NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2010

An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform an

Widespread US government cuts led to a surprise net loss of 95,000 jobs in September, new figures show.

Daniel Sedin scored twice Monday as the Vancouver Canucks won their first game of the season, 2-1 over the Florida Panthers on Monday at Rogers Arena.

Deon Beasley returned an interception 72 yards for a touchdown in overtime Monday to seal the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' stunning 47-35 win over the B.C. Lions.

Geron Corp. has begun testing an embryonic stem-cell treatment on a patient in Georgia with spinal cord injuries, marking the first time such a drug has been used on a human.

Canada picked up three track and field medals Monday, while Aussie Sally Pearson finally got her Commonwealth Games gold and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker added another to his collection.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon spent Thanksgiving weekend campaigning at the United Nations on behalf of Canada, which is vying for a seat on the Security Council.

The alleged head of a crime family wanted in a massive human trafficking investigation was arrested over the weekend.

Chilean engineers have successfully tested the rescue capsule nearly all the way down to where 33 miners have been stranded for nine weeks, hundreds of metres underground.

Many long-abandoned gold mines in northern Ontario have been getting a whole new chance to shine, thanks to record gold prices.

A Longueuil, Que., man is expected to be charged with attempted murder after he allegedly tried to strangle his mother with his shoelaces, police say.

Quebec prosecutors are considering homicide charges against a father in Longueuil, Que., after his 13-year-old daughter died over the weekend.

Sure-handed, durable and intelligent, record-setting Montreal Alouettes slotback Ben Cahoon is also true to his word.

Parodies of Christine O'Donnell's "I'm not a witch, I'm you" campaign ad have been all over the Internet lately, but Kristen Wiig's interpretation on last night's "Saturday Night Live" was the best we've seen yet.

Philadelphia may be the City of Brotherly Love, but apparently not everyone attending a President Obama-headlined rally there this weekend feels that way -- and at least one person takes that feeling a little too close to heart.

A kidnapped British aid worker may have been killed by her American rescuers, rather than her Taliban captors, officials said Monday. The U.S. is leading a joint investigation with the British into the death.

Russian spy Anna Chapman has become the new celebrity face of a Moscow bank.

The former Dutch Caribbean colonies of Curacao and St. Maarten became autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands Sunday in a change of constitutional status dissolving the Netherlands Antilles.

RCMP Commissioner William Elliott has been meeting with some of his fiercest critics inside and outside the national police force, hoping to showcase a tight grip on his position and promising swift changes among his management team.

New evidence has surfaced in one of aviation history's most puzzling mysteries that shows it may have ended on North American shores.

The fire broke out early Saturday morning in an outside area used to store cardboard. It caused damage to the outside of the building, and smoke from the blaze seeped inside.

A Whitehorse First Nation is banishing Yukon government social workers from its lands over frustration about how children are being apprehended.

BEIJING - A group of Chinese scientists and explorers is looking for international help to mount a new search for the country's answer to Bigfoot, known locally as the "Yeren," or "wild man."

TORONTO - Mystery surrounding the horrific death of Toronto Sun freelancer Peter Bertie, who died covering hostilities in Nicaragua more than 23 years ago, has been laid to rest.

WINNIPEG - Saturday was not a good day on the road for city police and paramedics.

WINNIPEG - A young woman is dead after being shot in the city's north end early Sunday. Police and emergency personnel were called to Selkirk Ave. house about 4:20 a.m. after a shooting was reported and found a 21-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot w

The Canadian Forces may be getting the boot from a semi-secret Middle East base, as the United Arab Emirates warns Ottawa's refusal of its repeated requests will "undoubtedly" affect relations between the two countries.

MONTREAL - When federal bureaucrats plucked three smart young Inuit boys from their families in the 1960s and sent them to high school in the south, they probably had little idea that they would help transform Canada.

The Queen Mary 2 luxury ocean liner changed course in response to a distress call early Sunday from a 13-metre pleasure boat off Nova Scotia.

Migrant workers in Ontario have passed the halfway point in their 50-kilometre march for better working and housing conditions

RCMP in southern B.C. say speed is considered a contributing factor in a car crash that has left two people dead.

An Ontario man accused of ATM fraud in Winnipeg faces more charges in connection with similar allegations in other Prairie cities.

A Saskatoon woman was held captive and severely beaten for nearly 12 hours this weekend before she escaped her attackers and found help at a hospital, police say.

Investigators are piecing together the sequence of events leading to a horrific car crash in Drummondville that killed four young men.

Drunken kiwis have shocked spectators at the world's biggest beer festival with a public booze session that involved drinking vomit and urine.

Roadside bombs killed seven people including two NATO troops in war-torn Afghanistan Sunday, as a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a military convoy, killing a child and wounding two other people.

The northern wall of a reservoir containing toxic red sludge outside an alumina plant in Hungary will collapse and set off another wave of mud and water to nearby villages, an official said Sunday.

As he pored over the accounts of the Nova Scotia nursing home he manages, John Budgell noticed a pattern -- a relative of an 85-year-old resident hadn't been paying the medical bills to help the woman cope with advanced Alzheimer's.

The Calgary Flames have signed a deal to call their home arena the Scotiabank Saddledome.

Solomon Burke, the larger-than-life "King of Rock and Soul," whose songs blended soul, gospel, country and R&B, died early Sunday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport at age 70.

A popular hair-smoothing treatment hailed as a revolution in hairstyling could be harmful to users as well as the stylists who apply it.

More than a dozen college freshman and underage teen girls were hospitalized after drinking vodka which cops suspect was spiked with a date rape drug, KOMO-TV reported today.

The imminent reopening of a crucial border crossing in the Khyber Pass has laid bare one of the vulnerabilities NATO forces are grappling with in prosecuting the war in Afghanistan -- the uneasy, love-hate relationship between Pakistan and the United Stat

Drivers on Highway 407 in Markham, Ont., just north of Toronto, got a bit of a shock Friday night when a small plane made an emergency landing on the toll road's westbound lanes.

Canadian track cyclists won two more bronze medals Friday in Delhi, as Tara Whitten added her third medal of the 2010 Commonwealth Games and Zach Bell picked up his first.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he's not closing the door on extending some employment insurance programs now under review.

A British aid worker kidnapped nearly two weeks ago was killed when one of her captors detonated a bomb as NATO forces were trying to rescue her in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.

Salma Arbach, 29, was often called "bubble gum queen" when she was a kid for chewing lots of the pink sticky stuff. But on Saturday, she earned that title for blowing the biggest gum bubble at Toronto's Eaton Centre.

A hot tub party in Edmonton morphed to a bloody bad time early Saturday with two men suffering serious stab wounds.

Thousands of people in Sault Ste. Marie were told not to shower and to boil their drinking water Saturday.

Iran is ready to hold talks with six major powers over its nuclear program "in late October or early November," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his son, heir apparent Kim Jong-un, appeared together at a massive military parade Sunday amid celebrations marking the founding of the country's ruling party.

Henrik Sedin, the soft-spoken Swede who leads by example, was named the 13th captain of the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. Orland Kurtenbach, captain of the first Canuck team to play in the NHL, presented Sedin with the sweater with the "C" minutes before

The Los Angeles Kings spoiled the Vancouver Canucks' opening night, just as they did 40 years ago. After a lengthy pre-game ceremony commemorating Vancouver's 40th season in the NHL, Jack Johnson scored the shootout winner and Jonathan Quick made 23 sa

Nearly 30 inmates brawled inside a Saskatchewan prison, leaving one man dead, according to the institution's deputy warden.

In an unassuming blog post, Google has modestly announced that it is not only developing cars that can drive themselves, but that they are already plying the roads alongside unsuspecting motorists.

Peter Schaefer has come a long way from the rec hockey league he played in last year. When the puck drops on the Vancouver Canucks 40th NHL season on Saturday night, he'll be patrolling the left wing on the third line against the Los Angeles Kings.

HONOLULU, Hawaii - Forensic anthropologist Gregory Fox and his team sifted dirt on the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa at what they thought might be the graves of U.S. Marines and sailors killed in one of World War II's most savage battles.

Behind an apartment building at 605 Whiteside Place is The Dreamers Peace Garden, an homage to lives lost in violent crimes in Regent Park and a symbol of hope for the future.

A Somali-born Canadian deported from the United States for giving material support to Al Qaeda is considering making Toronto his home, his lawyer says.

Police in Delta, B.C., are investigating after an eight-year-old girl was approached by a man claiming to be a police officer.

VANCOUVER - Fourteen harbour seals that were rescued and rehabilitated by the Vancouver aquarium have been released back into the ocean.

Russia will pay back Iran's downpayment on an order for a missile system after refusing to fulfil the contract, a top Russian official says.

Scientists studying coral reefs in the Gulf of Oman have issued the warning after being shocked by the impact of one large-scale bloom, which destroyed a coral reef in just three weeks.

A student has been left devastated after an elaborate sex list she created ranking university men she had slept with became an internet sensation.

A 650-foot ferry was ablaze in the Baltic Sea on Saturday after an explosion on the upper deck, and firefighting ships were spraying the vessel with water to keep it from breaking apart and spilling some 170 tons of fuel, officials said.

The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir could collapse at any moment and send a new wave of caustic red sludge into towns in Hungary devastated by a toxic deluge this week, the country's prime minister said Saturday.

Rescue workers have finished drilling an escape shaft for Chile's 33 trapped miners, offering them a way out of their underground cavern, where they have remained trapped for two months.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Senior military officials in the restive southern province of Kandahar have been expressing a confidence of late that has some daring to outline what an end-game with the Taliban might look like.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Police and Correctional Service officials were piecing together what triggered a melee at a Saskatchewan prison that left one inmate dead.

Some of the best surfers in the world are hitting the beaches of Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian leg of the O'Neill Cold Water Classic surf series.

Police are urging women not to walk alone at night on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver after two women were groped.

Unemployment rate drops to eight per cent, but it was driven by more people either returning to school or opting to end their job-hunting.

Scott Chandler stood over the lone gunman after he was tackled near the elementary school and yelled: "Why are you shooting kids?"

Chilean officials believe a drill carving an escape route for 33 trapped miners will reach them within the next 24 hours.

Fears that Europe's second-longest river may be severely polluted by a flood of red toxic sludge were eased Friday, after officials reported that toxic heavy metals in water flowing into the Danube had receded to levels permitted in drinking water.

A neighbourhood in Coquitlam, B.C., was kept on edge for most of Friday while a family of black bears camped out in local backyards.

Kevin Glenn threw three touchdown passes to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a 36-11 win over the visiting Edmonton Eskimos on Friday night.

PALMER, Alaska - Strong aftershocks continue to follow a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck a remote area of Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu is a 54-year-old literary critic and democracy activist who was awarded the prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China,"

A rainfall warning has been issued for Metro Vancouver and sections of B.C.'s coast, Environment Canada says.

The monument commemorates the sacrifices of soldiers, and their families, who served during the Canadian contribution to the NATO campaign in Afghanistan.

It was during a secret meeting in Paris this September that Canada realized there was little room for a compromise that would enable its Afghanistan-bound troops to keep using a covert military base near Dubai.

HOURS after Prime Minister Stephen Harper touted the controversial purchase of F-35 fighter jets at Winnipeg's Bristol Aerospace plant, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was at a North Winnipeg school calling the deal "undemocratic."

Mounties in the Hamilton area are on the hunt for a family they allege has been running a human trafficking ring, taking advantage of poor immigrants they lured to the country.

Ontario's Amber Alert system has launched a Facebook alert program that will allow users in the province to immediately know when a child has gone missing.

Hundreds of people gathered at a church in northeastern New Brunswick on Thursday to mourn a young couple who died when their vehicle hit a moose last weekend.

NB Power has announced that Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. will have to start over with one of the most important parts of the refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear plant.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced an $1.95 million investment in the Alberta high-technology sector during his visit to Edmonton Friday.

One of Canada's most eccentric and well-known artists is being honoured with a bronze statue in a prime Victoria location near the B.C. legislature buildings.

Police in Delta, B.C., say there have been no breakthroughs in the case of a teenager slain in a daytime attack at a suburban Vancouver park.

Rescue workers in Hungary have found three more victims of the catastrophic flood of toxic sludge, raising the death toll to seven. The body of an 81-year-old man who died from injuries sustained in the torrent and two other bodies were found Friday after

The Quebec Federation of Women has dropped a controversial phrase from an online video that referred to Canadian soldiers as "cannon fodder."

Based entirely on the premise that it's never too early in the season to be called a pussy(cat), can someone please explain to me the purpose/meaning/significance of the Steve MacIntyre smackdown of Raitis Ivanans last night in Edmonton?

Canadians do not have a constitutional right to have a lawyer present during questioning by authorities, the Supreme Court of Canada said today.

Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God.

Consumers are being warned that some oysters and mussels for sale in B.C. could contain a toxin that can cause paralysis or even death.

A Canadian Gulf War veteran is calling for a full public inquiry after the federal privacy commissioner found Veterans Affairs officials broke the law by sharing his sensitive personal and medical information.

The B.C. government is under fire from scientists who say that priceless fossils near Cache Creek aren't being protected.

DUMFRIES, Scotland - When Heinz Roestel was separated from his younger sister Edith aged six, he little thought it would be nearly 80 years before he saw her again.

Nine migrants have been taken into custody by the Canada Border Services Agency at the Port of Montreal.

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is retiring from public life.

France's constitutional watchdog on Thursday endorsed a divisive law forbidding face-covering Islamic veils anywhere in public but expressed concern about applying it in places of worship, such as a mosque.

The toxic sludge that poured through several communities in Hungary has reached a branch of the Danube River, an environmental official says. The caustic red slurry was released Monday in Ajka, about 160 kilometres southwest of Budapest, after a reservoir

MONTREAL - A fictional military mom packs an AK-47 into a duffel bag. She adds a stuffed doll. Then, staring coldly into the camera, she says she might never have had kids had she known they'd grow up to become "cannon fodder" in Afghanistan.

...Ford, operating free of interference by the court or the federal government is moving even faster and is beginning to put real distance between itself and its two domestic rivals.

Seven emerging leaders and their thoughts on immigration, philanthropy, success and influence

Condo buyers aren't the only ones staying away from the troubling development at the Olympic Village -- now business owners are delaying their scheduled openings