NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2009

Vancouver Canucks fans are holding their collective breath in hopes this March doesn't treat the team like last year's.

A man who pleaded guilty last year to sexually assaulting his daughter while she was a teenager was sentenced to jail Friday afternoon in Abbotsford, B.C.

Veteran MP Dawn Black will leave the federal NDP to throw her hat into the ring for B.C.'s next provincial election.

Pilots and flight engineers are no surprise among Air Force mission planners, but an observer new to Afghanistan might wonder why there are infantry soldiers on the staff of the Operations Centre of the Canadian Helicopter Force Afghanistan.

Fifty years after Chinese rule began, Tibet's leader is still in exile, and many fear chaos will erupt if the conflict with China isn't resolved within his lifetime

Afghanistan's envoy to Canada warned the West against giving up on his country halfway and disagreed with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's suggestion the Taliban is unbeatable.

EDMONTON -- Sit back and enjoy the show, but don't expect these maids to touch your toilet.

The United States and Russia have both said they hope to have a new agreement by the end of this year on limiting nuclear weapons.

According to agreed facts, the man fired off a gun while confronting the boys and then, after drinking half a bottle of booze with their dad, he had the twins put their hands on his truck bumper so he could hit them with a hammer.

The Canadian economy became cleaner today as 16 new projects that develop and demonstrate emerging clean technologies were awarded $53 million.

News broke Wednesday that Vaughn had dropped to one knee and given Weber a $125,000, four-carat engagement ring on Valentine's Day. There is no word on when or where they will get married.

A Saskatchewan father whose two infant daughters froze to death when he took them into a snowstorm while he was drunk has been sentenced to three years in prison.

When a pizzeria closes, the pizzeria down the block usually sees a surge in business. That principle applies to commerce in the larger North American neighborhood. Whenever the United States locks the gate on a plausible economic activity, Canadians move

On the U.S. State Department's website there's an actual countdown clock, ticking away the minutes, hours and days until 12:01 a.m. on June 1, 2009, when the final part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) comes into effect. As far as the Ca

Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels has triggered a spike in violence in Vancouver, where seven shootings have taken place in 48 hours, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police superintendent said.

US economic conditions got worse in January and February, the Federal Reserve has said in its influential Beige Book.

Don Black said he despises Barack Obama. And he said he believes illegal aliens undermine the economic fabric of the United States.

More than a dozen people held a peaceful protest outside B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's Vancouver constituency office Thursday, calling for the return of three children taken from their parents.

Nato has agreed to resume high-level contacts with Russia, working with what US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a "greater unity of purpose".

On Afghanistan, where three more Canadian soldiers were killed on Tuesday, you get the feeling that our Prime Minister is being refreshingly candid while Barack Obama, he with the four-square reputation, is playing dangerous games.

KANDAHAR -- Walt Natynczyk showed he could work both ends of the rink yesterday.

TORONTO -- Students from a Cambridge separate high school English class penned letters yesterday in support of bullied high school student Lindsay Hyde.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The next generation of unmanned aircraft in the Canadian military will be armed, but will be used selectively and within the boundaries of international law, says the head of the country's air force.

WASHINGTON - Defence Minister Peter MacKay emerged from talks with the U.S. defence secretary Thursday to say that winning the war in Afghanistan is not simply a matter of military might.

The bodies of three Canadian soldiers killed by a roadside bomb will be repatriated on Friday. The bodies of the three men were loaded onto a transport plane at Kandahar Airfield to return to Canadian soil on Wednesday night.

B.C.'s Minister for Aboriginal Relations is hopeful the province's First Nations leaders will support his proposal to recognize aboriginal title and rights by enshrining the province's new relationship with their people into law.

Researchers have seen the best evidence yet for a pair of black holes orbiting each other within the same galaxy.

NASA will soon be on the lookout for possible Earths in a faraway corner of the galaxy.

A study involving nearly 70 scientists has found that the Amazon rainforest is surprisingly sensitive to drought and even a moderate drought can cause it to release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Two massive statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt 3,400 years ago, have been discovered in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor.

Saskatoon is the most dangerous city in Canada and Caledon, Ont., is the safest, according to the latest survey by Maclean's magazine.

Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible in the killing and beheading of fellow passenger Timothy McLean on a Winnipeg-bound Greyhound bus last summer

The first comprehensive testing of bisphenol A (BPA) levels in canned soft drinks in Canada has found that most contain the controversial chemical.

The Vancouver Canucks resisted the temptation to make another trade prior to Wednesday's 3 p.m. ET deadline. But it wasn't easy.

A man was reported shot Wednesday night in Surrey, B.C., police said

The Conservatives are calling for a senior Liberal senator's resignation after he speculated that citizens in Newfoundland and Labrador are so fed up with the federal government that they might form a separatist party.

Operations will be closed over the next several weeks as Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel consolidates production at its facilities in Pittsburgh, Indiana and Alabama. Although the shutdowns are billed as temporary, the company gave no indication when the plan

A New Mexico couple has more than a simple proposal story to share with their family and friends.

A Wal-Mart customer shopping for a new wallet Saturday night found 10 human teeth while looking through a billfold he was about to buy, the police said yesterday.

California electric-car upstart Tesla Motors Inc. said today it has started taking orders for its Tesla Roadster from Canadian customers willing to pay the hotrod's luxurious price tag.

Three Canadian Forces personnel were killed Tuesday when an improvised explosive device detonated near an armoured vehicle during a patrol in the Arghandab District. Two others were injured in the attack.

In one of the worst attacks on a sports team since the 1972 Munich Olympics, gunmen killed seven people when they opened fire on a vehicle carrying the Sri Lankan national cricket team on Tuesday in Lahore, Pakistan

CHICAGO - Chicago police said Tuesday a 14-year-old boy who posed as an officer drove a patrol car and aided in an arrest and seven officers face disciplinary reviews for the "lax" behaviour that allowed the teen's escapade to happen.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.

Scientists have found another moon hidden in one of Saturn's dazzling outer rings.

Take the name of Alex Burrows off the list of Vancouver Canucks who are likely to be traded before Wednesday afternoon's NHL trade deadline.

Two people were injured and taken to hospital Tuesday night after what may be the latest shooting in Metro Vancouver.

Alex Burrows scored twice and Pavol Demitra and Steve Bernier had the other goals as the Canucks (33-22-8) skated to their sixth straight win on home ice and 11th in their last 13 games overall.

An effort by a Liberal senator to effectively ban the East Coast seal hunt was dealt a fatal blow Tuesday when not a single colleague could be found to second his motion.

Michael Ignatieff says he won't give the government a blank cheque to spend $3-billion to stimulate the flagging economy, even though his refusal could plunge the country into an election.

Canadian Forces' Operation Caribbe is seeing some early successes in 2009 after supporting drug busts in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean that stopped some $272 million worth of cocaine from reaching the streets of North America.

Backlog means former Canadian Forces members forced to wait 12 weeks or longer

Three rival Pakistani Taliban groups have agreed to form a united front against international forces in Afghanistan in a move likely to intensify the insurgency just as thousands of extra US soldiers begin pouring into the country as part of Barack Obama'

A week before Stephen Harper called last year's election, he was photographed with thumbs-up and that hallmark smile, standing in the cockpit of a Canadian CF-18 fighter jet on the tarmac in Inuvik.

TORONTO -- Vandals targeted the Mississauga home of a bullied teen, pelting the property with eggs, condoms and other things

Alain Vigneault knows how easy it is for his players to be distracted at this time of the year.

The operators of a Port Coquitlam, B.C., gun shop have been charged after police raided the Prairie Avenue premises and seized a large stash of allegedly illegal firearms.

OTTAWA - The increase in gang violence on the streets of Vancouver and other Canadian cities has direct ties to the grisly drug-cartel wars that have terrorized Mexico and some American border towns, say Canadian and U.S. police.

An alleged leader of the notorious UN gang has been arrested along with his "lieutenant" and a number of his associates, according to police in Vancouver.

Gilbert Parent, the former Liberal Speaker of the House of Commons, died Monday night at the age of 73.

Believing he was acting on orders from God, Vincent Li attacked a stranger on a Greyhound bus last summer, mutilating his victim before decapitating him and cannibalizing part of the body.

Not only did he e-mail a doctored photo of the White House South Lawn covered in watermelons under the words: "No Easter egg hunt this year" but he then ...

An asteroid similar in size to an object that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of 1,000 Second World War-era atomic bombs sped past the Earth on Monday, astronomers said Tuesday.

Vehicle sales overall in Canada plunged by as much as 30 per cent from year-earlier levels, with GM's 56-per-cent drop the largest among the big players.

At 10 a. m. Monday -- as tickets went on sale for the legendary singer-songwriter's April 26 show at Jack Singer Concert Hall -- fans were quickly disappointed as they attempted to buy tickets both online and at Ticketmaster venues only to have them sell

A deadly blast that killed three Afghan children was caused by an improvised explosive device, not Canadian munitions, military officials said Monday.

A 56-year-old central Alberta man is accused of pretending to be a police officer and then kidnapping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

OTTAWA - Opposition critics are accusing Stephen Harper of an about-face on the Afghan mission, noting that the prime minister who once dismissed them as defeatists now acknowledges western forces alone can never beat the Taliban insurgency.

The Canadian government will set up eight support centres across the country to offer help to former and current members of the military and their families, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Monday.

The survey of more than 2,000 people found the east has the largest proportion of people in the UK who believe that the theory of evolution removes any need for God (44 per cent).

The latest flashpoint in Arctic politics - Friday's revelation that Canadian fighter jets intercepted a Russian bomber on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Ottawa - comes as Norway and its Nordic neighbours weigh a possible military pact t

We will leave it to history to pinpoint precisely when Chicken Little became an optimist -- but for me, the moment happened on a cold, wet morning last week.

I think judges should make rulings based on the facts presented before them in court and not be beholden to public opinion.

In the interest of relating the full story, yes, Rush Limbaugh has commented he would rather see President Obama fail, but it is because Mr. Limbaugh, like so many other Americans, does not want to see this country pushed further into socialism.

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The same source told The Hill Times that even this is an exaggeration of what really happened: "After 10 minutes into the meeting, the President was already inching towards the door. He stayed only to answer questions he was asked and the meeting lasted 1

The Vancouver Canucks limited the Columbus Blue Jackets to few good scoring chances on Sunday night, beating them for the first time in the last six meetings

CALGARY - The sight of the northern lights dancing across the night sky is so intense, some people swear they can hear the vibrant colours humming.

TORONTO - The bully who made Lindsay Hyde's school year a living hell has always dreamed of being famous.

The U.S. military's top official has cautioned that Iran may have amassed enough fissile material to construct an atomic weapon, amid renewed rhetorical sparring between Tehran and the West.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The way Canada conducts ground level operations in southern Afghanistan faces a major overhaul with the release of a new army manual that instructs soldiers on how to fight a guerrilla war.

The Vancouver Canucks only won two games in the month of January. They followed that up by only losing two in all of February.

Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a home in Phoenix, rake it with gunfire and execute a man.

Severe odour problems are the main reason for the closing of facilities, including Peel Region's compost-curing location in Caledon and two plants in Quebec that took thousands of tonnes from Toronto and York region.