NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2010

Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a group of new Canadians that tough laws to curb human smuggling are on the way.

Aleisha Hunter's wide smile and carefree energy give no hint that the four-year-old recently endured a 15-month-long medical nightmare that ended with a diagnosis of breast cancer and a full mastectomy.

It was a constant in American television for more than a decade: Viewers could turn on their TVs and find Howard Cunningham in his armchair, reading the newspaper and providing a fatherly voice of reason to young Richie Cunningham and his friends on "Happ

A federal judge has denied a government request to delay her order halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops.

A judge has released a Montreal man who is charged with uttering death threats over Facebook on bail despite concerns that he "doesn't look stable."

Disgraced Col. Russell Williams repeatedly sexually assaulted Jessica Lloyd despite the fact she had seizures and begged to be taken to hospital, a Belleville, Ont. court heard Tuesday.

A multi-year study by the federal government has produced a troubling report card on the health of Canada's marine environments, with major changes detected in all three oceans.

The opposition is launching an inquiry into a controversial $9-million renovation contract on Parliament Hill, which is already under RCMP investigation.

Academic Naheed Nenshi was poised to become mayor of Calgary, the first Muslim mayor of a major city in Canada and the first person from a visible minority to hold the city's top political office.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - An earthquake rattled the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on Tuesday, cutting power and phone service and sending some residents running into the streets just weeks after a more powerful quake caused extensive damage.

There is a shakeup at the top of the RCMP as senior officers who complained about Commissioner William Elliott's style last summer are quitting or being forced out.

The male elementary teacher is the spotted owl of the education system, the leatherback turtle, the Beluga.

Thousands of people in the northern Philippines are seeking shelter as a powerful typhoon lashes the area with heavy rain, strong winds and surging waves.

A jury has found a former border guard guilty of sexually assaulting four women while he was on duty.

Turmoil at a fundraising arm of the Canadian Olympic Committee has turned into a mass exodus of resignations, CBC Sports reporter Teddy Katz has learned.

The emergency debate on Quebec's new language law is expected to last all night after politicians spent most of Monday shouting at each other across the floor of the province's legislature.

The grounds of the Royal Military College (RMC), Saint-Jean campus, were transformed into a field of honour this September, as 145 officer cadets competed against each other in their first-ever military obstacle course.

Again this year, soldiers' family and friends can send holiday packages to troops serving abroad for free.

As controversy swirls around the Canadian government's efforts to thwart human-smuggling, Postmedia News has learned that officials are aware of at least one more boat that is planning to make its way to this country with human cargo.

Australia's first parliamentary debate on its nine-year military deployment in Afghanistan has revealed emerging cracks in the national commitment to the war, its strategy and objectives.

TORONTO - Women both disgusted and horrified by the grotesque crimes of Col. Russell Williams should take some comfort in the fact that his case is extremely rare, experts said Monday.

Parents are asking an elementary school in Meaford, Ont., to shut down Wi-Fi internet access over health concerns despite authorities saying there is no scientific evidence that the technology is harmful.

Via Rail passengers travelling between Montreal and Toronto can expect delays of up to two hours for at least the rest of Monday after a freight train derailed near Cornwall, Ont., spilling of a load of sodium cyanide.

A $1-billion hydroelectric project proposed for the Slave River will not go ahead, after proponents couldn't reach an agreement with a First Nation in Fort Smith, N.W.T.

The Canadian Forces is working to strip Col. Russell Williams of his rank, military decorations and honours as quickly as possible but admitted it can do nothing about taking away his pension.

Thousands of explicit photos that Col. Russell Williams took while wearing women's and girls' lingerie show how his sexual obsession escalated from lesser crimes to sexual assault and murder, a Belleville, Ont., court heard Monday.

The Nazis stripped hundreds of thousands of artworks from Jews during World War II in one of the biggest cultural raids in history, often photographing their spoils and meticulously cataloguing them on typewritten index cards.

One of the world's hottest pop stars is in the spotlight this weekend for all the wrong reasons. Justin Bieber, who is in Vancouver for a sold out Tuesday night concert, has wound up entangled in a police investigation.

The alphabet mantra of CPR is changing.

The strongest cyclone in years to crash into the Philippines killed at least three people Monday, leaving a wasteland of fallen trees and power poles and sending thousands scampering to safety in near-zero visibility. A retired general said bracing for th

The controversial Ground Zero mosque in New York and Campbell's Canadian-made tomato soup have nothing in common, one would think.

A man charged after a cross was burned on the lawn of a rural Nova Scotia interracial couple last winter, has pleaded guilty to criminal harassment.

Col. Russell Williams has pleaded guilty to the murders of two women in a Belleville, Ont., courthouse on Monday morning.

An American charity is offering to pay British drug or alcohol addicts 200 pounds to be sterilised - and has already had its first taker.

The protesters, mostly students, stood quietly just outside the entrance to Duckworth Centre, where the university was holdling its fall convocation. They carried signs scrawled with public statements Toews has made about crime, immigration and same-sex m

YUZHOU, China - Hopes were fading Monday for the remaining seven Chinese miners still missing after a deadly gas leak over the weekend that left 30 dead.

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said.

BEIJING, China - China's Communist Party wraps up an annual conference Monday that is expected to approve an economic blueprint aiming to narrow the yawning gap between rich and poor and begin the delicate preparations for a new generation of leaders.

MANILA, Philippines - Super Typhoon Megi became the strongest cyclone in years to lash the northern Philippines on Monday with huge waves, strong rains and ferocious winds that toppled electricity poles, drowned one man and triggered massive emergency pre

Six cousins were reunited in British Columbia Sunday, to share a bond of ties through birth and a shared history of dislocation and hardship.

Protestors from Greenpeace, the Wilderness Committee and No Tanks! gathered in Vancouver's Stanley Park Sunday to picket oil tankers off the B.C. coast, arguing it's only a matter of time before a devastating oil spill hits.

Nick Addlery scored two goals in extra time and the Puerto Rico Islanders defeated Vancouver 2-0 Sunday, eliminating the Whitecaps from the USSF Division-2 playoffs.

Cory Schneider made 32 saves for his first NHL win in almost two years Sunday night as the Vancouver Canucks downed the Carolina Hurricanes 5-1.

Henry Burris came through with a huge third quarter to put the Calgary Stampeders on the verge of winning the CFL West title.

Mounties in the Okanagan say they're seeing an influx of gang activity from criminals and suspects forced to flee police crackdowns in Metro Vancouver.

TORONTO - The federal Liberals are readying to rip apart the Harper government's mid-year economic report as they tout their own family care proposals.

NATUASHISH, N.L. - The RCMP and child welfare officials in Newfoundland are trying to determine how a Grade 2 student in Labrador ended up with a gun at school last week.

CALGARY - Canada is "moving quickly" to find a new hub to resupply its troops in Afghanistan as a result of its impending departure from Camp Mirage in the United Arab Emirates.

The FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK who went to see Mr Angel at his home in Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

Two men died and two more were wounded after a rash of violent incidents within a span of hours in the Toronto area.

It's all about the defence, baby. Big-time offence is what drives the economy in the Canadian Football League but at this time of year how you stop the drives is what settles games.

Former American Hockey League president and Hockey Hall of Fame member Jack A. Butterfield died Saturday. He was 91.

A man injured at an oilfield east of Edmonton has become the third worker in three days to die on the job in Alberta.

A study has revealed that a wind turbine's colour affects how many insects it attracts, shedding more light on why the turbines occasionally kill bats and birds.

A hiker has died after being attacked by a mountain goat in the US state of Washington, officials have said.

A New Castle woman said her child was taken away from her after the results of a drug test came back wrong.

After almost a decade of planning and installation, the planets have finally aligned for the NEPTUNE Canada project. Billed as the world's largest undersea cabled observatory, NEPTUNE consists of five main data-collection sites off the west coast of Vanco

The federal government has contracted Calgary-based Harris Canada Inc. for avionics maintenance of its CF-18 fighter jets until their replacements are ready to fly.

They were ready for bombs but fights were the only thing the RCMP appeared to have to diffuse during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. There were 876 incidents in the Mounties' emergency management software database during the Games, according to a summary o

Barbara Billingsley, who died Saturday at the age of 94, was the prototype for American mothers the way John Wayne was the prototype for American men.

China now produces nearly all of the world's supply of rare earths, which are crucial for a wide range of technologies, including hard drives, solar panels, and motors for hybrid vehicles.

Gunmen have killed at least 21 people in Karachi in the past 24 hours, raising tensions in Pakistan's largest city as voters cast ballots Sunday for a replacement for a provincial lawmaker murdered in August.

PEOPLE often remember the past with exaggerated fondness. Sometimes, however, important aspects of life really were better in the old days.

A Prince George, B.C., woman who vanished in September has now been connected to the decomposing remains discovered in an area park last week.

It's a meaty monster that can make even the bravest fast-food fanatic turn chicken -- and health and nutrition experts have their doubts whether Canada really is down with the Double Down.

Chances are the last time you flew, you weren't blown away by the culinary stylings offered by your airplane meal. New research suggests, though, that the food might not have been to blame.

"...There are many second- and third-generation Canadians, visible minorities, whose families will remain visible minorities until their gene pool changes."

Ricky Ray ran for a career high 135 yards including a one-yard keeper to end the game in overtime as the Edmonton Eskimos beat the BC Lions 31-28 on Saturday night.

American war deserters may get to stay in Canada if they outlast the federal Conservative government, New Democrat MP Olivia Chow said on Saturday.

MANILA - An approaching typhoon triggered warnings in 19 northern Philippines provinces with forecasters expecting it to intensify to a super typhoon with winds in excess of 250 kph as it makes landfall on Monday.

Saturday is the United Nations' World Food Day, an annual event intended to bring attention to hunger problems around the globe.

A rampaging Edmonton man has been put behind bars for dousing his girlfriend with gasoline and threatening to set her ablaze if she didn't hand over some money.

A new inspection report reveals that foxes have broken into the London Zoo and killed 11 penguins in the past year.

RCMP are recommending charges against a third person in connection with what officers have said was a gang rape at a Metro Vancouver rave last month.

Mexico has inaugurated a US$140 million lab to manufacture influenza vaccines, a year-and-a-half after it attracted worldwide attention as ground zero of the H1N1 swine flu.

As if the king of dinosaurs didn't have enough of a bad-boy reputation, researchers say they have found evidence that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was also a cannibal.

The final pitch in Philadelphia Phillies ace Roy Halladay's brilliant no hitter last week against the Cincinnati Reds was a big, sweeping curveball to Brandon Phillips. The second-baseman's bat swung one way, and the ball went the other direction, resulti

A woman who was conceived through sperm donation has won the right to proceed with a lawsuit aimed at getting information about the donor.

Firefighters accused of stealing beer kegs from a burning building in an Okanagan town earlier this year will not face criminal charges.

The end of the school week came to a tragic conclusion Friday when a 52-year-old female driver near the completion of her run was killed in a collision between her school bus and a semi-trailer hauling diesel fuel.

The Mounties have decided not to lay charges in a case in which sensitive government emails were deliberately destroyed, ending a two-year probe regarded as an overdue test of Canada's information law.

Diesel and jet fuel supplies were running low Saturday in parts of France as workers took to the streets for another nationwide protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62.

Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas, tons of coal dust and the risk of falling rocks as they worked to free 16 miners trapped by an explosion at a mine in central China early Saturday. Twenty-one miners were confirmed killed.

India has ordered an investigation into the delays, construction mishaps and corruption allegations that threatened to derail the Commonwealth Games.

Montreal's Brother Andre will become a saint on Sunday in a ceremony at the Vatican to be presided over by Pope Benedict XVI.

Saint John's black community is appealing directly to the Queen Elizabeth for an apology for a 1785 decree that severely restricted where they could live or fish.

Otis Floyd and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats showed up for their biggest game of the year Friday night.....Cleo Lemon and the Toronto Argonauts didn't.

The most feared of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, appears to have been cannibalistic, say scientists from the U.S. and Canada.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's media on Saturday threatened "1,000-fold" military buildup as the United States ruled out lifting sanctions to try to coax Pyongyang into resuming talks aimed at its nuclear weapons programs.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reached a deal with Russia on Friday to build a nuclear power plant in the South American country and negotiated several other agreements in energy and other areas.

A coal mine blast has killed 20 and trapped more than 30 workers underground in a central region, Chinese state television has reported.

Jonathan Quick made 25 saves, captain Dustin Brown scored two third-period goals and the Los Angeles Kings avenged their first-round playoff loss for the second time in seven days, beating the visiting Vancouver Canucks 4-1 Friday night.

WASHINGTON - Fifteen years removed from the last referendum on sovereignty, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe was in the U.S. capital Friday with a message familiar to Canadian ears but a potential eyebrow-raiser south of the border: Quebec separatism,

The federal government and the Northwest Territories have reached a possible deal on province-like powers for the region.

A new immigration policy is denying American war resisters due process, human rights advocates say, and they are calling on the government to rescind it.

A Muslim cleric in Britain has come under fire for claiming rape isn't rape when it occurs within a marriage. Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, made the controversial statement in an interview with the blog The

Nova Scotia's coyote bounty begins Friday with the start of trapping season. Trappers will get $20 for each coyote pelt until March 31, when the season ends.

NDP MP Olivia Chow is supporting Chinatown grocer David Chen, co-owner of the Lucky Moose Food Mart, who is on trial in Toronto charged with assault and forcible confinement for chasing and detaining a shoplifter.

A bronze statue of the late West Coast artist Emily Carr was unveiled near her home in Victoria, but it was the dedication plaque that soon caught some unexpected attention.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A report by government scientists identifies killer whales as the No. 1 reason there are so few sea otters in southwest Alaska.

Calgary minor hockey coaches might be the ones in the penalty box, if parents fail to complete an online course by midnight Friday.

A heavy storm hit Atlantic Canada on Friday, causing power outages and car crashes and leaving hundreds of ferry passengers stranded.

Police are now recommending an adult male be charged with distribution of child pornography linked to the rape of a 16-year-old girl at a Pitt Meadows rave party last month.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest has called an emergency legislative sitting and debate on Monday to force the passage of controversial language legislation.

A school bus driver is dead following a crash with a tanker truck hauling diesel fuel in rural Saskatchewan near Melville.