NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2010

Canada made its mark in the fight against diabetes a century ago, with the discovery of insulin and now, our country may be poised to again change the face of diabetes by creating insulin in a whole new way.

MEXICO CITY - Armed men stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by false information.

Transport Canada has identified the use of GPS devices as a threat to road safety but after six years of consultation with industry and safety groups has done nothing to regulate them.

The Eurocan paper mill in Kitimat, B.C., shut down production on Sunday after more than 40 years in operation.

A 10-year-old boy was killed by a pack of dogs on a northern Saskatchewan reserve, his relatives said Sunday.

Rock legend Neil Young and "Family Ties" actor Michael J. Fox are among the early Canadian winners at this year's Grammy Awards.

Chris Del Bosco led the charge as Canada performed the first-ever X Games men's ski cross sweep in Colorado, Sunday

Brings provincial total of erroneously released prisoners to 16 in 4 years.

A Malaysian court has fined a man and a woman four buffaloes and a pig after they were found guilty of an extra-marital affair, a local report says.

Last month, a major archeological find was published in the British journal Antiquity. Using Google Earth and other satellite imagery, researchers found 260 geometrical shapes dug into a now-deforested 250-kilometre stretch of the upper Amazon basin.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff laid out some broad Senate reform ideas Sunday, including term limits and a curb on the prime minister's ability to stack the Upper House with his own picks.

CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt will soon reveal the results of DNA tests made on the world's most famous ancient king, the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun, to answer lingering mysteries over his lineage, the antiquities department said Sunday

An environmental review panel's recommendation to impose noise limits on any Mackenzie Valley pipeline facilities built inside a bird sanctuary could scuttle the $16.2-billion project, its backers have told the National Energy Board.

A western Canadian non-profit company is making it easier to catch people who use handicap parking spots without a proper permit.

The B.C. government exercised poor judgment in its handling of a privacy breach case involving former government employees accused of misusing the private information of welfare recipients.

A small team of scientists is returning to the icy shores of the Northwest Passage this summer to install experimental listening devices that could one day keep a 24-hour watch for anything travelling on, over or under waters Canada claims as its own.

The Ontario Provincial Police will take to the air as they ramp up their search for a Belleville woman who was last heard from on Thursday.

Homeless shelters in Halifax were running at near capacity over the weekend, but despite the recent cold spell, they haven't seen any significant increase in demand, officials say.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired veteran goaltender Jean-Sebastien from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for netminder Vesa Toskala and veteran forward Jason Blake.

Almost 60% of the people killed by natural disasters in the past decade lost their lives in earthquakes, a UN-backed report has revealed.

RCMP are investigating after a 46-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Surrey early Saturday morning. Police were called to a low-rise apartment building in the 13400-block of 71 Avenue at around 3:25 a.m. with reports that a fight had taken place

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - From up in the air, the view of a completely devastated country is even more terrifying than it is on the ground.

SALISBURY, Conn. - Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicated.

The Vancouver Canucks didn't start out the way they wanted to begin their lengthy road trip as their building is gussied up for the Winter Olympics. But they managed to rebound in the nick of time for a win.

Aerospace specialists are split on whether objects spotted in the sky over Newfoundland this week were dangerous missiles, or simply model rockets.

Getting and in and out of Vancouver will be even harder beginning Friday, thanks to new Olympic road and air closures.

James Ford has spent eight years researching the effects of climate change on the lifestyles of Inuit people living in the Far North. He's seen evidence that local temperatures are rising and there's a lot less sea ice floating around, for a much shorter

A Canadian general in southern Afghanistan has vowed to "break the back" of Taliban insurgents as the hard-line Islamist movement rejected participation in proposed peace talks with the Afghan government.

As the public chews over the footage, Mounties are investigating the conduct of Winnipeg police officers who repeatedly struck a 19-year-old man while he allegedly resisted arrest in an incident recorded by surveillance video last year.

Two Ontario men are dead after falling more than 100 metres off a cliff during a family ski outing in the Rocky Mountains that veered into an out-of-bounds area.

Another day, another disgruntled TTC rider and more photos posted online of a taxpayer-funded employee slacking off.

A painting once thought to be by Leonardo da Vinci has fetched $1.5 million US at a New York City auction, far above its estimated value of $500,000.

Clara Hughes, multiple Olympic medallist, champion cyclist and star speedskater, will lead Team Canada into BC Place Stadium carrying her country's flag at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Games.

Toronto Transit Commission chair Adam Giambrone has released a flippant YouTube video that all but declares his intention to jump into the race to replace Mayor David Miller.

Kidnapped children. Multiple rapes. Gang violence. A burgeoning black market. And the unknown whereabouts of 4,000 criminals. These are but a few of the problems overwhelming police and peacekeepers tasked with maintaining order in a post-apocalyptic Hait

Thirty-five B.C. athletes have been named to the Canadian team at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

A seal hunt protester with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was pied in St. John's on Friday by someone dressed up in a Newfoundland dog costume.

Clara Hughes, multiple Olympic medallist, champion cyclist and star speedskater, will lead Team Canada into BC Place Stadium carrying her country's flag at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Games.

Medical students routinely practice doing internal pelvic examinations while surgery patients are unconscious.

B.C. and Ontario First Nations are not going to accept the HST without a fight. Leaders of the communities have said the governments decision to impose the harmonized sales tax is an attack on their sovereignty and breach of their legal obligation to cons

The last time Melanie Alix heard her son's voice, he was crooning Happy Birthday into the phone at full volume and she was teasing him, saying: "Who is this?"

It's not easy to sum up Dr. Bill Hanlon's remarkable ski expedition to the South Pole in a single news story, so here are the Coles Notes:

An animal rights group says one of its members will follow Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he visits St. John�s on Friday.

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BARRIE, Ont. -- A college student who posted photos on the Internet of himself posing with guns and stating he was going to shoot everyone was just "kidding around," he told a judge yesterday.

OTTAWA - Two proposed bylaw offences would encourage cops to shoo groups of people congregating on city roads and sidewalks.

CALGARY -- After living with a rope painfully embedded in its neck for a number of years, a stray dog is now on the mend, thanks to the Cochrane Humane Society.

TORONTO - Ontario's licence censors have picked the wrong butt to kick.

TORONTO - A 14-year-old boy facing sex charges in Toronto is the sole resident of a $350,000 Mississauga group home and gets $150 a week for allowance, officials say.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper named five new senators on Friday, including former Ontario cabinet minister Bob Runciman, giving the Conservatives effective control in both houses of Parliament as well as greater sway over the legislative agenda.

The Obama administration stunned New York's delegation Thursday, dropping the bombshell news that it does not support funding the 9/11 health bill.

TORONTO -- A stretch of road in the heart of Toronto's financial district was shut down after "three big windows" fell 26 storeys to the ground Thursday morning, police said

Anna Schneider and her sister, Lena, trudged through deep snow and battled frigid temperatures for four consecutive days last week, searching for a litter of abandoned puppies

WHITBY, Ont. -- A child custody battle is an ugly, twisted jungle at the best of times, but a Whitby father never stood a chance after family court accepted a disparaging assessment done by a man posing as a psychologist.

Notices have been put up in the chain's supermarket in St Mellons in Cardiff saying: "Footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted."

While there are both savings and costs associated with HST, North Bay is anticipating a loss of up to $150,000 when HST is implemented this July.

This month is shaping up to be one of the warmest on record.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. - Want to learn how to survive in cruel winter conditions? You'll have to wait until the storm blows over.

Christian Ehrhoff scored a power-play goal from a sharp angle with 7:48 left to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday night.

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the B.C. government to conserve 50 per cent of the province's land base to fight climate change.

French rescuers pulled a teenage girl out of the rubble of the destroyed College St. Gerard in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

The accused killer of an innocent man caught in the crossfire of a gang war over the Winnipeg drug trade is waging his own battle for the right to stay in Canada.

Toronto police have cancelled an amber alert of a three-year-old girl. The child and her were located and taken to 22 Division headquarters in Etobicoke

Vancouver fans better take some pictures tonight because they won't be seeing the Canucks for a long time. The Canucks play their last home game until the middle of March on Wednesday night as they host the St. Louis Blues at General Motors Place.

How to create jobs, cut spending and get health care reform back on track are just some of the challenges U.S. President Barack Obama will address in tonight's State of the Union address.

A prominent Canadian scientist says it's time for the international community to start studying the use of global "sun blocks" as a way to fight climate change.

OTTAWA - Canadians have donated more than $82 million so far to help Haitians struck by a devastating earthquake, the federal government announced Wednesday morning as the Canadian death toll from the disaster rose to 21.

OSWIECIM, Poland - Bundled tightly against the cold and snow, elderly Auschwitz survivors walked among the barracks and watchtowers of Auschwitz and Birkenau on Wednesday, many clad in scarves bearing the grey and blue stripes of their Nazi prison garment

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - An animal rights group wants organizers of Pennsylvania's Groundhog Day festival to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robotic stand-in.

NASA says it will study the earthquake faults around Haiti using a jet equipped with an airborne radar system

A 35-year-old man who said he had been trapped in a collapsed store since the major earthquake struck Haiti two weeks ago has been pulled out of the rubble.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to make his first appearance Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where leaders will debate the call for tougher banking regulations in the wake of the financial crisis.

The 19 alpine skiers that will represent Canada at the Vancouver Olympics were announced on Wednesday, with Manny Osborne-Paradis and Emily Brydon leading the team to Whistler.

A small two-legged dinosaur had orange and white rings around its tail, researchers say, the first time the colour of a dinosaur's feathers has been determined.

Metro Vancouver residents might be noticing that the water coming out of their taps now has a slight blue tinge. That's not because of what's in the water, it's because of what's been taken out, according to officials.

Fish farming on the West Coast won't be allowed to expand until at least December, following a B.C. Supreme Court decision to give the federal government more time to take over the job of regulating the industry from the province.

The controversial suspension of Quebec Major Junior Hockey League player Patrice Cormier this week has put a renewed emphasis on how coaches should teach the sport, officials say

A judge in Windsor, Ont., is deciding how to sentence a woman who repeatedly sexually assaulted her two-year-old son while live-streaming the acts on the internet.

Four museums across Canada are preparing for an invasion by China's famed terracotta warriors, with Victoria and Calgary slated as additional stops to the previously announced shows in Toronto and Montreal.

The Vancouver Canucks will soon make history. Just not in a way they'd like.

People who saw a missile-like object soaring through the sky over a small rural community in Newfoundland Monday night are getting no answers about what it was, although police say they'd gotten to the bottom of the mystery

A man who was found guilty in the Toronto 18 case tried to distance himself from the plot on Wednesday, saying terrorism is "all BS."

There is no reason for the military to study its role in the rescue operation after a helicopter crash near eastern Newfoundland last March, a defence department official told an inquiry into offshore helicopter safety in St. John's Wednesday.

Toronto police have issued an Amber Alert for a three-year-old girl who they say might be in danger after possibly being abducted by her mother.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - A New York couple scammed out of thousands of dollars in a rental fraud in Whistler will get to see their son compete at the upcoming Olympic Games.

Researchers in Windsor, Ont., are hoping a new type of siren will help alert drivers to approaching police cars, making intersection crashes less likely.

HMCS Athabaskan is on its way to Jamaica to replenish supplies and pick up Canadian soldiers for the relief effort in Haiti.

Residents of a quaint neighbourhood are touting a 90-pound grandmother as a hero after she took action against a family they say has caused a "reign of terror" on their street for the past four years.

Alleging a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe, 25, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos

Revitalized by Afghanistan, Canada's military has been 'firing on all cylinders.' But given the large federal deficit, analysts question how long Ottawa can keep it up

A mudslide on the famed Inca trail to Machu Picchu in Peru killed an Argentine tourist and a Peruvian guide Tuesday, as authorities evacuated dozens of tourists by helicopter from a flood zone where nearly 2,000 more were still stranded.

Two Vancouver city councillors say it was a mistake for the city to spend $377,000 on Olympic event tickets at a time when workers are being laid off, programs cut and taxes raised due to a budget deficit.