NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2010

Reports of folk icon's death, which were picked up by some media outlets, began as a Twitter-based prank, says his long-time friend and publicist

Toronto publication ShalomLife interview Bob Marley's granddaughter about her grandfather, his music and more.

A hospital in Windsor, Ont., has launched a full investigation into how a surgeon removed a woman's breast after misreading a report that said the woman did not have cancer.

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a claim for compensation by the widows of nine miners who were killed during a labour dispute at the Yellowknife gold mine in 1992.

Col. Russell Williams, the Canadian Forces base commander accused of murdering two eastern Ontario women, will be told Thursday he'll continue to be paid and hold the rank of colonel for the time being.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - There may be nothing like the real thing, but some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug's effects on the brain - creating a popular trade in legal dope that has st

OTTAWA - The Mounties are making some videos, and you don't want to be in them.

EDMONTON - A city thug who assaulted a stranger sleeping on a bus -- yanking out two handfuls of his hair by the roots -- admits his drunken attack was "animalistic, vulgar and racist."

OTTAWA -- Sex trade workers and the men who frequent them have come together. No, not in that way.

BARRIE, ONT. - A 15-year-old Barrie, Ont. teen who stole a car and crashed and killed a man as he fled from police was sentenced to six months in secure custody, on top of six months he has already served in jail.

If there were a gold medal for premature Winter Olympic whining, the British would be perennial occupants of the middle podium.

J.K. Rowling has been named in a lawsuit alleging she stole ideas for her wildly popular and lucrative "Harry Potter" books from another British author.

Canada's decision to host a special meeting of select circumpolar nations next month has angered three European nations who fear they've been shut out of the summit for geopolitical reasons.

More than a year after announcing a four-year delay in the long-running project, Sikorsky has just acknowledged that it is facing another setback in the delivery of the first of 28 aircraft.

A mentally ill man with a homemade security pass was able to get within metres of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden during a security breach at the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Hundreds of people stood in a muddy park under bright skies in Vancouver on Wednesday, cheering faux U.S. pundit Stephen Colbert as he taped a TV show in the Olympic city.

Canada's Marianne St-Gelais won a silver medal on her 20th birthday behind defending Olympic champion Meng Wang of China in the 500-metre short-track speedskating final on Wednesday.

EDMONTON -- Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin is facing charges of drunk driving and speeding following an incident in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In 1904 Canadian Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier made this prediction: "The 19th century was the century of the United States. I think we can claim that it is Canada that shall fill the 20th century." Maybe Laurier was just a man 100 years before his ti

TORONTO - The Annex Rapist, who terrorized Toronto women during the mid-1980s, is in custody in Vancouver.

A 45-year-old Pembroke woman has been sentenced to house arrest after a bizarre crime spree that involved five strangers and a decorative reindeer.

Pakistan and the United States have confirmed the arrest of Mullah Abdul Baradar, who is second in command among Afghanistan's Taliban.

Tiger Woods has a lot of explaining to do, and he'll start this Friday when he speaks to the media for the first time since a late-night car crash and allegations of infidelity came to light three months ago.

MARJAH, Afghanistan - Military commanders raised the Afghan flag in the bullet-ridden main market of the Taliban's southern stronghold of Marjah on Wednesday as firefights continued to break out elsewhere in the town between holed-up militants and U.S. an

LONDON - Argentina's demand for direct control of shipping from the South American mainland to the Falkland Islands has raised fears about conflict over energy resources in the south Atlantic.

The United States is monitoring peace talks between Taliban and Afghan representatives, but will not participate unless insurgents renounce al-Qaeda, a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.

Four people face mischief charges after a protest on the Lions Gate Bridge disrupted traffic for more than two hours on the busy commuter route early Wednesday morning.

Northwest Territories wildlife officials and Dene hunters hope a justice of the peace will decide what to do with caribou meat that was confiscated from hunters in a no-hunting zone last month.

Mike Robertson was the toast of the town Wednesday morning in Canmore, Alta., where the Edmonton-born snowboarder and his family live while he's training.

A wildlife photographer who planned to spend the winter living in a remote trailer in the wilderness of northeastern B.C. narrowly escaped starving to death after he failed to pack enough provisions.

An American who hoped to travel on a flight from Charlottetown to Montreal earlier this month was removed from the plane because he smelled.

An Islamic group is urging Muslim travellers to choose to be patted down by airport security rather than go through airport body scanners, a practice that it says violate religious and privacy rights.

Classes were cancelled around Nova Scotia and across P.E.I. on Wednesday as the Maritimes got smacked with another winter reminder.

Said Namouh has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years for his role in an international terror plot that threatened European countries involved in military operations in Afghanistan

VANCOUVER - Moments after descending from a rooftop platform that provides an unobstructed view of the Olympic cauldron on the Vancouver waterfront, Jeff Rank said the attraction was "better than Disneyland."

Quebec sovereigntists woke up to a political migraine Wednesday induced by their most popular living leader.

In the latest blow to the troubled Vancouver Olympics, a free concert had to be cancelled Tuesday night at the LiveCity Yaletown site, when a rushing crowd caused a barricade in front of the stage to give way, injuring 19 people.

Nothing precious, not for the biggest goat of the 2006 Winter Olympics, who turned into the biggest turkey of the Vancouver Games on Tuesday afternoon

Why the world finds Canada's quest for Olympic gold strange and adorable.

The coastal fog that gives San Francisco its romantic ambience is thinning out, a boon to drivers but a real threat to the giant redwoods there, researchers reported on Monday.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Koreans celebrated leader Kim Jong Il's 68th birthday - one of the country's most important holidays - on Tuesday amid persistent questions about his health and the future leadership of the communist nation.

An apparent scam involving payphones and overseas calls could cost unsuspecting customers over $100 for a 30-minute call, Telus is warning Vancouver residents and Olympic visitors.

Stephen Colbert is finally going to meet some of the "ice-holes" he's been mocking all this time.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - From fire to ice, nothing seems to be going right at the Olympics. The torch malfunctioned. Warm weather turned the slopes and the event schedule to slop. A Zamboni had to ride to the rescue from Calgary following a meltdown at the speed

Vancouver Police say they have arrested two people in connection with protests that included an anti-Olympic rampage through downtown Vancouver on Saturday.

A B.C. pediatrician says the association of sponsors like Coca-Cola with the Olympic Games is disappointing and potentially damaging to children.

Olympic officials have been forced to cancel an additional 20,000 general admission tickets for six more events at the rain-plagued Cypress Mountain ski and snowboard venue north of Vancouver.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the city has no plans to remove a tent village erected by protesters in the Downtown Eastside.

The purchase and use of C-17 transport planes is an example of the "hard power" requirements of the type of relief work soldiers are now doing in Haiti, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during a tour of the country.

Team Canada looked powerful in its Olympic opener, an 8-0 rout of Norway on Tuesday night.

Egypt's King Tut likely died from complications of a broken leg that were exacerbated by malaria and had a club foot, an extensive study of his mummy and family suggests.

Journalists around the world have been revelling in the Games' many problems in the opening days, from a lack of snow on the ski and snowboard courses to ice problems at the speed skating venue. Now, Olympics officials are pushing back.

Workers may have been exposed to radioactivity at the Bruce nuclear power station on the eastern shore of Lake Huron in late November, during work on a reactor that was shut down in 1995, according to a report posted to the company's website.

A Charlottetown man has laid a complaint with the P.E.I. Human Rights Commission, saying he was fired from his job with an insurance broker because of his addiction to alcohol.

CALGARY -- Calgary Transit is cracking down on two-timing employees who conduct outside business on the job after a whistleblower report ferreted out some extra-curricular activities.

JACMEL, Haiti - Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Canadian medical teams treating Haitian patients Tuesday during a two-day visit to the earthquake-ravaged country.

In an effort to preserve the carbon-neutral goal of the 2010 Games, organizers originally went with the Olympia machines, which run on electricity. By day's end Monday, they were clearly rethinking that decision."I realize they wanted to make a green Game

The Department of National Defence is gearing up for the arrival of new heavy-lift helicopters at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, but first it must clear out any unexploded bombs from the proposed site where the aircraft will be located.

A Whistler gondola malfunction after an Olympic luge event Sunday is a fairly common problem and should not prompt safety concerns, officials at Whistler-Blackcomb resort said Monday.

Disgraced Montreal financial planner Earl Jones has been sentenced to 11 years for running a $50 million Ponzi scheme that robbed many clients of their life savings.

The federal government is expected to announce new rules Tuesday that would make it more difficult for first-time buyers to enter Canada's hot housing market. Sources have told The Canadian Press that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is ready to move on t

WARSAW, Poland - The incredible story of Baltic, the Polish pooch rescued from an ice sheet at sea, has struck a chord worldwide.

A New Zealand anti-whaling activist is being held on board a Japanese whaling vessel, a day after secretly boarding the ship and attempting to enact a citizen's arrest.

TORONTO -- RCMP have issued a warning to residents in a northeastern Newfoundland town to be on the lookout for a coyote.

A lawsuit that alleges the Ottawa Catholic School Board failed to protect a bullying victim could set a legal precedent, said a bullying prevention expert.

Canadian speedskater Jeremy Wotherspoon fell short of the podium in his final attempt to win Olympic gold in the 500 metres.

VANCOUVER -- When Team Canada opens the Olympic men's hockey tournament, there will be no one more comfortable with the surroundings than the man between the pipes.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Geisy Arruda is dancing proof that nowhere is transformation more achievable than in Brazil's Carnival, ripe with fantasy and metamorphosis.

A group of seven- and eight-year-old hockey players from Ajax, Ont., are safe at home one day after spilling out of a Pennsylvania arena seconds before the building's roof collapsed.

Two commuter trains crashed head-on outside Brussels on Monday, after one ran a stoplight, killing at least 18 people and injuring 80 others, a Belgian official said.

NATO and Afghan troops continued pushing deeper on Monday into the town of Marjah in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan as the military offensive entered its third day

Police have recovered a fifth body from the wreckage of a small plane that broke apart and crashed alongside a runway at an airport in New Jersey on Monday.

The Canadian women's hockey team didn't set any scoring marks, but they moved to a 2-0 record on Monday with a 10-1 win over Switzerland at UBC Thunderbird Arena.

Residents of B.C.'s Lower Mainland often enjoy milder winters than most of the country, but it's been at least 114 years since the area has recorded so many warm mid-winter days in a row.

Family Day unofficially was extended across the country Monday as millions of proud Canadians continue to come together to celebrate the athletic achievement of moguls skier Alexandre Bilodeau.

As the Quebec media continue to criticize the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee for a perceived slight against their province and its language in Friday's 2010 Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. French-language educators in B.C. say an emphasis o

Flag Day? Who knew? Nobody we buttonholed in the long and winding queue awaiting entrance to the Canada Pavilion. But, aye, Feb. 15 is indeed Flag Day in this country so rah-rah-rah Maple Leaf.

Mike Robertson, of Canmore, Alta., placed second behind Schairer in the men's event with Seth Westcott of the U.S. taking third and Francois Boivin of Jonquiere, Que., placing fourth.

There's no shortage of family-friendly events going on in Edmonton Monday. Families will be able to take in activity after activity across the city for most of the day.

Taking Canada's flawed healthcare system into consideration Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams had to go outside Canada for a critical heart surgery. He was released from a U. S. hospital on Friday. However, the procedure Williams needed exi

On Friday, Port Alberni RCMP said a local man playing the Xbox Live online video game Modern Warfare II this month became alarmed when he overheard another player threatening to shoot others at a school, and alerted police.

The Obama administration switched to tougher tactics against Tehran today focusing on the corrupt and powerful Revolutionary Guard and seeking to drive a wedge between the elite military group and the public.

In a call home shortly before he was thrown from his luge and killed on an Olympic training run, Nodar Kumaritashvili told his father that he was afraid of the brand new, lightning-quick track in Whistler.

Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe.

Two former Olympians were injured when the United States vice-president's motorcade was involved in a three-car collision on Sunday near Vancouver, RCMP said.

Some British media are slamming Canada as being a bad Olympic host, with much of the criticism focused on its role in the death of the 21-year-old Georgian luger.

More warm, wet weather has forced Olympic organizers to cancel thousands of general admission tickets to Monday and Tuesday's snowboard cross events at Cypress Mountain.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Set free the flame. That's becoming the rallying cry of Vancouver Games spectators who were hoping to bask in the warmth of the Olympic cauldron but are instead being left cold by the fact they can't get anywhere near it.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced he will travel to Haiti on Monday, in one of the first visits by a leader to the Caribbean country since a powerful earthquake killed more than 200,000 people there a month ago.

Thousands of people joined in Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in downtown Vancouver on Sunday.

Kristina Groves won Canada's first Olympic speedskating medal at the Vancouver Games, capturing bronze on Sunday in the women's 3,000 metres.

Mogulist Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada's first ever gold on home soil laying down a near-perfect final run at Cypress Mountain on Sunday.

The roof of a skating rink partially collapsed Sunday while the ice was being resurfaced during a youth hockey tournament involving Canadian and U.S. teams.

With David Perron's shootout goal and Chris Mason's ensuing stop on Brendan Morrison, the Blues won their third straight game Saturday night, 4-3 over the Capitals.

The Vancouver Olympic opening ceremonies smashed Canadian TV records to become the most-watched broadcast event in the nation's history, an incredible feat in the age of the Internet.

Three oil and gas companies are seeking legal protection from convicted oilpatch bomber Wiebo Ludwig.

MONTREAL - Hockey tough guy Georges Laraque is throwing his considerable weight behind the Green Party of Canada. The 260-pound former Montreal Canadiens enforcer will be playing a yet to be fully defined role with the party.

An intense Pacific frontal system is expected to drop 50 to 70 millimetres of rain on Metro Vancouver by Sunday morning, according to a warning from Environment Canada

REDLANDS, Calif. - A magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattled San Bernardino County but there are no reports of damage or injury.

WHISTLER -- The Whistler Sliding Centre reopened for business early Saturday, as the lugers took their final practice runs before the real racing began later in the day.

Canadian luge coach Wolfgang Staudinger says driver error, not the lightning-fast Whistler course, led to the death of a 21-year-old slider from Georgia in a training run crash at the Vancouver Olympics.

Lee Jung-Su of South Korea won gold in the Olympic men's 1,500-metre short-track speedskating event Saturday night in Vancouver. Canadian Olivier Jean finished fourth in 2:18.806. Jean was advanced to the final by the judges after being clipped in his sem

As expected, the Canadian women's hockey team had an easy time with Slovakia on Saturday.

In the first real test of the transportation plan for the 2010 Winter Games, Vancouver's public transit has been flooded with thousands of Olympic passengers, creating lineups and waits at many key stations.

Thousands of U.S. and Afghan troops began a major offensive on Saturday by moving into the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, but their progress was slowed by a dense thicket of strategically placed bombs and booby traps.