NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2009

WINNIPEG - The federal government is reviewing the safety of energy-saving light bulbs, responding to concerns the low-cost green alternative may emit potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation.

So, it's official, America has a black president. But is he the first? Or the fifth?

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The need for Canadian Forces helicopters to help provide security for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver is likely to put strain on the military's air capabilities in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON -- Antarctica, the only place that had oddly seemed immune from climate change, is warming after all, according to a new study.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Wednesday that as Canada prepares to end its Afghan mission in 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama will likely look to other NATO countries to step up with more troops.

The case of two religious leaders charged with practising polygamy was put off until Feb. 18 following a brief court appearance by the two men in a Creston, B.C., court Wednesday morning.

Canada's major ISPs have all turned over to regulators information about their use of deep packet inspection to throttle file-sharing apps, and one thing is clear: Canada's Internet, like its beer, is straight-up cold-filtered.

The Pattullo Bridge, damaged by fire Sunday morning, could be reopened in two weeks, the B.C. south coast transportation authority said Wednesday.

OTTAWA - The federal government appears poised to completely reverse the past decade's paydown on the national debt and begin a series of budget deficits that could total $100 billion, new forecasts indicate.

OTTAWA - National security experts say the federal government has fumbled the Omar Khadr file by leaving it up to the United States to decide the young Canadian's fate - a policy failure that's becoming more apparent now that he may be returning north to

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says that while Canadians need another election like a "hole in the head," his party is prepared to defeat next week's federal budget, potentially sending voters back to the polls.

Eighth grader Charlie Sobcov wants to stop birds from dying in collisions with windows, but he doesn't want to ruin anybody's view.

Reigning men's world curling champion Kevin Martin of Edmonton posted a 7-2 victory over Scotland's Tom Brewster on Thursday night in the opening draw for both skips at the Canadian Open in Winnipeg.

Three Metro Vancouver police officers were arrested Wednesday for an alleged robbery and assault after an altercation involving a newspaper delivery man, Vancouver police said.

Canada's parliamentary budget watchdog is warning that the federal government is at risk of wiping out the last 11 years of debt payments due to the massive deficits forecasted for the next five years.

Canada's military is moving toward surgically enhancing the vision of its soldiers, sailors and airmen, hoping to better equip them for combat and other demanding jobs -- without the hassle of eyeglasses or contact lenses.

OTTAWA - The air force has resurrected a squadron with a historic record to play the bad guys in electronic warfare training.

As Canadians at home and abroad celebrated the dawn of a new political era Tuesday, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean said Barack Obama's inauguration has "symbolic meaning on a global scale."

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Before more boots hit the ground in southern Afghanistan, more shovels will need to break ground at Kandahar Airfield to build barracks and buildings for thousands of incoming American troops.

WASHINGTON - With one last handshake to President Barack Obama, George W. Bush boarded a helicopter Tuesday at the Capitol and began his post-presidential life, closing a two-term administration marked by war, recession and the biggest terrorist attack on

WASHINGTON - The National Mall pulsed with celebration and history Tuesday as Barack Obama took the oath of office before a vast, energized crowd witnessing a transfer of power like none other.

Hundreds of B.C. drivers are being denied vehicle insurance every year after thieves steal their identities and rack up fines and police fail to check the impersonators' driver's licences carefully when issuing tickets.

The Bank of Canada on Tuesday cut borrowing costs to a record low as it warned the economy will shrink this year.

Layton said yesterday that only the NDP-Liberal coalition formed last year to replace the Tories can be trusted to implement the ideas needed to help Canada through the economic turmoil.

Claude Lemieux has made it back to the NHL.

Speaking in Halifax after a meeting with economic leaders, Harper promised a budget on Jan. 27 that would meet both the short- and long-term needs of the Canadian economy.

Police continue to investigate the cause of a fire that closed one of the busiest bridges in Metro Vancouver, while transit officials seek ways to ease traffic congestion resulting from the closure of the Pattullo Bridge.

A teenaged Omar Khadr identified Canadian Maher Arar, who was tortured in Syria after he was sent there by American authorities, as someone he had seen at al-Qaida safehouses and training camps in Afghanistan, an FBI special agent testified Monday.

At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.

Other banner-raisings have been more momentous. And others were more emotional than when Glenn Anderson's No. 9 finally went up to the rafters at Rexall Place last night.

An inside look at our city's lucrative, ever-growing porn biz

Police sources tell CTV News that a campfire made by homeless people to keep warm has caused millions of dollars in structural damage to the Pattullo Bridge.

Blue Jackets' Nash, Williams hand Vancouver 5th shootout loss of season

PM may have to put vow to end mission in 2011 on hold until new U.S. policy becomes clear

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea said its army remained on alert Sunday, a day after North Korea threatened military action in response to Seoul's hard-line stance against its communist regime.

Should National Hockey League fans be concerned about a potential work stoppage, four years after a lockout wiped out the 2004-05 season?

The Calgary Flames are running away with the lead in the NHL's Northwest Division, but with half a season to go, things are far from settled.

A fire at the south end of the Pattullo Bridge has the structure closed to all traffic this morning.

The recent rapid warming of polar temperatures and shrinking of multi-year Arctic sea ice are "highly unusual compared to events from previous thousands of years," says a major U.S. government report on the Arctic climate.

The City of Vancouver will get the hundreds of millions of dollars it says it needs to ensure its $1-billion waterfront 2010 Olympics athletes village project stays afloat

Israel halted its military offensive in the Gaza Strip after three weeks of fighting at 7 p.m. ET Saturday.

Resident killer whales off the western coasts of Canada and the United States are being poisoned by eating salmon laced with toxic PCBs, says a new study on yet another threat to a species already facing extinction.

Canadian researchers have found that massive stars that exist within globular clusters - groupings of about 100,000 stars - are the result of one binary star gobbling up another and turning into what is known as a blue straggler.

NEW YORK - Investigators provided a dramatic detailed account Saturday of the ill-fated US Airways flight that crash-landed in the Hudson River, with the pilot telling controllers just moments after takeoff: "We're gonna be in the Hudson."

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican says Pope Benedict is getting his own channel on Google.

President-elect calls for 'new declaration of independence from ideology and small thinking'

Residents in and around Tomslake, B.C., say months of tension and suspicion about pipeline bombings have driven a wedge between people in the community

"The West should be rightly angry if we assisted only Central Canada," Ignatieff told the Herald. "We can't put money into the auto sector in Central Canada without considering the legitimate concerns of the B.C. forest industry and the Alberta oil indust

Defeat of Conservative government over budget would be ill-advised, McGuinty and others warn

CBC News has learned that the two men charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of four RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe, Alta., are expected to plead guilty Monday to a lesser charge of manslaughter.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday that infrastructure spending and help for the unemployed dominated talks with Canada's premiers and territorial leaders, but he didn't reveal any specific funding commitments.

WINNIPEG - Canada's polar bears are not teetering on the brink of extinction and don't need the alarmist rhetoric coming from some of the world's biologists, an Inuit expert said Friday at a one-day summit to discuss the fate of the arctic mammals.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is meeting with the provincial and territorial premiers today to hear their wish list ahead of the federal budget. The government says the fiscal blueprint has not yet been sent to the printers, and it is open to making

Vancouver Canucks netminder Roberto Luongo hadn't played since Nov. 22, so could be forgiven for looking rusty in his return to the lineup on Thursday night. But there was no excusing the poor performance by the rest of the team.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean began a visit to her native Haiti with the country reeling from a succession of natural disasters that have intensified an already painful food crisis.

NEW YORK - The pilot who guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River - saving all 155 people aboard - became an instant hero Thursday, with accolades from the mayor and governor and a fan club online

Airplanes chew up birds all the time but sometimes the birds win.

The Minnesota Wild and goaltender Niklas Backstrom continue to be a combination the Edmonton Oilers can't handle.

The RCMP's civilian watchdog will investigate every case in which a person died after being struck by a Mountie Taser, the group's chair said Thursday.

TORONTO -- On one of the most frigid mornings of the winter, with a windchill of minus 30 and an extreme cold weather alert issued by the city, 45 homeless men at the Scott Mission were issued their packing orders yesterday

Researchers at Duke University, who developed a material that can "cloak" an item from detection by microwaves, report that they have expanded the number of wavelengths they can block.

The world's oceans are getting help controlling harmful acid levels from an unseemly source, according to a new study that found fish feces play a key role in neutralizing carbon dioxide in the marine environment.

Canadian pilot Pierre Lueders and brakeman David Bissett won Thursday's World Cup two-man bobsleigh race in St. Moritz, Switzerland

Earth is "on the brink of entering another Ice Age," according to one report.

WINNIPEG - It's a "critical time" for polar bears and their survival rests in the hands of Canadians, federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Thursday

Roberto Luongo is expected to return to the net when the struggling Vancouver Canucks host the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday (10 p.m. ET).

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban planted roughly twice as many makeshift bombs in Kandahar province during the last quarter of 2008 as they did during the same stretch of 2007, the Canadian military said Thursday.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the Kuril Islands off Russia's east coast Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey says

Passengers are being rescued Thursday while standing on the wings of an airliner after it went down and remained floating in the Hudson River near Manhattan.

Canada's premiers have arrived in Ottawa with a multibillion-dollar wish list for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Quebecers are experiencing temperatures colder than those at the North Pole on Wednesday, according to meteorologists who are tracking a dome of frigid air that has settled over the province.

The Vancouver Canucks put veteran goaltender Curtis Sanford on waivers Wednesday, heralding the return of No. 1 goaltender Roberto Luongo from a groin injury.

A high profile member of B.C.'s opposition party was denied boarding at Vancouver's airport because her breast pump was deemed a security threat.

CBC News has learned police have laid charges against a man in the death of Silas O'Brien, a 21-year-old man from Abbotsford, B.C., who was killed in what police have described as a horrifying road rage incident.

A wheelchair-bound paraplegic who was on the lam after skipping a deportation flight to Britain this week was arrested by Canada Border Services agents Wednesday and taken into custody.

Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who starred in TV series Fantasy Island and played Khan in theStar Wars film The Wrath of Khan, has died. He was 88.

Shares in telecom equipment giant Nortel Networks Corp. (TSX:NT) lost nearly two thirds of their value Wednesday after the company and several of its units filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors.

A seven-year-old boy awoken by an explosion in a home on a Vancouver Island First Nations reserve may be the only survivor in a devastating fire that left as many as five people dead.

The Harper government must trade "empty rhetoric" for big spending on the Arctic to protect Canada's northern sovereignty from U.S. President George W. Bush's bold ambitions in the north

Kids with Nazi-inspired names now in the custody of the state

LOS ANGELES -- A complete tusk believed to belong to a prehistoric mammoth was uncovered on Santa Cruz Island off the Southern California coast, researchers reported Tuesday. If the discovery is confirmed, it would mean the tusked beasts roamed 62,000-acr

Canadians in five frost-bitten provinces are being warned to bundle up for at least a few more days of frigid temperatures before the mercury begins to rise.

Clinton says U.S. needs 'fewer adversaries'

Militants in Lebanon sent rockets crashing into northern Israel on Wednesday, while Israeli aircraft pounded a Gaza cemetery, Hamas weapons positions and tunnels used for smuggling, witnesses and the military said Wednesday.

Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has issued a new audiotape urging Muslims to launch a jihad, or holy war, to stop the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

People with a high caffeine intake, from coffee, tea, energy drinks, or chocolate, are more likely to experience hallucinations and hear voices, a new study says.

The visiting New Jersey Devils chased netminder Jason LaBarbera in the first period and took advantage of backup Curtis Sanford's miscue later in the frame en route to a 5-3 win on Tuesday night.

Canada's Arctic sovereignty is not under increased threat despite recent forthright statements from the United States and the European Union spelling out their interests in the region, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says.

Frigid winds are blowing across the country as Canadians endure some of the coldest weeks of winter. Environment Canada has issued wind-chill warnings that stretch out from the Prairies, also hitting parts of Ontario and Quebec.

A prestigious Montreal school must pay $5 million in damages to dozens of former students who say they were sexually assaulted by teachers, Quebec's top court ruled Tuesday.

Two teams soldiering on without their superstar goaltenders will cross paths when the New Jersey Devils visit the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday (10 p.m. ET).

After four bomb attacks on its energy facilities in northeastern B.C., EnCana is offering a $500,000 reward for information that helps identify who is behind the incidents

Driven south by a lack of food, there are about 10 times as many snowy owls as usual on P.E.I. this year, but they are not having much luck on the Island.

The federal government has committed $5.6 million to improve security on B.C.'s sprawling coastal ferry system and Vancouver's SeaBus commuter ferry service.

There are no mandatory Canadian standards for replacement brake pads, and "it's a huge problem, because what's happening is that we're getting huge amounts of Chinese product dumped into Canada,"

North Korea said Tuesday it will hold onto its nuclear arsenal until it is satisfied the U.S. is not hiding atomic weapons in South Korea.

Major League Baseball team dons camouflage-themed uniforms in honour of the local troops. On Saturday, the Edmonton Oil Kings will do a Great White North version when they hit the ice with one-night-only camo unis for Military Appreciation Night.

Omar Khadr's lawyers are calling on Canada to do the right thing by seeking the repatriation of the Canadian citizen who has spent much of his youth in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is pushing ahead with the creation of a long-debated national securities regulator, igniting a battle with Quebec and Alberta just as Ottawa is seeking the provinces' help in reviving Canada's flagging economy.

Arctic residents living along the coast of the Beaufort Sea have become acutely sensitive to the forces of nature, with scientists warning that rising seas and melting permafrost could erode away at their communities.

Roberto Luongo admits he is fully healed from a groin injury but still isn't 100 per cent as far as his return to the Vancouver Canucks net.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the city will ask the province for permission to borrow more than $400 million to fund the completion of the 2010 Winter Olympics Athletes Village in False Creek.

Canada's top court rejected an effort to quash the Crown's appeal in the case of Kelly Ellard, who faces a fourth trial in the drowning death of B.C. teen Reena Virk more than a decade ago

WASHINGTON - By turns wistful, aggressive and joking at the final news conference of his presidency, President George W. Bush vigorously defended his record Monday but also offered an extraordinary listing of his mistakes

A joint mission involving Canadian, British and Afghan troops is being hailed as a "tremendous success" after soldiers seized one of the largest caches of materials to make roadside bombs.

This winter, bird watchers in Brackendale are reporting clear skies.

OTTAWA -- Former prime minister Brian Mulroney was invited by the Bush family to the official launch of the world's biggest aircraft carrier on Saturday.

VANCOUVER -- Canadians hoping to be a part of the torch relay for the 2010 Olympic Games have another shot with the launch of a second selection process for torchbearers.

Hundreds of people gathered at a Bathurst, N.B., church Sunday afternoon for a memorial service to mark the one year anniversary of a tragic van crash that killed seven high school basketball players and a teacher.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A ferry capsized in a severe storm in central Indonesia on Sunday and officials said around 250 people were feared dead.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 US in cash, a resident said Sunday

Troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City on Sunday in what appeared to be one of the fiercest ground battles of Israel's 16-day offensive against Hamas militants.

Canadians who still love sending traditional "snail mail" will have to pay more as of Monday.

While forecasters hoped the worst was over, the threat of mudslides remained for the waterlogged B.C. community of Chilliwack Saturday as rains began to taper off and water levels continued to recede.

San Jose guts out 4-2 victory to remain atop NHL's Western Conference

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing a case that will single out Canadian policy as an example of how not to protect the environment.