NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2008

EDSON, Alta. -- RCMP were hunting for a suspect after a woman was attacked Tuesday on a walking path in Edson, Alta., only days after a 14-year-old girl was killed on a nearby trail

VANCOUVER - In a move that breaks with tradition, and the NHL rules, the Vancouver Canucks named Roberto Luongo the team's captain Tuesday, even though the goaltender will not be able to have a C sewn on his uniform.

Starting Tuesday, Canadians will be able to register their phone numbers on a national do-not-call list, but they may find telemarketing calls replaced by junk mail and spam.

It appears Stephen Harper has a bit of work to do on his new warm-and-fuzzy image

Defence Minister Peter MacKay dismissed the suggestion that the decision to pull out of Afghanistan by 2011 is akin to cutting and running.

After enduring allegations and denials that she has been muzzled by her husband's campaign, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's wife, Janine Krieber, says she is in fact a key member of her husband's team.

VANCOUVER - A man accused of murdering five people in a Vancouver arson fire cast himself as a born criminal in his B.C. Supreme Court testimony Monday, saying he enjoyed "getting back" at the police

St. John's actor Mary Walsh revived a formerly retired character on a damp, foggy beach Monday night, to make a fiery political point about Stephen Harper

Canadian troops in Afghanistan are getting a special advance screening of Paul Gross's epic First World War film, Passchendaele.

Canadians tired of having their dinners interrupted by telemarketers can now register their home and cellphone numbers with a Do Not Call List.

TORONTO -- A Canadian-built weather station on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds

Asian markets tumbled early Tuesday after the U.S. House of Representatives voted down the $700 billion financial bailout package overnight, with shares plunging across the board. The Nikkei 225 Average slumped 4.8% to 11,178.34 and the Topix index skidde

The US House of Representatives has dramatically rejected a $US700 billion ($A840 billion) Wall Street bail out, sending stocks crashing to their worst single-day loss ever and deepening the US financial crisis.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have rejected a massive US$700 billion bailout for the struggling U.S. financial sector -- despite urgent pleas from U.S. President George Bush to push the deal through.

Senior waiting in ER at Montfort was ignored for nine hours as fellow patients brought him water, blankets

Immigration accounted for a spike in the Canadian population during the second quarter of 2008, the largest increase in 17 years, according to a Statistics Canada report released Monday.

Italian researchers are testing a promising alternative to Viagra that they're calling 3,7-bis-(2-hydroxyethyl)-icaritin -- or more simply put, "horny goat weed."

When it comes to politics in this country, one man stands alone. Yes, that man is satirist Rick Mercer, the host of CBC's Rick Mercer Report.

A man accused of attacking a gay man over the weekend in the city's West End appeared briefly in Vancouver's new community court on Monday morning.

The Toronto stock market hit an 800-point downdraft Monday as a $700-billion US financial bailout bill was voted down in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the price of oil dropped below $100 US a barrel.

U.S. aerospace giant Lockheed Martin hopes to offer Canada and other nations interested in its high-tech Joint Strike Fighter a deal that would see the price of each aircraft ordered set at around $50 million US

Shrinkage is occurring in the natural world in all kinds of ways

The newest member of the Vancouver Aquarium's whale family needs a name - and you can help.

BORCULO, Netherlands -- Set amid cornfields and cow pastures in eastern Holland is a shallow pool that is rapidly turning green with algae, harvested for animal feed, skin treatments, biodegradable plastics - and with increasing interest, biofuel.

A European spacecraft packed with garbage from the International Space Station burst into flames during a controlled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on Monday

Officials are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed the Harrison Crossroads Hotel in the Fraser Valley town of Agassiz, B.C., Sunday night

A constitutional challenge of the B.C. government's right to regulate fish farms will be heard this week in the Supreme Court of B.C.

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PARIS - Canadians are among the world's most skeptical in assessing the U.S. "war on terror" launched after the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, according to a new poll of 23 countries.

MISSISSAUGA -- Ola Akinwalere was allowed to return to her Port Credit home yesterday to rejoin her family after taking sanctuary for almost two years in a church basement due to fears she'd undergo female circumcision if deported to Nigeria.

A weekend rescue attempt on a lake near the southern Alberta community of Brooks ended with the death of a five-year-old girl.

OTTAWA -- Stephen Harper's government has fulfilled half the promises it made in the last election campaign, an analysis by The Canadian Press indicates.

The Liberals are stepping up their attacks against the Conservatives as poll numbers increasingly show the Tories heading towards a strong victory in the coming election.

More than 100 Nova Scotia Power crews were working Monday to restore power in parts of the province after tropical storm Kyle swept through the region

The CBC has issued an apology and retraction for posting a controversial online column by freelancer Heather Mallick about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin earlier this month.

Canada is "not immune" from the negative fallout in the U.S. financial system, Mark Carney, the Bank of Canada governor, said Thursday, warning the current credit turmoil "poses particular problems" for the Canadian economy.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has been campaigning in an unusually tight cocoon of security, says he has to do so because of threats against his life.

NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Shares of Wachovia Corp sank 60 percent in early electronic trading on Monday on concerns about its huge portfolio of illiquid assets and no deal has yet to emerge after sources said it was in talks with Citigroup Inc and Wel

A small community west of Edmonton is in shock after a 14-year-old girl was killed in broad daylight while out for a walk on a wooded path.

the Bloc in Ottawa through 6,000 days of opposition has cost $350 million and produced zero concrete result.

Avon Cobourne rushed for 125 yards and a touchdown in his return from injury as the Alouettes beat the slumping Saskatchewan Roughriders 37-12

A profile of notorious child killer Clifford Olson on the social networking website MySpace has been taken down, but there are still unanswered questions about how new pictures of the murderer came to be posted online.

Bradford & Bingley Plc, Britain's biggest lender to landlords, may be taken over by another bank or nationalized today under a U.K. government-backed plan to protect 21 billion pounds ($39 billion) of customer deposits.

Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds married actress Scarlett Johansson in a quiet ceremony this weekend outside of Vancouver, according to People magazine.

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is celebrating his 53rd birthday on the campaign trail today. He held a rally in Toronto, where he told cheering supporters the Liberals have kept their promise to run more female candidates. The party had promised that at

NDP Leader Jack Layton has unveiled a platform aimed at helping Canadian families at the expense of big business, but the plan would quickly increase government spending by $8 billion. In the first year, the plan would boost government spending by about

May said Friday the downturn in Canada's economy could be smoothed out by putting a moratorium on an expansion of the tar sands. "That would help bring our dollar back to more of its historic relationship with the U.S. dollar and that would help our m

Kyle's track is expected to bring it ashore near Point Lepreau, N.B., just west of the city of Saint John late Sunday or early Monday.

Israel has received an advanced U.S.-made radar, staffed by American personnel, as part of preparations to fend off any future ballistic missile attack by Iran,

Accused pot dealers argue that they provided a community service

If asked in any trivia game to name a worldwide environmental movement that began in B.C., most people would reply that it's Greenpeace -- but Mark Angelo isn't one of them.

Chinese authorities have been quick to issue warnings that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident will hurt relations between China and Norway

The Taliban have been engaged in secret talks about ending the conflict in Afghanistan in a wide-ranging 'peace process' sponsored by Saudi Arabia and supported by Britain

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two Canadian soldiers were wounded Saturday in an attack by Taliban insurgents on a combat outpost in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan, an area that has long bedevilled NATO forces.

NANAIMO -- B.C. Ferries may reduce the number of sailings for its Super-C class vessels as part of a strategic approach to cut millions of dollars from its operating costs

When: Last seen Feb. 2, 1958, leaving a bowling alley in Campbell River

New research suggests there may be a methane "time bomb" on the ocean floor threatening to catastrophically warm the climate

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A U.S. destroyer off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew.

Quinton Porter, welcome to the CFL

With their fourth straight win, the Stampeders (9-4) moved into sole possession of first place in the ultra-competitive West Division

Alberta's deputy premier says Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's election promise to restrict the export of raw bitumen could infringe on the province's jurisdiction.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has upgraded tropical storm Kyle to hurricane status, as it continues on a collision course with the Maritimes.

Banking regulators are to discuss the situation surrounding troubled Belgian Dutch financial services group Fortis, a spokeswoman for the Belgian regulators told Reuters on Saturday.

The Royal Canadian Mint is not suspending sales of its gold bullion coins and is able to meet rising investor demand for the precious metal, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

Opposition Liberal leader Stephane Dion, trailing badly in the Canadian election campaign, urged voters on Saturday not to follow what he called the right-wing ideology of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates demanded a $35 million ransom on Saturday for a Ukrainian ship they had seized which was carrying 33 tanks and other military supplies to Kenya, a maritime official said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China's Shenzhou VII space craft in a technological feat that Beijing wants the world to marvel about.

BARRIE -- A 15-year-old "loner" arrested after police found a battery of bomb-making equipment in his school locker was released on bail yesterday.

Security has been tightened at Grace General Hospital after police arrested a St. Andrews man accused of threatening staff on a video sent by e-mail.

Robert Plant apparently has said yes -- nearly 28 years to the day after Led Zeppelin disbanded.

A 27-year-old woman was handed a six-year sentence Friday for suffocating two of her infant boys when they were just weeks old, prompting the father of one of the children to yell out in the courtroom that she'll "always be a baby killer."

Calls for a Calgary federal election candidate to resign over remarks connecting crime with immigrants are "an extreme example of a non-story being blown up," Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says.

The Calgary Catholic school board is putting young girls at risk by banning a vaccine that protects them from a virus that causes cervical cancer into its schools, Alberta's health minister says.

A Brazilian student blinded last week in a downtown Calgary shooting thanked police, doctors, and the community for helping him through the ordeal.

Bob O'Billovich will forever be in the debt of Ralph Sazio. It was in 1982 that Sazio, then the Toronto Argonauts president, took a chance on O'Billovich, then an up-and-coming assistant coach with the Ottawa Rough Riders, and gave him his first CFL h

The Humane Society busted a puppy mill north of Montreal on Friday and seized 109 live dogs, seven cats and a rabbit. Other dogs were found dead

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion kicked off his weekend campaign in Stoney Creek, Ont., on Saturday morning by blasting what he suggested were Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's divisive campaign tactics.

Paul Newman, the blue-eyed leading man who starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, died Friday at the age of 83 after a long battle with cancer.

Support for the federal Liberal party is crumbling, so much so that the New Democratic Party appears to have a realistic chance of forming the official Opposition, according to a new poll commissioned for Canwest News Service and Global National.

Barack Obama's senior aides believe he is on course for a landslide election victory over John McCain and will comfortably exceed most current predictions in the race for the White House.

A surcharge of $4 to $18 will be added to all tickets to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic events to cover public transit and administration costs, organizers said Friday.

CALGARY - The international political climate is likely to get chillier as Canada and other polar countries enter a new "cold war" over the North and its resource riches, says an international expert on Arctic sovereignty.

Explorers found pieces of copper sheeting they think may have belonged to the ships of Sir John Franklin whose doomed 1845 journey to the Northwest Passage has captivated historians ever since, the expedition's leader said Friday.

The Maritimes could be hit with hurricane-force winds and heavy rain if Tropical Storm Kyle makes landfall, the Canadian Hurricane Centre warned Friday.

Fred Reid's four-yard touchdown run with 74 seconds left propelled the resurgent Winnipeg Blue Bombers to a dramatic 30-23 home win over the Edmonton Eskimos

The CEO of failed Washington Mutual Inc., on the job only a few weeks before the largest U.S. thrift was seized by the government and sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co., is entitled to more than $13 million in severance and bonus pay.

Long gas lines are leading to short tempers. One woman told NewsChannel 36 that a man threatened her with a gun while she was waiting in line.

The failure of the Seattle-based bank Washington Mutual undermined confidence in a fresh clutch of US household names today, as investors digested the implications of the biggest collapse of a high-street bank on record.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement that the numbers prove the Conservatives are best equipped to handle the economic turmoil that is rocking global markets.

Vancouver police say they had to use a Taser on a 16-year-old mother in order to say the life of her month-old baby. A police department release says the young mother was "touched" with a Taser on her arm and back when officers feared she was holding

DOVER, England - A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing Friday

China successfully launched three astronauts into orbit Thursday to conduct the nation's first spacewalk -- a mission that underscores its aspirations as a global power.

Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.

TALKS on the historic multi-billion dollar deal to rescue Wall Street and prop up the world's biggest economy have stalled, just hours after US legislators announced agreement over an in-principle plan.

The US Supreme Court has granted a week-long stay of execution for Troy Anthony Davis just under two hours before he was scheduled to be put to death.

U.S. legislators, under pressure to vote quickly on a $700 billion rescue fund for the U.S. financial system, may want to heed the missteps Mexico made more than a decade ago when its banks collapsed.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper announced plans Thursday to go after gas companies with price fixing legislation that would make it easier to prove collusion.

As Washington worked towards drafting a historic, $700-billion lifeline for Wall Street, Canada's central bank warned Thursday that Canada's economy is vulnerable to the credit storm currently ravaging U.S. markets.

Canadian and U.S. researchers say they have found the oldest rocks in the world, along the Northern Quebec coast of Hudson's Bay.

Liberal and NDP candidates in Calgary are calling on a Conservative incumbent to resign for connecting crime with immigrants in an interview with a local weekly newspaper.

Protecting Canada's 40-year-old universal health system has been a top issue in every federal election in recent memory. In this campaign, health care ranks as the No. 2 public concern after the economy

The Canadian Forces mission in Afghanistan is to end, or change dramatically, by 2011.

Pamela Anderson was "mortified" when she had to evacuate a hotel without any make-up on.

JIUQUAN, China - A three-man crew was launched into orbit Thursday on what promises to be China's most challenging mission since sending its first astronaut aloft in 2003: a mission scheduled to include the country's first spacewalk.

KAUHAJOKI, Finland - Bomb threats and a flurry of menacing mobile phone messages sparked panic Thursday among students in Finland, as fears grew that copycat attacks would follow the country's second school massacre in 10 months.

Canadian and U.S. researchers say they have found the oldest rocks in the world, along the Northern Quebec coast of Hudson's Bay

WINDSOR, Ont. - A 59-year-old Windsor, Ont., woman is being sued by her 81-year-old husband, who alleges she stole his $3.5-million winning lottery ticket before filing for divorce.

HALIFAX - A Canadian navy frigate will spend an extra few weeks on its current mission of helping to secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to Somalia.

The organizing committee for the 2010 Winter Games has applied for a trademark on two lines from Canada's national anthem, raising the possibility that they'll form the slogan for the Vancouver Olympics.

The owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs say they would rather the team be competitive long term than win a Stanley Cup now and be lousy in the following years.

Calgary Catholic trustees have decided on moral grounds not to offer a vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer.

A Rottweiler owner, who was handcuffed to a car by a Humane Society inspector, will pay more than $3,500 in vet bills after pleading guilty to animal cruelty yesterday.

TORONTO - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the recall of 16 varieties of sandwiches sparked by Listeria worries isn't linked to Maple Leaf Foods.

Motorists in New Brunswick are being told to keep any eye out for moose wandering onto roadways because their mating season has begun.

The B.C. government is using $10,000 seized from criminals to boost the Victoria Police Department's so-called Con Air program

Conservative Leader Steven Harper's latest tough-on-crime measures are getting a harsh review from aboriginal justice workers, who say they fear his move to end conditional sentencing for more than 30 crimes will lead to more aboriginal Canadians in jails

A former B.C. Supreme Court justice, who now is a top judge in the Cayman Islands, has been arrested in the wealthy British dependency in connection with a corruption probe, authorities have announced.