NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2011

North Vancouver Mounties are investigating a string of thefts they describe as "disrespectful and insulting" to Canadian war veterans.

A Russian spacecraft on its way to Mars with 12 tons of toxic fuel is stuck circling the wrong planet: ours. And it could come crashing back to Earth in a couple weeks if engineers can't coax it back on track.

An Oshawa man is firing back at local trick-or-treaters after he says he was scolded for not handing out Halloween candy.

Bil Keane, the cartoonist whose "Family Circus" mixed humour with traditional family values, entertaining readers for nearly a half-century, died Tuesday. He was 89.

Capt. Marc Babineau pleaded guilty to one count of committing an act prejudicial to good order and discipline

Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman got an impressive $50.5 million raise in 2010. This makes us skeptical of Hollywood's demand that US taxpayers should spend even more money fighting piracy of Viacom content.

A crackdown by the Internal Revenue Service prompts many Americans to consider renouncing their citizenship

A consumer advocacy group is taking aim at Johnson and Johnson for failing to remove a cancer-causing chemical from its baby shampoo two years after it was first pressured to do so.

Mississippians are voting on a measure that could prompt a new national fight over abortion by declaring that life begins at fertilization.

The federal government will create a new committee to study veterans' health in the wake of a hunger strike by an ex-soldier who insists he was contaminated by depleted uranium while serving in Bosnia.

It was a little known but brilliant and tenacious Canadian who found the key to success on Mount Everest, not the legendary climber George Mallory, according to a new book that reconstructs the first three assaults on the mountain.

CTV Toronto - A man and a woman face charges after money was stolen from two poppy donation boxes at a restaurant in Trenton, Ont.

The 16 Nova Scotians killed while serving in Afghanistan since the conflict began were honoured Monday with the dedication of a new monument.

The Obama administration has made the unusual declaration that it has no evidence that extraterrestrial creatures exist in response to a feature on its website that allows people to submit petitions.

Police in Hamilton, Ont., say a man wanted for the theft of poppy donation boxes last week, has struck again.

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier made a close but harmless swing by Earth on Tuesday evening.

Toronto police have released a security camera video of four people they believe were responsible for defacing a newly restored war memorial.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is prone to diplomatic gaffes and irritation with journalists, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports.

The confidential tax files of almost 2,700 Canadians are missing after a Canada Revenue Agency worker took them home and let a friend download them onto a laptop.

On the heels of several high profile robberies in southern Ontario, a thief in the northeast made two attempts to steal a poppy fund box over the weekend.

Former champion dead at 67 after brief fight with liver cancer

Pushed for space, a Spanish cemetery has begun placing stickers on thousands of burial sites with lapsed leases as a warning to relatives that their ancestors face possible eviction.

CBC News has learned that one of B.C.'s highest profile Mounties says she's suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after years of sexual harassment.

He steps over piles of trash, past the dog wolfing kibble off the floor, across his tattered mattress and into the perpetual darkness at the back of the shipping container.

CTV Toronto - A man who turned himself in to Toronto police on Monday in connection to the thefts of two poppy donation boxes has been charged with a third offence.

Each year as the weather gets colder and Canadians bundle into thicker jackets, hundreds of thousands of us make the odd and simple gesture of pinning a small piece of red velvet to our lapel.

The first Remembrance Day following the end of the Canadian combat mission finds many veterans disillusioned with the Conservative government, despite its promises of cash and its words of support for the troops.

A military veteran on a hunger strike collapsed momentarily during the third day of his protest against the federal government Monday.

Another detached foot has surfaced in the waters surrounding Metro Vancouver.

A Winnipeg man suffering from a heart attack was resuscitated by the same motorist he helped with a flat tire minutes earlier

a gaggle of malcontents is allowed to ignore City of Calgary bylaws for weeks on end, yet a single counter-protestor is pounced upon like a pedophile at a playground.

Older, cheaper generics scarcer than expensive new drugs, analysis finds

Scientists say an asteroid 400 metres across will come close to Earth on Tuesday but in this case close means 324,600 km away.

David Booth scored and assisted on Vancouver's first two goals, and captain Henrik Sedin enjoyed a four-point night as the Canucks drubbed the Blackhawks in Chicago, 6-2.

Occupy Vancouver protesters say they will not be peacefully removed from the lawn of the city's art gallery following the death of a demonstrator.

You hear it in every little encampment in every city that has a franchise in the current �Occupy� protests: The righteous tent-and-yurt people are against �greed.� They see greed as the demonic dynamo of a rapacious capitalism (and its maidservant

LEVIS, Que. - Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney met on Sunday with a hunger-striking vet who is protesting the way the federal government has handled his case.Pascal Lacoste blames his declining health on depleted-uranium poisoning he believes he co

Occupy Victoria protesters have been given notices by the city requiring them to remove all tents, shelters, and other objects from Centennial Square. With Victoria PD officers present, city bylaw officers issues the notices this morning informing prot

AN unknown group of pro-Canadian Wheat Board farmers dumped a tonne of wheat in front of Brandon-Sou... - Local - Winnipeg Free Press.

VANCOUVER -- Quarterback Travis Lulay threw four touchdown passes, three of them to running back Andrew Harris, as the B.C. Lions shredded the Montreal Alouettes 43-1 Saturday night to claim first place in the CFL West.

The Calgary Stampeders turned a pair of turnovers into two touchdowns in the first quarter and held on for a 30-24 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday afternoon.

New intelligence the UN atomic agency plans to release on alleged nuclear weapons work by Iran is fabricated, the Iranian foreign minister said Saturday.

A San Diego woman who claims pop star Justin Bieber fathered her 3-month-old son has a court date in Las Vegas on allegations she slapped an ex-boyfriend.

A new book by retired hockey player Georges Laraque suggests the NHL has a problem with performance-enhancing drugs.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay was at 14 Wing Greenwood airforce base Saturday morning to welcome home 16 Canadian troops from Libya.

Veterans across Canada staged protests on Saturday to rally against $226 million in proposed budget clawbacks targeting Veterans Affairs.

An asteroid bigger than an aircraft carrier will dart between the Earth and moon on Tuesday -- the closest encounter by such a huge rock in 35 years.

Hockey commentator Don Cherry has turned down an honorary degree from the Royal Military College of Canada after at least one faculty member objected.

Seven people are confirmed dead and dozens injured, several seriously, after one of Britain’s worst ever pile-ups on the M5 motorway in Somerset.

Rooney died only a month after leaving 60 Minutes; had gone to hospital for surgery

Building on Mount Allison campus being demolished to make way for arts centre

Veterans Affairs, Defence Department urged to support service-dog programs to help retired military suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder

Renegade outdoorsmen are taking matters into their own hands to protect what they see as their personal hunting spots

A study of genealogical history going back to some of Quebec's earliest settlers is providing a tantalizing clue about how human populations expanded to cover the globe over the last 50,000 years.

Twice a year, most Canadians adjust their clocks to mark the passing of the seasons. It wasn't always that way.

HMCS Preserver bumped into the dock of the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyard Friday afternoon.

The company that makes OxyContin has informed Newfoundland and Labrador's medical regulator the controversial drug will be phased out and replaced with a safer drug called OxyNEO.

Adarius Bowman scored a pair of touchdowns Friday as the Edmonton Eskimos secured their first home playoff date since 2004 with a late field goal for a narrow 23-20 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Fur-wearing fiddler Ashley MacIsaac fires back at PETA during a downtown demonstration in Windsor.

T.J. Oshie had two goals and an assist and David Backes got the go-ahead score early in the third period of the St. Louis Blues' 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night.

NASA is about to begin detailed observations of an asteroid nearly twice as wide as Canada's largest stadiums, scheduled to pass between the Earth and the moon's orbit next Tuesday.

News: Navy forces tow Irish-Canadian flotilla ships to Ashdod port after successful take over, say no weapons or humanitarian aid found. Pro-Palestinian activists to be transferred over to police, Immigration Authority. IDF official: No one was hurt

Group says one of its members who had purportedly been kidnapped in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz has been freed

Yet another study is pointing to the dangers of spending most of our day sedentary, this time noting that sitting for long periods might increase our risk for cancer.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it is aware of another suspected case of a highly infectious salmon virus in British Columbia, but it will take weeks to verify the findings.

The sun shot off a solar flare Thursday afternoon from a region that scientists are calling a stormy benevolent monster.

Final submissions began Friday in the court martial of a former Canadian soldier charged in the shooting death of a fellow reservist in Afghanistan.

A British Columbia boy's claim that he saw a teacher tape a fellow student's mouth shut may lead to an investigation by the provincial teacher's college.

Israel's navy boarded two protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to an Israeli port just north of the Palestinian territory, officials said.

A Manitoba band councillor says a nine-year-old boy has died after an accidental shooting at his home.

Canadian employers were slashing full-time jobs in October, pushing Canada's overall unemployment rate up 0.2 percentage points to 7.3 per cent, Statistics Canada reports.

Leaders of the world's 20 most powerful economies failed to agree on how to increase the firepower of the International Monetary Fund so that it can help stem the European debt crisis, though they acknowledged its resources should be boosted.

The saga on the future of the Canadian Wheat Board got uglier Thursday with another lawsuit, another ad campaign and accusations the federal government is ramming through legislation before farmers can be heard.

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

Andre Durie caught two Dalton Bell touchdown passes and the five-year veteran registered his first career 100-yard receiving game (eight receptions, 144 yards) to lead Toronto past the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 33-16 on Thursday night.

The CF-18 pilots who flew missions over Libya are returning to Canada Friday, Chief of Defence Staff Walt Natynczyk says.

Matt Cullen had two goals and an assist for Minnesota, and the Wild let their sputtering offence loose by dominating the Vancouver Canucks from start to finish with 45 shots on net in a 5-1 victory Thursday night.

After a poppy donation box was stolen in Toronto on Monday night, police are reporting a thief made off with the boxes from two Tim Hortons in Hamilton.

Occupy Vancouver protesters will be ordered to rearrange their tents, get rid of others and remove tarps after fire officials issued a warning that the site is becoming a fire hazard.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is dribbling out more details about the mix of immigrants he wants to bring to Canada next year.

Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons.

The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the extradition case of Abdullah Khadr, shutting the door on American efforts to prosecute the man in a terrorism case.

Cuba announced Thursday it will allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes under President Raul Castro.

Hillary Adams says that until last week, only a couple of close friends knew about the savage beating she received seven years ago from her father, a Texas judge who handles child abuse cases.

Chevrolet turns 100 - Iconic brand has gone from facing off with Model T to aiming to make its mark in electric car market

Price discrepancy has fallen from 18 per cent in April, but questions remain about why the gap has not narrowed more

The Royal Canadian Air Force has hauled down the flags at the Sicilian air bases from which it has conducted the Libyan bombing campaign.

Today's quick pace and technology are turning us into faster talkers and research is saying our brains aren't keeping up, Colleen Ross discovers in Word of Mouth.

A Guelph, Ont., man and his dog are in a standoff with Canada Post after a mail carrier claimed he felt threatened by the German Shepherd.

Canada AM takes an exclusive look at what our athletes will be wearing when they compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

A pair of rare white bear cubs and a young black-bear sibling have become a nuisance in a small town in eastern B.C., and local residents are being urged to help the animals avoid being shot by conservation officers.

Sony, Panasonic throw in towel on intense competition from Taiwan, South Korea

Cutbacks have left the UK without a single warship specifically tasked with protecting the country's shores for the past month, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today. The Royal Navy normally provides a minimum coverage of a frigate or destroyer ful

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is slated to appear tonight at a Senate committee tonight to discuss why prices are higher in Canada than the United States.

George Papandreou is on his way to Cannes, France, after securing his ministers' support for shock plans to hold a referendum on his country's emergency bail-out. The referendum could take place next month.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Wednesday successfully test-fired a missile said capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran, fanning the public debate over reports the country's top leaders are agitating for a military attack on Tehran's atomic f

Use of relatively low-carbon, low-radioactivity thorium instead of uranium may be breakthrough in energy generation

Canadian teen pop sensation Justin Bieber is reportedly facing a paternity lawsuit in California that accuses him of impregnating a fan after a brief sexual encounter backstage.

Investigators say pilots accidentally activated brakes during takeoff and then lifted jet too sharply

Vancouver defenceman Alexander Edler scored and added two assists and Roberto Luongo made 28 saves as the Canucks routed the Calgary Flames 5-1 on Tuesday.

Move over, grilled cheese Virgin Mary. Step aside, bathroom door Jesus.

Quebec's justice minister called the federal government's omnibus crime bill a "Band-Aid solution" Tuesday and said his province will refuse to absorb the added costs associated with it.

Additions include mandatory two-year sentence for fraud over $1-million

Nearly half of China's wealthiest citizens are considering emigrating, with the United States and Canada the most popular destinations, according to a new report from the authors of China's rich list.

UNESCO approves a Palestinian bid for full membership in a highly divisive breakthrough that will cost the agency a fifth of its budget, and that the U.S. and others say could harm Mideast peace efforts.