NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2008

Ontario politicians said Wednesday they are horrified by the spate of gun violence in Toronto over the last couple of days and are calling on the federal government to impose a handgun ban across the country.

Jimmy Carter had his cardigan. Brian Mulroney his knit pullovers. When U.S. Senator John McCain's campaign started to sputter last summer, he reportedly blamed his handlers for dressing him like a metrosexual in one "gay" V-neck sweater over a white T-shi

Richard Monette, the longtime director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, has died in a London, Ont., hospital at the age of 64.

Lebanese restaurant owner Raymond Salha and his wife were having oysters for lunch when she found a cluster of 26 pearls inside an oyster on her plate.

They're calling themselves "The Fempire," and if it sounds like a joke, then they're laughing all the way to the bank.

From A-list parties to bathroom lineups at TIFF yesterday the talk was all about Mickey Rourke's comeback in The Wrestler and Danny Boyle's heartbreaking Slumdog Millionaire. Peter Howell and Linda Barnard run down what's making waves at the festival.

Ford is cutting another 500 jobs at its assembly plant in Oakville because of falling demand in the U.S. market.

CALGARY - There's weather between the planets - bursts of incandescent gas and radiation erupting into space that can fry satellites, disable global positioning systems, knock out power grids, expose astronauts to deadly rays and possibly even influence c

VANCOUVER - They said all the right things Tuesday about competing for the position, but determining the backup to Roberto Luongo will likely focus on the future as much as the present.

Four of Canada's ex-prime ministers joined a call on Tuesday to tackle climate change in the country, which has actually opted out of the ...

Traffic ground to a halt on a stretch of Highway 401 in Toronto on Tuesday afternoon, as police investigated a shooting that ended with a body being dumped from a moving vehicle

Whether they're low-tech or made with the latest technology, IEDs are responsible for an ever-increasing proportion of victims, both military and civilian

WASHINGTON -- An independent study reportedly concludes that the United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear terrorism seven years after the September 11 attacks.

A Conservative candidate running in a Montreal South Shore riding is a past spokeswoman and current member of Opus Dei, a secretive Catholic organization. Nicole Charbonneau Barron, who is running for the Tories in Saint-Bruno-Saint-Hubert, is an active m

The work of the Large Hadron Collider is crucial for the survival of humanity, according to Professor Stephen Hawking

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has apologized for an animation on a Tory website that showed a puffin pooping on Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban say they know that an election campaign is underway in Canada and that's why they have stepped up attacks against Canadians in Afghanistan.

CFB SUFFIELD - Up to 500 birds are dead after an oil spill in southeastern Alberta from a well that was supposed to be shut down and suspended in case the company wanted to reopen it.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May sharply criticized Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Jack Layton on Tuesday, demanding they publicly admit they threatened to boycott debates next month if she were to be included.

U.S. to bolster its Afghan presence

The secret's out at KFC.

The Conservatives will unveil a new tax measure today that will affect virtually every product but does not involve the GST, CTV News has learned. The new measure is going to be broadly-based and will bring down the price of consumer goods, CTV's Ottaw

Notaleader.ca website -- launched today -- has hidden icons that, when clicked, reveal videos of the Liberal leader and his party colleagues in unflattering scenes.

The fate of tonight's Oasis concert in London, Ont., is in limbo after the band's lead guitarist, Noel Gallagher, was bowled over by a stage intruder Sunday night at the Virgin Festival on Toronto Islands.

Gloria O'Neill, who is still under a 10-year driving ban after killing a pedestrian, drives a Lincoln Continental in her Toronto neighbourhood Aug. 29, 2008. Suspended multiple times, O'Neill has gotten around the law in the past by applying for multiple

Despite crowd at scene identifying themselves as friends, police have yet to identify victim

CALGARY -- Reporters Without Borders is confirming that there has been a ransom demand made for a freelance Canadian journalist and colleagues who were kidnapped while working in Somalia.

Delivering to the Arctic is costly. A box of Special K cereal costs $8.99 at the Sachs Harbour Co-op, a box of 36 tea bags costs $6.99.

Russian troops will conditionally pull out of Georgian territory surrounding disputed areas in South Ossetia and Abkhazia after European monitors deploy next month

rise in the number of researchers and other visitors coming to Nunavut these days has prompted Parks Canada to start training local Inuit in polar bear safety, so that they can work as guards

Elizabeth May will not be allowed to take part in the leaders debate this election campaign after other parties vowed not to take part if the Green Leader was invited.

Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon South Park, calling the series "extremist" after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday.

LiLo was the talk of the eTalk party at CTV, sucking face with gal pal Samantha Ronson

The softening real estate market that's driven down home prices in the Lower Mainland is spreading to the B.C. Interior, experts say.

Third-party negotiators in contact with captors in Mogadishu; hostages believed to be safe

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - An unidentified warship off pirate-ridden Somali waters captured 14 pirates and destroyed their boat, a minister of the northern Puntland region said on Sunday

Luca Congi booted a 29-yard field goal with no time remaining as the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders overcame a huge deficit to defeat the Blue Bombers 34-31 on Sunday

Birth Certificate Found in Kenya. Citizen of Kenya and Indonesia. Hawaiian Certificate Forged.

Democratic presidential candidates calling for renegotiations may not know just how good the U.S. has it under the deal.

The Montreal Alouettes' top-ranked offence hardly missed a beat Sunday afternoon, even without running back Avon Cobourne.

TBILISI, Georgia - On the eve of a European Union shuttle mission to convince Russia to pull its troops back to prewar positions, Georgia's president vowed Sunday to regain control of two breakaway provinces with the help of "the rest of the world."

WASHINGTON - North of the border, it's more of the same - four aging white guys who led their parties in the last Parliament once again making the same old appeals to election-weary Canadian voters.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper bolted out of the gate Sunday with a precipitous election call while simultaneously downplaying talk of a Conservative majority.

One Canadian soldier was killed and seven others wounded Sunday during a roadside bomb explosion in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, a military official said

As the first member of the Canadian Air Force to wear a turban, 2nd Lieut. Jasbir Singh Tatla figures he's a good role model to issue a call to arms to his fellow Sikhs.

Seven years after 9/11, the U.S. is seriously cracking down on foreigners trying to sneak in from Canada

A ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean, ice specialists in Europe and the United States have agreed for the first time.

TOKYO - Green-coloured polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo.

Increasing numbers of B.C. women are taking up shooting, hunting as hobbies

On the eve of an election call, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he's anticipating a "very nasty" campaign from the opposition parties, in an exclusive interview with CTV News.

A McDonald's restaurant in Banff has been issued a $150 fine after a black bear feasted on food and garbage left on the front deck of the fast food joint's staff housing.

BEIJING -- A haunting song by a blind singer and a dazzling dance performed by 320 hearing impaired dancers wearing brilliant white dresses helped opened the Paralympic Games on Saturday.

A window has opened on a possible resolution to a dispute between the National Hockey League and the new Russian-based Continental Hockey League (KHL) involving player transfers

The B.C. Lions took a big step toward turning their season around with a 35-12 road win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Ivor Wynne Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

This study shows that compared with the nuclear genome of humans that contains 3 billion base pairs, Trichoplax has only 98 million. Earlier sequencing work showed that the mitochondrial genome of Trichoplax is over twice the size of those found in most a

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the West on Saturday of acting provocatively in and around the Black Sea

Even before the campaign begins Sunday, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe issued the kind of stop-a-majority plea that is usually a last-ditch tactic.

They started the game in the worst possible fashion, but started the second half in the best.

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Canada's newly appointed ambassador to Afghanistan says he doesn't believe that two aid workers gunned down outside Kabul last month were targeted because they were Canadian, but rather because of their efforts to improve

Despite reports to the contrary, Mats Sundin has not reduced his choice of teams to two - if he does indeed play hockey this season.

The microscopic chances of Mats Sundin coming to play in Vancouver were further reduced in size on Friday when the free agent centre met with the Toronto Maple Leafs brass and his agent said the 37-year-old Swede would only play for the Leafs or one other

HALIFAX - Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he hopes the Taliban doesn't use a federal election campaign to step up attacks on Canadian Forces

Three people are confirmed dead and another three injured in an industrial accident in Langley, British Columbia.

Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, says that an investigation revealed that the most likely source of the Listeriosis outbreak was an accumulation of bacteria "deep inside" the components of two identical slicing machines.

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center

Warnings that sea level could rise several metres by 2100 greatly exaggerate the threat, according to a new study that says it is more "plausible" to expect waters to rise about a metre this century.

A former Canadian Security Intelligence Service official says Toronto could soon discover the pitfalls of Canada's "wildly out-of-control" immigration policy

HALIFAX -- Defence minister Peter MacKay says the military will establish a permanent army reserve in Canada's North.

POTI, Georgia - The flagship of the U.S. navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored Friday outside this key Georgian port, defiantly delivering humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged U.S. ally in a slap at Moscow.

A giant particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, that is set to begin operations next week poses no threat to mankind, according to the latest report from the group in charge of safety at the facility.

Residents of Atlantic Canada are being told to pay close attention to weather advisories this weekend as tropical storm Hanna takes aim at a region that has already suffered a summer of heavy rainfalls.

Canada's defence minister has reactivated a Halifax-based military reserve unit that was disbanded 40 years ago, creating up to 100 part-time jobs

A wave of Canadian troops have returned home from Afghanistan to an emotional welcome, just days after three Canadian soldiers were killed.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned Kelly Ellard's second-degree murder conviction and ordered a fourth trial for her in the death of teenager Reena Virk

VANCOUVER - The discovery of a strange comet in the outer solar system may hold the secrets to the origins of Halley's Comet, scientists say.

OTTAWA - Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is sitting on a stockpile of orphaned bomb-grade uranium it doesn't want to talk about.

Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean retreated by nearly 2.5 million square kilometres last month - the single biggest August melt observed by scientists, according to the latest satellite measurements released late Thursday by the U.S. National Snow and Ice Dat

A Toronto-based environmental consulting firm has asked the courts to keep the Liberal Party of Canada and its candidates from using the name Green Shift for its policy platform.

An immigration scam or a sinister case of human smuggling may have led to the disappearance of four Chinese teenagers who enrolled at a private language school in Vancouver.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May has removed one of the party's candidates after he made what the party viewed as anti-Semitic comments in an online forum.

The RCMP have arrested five men and seized more than 5,100 pot plants after discovering a large marijuana grow operation in B.C.'s Interior.

The majority of British Columbians think Stephen Harper is the best choice for prime minister, according to a poll conducted by the Environics Research Group for CBC News.

The Taliban's recent successes against NATO troops in Afghanistan are more likely a matter of "luck" than a fresh influx of support and weapons from outside the war-torn country, Canada's top soldier said Thursday.

The Montreal Canadiens want to celebrate their 100th anniversary by staging an outdoor game at Olympic Stadium

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's governing Conservatives released new television ads today in an another sign that an election campaign is imminent.

Canadian Football Hall of Famer Earl Lunsford, known as the first player "to run for a mile," died at his home Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas. He was 74.

A Taliban attack that killed three Canadian soldiers shows the price of not having enough troops to hold and secure hard-won ground in Afghanistan, says a prominent retired general.

Former NHL bench boss Pat Quinn is looking to add another gold medal to his international coaching resume.

VANCOUVER - Leaving British Columbia's old-growth forests standing may make more economic sense than cutting them down for timber, especially as the province looks to strategies to cut global warming, a new B.C. study suggests.

The Vancouver Canucks have decided to honour former captain Trevor Linden by retiring his jersey.

Hockey star Sidney Crosby has become the youngest recipient of the Order of Nova Scotia

Maritimers are being warned to brace for windy, rainy weather Sunday as Hanna, now coded a tropical storm, moves through the region.

City gun store owner Dianne Harnois said she's seen a 30% spike in the number of women coming into her shop over the past two years. And she's got a theory why.

Okay. Not the greatest launch, but not the worst either. Let's not forget, Barack Obama's mom got pregnant as an unmarried teenager, and look how he turned out.

Speaking to his caucus on Wednesday, Mr. Dion said a Liberal government would set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to help groups likely to be hard hit by his proposed new fossil fuel taxes.

The daughter of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a police officer outside a Chicago bar.

British Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing caused uproar last night by predicting the assassination of Barack Obama if he becomes the first black U.S. president.

OTTAWA - The Canadian military will shut down its fleet of aerial drones now being used in Afghanistan after spending more than $250 million on the aircraft.

KABUL - Thousands of British, U.S. and Canadian troops have successfully escorted a new hydroelectric turbine through some of Afghanistan's most dangerous rebel territory to its new home at a dam in Helmand province, NATO said Wednesday.

Canada's ice shelves suffered massive erosion over the summer, losing almost one-quarter of their area, researchers have found.

Reed, the laid-back singer/songwriter who became a movie star courtesy Burt Reynolds, and whose banjo-picking tune "East Bound and Down" drove their hit Smokey movies, died yesterday of emphysema. He was 71.

Canadian soldiers who took part in nuclear weapons testing will be compensated, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Tuesday in Calgary

WELLAND, Ont. -- Tractor maker Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) is closing its factory in Welland, Ont., and moving the work outside Canada by the end of 2009

MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia will respond calmly to an increase in NATO ships in the Black Sea in the aftermath of the short war with Georgia, but promised that "there will be an answer."

The British military said it will actively look for alternatives to the real bearskins that are currently used to make the Royal Guards' traditional hats

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - Steve MacLean, one of the first Canadian astronauts selected in 1983, is the new president of the Canadian Space Agency.

CALGARY - A commodities expert says Canadians can expect to see some relief at the gasoline pumps, as the global price of crude oil continues to plummet.