NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2010

Veterans will receive a full refund for paying the harmonized sales tax on poppies for their annual Remembrance Day fundraising campaign, a government source said Wednesday.

In fact, according to The Atlantic, a military officer briefed on the matter said that they have never experienced something so big: "[w]e can deal with maybe 5, 6, or 7 at a time, but we've never lost complete command and control and functionality of 50

The family of a Second World War veteran is suing a Montreal-area senior's residence after the 94-year-old man died days after being scalded in a bathtub.

Planes and helicopters delivering rescuers, medicine and other supplies landed for the first time Wednesday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 3-metre tsunami, sweeping away villages and killing at least 154 people.

Youth and experience. Those are the two watchwords surrounding the Canadian women's soccer team as it prepares to compete in the 2010 CONCACAF World Cup qualifier in Mexico.

A 46-year-old Chatham-Kent man has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after a traffic stop led police to take him to the hospital Monday.

A Toronto mom will have to leave her children behind in the custody of child care workers when she's deported to Jamaica next Tuesday.

A computer failure caused a break in communication with 50 nuclear missiles at Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming during the weekend, military officials said Tuesday.

Getting a Timmies fix is about to get a lot easier for residents of Iqaluit.

A B.C. judge has overturned a man's driving ban, citing a discrepancy in the accuracy of police breathalyzers at a time when the province is cracking down on drinking and driving.

The B.C. Court of Appeal is set to acquit, or order a new trial for, a man who has spent 27 years in prison for a series of rapes in Vancouver in the 1980s.

A Manitoba mother has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her four-year-old daughter, RCMP said on Tuesday.

The federal government rolled out some details of its new 10-year electronic passport on Tuesday, saying that Canadians who know about the new document seem to like it.

Daniel and Henrik Sedin are among the most consistent forwards in the NHL. The rest of the Vancouver Canucks seem determined to prove that they have help.

Two children were treated in hospital for minor injuries after their school bus overturned in rural south Ottawa Tuesday morning. The bus, carrying 15 children ranging in age from five to 10 years old, rolled on Copeland Road, near Munster Road, just befo

Concerns about dwindling caribou herds in Canada and elsewhere have brought more than 400 delegates to the 13th North American Caribou Workshop in Winnipeg this week.

Geothermal heat from a former Yellowknife gold mine could soon be heating dozens of buildings in the downtown, if city council goes ahead with a $60-million renewable energy plan that's in the works.

Residents of Inuvik, N.W.T., have mixed reactions to plans by Imperial Oil and BP to explore for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea.

After months of warnings about financial hard times and new austerity measures, the city of Montreal has confirmed it has an unexpected budget surplus of $77 million.

No charges will be laid against a Quebec driver who struck and killed three cyclists with his pickup truck in May. The accident happened on a relatively straight stretch of highway in Rougemont east of Montreal just before 10 a.m.

Modern humans could have reached East Asia much earlier than believed, according to new evidence. An international team analysed fossil teeth and part of a jaw unearthed in southern China in 2007.

Iran has begun loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant, state television has reported.

After traveling the equivalent of six times to the moon, a CC-130E Hercules aircraft spent its final flying hours carrying out search and rescue (SAR) training north of the 60th parallel during the annual Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX), which took pla

Omar Khadr is an angry and "highly dangerous" terrorist who shows no remorse for the killing of a U.S. soldier and other crimes, a psychiatrist speaking on behalf of prosecutors told a Guantanamo Bay court Tuesday.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says he won't punish his energy minister for publicly criticizing his handling of a cabinet shuffle.

British Columbia voters could see a first draft of the referendum question on the harmonized sales tax by mid-November, says Attorney General Mike de Jong. The province's chief electoral officer is currently drafting the final version of the question, whi

The wrath of a huge, "unseasonably intense storm" that tore through the U.S Midwest on Tuesday has spared Ontario. Earlier in the day, a tornado watch was issued for the Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent areas, while a severe thunderstorm watch was in effect

At least one-fifth of the world's mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish are threatened with extinction due to human activity, a new study concludes.

Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Tariq Aziz was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for persecuting members of Shia religious parties under the former regime.

At least 18 people were killed when Indonesia's most volatile volcano started erupting Tuesday, according to doctors and television reports.

Saskatchewan's first big blast of winter weather was creating hazardous conditions on the roads Tuesday, with fender benders and cars in ditches being common sights.

An ex-Montreal police officer serving time for raping several young women is getting out of jail early

Mortar shells belonging to the Canadian Forces were discovered lying exposed on a rural Manitoba riverbank and it's a mystery how they got there, RCMP said on Tuesday.

Ducks have again landed on a Syncrude oilsands tailings pond in northern Alberta, leading officials to euthanize 230 birds that had contact with bitumen which was floating on the surface.

The federal government did a good job of rolling out the economic stimulus plan and many other services and programs, but failed to properly manage two purchases of military helicopters, says Auditor General Sheila Fraser.

The Economist magazine's latest survey of home prices around the world claims that the Canadian real estate is overvalued by 23.9 per cent.

Inuit carvings depicting early court cases in Canada's North can now be seen at a Yellowknife museum, after being locked away for over a decade amid security concerns.

Stephen Harper arrived Sunday to a Ukraine of diminishing freedoms and rising strong-arm tactics. And yet the Canadian government is working to sign a free-trade deal with the regime.

The mentally ill man accused of attacking and stabbing a Kamloops, B.C., Roman Catholic bishop may not be fit to even consult with his lawyer, Crown Cousel said Monday.

A retired NHLer says the league discriminates against players who aren't English-speaking Canadians and he alleges in a new book that teams systematically shut the door on others.

His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada and Patron of The Royal Canadian Legion, received the symbolic first poppy from Patricia Varga, Dominion President of the Royal Canadian Legion, and Larr

Rob Ford has been elected the new mayor of Toronto, beating George Smitherman in a bitterly fought race that was considered too close to call as voters headed to the polls Monday.

The Middlesex-London Health Unit in southwestern Ontario will launch a sequel to its controversial, yet popular, online game Adventures in Sex City to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections.

A 71-year-old man who was arrested and charged with slapping his daughter, who later died, was released Monday on $2,000 bail.

A nurse turned bureaucrat who says his wife died accidentally after she attacked him told his second-degree murder trial Monday he was too stunned to try to revive her or even call 911 for at least 2 1/2 hours.

VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Canucks forward Rick Rypien has apologized for confronting a fan during a game in Minnesota last week, calling the incident a "real eye-opener." "I know what I did was wrong," said Rypien, who is serving a six-game suspension for th

A Mountie from Surrey, B.C., and a Metro Vancouver transit police officer have been charged with assault in connection with a 73-year-old man who was jolted with a Taser after being arrested under the Mental Health Act.

Construction of four temporary meeting rooms for MPs in a federal building next to Parliament Hill in Ottawa cost over $24 million.

One person died and nine others were injured when a plane crashed Monday morning southeast of the northern Alberta town of Conklin. The twin-engine, turbo-prop Beechcraft King Air 100 aircraft, operated by Kenn Borek Air, was carrying 10 people.

Officials in Nunavut's Baffin Island fishery say climate change has benefited their business somewhat, thanks to longer fishing seasons in recent years.

METRO VANCOUVER -- Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning for Metro Vancouver on Monday morning, predicting the region would receive 50 mm by Tuesday morning.

Heavy fall rain has destroyed thousands of acres of Fraser Valley potatoes and other vegetables crops this year, and the losses won't be covered by crop insurance, farmers are saying

A heavy Pacific storm dumped 30 centimetres of snow on the top of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort over the weekend, raising the hopes of local skiers and boarders that the La Nina weather climate pattern will bring plenty of snow this coming winter.

The man who fatally shot bystander John O'Keefe outside the Brass Rail strip club in Toronto in 2008 was sentenced Monday to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 15 years.

Premier Danny Williams says Newfoundland and Labrador is close to finalizing a deal to develop a Lower Churchill hydroelectric project that won't send energy through Quebec.

New Brunswick NDP Leader Roger Duguay is resigning as party leader after failing to win a seat in the Sept. 27 election.

New Brunswick high school hockey players will soon have to choose between playing for their school squad or continuing with their minor hockey team.

The furor over genetically engineered foods is back for another round with U.S. food authorities close to approving a new breed of salmon that has been designed to grow faster.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell rolled out some sweeping changes to his cabinet line-up on Monday morning in Victoria and also replace his own Chief of Staff, Martyn Brown with the former CEO of ICBC Paul Taylor.

British Columbia's embattled Finance Minister Colin Hansen remains in his portfolio despite a massive cabinet and bureaucracy shakeup today.

A string of beaches on California's Central Coast were shut down Saturday and there was no word on when they would reopen after a deadly attack on a bodyboarder from what some scientists said was probably a great white shark, authorities said.

Richard Reber, 51, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and videotaping the crime.

A federal inquiry into the state of B.C.'s wild salmon stocks is scheduled to open in Vancouver on Monday.

Winnipeg police are setting up a mobile command unit in the North End, and flooding the area with foot and vehicle patrols following weekend shootings that left two men dead and a teen girl critically injured.

The federal government has apologized to Sean Bruyea, a Canadian Gulf War veteran and Veterans Affairs critic whose sensitive personal and medical information was illegally shared by officials in the department.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake has hit off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, and officials there have issued a local tsunami watch, monitoring agencies said Monday.

Indonesia warned Monday that its most volatile volcano could erupt at any time and asks thousands of villagers living on the mountain's slope to leave.

A rainy spring followed by a cool, cloudy summer and early frost has taken a toll on wheat harvests across the Prairies as farmers bring in the last of the crops.

A 14-year-old boy who narrowly missed a blast from a sawed-off shotgun got the closest look at the masked gunman who killed two men and wounded a 13-year-old girl in north Winnipeg Saturday night.

Globe and MailAlaskan volcano helped sockeye bounce back, scientists suspectGlobe and MailWhen the Cohen Commission inquiry into the decline of sockeye salmon in the Fraser River opens evidentiary hearings Monday in Vancouver, it will be haunted by an une

Volunteer distraught as two Tofino paramedics die when ambulance crashes down cliff

Minor hockey officials in Saskatoon will decide next month whether to force parents to complete an anger management course before their kids are allowed to hit the ice.

EDMONTON - Diane Akers would sit at home and bawl every time she cancelled an appointment for her cancer-stricken son.

CANCUN, Mexico - Hurricane Richard struck the tiny Central American nation of Belize Sunday, blowing roofs off houses and knocking out electricity as tourists and residents huddled in emergency shelters.

QMI Agency reported in August that an internal government sampling of Sri Lankan nationals found that 70% of those that had successfully claimed refugee status in Canada had travelled back to the country they claimed was persecuting them. That travel is m

EDMONTON - The mayor of a small town south of Edmonton still reeling from the slayings of two young boys is shocked after learning two more people died under suspicious circumstances outside the community Sunday.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell is shuffling his cabinet on Monday, two days before he addresses the province in a televised address, and rumours are already flying about several high-profile positions.

Oil and gas companies in Alberta are being encouraged to sign on to a new program that would see them promise to treat communities with more respect.

KYIV, Ukraine - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will tug on the deep familial ties that bind Canada and Ukraine, in an attempt to pull that struggling republic's attention back toward the friendly West and away from a less-democratically minded Russia.

VANCOUVER - Salmon flooded British Columbia's Fraser River in throngs not seen in a century this summer, ushering in fresh economic opportunities that had run scarce in recent decades, to the stocks' near collapse last year.

An American high school student who fell to his death in June at the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver was high on LSD, according to a B.C. Coroner's report.

Helen Hunley, Alberta's first female lieutenant-governor, has died. Hunley passed away on Friday at the age of 90, her family confirmed Saturday.

The Italian government has suspended plans to open a new waste dump near Naples after protests by residents who are upset with an existing garbage crisis.

One of Omar Khadr's Canadian lawyers says his client's war crimes trial will resume as scheduled Monday and that no plea agreement has been reached.

A 27-year-old Nova Scotia man was shot and killed at a city apartment building as he attempted to deliver a pizza on Saturday night, says a spokesman for the Halifax police.

He walks into homes through unlocked doors, sneaks into women's bedrooms and quietly watches them sleep until they wake before fleeing out the same open entryway he used to get in.

Aid groups ramped up efforts Sunday to control a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has so far killed more than 200 people and threatens the capital's displacement camps, which house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors.

Imagine being barred from giving your own mother one last hug when she's traveled thousands of kilometres to say goodbye as you leave for outer space for six months.

A four-month-old baby is dead and 10 other people are injured in the small town of La Verriere, west of Paris, France after they jumped out of their apartment's third-storey window after believing to have seen the devil.

Bruyea has produced 2006 government documents obtained through the Access to Information law to back up his claim. They include emails from the PMO and notes from a meeting between Danielle Shaw, a policy adviser with Harper's office, and Veterans Affairs

Almost exactly one year ago, Ken Creighton turned to Toronto Sun readers for answers behind a black-and-white picture of a First World War veteran.

Oilsands giant Syncrude Canada will pay a $3-million penalty for the deaths of 1,600 ducks in one of its toxic tailings ponds in April 2008.

A Korean company transforming a shuttered Nova Scotia railcar plant into a wind turbine facility is committed to the operation's success, Premier Darrell Dexter said Friday.

A Nova Scotia veteran of the war in Afghanistan says he's fed up with the delays and bureaucracy at Veterans Affairs Canada.

Survivors of the worst peacetime disaster in the history of the Canadian navy gathered in Halifax on Saturday to remember the HMCS Kootenay fire and the nine people who were killed on Oct. 23, 1969.

Future warming could have "profound implications" for the stability of freshwater ecosystems, a study warns.

Commercial space travel took a step closer with the opening of the runway at the world's first spaceport in the US state of New Mexico.

The Dalai Lama says the desire for transparency and freedom is growing in China.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - A father and son from northern Ontario are part of an international team that will attempt to beat the world record for the fastest time rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.

TORONTO - Zombie Rob Ford wants to "stop the gravy brain" for undead voters.

A Long Island, NY man has been charged with sexual misconduct, attempted sexual misconduct and burglary after he allegedly broke into his tenants' apartment to sexually assault their two-year-old Shiba Inu named Snowball.

CALGARY - The anti-drinking and driving message could soon land in the palm of Albertans' cocktail-clasping hands, as one Calgary MLA plans to bring forth a motion calling for warning labels on liquor.

QUEBEC - Quebec's version of the right-wing U.S. Tea Party was brewing a fresh approach to political thinking as it gathered in the provincial capital on Saturday.

Canada is extending its Iraqi refugee program for another two years, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Saturday, which will allow an additional 8,600 refugees to resettle in the country between 2011 and 2013.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell has booked TV time to revive his gasping political career, but the question politicians and pundits are asking isn't whether the premier can revive himself but whether anybody will be watching.

The day after an Abbotsford, B.C. man was sentenced to more than 55 years in prison for the murder of his five-year-old stepdaughter, the girl's mother is speaking out for the first time.