NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2009

The provincial government says no decision has been made on the future of a retractable roof for BC Place Stadium, despite a newspaper report saying the project is going ahead immediately after the 2010 Paralympic Games end in March.

A former B.C. assistant deputy minister of health is under investigation for alleged breach of trust

Jonathan Roy, the son of former Montreal Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy, has received an absolute discharge after pleading guilty Wednesday to assaulting an opponent in a junior hockey match.

NASA on Wednesday downgraded the odds of an 885-foot asteroid striking the planet in 2036.

Vancouver Canucks team captain Roberto Luongo could be back in the crease on Wednesday as his team continues to look for their first win this season when they host the Montreal Canadiens.

Less than a week after Prime Minister Stephen Harper railed against "left-wing ideologues" in Canada's court system, he appointed five judges with ties to the Conservative Party of Canada, Canwest News Service has learned.

Like ground squirrels oblivious to a swooping hawk, the only survival tactic is hoping the raptor nabs the other guy instead of you.

A former Rwandan intelligence chief wanted for genocide crimes has been arrested in Uganda

A Wisconsin lodge that may have been one of Capone's old hideouts goes on the auction block this week with a starting bid of $2.6 million.

Archaeologists have unearthed a new stone circle near Stonehenge that lends credence to the theory that the famous prehistoric monument in Britain was part of a funeral complex.

Police clashed with protesters for a second day outside a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, CNN's sister network, CNN Turk, reported Wednesday.

Scientists at NASA have discovered a nearly invisible ring around Saturn -- one so large that it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it.

PASADENA, Calif. - The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday.

TORONTO - Ontario's health minister bowed to months of opposition pressure and tendered his resignation Tuesday on the eve of a report into how the province spent $1 billion over 10 years to create electronic health records.

A Nova Scotia-born physicist who invented the Charge-coupled device 40 years ago has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics along with two American scientists. Willard S. Boyle, along with Charles K. Kao and George E. Smith, won the US$1.4 millio

The Reseau de Resistance du Quebecois pounced on word that the prince's planned Canadian tour next month would include a stop in Quebec. The group's leader Patrick Bourgeois warned the Prince of Wales to stay out of Quebec

Canada's women's hockey team beat the U.S. team 3 1 Monday night in the first of six exhibition games leading up to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Children and teens with ADHD, or who are depressed or hostile, may be prone to becoming addicted to using the internet, a new study suggests.

Roberto Luongo relinquished three goals on the first three shots he faced in the second period as the Canucks fell 5-3 to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday night.

Three U.S. scientists, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, have received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their chromosome research

Reputed gangster and accused murderer Jamie Bacon attended a special B.C. Supreme Court hearing in Vancouver Monday, where his lawyer argued that Bacon's rights are being violated by his living conditions at a Surrey, B.C., jail while he awaits trial.

A Marshall County woman is in the city jail here for having her 13-year-old daughter ride in a cardboard box atop her van.

In a rare show of unanimity, all four parties in the House of Commons have voiced support for a Conservative MP's bid to officially rechristen the Northwest Passage the "Canadian Northwest Passage."

HMCS Fredericton will depart shortly for a six-month mission to the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean as part of ongoing efforts to provide maritime security abroad.

ON THE PORCUPINE RIVER TUNDRA, Yukon - Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And it's not just here.

EDMONTON -- Another 120 soldiers departed the Edmonton area yesterday afternoon for six months of duty in Afghanistan, some for their fifth mission to the wartorn country.

TORONTO -- To Kill A Mockingbird could be on the curriculum chopping block for all Toronto public schools.

The U.S. military will fall in line with whatever strategy President Barack Obama decides on Afghanistan, despite a fierce policy divide inside the White House over the issue

The Vancouver Canucks probably hope that home is where the wins are as they bring their winless record to GM Place on Monday night to face the Columbus Blue Jackets.

No Conservative party operatives were involved in setting up the Prime Minister's NAC gala appearance, unless you count Laureen Harper

In June, a House of Commons parliamentary committee recommended changing the legislation to allow for random testing, arguing it is an effective deterrent. The change would also bring Canada in line with a number of other countries in Europe and countries

Norway enjoys the world's highest quality of life, while Niger suffers the lowest, a United Nations agency said today, as it released a ranking that highlights the wide disparities in well-being between rich and poor countries.

Considering that it takes place entirely on ice, CBC's Battle of the Blades isn't the smoothest show around. Technical glitches, a script snafu and a one-track-minded guest judge plagued the new reality TV series' premiere on Sunday night.

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"The people who thought that the Liberals were an alternative, a substantial number across the country, are saying, 'Well, Jesus, is that what we have for leadership?' It impacts negatively on every Liberal candidate. It's a problem on a much wider scale

Iran has the know-how to produce a nuclear bomb and may already have tested a detonation system small enough to fit into the warhead of a medium-range missile, according to confidential papers.

A baby woolly mammoth that died after being sucked into a muddy river bed 40,000 years ago has revealed more prehistoric secrets of how the species survived in its icy habitat.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that byelections in four ridings will take place on November 9. Two of the ridings are Bloc Quebecois strongholds -- one in Montreal and the other in eastern Quebec.

Hundreds of insurgents raided a pair of remote military outposts in Afghanistan, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing at least 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in more than a year.

Could a sea serpent be lying at the bottom of Cameron Lake in British Columbia? As crazy as it might sound, a group of researchers is convinced there's something down there and are beginning to assemble proof.

MONTREAL - A small group of poultry enthusiasts has cooked up a plan to save an authentic Canadian chicken from extinction

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.

A Toronto high school teacher charged with trying to initiate sexual contact with two teenage boys has died after jumping in front of a subway train, local media are reporting.

The federal government will not re-appoint the chairman of an embattled military watchdog agency. Peter Tinsley has been told his leadership with the military complaints commission will be allowed to expire and it will likely end before a probe of Afghan

Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff outlined several of his priorities in a speech to the party's Quebec wing Sunday and addressed the issue of party loyalty, just days after the resignation of Denis Coderre, his chief organizer in the province.

QUEBEC - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff sidestepped questions Saturday on the recent resignation of his Quebec lieutenant.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will gauge the damage caused by a rift within his party as he meets with members of its Quebec wing Sunday.

Sandro DeAngelis kicked five field goals as the Calgary Stampeders held on to edge the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 15-14 in CFL action Saturday night.

The Montreal Alouettes became the first team in the Canadian Football League to clinch a playoff spot on Saturday, beating the game but overmatched Toronto Argonauts 27-8 at the Rogers Centre.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, has arrived in Iran to discuss inspectors' access to a recently revealed uranium facility.

A man was shot early Saturday morning at a Surrey, B.C., strip club.

For years, aboriginals along the Broughton Archipelago on the north end of Vancouver Island have watched wild salmon numbers dwindle.

A group of Greenpeace activists have scaled three smokestacks at a Shell oilsands upgrader plant in northern Alberta in a call for action on climate change. Three of the protesters were arrested as they tried to gain access to the site.

Craig Kielburger was just 14 when he first met the Dalai Lama. He says that meeting changed his life.

As the U.S. rethinks its strategy on Afghanistan, pressure is mounting on Canada to make a clear decision regarding the future of its hard-fought mission there.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are coming to Canada for 10 days in November, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed Saturday

The death toll from Indonesia's powerful earthquake will likely double as officials on Saturday reached rural communities wiped out by landslides that buried more than 600 people under mountains of mud, most of them guests at a wedding celebration

LONDON - The U.K. is ready to send more soldiers to Afghanistan, if asked to by the commander of the U.S. and NATO forces there, the British army's new chief has been quoted as saying.

Typhoon Parma tore off roofs, brought down power lines and left at least four people dead as it hammered part of the northern Philippines early Saturday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper received a standing ovation after he surprised guests at a National Arts Centre Gala in Ottawa on Saturday night by playing the piano and singing a light-hearted Beatles tune.

Residents and business owners in Tofino, B.C., say a major surfing contest three weeks from now will be the local equivalent of having the Olympics or the NHL come to town.

The Vancouver Canucks couldn't solve goalie Craig Anderson, and they remain winless to open the 2009-10 NHL season, falling 3-0 to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday afternoon in Denver.

OTTAWA - The Harper government will announce four byelections on Sunday, a signal the Tories expect to survive Liberal attempts to topple them this fall and hold out hope for adding to their total.

Russia has recently been aggressive in its pursuit of claims to parts of the region and in February sent a submarine to the floor of the sea symbolically to plant a Russian flag. Admiral James Stavridis said that military activity and trade routes would a

That firefight, a debacle that cost nine American lives in July 2008, has become the new template for how not to win in Afghanistan. The calamity and its roots have been described in bitter, painstaking detail in an unreleased Army history, a devastating

Hunched, gaunt and looking every day of her remarkable 88 years, the legend of Streetsville was a sad picture of wilting glory this week as her Mississauga council colleagues launched a legal inquiry to determine whether she is guilty of municipal conflic

VANCOUVER -- A brain tumour has forced Olympic medallist Deidra Dionne to retire from freestyle skiing, cutting short a career that already saw the aerialist battle back from a broken neck.

Sean Whyte connected on his fourth field goal of the game with just five seconds left as the B.C. Lions held off the Saskatchewan Roughriders for a 19-16 victory.

A move to cancel a bus link between Nanaimo and Vancouver International Airport has some asking if its time to reconsider a passenger ferry between the two cities.

A freighter on the North Coast of B.C. that ran aground, seriously damaging its bow, has raised concerns in the local native community about the potential dangers of supertanker traffic along the hazardous coast.

The small black fish swim around the tank; gracefully gliding back and forth with little discernible pattern. Then, barely audible over the watery whirr of the marine laboratory, a low buzz sounds.

A remarkable view of our Galaxy has been obtained by Europe's billion-euro Herschel Space Observatory.

The Manhattan district attorney has confirmed that a CBS News employee has been indicted in connection with an alleged plot to extort US$2 million from late-night talk show host David Letterman.

PADANG, Indonesia - Ratna Kurniasari Virgo lay surrounded by death for 40 hours - trapped with a broken leg between the collapsed walls of her college and the bodies of her dead friends.

Spain's Catalonia region has started charging mountain climbers and skiers for the cost of being rescued if it's determined they got into trouble through negligence.

Jovon Johnson's third-quarter, 118-yard punt return elevated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers over the Edmonton Eskimos 27-17 Friday at Canad Inns Field in Winnipeg.

Three men have been charged with extortion after a demand for $500,000 was made to a Chilliwack, B.C., businessman, with a threat that he or his family would be hurt if he did not pay.

A Nova Scotia bishop facing child pornography charges is expected to arrive in Rogersville, N.B., on Friday

B.C. Solicitor General Kash Heed wants to meet with the Victoria Police Department and the RCMP after the two forces served notice they are leaving a regional crime-fighting unit for financial reasons.

Canada's fishing industry may be more vulnerable than Ottawa realizes to the animal-rights movement's latest bid to end the sealing industry, an analyst says.

The National Post and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. have reached an agreement to share content across their media platforms.

MANILA, Philippines - Filipinos braced Friday to be whipped by powerful winds and pelted with rain from a second typhoon in eight days

Survivors of a fire on HMCS Kootenay marked the 40th anniversary of the worst peacetime accident in Canadian naval history with a visit Friday to the gravesites of their shipmates in Plymouth, England.

While most, if not all, of their Canadian Football League opponents have built solid team chemistry, the Eskimos have brought six new players aboard over the last two weeks to offset a slew of injuries

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadian troops in the dangerous Panjwaii district west of Kandahar city fired on a speeding motorcycle Thursday evening, killing an apparently unarmed driver and his passenger.

An excited group of naturalists and wildlife scientists are in Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park, releasing black-footed ferrets back into the wild.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Finally, South America gets an Olympics. The 2016 Games are going to Rio de Janeiro.

The B.C. Lions have played some pretty good football this CFL season, but the occasional brain cramp and lapse of discipline have resulted in the Lions sitting last in the West with a 5-7 record.

A Canadian military helicopter pilot with a sudden hankering for hamburgers set his aircraft down on a Kenora, Ont., baseball diamond, and walked into an A&W restaurant across the street for a takeout order.

The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says the issues that will dominate the relationship between the two nations will be trade, border security and energy and the environment.

A convicted member of the "Toronto 18" group that plotted terrorist bomb attacks on Canadian targets will have to stay behind bars for up to two more years.

Reclamation manager Steve Gaudet says many birds now call their site home, as well as rabbits and roaming bison.

A British military search and rescue helicopter made a dangerous long-distance flight over the North Atlantic on Wednesday to provide urgent medical transport to a Canadian navy sailor injured at sea.

Bishop Raymond Lahey was released on $9,000 bail after turning himself in to Ottawa police on Thursday afternoon to face charges of possessing and importing child pornography

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives have survived a non-confidence motion put forth by the Liberals.

Believing all the major issues in the country now happily resolved, the opposition moves on to the next important item of concern to all Canadians

A Newfoundland teen's razor-thin mayoral victory has been overturned, less than two days after the 19-year-old was elected as the country's youngest mayor.

The Calgary Flames host the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday in the second half of a Hockey Night in Canada doubleheader (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 10 p.m. ET), as the NHL regular season begins.

Canadians have every reason to be proud of the men and women serving in Afghanistan; I am extremely proud of them - General W.J. Natynczyk Chief of the Defence Staff

Geologists in southern India say they have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old.

British archaeologists have unearthed an amphitheatre at a ancient port outside Rome which may have played host to emperors such as Hadrian and Trajan.

People in the Philippines are braced for a new storm, days after Typhoon Ketsana left more than 270 dead there.

At least 1,100 people have died in the earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, the UN humanitarian chief has said.

The 14-year-old British girl who died this week within hours of receiving a vaccine against HPV had a massive cancerous tumour in her chest that likely killed her, a coroner says.