NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2009

CODY, Wyo. - A man has been cited for public intoxication while riding a white horse during a snowstorm in the northern Wyoming town Cody.

JERUSALEM - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's leading candidate for prime minister, says Iran will not be armed with a nuclear weapon.

The clot of angry e-mails plugging Zoe Watson's inbox is growing by the hour. They arrive by the hundreds from every corner of the country, all with a singular message: Bring back the anthem.

More than one million U.S. customers are still without power after a major storm system that has been linked to 42 recent deaths knocked down power lines and placed numerous states in the southern Plains under thick sheets of ice.

Saturday night the Minnesota Wild come to the Left Coast to play the Canucks (CBC Sports, CBCSports.ca, 10 p.m. ET) in the first of what will likely be 33 consecutive desperate games from here to the end of the regular season.

Canadian speedskater Denny Morrison continued his impressive season Saturday, winning a 1,500-metre World Cup race in Erfurt, Germany.

For decades, in the absence of a proper sewage treatment system, the community pumped raw sewage into the ocean. Septic systems collected solid waste, but liquid waste was pumped though a diffuser into the ocean, near the mouth of Ucluelet Harbour and Bar

Sapper Sean David Greenfield, 25, died when his armoured vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Zhari district, roughly 40 kilometres west of Kandahar City. Greenfield was from the 24 Field Engineer Squadron, 2 Combat Regiment, based in Petawawa, Ontario.

LOS ANGELES - The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.

The head of NATO has cautioned the alliance's Arctic nations -- including Canada and the U.S. -- to stay united despite the growing potential for conflicts among NATO members over energy resources and shipping rights in the increasingly open waters surrou

As Conservative MPs called for the national anthem to return to a rural New Brunswick school's morning rituals, the principal of the school says he is taking the matter to a human rights commission.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's vow to abandon all peace agreements with Seoul drew a mild response from South Korea's president, who continued to express optimism that the rivals could hold negotiations soon.

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is hinting that it may push Congress to reconsider its controversial Buy American clause in its $819-billion financial stimulus package.

Northern Canadians concerned about polar bears are in Whitehorse this weekend to discuss the bears' future, hot on the heels of a national summit that an organizer says helped open dialogue on the issue.

The B.C. government is spending $34 million to buy or lease 15 new properties across the province to alleviate homelessness.

The RCMP paid $20,000 to a career criminal for key information that led to the safe recovery of art treasures stolen from a B.C. museum last year, CBC News has learned.

EDMONTON - Short of drawing up the plan and pulling the trigger, Shawn Hennessey couldn't have been more help to Mountie-murderer James Roszko, and for that he must serve more than 10 years in jail, a judge ruled Friday.

"For all of us, this is really big," he said. "A guy e-mailed me yesterday to say 'I already booked a hotel. I can't wait to see him.' And I have another person from Ottawa saying, 'If you need people to stay, let me know, I can offer my house.' "

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 4.6 magnitude quake rattled the Seattle and Puget Sound area at 5:25 a.m. Friday Pacific time.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mount Redoubt, a volcano 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, is rumbling and simmering, prompting geologists to warn that an eruption may be imminent.

The Conservative budget cleared its first hurdle Thursday evening as Parliament rejected a Bloc Quebecois amendment to extend EI eligibility and lend more support to the forestry and manufacturing sectors.

North Korea declared all military and political agreements with South Korea over on Friday, warning it would not honour past accords if Seoul continues to push the countries to the brink of war.

The New Brunswick government will be examining rules that allow schools to independently decide whether they will play the national anthem on a daily basis, says Education Minister Kelly Lamrock.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will be expressing concern to the United States about a protectionist bill that could hurt imports of Canadian steel.

missin' Cka's often absent radio..which for me seems local..it's in my cyber neighborhood...i'll have a blog dedicated to the subject

Analysts on average expect Ford to post a fourth-quarter loss of $1.22 per share before one-time items, according to Reuters Estimates. That would translate to a loss of more than $2.8 billion.

The excitement, and phone calls, have been pouring in like a pot of always-fresh coffee since Lotto 6/49 winner Jorma Hogbacka told the nation he'd be sharing his $14.8-million windfall with five Tim Hortons employees in St. Catharines.

The Canucks wasted a promising 3-1 lead, giving up four unanswered goals in a 5-3 loss to the Nashville Predators at General Motors Place on Wednesday night.

With a federal budget projecting that Canada will be $85 billion further in debt by 2013, some Conservative party faithful are questioning what it means for the party's ideology.

BERLIN - A new Islamic extremist video with a German speaker threatening attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan represents a "new quality of threat" against Germany, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

OTTAWA - The Harper government's plan for a quick economic recovery and return to balanced budgets is being cast into doubt by new evidence that Ottawa may have misjudged the severity of the global recession.

WASHINGTON - Army Secretary Pete Geren has ordered the recall of more than 16,000 sets of body armour.

The Mounties who confronted Robert Dziekanski the night he died watched the Polish man's condition while help was on the way and acted professionally when firefighters arrived, lawyers for the officers said Wednesday

The Boyd sisters have been raised singing the national anthem every day, but a New Brunswick school has silenced their morning ritual.

Afghan National Security Force members, supported by soldiers from 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group (3 RCR BG), and 42 Royal Marine Commando, a British unit, successfully completed Operation SHAHI TANDAR in the Khakrez and Shah Wali Kho

OTTAWA - The federal government's survival was guaranteed for as long as a year Wednesday by Liberal support for the budget, in exchange for three "accountability" reports to Parliament as measures to stimulate the economy are rolled out.

Russia's military has announced it will halt its plans to deploy short-range missiles in its Baltic enclave Kaliningrad, Interfax news agency says.

The B.C. government will provide one-third of the financing required for twinning the Port Mann Bridge and widening Highway 1, the province's transportation minister said Wednesday

U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Canada on Feb. 19 in his first official trip abroad, the White House announced Wednesday.

The Vancouver Canucks take on the visiting Nashville Predators Wednesday hoping to make a fresh start after an eight-day hiatus.

As a result, Mr. Layton declared the coalition dead and said Stephen Harper will remain Prime Minister for a considerable amount of time thanks to the support of the Liberals.

A doctor in British Columbia has been fined and ordered to undertake ethics training for publishing a graphic account of the death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan.

"I've worked with them on this whole economic package, I've made several very workable suggestions, our province made a significant contribution but they turn around and give us this huge slap in the face," he added.

A Quebec court judge spared a 93-year-old man a prison sentence for sexually abusing his two daughters over a seven-year period.

CPO2 Savard, an explosives ordnance disposal (EOD) expert from Fleet Diving Unit (Pacific), recently returned from over seven months in Afghanistan. Although originally sent over with 1 Combat Engineer Regiment from Edmonton, he was immediately seconded t

The destruction of 60,000 turkeys due to a massive outbreak of avian flu on a B.C. farm will continue today.

The B.C. Lions re-signed star slotback Geroy Simon to a contract extension on Tuesday that binds him to the team through 2011.

Animal cruelty charges are being recommended against the owner of two horses that were found trapped in snow in central B.C. last month and had to be rescued by volunteers, who dug a one-kilometre trench to reach them.

There weren't a lot of surprises in the federal budget because much of what was in it was laid out in a series of announcements by the government in the days leading up to Jan. 27, 2009.

Emperor penguins, whose long treks across Antarctic ice to mate have been immortalised by Hollywood, are heading towards extinction, scientists say.

Microsoft has stepped up the battle to win back users with the latest release of its Internet Explorer browser.

There will be a major shakeup in the top ranks of the Canadian military over the next few months as most of the senior commanders are replaced.

No health threat after aging reactor released radioactive tritium into the air last month

CAIRO, Egypt - President Barack Obama chose an Arabic-language satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message Tuesday to the Muslim world that "Americans are not your enemy."

JERUSALEM -- An 1,800-year-old figurine believed to have originated from the eastern stretches of the Roman Empire has been discovered by archeologists outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City

CANBERRA, Australia -- The International Whaling Commission may ease its ban on commercial whaling to allow Japan to hunt whales off its coast in return for killing fewer whales in the Antarctic, officials said Tuesday.

Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted, temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000.

U.S. President Barack Obama considers Afghanistan the top overseas military priority and could send as many as three more brigades to the country by the end of the summer, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

About 40 residents of the Fredericton Homeless Shelter were sent out in the cold on Tuesday morning after the shelter suddenly lost two staff members.

A Greyhound bus driver is being lauded for heroic actions and possibly saving lives after fighting off an attacker inside his bus and safely pulling the vehicle to the side of the road.

Between Sunday afternoon and early Monday morning, a ferry and a cruise ship became stranded in a 50-square-kilometre ice pack at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.

Economic activity is slowing dramatically around the world. Analysts are rerunning financial models more frequently and every iteration produces a weaker result. These conditions are especially true for energy analysts, given the dramatic weakness in crud

Federal scientists will soon take on their most ambitious effort yet to map the Arctic Ocean seabed, four years before Canada's deadline to try to extend its Arctic sovereignty as part of an international treaty.

The Conservative government is presenting a six-point economic stimulus plan in this week's budget and "will spend what is necessary" to rescue Canada's sagging economy during the global financial crisis, according to the throne speech delivered Monday.

BAY CITY, Mich. -- Officials in central Michigan say a 93-year-old man who owned more than $1,000 in unpaid electric bills froze to death inside his home -- where the municipal power company had restricted his use of electricity

The Ontario Liberal government's attempt to get York University students back to class after a two-month strike has been stalled by NDP members.

Payments to Indian residential school survivors, meant to compensate them for mistreatment, have led to suicides, substance abuse and depression across the country, documents obtained by Canwest News Service show.

A monster truck show promoter, who days earlier touted his event's safety record, died after being crushed by one of the trucks during a show in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday night. George Eisenhart's death was the second fatality at a monster truck event

More than 2,000 trumpeter swans have died around Judson Lake over the past nine years and the cause of death is no mystery: lead poisoning

The HMCS Calgary will leave from Esquimalt today, taking a group of Canadian Rangers north to Kitimat, where they will begin a cross-country snowmobile journey.

Voter registration begins. Canadians should focus on reconstruction work by their government, Wesa says

The largest land settlement in Canadian history is in a holding pattern after hundreds of people from a Manitoba aboriginal community abstained from voting for the deal.

Plenty of goals, non-existent defending, relaxed goaltending and no checking? It must be the NHL All-Star Game.

Snow covered the Jebel Jais area for only the second time in recorded history yesterday. So rare was the event that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.

The Pattullo Bridge, damaged by a fire last Sunday, is set to reopen Monday morning at 6 a.m. PT

The NHL will showcase its best and brightest Sunday evening in the hockey hotbed of Montreal, as the Eastern Conference battles the West in the 57th annual All-Star Game at the Bell Centre.

Canadian speedskater Denny Morrison won his 1,000-metre World Cup race Sunday and set a track record for the second consecutive day in Kolomna, Russia.

The Harper government is expected to use Tuesday's federal budget to pump more than $2 billion into social housing across the country

Collect 'em all! Or stick 'em in the spokes of your official Yes We Can! Bicycle.

MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Moscow is ready to help stabilize the situation in Afghanistan.

The National Hockey League admits fighting sells tickets and it has no appetite to abolish fisticuffs.

Vincent Marquis of Quebec City led Canada's first sweep of the men's moguls podium at a freestyle skiing World Cup on Saturday in Ste-Adele, Que.

Canadian speedskater Denny Morrison captured his first World Cup victory Saturday, winning the 1,000 metres and setting a track record.

A Burnaby, B.C. company says it's only a few years away from producing electricity in a way that has eluded scientists for years -- nuclear fusion.

TORONTO -- Meat from a plant in Toronto is reported to have tested positive for listeria but Maple Leaf Foods says there is no food-safety risk to the public.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed an H5 avian influenza outbreak on a turkey farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley.

The tattle that retired General Rick Hillier is being lined up to replace Stephen Harper as leader of the Conservative party travelled across Canada before the truth had time to get its boots on.

UNITED NATIONS - After a decade of unprecedented growth, the UN's peacekeeping efforts are overstretched with 113,000 military, police and civilians deployed in 18 missions on five continents, a top UN official said Friday.

The man who was allegedly assaulted by three off-duty Metro Vancouver police officers says he was beaten, robbed and racially abused.

"The idea came to me early last week when it was first announced that the new president would make his first official state visit to Canada," he told CTV's Canada AM. "And I thought well, when a new president comes, Canada always gives a gift on beh

There was another gangland style shooting early Thursday morning in Abbotsford during an apparent robbery at a marijuana grow-op.

A Canada Border Services Agency officer wept at a public inquiry Thursday as she described how unbelievably shocked she was to learn about the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport.

'It was a disaster. All the children were lying down on the ground, bleeding'

It's no time to fire head coach Alain Vigneault or take a wrench to roster

There is a new list of the top offenders in B.C., and experts hope it will encourage the public to weed out the invaders.

QUEBEC - Quebec sovereigntists say there's no reason to celebrate this summer's re-enactment of the historic 1759 battle on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City.

A Newfoundland and Labrador soldier is fighting the Canadian government for compensation for injuries he received while serving in the military, and he has the backing of the NDP's critic for Veteran's Affairs

Doctors in Calgary are treating two children for meningococcal infection, a serious bacterial illness that can cause meningitis.

Warmer temperatures have dramatically increased the rate at which trees in old-growth forests are dying in parts of British Columbia and the western United States

An independent report released Thursday supports the scientific methods and findings of the Northwest Territories government, which says caribou numbers are declining.

Canadian presence in the Arctic could cost the Canadian military as much as $843 million annually, says a series of internal Defence Department cost estimates.

OTTAWA - Karlheinz Schreiber not only wants to lay out his factual allegations against Brian Mulroney, he also wants a hand in shaping recommendations for future ethics rules to govern federal politicians.

A senior RCMP officer in B.C. predicts criminals and the homeless will be forced out of Vancouver to settle in other provincial cities as the 2010 Olympics draw closer.

The average temperature on Earth has increased in the past 50 years and the hottest day of the year now comes almost two days earlier than it did prior to 1954, according to a study by scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Un

The Defence Department is trying to convince the Harper government to include the multibillion-dollar purchase of armoured vehicles as part of its stimulus package, with work and jobs spread across key regions of the country.

WASHINGTON -- After the flub heard around the world, President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office...again.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's newest eyes in Afghan skies are ready for takeoff. The military announced Thursday the Heron pilotless spy drones that arrived last month at Kandahar Airfield are now set to fly

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada says it thinks the recession will be deep and painful but relatively short

A shooting in Toronto's subway system has thrown a major part of the city's public transit system into chaos.

A Chinese court condemned two men to death Thursday and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country's contaminated milk scandal.