NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2012

Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin will be forced to sit out his team's next few contests. The NHL announced on Monday it has suspended the sniper for three games for a charging incident during a game on Sunday night against the Pittsburgh Pen

Medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, experts say.

British adventurer Felicity Aston finished her 1,744 kilometre journey across the Antarctic, becoming the first woman to ski across the icy continent alone.

Millions of ethnic Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese across Asia are ringing in the new Year of the Dragon with fireworks, feasting and family reunions.

A U.S. judge said a Toronto man will serve 18 years in a U.S. prison for his role in what authorities are calling one of the biggest credit card fraud schemes in American history.

Two players were missing from Cuba's lineup for its game against Haiti at the CONCACAF Olympic women's soccer qualifying tournament Monday in Vancouver.

Hundreds of military vehicles and personnel are beginning a three-day trek from CFB Edmonton to Yellowknife to test themselves and their gear in a harsh winter environment.

Snowmobile crashes have claimed five lives over a two-day period on Quebec trails and roads.

President welcomes the Stanley Cup champs, but Tim Thomas declines invite

Ranks as second-least affordable major city to buy a house, behind only Hong Kong, according to an annual survey

Members of minor hockey associations in Metro Vancouver have voted in favour of a ban against body-checking for players between the ages of five and 19.

When the dragon of Chinese astrology arrives with the Lunar New Year on Monday, the mythical creature will bring with it optimism and hope for better times ahead in 2012.

Five flights, three Canadian airports, and four different resorts have not been affected, all tracing back to the beaches of Holguin

Boston Bruins defenceman Andrew Ference was suspended by the NHL for three games for his illegal hit on New York blue-liner Ryan McDonagh on Saturday.

Many skaters on the Rideau Canal said the new chalets enhanced their experience Saturday, despite initial

Approval has been given for a controversial plan to satellite tag an endangered species of killer whale that plies the waters off the Pacific Coast.

The Northwest Territories government is hoping record prices for fox fur pelts will encourage northern trappers to target the critters and keep a check on the burgeoning population.

An intense wind storm knocked out power to thousands of BC Hydro customers and forced BC Ferries to suspend service between the mainland and Vancouver Island on Sunday.

CBC News has learned the two mill workers who are unaccounted for after a fiery explosion at a sawmill in Burns Lake, B.C., Friday evening are two local men, Carl Charlie and Robert Luggi.

Since his 2006 election loss, Martin, often ridiculed when he was prime minister for having too many priorities, has clung to the one issue he often said was his top concern - the plight of Canada's First Nations communities.

Unlike many employers, Warm Up Winnipeg does not ask about an applicant's criminal record until after he joins the organization, giving him the opportunity to gain work experience and practical training that he likely wouldn't have gotten anywhere else.

An Ontario couple who collect Anne of Green Gables artifacts stumbled upon music for a silent film version of the beloved story. When they discovered the film was lost, they set out to recreate it. Deana Sumanac reports.

A young hockey player waited two days to find out if her neck was broken because medevac flights were grounded due to the blizzard in the Mackenzie Delta this week.

A spokesman for federal Transport Minister Denis Lebel denies Ottawa is thinking about selling Via Rail, despite a report Friday saying otherwise.

Federal law enforcement agencies will help tribal officers obtain equipment and training on aboriginal lands near the U.S.-Canadian border as part of the White House's newly released strategy for reducing the flow of illegal drugs.

A family spokesman says former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who is battling lung cancer, is in serious condition after experiencing health complications.

Canadian scientists are developing a robot that mimics the human face's expressions and human hand's tactile processes, which they say will be useful in areas like nursing, nuclear plant maintenance, and explosive device disposal. It could even act as a c

A hospital in southern Turkey has performed the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said.

A long lost silent film on Canada's Great White North has been re-cut from old raw footage and was shown in Edmonton Saturday afternoon.

Doctors have removed a 3-inch nail from a Chicago man's brain, a procedure he thought they were joking about.

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake that hit off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Saturday shook as far away as El Salvador but brought no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

B.C. police are stepping up their efforts in tracking the activities of known gangsters in the Lower Mainland following two fatal shootings in the past week.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina primary in a come-from-behind victory over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

A teenager from the Netherlands sailed into St. Maarten harbour on Saturday, ending a yearlong solo journey around the globe aboard a ketch named "Guppy."

The Halifax-based frigate HMCS Charlottetown was conducting a small-arms firing exercise earlier this week, with sailors firing 9 mm pistols towards the empty ocean, when they were ordered by Maltese officials to stop.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay squashes a plan to purchase 20,000 orange stress balls for the military saying it is an unnecessary expenses, according to his spokesman.

Cody Hodgson scored his second goal of the game with 4:17 left to play as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the San Jose Sharks 4-3 on Saturday in Vancouver.

People living on provincial government assistance in New Brunswick are wondering how they'll afford to get their teeth fixed.

Harsh weather conditions throughout B.C. are wreaking havoc on the roads, and have much of the province under advisories.

From Yahoo! News: BURNS LAKE, B.C. - Sawmill workers in this Northern B.C. community fought desperately to push into their mill engulfed in flames after an explosion tore through the building with about 30 employees inside.

The final results in Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections confirm an overwhelming victory for Islamist parties.

Officials say a crocodile swallowed a girl in Indonesia as her father looked on helplessly.

Experts who monitor Canada's satellites say they're getting an increasing number of alerts about threatening fragments from old rocket launchers and decaying satellites.

Tenants in an East Vancouver apartment building say they'll be driven out of their homes if the landlord wins permission to increase rents by 45 per cent.

While the playoff race is just heating up for most NHL clubs, matchups between the San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks have already had the intensity of a postseason series. The division leaders face off for the fourth and final time in the regular seas

Just after 8pm Friday, a massive explosion and fire tore through the Babine Forest Products mill, east of Burns Lake. Read it on Global News: Global BC | Burns Lake mill destroyed by fire and explosion

Peruvians were snacking on popcorn nearly 7,000 years ago, according to a recent paper co-authored by Smithsonian researcher Dolores Piperno.

After nearly a week of snow and cold, rising temperatures are bringing concerns about flooding to B.C.'s Fraser Valley.

Mounties are issuing a warning after a cougar reportedly chased a little girl in one of two Mission, B.C. sightings Thursday.

The celebration have already begun for the Lunar New Year, although it doesn't officially start until late Sunday night in B.C.

Freezing rain and more snow is forecast for Metro Vancouver and the rest of the South Coast on Friday, as a moist blast of Pacific air collides with the arctic system that has kept the province in a deep freeze all week.

U.S. congressman Lamar Smith pulls the SOPA bill that prompted a wave of online protests this week

The clock is ticking toward a set deadline on contentious negotiations between the City of Toronto and the union representing some 6,000 outside workers.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy threatens to withdraw entire force

Canadian researchers have discovered a bizarre flower-like creature which lived in an ancient sea that covered part of Western Canada more than 500 million years ago.

Electronic equipment hidden inside a fake rock in a Moscow park helped the United Kingdom spy on Russia, according to a former official with the British government.

A lot of good those Wednesday blackouts did for the Internet. Not.

A winter storm warning has been issued for Metro Vancouver with up to 15 cm of snow expected between Thursday night and Friday morning, when freezing rain will move into the area.

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah. Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29. She was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal spo

Taylor Hall was somewhat surprised to hear that he was done for the season.

A storm that walloped the capital region with up to 13 centimetres of snow slowed and halted daily routines Wednesday, and its frigid impact is expected to persist today, when morning temperatures are expected to hover around -6 C with a windchill that wi

The captain accused of abandoning a wrecked cruise ship off the Italian coast says he ended up on shore after accidentally tripping into a lifeboat that was being lowered into the sea.

Los Angeles police looked for more human body parts Wednesday after searchers discovered two hands and two feet in the same area of a park where dog walkers found a severed human head inside a plastic bag.

A retired Manitoba couple will be in a Texas court on Wednesday morning facing off against squatters who have allegedly taken up residence in the couple's vacation home.

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba remained mired in a deep freeze Wednesday, with temperatures dipping as far down as -50 Celsius with the wind chill.

They were Canada's armoured workhorses in the dust and heat of Afghanistan, and now the military is taking its LAVs to the snowy tundra.

Two Vancouver Island boys were struck by a bus when their toboggan slid onto an icy residential street in Colwood Wednesday, with one youngster winding up pinned beneath the vehicle.

According to Earthquakes Canada, a 2.8-magnitude earthquake struck at 11:09 p.m. PT, and was lightly felt in Penticton and Okanagan Falls.

An icy blast of arctic air has put all of B.C. in a deep freeze, forcing the closure of some schools in Victoria and the Fraser Valley and creating delays for travellers on roads, trains, buses, planes and even one ferry.

The latest probe into last fall's hazing incident among players in a Manitoba hockey team has led to two former coaches getting longer suspensions from the province's junior hockey league.

Great SOPA blackout of 2012 darkens Wikipedia, Flickr, and other websites | Straight.com

Long-time gangster Sandip (Dip) Duhre was gunned down execution-style by someone he was meeting at the Wall Centre Tuesday night.

After a bit of a delay, winter has hit Canadians from coast to coast, with wind-chill warnings in effect across the Prairies to snow in Vancouver and freezing rain in Montreal.

Police are on the lookout for a brazen beaver thief after a 60-lb. bronze sculpture was boosted from a truck in Vancouver last week.

The United States is announcing talks with the European Union to set informal rules aimed at limiting debris in space that threatens satellites.

While Liberals and Conservatives regularly spar on legislative matters in the House of Commons, two high-profile partisans will take that long-running battle to the boxing ring this March.

A pilot has died after an RCMP helicopter crashed in B.C.'s Fraser Valley.

The world's largest emerald will be sold to the highest bidder at a Kelowna, B.C., auction house later this month. Appraised at $1.15 million Teodora is a 57,000-carat rough-cut opaque emerald.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay is trying to reassure Canadians that allegations of espionage centring on a Halifax naval intelligence officer will not affect the country's reputation among other NATO members.

The captain of an Italian cruise ship that ran aground off Italy made excuses and resisted a coast guard officer's repeated orders for him to reboard his stricken liner and aid passengers, an audio recording reveals.

Medals from socialist icon and former Saskatchewan premier Tommy Douglas are on the auction block and his daughter hopes the collection stays together.

Over 1,700 people have joined a Facebook campaign to help a northern B.C. woman reclaim a young goose she raised from a gosling, after Lucy was seized by conservation officers.

U.S. scientists are estimating that between 5.7 million and 6.7 million bats in Canada and the United States have succumbed to white-nose syndrome, a fungus spreading in eastern North America.

Frigid temperatures and wind chill warnings have people bundling up across Western Canada, while people in parts of Ontario and Quebec are dealing with snow and freezing rain.

A Montreal-area man whose daughter was brutally murdered nearly 18 years ago says the aboriginal parole hearing granted to her Haitian-born killer is a travesty.

A new royal yacht, built by a privately-funded project, is being actively considered by the prime minister, Downing Street says.

The Ministry of Defence announces its plans for a second round of redundancies in the armed forces, with 4,200 jobs to go.

A "treasure trove" of fossils - including some collected by Charles Darwin - has been re-discovered in an old cabinet.

Former US president took a razor to parts of the Gospels he did not agree with to compile his own version

A huge seal population is preventing cod stocks from rebounding off Nova Scotia, two former directors of science at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography say.

A new study has found a link between the La Nina weather pattern and the worldwide pandemics of influenza in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009.

Army reserve members were on a training exercise in Bathurst over the weekend, learning how to fight in and survive extremely cold weather conditions.

A barefoot toddler clad in shorts and an upside-down parka was found standing outside a west Edmonton apartment complex Sunday night.

Heavy snow is making roads and highways treacherous across many areas of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley on Monday morning, causing long delays on many bus routes. .

HONG KONG - Space-starved Hong Kong has long been plagued by high rents and steep hotel rates, vexing university students and tourists alike. But help may be at hand, thanks to one Hong Kong firm: tiny pods stacked up in tiers to create capsule lodgings a

In a rare find, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 1,100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings, an antiquities official said Sunday.

Mike Crawley has won the presidency of the federal Liberal party.

A conductor with the New York Philharmonic halted a performance due to a ringing cellphone, a rare occurrence that has sparked much talk about proper phone protocol.

Liberals have voted in favour of legalizing marijuana, against severing ties with the monarchy, and in favour of a preferential balloting system.

A failed Russian probe will come crashing down within hours, likely in a shower of fragments that survive the fiery re-entry, but Canada is outside the risk zone.

MONTREAL - Canada is just one of many countries that are closely monitoring a wayward Russian satell... - Science & Technology - Winnipeg Free Press.

International scientists have some bad news for those wondering when global warming will kick in during Canadian winters.

Steel yourself, Canada, new one-dollar and two-dollar coins are about to become the latest version of the proverbial plugged nickel.

BC Ferries has been forced to cancel eight sailings on its three main routes between Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo on Friday because of a mechanical breakdown on Thursday evening.

Daniel Sedin scored a power-play goal 46 seconds into overtime to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night in a matchup for firsick shortly before Sedin beat Brian Elliott from the right faceoff dot.

Solicitor General Shirley Bond has ordered a review of why the RCMP tried 15 times to give a sober 82-year-old Cranbrook woman a breath test for drinking before citing her for failing to blow, suspending her licence and towing her...

Astronomers and the Hubble Telescope peer deep into space and spot the youngest galaxy formation observed after the Big Bang.

Companies such as Viterra are already calculating the positive effect on the bottom line but some observers warn that it may be too soon to consider the agency dead

The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they are finding them in the strangest of places.

Industry Canada arm developed meter to crack age-old commercial volume problem

Policy makers must align education and training opportunities to the needs of the work force

Killing strongly resembles earlier attacks on scientists allegedly connected to Tehran's controversial nuclear program

U.S. consumers are turning away from owning movies to watch in their homes, buying far fewer releases in 2011 than in previous years

Mason Raymond scored the lone goal in the shootout on a spinning backhander and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-4 on Tuesday night. Canucks goalie Cory Schneider stopped all three shots he faced during the shootout.

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke has been injured while training on the superpipe Tuesday and airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital.