NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2010

A public funeral for the Canadian soldier who died March 20 at the University of Alberta hospital from injuries he sustained in Afghanistan will be held in Edmonton on Saturday.

An Ottawa adventurer and filmmaker will be using social media tools to share his newest trek with students at schools across the city.

The mysterious four-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A U.S. survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this past winter, while a new study shows honeybees' pollen and hives laden with pesticides.

Most Canadians have enough vitamin D in their blood for bone health, but only one third are above the level increasingly believed necessary for overall health and disease prevention, Statistics Canada says.

A man accused of swindling hundreds of southern Ontario investors out of tens of millions of dollars has killed himself at his luxury home west of Toronto, sources have confirmed.

The court martial for a Canadian soldier charged with murder in the death of a wounded, disarmed insurgent in Afghanistan begins Wednesday in Gatineau, Que.

It might give you a break in a busy work day, but a new pressure campaign launched yesterday says a KitKat chocolate bar is actually a threat to rainforests and endangered orangutans.

A severe storm in the western Australian city of Perth has left tens of thousands of homes without power.

Almost everyone has probably heard that this Saturday night, people are asked to do their part and sit in the dark for an hour. Earth Hour starts at 8:30 p.m. Saturday March 27.

Canada's Jennifer Jones extended her run of consecutive wins to seven at the women's world curling championship Tuesday with a 6-4 victory over Erika Brown of the U.S. The Winnipeg team remained alone atop the standings at 7-0, with Scotland's Eve Muirhea

Mounties in B.C. have a new weapon in their fight against crime, courtesy of the Canadian Forces.

Unusual odours with seemingly unrelated causes disrupted two Air Canada flights from Montreal Tuesday morning.

Grief counsellors have been sent to a Victoria high school after a badly burned body found on a local hiking trail was identified as a missing student from the school.

The Edmonton Oilers exploited a shaky Roberto Luongo and continued to play spoiler in the Western Conference, defeating the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 at Rexall Place on Tuesday.

The food portions depicted in paintings of the Last Supper have grown larger - in line with our own super-sizing of meals, say obesity experts.

Dozens of orcas, hundreds of thousands of seabirds and millions of salmon were wiped out when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled 40 millions litres of crude oil into Alaskan waters.

Family and friends gathered on Tuesday to mourn an 18-year-old Vancouver Island girl who was found underneath a bridge on a popular hiking trail last week.

They might not want to pay more for TV services, but most Canadians could afford the modest price increase they'd be subject to if TV networks get approval to charge cable and satellite companies for their over-the-air signals, says the CRTC.

GAUHATI, India - The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili. After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize

Canwest News Service - The Vancouver Organizing Committee plans to render more assistance to the family and community of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luge athlete killed in a training accident, Vancouver Olympic Games organizing committee president

A YouTube video showing an Alberta man driving a large truck through the North Saskatchewan River has led to an $800 fine.

The Edmonton Oilers dynasty will be well represented at the IIHF World Hockey Championship even without The Great One. Canadian general manager Mark Messier reached into his past and named Craig MacTavish head coach on Tuesday, reuniting the former Oil

Volunteers are scouring the streets of Vancouver for homeless people, as part of a city-wide effort to determine just how many there are and if the number is growing.

The UN wildlife trade body slapped down a trio of proposals Tuesday to oversee cross-border commerce for sharks threatened with extinction through overfishing, sparking anger from conservationists.

A University of British Columbia physics professor has been nominated for a position in U.S. President Barack Obama's White House.

More than 500 people have signed a petition to strike down a Montreal-area West Island bylaw that forbids street sports, after a father was fined for playing hockey outside with his son and friends.

The owners of a Windsor, Ont., restaurant are making good on a promise Richard Montague made to his two children before he died of flesh-eating disease earlier this month.

For the first time in nearly four years, people in a village southeast of Calgary can safely drink straight from the tap after the province lifted a boil-water advisory.

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British Columbia RCMP are looking for a family who allegedly turned a shopping trip into a shoplifting spree at a Future Shop in Richmond, B.C.

An Air Canada plane was evacuated on the tarmac at Toronto's Pearson Airport on Tuesday morning because of engine trouble.

Bonnie Preece may be quitting her day job as a cashier at No Frills and checking out in the express lane with her winning Lotto 6/49 ticket.

We may take ours for granted, but atmospheres are responsible for creating some of the wonders of the Solar System. The flimsy, thin blue line seen from space that surrounds Earth makes it a wonderfully diverse place.

Immense volcanic activity helped the dinosaurs rise to prominence some 200 million years ago, a study suggests.

After five people were killed in avalanches in B.C. in a single week, snowmobilers were headed right back into the back country this weekend.

A survey by the Internet security firm Symantec suggests that three wealthy Canadian suburbs are the most dangerous places in the country from which to go online.

A white student painting his face black during a class presentation is one example used in a new report compiling students' stories of both covert and flagrant instances of racism on Ontario university and college campuses.

Canada's Jennifer Jones remained unbeaten at the women's world curling championships with a 10-9 victory Monday over defending champion Wang Bingyu of China.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has used a televised Iranian New Year address to accuse the US of plotting against the country.

Three women have been arrested for the theft of two dangerous dogs at the heart of a lengthy legal battle from a Vancouver Island animal shelter last week.

NHL players are looking at making some changes to the proposed rule on blindsided hits to the head.

Jennifer Jones' alarm clock will go off much earlier for the rest of the round robin at the women's world curling championship in Swift Current, Sask.

Researchers in Hawaii have found several species of moth whose caterpillars can live both under water and on land, making them unique among insects.

The driver of a school bus that crashed killing a Calgary girl on board was listening to an iPod and might have dozed off prior to the collision, an inquiry heard.

Every tree that's cut down by the forest industry in British Columbia will soon have to be replaced by a new seedling as part of the provincial government's plans to fight climate change.

The possibility of an attack on London during the 2012 Olympic Games poses a major security threat to Britain, the government said Monday in its latest assessment of terrorism risks.

Two sculptures created by a Dutch artist have been erected on a moving iceberg off the coast of Greenland in an effort to raise awareness about global warming.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has paved the way for broadcasters to negotiate fees for their local signals.

Despite differences over the ownership of a small Arctic island, military personnel from Canada and Denmark will collaborate for the first time in a joint northern military operation next month.

In the Ottawa Valley town of Deep River, police are frustrated and the community remains confounded by the mysterious disappearance of a scientist working at the nearby Chalk River nuclear reactor.

Will re-shoot images of Windsor, Ont., taken during garbage strike

A California resident has been given an expensive bill for causing a scene on an overseas flight that was forced to land last week in central Newfoundland.

One man was arrested Sunday as hundreds of anti-racist activists gathered at City Hall to rally against intolerance in Calgary.

One of the men accused of stealing from a Toronto woman while on her hospital deathbed has been hospitalized.

Cpl. Fitzpatrick was critically wounded by an improvised explosive device during a joint Canadian/Afghan dismounted patrol 25 km West of Kandahar City in Zharey district on March 6.

Yes, according to the Department of Justice, earlier this week, Deputy Minister John H. Sims -- a three-plus-decade veteran of the civil service -- gave notice, via widely-distributed letter, that he would be leaving his post, effective April 1.

Tensions ran high at an anti-racism rally in Calgary on Sunday as a group of white supremacists heckled anti-racism demonstrators.

Canada's Brian McKeever won the men's cross-country 1 km sprint event in the visually impaired category, claiming his third gold medal of the 2010 Paralympic Games.

The bill passed by 219 votes to 212, with no Republican backing, after hours of fierce argument and debate.

The Paralympic flag has been lowered in Whistler and the flame has been extinguished, bringing to an end 10 days of competition which saw Canada set new standards when it comes to medals won and the promotion of the Paralympic movement.

Two French heli-skiers are dead after the third major avalanche in British Columbia in a week.

The Olympic and Paralympic have taught us that Canadian hearts are glowing, and after a gut-wrenching defeat in the bronze-medal game, the nation's sledge hockey team proved it.

Paralympic alpine skier Colette Bourgonje is being recognized with an award for exceptional determination at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games closing ceremony.

Police, politicians and doctors are warning that a relatively new street drug called doda is becoming more common across Canada, and not enough is being done to stop its trade.

Pope Benedict XVI has released a letter apologizing for years of physical and sexual abuse suffered by Irish children at the hands of priests.

The NHL is moving quickly on whether to implement a blindside headshot rule this season, reported hockey analyst Pierre LeBrun on Saturday during the Hotstove segment of Hockey Night in Canada

Henrik Zetterberg scored in the last second of overtime Saturday as the Detroit Red Wings improved their playoff chances with a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.

Weibo Ludwig: Some of the books on terrorism were gifts, the chemistry texts were for home schooling and the marijuana was for his pregnant goats.

Several hundred people have been evacuated from their homes, as a volcano erupted in southern Iceland.

Mounties in Revelstoke, B.C., are working to determine whether children were willingly put at risk when they were taken into avalanche territory last weekend.

Canada's wheelchair curling team held off a hard-charging South Korean rink for an 8-7 win in the gold-medal game at the Vancouver Paralympics on Saturday.

Manitoba Search and Rescue officials say all 81 people who were bogged down in muck on impassable winter roads have been rescued and are on their way to where they wanted to be when they set out.

A University of Windsor student is filing a human rights complaint after she was asked to leave a Mac's store because of her service dog.

The Canadian wheelchair curling team will get a chance to defend its Paralympic title after beating Sweden 10-5 in a semifinal Saturday.

Lauren Woolstencroft of North Vancouver, B.C., won the standing super-combined race at the Paralympics on Saturday to earn her fifth gold medal of the Games

Calgary Flames fans will be glued to Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday, grudgingly yelling something they might normally only do in a feverish, sweat-filled nightmare: Go Canucks!

Police have confirmed that all snowmobilers who were on the mountain when yet another avalanche struck near Revelstoke, B.C., have been accounted for, leaving the slide's death toll at one.

An advertisement promoting Alberta is getting a lot of attention; but the location of that advertisement may come as a surprise to many.

Paralympic sledge hockey players push themselves to win. If they push too hard, they know they are protected because first aid workers have automatic external defibrillators on hand.

TORONTO -- Wendel Clark doesn't think he had as much to worry about during his NHL career as players do today.

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Canadians captured four medals Saturday at the at the short track speedskating world championships.

MONTREAL - Canada jumps into spring after having recorded the mildest and driest winter on record, Environment Canada reported Friday.

WINNIPEG - Mohamed Said Jama is back in custody after the Somali refugee, who was wanted by immigration officials on a Canada-wide warrant, was picked up by Winnipeg police late Friday afternoon.

TORONTO - More than 10,000 problem gamblers seeking $3.5 billion in damages against the Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corp. lost their bid to have their case heard as a class-action lawsuit.

TORONTO - A fugitive sought in the hospital deathbed robbery of an elderly woman has been taunting detectives with phone calls in which he says he can't be caught.

LONDON, Ont. - American conservative firebrand Ann Coulter won't be in London until Monday but already the dust is flying.

Just when the Canadian sledge hockey team thought it couldn't suffer a more heartbreaking loss after being stunned by Japan in the Paralympic semifinals, the host country was pushed off the Games podium on the most unlikely of goals.

The closing ceremonies at the Vancouver Olympics were supposed to show the world that Canadians have a sense of humour but many members of the RCMP weren't laughing at how they were depicted

It's going to cost more to enjoy provincial parks in B.C., with rates going up on everything from basic camping fees to emptying RV sewage tanks.

By turning potential into podiums Lauren Woolstencroft has helped Canada win more gold medals than at any previous Paralympic Games.

GENEVA - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.

New data from the Cassini probe has revealed Saturn is a turbulent planet with odd weather patterns and constantly shifting rings. Images from the satellite show that Saturn's rings shift and tumble, changing their structure on very short time scales for

The Vancouver Canucks announced on Friday the signing of gritty forward Ryan Kesler to a six-year contract extension.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - One eye has been on the clock and the other has been on the clouds for the producer of the closing ceremonies for the 2010 Paralympic Games.