NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2010

TORONTO - In Dalton McGuinty's Ontario, notorious criminals get breaks that aren't available to people who are driving while talking on a cellphone and looking for directions to a cemetery.

The league's rules comittee has recommended a new system in which teams that score a touchdown in overtime be required to attempt a two-point conversion, as opposed to kicking an extra point.

Canadian families looking for sweeping personal tax cuts in Jim Flaherty's latest budget will have trouble finding them. This time around, the finance minister was true to his "stay the course" pledge and didn't offer much new tax relief.

Some B.C. doctors in the Kootenays are offering to pay out of their own pockets to keep nurses in operating rooms.

There perhaps has never been a cooler time to curl. Canada's gold and silver successes at the Winter Olympics had passionate fans at the rink cheering and sent TV ratings soaring. And beyond the bonspiel, the country's beloved icy pastime has been generat

Compared to farmed salmon, wild salmon is more nutritious and carries fewer toxins that can accumulate in humans, a CTV News investigation has found.

Consumer spending in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., increased 48 per cent during the Olympics, credit card processing firm Moneris Solutions reported Thursday.

Friends of two Metro Vancouver teenagers who died within hours of each other early Tuesday blame the popular recreational drug ecstasy for their deaths.

OTTAWA - Canada's immigration minister says he takes "full responsibility" for a citizenship study guide that had all references to gay rights removed.

The death of a toddler who was in foster care is being investigated as a homicide, RCMP say. The 21-month-old girl, from the Morinville area, died Wednesday after being brought to an Edmonton hospital in serious condition on Monday

REGINA � A group of Saskatchewan First Nations says it is partnering with the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida to pitch a 55,000 seat stadium and hotel and casino project for downtown Regina.

SYDNEY, Australia - A species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been discovered in rural Australian farmland, officials said Thursday

PEMBROKE, Ont. - Police have called off the ground search for a nuclear scientist in eastern Ontario whose mysterious disappearance in January has baffled colleagues.

Calgary homicide victim Arcelie Laoagan suffered repeated severe blows to her head and likely died very quickly, a pathologist said Thursday.

The Libyan ambassador is clarifying remarks by leader Moammar Gadhafi, who appeared to call for an armed holy war against Switzerland last month.

Geologists working in the Canadian North have found evidence that the Earth's oceans were covered in ice all the way to the tropics more than 700 million years ago.

Extreme levels of a toxic chemical were found in air samples from a Prince George, B.C., neighbourhood more than 18 months ago, but the community still has not been told of the danger

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Christine Plamondon wanted to see where her boyfriend spent his final days. Trooper Jack Bouthillier had only been away for a short while when a roadside bomb took his life, and they hadn't talked much about what it was like to be

First Nations leaders in Manitoba are expressing outrage about an online classified ad that offered to round up and "extract" aboriginal youth from parts of Winnipeg and transport them like wild animals to reserves or an area of the city where many aborig

A former assistant deputy minister, his adviser and a manager are facing a total of 16 criminal charges following a lengthy investigation into contracting practices at B.C.'s Ministry of Health.

A bottle of water ended a tense standoff by a former student who was holding a school secretary at knifepoint in a southwest Calgary junior high.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says his party will not trigger an election over the federal budget brought down Thursday.

Canwest made large acquisitions while Leonard was at the helm, including the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun and specialty TV stations. The purchases saddled the company with debt numbering in the billions that became impossible to

A Toronto man found dead in the Muskoka wilderness was testing survival skills he may have learned from watching a reality show and reading books.

Before there was Shania Twain, Celine Dion, or Avril Lavigne, there was Anne Murray - a pop-country international crossover star who paved the way for female singers to emerge out of Canada.

NATO is facing new threats in cyberspace that cannot be met by lining up soldiers and tanks, the alliance's secretary-general said Thursday in an apparent reference to terror groups and criminal networks.

Canada's immigration minister is apparently denying any role in the removal of references to gay rights from a citizenship study guide released last fall.

In the aftermath of its controversial decision to allow Egyptian-backed Globalive Communications Corp. into the cellphone market, the federal government said Wednesday it is prepared to open its doors formally to foreign ownership in the $40-billion telec

Mr. Harper has promised to eliminate the deficit by 2015 without cutting spending or raising taxes, relying instead on revenues from a growing economy.

A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday, terrifying residents, disrupting communications and triggering at least one large fire. Twelve people were injured, the National Fire Agency said.

Natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti can sometimes launch members of the CF into unexpected, uncharted territory, rapidly and without warning. Often in a race against time, where lives are at stake, personnel find themselves en route to an em

The Quebec government stands by its decision to expel a woman from a language class for refusing to remove her niqab veil and will take further steps to avoid similar situations in the future,

Smiling members of Team Canada who waved a giant flag after winning the Olympic gold medal in the men's hockey final against the U.S. can thank a Saskatchewan man.

Twenty-five countries that ship fruits and vegetables to our country violated Canadian pesticide standards last year

A 2008 Vancouver Island float plane crash that killed five people was triggered when the plane stalled and dipped while attempting a steep climb over a ridge, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada has found.

A Squamish, B.C., teenager who disappeared after leaving a house party on Bowen Island last year likely met with foul play, RCMP officials announced Wednesday.

NAMETSI, Uganda - It was mid-afternoon and had been raining buckets when shopkeeper Michael Nabude looked up and saw a patch of mud slide down a mountain. Fearing a landslide, he sent his family away then watched in horror from afar as a wall of mud slamm

Rescue crews have reached a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed Wednesday morning in remote Utah mountains as it flew toward its home base after providing security for the Olympics in Vancouver.

Researchers have found the fossil remains of a dinosaur cousin that lived 243 million years ago, making it the oldest known dinosaur relative.

A recently found star in a distant dwarf galaxy is chemically similar to stars found in our galaxy's "halo," supporting the idea that the Milky Way "ate" other galaxies.

BC Hydro rates could rise by 33 per cent over the next four years, according to figures released in Tuesday's provincial budget.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it has placed an air traffic controller and supervisor at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on administrative leave after the controller allowed two children to communicate with planes last month.

Police in Richmond and Burnaby are investigating the recent sudden deaths of two teenage females within hours of each other early Tuesday.

The Liberals are accusing the Conservatives of a "direct rip-off" of the title of today's throne speech, saying the theme has been used before in Australia.

NORTH BAY, Ont. � A Nipissing University history student is learning more about her late grandfather after finding a shoe box of wartime keepsakes in an attic � including Nazi medals and badges.

Just 80 kilometres off the Pacific coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Chile.

CALGARY - Pushing a cart holding his luggage, reputed Calgary gangster Jackie Tran arrived at the Calgary International Airport Tuesday afternoon in advance of his anticipated deportation to Vietnam.

Fourteen month old Song Sheng was born with Lamellar Ichthyosis. He has no pores and therefore can not sweat to cool his body down. His parents are trying to get him help but have not been successful.

77-year-old Winnipeg man is in a heated battle with Shaw Communications that started with a fire last spring.

CTV News has learned that this week's federal budget will include a substantial increase in Ottawa's contribution to the Own the Podium program, credited for Canada's record gold medal haul in the Vancouver Olympics

LOS ANGELES - Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Chile

Even with gold-medal winning goaltender Roberto Luongo taking the night off, the Vancouver Canucks had enough firepower to rally from behind twice.

A Port Alberni, B.C., girl hailed as a hero for thwarting a possible school shooting in the U.S. after learning about it on the internet is now considered by police in the U.S. to be a suspect.

The RCMP's top brass used police aircraft for travel 24 times between September and the end of November in 2009, according to documents posted on the Mounties' website.

B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen unveiled his post-Olympic budget in the legislature on Tuesday in Victoria, and there were few surprises in the economic blueprint intended to pull B.C. out of the recession.

The speech from the throne on Wednesday will not just promise more jobs, it will address a lack of skilled workers that has left some Canadian jobs going begging, government sources say.

Actress had Swarovski crystal detailing of her lower lady parts and has the Internet abuzz

Tim Hortons launched their 24th annual 'roll up the rim to win' campaign on March 1, 2010, the same day McDonald's began offering their customers free coffee for two weeks.

Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, a Second World War naval aviator, has the distinction of being the last Canadian to be awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross. This summer, an expected 30,000 to 40,000 spectators will have the rare opportunity to see an ex

A team of international scientists is sounding alarms about the state of a natural ice dam in northeastern Canada that has historically prevented older, thicker Arctic Ocean sea ice from drifting south through a narrow passage along Ellesmere Island and m

Those who missed visiting the Olympic pavilions and live sites in February -- or avoided them due to the massive hours-long lineups reported -- will have another chance to round out their Games experience. A number of attractions will be back during the P

COLUMBIA, S.C. - In South Carolina, any group that plans to overthrow the federal government - or any other government in the U.S. - must register its activities. It's the law.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea vowed Tuesday to strengthen its nuclear deterrent and its means of delivery - an apparent reference to missiles - days after threatening rival South Korea and U.S. forces with attack if they conduct military exercises as p

A prominent Islamic scholar issued a religious ruling against terrorism and suicide bombings at a speech in London Tuesday - 'Whatever these terrorists are doing, it's not martyrdom'

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday that Serb forces attacked only legitimate targets during the siege of Sarajevo.

Two South Korean fighter jets crashed into a mountain Tuesday during a routine training mission, killing three airmen on board, the military said.

British Columbians can look forward to a belt-tightening provincial budget Tuesday that the government says will cut expenditures without causing taxpayers too much pain.

Luongo will likely get the night off as the Canucks resume the longest road stretch in NHL history against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday

Military explosives experts have been called in to deal with two grenades found in a Fredericton home by contractors doing renovations Tuesday.

The lawyer representing oilsands giant Syncrude on charges resulting from the deaths of hundreds of waterfowl in the company's tailings ponds in 2008 is pleading with people to keep an open mind.

A Calgary-area man has been charged shooting a wild horse in southern Alberta last year

Three men have been charged after a fox was run down by snowmobiles in Charlottetown last month.

Chris Chelios on his way back to the NHL, as the veteran blueliner has signed with the Atlanta Thrashers.

A student was expelled from CEGEP St. Laurent in Montreal's north end for refusing to take off her Niqab -- a head covering that exposes only the eyes.

A Peel Regional Police officer is in hospital fighting for his life after a late-night crash in Brampton on Monday.

Officers say when Oilers' goalie Nikolai Khabibulin was pulled over in Arizona last month, his blood alcohol content (BAC) was .164 - more than double the legal limit.

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Feb. 27 was so powerful it may have tipped Earth's axis and shortened the length of a day, scientists at NASA say.

A 77-year-old Winnipeg man is in a heated battle with Shaw Communications that started with a fire last spring.

OTTAWA -- A Gatineau man ignored warnings not to go out on dangerously thin ice Monday night before he and his truck plunged in to the Ottawa River, friends say.

HALIFAX, N.S. - Crew aboard the navy ship HMCS Halifax say there's still years' worth of work to be done in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, but they believe Canadians have made a difference.

The 6th Israel Apartheid Week started on Monday in campuses across Canada and around the world. Once again Jewish students will have to face anti-Israel propaganda as they walk to and from classes on campuses.