NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2010

Struggling Roberto Luongo clarified for reporters Friday that goalies are human and "have bad days like everybody else."

A leading Vatican cardinal has called for "housecleaning" as paedophile priest scandals from Italy to Ireland pile pressure on Pope Benedict.

The Liberal government will crack down again on the way generic drugs are sold in the province, saying their prices remain too high when compared to other countries such as the United States.

What does Prime Minister Stephen Harper have in common with the Canadian Minister of Defence? He shares a sinister, hypocritical and belligerent discourse bordering on the lunatic fringe of the international community.

Canada and Denmark have begun discussions aimed at resolving a decades-old boundary dispute in the Arctic Ocean, Canwest News Service has learned.

The gold-medal hopes of Canada's Jennifer Jones at the world women's curling championship in Swift Current, Sask., ended with a 10-4 loss in Saturday's semifinal to Scotland's Eve Muirhead.

The San Jose Sharks appear back to their usual form after enduring their longest losing streak in more than four years. The Western Conference front-runners face their biggest challenge since ending that slide tonight, however, when the Northwest Division

When when members of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas showed set up shop outside the South Carolina State House on Tuesday, they found themselves outnumbered by satirical students.

Mr Furze, 30, displayed his modified his scooter, with an anti-tailgating flame thrower operated by the flick of switch, in the press earlier this week.

It's safe to say Kerry Fraser won't be receiving an honorary tribute at tonight's Leafs-Rangers game.

Cynthia Phaneuf is more known for popping jumps than popping eyes.

Even the mayor was worried. On the way out of the press conference Thursday, Stephen Mandel wanted to know if it was possible the Oilers could screw it up and play themselves out of a position to pick Taylor Hall or Tyler Seguin in the draft.

Most Canadians agree that women wearing the niqab or burka should not receive government services, hospital care or university instruction, results of an Angus Reid poll suggest.

A Nanaimo RCMP officer may face disciplinary action because of comments he posted on his public Facebook page that the force calls "troubling."

One child dies every three seconds from preventable causes like hunger and disease. Nearly nine million children under the age of five die each year.

The Alberta government announced Friday it will cut $12.5 million to programs that support welfare recipients who return to to school.

Canada's Jennifer Jones lost 6-3 to Germany's Andrea Schoepp in a playoff at the world curling championship on Friday and must win Saturday's semifinal to gain a rematch.

Toxicology reports confirmed Friday that two teen girlfriends who died within hours of each other were killed by a lethal mix of drugs and alcohol.

A Coquitlam, B.C., mother and father made a brief court appearance Friday after they were charged with theft under $5,000 for allegedly stealing dozens of DVDs from a retail store by stashing them in their child's stroller.

Police credit a teenage girl with providing information that led to a Calgary man being charged with 23 child pornography and internet luring offences.

High-pressure fragrance sprays will be installed at Asuwei dump, one of several hundred overflowing landfill sites that are the focus of growing public concern

The B.C. government has announced plans to develop a new $450-million retail and entertainment complex just west of BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver.

A Toronto judge has declared a mistrial in the case of two men charged with the high-school murder of 15-year-old Jordan Manners, after the jury failed to reach a verdict.

Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway.

More than 600 laid off General Motors workers will have their jobs back when the company adds a third shift at its Oshawa assembly plant and boosts production at its CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

The former head of the Canadian Forces says a group of university professors who objected to a scholarship for children of Canadian soldiers killed in the line of duty have missed the point of the Project Hero program.

The agreement would require both sides to reduce their arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons by about a third, from 2,200 now to 1,500 each. The pact, replacing and expanding a 1991 treaty that expired in December, was a gesture toward improved U.S.-Russ

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A pit bull mix in Tennessee has been sentenced to obedience training after his dogged attack on a local police car.

OTTAWA -- Canadian troops will withdraw from Afghanistan as scheduled in 2011, even if the United States and NATO ask for some to stay behind to train Afghan soldiers, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Thursday.

Canada's Jennifer Jones will face Germany's Andrea Schopp in the 1-2 Page playoff Friday with a berth in Sunday's final going to the victor at the world women's curling championship in Swift Current, Sask.

A judge has stayed two charges against an Edmonton man who stabbed a police dog, ruling that police breached his charter rights even though the Crown had proven in both his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Paleontologists have found the first fossil evidence that tyrannosaurs lived in the southern continents: a hip bone of an ancestor of T. rex found in Australia.

The Ontario government mapped a slow road to balancing the province's books on Thursday, projecting a deficit of $19.7 billion in fiscal year 2010-11 and saying it would stay in the red until 2017-18.

SHANGHAI, China - China has taken the lead in investments in clean energy, spending nearly double what the U.S. did in 2009, as it ramps up projects in both renewable and traditional energy

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden threatened in a new message released Thursday to kill any Americans al-Qaida captures if the U.S. executes the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks or other al-Qaida suspects.

The federal government has tabled about 2,500 pages of heavily redacted documents related to the Afghan detainee controversy in the House of Commons.

Emily Brydon officially retired Thursday from the Canadian alpine ski team, ending one of the more successful careers in the squad's history.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are on course for their first world championship in ice dance after a dazzling original dance performance in Turin, Italy on Thursday.

Blindside hits to the head will no longer be tolerated in the NHL.

A physicist at the University of Alberta is leading the newest experiment approved for Europe's Large Hadron Collider, searching for exotic subatomic particles resulting from high-energy collisions.

A survey of the stars using the Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the accelerating expansion of the universe and Einstein's ideas about gravity, a team of astronomers said

Prince Charles met with British troops to thank them for their service on an unannounced trip to Afghanistan Thursday. The trip has been a closely guarded secret for some time and was heavily guarded at all points. Read more: http://www.c

Broadcast Date: March 25, 1974 By now it's practically hockey folklore. Wayne Gretzky, simply known as "The Great One," got his start playing hockey in the backyard rink built by his dad, Walter. It marked the beginning of the most spectacular career in

An Inuit commission is getting ready to present its findings on claims by Nunavut Inuit that RCMP officers killed thousands of sled dogs from the 1950s to the 1980s.

A television network is defending a publicity stunt in which an ultra-light plane appeared to have crashed into a car parked across from Montreal's Bell Centre.

EDMONTON - A 21-year-old Edmonton man is in a U.S. prison, accused by the FBI of wire fraud for allegedly running an international Internet scam selling a bogus cancer treatment.

TORONTO - Toronto's smallest house is back on the market.

ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. - A police foundations student was given a baptism by fire during her first day of training Saturday when she helped save the life of a man who was having a heart attack.

TORONTO - It's a Coulter clash. Not since Canadian soldiers stayed out of Iraq -- and before that, when the original Degrassi TV show was cancelled -- has there been such interest among Americans over something that didn't go ahead in this country.

Some rural mail carriers will be trying out right-hand-drive vehicles to see if avoiding the stretch to get letters into rural boxes makes their jobs any easier.

The popularity of netbooks helped computer makers shore up their sales through the recession, but analysts suggest the market is changing again and the booming sales of these super-portable computers will be short-lived.

Canadians are consuming less natural sugar than they were a few decades ago, according to figures released by Statistics Canada. Sound like reason to celebrate? Maybe not.

Canada is a global leader in cancer research, but its citizens don't always have access to advances in diagnosis and treatment, according to a new report card on cancer care.

The U.S. government will ask Canada to keep as many as 500 to 600 soldiers in Afghanistan after this country's military mission in Kandahar ends in 2011, the Globe and Mail reported Thursday.

Milwaukee's Roman Catholic archbishop warned a top Vatican office about a priest who may have molested as many as 200 deaf boys, according to documents obtained by The New York Times, but the priest was never defrocked.

The federal government has agreed to add a new element to Canada's proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia, an amendment negotiated by a Liberal MP.

Col. Russell Williams, who is charged with the murder of two eastern Ontario women, appeared briefly in court via video link Thursday.

Alberta's health minister says wait-times for people needing spinal surgery should be getting shorter soon.

Metal items have been found in various food items at three different Sobeys grocery stores in Calgary, the second chain hit by tampering this year.

Twenty-eight people have died in a dozen plane crashes across Canada over the past decade where fatigue was cited as a possible factor, a CBC News investigation has found. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/25/pilot-fatigue025.html#ixzz0

When California voters head to the polls in November, they will decide whether the state will make history again -- this time by legalizing the recreational use of marijuana for adults

The organisation that operates the Large Hadron Collider has set a date for the start of its science programme. On Tuesday 30 March, engineers at Cern will make their first attempt to collide beams at an energy of 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeV) per beam

Daniel Sedin had a goal and two assists, twin brother Henrik added three assists and Andrew Raycroft made 30 saves in the Vancouver Canucks' 4-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.

RCMP in New Brunswick say a Moncton man is under arrest in connection with the alleged abduction of a woman who disappeared from a local mall last month and was found alive on Wednesday

Vancouver police have issued a public warning after a woman was sexually assaulted along the seawall in Yaletown Tuesday.

Vancouver International Airport has been named the best airport in North America after a UK-based research company surveyed 9.8 million airline passengers worldwide.

With a perfect record at the women's world curling championship no longer possible, Canada's Jennifer Jones hit the reset button and turned her attention towards improving her playoff position.

A four-year-old boy was mauled to death by three dogs in the Nunavut community of Pangnirtung this week, according to RCMP.

There have been another two cases of laser beams being shone at aircraft flying over Sydney. The two incidents happened over the course of an hour on the night of March 19, said Cape Breton Regional Police

B.C.'s Fraser Health Authority is investigating why staff at a seniors care facility made the "terribly unfortunate human error" of cutting the beard off an elderly Sikh patient, the second time such an incident has occurred in the past two years.

The University of Calgary has changed the venue and beefed up security for American commentator Ann Coulter's Thursday speech, after rowdy protests in Ottawa.

A 17-year-old boy who walked into a Winnipeg house party and opened fire with a handgun for no apparent reason has been convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder.

E-mailers angry after columnist suggests Szabados should have received the call from the Oilers By TERRY JONES, Edmonton Sun

A lethal disease blamed for virtually reducing entire bat colonies to piles of bones in the United States has arrived in Canada, having crept into Ontario grottoes.

Sixteen empty railway cars broke loose from a cargo train and crashed into an Oslo port terminal at high speed Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring three others, officials and witnesses said.

Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Irish Bishop John Magee, who has been accused of mishandling complaints of sex abuse in his diocese, the Vatican confirmed Wednesday.

The European Union appears to have backtracked on a proposed policy that would have discriminated against oil produced from Alberta's oilsands.

The NHL and NHLPA finally agreed on something Wednesday. The players and their league settled on a multi-year trading card licence agreements with Panini America and the Upper Deck Company.

Robert Culp, the American actor and screenwriter who teamed with Bill Cosby in the groundbreaking comedy-adventure TV series I Spy, has died. He was 79.

The United States and Russia are close to signing a deal that would severely curtail the size of each other's nuclear arsenal.

CBC on Wednesday released its broadcast schedule for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which takes place from June 11 to July 11 in South Africa.

OTTAWA - Should one of Canada's most notorious serial killers be granted a new trial because of an alleged error by the judge?

Ann Coulter and other controversial speakers are always welcome at the University of Ottawa, the university said Wednesday after organizers cancelled a speech by the conservative pundit.

The death of a Victoria-area teenager, whose burned body was discovered near a popular walking trail, is generating dozens of false leads and overblown claims on the internet, police say.

There is now evidence Asian carp may have slipped into Lake Michigan, a development that could dramatically transform all of the Great Lakes because the large fish are known for dominating the waters they inhabit.

VICTORIA, B.C. - The Victoria Police Department is investigating its own officers after a violent arrest was caught on camera and posted to YouTube.

EDMONTON -- An Edmonton man who claims things literally went into the toilet for him after going to a south-side Tim Hortons has launched a lawsuit against the coffee shop giant.

Six months after a badly burned body was found in the smoking remains of a torched car east of Vancouver, homicide investigators have identified the victim

Roberto Luongo aims to get his groove back as he and the rest of the Vancouver Canucks try to put a stake through the heart of the Anaheim Ducks' playoff aspirations Wednesday at GM Place.

Muslim women and others with concealing headwear will have to uncover their faces when they deal with Quebec government services, under landmark legislation tabled Wednesday in the province's legislature. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/st