NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2012

More than three months later, Ottawa still has no answers for the multimillion-dollar questions swirling around evacuation lists that continue to grow long after the residents had fled affected communities.

Bombings across Iraq have killed 28 people and wounded more than 100 in a spate of violence that officials had dreaded in the days before Baghdad hosts the Arab world's top leaders.

A motorcycle gunman opens fire in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two small sons and one other child.

This week could be a record-setting one in New Brunswick with Environment Canada predicting temperatures in the mid-20C range by Thursday, which has River Watch officials keeping a close eye on water levels.

Friends, family and teammates have gathered at a Toronto church to pay tribute to Canadian freestyle skier Nik Zoricic.

Benoit Pouliot scored two goals, Brian Rolston had a goal and three assists and the Boston Bruins completed a six-game season sweep of the Toronto Maple Leafs with a 8-0 win on Monday night.

Spring arrived at 10:14 p.m. PT Monday night in the midst of a spell of un-spring-like weather in B.C.'s Lower Mainland

Squirrels have eaten nearly 10,000 tulip bulbs at a park in Windsor, Ont. The city typically plants 20,000 bulbs at Jackson Park. Squirrels ate almost half of them during the mild winter, according to the city.

Erik Christensen's power-play goal late in the second period gave Josh Harding and the Minnesota Wild a long-sought win, 2-0 over the suddenly sputtering Vancouver Canucks on Monday.

The B.C. government is changing the way it assesses the driving skills of seniors, including allowing elderly drivers to take a road test if they fail a computer assessment.

An Alberta mother accused of drowning her two young children two years ago says she has no recollection of the incident. Allyson McConnell gave the testimony on Monday, as she took the stand in her own defence in Wetaskiwin, Alta.

A resolute faction of British Columbia's public school teachers is pressing its union to back an illegal strike, convinced that unity among the province's 41,000 educators will catch the government in a bluff.

The Vancouver police officer who shot and killed a bipolar man armed with a bicycle chain did not use excessive force, B.C.'s police complaint commissioner has ruled.

Metro Vancouver mayors are pushing for the ability to impose a new carbon tax and vehicle levies as possible options for covering a $30-million TransLink funding shortfall.

Another day of summer-like weather in Winnipeg and across Central Canada led to more broken temperature records on Monday.

EDMONTON - The Wildrose party says it is planning to change the design on its campaign bus after an image of leader Danielle Smith became the subject of some laughs Monday.

Angeline Chilton says she can't drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman says she'd never get behind the wheel right after smoking, but she does use medical marijuana twice a day to ease tremors caused by multiple sclerosis that previously l

Candidates with lower-pitched voices may get more votes in the 2012 election. A new study by biologists and a political scientist shows that both men and women prefer political candidates with deeper voices. The results also suggest that biology -- not ju

The Canadian Forces hope to save $90 million a year by pulling out of NATO programs operating unmanned

Russia's ambassador to Canada refuses to deny that his country carries out spy activity in Canada. Georgiy Mamedov said Russia conducts intelligence activities in other countries -- although he didn't specify which -- but refused to give any details

For generations, Canada's lighthouses have guided ships along the country's expansive coasts and beckoned newcomers to our shores. Now, nearly 1,000 of them -- including the world-renowned Peggy's Cove lighthouse in Nova Scotia -- are in danger of disappe

Temperature records fell in parts of the country Sunday as summer-like weather continued during what should be the frigid last few days of winter.

Police have arrested 11 people after St. Patrick's Day celebrations took an ugly turn in London, Ont., and they are urging others involved in the riot to do the right thing and step forward.

Arctic sea ice that's been melting at a dramatic rate in the last few decades is releasing a chemical soup that could poison the food chain with mercury and other dangerous chemicals, a new study suggests.

Despite his legal predicament in England, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate.

There's a myth building up that the proposed but seriously opposed Northern Gateway pipeline is the only option to get oil from the oil sands to Asia. Not true. It's the most practical and likely the cheapest option.

A former Rutgers University student convicted Friday in the webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide could be jailed in a case experts say stands as a tragic lesson for young people about casual cruelties in the internet age.

For the third time in four weeks, the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a warning about the high risk of avalanches in most Interior mountain regions of B.C.

Canadian border officers are trained to protect the country's sovereignty and secure the border, but to do so in a courteous manner, a union official says after U.S. border officials were accused of being overly aggressive.

The Windsor-Essex region is in for a longer-than-normal storm season according to Environment Canada.

The U.S. State Department says North Korea's planned rocket launch is highly provocative and would directly violate the North's international obligations.

Regulators have cleared Unit 2 of the Bruce A nuclear power plant in Ontario to restart after a nearly two-decade-long slumber.

Canadians have donated about $10,000 to help keep a unique High Arctic research station from closing after its federal funding stops, says the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.

Phoenix Coyotes forward Shane Doan has been fined $2,500 by the NHL on Friday for boarding Calgary Flames defenceman Mark Giordano during a game.

A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and two girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said.

Questions are emerging over Vladimir Putin's famous encounter with a tigress three years ago.

An Anglo-Saxon grave found near Cambridge could be one of the earliest examples of Christianity taking over from Paganism, archaeologists say.

Researchers say they have discovered the fossils of a small camel with a long snout that roamed the tropical rainforests of the isthmus of Panama some 20 million years ago.

The Royal Canadian Navy says one of its troubled submarines has finally managed to fire torpedoes in a test exercise.

A British MP says Canada got a bad deal when it bought four used diesel-electric submarines from Britain.

Russell, co-founder of Invisible Children, allegedly vandalised cars and made sexual gestures while wearing his underwear

A cable-car system that would run past the world-renowned cliffs of Squamish, B.C., has already received preliminary approval, but critics say it would set a precedent for deconstructing provincial parks.

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Clashes between anti-police brutality protesters and riot squads left behind a trail of destruction in Montreal Thursday night after demonstrators smashed shop windows and vandalized police cruisers.

Ten months after Osama bin Laden's death, the U.S. administration is refusing to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act that would provide insights into how he died, how the U.S. verified his identity and how it decided to bury him at sea.

Scientists in Indian-controlled Kashmir have cloned a rare Himalayan goat in hopes of boosting the number of animals famed for their coats of pashmina wool, used to make cashmere.

Good Samaritan donations are coming in from across the country to help restore power for a New Brunswick man after 13 years.

Guys, when your sweetheart says "No thanks" to sex, do you knock back a few stiff drinks to feel better? Turns out fruit flies do pretty much the same thing.

Guy Turcotte fatally stabbed his children in 2009 and was not found criminally responsible

Ontario's minority Liberal government will table its first budget March 27, and has already warned of deep spending cuts to trim the $16 billion deficit.

The horseracing series Luck is cancelled by HBO after a third thoroughbred dies during production of the drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, the channel said Wednesday.

Domestic violence on the rise, sexual assaults in the ranks, street gang infiltration, the U.S. military is exhausted and reeling from two too-long wars, Brian Stewart says.

Overseas investors are snapping up properties in Canada's largest cities, driving up prices and pushing ordinary Canadians out of the housing market, observers say. Real estate experts call it the new reality, and the high price paid for a north Toronto b

The federal government is introducing legislation that would call on judges to hand down tougher sentences to those convicted of crimes against seniors.

In a world where the loudest voices quickly rise to the top, we're missing chances to capitalize on people who prefer quiet contemplation to conversation domination, says an advocate for introverts.

As the massive field of wreckage from last year's Japanese tsunami drifts across the Pacific Ocean, governments along coastal North America are planning what to do when pieces of the devastation arrive.

A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but a spoonful of cinnamon is just going to make you gag, cough -- and possibly send you to the hospital, doctors are warning.

When police in suburban Washington raided the home of a suspected drug dealer last fall, they found the cocaine, all right, but also something unusual on the man's shelves: nearly 20 large bottles of liquid Tide laundry detergent.

A strong earthquake hit the Tokyo region, just hours after a magnitude 6.8 tremor struck northern Japan, causing small tidal changes on the country's Pacific coastline but no damage or injury.

The BC SPCA is investigating after a cat was found dead in an ice block on Tuesday. WARNING: This story contains graphic images.

U.S. professor S. Matthew Liao suggests that using science to create people that have less impact on the planet can help mitigate climate change.

The oldest English-language encyclopedia will end publication of its printed editions

Astronauts who have spent prolonged periods in the zero gravity of space tend to show eye abnormalities linked to pressure around the brain, another study has confirmed.

Researchers in Italy say they may have found traces of a Leonardo da Vinci work hidden under a fresco at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

Since the start of the month it has been illegal to die in Falciano del Massico, a village of 3,700 people some 50 km from Naples in southern Italy.

Russia and South Korea are teaming up to recreate a woolly mammoth, Agence France-Presse reports. Scientists in both countries signed a deal Tuesday to create a new one using stem cells from mammoth remains found in thawed permafrost in Siberia.

Police say 28 people died when a bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed in a tunnel in Switzerland.

A jury has found a former Saskatchewan Mountie guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Ottawa police officer Eric Czapnik.

After several months off due to lingering concussion symptoms, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby will return to the lineup Thursday night when his team faces off against the New York Rangers.

Search and rescue crews have retrieved the body of a backcountry skier killed in an avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C. as well as his trapped friends.

Vancouver police are looking for witnesses who may have seen three adult men throw a 14-year-old girl to the ground and kick her in an attack in the Downtown Eastside on Monday night.

A 10-year-old Vancouver Island boy is lucky to be alive after he became trapped beneath a tree that toppled during Monday's windstorm.

A Nova Scotia couple is playing host to an unusually chipper family of boarders who don't seem to mind sleeping in the yard.

Cab drivers who say they are tired of poor working conditions in the Lower Mainland are planning a protest Wednesday, and say they want to form a union.

Nearly one in ten Alberta men believes it is acceptable to physically assault a woman if she does something to anger him, according to a survey measuring men's attitudes toward domestic violence.

Four Amish youths were charged with underage drinking after their horse-drawn buggy collided with a police cruiser in upstate New York, authorities said Monday. Police were dispatched to the town of Sherman on Sunday night in response to complaints ab

Former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney has cancelled a Toronto speaking appearance due to security concerns.

The Harper government's plan to slash an estimated 30,000 public service jobs over three years includes hefty golden handshakes that could leave some federal workers laughing all the way to the bank, CBC News has learned.

A showdown is underway between the Musqueam First Nation and a private land owner who wants to build condos on what the band says is a sacred burial ground.

The 30 custodians of the game emerged from the first day of their annual March meeting feeling optimistic that they'll be ready to recommend a change that falls under each category.

High winds hammered Vancouver Island and the rest of the South Coast of British Columbia on Monday morning, knocking out power to thousands and forcing the cancellation of many BC Ferries' sailings.

At least 15 people are believed to have died after a U.S. service member came out of his base in southern Afghanistan early Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians.

From Shine from Yahoo! Canada: Breastfeeding activists protest New Zealand ad.

A protest rally against Vladimir Putin has drawn more than 20,000 people, far fewer than those in past months as the opposition movement appears to be losing momentum following Putin's presidential election victory.

One year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami killed almost 20,000 people and left about 300,000 homeless in Japan's Tohoku region, one expert says B.C. is not doing enough to prepare for its own natural disasters.

A letter roasting students for taking up space in a St. John's cafe has become a social media sensation, and led to an apology before the issue could percolate further.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has indundated members of Windsor City Council with emails asking them to not trap and kill skunks in the city.

Japan stopped on Sunday to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation a year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century.

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

Erik Cole scored two third-period goals Saturday as the Montreal Canadiens won back-to-back games for the first time in a month by upsetting the Canucks 4-1 in Vancouver.

A wild brown bear is photographed using a rock as a tool to "exfoliate", showing they have higher intelligence than previously thought.

Coast guards in Italy use helicopters to rescue the crew of a cargo ship after it ran aground on a reef off Sicily in stormy seas.

OTTAWA . British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, dubbed Friday by Preston Manning as Canada's "Iron Snowbird," made another aggressive attempt to win the confidence of Canada's conservative movement.

National Defence was close to getting a green light from cabinet to buy new fixed-wing search-and-rescue planes three times since 2007, but the $3.1-billion plan has been shot down by objections from other departments, say senior defence sources.

Dextre, the International Space Station's Canadian-built robotic handyman, is wrapping up a successful three-day experiment to show how space-based robots could service and refuel satellites.

An snowboarding opossum named Ratatouille has become something of a mascot for the Liberty Mountain Ski Resort, which posted the video of his unusual abilities online.

Canadian racer Nick Zoricic died from head injuries after crashing in a World Cup skicross event on Saturday, the International Ski Federation said.

A monster earthquake rivalling the one that devastated Japan last March is all but a certainty on North America's Pacific coast, scientists say.

It's almost time for that annual ritual of turning the clocks forward, but what we gain in daylight this Sunday, we'll lose in sleep, and that can wreck havoc on our health, say some researchers.

Guides in Resolute, Nunavut, lost a lucrative deal this week when a Chinese business cancelled a planned polar bear hunting trip due to pressure from international media.

The solar storm that seemed to be more fizzle than fury got much stronger early Friday before fading again.

'Is anyone here allergic to penguins?' That was the question passengers on Delta Flight 486 heard from their pilot, before being treated to an appearance by some very special guests this past Wednesday.

Robertson's support for legalizing pot appeared in a New York Times story published Thursday. His spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press that Robertson supports legalization with regulation.

Shares of Viterra Inc. jumped Friday after being halted earlier, when Canada's largest publicly-traded grain handler disclosed the possibility of being taken over.

Toronto teen Mariam Makhniashvili has been missing since September 2009; unclear whether her death was the result of foul play

Eric Joyce admitted to assaulting four men in a drunken brawl in a British House of Commons bar

BRITAIN has given up on the war in Afghanistan, a shock poll for The Sun has revealed

Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg.

Sammy Pahlsson scored his first goal as a Canuck on Thursday to give Vancouver a 3-2 victory over Winnipeg and interrupt the Jets' playoff drive.

A Moncton video game developer is growing again after signing a deal with Archie Comics, the world's largest mass-market comic book company.

B.C. Mounties are applauding a group of Lake Country children for their bravery when they worked together to avoid death after breaking through the ice on a frozen lake.

Labour Minister Lisa Raitt has blocked any legal work stoppages at Air Canada by referring the ongoing conflict between the airline's management and its employees to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board.

Hundreds of students took to the streets of Montreal Thursday, one day after a student protester suffered a serious eye injury following a confrontation with police.

A regional manager at Human Resources Skills Development Canada abused the public purse by appointing a close friend to a vacant position and billing taxpayers for such things at massage chairs and flat-screen TVs that were never used.

Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel colouring used in their soft drinks, in response to accusations that an ingredient in the colouring is a carcinogen.

The fatal bombing of six British soldiers in their Warrior armoured vehicle in Afghanistan throws the spotlight on the UK mission in Afghanistan, writes BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.