NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2012

St. Louis Blues confirmed Tuesday that former general manager Ron Caron, who also served as a former assistant GM with the Montreal Canadiens, has died. He was 82.

Canada's men's gymnastic team has narrowly missed out on a berth in the 2012 London Olympics.

Roller derby on P.E.I. may soon have a second team, as women come together to play in the western part of the Island.

A 27-year-old Havelock man has pleaded guilty to criminal negligence in connection with the death of his 23-month-old daughter.

A wayward great grey owl calling Kingsville, Ont., home is creating parking and traffic control problems in the southern Ontartio town.

Experts say the slow formation of winter ice on Hudson Bay this year has pushed some polar bears to the brink of starvation.

Britain's government confirmed Tuesday it would happily offer Scotland the powers it needs to sever centuries-old ties to England.

Smoking marijuana occasionally doesn't seem to damage the lungs as cigarette smoke does, a new 20-year study suggests.

A fearless little New Zealand girl is making headlines far and wide after she was caught on video facing down a lion at the Wellington Zoo.

A Saudi man's attempt to sell his son on Facebook is raising questions about the social media website's legal responsibilities.

A group of scientists that tracks the likelihood of a global cataclysm says the world is moving closer to doomsday.

The Canadian Forces have experienced serious security breaches with military equipment being shipped back from Afghanistan, CBC News has learned.

Four people are dead after a plane crashed in the North Spirit Lake Reserve north of Dryden, Ont., during a snowstorm Tuesday morning.

Tony Clement apologized for calling a 15-year-old Parry Sound, Ont. boy a "jack ass" on Twitter after getting into an online spat over a spelling mistake on the social media site.

New Democrat MP Lise St-Denis jumped to the Liberal caucus in the House of Commons today, citing policy reasons.

Still smarting from a 2-1 loss to the Florida Panthers the night before, the Vancouver Canucks travel Tuesday night to Tampa Bay, where the Lightning have won their last four home games.

A floating barrier designed to foil terrorist attacks and protect Canadian navy ships cannot handle the rigours of Halifax harbour.

The private information about employees identities and bank accounts were stolen in a break-in at the University of Victoria on the weekend, police say.

More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising

Raising its slim, white neck out of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's last surviving whooping cranes hungrily searches a Texas marsh for the blue crabs and berries it devours during its annual migration to the Gulf Coast.

A city in southern Mexico wants to live each moment as if it were the last.

CTV Toronto - Stories the Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will face-off in a two-game hockey series are off-side, according to the Prime Minister's Office.

Worrying that humankind is destroying the Earth with global warming? Relax, says a University of Victoria assistant professor. Though overheating might spell the planet's eventual doom, it will take at least 500 million years to happen.

Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand was given a five-game suspension for clipping Vancouver Canucks defenceman Sami Salo in a rematch of last year's Stanley Cup Final this past Saturday.

The Columbus Blue Jackets have fire coach Scott Arniel, replacing him with Todd Richards on an interim basis.

The University of Cambridge says renowned physicist Stephen Hawking isn't well enough to attend a conference held to celebrate his 70th birthday.

Two Johns Hopkins University profs are proposing a simpler, 'permanent' calendar, and the elimination of global time zones. But is the world ready to make the leap?

Volunteers who meet annually to count the number of bald eagles in a B.C. community famous for its sightings of the majestic bird have noticed a drop in their population.

Canada's first licensed airfield, located in Edmonton City Centre, is celebrating its 85th anniversary this weekend.

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Sami Salo will miss the team's next game after reportedly suffering a concussion against the Boston Bruins on Saturday afternoon, according to reports.

The Harper government has hired a Toronto theatre expert to inject a little war into this year's Canada Day bash on Parliament Hill.

Scientists long puzzled by the rapid decline in millions of Canadian boreal ducks since the 1970s think they may finally have the cause: global warming.

Veteran news columnist and CTV political host Don Martin is advocating that former Alberta premier Ralph Klein be awarded the Order of Canada, before Klein dies. Klein now suffers from dementia and a lung disease called chronic obstructive pulmonary disea

Four cougar sightings in Saanich, B.C., have residents on edge as police have not yet been able to catch the dangerous animals.

An article in a major U.K. daily paper described the "super volcano" under the Laacher See lake in Germany as a sleeping giant that has recently begun to show "worrying" signs of awakening.

Three decades of warming in the North Atlantic has led to thinning ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds and drastically higher death rates among seal pups, according to a new study.

The ex-husband of Ximena Osegueda was one of the two men who found the body of the slain University of British Columbia student in Mexico last week, CBC News has learned.

More than a dozen trumpeter swans are now living year-round at Johnson's Crossing, Yukon.

Fans filing into the Bell Centre on Saturday hoping for a Montreal Canadiens win were met by protesters with another goal in mind: They want the organization to be more French.

Iran's government welcomes the U.S. Navy's rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held by pirates, calling it a positive humanitarian gesture.

All eleven people on board have been killed when a hot air balloon crashed near the rural town of Carterton, New Zealand, some 150 kilometres north of the capital, Wellington.

A cargo ship grounded off the New Zealand coast splits in two after being lashed by pounding seas, spilling debris and sparking fears a fresh oil spill could wash ashore, officials say.

Henrik Sedin broke a tie with the third of Vancouver's four power-play goals and the Canucks beat the defending champion Boston Bruins 4-3 on Saturday in the first game between the teams since the Stanley Cup finals.

Scientists have uncovered a lot about Earth's greatest extinction event that took place 250 million years ago when rapid climate change wiped out nearly all marine species and a majority of those on land. Now, they have discovered a new culprit likely inv

CTV Toronto - Tobacco companies at the centre of a $50-billion lawsuit by the Ontario government had their hopes dashed on Friday when a judge dismissed their bid to have the case dropped.

HMCS Charlottetown and her crew of approximately 250 sailors will depart Halifax on Sunday for a six-month-long mission to the Mediterranean Sea.

Mika Zibanejad scored 10:09 into overtime as Sweden beat Russia 1-0 and claimed the gold medal at the world junior hockey championship.

For believers, the ancient Maya calendar suggests something very big is going to happen this year, perhaps even the end of the world. Maya scholars beg to differ.

After five days of living in poverty, Surrey-Fleetwood MLA is calling the conditions endured by thousands of B.C. welfare recipients 'unacceptable'.

Shares in photography icon Kodak fell to a record low after reports the company is preparing for a Chapter 11 filing sometime "in the coming weeks."

A depleted Canadian team dug into its reserves to beat Finland 4-0 and capture the bronze medal at the world junior hockey championship Thursday.

The head coach of the Canadian bobsledding team says three athletes have been admitted into hospital in Germany after a crash in training Thursday when their sled slammed into the roof of the track.

Team Canada hopes to overcome the disappointment of its semifinal loss to Russia and avoid finishing out of the medals for the first time in 14 years at the world junior hockey championship when it faces Finland for bronze on Thursday afternoon in Calgary

Unprecedented job action by British Columbia's trial lawyers over lack of legal aid funding in provincial courts could cripple an already overburdened system.

British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.

U.S. President Barack Obama is putting his personal stamp on a rejiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in defence budget cuts.

A wild scene of diners throwing plates and pounding each other with chairs at a restaurant in Montreal's Chinatown has gone viral, thanks to a shaky video of the fight.

A British medical journal says a worrying number of drug studies are being suppressed by researchers and that the lack of public data could threaten patient safety.

Police shot and killed an eighth-year student in the hallway of his middle school Wednesday after the boy brandished what looked like a handgun and pointed it at officers. It turned out to be a pellet gun that closely resembled the real thing.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -300 degrees Fahrenheit (about 90 kelvins) and a diameter just less than half of Earth's

Raymond Lahey, the disgraced Roman Catholic bishop who admitted he was addicted to looking at child pornography, has been sentenced to 15 months in jail but released for time served.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has announced his marriage to a former beauty queen who was born in Iran and later represented Canada at a Miss World pageant.

Residents of a troubled reserve in Alberta are voting Wednesday on whether to give the band the power to legally evict gang members from the community.

What could be more crushing than proposing marriage to the person of your dreams and having them turn you down? Having it happen on a stadium JumboTron

Perquisites ranging from cosmetic surgery to golf club memberships on the way out as transparency requirements call for contracts with top executives to be posted online

A blast of Arctic air has settled over Ontario and parts of Quebec, bringing double-digit sub-zero temperatures after a mild December.

Environment Canada is forecasting up to 200 mm of rain will fall on the West Coast of Vancouver Island over the next two days.

A year after Canada suffered a third-period collapse against Russia in the gold-medal final, the Canadian juniors scored four times in the final period, but lost 6-5 to the Russians in the semifinal at the world junior at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Tues

Pepsi Co.'s claim that a mouse trapped in a can of Mountain Dew would eventually dissolve doesn't hold water with Canadian food experts.

Royal Columbian Hosptial, one of the busiest facilities in Metro Vancouver, has had to put up emergency room overflow patients in the building's lobby and hallways.

Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. has exercised its option to sell its remaining 40 per cent interest in the MacKay River oil sands project to a unit of Chinese oil giant PetroChina for about $680 million.

Three Swiss bankers have been charged with helping American taxpayers hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan announced Tuesday.

Developed for troops serving on glaciers high in the Himalayas, the non-flushing "bio-digester" toilet made by India's top defence research body is now being offered to companies and poorer states.

Progress Rail Services, a subsidiary of giant Caterpillar Inc., is threatening to close the 61-year-old locomotive manufacturing plant unless employees accept a pay-cut of more than 50 percent in some cases. Bob Scott, plant chair, confirmed to Digital Jo

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says his department's new Office of Religious Freedom won't become a vehicle for playing domestic politics in Canada's immigrant communities.

As the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic approaches, a Halifax man is hoping to stir interest in creating a permanent monument in his hometown.

In the first show of 2012, the CTV Question Period news panel offered a series of predictions -- or best guesses -- for the coming year that included a possible war in Syria and a collapse of the Chinese housing market.

Thousands of dead blackbirds rained down on a town in central Arkansas last New Year's Eve after revelers set off fireworks that spooked them from their roost, and officials were reporting a similar occurrence Saturday as 2012 approached.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan on Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital but causing no apparent damage or tsunami.

Rio Tinto Alcan has locked out workers at its smelter in Alma, Que. after last-ditch contract talks collapsed and the union's contract expired at midnight.