NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2010

Sarnia's Highway 402 has reopened to eastbound traffic, but tow trucks continue to move hundreds of abandoned vehicles off the westbound portion of the major highway in southwestern Ontario, the OPP said Wednesday.

A former Vancouver police anti-gang squad member says the brazen shooting of 10 people at a gangster's birthday party is a sign that young upstarts with few formal gang ties are moving in to fill a power vacuum in the criminal underworld.

A family in B.C.'s Okanagan is criticizing the provincial conservation service because of how officers responded when they reported a family of black bears on their property.

Authorities are seeking more information about another small human foot that has washed ashore in Washington state.

Life may have survived a cataclysmic global freeze some 700 million years ago in pockets of open ocean.

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed what they believe is a 2,400-year-old pot of soup

Too many Canadians are being forced to deplete bank accounts, retirement savings and get rid of other assets to qualify for welfare, a new national report says.

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Forces will review the files of up to 50 soldiers wounded during the Afghan war to determine whether they should be allowed to continue to serve or be released from the military.

This is no chess match. A computer designed by IBM is getting ready to match wits against the greatest Jeopardy! champions in the game show's history.

Scientists said Tuesday they have found the best evidence yet of ice volcanoes on Saturn's giant moon Titan. Unlike volcanoes on Earth, such a volcano on Titan may spew ice and hydrocarbons instead of molten lava.

IOTO, Japan - In a rare visit to Iwo Jima, Japan's prime minister offered prayers Tuesday at two recently discovered mass graves and vowed to find the more than 12,000 fallen soldiers whose bodies have yet to be recovered from the remote island where some

A weather system with the potential to create treacherous driving conditions is rolling into Saskatchewan.

Military helicopters were brought in to help rescue drivers stranded by blowing snow in southwestern Ontario, while wind and rain pound parts of Atlantic Canada.

All of the stranded motorists on Ontario's Highway 402 near Sarnia were believed to have been rescued as of late Tuesday afternoon.

Canadians borrowing has entered "uncharted territory" and the risks associated with the level of debt households are carrying is something that "we all have to take seriously," Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said Tuesday.

Want a better understanding of the world's worst nuclear disaster? Come tour the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Beginning next year, Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy

A leading international gay rights group demanded Tuesday that FIFA make an official apology following Sepp Blatter's comment about homosexual fans thinking of traveling to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup.

There appears to be all-party agreement in Ottawa that criminals who commit sex offences against children should never be eligible for a pardon.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been granted bail by a judge in London though he has not yet been freed.

The stunning find, ... dates from the Canadian posting of a British army officer, Lt. John Enys, who fought against the rebellious American colonies during their War of Independence in the 1770s and early 1780s. John Lt. Enys, who lived between 1757 and 1

After studying four decades of terrorism, Aaron Clauset thinks he's found mathematical patterns that can help governments prevent and prepare for major terror attacks. The U.S. government seems to agree.

We've heard several stories about her smile, now researchers are saying there's something special in Mona Lisa's eyes.

TORONTO - Readers are outraged over a story about Toronto dad Matthew Lau who is keeping his disabled son at home from school after the lad was bullied by an older boy.

Sea lice carried by farmed salmon are not responsible for a sharp decline in the wild population of a species of Pacific salmon, a report suggests.

Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, has reached a new milestone in its quest to leave the Solar System.

EDMONTON - Note to potheads with holiday travel plans: If you want to fool airport security by disguising your marijuana grinder, don't make it look like a hand grenade.

Vancouver police say 10 people shot at an invitation-only birthday party over the weekend had gang connections.

A wind and rainstorm expected to continue into Tuesday has caused flooding and power outages in the Maritimes and prompted one New Brunswick town to plan for a state of local emergency.

A state of emergency has been declared near Sarnia, Ont., where police and Emergency Medical Service workers are trying to rescue about 300 motorists stranded on a southwestern Ontario highway because of extreme winter weather conditions.

President Obama's emissary to Afghanistan and Pakistan began his career as a junior Foreign Service officer during the Vietnam War.

Two Toronto men have been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, shot by a stray bullet at a backyard birthday party in 2007.

The Vancouver Canucks are beginning to find life on the road as comforting as playing in front of their fans at Rogers Arena. The Canucks rebounded from a tough overtime loss with a convincing 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday night.

A large sinkhole collapsed on SE Marine Drive in Vancouver on Sunday afternoon, swallowing a piece of road and forcing crews to close the busy route.

Memorial services were held Sunday in Canada and the United States to mark the 25th anniversary of the deadliest plane crash in Canadian history, a crash that killed 256 Americans shortly after the plane left Gander, N.L.

The Canadian Tree Growers Association is donating Christmas trees to all families who have loved ones serving overseas.

A winter storm hitting Ontario with a sloppy mix of snow and rain Sunday will be quickly followed by a blast of strong winds and cool temperatures, forecasters say.

Several sightings and one close encounter with wolves in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Ronge have residents on edge.

The owner of an unusual Edmonton store is scratching his head after two men broke in earlier this week to steal things. Why break in, the owner asks, when everything in the store is free?

The Department of Defence has launched an investigation after a former member of the Canadian Forces found sensitive health and personal information about other military personnel in his medical file.

OTTAWA - The father of a decorated CFB Petawawa soldier has lost confidence in the military after his son - who has post-traumatic stress disorder - faces discipline after suffering flashbacks during a live-fire exercise.

Stay tuned for nature's coming attraction. Early next week, the Geminid meteor shower will make its annual appearance, just in time for Christmas. Astronomers consider it the best meteor shower of the year, with more than 100 meteors streaking through the

A man who held off police in a small Newfoundland outport town for seven days appeared in court Sunday to face 16 charges, including attempted murder of five police officers during the standoff.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says Canada is ready to do whatever it is asked to help maintain order in Haiti, but doubts that will mean sending more troops to the troubled Caribbean nation.

A band of snowstorms affecting nearly a quarter of North America was sweeping north out of the U.S. Midwest Sunday, bringing snow, freezing rain and slush to most of central Canada.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - NATO has given itself a licence to kill those who are murdering government workers in Kandahar, but the mayor of this embattled city says those lurking under the assassin's masks are not all Taliban.

The federal government has promised to fund two Vancouver projects, including a memorial monument, to commemorate the Komagata Maru incident.

A flashy shootout goal from a hockey player making his NHL debut has some Edmontonians wondering if a brand new downtown arena would complement the youthful zest of the city's NHL team.

Researchers at McMaster University are mapping the metallic DNA of ancient Greek and Roman coins, establishing a direct link from the currency to events that changed the course of history such as wars and even the collapse of the Roman Empire.

A Canadian man is reportedly recovering in a Panama hospital after a mudslide destroyed his home, killing his wife and several of her relatives.

Britain's interior minister said Sunday she will consider barring from the country a Florida pastor who threatened to burn a Qur'an on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack.

Six NATO service members were killed Sunday in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan, the international alliance said in a statement.

Sweden's security service has taken over the investigation into a pair of bombings in downtown Stockholm that authorities are calling "a terrorist crime."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada would support a binding international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. Harper spoke in Nova Scotia on Friday as delegates at a climate-change conference in Cancun, Mexico, scrambled to hammer out a number of

TORONTO - The coincidence is chilling. U.S. authorities deport Salvatore Montagna, a reputed New York crime boss to Montreal, the city of his birth. Within months, bodies begin to fall.

A seven-day standoff between police and an armed man barricaded in an eastern Newfoundland home came to a peaceful end.

Officials with the St. Albert Salvation Army are reporting that the 100 toys collected during a toy drive they believed had been stolen were actually just misplaced.

Police in a small community south of St. John's have cut off the power to a house where a man has barricaded himself, as an unusual standoff continued into its seventh day.

Husky Energy is considering adding a Hibernia-style concrete structure on the White Rose oilfield hundreds of kilometres east of Newfoundland.

Craig Ward, 49, of Bedford, N.S., a Cub Scouts leader with the 5th Sackville Group and Timothy Budden, 44, were both arrested on Thursday and have been charged with accessing and possessing child pornography

It's been almost five years since then-Opposition leader Stephen Harper promised during the 2006 election campaign to compensate all victims of Agent Orange spraying at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown.

A Canadian electric power company is postponing a shipment of 16 old generators with radioactive contents across three of the Great Lakes but remains committed to the plan, despite claims by environmentalists that it's too risky

Windsor International Airport in Ontario has installed a universal wireless charging station known as Qi, the first public place to get one, according to promoters.

The University of Manitoba has become a sort of Top Gun for the Canadian Air Force.

Freezing rain and an icy highway have led to a litany of charges against an Edmonton man.

Kavis Reed is returning to Edmonton. The former Eskimos defensive back was named the CFL club's head coach on Friday.

Pamela Anderson is officially on Oil-Tanker-Watch. The former Baywatch star and B.C. native has joined an online campaign, known as the No Tanks Coalition, to ban oil-tanker traffic off the coast of British Columbia.

A British researcher has published a startling new theory that the remains of untold ancient settlements from a 100,000-year stretch of human history were submerged by the rapidly rising waters of the Persian Gulf around 6000 BC

BC Ferries' senior managers were reeling in titanic salaries before the province vowed to sink million-dollar paydays, newly released documents show.

Northern wildfires and climate change are fuelling each other, a new study shows.

B.C. has handed over responsibility for regulating the West Coast fish farming industry to the federal government.

Former colonel and convicted murderer Russell Williams has been officially expelled from the Canadian Forces, the Department of National Defence said Friday.

The Harper government is quietly setting the stage for a landmark move that could pump millions of dollars worth of investment into reserves across the country and mark a change in the relationship between Ottawa and Canada's First Nations, iPolitics has

Israel has occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 1967, settling close to 500,000 Jews in more than 100 settlements. They are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

A snowfall warning is in effect for areas south and west of Edmonton. CTV meteorologist Josh Classen reports a narrow band of heavy snow is expected to bring upwards of 10 centimetres of snow Thursday night.

The B.C. government has taken possession of two high-priced homes owned by a Surrey couple after police discovered large marijuana grow-ops inside.

An SFU biologist is urging Health Canada to toughen its shellfish consumption guidelines after finding what she believes to be dangerous concentrations of a potentially hazardous substance in B.C. seafood.

The Nunavut government says it will fight a proposal by the United States to add ringed seals to its list of endangered species.

Wildlife officers in central Nunavut have had to take the unusual step of killing several polar bears that have come too close to communities like Rankin Inlet, where one animal was spotted two blocks from the elementary school.

A Montreal man climbing the world's tallest mountains to raise money for children's charities has reached the top of the seventh and final summit, Antarctica's Vinson Massif.

A Montreal judge has sentenced Bill Surkis, former director of B'nai Brith Quebec, to 45 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.

The record snowfall that has been hitting London and other communities in southwestern Ontario eased as expected Thursday, but there is more snowy weather in the forecast.

A U.S. security expert says the food industry is not sufficiently protected from tampering and potential terrorism.

Two men posing as Salvation Army volunteers made off with more than 100 toys from a drop-off point in St. Albert, Alta.

Two Second World War aircraft owned by the City of Calgary are going to be saved from the dustbin of history.

Vancouver police are launching themselves into the so-called Twitterverse with a plan to tweet every call they receive for 24 hours using the social media tool.

Mounties on Vancouver Island say the history of a rocket launcher discovered in the woods just metres from a major highway north of Victoria remains a mystery.

Police on Vancouver Island are asking for the public's help in identifying four men believed responsible for a series of abductions and assaults throughout B.C.

On Wednesday, the Department of Defense's POW/Missing Personnel Office said the remains of Army Private Henry A. Weikel, 28, of Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, had been identified and returned to his family for burial.

A CH-149 Cormorant helicopter crew from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron at 19 Wing Comox, B.C. recently travelled to the United Kingdom to receive the Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award from the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (GAPAN).

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba environmental group is blaming the provincial government and others for a spill it says poured "a toxic soup of acidic water and heavy metals" into a northern Manitoba lake.

A fringe church group infamous for protesting soldiers' funerals plans to picket the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards on Saturday.

Once, Don Cherry's mission in life seemed pretty straightforward: make the nation's hockey rinks safe for tough-guy brawlers while ridding them of chicken Swedes and visor-wearing softies.

Canada and the U.S. are reportedly negotiating a landmark "perimeter security" deal designed to ensure the flow of goods isn't slowed by steadily tightening border security

FREDERICTON - St. Thomas University in New Brunswick has suspended its men's volleyball team for the rest of the school year after concluding it organized a hazing party attended by a team member who later died.

The Quebec government will help pay to repair or even move hundreds of homes along the St. Lawrence River after high tides and fierce winds caused major damage this week.

B.C.'s new Energy Minister Steve Thomson says offshore exploration for oil and gas on the West Coast is not a priority for the province, marking a significant change in policy for the government.

Florida's Clemency Board has posthumously pardoned late singer Jim Morrison of the Doors for his 40-year-old conviction for indecent exposure and profanity.

Israel reportedly is working on a plan to offer monetary compensation to relatives of nine Turkish activists killed in May during a raid on a ship attempting to break an economic blockade on the Gaza Strip.

During her three years on the job, Ouimet investigated only five of the more than 200 complaints her office received and never produced any recommendations or findings of wrongdoing against whistleblowers.

A controversial bill requiring bilingualism for Supreme Court judges appears destined for a slow death in the Senate and Conservative senators are being blamed for its demise.

62 per cent of Canadians believed corruption has increased over the past three years, and almost three-quarters (74 per cent) didn't think governments were doing enough to crack down.

The Richard Nixon Presidential Library will open a trove of records at the facility and online Thursday, including 265 hours of White House tapes, officials said. The library, in Yorba Linda, California, will also open more than 140,000 pages of presiden

Jenny Peto's thesis argues todays Jews of European descent "enjoy white privilege" and maintain a victim identity. She's also Jewish and a descendant of Holocaust survivors.

PANAMA CITY - Flooding forced the closure of the Panama Canal Wednesday for the first time in 21 years and heavy rains were being blamed for at least two deaths.

A University of British Columbia astrophysicist has proposed putting clear-cuts to use as the site of a spaceport for rocket and satellites space launches.

The Vancouver Canucks overcame a two-goal deficit in the third period and rallied past the Anaheim Ducks 5-4 in a shootout on Wednesday night.

Health Canada's abrupt decision in September to back down from expanding warning labels on cigarette packages came after tobacco company lobbyists waged a co-ordinated, sometimes secretive lobbying campaign, CBC News has learned.