NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2012

CBC News has obtained evidence that unregistered voters got on the voters' list in the Toronto riding of Eglinton-Lawrence in the last election without providing an address, in violation of Elections Canada's own rules.

BMO Bank of Montreal announced Thursday it's lowering two key mortgage rates, setting off what could be yet another mortgage war with other lenders.

A French senator is calling for a ban on beauty pageants for tykes and the sexualizing of young girls

Wall Street Journal report says Justice Department plans to sue, publishers have denied acting jointly to raise prices

Each of the committee's 21 members have been receiving $1,000 a month for work on the panel, even though it hasn't met in over three years.

Chinese officials sought Wednesday to discredit Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest China's rule over their region, calling them outcasts, criminals and mentally ill people manipulated by the exiled Dalai Lama.

After placing him on waivers twice this season, New York Rangers have reportedly cut ties with 31-year-old forward Sean Avery for good.

An antimatter atom has been measured and manipulated for the first time ever, by a Canadian-led team of physicists.

Apple's tightly regulated iOs and Google's wide open Android operating systems offer a lot of different features for mobile users.

Lower Mainland Mounties have released the results of February's distracted driving enforcement blitz, tallying more than 4,400 tickets for using electronic devices alone.

An impressive solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, satellite navigating systems and airplane flights.

A person with knowledge of the decision says barring a last minute change of heart, the Colts are expected to announce Wednesday at noon ET that they will part ways with star quarterback Peyton Manning.

Flight plans for thousands of March Break travellers could be thrown into disarray should Air Canada's largest union launch a strike next Monday.

Authorities in California say a 33-year-old San Diego County woman has been killed by a cannonball fired by her husband and another man.

Robyn Gervais cites delays in calling aboriginal witnesses and lack of support from aboriginal community

The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing its plan for a biometric data system to track when immigrants leave the United States and will present it to Congress within "weeks," a top department official told a House Homeland Security subcommittee T

In a perfect world, Penguins would like to get Crosby into the line-up before the playoffs begin

The province should order the city of Toronto to build subways, even if city council votes for light rail transit instead, Opposition Leader Tim Hudak said Tuesday.

Porn actors are now required to wear condoms on set in Los Angeles, according to a new law.

BP has agreed to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant's 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history.

Workers in southern Poland are using heavy equipment to clear the scene of a head-on train collision that killed 16 people and injured 56 others in the country's worst rail disaster in more than 20 years.

Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in Russia's presidential election, while opposition parties and independent observers allege the vote was tainted by widespread violations.

When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil War ironclad, mute and nameless witnesses to the cost of war. A rubber com

Expanding iron ore companies in Newfoundland and Labrador are paying big money to buy up houses and apartment buildings in small communities closest to the mines, a practice that's leaving local residents without a place to live.

Roughly 2.4 billion light years from Earth, a massive blob of a mysterious, invisible substance known as dark matter is threatening to rewrite how scientists on this planet understand galaxies.

The gun operates based on the concept of delayed auditory feedback. An attached microphone picks up the sound being made by the target and plays it back 0.2 seconds later. The effect is incredibly confusing to the human brain, making it all but impossible

The strange humming sound that has raised the ire of residents in the Windsor, Ont., area has made its way to the U.S. capital.

Two-thirds of China's cities currently fail to meet stricter air quality standards that the government wants to phase in over four years to combat notoriously smoggy skies, a senior Chinese environmental official said Friday.

President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, he also warned U.S. ally Israel that a premature attack would do more harm than good.

A dog who was shot defending his family home from a burglar will receive thousands of dollars worth of surgery and services for free after his heroic story touched doctors at an East Vancouver veterinary clinic.

A recent slide in the standings has resulted in Maple Leafs head coach Ron Wilson's demise. According to multiple reports, Toronto fired its bench boss on Friday night, after suffering through a recent six-game losing streak.

A man is in custody after a bizarre incident Friday morning at the double murder trial of Michael Briscoe.

A cat brought to P.E.I. for surgery after being found frozen to a driveway in Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland, is heading home Sunday.

A Montreal-based auction house says it's received a certificate from the Guinness World Records about the jersey Paul Henderson was wearing when he scored the winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviets.

A powerful storm has destroyed two small Indiana towns and killed at least six people. Authorities say the town of Marysville, home to 1,900 people in the southern part of the state, is "completely gone."

Will ongoing economic uncertainty about the eurozone push Iceland into the stable arms of the Canadian dollar? While the question may have seemed a loonie one only a decade ago, the idea has been gaining traction recently among Icelandic investors.

The Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club has posted wolves in the area signs for the first time ever after some encounters between wolves and skiers on the trails.

Don Cherry, the irascible star of Coach's Corner on CBC's Hockey Night In Canada, is finally wading into the social media waters with an official Twitter presence beginning this weekend.

Major League Baseball is expanding its playoff format to 10 teams. MLB announced the move Friday, adding two clubs to the post-season format. A second wild-card team now will be included in each league. There then will be a one-game playoff to decide whic

Ottawa police say bath salts, which mimic the effects of cocaine, is the new drug spreading in the area after a seizure west of the city.

The District of Invermere has begun to cull its urban deer, after a temporary court injunction brought it to a halt earlier last month.

Wally Buono of the Grey Cup-champion B.C. Lions is the CFL's coach of the year for 2011. Buono received the Annis Stukus Trophy for the fourth time in his 22-year coaching career at a luncheon Friday in Toronto. Winnipeg's Paul LaPolice and Edmonton's Kav

Iceland, reeling from economic aftershocks, is looking longingly at the Canadian dollar and Ottawa is open to discussing the notion

The Closing of Tucson's Roadhouse leaves a hole on the Ottawa Music Scene

Grizzly bears will be fitted with GPS collars and tracked as part of a plan to reduce the number of bears killed on railway tracks in Banff and Yoho national parks.

Team of scientists could determine border of Arctic continental shelf, Russian leader says

Alex Burrows' early third-period goal gave the Vancouver Canucks a lead they'd never relinquish in a 2-0 win over the St. Louis Blues in a showdown for first place in the NHL on Thursday night.

The daughter of the officer in charge of the Kelowna, B.C., RCMP detachment has been arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine and heroin.

As a sleek black U-2 roared back from a mission, Pontiac muscle cars zoomed along the runway to help it touch down using a low-tech method dating back more than half a century to when this Cold War-era aircraft was cutting-edge.

The village of Courbefy has rustic buildings with fireplaces and exposed beams, a horse stable, a tennis court and a swimming pool.

A teenager was charged Thursday with killing three students in a school shooting, the first step in proceedings that could see him charged as an adult and facing the possibility of life without parole if convicted.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy took refuge from a crowd of several hundred angry protesters in a cafe, as riot police swarmed in to protect him while he campaigned in the country's southwest Basque country.

Canadians can't seem to shake their addictions to the online world and are spending more time than ever on the Internet -- about 17 per cent more than users in the U.S., according to a comScore report released Thursday.

Their story isn't well known, but Canada's Special Forces JTF 2, the Green Berets and U.S. Navy SEALs can trace their heritage back to the first top secret commando unit called the "Devils Brigade."

In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared to its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly an inch long.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported the lowest influenza infection rate in 30 years of tracking flu activity, as well as the slowest recorded start to the flu season.

Facebook and Twitter social media sites on the northeast Avalon were busy with reports of an unidentified, green object falling in the sky over Conception Bay South Wednesday night.

A Manitoba man who went for surgery on his Achilles tendon woke up in hospital to find doctors cut into the wrong leg.

Conservationists have caught a pair of rare and reclusive snow leopards on camera wandering a remote, mountain region once ravaged by conflict between India and Pakistan.

CTV Toronto - An Ajax, Ont. teenager suffered life-threatening injuries after the vehicle on which he was "car-surfing" braked suddenly, throwing him to the asphalt road.

The majority of teachers across British Columbia have voted in favour of a strike, which could hapen as early as next week.