NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2008

Freezing rain in Nova Scotia Thursday morning closed schools and caused major problems at the Robert L. Stanfield International Airport in Halifax.

A woman with breast cancer told a judicial inquiry in St. John's Wednesday that she was shocked by her doctor's conduct, after he gave her devastating news about a misdiagnosis via her answering machine.

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A new study is one of the first to show that smoking in a car poses a potentially serious health hazard to occupants, particularly children.

The sister of a Canadian man imprisoned in India says her brother's life is in danger and every day could be his last.

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market piled on the losses in early trading as a long rise in commodity prices continued to run out of steam.

The Dalai Lama said Thursday he's willing to meet with Chinese leaders as pro-Tibet protests continue to spread.

MacKay says extending 6-month stints possible as manpower shortages hamper Afghan mission

The benchmark index of the Toronto Stock Exchange slid more than 400 points Wednesday and the loonie dropped more than two cents as investors bailed out of commodities.

A national survey of doctors found that 45 per cent of the family doctors who responded in the province are accepting all new patients who come to them, compared to 41 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador, 32 per cent in Manitoba and 28 per cent in Alber

The Canadian team chasing a fifth straight gold medal at the next world junior hockey championship in Ottawa will have an entirely new coaching staff.

"We definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we'll see what happens," Crow tells Spinner. As to when fans might hear those collaborations, she says, "I think that's going to be next year."

Conservative mall spices up its public restrooms

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis St. Laurent, the largest icebreaker in the fleet, is on its way from Quebec to Cape Breton to free a passenger ferry stuck in ice just off Sydney Harbour.

A few trucks still make morning rounds despite lower prices at grocery and corner stores

Some former NHL tough guys have made it over to Afghanistan where they will play ball hockey with some tough army guys and gals.

MONTREAL - It had been more than a month since the St. Louis Blues won a game on the road, so going into the Bell Centre and knocking off the Montreal Canadiens tasted sweet to goaltender Manny Legace.

EDMONTON - The once unthinkable has now at least become a possibility. Written off as dead a month ago, the Edmonton Oilers continued to inch their way back into the playoff picture Tuesday as Curtis Glencross scored two third-period goals to lead the

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - The Toronto Maple Leafs brushed off the shock of allowing a 178-foot goal and gave their dimming playoff hopes a boost.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Backup goalie Fredrik Norrena helped preserve Columbus' slim playoff hopes.

The 10-game regular-season countdown has begun for the Vancouver Canucks and while it's too early to say whether we will have final liftoff toward the playoffs, the signs Monday night were at least encouraging.

The idea of a political boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games - rather than a full boycott - began to emerge today with calls for government leaders and royal families to stay away from the opening ceremonies

Toronto may well have a big league car race through its streets in 2009 after all

The Defence Department has turned down an offer of six U.S. Blackhawk helicopters for its operations in Kandahar in the hope it can still acquire larger choppers for the Afghanistan mission

MONTREAL - Space engineers are anxious to see their latest toy perform now that Dextre the Canadian robot is fully assembled on the International Space Station

WASHINGTON -- Critical Arctic sea ice this winter made a tenuous partial recovery from last summer's record melt, federal scientists said Tuesday. But that's an illusion, like a Hollywood movie set, scientist Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Da

Winter-weary residents are digging out of the third ferocious snowstorm to hit Newfoundland in less than a week.

The European Union should consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, unless violence is soon quelled in riotous Tibet, France's foreign minister said Tuesday.

Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and a man considered one of the world\'s top science fiction writers, has died.

CN Rail is facing federal charges over the train derailment and oil spill at Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton in August 2005.

Canada has remained mum on the issue partly because recognizing a unilateral declaration of independence could allow Quebec separatists to claim they could leave Canada the same way -- with a one-sided declaration

The tension was palpable as dozens gathered at the Calgary airport arrivals gate Monday night, waiting anxiously for the first glimpse of three returning Calgary reservists to emerge from behind two glass sliding doors.

The Dalai Lama warned Tuesday that he would step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if Tibetan protesters in China continue to act out violently.

The Liberals held two ridings in Toronto and one in Vancouver Monday night, but the Conservatives defeated Stephane Dion's hand-picked candidate in northern Saskatchewan.

VANCOUVER - The 10-game regular-season countdown has begun for the Vancouver Canucks and while it's too early to say whether we will have final liftoff toward the playoffs, the signs Monday night were at least encouraging.

What's in a name? Well, for one thing, accuracy. Thus, it is not "Georgia Strait," which everyone, including this newspaper's editors and the letter writers to our editorial pages, insist on calling it. It is the "Strait of Georgia." This is how

METRO VANCOUVER - For the first time in Canadian history, a man has been charged with terrorist financing for allegedly raising money for the Tamil Tigers, police said Monday.

With a year and a half to go until the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, Canada's winter athletes have hit a new high, finishing their World Cup season with more medals than ever before.

Star Liberal candidates Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay handily won the federal byelections in Toronto on Monday, retaining seats long considered Liberal havens.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The 81st Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan has been identified as Sgt. Jason Boyes of 2nd Batallion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry based in Shilo, Man.

The top U.S. Marine in Afghanistan said Sunday that his North Carolina-based assault force has been overwhelmed by the welcome from Canadian troops.

OTTAWA - Canada has said it is too soon to contemplate a boycott of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, despite the European Union and several other nations coming out against a boycott.

EDMONTON and WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke to the president of Mexico on Monday about the plight of a Canadian woman imprisoned for more than two years without a trial, government sources say.

A massive show of strength by Chinese security officials appears to have restored an eerie calm in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, as a deadline looms for "troublemakers" who took part in protests, but the Dalai Lama said yesterday he feared the Chinese wer

SHANGHAI - China has effectively closed Tibet to foreigners as it prepares to deal with protesters in the aftermath of last week's riots in Lhasa.

The decision to extend Canada's Afghan mission until sometime in 2011 was met with neither joy nor sorrow by the men and women that Parliament expects to fulfill this new mandate.

The government has had difficulty enforcing the provisions of a $184-million maintenance contract for the military's Cormorant search-and-rescue helicopters, a situation that has resulted in the choppers being grounded because of a lack of parts.

With 12 games left in the regular season, the Canucks hold the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, while the Coyotes are sitting on the post-season bubble.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - They have been quietly infiltrating the coalition ranks at Kandahar Airfield for weeks, their tan camouflage uniforms hard to distinguish from those of their Canadian cousins, save for the distinctive peaked cap.

In the National Hockey League there are two sets of standards: one for the star players and one for everyone else.

Members of the Swedish pop supergroup Abba have paid tribute to their former drummer who has bled to death at his home in Spain.

The provincial government has been running ads on TV for preparedness. They call it emergency preparedness, but I tend to think of it as disaster preparedness, as any event that would require me to have to pack up essentials into a single, liftable bag wo

Four contestants from Project Runway Canada are among the designers showcasing collections during fashion week. This time critics, buyers and consumers will be the judges

More than 30 people were arrested yesterday in an early-morning raid on a downtown after-hours club.

Tibetans taking part in and affected by the continuing unrest have contacted the BBC News website to describe their experiences.

CHICAGO - The Calgary Flames took charge in the second period against the Chicago Blackhawks, then hung on in the third.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Joe Corvo took the questions in stride, mostly because he surely expected them.

PITTSBURGH - Sidney Crosby, widely recognized as hockey's top player, might not be able to argue he's the best on the Pittsburgh Penguins when he returns from a lingering ankle injury.

SUNRISE, Fla. - Florida's power play was too much for Atlanta, again. Olli Jokinen and Rostislav Olesz scored with the man advantage and the Panthers tied a franchise record with their seventh consecutive victory, 3-1 over the Thrashers on Sunday nig

WASHINGTON - If the Washington Capitals were feeling the pressure of the playoff race, the nerves didn't trickle down to goalie Cristobal Huet.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus' second-string goalie Fredrik Norrena got the starting nod and had barely seven minutes to prepare for what became the best performance of his career.

Corn-derived biofuel already has dramatically altered the economic reality of the American heartland and promises boom times for Ontario farmers. But how can we possibly keep up with demand? And what about the spiralling cost of food?

A Canadian manufacturer is crying foul over a bureaucratic tussle that it believes is blocking its low-speed car from residential streets - but government officials say that there is no conspiracy to kill the electric car.

EDMONTON - Military police were investigating Sunday after the body of soldier was found on a Canadian Forces\' base in Edmonton.

Kevin Martin will carry a 13-0 Brier record into next month's men's world curling championship in Grand Forks, N.D.

HALIFAX - Forecasters were tracking a massive storm on Sunday that threatened to unleash powerful winds in parts of Nova Scotia and bury Newfoundland under 50 centimetres of snow over a couple of days.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier died Sunday evening after he stepped on an "explosive device" while on foot patrol in Afghanistan's perilous Panjwaii district.

As Britain prepares to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force, Germany is reclaiming the First World War flying ace known as the Red Baron as a national hero.

The scourge of gun violence plaguing Toronto streets is being fuelled by a cross-border guns for marijuana trade, law enforcement officials tell the Sunday Sun

ZURICH -- Glaciers are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the U.N. Environment Program said Sunday.

BEIJING - China blocked access to YouTube.com today after dozens of videos of recent protests in Tibet appeared on the popular U.S. video website.

The Dalai Lama has called for an international investigation of China's crackdown on protesters in Tibet.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Canada expects its NATO allies will soon offer 1,000 more soldiers to support the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Sunday.

At least 80 people have been killed in unrest following protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule, the Tibetan government in exile says.

The Canucks had lost their previous two games and looked ready to make it three when they blew a 3-0 first-period lead

The Canadian Forces has a message for stay-at-home mothers:We want you. Homemakers, women returning to work after long absences and older career women seeking a change were the target of a recruiting campaign that saw uniformed military personnel staff at

If you think a "Product of Canada" label means the food in the package was grown in Canada, think again

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Wearing sealskin hats and eating seal flipper pie, fishermen and supporters of Canada's commercial harp seal hunt gathered in St. John's, N.L., on Saturday to counteract protests around the world against the centuries-old industry.

VENGEFUL rioters returned to the streets of the old Tibetan quarter of Lhasa yesterday, defying the gunshots and tear gas of Chinese troops surrounding the centre of the city.

MONTREAL - The aggressive Montreal driver is rarely shackled by rules of the road, but some French-language purists are worried that the stop signs people blow through increasingly read "STOP" instead of "ARRET."

Former Montreal Canadiens defenceman and Hockey Hall of Famer Kenny Reardon has passed away after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 86

The National Hockey League has handed Anaheim Ducks defenceman Chris Pronger an eight-game suspension for stomping on Vancouver Canucks forward Ryan Kesler in a game Wednesday night.

LOS ANGELES - Video game publisher Activision Inc. has asked a U.S. federal court to declare that its popular "Guitar Hero" game does not violate a patent held by real-guitar maker Gibson Guitar Corp.

Toronto police are investigating whether the son of disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black was involved in any way in a hit-and-run collision downtown on Thursday night.

One man is dead and five others injured after a shootout in Toronto late Friday night. The incident took place at about 10 p.m. in a townhouse complex near Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue in North York in the west end of the city.

RCMP have arrested two men and seized one vehicle in the suspected road-rage incident that left a 21-year-old B.C. man dead while his two best friends watched helplessly.

Two astronauts "camped out" in an International Space Station airlock overnight as part of their preparations for a spacewalk to assemble the Canadian-built Dextre robot.

Protesters plan to rally in 20 communities across Canada today against the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Emergency crews didn't have much time to survey the damage from Friday evening's possible tornado in downtown Atlanta before being told they had to brace for more storms.

KINGSTON, Ont. - Red-faced and unwilling to make eye contact with anyone in the court, a 23-year-old Kingston, Ont., man apologized on Friday to the dozens of teenage girls he had fooled into performing degrading sexual acts in front of their Internet web

It was a day off today for the Vancouver Canucks. So, it was like any other day for Trevor Linden and - the harshest critics would say - a lot of nights this season for Markus Naslund.

The U.S. firm trying to purchase Canada's largest space company and with it the ownership of a taxpayer-funded high-tech satellite has brought in a lobbyist well-connected to the Harper government to make its case.

BEIJING - Protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule in Tibet turned violent Friday, bathing Lhasa in smoke from tear gas, bonfires and burned shops, and posing a challenge to China on whether its image can withstand a harsh crackdown ahead of th

OTTAWA - The Speaker of the House of Commons warned Friday that excessive partisanship has pushed parliamentary committees to the brink of anarchy.

FOGO, N.L. - A fierce blizzard was raging over central Newfoundland when Edna Brown's house on Fogo Island was suddenly rattled by an avalanche.

FREDERICTON - A dying Ontario man has been granted a last, great wish: to be acquitted of a murder he was wrongly convicted of almost 33 years ago in New Brunswick.

VANCOUVER -- Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says he would place a price on carbon as part of his government's commitment to environmental leadership, but he steered clear of calling for a tax, at least for now.

The Canadarm gave a helping hand to Dextre, the Canadian robot. Astronauts were able to use the mechanical arm late Friday night to get power to flow to the International Space Station's new robot.

The mystery over what happened in the 14 minutes before the Queen of the North ran aground and sank could be solved by this time next year, when a class-action lawsuit filed by survivors of the crash finally heads to trial.

Mexican authorities are now claiming that the Canadian woman who has been imprisoned without trial for more than two years signed a statement in which she confessed to her alleged crimes.

KABUL - Kandahar, where Canadian forces are responsible for security, is no longer the most hazardous place in Afghanistan, according to a senior Afghan general.

OTTAWA - Alberta's oilsands industry will be allowed to triple its annual greenhouse-gas pollution over the next decade, and more than 20 per cent of emissions from the rest of the oilpatch will be exempt from Prime Minister Stephen Harper government's

VICTORIA - Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who killed his disabled daughter in 1993 and sparked a national debate on euthanasia, quietly left Victoria on Thursday after he was given a four-day, unescorted temporary leave from prison for compassion

TAMPA, Fla. - Billy Crystal whacked himself in the helmet with his backswing, found his shoelaces and socks sabotaged and watched his team lose.

Ottawa police are looking for a Carleton University student who has gone missing. Nadia Kajouji, 18, from the Toronto-area, has not been seen since March 9 upon returning to Ottawa after spending reading week with her family in Brampton, Ont.

The Italians are coming. And according to Fashion Design Council of Canada president Robin Kay, so are the French, British and Japanese