber hearings in December, has been transferred to Toronto after the broadcaster found her actions "inappropriate."

John Manley and his advisory group are expected to release a highly anticipated report this week advising Parliament on Canada's role Afghanistan once the current combat mission expires in February 2009.

An Ontario judge has dismissed impaired driving charges against a man stopped by police just north of Toronto, because he was not immediately provided with a Spanish-speaking interpreter to help decide whether to call a lawyer.

Expat Americans will send delegates to the U.S. Democratic national convention

Police believe fumes from a car running overnight in the garage of a condominium complex for seniors permeated the building with potentially deadly carbon monoxide that poisoned eight residents and sent them to hospital.

British Columbia will issue the country's first enhanced driver's licences, which could serve as an alternative to passports that will be required next year for border crossings to the United States.

The lawyer for the Vancouver Canucks in a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit filed by former NHL player Steve Moore said recent allegations made against the NHL club are "very scandalous."

Transport Canada allowed a Winnipeg company to repair a "critical part" on a Bell 206B helicopter despite the aircraft manufacture's advice not to, a decision that led to three deaths in a helicopter crash on B.C.'s north coast, a federal transportati

KITCHENER, Ont. - Mounting fears of an impending economic meltdown are making it harder for Liberals to decide whether to force an early federal election.

Sparks are bound to fly as the Vancouver Canucks host the Minnesota Wild at GM Place on Monday (7 p.m. PT).

What a strange place Canada is in 2008, where the police care more about human rights than the human rights commissions do, where fundamentalist Muslims use hate-speech laws drafted by secular Jews, and where a government bureaucrat can interrogate a publ

Alarm bells are ringing about risks of a quickening thaw of Antarctica that would drive up world sea levels, Norway's prime minister said yesterday after a visit to the icy continent.

Five grain shippers and the Canadian Wheat Board say they have won a major victory against CN Rail in a complaint over service to smaller shippers.

Quebec companies will benefit from $660 million in aerospace contracts, the federal government announced Monday.

Cooks in Canadian jails whip up special religious fare for our incarcerated -- from Rastafarian to Wiccan

NEWARK, N.J. - John Madden showed the New Jersey Devils exactly what they were missing during his absence.

ATLANTA - Even the NHL's youngest player can see the Edmonton Oilers are running out of time to make a move in the Western Conference.

NEW YORK - The Boston Bruins have not been to the NHL playoffs since 2004, so forgive them if they are already getting into postseason mode a week before the all-star game.

DALLAS - The Dallas Stars were dominated by the Anaheim Ducks in their last meeting, less than a week ago. Things were much different this time around.

DENVER - The Colorado Avalanche are back in first place, thanks to strong goaltending and some solid play from the rookies.

MONTREAL - The National Parole Board is expected to decide Monday whether a killer who was Karla Homolka's amorous pen pal while both were behind bars should be released.

SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan - An elderly man pulled a wooden cart through the crowd and stopped, exhausted, before the main gate to this dusty city's regional district centre.

From property taxes to private schools, condos to casinos: How a new generation of aboriginal people is trading reliance on government for a return to self-sufficiency. With this, the National Post begins a five-week series examining some surprising solut

The global equity carnage continues in Canada as Toronto stocks saw their biggest one-day dip since 9/11.

KITCHENER, Ont. -- Stephane Dion is giving no clue whether he thinks Liberals should pull the plug soon on the minority Conservative government.

Canada ranks a dismal 23rd out of 30 countries in the "consumer friendliness'' of our health care system, according to a study by a pair of private think-tanks.

As temperatures plummet in Nova Scotia, homeless shelters are calling for an emergency fund to help them stay open on the coldest days of the year.

Two people have been charged with animal cruelty after five puppies were thrown down a roadside outhouse in southwestern Alberta and left to die in early January, RCMP say.

Calgary's Helen Upperton continued her stellar World Cup season after winning the women's two-man bobsleigh event Saturday morning in Cesana, Italy.

An electrical short may be to blame for a fire at the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg on Sunday night, fire officials say.

Canada's spy agency is warily eyeing the possibility of violent protests against the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia.

Scottie Upshall had two goals and an assist, and Steve Downie registered a helper as the Flyers dealt the injury-bitten Ottawa Senators a 6-1 defeat Sunday night in Philadelphia.

As the ball sailed through the uprights, as his and every other Giant's dreams were fulfilled, Shaun O'Hara thought of one word. "Redemption," he said.