NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2010

CALGARY - For the third time this winter and in more items than ever, metal objects have been found pressed into food at the Oakridge Calgary Co-op store.

American pro athletes used to think of Toronto as a backwater. High taxes and low temperatures combined with a woeful lack of television exposure back in the States made playing here about as appealing as Canada's national dish of french fries soaked in g

OTTAWA - Longshoremen have lost a legal bid to contest marine security regulations they call an unwarranted invasion of their privacy.

U.K. researchers have used a computer program to analyze human brain activity and "read" a person's memory of watching a short film.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said "do extraordinary work."

Canada has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the eve of the Paralympic Games in Vancouver

Canada voiced muted criticism Thursday over the planned expansion of 1,600 new Israeli settlements in disputed East Jerusalem.

BUENA, N.J. - He was raised in the state of New Jersey, where he was on the school wrestling team and earned a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is under arrest in Yemen, suspected of being an al-Qaida member

TOKYO - Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a Japanese whaling ship last month, an official said.

NEW YORK - After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust

BEIJING - Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China's frigid northeast, state media said Friday.

Roberto Luongo has received a hero's welcome his first time back in Vancouver since the Canadian men's hockey team won Olympic gold almost two weeks ago.

Cancer researchers in British Columbia have made a breakthrough in lymphoma treatment, discovering a way to predict which patients will be cured and which ones will likely relapse.

UBC honorary degrees are no joke! But it helps if you can tell one. Comedian Rick Mercer is going to get an honorary degree from UBC, and so is John Furlong, Douglas Coupland, Julie Payette, and Dal Richards, among others.

There won't be a cull of coyotes in Nova Scotia even though the Department of Natural Resources is getting a record number of calls from the public about them.

The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in the gaming sector. With the "PlayStation Move," Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, wh

Members of the Maple Ridge SPCA say they are touched by the massive outpouring of support for Trooper, the emaciated golden retriever that came into their care last month

Two Vancouver police officers are recovering from head and facial injuries after an arrested suspect made a violent escape attempt on Wednesday afternoon.

Fred Preston, a suspect in the shootout death of an Ontario Provincial Police officer, has died, the province's Special Investigations Unit confirmed late Thursday.

Ontario tax collectors will get a six-month "severance" package worth as much as $45,000 each as the province moves to harmonize sales taxes, even though those workers will not lose their jobs.

Sidney Crosby's missing Olympic gear may be back in the fold, but where's the gold-medal puck?

Just 24 hours after RCMP announced new charges against an accused Surrey, B.C., child pornographer, police on Vancouver Island say they've shut down a kiddie porn operation based out of an apartment in the northern city of Port McNeill.

Balmy temperatures and snow-free sidewalks may have brought smiles to the faces of Canadians coast to coast over the past few months, but the record-setting winter conditions are causing consternation and anxiety for one senior Environment Canada climatol

A jury has convicted a Nunavut man of gunning down a rookie RCMP officer as he was responding to a report of a drunk driving in 2007.

Caribou living in the Arctic have switched off the internal biological clock most mammals use to distinguish day from night, biologists have found.

Canadian hockey icon Don Cherry rumbled into Vancouver Wednesday for a lunch-hour "Salute to the Paralympics."

Picking a cauliflower seems a very easy task, at least to anyone who has only ever encountered the brassica on a plate accompanied by meat and other vegetables.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadian soldiers are repairing a key bridge on the road between Kandahar city and Pakistan after it was badly damaged by a suicide bomber's blast earlier this month.

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany -- Canadian Erik Guay produced a daring run to win the final race of the season Thursday and claim a World Cup title in the super-G.

Calgary aldermen who charged dry cleaning to their office budgets are runners-up for a government waste award.

JACKSON, Miss. - A school decided Wednesday not to host a prom dance after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

If you're a cop and you're going to rub your penis against a colleague's cruiser, it's probably not smart to blog about it.

Midnight knitter spinning nocturnal yarn over US shore town, putting sweaters in trees

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg woman has been charged with child abandonment after allegedly leaving her seven-year-old son alone in her car, then later reporting the car stolen -- even though it had been sitting in the same place the whole time

Bank of America has apologised to a woman in Pennsylvania after one of its contractors entered her house, damaged furniture and confiscated her parrot.

EDMONTON - Bearing a cool treat for her warm-hearted heroes, a 15-year-old Edmonton girl thanked the firefighters who helped rescue her from underneath a minivan seven weeks ago.

TORONTO - The grandmother was awakened by a crashing stampede of police through her apartment door and the long barrel of a gun aimed right at her head.

One minister, not three, should oversee the billions of dollars worth of future equipment purchases for the Canadian Forces, a new report to the Harper government recommends.

TORONTO - Two Virginia sisters whose love knew no borders are in jail after allegedly trying to smuggle a Haitian man inside a hockey bag into the U.S

The helicopter that will someday replace the Sea King is being put through its paces on HMCS Montreal.

OTTAWA -- Rahim Jaffer and Helena Guergis have become the poster couple for political entitlement, under attack not just by opposition critics but by prominent members of their own Conservative party.

A wheelchair-bound Manitoba man remains in hospital after a brutal beating in Australia, which has left that country's citizens shocked by the predatory nature of the attack.

The office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page says it disagrees with the economic outlook presented in the Conservative government's 2010 budget.

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. troops who would be tasked with eliminating North Korea's weapons of mass destruction in the event of armed conflict are participating in military drills with South Korea, the top U.S. commander in the country said Thursday.

Residents of some parts of Metro Vancouver awoke to slushy snow on Thursday morning, while other areas just got cold rain.

Quebec police have issued an arrest warrant on fraud-related charges for the former head of the construction arm of Quebec's biggest federation of labour unions.

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.

GENES behind the immune system may explain why some women have more sexual partners than others.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Paralympic torch relay lit up a small pocket of Vancouver on Wednesday as it made its first stop in the host city, where fresh memories of the Winter Olympics are fuelling excitement for their sequel.

The owner of a dog so malnourished it was described as a "walking skeleton" by the B.C. SPCA told CTV News Wednesday that he didn't realize how thin the golden retriever was until he shaved him.

On Wednesday, the Vancouver Canucks came up with a new definition of the term "marathon men." On the second half of a back-to-back stretch, which was the final game of an NHL-record 14-game road trip, the Canucks went into extra time against the Phoenix C

Vancouver Canucks hockey stars Daniel and Henrik Sedin have donated $1.5 million to help build a new BC Children's Hospital.

Researchers have found that eggshells of extinct bird species are a rich source of preserved DNA.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to address design issues, according to an LHC director.

An international team of astronomers has confirmed that the universe, at least within a distance of 3.5 billion light years of Earth, obeys Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

A rare 1868 Canadian Red Ensign flag will hit the auction block this summer.

When the NHL season began back in October, many in the hockey world wondered if the Vancouver Canucks could handle a gruelling 14-game road trip while the Olympics occupied the city.

TORONTO - Police defended their investigation that led to drug and drunk driving charges against former Conservative politician Rahim Jaffer while legal experts said Wednesday the Crown had no choice but to withdraw those charges.

Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis is calling on the province's Construction Commission and provincial police to investigate allegations of intimidation and threats at construction sites in the province's North Shore region

A co-ordinated investigation into child pornography in Ontario resulted in charges against 35 people across the province, police announced Wednesday.

Workers will start ripping up the grass at Commonwealth Stadium next week after council unanimously approved a deal Wednesday to split the cost of installing artificial turf with the Edmonton Eskimos.

The delivery of huge copies of photos of dying ducks to the legislature Wednesday kept alive the controversy over what Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has seen of those troubling pictures.

A drunk driver who fled after killing a Calgary woman and seriously injuring her teenage son has been sentenced to five years in prison.

A councillor in Tofino, B.C., wants to ban fast-food franchises and retail chains from the West Coast surf town in order to preserve its uniquely laid-back character.

Tuberculosis remains a serious health problem in Canada's North, with the infection rate among Inuit 185 times greater than for others born in the country, a national analysis shows.

Federal contract workers charged the government $5,266 to install six potlights and $1,000 to replace a light switch.

The shine had barely started to fade from Canada's epic win in men's Winter Olympic hockey when the first email arrived and, while there wasn't exactly a flood of messages, there were enough to indicate a certain mood in the populace.

The listing will prohibit all Canadians and all residents of Canada from having anything to do with assets owned or controlled by Al Shabaab. As well, it will be illegal to participate or contribute to certain activities involving the organization.

NHL general managers have wrapped up three days of meetings with a framework for a penalty for hits to the head.

An OPP officer killed in the line of duty earlier this week may have known the man accused of killing him.

Opposition critics are pressing the Harper government to comment on the plea deal former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer entered into for a careless driving offence, after he had charges of cocaine possession and drunk driving dropped against him.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Team Canada remains a strong draw for the 2010 Paralympic Games

An 85-year-old Canora, Sask., woman says she got the shock of her life after a police car crashed into her garage on Saturday night, wrecking the building and the car inside.

A bit more tarnish has been polished off Louis Riel's reputation. More than 106 years after a Tory government hanged Riel for treason, Brian Mulroney's government says Canada has "matured as a nation." This calls for the official recognition of Riel's, "u

The Windsor, Ont., surgeon at the heart of a controversy over unnecessary mastectomies has asked to have her hospital privileges reinstated.

A new poll suggests that Canadians see substantial benefits from the 2010 Olympic Games for Canada, for B.C. and for the city of Vancouver.

Two teens have been charged after a Canadian man was beaten in an Australian train station late Tuesday night.

An independent investigation into four serious medical mistakes within 54 days at Alberta Children's Hospital -- including two non-fatal medication overdoses -- suggests poor communication and improper use of equipment triggered the problems.

VANCOUVER -- Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

OTTAWA - A judge blasted a serial drunk driver Tuesday as she handed him a 28-month sentence and banned him from getting behind the wheel of a car for the rest of his life.

Bank of America finds itself the target of a new lawsuit filed by a woman in Pittsburgh who alleges that the bank not only improperly seized her home and damaged her other property, but also kept her parrot hostage even after they admitted making a mistak

The main Canadian newspapers made a different choice in covering the massacre on March 9, 2010. The Toronto Star did not see the carnage as an important event as it is understood, by reporting about it on page A16 with only two sentences and a picture.

Canadian-born actor Corey Haim has died in Los Angeles

While not as prolific around the net as many of his Vancouver Canucks teammates, Jannik Hansen certainly has made the most of his 14 goals in 91 NHL games.

An emotional Secretary General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Tuesday in New York to the 101 United Nations workers who were killed in the Haiti earthquake, the single greatest loss for the world body in its 64-year history.

It's finally snowing on Vancouver's Cypress Mountain ski hill but not enough to ease concerns that the El Nino weather pattern B.C. is experiencing could lead to water shortages and forest fires this summer.

An argument over a stolen cellphone appears to have triggered a brawl involving more than two dozen Victoria-area teenagers that resulted in two youths requiring hospital treatment early Saturday morning, police say.

Cypress Mountain reopened to the public Tuesday, but officials say skiers and snowboarders anxious to try their hand at one of the challenging Olympic courses will have to wait.

The B.C. SPCA says it is recommending animal cruelty charges against the owner of a dog that was dropped off at a Maple Ridge shelter looking like a "walking skeleton" last month.

BERLIN - A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction.

Will women living in apartheid-like conditions throughout the Middle East and Africa know that today is International Women's Day - the day the world is supposed to celebrate equal rights and opportunities for all women? The chances are very slim in count