NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2010

Since the 1942-43 season, the NHL had boasted only six teams in its roster. But in 1966, threats of a competing league on the west coast and a desire to broaden the NHL's appeal lead to expansion. Six new teams join the Original Six, drastically changing

The 2001 slaying of a Nova Scotia woman at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario is among the cases being re-examined after murder charges were laid against Col. Russell Williams.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has new competition in the form of an onion ring and the onion ring is so far the hands-down winner.

TORONTO -- Durham Regional Police have caught 63 drivers yakking or texting on cellphones and using an entertainment device in the first week of the new hands-fee communications law.

TORONTO -- The perfectly calculated, carefully manipulated political career of Adam Giambrone just became unzipped.

The commander of Canada's Air Force expressed his sympathies to the families of two women recently murdered near Belleville, Ont., and said he was "shocked" that a colonel under his authority has been charged with their murders.

With just four days to go until the 2010 Winter Games begin, the Olympic torch relay is rolling through the suburbs of Metro Vancouver, en route to the opening ceremony at BC Place on Friday afternoon.

The B.C. government will return to the legislature Tuesday for a three-day, pre-Olympics political warm-up that includes a throne speech and a historic visit to the legislature by the prime minister.

The Montreal Canadiens have called a news conference for 4pm et/1pm pt where they will announce that Bob Gainey is stepping down as general manager of the hockey club.

A Charlottetown boy was given 18 months probation Monday for making a threat against his school on Facebook, and may not use the internet during that time.

A Chicago-based independent journalist says he was detained and questioned at the Vancouver airport on Saturday afternoon, denied a phone call or legal counsel and sent unceremoniously back to the U.S.

An Ottawa veteran news anchor said he's grateful none of his colleagues were hurt in a massive blaze over the weekend at CTV Ottawa studios, which devastated the newsroom and destroyed irreplaceable historical footage dating back to 1961.

Jimmy Craig complained about his coffee one too many times.

Quarterback Drew Brees threw a pair of touchdown passes as the New Orleans Saints rallied from an early 10-point deficit for the first Super Bowl championship in franchise history, a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

Some GTA and Quebec Tories recently expressed concern in caucus meetings about Parliament's shutdown, but the Libs shouldn't pull the trigger just yet.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Danica Patrick is expected to announce Monday if she will enter the Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

Federal offices in Washington, D.C. will be closed on Monday thanks to a powerful blizzard that dumped more than 60 centimetres of snow on the U.S. capital. The Office of Personnel Management made the decision on Sunday afternoon due to safety concerns, a

Can't make it to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics? Organizers are inviting people all over the world to take part in virtual ceremonies as part of the Games.

Scores of athletes converging on Vancouver may be experiencing a peculiar Olympic welcome. Many are being asked to roll up their sleeves, pull down their trousers or both. Despite the way that sounds, it's not some perverse hazing ritual. It's doping cont

They needed an extra end to do it, but Jennifer Jones and her Winnipeg-based rink made sure the third time was another charm in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Sunday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Minivans piled high with mattresses and clothing lined up at checkpoints Sunday as hundreds of civilians fled a Taliban-controlled area ahead of a planned NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan.

A Charlottetown couple is accusing snowmobilers of running over and killing a young fox in a field behind their home.

Birds may use their feathers for touch, using them to feel their surroundings just as cats use their whiskers.

Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing the same way.

Egypt has completed the restoration of reputedly the world's oldest Christian monastery, called Saint Anthony's.

A row has erupted in Rio de Janeiro over the decision to make a seven-year-old girl "queen" of a top samba school taking part in the famous carnival.

A strong earthquake has struck off Japan's southern coast, officials say.

In case anyone has forgotten the brutal and cheerless days of Afghanistan's Taliban state in the nine years since the reign of terror ended, there's a refresher course available from its 1990s decrees.

Homeowners more than 10 miles away said the 11 a.m. explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems power plant on River Road created a shock wave so intense they mistakenly thought the central part of the state had experienced an earthquake.

Police say at least two people are dead and dozens are injured after a large explosion at a power plant in Middletown, Connecticut.

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's atomic energy agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher-enriched uranium.

IQALUIT, Nunavut - It seems everyone in this Arctic community was trying to put the issue of seals in front of the European delegation at the G7 finance ministers meeting. But regardless of their efforts, the Europeans just weren't biting - not into seal

Aboriginal hunters across the North are pushing back against attempts to conserve wildlife, launching court actions and legislative measures to stop the three territories from regulating the harvest of caribou and polar bears.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Anti-Olympics activists are looking for answers after they say a freelance journalist was refused entry to Canada. The Olympic Resistance Network says Martin Macias Jr., was detained by Canadian officials at Vancouver's airport Saturday

It may have been Super Bowl Sunday, but many New Brunswickers had hockey on their minds over the weekend, not football.

Faron Hall, known in Winnipeg as a homeless hero, remained in a hospital critical care unit on Sunday after allegedly being attacked and viciously beaten by two people in his apartment on Saturday.

The Russian military allegedly dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, according to a report on Swedish television.

A call has gone out for anti-Olympic activists from across the continent to clog the streets of Vancouver and disrupt the first full day of the Winter Games.

WATERLOO, Ont. - Stephen Hawking will conduct research at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., in June and July to make up for a visit he cancelled last summer due to illness.

LONDON - Legislators are calling on Britain's government to ban Chinese paper lanterns, because of a risk to cows, sheep and other livestock.

CACERES, Spain - A 16-year-old Spanish matador has killed six bulls in one afternoon, pulling off a feat normally attempted only by seasoned veterans and winning trophies for his skill - ears from animals he had just slain.

NATO and U.S. officials are putting a more optimistic face on the eight-year-old Afghanistan war, suggesting that tens of thousands more foreign troops can finally turn the corner against a growing Taliban insurgency.

Residents and road crews in Washington, D.C., began the long process Saturday night of digging out from one of the biggest snowstorms in history to hit the U.S. capital.

Mudslides swept away cars and pushed furniture out of homes and into the streets in the foothills north of Los Angeles on Saturday as an intense storm brought down hillsides in wildfire burn areas.

Roberto Luongo stopped 41 shots in regulation and overtime, and all three shootout attempts, as the Vancouver Canucks rallied to beat the slumping Bruins 3-2 on Saturday afternoon in Boston.

Hundreds of people packed a church in central Alberta on Saturday to mourn the deaths of two young boys found in a bathtub this week.

The B.C. SPCA says it might recommend charging a zoo in Fort Langley with animal cruelty following the death of three giraffes at the facility in the last two months.

Some cats in Charlottetown have gone missing and their owners are wondering if an increase in the number of foxes in the city is to blame

Two people are in hospital after what police are calling a targeted shooting in Surrey, B.C., Saturday morning. In a written release, police said the incident happened in the area of 124 Street and 103 Avenue in Surrey, about 30 kilometres southeast of Va

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a serious hockey buff, played the role of interviewer Friday night as he quizzed NHL legends Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky at a Saskatoon charity event.

Newfoundland residents were digging out from a heavy snowfall Saturday and surveying the wind damage to some of St. John's oldest and most beloved sites.

Olympic officials announced Saturday that in order to save snow, they would scale back training time for athletes at one of the mountain venues for the 2010 Winter Games.

Honda has announced the recall of 646,000 cars globally to fix a switch defect that could cause a fire.

Mildred's Temple Kitchen is inviting customers to have sex in its bathrooms.

A giant flag depicting an Australian boxing kangaroo will be welcome in B.C.'s second-largest city if it is ordered removed from the Vancouver athletes village, the mayor of Surrey said Friday.

The health authority said it believes both patients, known cocaine users, became ill as a result of using cocaine adulterated with levamisole.

The federal government is creating a sprawling national park in an area of Newfoundland and Labrador that's home to threatened species of caribou, birds and other wildlife.

The University of Alberta made history Friday when around 1,200 students, faculty and staff gathered to hurl squishy red balls at each other.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Life has never been so good off the planet, and it's about to get better.

LONDON, Ont. - Even for seasoned London Humane Society investigators, the find was a first: a house maintained only for cats.

CALGARY - The Crown has failed to establish a repeat abuser with a sexual interest in young children and animals is a dangerous offender, his lawyer argued Friday.

Eastern Newfoundland is digging out from nasty winter weather that dumped significant snow on the region overnight. Local media reports say up to 45 centimetres of snow fell on the region Friday and overnight.

Newly released Hubble Space Telescope photos show the distant one-time planet - demoted to "dwarf planet" status in 2006 - is changing colour and its ice sheets are shifting.

The B.C. government plans to give away nearly 3,400 Olympic tickets to visiting business leaders, investors and dignitaries as part of a strategy to promote the province during the 2010 Winter Games, the province announced Friday.

RCMP in Surrey, B.C., have rescued seven children and charged one man after a tip he was involved in an international child pornography ring.

The head of the largest climate change study ever undertaken in Canada says the Arctic sea ice is thinning faster than expected.

Two amorous Motley Crue fans will not face a police investigation after they were filmed having sex in a crowded section of Winnipeg's MTS Centre during the band's concert last Friday.

The Olympic Resistance Network, which represents a coalition of social-activist groups in B.C., says it will do whatever it can to disrupt the journey of the torch when it reaches Vancouver and inconvenience supporters of the 2010 Winter Games.

When finance ministers from the world's seven biggest industrial democracies descend on the small town of Iqaluit Friday, they will have more on their minds than financial system reform, China's undervalued yuan and mounting deficits.

The Atlanta Thrashers look to have parted ways with the most celebrated player in franchise history, trading star winger Ilya Kovalchuk to the New Jersey Devils, reports USA Today.

With the Ilya Kovalchuk sweepstakes well under way, Atlanta Thrashers general manager Don Waddell released a team statement Thursday afternoon to explain why the club is exploring the trade market for their 26-year-old superstar.

Hundreds of would-be Olympic spectators appear to have fallen prey to a ticketing scam, including the grandmother of a U.S. snowboarder.

An eastern P.E.I. man who has been driving without a licence for 23 years was sentenced to 45 days in jail by a provincial court judge in Georgetown Thursday.

My father is English, and I vividly remember that one of the books his family had on its shelves was an essay collection called The Romance of Canada. It featured a skin-wearing fur-trapper on its cover, plodding through a wintry pine forest on snowshoes,

The TTC has suspended a bus driver after a video showing he took an unscheduled break surfaced on the Internet. It is the latest photographic evidence of rule breaking by TTC employees that has infuriated transit users who were already dealing with a fare

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is moving to cancel two week-long breaks for MPs -- a move seen as a bid to regain political ground lost by his decision to prorogue Parliament.

A 30-year-old London, Ont., man is charged with criminal harassment after allegedly phoning a woman who spurned his advances nearly 100 times.

OTTAWA - Strapped in her seat in the back of a Honda C-RV, the baby girl looked at her rescuers as if nothing had happened.

WINNIPEG - Tyson Clark admits he "went too far" when he brutally beat a man who called Clark and his girlfriend the N-word.

Behind the mask it's easy for Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo to keep his emotions in check. But as the Olympics approach, he's starting to get excited.

Daniel Alfredsson scored twice in the final minute -- including an empty-netter -- and the Senators extended a franchise-best winning streak to 10 with a 4-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday night.

Seven Smart cars survived an Arctic challenge this week, having driven on the Dempster Highway from Inuvik, N.W.T., through the Yukon.

A group of terminally ill children whose wish to go to the Vancouver Winter Olympics was threatened when the company operating their cruise ship hotel weighed anchor will have places to stay after all.

The Columbus Blue Jackets have relieved head coach Ken Hitchcock of his duties behind the bench and named assistant coach Claude Noel as the club's interim head coach, the team announced Wednesday.

Olympic officials are bringing in the big guns in a desperate bid to help prepare the snow-challenged Cypress Mountain ahead of the rapidly approaching 2010 Games.

B.C.'s snow woes have been reduced to a punchline on the late night comedy circuit.

An extended stretch of struggles earlier this season has not stopped the Philadelphia Flyers from making a playoff push

A former member of the Hells Angels was paid $3 million and given immunity, in exchange for acting as a witness for Quebec provincial police

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., - Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago.

Glowing methane has been detected in the upper atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting very closely to its star.

Some Vancouver restaurants are raising their prices during the two weeks of the 2010 Games, a CTV News investigation has found.

Eight puppies were discovered whimpering inside a large plastic container after being abandoned at a Fredericton park in the freezing cold on Tuesday.

Mel Gibson has been caught name calling again - and this time it aired on TV.

The Winnipeg School Division is asking hundreds of staff and teachers to produce doctor's notes after they called in sick on the day of last week's severe winter storm.

A Calgary woman says she's furious after the Saskatchewan corrections system put out an erroneous news release on the weekend saying she had been released from jail by mistake.

Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc has turned down a request by some of the province's doctors that each be reimbursed $704 per day for volunteer work in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

The David Suzuki Foundation says the organizers of the Vancouver Olympics have reached the podium in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, but they have fallen short of winning gold in some key areas.

BERLIN - Watch the sunset, save a life. A woman admiring the sunset on a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man who was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities, police said Wednesday

KINGSTON, Ont. -- An aggressive flasher from the Brockville area, who prowled neighbourhoods around Queen's University's campus from June until November last year, targeting young Asian women, has been sentenced to six months in jail

JERUSALEM - Palestinian militants said Tuesday they had launched a large number of floating explosives into the Mediterranean Sea to avenge the death of a top Hamas commander, a day after two bomb-laden barrels washed up on Israel's coastline.

Pilot error was the probable cause of an airline crash into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., last year, but the accident's root problems extend far beyond a single event, a federal safety panel said Tuesday.