NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2009

News of Canada's "head of state" uproar has reached Buckingham Palace, where a spokesman for Queen Elizabeth responded cautiously to a question on Tuesday about the role Her Majesty plays in this country's political system.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Canada will begin exporting more beef to Russia as it slowly recovers markets it lost with the discovery of mad cow disease on a Canadian farm in 2003.

Canadian stamp enthusiasts will soon have a rare opportunity to bid on a collection of stamps that predate Confederation, but the diminutive collector's items come with hefty price tags.

The Olympic Oval in Richmond, B.C., just south of Vancouver, was awarded a prestigious international engineering prize for its structural design on Friday.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki has won an honorary award known as the "Alternative Nobel" for his work to raise awareness about climate change.

TORONTO -- Members of a seniors group must pay to walk in a Toronto park, insists Councillor Mark Grimes.

TORONTO -- A bloody Thanksgiving weekend has left one man dead and six others wounded across the city in just over 24 hours.

Arachnophobes have one less reason to tremble after a group of researchers discovered a jumping spider that would prefer to hop between salad bars than juicy necks.

Canada is moving to firm up control over the disputed Northwest Passage by designating the waters of its eastern entrance a national marine conservation area.

Blue Rodeo will perform during next month's Grey Cup halftime show, with fans choosing the Toronto band's three-song playlist

Many of the Canadians who died or were sent to hospital earlier this year with H1N1 virus were young adults, female and aboriginal, a new study suggests

A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a week, as the Taliban pledged to mobilize fighters across the country for more strikes

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea reportedly test-launched five short-range missiles in what analysts said was an attempt to improve its bargaining position ahead of possible talks with the United States.

Don't tell the Montreal Alouettes a Thanksgiving Day clash against the Grey Cup champion Calgary Stampeders was a meaningless affair

Three weeks ago, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats had a winning record and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were tied for last in the CFL East.

An arctic air mass brought record cold temperatures across parts of Alberta early Monday, topping off a frosty and snowy Thanksgiving weekend for much of the Prairies.

The federal government is being taken to court over its decision to withhold hundreds of pages - some decades old - in the Mounties' secret file on Tommy Douglas.

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

The Sevmash shipyard is scheduled to begin assembling the new Borei-class vessel, tentatively dubbed Nicholas the Sanctifier, on Dec. 22. Three more submarines of the same class -- the Yuri Dolgoruky, the Alexander Nevsky, and the Dmitry Monomakh -- are i

The Vancouver Canucks allowed the Dallas Stars a point late in their game on Sunday night but recovered for a 4-3 shootout victory at GM Place.

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Padre Normand Cholette sees Thanksgiving in Afghanistan as a chance for soldiers to pause and consider how blessed their lives are compared to the hardships Afghans face.

Our reporter went looking for the farms that produce the raw materials for junk food and found that they take up almost half of the cropland in Ontario

White House science czar John Holdren has predicted 1 billion people will die in "carbon-dioxide induced famines" in a coming new ice age by 2020.

The astonishing ring was spotted over the city and captured on video by stunned locals.

A certain segment of the federal Liberal party are ready to get rid of Michael Ignatieff as leader, especially given his recent change of heart on trying to trigger an election, according to a former CTV broadcaster and Conservative senator

CALGARY - Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked Canadians Sunday to think of the troops in Afghanistan as they celebrate Thanksgiving.

TORONTO - Do not adjust your computer -- Toronto's tallest tower just multiplied by two.

LONDON - Several dozen environmental activists have scaled Britain's Parliament building to draw attention to climate change.

The legendary Soviet spy led a double life while he worked his way up the ranks of British intelligence, all the while passing on secrets to his handlers before his eventual defection to Moscow.

Three 15-year-olds are facing assault charges in Edmonton for a pair of attacks which were filmed on a cellphone camera, police say.

A 26-year-old Vancouver man was lit on fire while sleeping on a couch outdoors on the city's east side.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are launching a joint bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games

The head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Sunday there was "widespread fraud" in August's presidential election, but denied allegations he tried to cover up evidence of cheating on behalf of President Hamid Karzai

It took 160 years, but writer Edgar Allan Poe finally got a funeral Sunday befitting a writer of his stature.

A number of Canadian police agencies are changing their policies on stun-gun use in light of a new training bulletin from the manufacturer of the weapon

Plants, animals and the places where they live are being wiped out at a quickening pace, leading to a loss of biodiversity that could threaten whole ecosystems, say scientists meeting in South Africa this week.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's helicopter force in Afghanistan has gone from being the new kid on the block to one of the major players according to its commanding officer.

OTTAWA - Peter Milliken's job might be compared to herding cats, but he's done it longer than anyone in Canadian history. Milliken is the Speaker of the House of Commons and, as of Monday, he will have held the job for 3,178 days, surpassing the tenure of

No one would blame Ray Schultz if the former Calgary Hitmen defenceman was furious with Theo Fleury. After all, it was Fleury who knowingly put Schultz and all his Hitmen teammates in harm's way 15 years ago

As it reviews its Afghanistan policy for the second time this year, the Obama administration has concluded that the Taliban cannot be eliminated as a political or military movement, regardless of how many combat forces are sent into battle.

Quarterback Darian Durant was coldly efficient for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at home on Saturday, counting three touchdown passes among his first eight completions in the team's 32-22 victory over the Toronto Argonauts.

When Chad, a yellow Labrador retriever, moved in with Claire Vaccaro's family in Manhattan last spring, he already had an important role. As an autism service dog, he was joining the family to help protect Vaccaro's 11-year-old son, Milo -- especially in

Governor-General Jean, PM Harper appear to have differing interpretations of the phrase

They were supposed to be dream homes in one of the Fraser Valley's ritziest neighbourhoods - but those dreams were shattered when the homes started shifting due to a slow-moving landslide.

Twenty-two people held hostage by gunmen at Pakistan's army headquarters in Rawalpindi have been freed after commandos raided the complex, an army spokesman said.

Sidney Crosby scored a pair of second-period goals to help the Pittsburgh Penguins break away from the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 5-2 road victory on Saturday

When krill come together, they form some of the largest gatherings of life on the planet. Now scientists have discovered just how these small marine crustaceans do it.

Nasa scientists have been outlining their preliminary results after crashing two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon in a bid to detect water-ice.

A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be "playing with fire", scientists say.

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

A U.S. aerospace firm is trying to convince the Harper government that it makes financial sense to hold a competition for the proposed multibillion-dollar purchase of new fighter planes for Canada's military, rather than enter into a sole-source deal with

Four terrorists, including a bomb-maker, were released from prison in the African nation of Mali in exchange for the freedom this year of Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay, high-ranking government sources in Mali have confirmed.

World track and field's governing body will start examining next week how to determine gender in an athletics context, an initiative spurred by the case of 800-metre world champion Caster Semenya.

Building a base on the moon and extracting water from lunar craters are goals some might call pie-in-the-sky.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Heavily armed militants were holding up to 15 soldiers hostage inside Pakistan's army headquarters Sunday, more than 16 hours after they stormed the complex in an audacious assault on the heart of the most powerful institution in th

The number of former Canadian soldiers receiving disability pensions for psychiatric stress injuries is now more than five times what it was when troops first arrived in Afghanistan, new figures from the Department of Veterans Affairs show.

HALIFAX, N.S. - A trio of adventurers sailed into a dreary and damp Halifax harbour Saturday, marking the end of a four-month journey that saw them navigate the treacherous waters of the Northwest Passage aboard a 12-metre sailing sloop.

The Prairie provinces experienced an abrupt change of season, as a snowstorm slammed Manitoba and cold temperatures turned Saskatchewan highways into icy danger zones

A Mississauga woman who was 7 1/2 months pregnant when she stabbed a man to death at her baby shower has been sentenced to six years in prison.

When Bill Thom listed his client's Toronto bungalow for sale last month he expected a favourable response from potential buyers.

It's been a while since the Toronto Maple Leafs did any cashing in on the ice, but as ever it's a different story at the box office.

Court documents show Heath Spence, one of three brakemen with the Australian two-man bobsled team, faces charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

In what might be the biggest seizure of opium poppies in Canada, border officials in Calgary have confiscated what they say is $14.5 million worth of the narcotic pods.

The Conservative government intends to keep some Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan beyond Parliament's 2011 end-date for the mission, CBC News has learned. The admission follows weeks of confusion and speculation about a future role for Canadian troops in

A picture of a $200 Thanksgiving turkey in a High Arctic community has people talking about the high cost of living in Canada's far North.

Scientists have begun attaching tracking devices to squid off the coast of Vancouver Island to find out why the marine animals have wandered so far from their traditional territory

The B.C. Lions did everything they could to blow a huge lead, but received a gift in return from Edmonton with just 12 seconds left in Friday's 34-31 victory at Commonwealth Stadium.

A Conservative MP's bid to officially rename the Northwest Passage the "Canadian Northwest Passage" -- which garnered praise from all three opposition parties earlier this week -- could backfire in the legal arena, says a leading expert on Arctic geopolit

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - For years, the rusting MiG fighter jet on display at the entrance to Kandahar Airfield has stood as an emblem of Afghanistan's past air-force glories, a reminder that the former airport was once home to a robust display of airborne

Losers of two straight games and four of their last five, the 6-7 Eskimos suddenly find themselves in a battle for their playoff lives as they host the B.C. Lions on Friday at 7 p.m. MT.

Marge and her pile of bright blue hair are set to grace the cover of the November issue. It will hit newsstands next Friday.

A physicist at the facility that houses the world's largest particle collider in Switzerland has been arrested on suspicion of links to terrorism, according to officials.

A new B.C. law could allow municipal officials to enter homes to seize anti-Olympic signs with only 24 hours' notice, and violators could be fined up to $10,000 a day and jailed for up to six months, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

Two crewmembers were taken to hospital Friday morning after a large wave washed over the front of a coast guard ship as it was leaving port in St. John's.

Trespassing charges have been laid against two men who allegedly snuck into the Calgary Zoo and were injured by a tiger

A conservation group wants the Canadian government to spend $20 million a year cleaning up the Great Lakes system in southwestern Ontario.

The federal government does not need higher taxes to grapple with the burgeoning federal deficit caused by the recession, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday.

NASA crashed a rocket and a lunar probe into the moon Friday morning in the hopes of finding water hidden beneath the rocky surface.

Former NHL great Theoren Fleury is set to release a book next week that reveals he was sexually abused by junior hockey coach Graham James in the 1980s.

The jobless rate unexpectedly tumbled three notches to 8.4 per cent, the first monthly decline since the downturn began last fall, Statistics Canada said Friday.

When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea meet for a trilateral summit in Beijing on Saturday, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will try to persuade his counterparts to share his vision that Asia needs its own economic bloc.

Many products claiming to rid skin of wrinkles and fine lines actually strip away the protective top layer and leave it vulnerable to sun damage and dangerous toxins, according to Dr Sam Epstein, chairman of the US Cancer Prevention Coalition.

A new species of prehistoric mammal, a chipmunk-sized insect-eater found in China, is revealing more about how mammals' tiny, complex ear bones evolved, scientists say.

The man who barged through security at a Jamaican airport and attempted to hijack a CanJet plane bound for Halifax was sentenced Thursday to as many as 20 years behind bars, according to the country's director of public prosecutions

Astronomers examining one of the solar system's largest asteroids with the Hubble Space Telescope have dubbed it a "protoplanet." Pallas, an asteroid 265 kilometres in diameter and located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, joins two other ast

A car-bombing, a downtown gunfight, a targeted drive-by killing outside a restaurant

A rare high-powered machine pistol involved in a number of recent gang shootings has been reeled out of the Fraser River south of Vancouver, according to police.

History was made in Esquimalt September 30 when five foundry workers poured molten metal into moulds of the only Naval Centennial Bell.

TOKYO - A powerful typhoon tore through Japan's main island Thursday, peeling roofs off houses, cutting electricity to hundreds of thousands and forcing flight cancellations before turning back toward the sea. Two men died.

A University of Alberta researcher has discovered evidence of dinosaur cannibalism -- only the second such case in the world.

A large blast near the Indian Embassy, which was the target of another bombing 15 months ago, has killed at least 17 people.

Members of the Cowichan First Nation on Vancouver Island say the Hudson's Bay Company ripped-off their design for one of the most sought-after pieces of Canada's Olympic uniforms.

The father of three young children found dead in their Merritt, B.C., trailer home last year pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder on the opening day of his trial in Kamloops on Thursday.

OTTAWA - Two cabinet ministers have signalled that Parliament will decide Canada's future role in Afghanistan when the Conservative government settles on a precise configuration for the new mission.

Robert Dziekanski's mother is suing the federal and provincial governments, four RCMP officers and the Vancouver International Airport for the loss of her son.

Zakaria Amara pleaded guilty Thursday to charges related to the Toronto 18 terrorist plot to set off three fertilizer bombs, two in Toronto and one at an unnamed Ontario military base.

The derisive boos heard at General Motors Place this season were replaced Wednesday night by delights chants of "Lou."

Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1.4 metres to 1.5 metres (4.6 feet to 4.9 feet) in diameter.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Thousands of panicked South Pacific islanders raced away from the coastline after three strong earthquakes rocked the region and generated a small tsunami Thursday