NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2009

VANCOUVER -- Sandro DeAngelis kicked a 27-yard field goal with no time remaining Saturday night to give the Calgary Stampeders a 28-26 victory over the B.C. Lions and first place in the CFL's West Division.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has praised a UN proposal to regulate Iran's uranium enrichment programme.

The government has insisted it will not make a ransom payment to Somali pirates who have kidnapped a British couple.

CLEVELAND - A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found as many as six bodies at his home.

The Montreal Canadiens saw their rival Toronto Maple Leafs come back from the dead on Saturday but like a plucky teen heroine in a scary movie, the hometown Habs dealt the killing blow in the shootout for a 5-4 victory on Halloween

One person is dead and another is in hospital after a shooting in Metro Vancouver early Saturday morning. Police were called to a house party in the 10200 block of 152A Street in the Guilford area of Surrey, B.C., at approximately 4 a.m. PT.

EDMONTON -- The Edmonton Eskimos got the prefect boost for their playoff hopes - a game against the down-and-out Toronto Argonauts.

DeAndra Cobb rushed for 160 yards and a touchdown to power the Hamilton Tiger-Cats past the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders 24-6 on a windy Saturday afternoon

Only one hybrid bear has ever been seen in the wild, so the study evaluated two hybrid bears kept in captivity, which are among 17 such bears known to exist.

The following statement was released to the media in Edmonton October 29 by the family of Lieutenant Boyes, following his death in Afghanistan.

Islamic radicalization of Canada's Somali community is becoming a national security concern, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Friday.

Ford will close its St. Thomas, Ont., assembly plant and wipe out about 1,500 direct jobs and employment for thousands of other workers in less than two years under a concessions contract with the company's main union

Canadians are warming up to Prince Charles after more than a decade in which public opinion turned against the heir to the throne, after his divorce from Princess Diana and his marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles.

The news that 1998 Olympic gold medalist Ross Rebagliati will carry the Liberal banner in the next federal election and take on Stockwell Day in the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla certainly made a splash last week.

MANILA, Philippines - A typhoon battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering onto rooftops Saturday to escape rising waters. Seven people died and at least five were

SAN DIEGO - A flotilla of rescue vessels continued its search Saturday for nine people feared dead at sea following an air collision between a Coast Guard aircraft and a Marine Corps helicopter

Shrugging off a disappointing opening skate at the Cup of China event in Beijing, Canadian Joannie Rochette powered through her free skate on Saturday to capture a bronze medal.

Canada's minister of natural resources got an earful Friday from members of the country's nuclear industry who say they want the federal government to make a firm decision on the future of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd

Three statesmen who oversaw the crumbling of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago gathered Saturday in Germany's capital.

An inmate at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre who currently has flu-like symptoms says he still has to clean a dirty cell where he is being isolated.

A $17.5-million settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Newfoundland and Labrador's Eastern Regional Health Authority by breast cancer patients who were victims of faulty hormone receptor testing.

Canada and Greenland are setting up a polar bear commission that will ensure bear populations that are shared between both nations will be protected and managed properly, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Friday

Tim Hortons , the iconic Canadian coffee shop chain, warned on Friday that sales in Canada could slow due to the sluggish economy, even as it reported a quarterly profit that narrowly topped estimates.

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After carrying the momentum from Thursday night's 2-1 shootout win over the hometown Los Angeles Kings with two goals in the opening five minutes of Friday's tilt at Anaheim, the Canucks proceeded to allow seven unanswered goals.

PEORIA, Ariz. - An Iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter in Arizona with his car because she was becoming "too Westernized" has been arrested in Georgia

A Canadian soldier who had spent less than a week in Afghanistan was killed Friday by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol in Kandahar.

Simon Whitfield and Catriona Le May Doan, the first of 12,000 runners to carry the Olympic flame across Canada, have begun the 106-day, 45,000-kilometre relay leading up to the opening of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver on Feb. 12.

VICTORIA, B.C. - The national countdown to the 2010 Winter Olympics began Friday with the start of the epic torch relay designed to tell a story of Canada, one pair of red mittens at a time.

Two Winnipeg teenagers planned to use stolen guns to take staff and students of their high school hostage, lock them in a room and toss Molotov cocktails into the crowd, the judge at the teens' sentencing hearing was told Thursday.

A $100,000 donation from a Calgary businessman will pay for hundreds of white crosses on Memorial Drive in honour of fallen soldiers through the decades

The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert said yesterday.

MOSCOW - Russia is planning extensive research to support its claim to a broad swath of energy-rich territory beneath the Arctic Sea, a top official of the nation's icebreaker fleet said Friday.

Residents of the Philippines still recovering from tropical storms that killed about 1,100 people in the last month were hit again as Typhoon Mirinae swept ashore on the main island of Luzon.

Former French president Jacques Chirac will stand trial for an alleged corruption scandal from his years as Paris mayor.

After beating the Los Angeles Kings in a 2-1 shootout win Thursday night, without all-star goalie Roberto Luongo, the Canucks face the Anaheim Ducks Friday night

The Olympic flame for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games has just touched down at Victoria International Airport, more than an hour late.

Mikael Samuelsson scored in the first period and again in the third round of the shootout, leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night.

VIENNA, Austria - Iran's president pledged to work with the West to resolve a standoff over its nuclear program even as his country reportedly balked at a U.S.-backed deal to limit its uranium enrichment and curb its ability to make a nuclear warhead.

LOS ANGELES - A gunman escaped after wounding two men in the parking garage of a North Hollywood synagogue Thursday, frightening worshippers who heard gunshots and screams before the bleeding victims stumbled in during morning services.

SHERWANGAI, Pakistan - Pakistani soldiers battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be linked to 9/11 suspects, as they confront an enemy skilled in operating in a mountainous terrain with endless

The wife of a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan described her husband as a "gallant warrior" who had expressed frustration over the lack of support for the mission.

REGINA - A member of the Saskatchewan legislature stopped to help a driver in distress on his way into work Thursday morning and ended up having to fight off and then subdue a pen-wielding carjacker, bent on making off with his vehicle.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has received a lifetime membership from a disabled people advocacy group in B.C.

One of Canada's most prominent sports medicine specialists, Tony Galea, has been charged with illegally importing and selling drugs, according to the doctor's lawyer

To some who rarely watch it, it's both mysterious and outrageous that the Fox News TV channel dominates its cable TV rivals in ratings, and keeps growing.

The price of Nathalie Morin's freedom is $300,000 U.S. So says the common-law husband of the 25-year-old Longueuil mother of three, who swore in an affidavit that she has been held against her will in Saudi Arabia since 2005.

TORONTO -- Soggy weather dampened the turnout for an anti-tax rally at Queen's Park yesterday but it didn't stop opposition leaders from slamming the government's HST plan as being all wet.

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - Police say a homeless man stole a live ferret by stuffing it in his pants.

TORONTO -- This was not exactly Marisa MacLellan's 14th birthday wish -- to be mugged at Canada's Wonderland, then left stranded by security.

Calgary led the country in the metropolitan rate of gang-related killings, contributing to a rise in overall homicides in Canada in 2008, Statistics Canada reports.

The RCMP are wrapping up their investigation into the last six outstanding cases of missing women whose DNA was found on convicted serial killer Robert Pickton's farm and preparing to turn over a report to Crown prosecutors.

The B.C. government introduced a controversial law Thursday that allows police to force homeless people to go to a shelter - but won't give officers the power to make them stay.

As dawn breaks on Friday, October 30, a Canadian Forces CC-150 Polaris aircraft is expected to return from Greece with the Olympic Flame and a Canadian delegation on board.

AN obsessed 52-year-old woman had to go under the knife - after swallowing an entire 78-piece canteen of cutlery.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The National Post, the flagship daily newspaper of Canada's beleaguered Canwest Global Communications, will likely be forced to close after Friday if it isn't transferred to a new holding company

Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said in remarks released Thursday.

CHURCHILL, Man. - Most trick-or-treaters are well-versed in Halloween safety: travel in groups, wear colourful clothing and only stop at brightly lit homes.

Windsor police have helped to arrest one of three Ontario men believed to have connections to a radical Sunni Islam leader who died in a shootout in Detroit, CBC News has learned.

Injuries are mounting for the Vancouver Canucks, and losing goaltender Roberto Luongo for at least two games might be the biggest blow. Facing the surprising Los Angeles Kings won't help either.

RICHMOND, Calif. - Wearing bulletproof vests, three teen suspects appeared for the first time in court Thursday on charges of gang raping a 15-year-old girl outside a high school dance while as many as two dozen people watched without calling police.

HALIFAX, N.S. - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration plans to issue an airworthiness directive after cracks were found in a main gearbox mounting component on the same model of Sikorsky helicopter that crashed off Newfoundland in March, a spokesman fo

MONTREAL - A Canadian judge has imposed the toughest sentence possible on a man convicted of committing atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, described as the worst possible crime a human being can commit.

Three men, including one so-called ringleader, were found guilty of eight counts each of first-degree murder Thursday in the deaths of eight Toronto-area men linked to the Bandidos biker gang.

After famously breaking his guitar, United Airlines has managed to cause further trouble for David Carroll by losing his luggage

Alberta Tories will lose their bedrock rural support if they insist on pursuing its transmission line bill, predicts a member of the province�s biggest landowner group.

DETROIT - A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S. was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents

While B.C.'s tourism motto may be "Super, Natural British Columbia," it may also have another, more ghostly, interpretation.

NAIROBI, Kenya - European Union naval forces captured seven Somali pirates after they tried to take over a French fishing vessel, which repulsed the attack with gunfire, officials said.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A few pen strokes thrust Kurt Westergaard into the midst of an international crisis, exposing him to death threats and an alleged assassination plot.

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has established a task force to help keep gang-related activity from crossing the U.S.-Canada border at Windsor, Ont.

OTTAWA - The federal government plans to bring in legislation to allow judges to impose what are essentially consecutive life sentences for multiple murderers.

The RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating the remains of a right foot found inside a running shoe Tuesday on a beach in the city of Richmond, south of Vancouver.

Drawn half a millennium ago and then swiftly forgotten, one map made us see the world as we know it today... and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on earth also owes its name to a pun.

Astronomers have confirmed that an exploding star spotted by Nasa's Swift satellite is the most distant cosmic object to be detected by telescopes.

The Canadian Forces will have a better idea by the end of this year on whether it will build a brand new training centre in the Arctic or use and expand an existing government research facility for its base in the far North.

Scientists have found new species of prehistoric insect preserved in amber, a tiny "unicorn" fly with an unusual set of eyes.

An explosion at a popular women's market in Peshawar has killed at least 93 people. The bomb blast Wednesday hit the Mina Bazaar in Peepl Mandi, a neighbourhood in the northwestern Pakistani city where many Shia Muslims live, said police official Sajid Kh

One Canadian soldier was killed and two were wounded Wednesday in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device

The man who used a digital camera to record the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport says he feels guilty he didn't try to help the Polish immigrant even though others honoured his actions Tuesday with a citizen-journalism award.

Members of the Cowichan Tribes say they are no longer planning to protest during the Olympic torch relay later this week, after reaching a deal to sell their traditional sweaters at the Olympic Games.

OTTAWA - Canada is lashing out at those responsible for a series of deadly attacks which wreaked havoc on a United Nations guest house and a five-star hotel in the heart of Kabul on Wednesday.

A conservation officer in Baker Lake, Nunavut, has been disciplined for violating the territory's Wildlife Act, but won't be charged because he had received wrong information from his superiors.

Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo will miss at least the next two games after suffering a hairline fracture in one of his ribs.

On the show's most recent installment, which aired Sunday, David urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman to believe the painting depicts Jesus crying.

Rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and both stages of the rocket separated as expected...

A 19-year-old Toronto woman has died from her injuries, the day after being attacked by two coyotes at a national park in Cape Breton.

Eight US soldiers have been killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, say Nato-led forces.

Jason Williams's power-play goal with just over five minutes left in the third period gave the Detroit Red Wings a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in an action-packed game Tuesday night.

103 Search and Rescue (SAR) Squadron from 9 Wing Gander was called to duty on October 23 when a satellite system picked up a distress beacon of a fishing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland.

A French court has convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stopped short of banning the group from operating in France.

When he was Canada's top soldier, Rick Hillier commonly referred to Canada's insurgent enemy in Afghanistan as a "bowl of snakes."

Quebec's former lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in connection with questionable spending while she was in office.

OTTAWA - Michael Ignatieff's office was in turmoil late Tuesday as the Liberal leader deflected rumours he's about to shake up his oft-criticized, relatively inexperienced inner circle.

Government House Leader Jay Hill is calling for NDP Leader Jack Layton to be charged with contempt of Parliament, saying he helped protesters who disrupted Question Period Monday.