NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2011

The fashion world has always taken a hearty helping from the military mess hall, and this fall is positively a brass band of khaki and camouflage, in collections ranging from Dior to Philip Lim to Zac Posen

The growing perception that milk is over-priced, combined with shifting trade priorities, is putting unprecedented pressure on the Canadian dairy industry.

The Duke of Edinburgh has made a fierce attack on wind farms, describing them as “absolutely useless”.

TORONTO - It turns out the occupiers don�t like it much when they are the ones being occupied. Some will even steal, push, break equipment and threaten if they feel it�s happening to them.

A second experiment at the European facility that reported subatomic particles zooming faster than the speed of light in September has reached the same stunning result.

The Defence Department has given the Winnipeg Jets their marching orders when it comes to the hockey club's Air Force-inspired logo.

Barnes & Noble has filed a supplemental notice of prior art that contains a 43-page list of examples Barnes & Noble believes counters Microsoft's claim that Nook violates five of Microsoft's patents.

A senior Mountie in charge of the force's wiretap unit has been docked three days pay for altering court evidence to cover up internal concerns about the RCMP's wiretap methods.

The World Trade Organization has sided with Canada in a dispute over the U.S. country-of-origin labelling requirements, in a ruling celebrated by beef and pork producers who have seen their exports fall.

Pakistan's telecommunications authority sent a letter ordering cell phone companies to block text messages containing what it perceives to be obscenities, a spokeswoman for Telenor Pakistan, said Friday.

A rip-roaring controversy over a baseball team name with a double-entendre reference to Jack the Ripper has become a cloud with a silver lining for the team.

Subatomic particles were again clocked travelling faster than light by European researchers after the experiment was revised to rule out a certain type of error.

Former army reservist Matthew Wilcox has been sentenced to four years in jail for fatally shooting fellow soldier Cpl. Kevin Megeney in Afghanistan.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft tracked the birth, evolution and death of the biggest storm, or Great White Spot, to hit the ringed planet Saturn in two decades.

Dritsas built a cottage worth just shy of $82,000 on a parcel of land near Lundar Beach, about 150 km northwest of Winnipeg. However it's unclear how he got the money to do it because he was not employed and did not have a source of income

Federal spending jumped 22 per cent in the first five years the Harper Conservatives were in power, says a government of Canada performance report, released Thursday.

A report by a University of Toronto think tank says a number of Syrian government websites are being hosted by servers based in Canada.

After eight months, the police case has been officially closed on Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara's devastating hit on the Montreal Canadiens' Max Pacioretty.

An Idaho man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House believed he was Jesus and thought President Barack Obama was the anti-Christ.

We've all seen them: work colleagues who refuse to stay home when they're sick, no matter how contagious. Why do they do it? A new study from Concordia University finds they are a number of reasons.

New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered.

Emaciated dog suffered glaucoma, was tethered up without food or water in one of the worst cases of neglect the Milton humane society has ever seen

WINNIPEG � An outspoken Winnipeg MP is standing by comments he made Wednesday night after going on an expletive-laced F-bomb rant on his official Twitter account. NDP parliamentarian Pat Martin posted on his Twitter account Wednesday night: "This is a f

The firing of broadcaster Damian Goddard, who was let go from Sportsnet six months ago, is turning into a test case about religious freedom in Canada and the right to declare those views in public. Mr. Goddard lost his job after he wrote on Twitter only m

Passengers said Comtel airline staff told them they would be stuck in Vienna until they could raise more than 20,000 pounds to fund the rest of their flight to Birmingham

Toronto researchers are conducting new research on the effects of cold in a fascinating laboratory designed to replicate what the cold does to our bodies.

The Benetton clothing company has withdrawn an ad showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips after the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation.

Canada is watching violence in Syria but stepping in would require more thought and possibly a UN resolution, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says.

In opposing injunction to end the encampment, lawyer argues that city shelters are virtually filled to capacity

Read 'PETA slams Mario over use of a fur suit' from our blog Games Blog on Yahoo! News. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals might be barking up the wrong mushroom. On Monday, the controversial organization issued a press release attacking icon

Redford woos McGuinty, Economic Club of Canada with plan to pull together Alberta oil sands, B.C. hydro power, Atlantic oil and Ontario's green energy agenda

A B.C. man has seized two surveillance cameras he says RCMP had hidden in trees near his trailer home, and they are full of images from crime scenes and investigations.

Students at Earl Beatty Public School revolted against a schoolyard ball ban on Wednesday, storming the playground fence at lunch hour to state their case.

Are unknown lines being used for military training?

In a move certain to further strain already fractured relations between Ukraine and the West, the opposition leader Yulia V. Tymoshenko has been formally charged with tax evasion and embezzlement in a recently reopened case dating back more than 15 years.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters who were kicked out of a New York park overnight will likely be able to return with their tents, after a court order was obtained by the National Lawyers Guild.

A long-awaited experts' report on how Canada and Canadian families handle the end of life calls on the federal government to decriminalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Canadian Real Estate Association upgrades outlook for 2011, 2012

The two Sunnyvale, Calif.-based companies may have illegally sold Internet-monitoring devices to Syria in violation of a U.S. embargo, three senators suggest in a letter to the Obama administration. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Privacy Inc..

The International Diabetes Federation predicts that one in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030, according to their latest statistics.

The Canadian military will have to look to commercial contractors and possibly even exchanges with the Americans in order to sustain itself when forces are built up in the country's far North, a series of internal Defence Department documents show.

To Al Gore's power-sucking mega-mansion we can now add Michael Moore's vast estate on the lake. Gore was accused of hypocrisy for building himself a massive home many times larger than any one person could require, while criticizing others for wasting ene

TransCanada has agreed to change the route of a proposed oil pipeline so that it doesn't pass through an environmentally sensitive part of Nebraska.

The largest items swept out to sea by the tsunami in Japan last March could be making landfill on Canada's west coast any day now, a U.S.-based oceanographer says.

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Monday he was ready to step down within 90 days of reaching a deal on a formal process for implementing a Gulf initiative aimed at ending the

Family and friends of a young father who was shot and killed by an RCMP officer last year were demanding change outside the RCMP's Vancouver headquarters Sunday.

CTV Toronto - A mysterious group of Internet vigilantes has announced its support for the Occupy Toronto protesters, promising to target City Hall if any move is made against the weeks-old movement.

Sayed Shah Sharifi has been rejected by immigration officials who questioned his decision to go public with his complaints about a bogged-down system.

Residents of a small Quebec town are in a flap over the mayor's removal of the Canadian flag from the town hall.

We should aim to eat in the future how we ate a century ago, says a third-generation plain-speaking Virginia farmer and author of a new book 'Folks, This Ain't Normal.'

The Bank of Canada plans to start circulating its new $100 polymer bills on Nov. 14, the first phase of the country's transition into plastic money.

It used to be that students who were teased and mocked in the hallways and yards of schools across Canada could avoid the abuse by avoiding the bully.

The Grande Prairie Warriors football team, which lost four teammates in a vehicle crash in October, finished their season Saturday.

Canada settled for the silver medal at the Four Nations Cup women's hockey tournament after dropping a 4-3 decision to the United States on Sunday.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Montreal Alouettes 52-44 in overtime Sunday afternoon to advance to the CFL's East Division final.

The Edmonton Eskimos capitalized on shoddy tackling and turnovers to beat the Calgary Stampeders 33-19 in the CFL's West Division semifinal on Sunday in Edmonton.

A teen hockey player is in critical condition after being hit by a puck in Edmonton on Saturday.

NATO officials are worried that their organization may be investigated by the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor said allegations of crimes committed by NATO in Libya would be examined impartially and independently.

Winnipeg has broken its record for the number of homicides in a year, as the death of a homeless man has brought the total to 35.

An international hacking group has threatened the City of Toronto with a cyber attack if it interferes with the Occupy Toronto protest downtown.

About 1,800 hydro customers were still without power Saturday evening after severe winds struck Vancouver Island Friday.

China's censors are trying to prevent critical postings and rumours on the Internet from reaching a broader audience, issuing new orders to prohibit news media from reporting online information before it is verified.

After decades of scouring the universe, astronomers finally have found two immense clouds of gas that are pristine - free of the metals fired out into the cosmos by stars.

The iconic Canadarm, which first flexed its mechanical muscles on a space shuttle 30 years ago, has grown up -- and it's gotten smaller along the way.

Reporters visited the ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Saturday for the first time since Japan's worst tsunami in centuries swamped the plant March 11. Eight months later, they discovered a plant still in shambles.

The season is finally over for the Grande Prairie Warriors, an Alberta high school football team that overcame the loss of four players to advance to the playoffs for a provincial championship. They lost their quarter-final game 49-0.

Canada's navy is promising its Victoria-class submarines will by fully operational by 2013 -- nearly 15 years after the boats were purchased from the United Kingdom.

A 19-year-old woman is selling her virginity for $15,000 through an Australian escort agency.

Canadians may not associate espresso, arm chairs and soft lighting with Tim Hortons, but the upscale fixtures are part of the brand's latest makeover.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama will hold bilateral talks on Sunday after the APEC summit winds down.

The Arab League has decided to suspend Syria over its violent crackdown on protesters calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad.

Reality TV star Michelle Duggar announced this week she is pregnant with baby No. 20, prompting many to wonder whether she is putting her own life in danger by trying for just one more.

Corey Perry and Andrew Cogliano scored during a five-minute power play in Anaheim's four-goal second period, and the Ducks survived Vancouver's furious three-goal third period to snap a six-game skid with a 4-3 victory over the Canucks on Friday night.

Coquihalla Highway 5 has been shut down because of unruly weather, according to DriveBC.

As a grateful nation shows its appreciation for those who risked their lives in war, World War II veteran Hugh Miller is extending his thanks to a doctor who gave him a new lease on life.

Sixty-six years after they flew side-by-side over Europe, two former fighter pilots were surprised to find they now live at the same address.

Some 140,000 Chinese men were recruited by the Allies during WWI to fill a critical labour shortage. While their contributions have often been overlooked or even forgotten, there is evidence of their work everywhere in and around Ypres and along the coast

A young war veteran who served in the Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army says the forecasted cuts to Veterans Affairs are a blow to the younger generation of war veterans.

For one veteran of the Afghanistan war, Remembrance Day is every day. It's the first Remembrance Day since Canada ended its active combat role in Afghanistan, and the first Thunder Bay ceremony in which Sergeant Chris Drewes will participate, since movin

The Grande Prairie Warriors, in Edmonton to play a high school playoff game Saturday, will stay an extra day and attend the CFL western semi-final Sunday as guests of the Eskimos.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay marks Remembrance Day in Kandahar by reading aloud the names of the Canadians who have died in Afghanistan.

A global competition has named its provisional New 7 Wonders of Nature, but no Canadian sites have made the list.

Remembrance Day ceremonies in B.C. began a little earlier this year with a special handover at the Olympic cauldron in downtown Vancouver that drew its inspiration from a line in the famous war poem In Flander's Fields.

Canadian Korean War veterans were remembered at a special ceremony at the Korean War memorial in Burnaby, B.C., this week.

Stormy weather has forced BC Ferries to delay sailings out Tsawwassen on Friday afternoon, and has caused havoc on the Coquihalla and other B.C. highways.

While the Royal Canadian Legion keeps the poppy campaign running and has integral programs like supplying wounded veterans with wheelchairs, the long-running institution is facing a crisis as its membership dwindles.

The UN nuclear agency is reporting "very low" -- but higher than usual -- levels of radiation in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe.

Two people were arrested and charged after trying to disrupt a Remembrance Day ceremony in downtown Toronto.

Feeling that he could no longer support Canadian Wheat Board actions advocating for a single-desk marketing system of western Canadian grain, Olds-area farmer Jeff Nielsen tendered his resignation from the board last week.

The drunk driver who ran over and killed a four-year-old girl three years ago is asking B.C.'s highest court to give her another chance.

The majestic but vulnerable polar bear has been declared a "species of special concern" under Canada's Species at Risk Act.

A group of armed men stoned a woman and her daughter to death in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security officials tell the BBC.

A top geophysicist says Canada could expect a major earthquake at any time and should prepare itself if it wants to avoid the kind of disasters that have befallen Japan, Italy and China in recent years.

A Canadian Coast Guard ship being built in Halifax will be named after a Nova Scotia soldier who went above and beyond the call of duty.

Canada is poised to use its bicentennial anniversary to honour vets who served in the War of 1812, often called the nation's "forgotten war."

CTV Toronto - Members of a veterans' group in London, Ont., say they're stunned after someone stole 10 poppy donation boxes from the group's office.

Hurricane-force winds and surging waves are pounding Alaska's western coast as residents wait out the strongest storm to hit the region in four decades.

Canada may have ended its combat mission in Afghanistan, but for many veterans, another war is still underway at home: the war to win the guarantee of a secure future.

Mounties in Armstrong, B.C. say they've received a letter from a person claiming to be responsible for the death of an 18-year-old girl on Halloween night.

The massive asteroid 2005 YU55 zoomed by Earth this week in harmless fashion, but interest groups say the relatively close encounter is a reminder the world is a sitting duck in a cosmic shooting gallery, with no international disaster plan.

Rescue workers with pickaxes and earth-movers searched on Thursday for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 12, including a Japanese aid worker.

Sami Salo and Andrew Ebbett scored power-play goals in the opening minutes, and Roberto Luongo made 28 saves in the Vancouver Canucks' 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night.

Veterans in St. John's learn on the eve of Remembrance Day they are the victims of theft, with at least 30 poppy cans stolen from area shops.

The Lax Kw'alaams First Nation in British Columbia has lost its bid to gain widespread access to commercial fishing rights in a Supreme Court decision.

Manroop Randhawa was one of 300 students who honoured Canadian veterans Thursday by laying a poppy on 36 graves at an Edmonton cemetery.

After standing tall in the heat and dust of Kandahar for five years, a cenotaph honouring the Canadians killed in Afghanistan will soon be coming home.

Todd Graham says Rick Perry couldn't afford a slip-up like his debate memory lapse; voters already doubted his grip on facts

Prince William will be deployed to the politically sensitive Falkland Islands next year as an air force search and rescue pilot, Britain's defence ministry said Thursday.

A specialist in infectious diseases in children says she is shocked by reports that some parents in the U.S. are trading chickenpox-contaminated lollipops in an effort to naturally immunize their children, rather than get the chickenpox vaccine.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is "disappointed" with news that Washington will delay a decision on whether to approve TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline project.

Some of Ottawa's homeless will soon be employed by a local brewing company to deliver beer to area homes.

Penn State students have gone on the rampage after Joe Paterno, one of the most famous coaches in American sport, was sacked amid a child abuse scandal. Mr Paterno, 84, has been accused of failing to act over allegations of molestation by a long-servin

Home Secretary Theresa May is banning Muslims Against Crusades, a group planning an anti-Armistice Day protest.

After 70 years buried in peat could the unearthed machine guns from a downed fighter still be made to fire?

Two economists predict the Bank of Canada will slash its benchmark interest rate from its current level of one per cent next year.

CTV Toronto - The Toronto Zoo is mulling separating two male African penguins fearing that the odd couple's relationship could threaten the survival of the species at the local zoo.