NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2010

Several dozen patients at a western Alberta health centre have been contacted to get tested for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV after a health worker was discovered reusing syringes.

Growing up, Christopher Gregg would never have described himself as a science geek or lab rat. A far more right-brained pursuit -- being an artist -- was much closer to the mark.

Jill Clayburgh, whose Broadway and Hollywood acting career stretched through the decades, highlighted by her Oscar-nominated portrayal of a divorcee exploring her sexuality in the 1978 film "An Unmarried Woman," died Friday. She was 66.

Most Canadians switch from daylight time to standard time at 2 a.m. on Sunday.

The plan this week by San Francisco city officials to ban toys from kids' meals that don't meet nutritional guidelines was either long overdue, or yet another example of governments interfering with citizens' liberty to choose.

Thousands of veterans are planning protests this morning outside their local MPs' constituency offices to demand changes to the way veterans, widows and injured soldiers are compensated.

Thanks to some stingy defensive play and a high-powered offence, Canada has clinched a spot at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

A northern Canadian airline says it will recover from a fire that destroyed its hangar and three of its six planes in Inuvik, N.W.T. The blaze at the Aklak Air facility at the Inuvik airport happened around 10:40 p.m. MT Thursday, according to Northwest T

Gold Rush-era shipwreck at the bottom of a Yukon lake is coming to life with the help of cutting-edge digital 3D scan images.

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams targeted the news media and the Opposition Liberals at his party's annual dinner in St. John's on Thursday night.

Doctors who announced Friday that they are resigning to protest against the provincial government's latest contract offer say they are serious about leaving Newfoundland and Labrador.

Nova Scotia Power crews were kept busy Friday restoring power as several areas of the province had electricity knocked out by high winds. As of 9 p.m. local time, nearly 2,500 homes and businesses across the province were without power. Most of those outa

The contentious white poppy campaign in Prince Edward Island is getting some acceptance from the father of a Canadian soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.

Premier David Alward is denouncing any talk of the Progressive Conservaitve government hiking the Harmonized Sales Tax to tackle the massive deficit.

New Brunswickers are bracing for a deluge of rain over the next two days as three storms are preparing to dump as much as 150 millimetres of rain.

Anger in Gimli, Man., over storm damage from the waters of Lake Winnipeg spilled into a meeting that was supposed to focus on the environmental health of the lake.

A publicity campaign featuring rural Saskatchewan residents in the buff and posing along a stretch of pothole-damaged highway has paid off.

The same force of nature that carved out Alberta's hoodoos over millions of years is now rapidly wearing them down.

Henry Burris tossed a touchdown pass and backup Drew Tate threw a pair himself as the Calgary Stampeders handed the Winnipeg Blue Bombers a season-ending 35-32 loss on Friday

A rebel MLA says B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's resignation represents an opportunity and a challenge for the provincial NDP.

Authorities in Abbotsford will be on the lookout for phony license plate insurance tags starting in the new year, police say.

A stretchy suit that mimics the effects of the Earth's gravity has been developed in the US to spare astronauts the ill effects of long missions of weightlessness.

Want to know what would happen if a 10km-wide asteroid came out of the sky and slammed down on your city?

Scientists in the UK have demonstrated a flexible film that represents a big step toward the "invisibility cloak" made famous by Harry Potter.

Militant group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has said it sent two parcel bombs on cargo planes bound for the US last week, in messages on Islamist websites.

The Department of National Defence, the Canadian Forces (CF), and Commissionaires announce the signing of the Return to Work (RTW) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide employment to veterans injured in the line of duty.

CAMPBELLFORD, Ont. - The Campbellford Legion re-opened Friday afternoon, though the provincial executive branch will continue its management of the embattled branch.

BARRIE, Ont. - Elaine Campione is a cold, calculating, vindictive, person who killed her kids to get revenge on her husband, a prosecutor told a jury Friday.

As Hurricane Tomas churns its way across the Caribbean, Haitians scrambled to flee their quake-ravaged communities and aid groups struggled to get supplies to the neediest.

A state of emergency remains in effect for a remote Ontario First Nation that has been rocked by a series of violent incidents this year, including a rash of arsons and two murders.

Air Canada has ordered its staff to subject anyone connected to Yemen to undergo extra security checks after the discovery last week of two packages containing explosives that originated from the country.

BALTIMORE - As soon as collector Doug Walton heard about a rare Honus Wagner baseball card that had been bequeathed to an order of Roman Catholic nuns, he told himself he had to have it.

A suicide bomber struck a mosque in northwest Pakistan during Friday prayers, causing the roof to collapse and killing at least 67 people.

The United States was accused Friday at a United Nations forum of committing human rights violations ranging from racial discrimination to prison overcrowding and abuses by its troops.

U.S. scientists have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several kilometres from the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Blistering gas from Indonesia's most volatile volcano spewed farther than expected Friday, incinerating houses at the edge of the danger zone, triggering chaotic evacuations and pushing the death toll above 122.

TORONTO - A major international retailer's effort to advertise its fall clearance event as a ``Remembrance Day'' promotion is proving to be a tough sell for Canadians. Eddie Bauer's week-long ``Remembrance Day'' sale, launched in stores across Canada on F

HALIFAX - Militants smell victory in Afghanistan because the West is gradually turning its back on the war-torn nation, one of the country's most influential broadcasters told a Canadian-hosted security conference Friday.

Canada was picked No. 1 in a global survey of countries with the most favourable brand, thanks to a boost from the Vancouver Olympics. A strategy to put the country on the top podium was actually devised years before the Winter Games.

Some of B.C.'s top political insiders say Gordon Campbell's decision to stay on as premier until the party's leadership race could damage the party, and that he needs to step out of the way.

Guy Parent, a retired chief warrant officer, will be Canada's new veterans ombudsman. Veterans Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn announced Friday that Parent will replace Pat Stogran, the retired colonel who led a controversial campaign to improve be

According to a confidential CBSA intelligence report dated Nov. 1 and obtained by CNN, a "possible impostor" was identified by Air Canada Corporate Security after a seemingly elderly man was spotted with "younger looking hands."

Of particular concern, they said, was a push away from the rehabilitative aspect of the correctional system in favour of a punitive approach.

A Vancouver man who says he was beaten outside his own home by two police officers who had the wrong address says he's "disappointed and angry" they have been cleared of any wrongdoing.

Despite being suspended from the Senate three years ago, Liberal Sen. Raymond Lavigne has managed to cost the Canadian taxpayer more than $700,000 since 2007, public accounts reveal.

The Royal Canadian Legion is mulling whether to launch a lawsuit if groups in Prince Edward Island and Ontario do not stop handing out white poppies ahead of Remembrance Day.

Standard time for 2010 begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 7. Be sure to set your clocks back one hour.

Thanks to three power-play goals on four chances and a 33-save performance from goalie Cory Schneider, the Canucks took a 3-1 victory over the Avalanche on Thursday in Colorado for their fifth-straight win.

Some older military veterans say they're being forgotten and left to struggle with government bureaucracy on their own while much of the current focus is on soldiers returning from Afghanistan.

An Ottawa-area MPP is calling for Remembrance Day to be turned into a statutory holiday in Ontario.

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are getting set to create the Big Bang on a miniature scale.

The Royal Canadian Legion has told an Ottawa-based internet news site to stop using its poppy image to commemorate Remembrance Day. Pierre Bourque removed the Canadian poppy symbol from his website and replaced it with a British poppy image after warning

As Canada prepares for nation-wide Remembrance Day ceremonies on the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Mint, in association with the Royal Canadian Legion, is proud to issue its latest coloured circulation coin, featu

LONDON, Ont. - Here's something you don't see every day -- a big smile on a farmer's face. Frank Dietrich was beaming as he put away his combine Tuesday.

EDMONTON - His bones survived 1,000 years of wars, regime changes and most recently, Communist assault. But Saint Vladimir the Great barely made it out of west Edmonton.

Every autumn, tens of millions of monarch butterflies take wing in southern Ontario, embarking on a miraculous 3,000-kilometre, two-month journey, arriving in central Mexico in late October and early November

SAN DIEGO, California - U.S. border police have found a sophisticated drug smugglers' tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico and arrested two people, authorities said on Wednesday.

After putting their lives in harm's way for their country, Canadian veterans are angry with the treatment injured soldiers are receiving once they return home from Afghanistan.

Even though he may soon be removed from the public spotlight, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says British Columbians will still be paying big money for Gordon Campbell long after he leaves his position as premier.

Two years after she was kidnapped by Taliban insurgents while working on a documentary in Pakistan, there are unconfirmed reports B.C. freelance journalist Beverly Giesbrecht has died.

The spacecraft Deep Impact will get a rare up-close look at a comet tonight as it hurtles through space. The NASA probe Deep Impact will pass less than 700 kilometres from the comet Hartley 2 -- only the fifth time a comet has been observed at such close

OTTAWA - Canada's military withdrawal from Afghanistan next year will encourage al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents, says Ottawa's NATO ally Estonia. "My principal opinion is that to speak about final dates is the wrong message. It encourages al-Qaida and Tal

Some members of Winnipeg's aboriginal community are fuming after discovering a U.S. pornography site that features explicit videos of city native women. The Florida-based man who created the adult-only website also blogs online about coming to Winnipeg an

MONTREAL - Great balls of fire were reported swooping recently over Eastern Canada and several U.S. states and there are different theories about what caused the sightings. Even NASA's on the case.

A so-called zombie satellite is set to fly by another operational satellite on Nov. 12 and could possibly interfere with its communications. The malfunctioning Galaxy 15 satellite, which has been drifting eastward in space since commercial satellite servi

More charges have been filed against Dustin Paxton. The revelation was made in a Calgary courtroom Thursday, as lawyers made ready for a preliminary inquiry and sorted out witness testimony.

Sparky Anderson, the white-haired Hall of Fame manager who directed Cincinnati's Big Red Machine to back-to-back World Series championships and won another one in Detroit, died Thursday. He was 76.

Vakhtang Makhniashvili, father of missing Toronto teenager Mariam Makhniashvili, has been charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a couple who acted as sureties for him after he was charged with a previous stabbing attack.

Police in Saanich, B.C., have arrested two men carrying crossbows and dressed in hunting gear after the carcasses of several deer turned up on the city's streets in recent weeks.

Anne Semenovich was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison after making a surprise guilty plea to a lesser charge of manslaughter in the April 2008 death of her 77-year-old husband.

Alberta's provincial health board is contacting 173 patients of the health centre in Hinton who may have been exposed to contaminated medication during endoscopy procedures earlier this year.

There is a new board of directors at the Canadian Polar Commission, which had been without a board for over two years. Indian and Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan has announced the appointment of 10 new directors to Canada's lead polar research agenc

A new national energy strategy plan meant to make Canada a "centre for clean energy innovation" is drawing the interest of federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers

RCMP Commissioner William Elliott has further demoted one of the senior Mounties who challenged his leadership and triggered a workplace assessment of the force.

In a surprise move, Prentice, the Conservative MP for Calgary Centre-North, told the House of Commons on Thursday he will leave Parliament to join CIBC as vice-chairman in January.

New legislation proposed to curb online child exploitation would establish stronger penalties for sex predators, including mandatory sentences and no chance of house arrest.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says it was the public's focus on his sinking popularity and not a caucus revolt that led him to consider resigning.

he and wife haven't given away every penny -- they've put aside about two per cent of the winnings for a rainy day.

Belleville police are asking for the public's help to track down suspects wanted for stealing four poppy boxes from two separate Tim Horton's restaurants.

Urban poachers are taking aim at the exploding deer population in a suburb of Victoria, B.C., and police, say that it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

The ongoing absence of a board of directors at the Canadian Polar Commission could hurt Arctic research, says one prominent researcher.

Nova Scotia has introduced legislation that would put an end to all underwater commercial treasure hunting along its coast.

An RCMP constable in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., has received a medal for rescuing two people from drowning in the icy waters of the Beaufort Sea in the summer

Health officials are investigating after a west Toronto school had 250 students absent with flu-like symptoms. St. Gregory Catholic School, near Kipling Avenue and Rathburn Road in Etobicoke, posted a letter on its website Monday saying "a significant num

A Windsor homeowner has been ordered to remove a Virgin Mary shrine from her front-yard after her neighbour complained that dozens of people show up on the street every day to pray in front of it.

The Edmonton Indy will not take place in 2011, making it doubtful the race will ever return, a senior city official confirmed Tuesday night.

Two Australian tourists mauled by a grizzly bear near Lake Louise, Alta., will not be compensated by Parks Canada.

Birds fly into power lines because they have "blind spots" in their field of vision, according to new research.

A new type of dolphin with a short, spoon-shaped nose and high, bulbous forehead has been identified from a fossil found in the North Sea.

The Canadian military's nearly 10-year association with its not-so-secret airbase in the United Arab Emirates ends Wednesday. After a modest military ceremony at Camp Mirage, the last Canadian flight from there -- a CC-130 Hercules transport -- will take

An Iranian woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning will instead be hanged, a German human rights group said Tuesday.

Former Oiler Raffi Torres registered his first career hat-trick as the Vancouver Canucks finally won a road game, defeating Edmonton 4-3 on Tuesday at Rexall Place.

For some, the annual migration of snow geese across the Lower Mainland is a picturesque sign of the season. But the for others, the birds are a messy annual nuisance that are getting worse every year and authorities in Richmond are ramping up their fight

A Whitby, Ont., doctor had his licence to practise medicine in Ontario yanked for the third time in his career Tuesday after being found guilty of sexual abuse.

A 15-month-old baby girl survived a fall from a seventh-floor apartment in Paris almost unscathed after bouncing off a cafe awning and into the arms of a passer-by, police said on Tuesday.

Scientists in Arizona are trying to recreate the giant, horrifying insects of yore.

A California judge issued a bench warrant for Evi Quaid on Tuesday after she and husband Randy Quaid, who are in Canada, missed a mandatory arraignment for their felony vandalism case.

The conventional wisdom that there's no cure for the common cold may one day be untrue, as researchers are claiming a major breakthrough in understanding how viruses and the body interact.

Torrents of water are pouring from a glacier that sits atop Iceland's most active volcano, an indication that the mountain is growing hotter and may be about to erupt, scientists said Monday.

Indonesia's most dangerous volcano forced international airlines to cancel flights to nearby airports Tuesday, as fiery lava lit the rumbling mountain's cauldron and plumes of smoke blackened the sky.

Red states. Blue states. And now voting from a weightless state.

A married gay man says a fire that destroyed the Prince Edward Island home he and his partner lived in was the culmination of homophobic events that included a note condemning same-sex love as sinful.

Assault charges have been stayed against a 69-year-old Winnipeg man suffering from the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Police say the head of a technical school in Montreal who was allegedly kidnapped on Monday in front of his business by a group of men has been found safe.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall warned the federal government that approving BHP Billiton's controversial bid to acquire PotashCorp would be a "betrayal" of his province, a day before Ottawa is expected to render a decision on the matter.

The federal government has opted to pass on a proposal to build a mine in a pristine part of the British Columbia Interior, citing "overwhelming" evidence that the project would cause significant environmental damage.

A Vancouver couple quit their jobs Monday and spent Tuesday claiming the $50-million jackpot in the Lotto Max draw.

MONTREAL - Twenty-two murder charges have been laid against the former business partner of a construction contractor involved in the controversial renovation of Parliament Hill. The charges were laid in a Montreal courtroom against an alleged Hells Ang

This remembrance project will individually witness the names of the 68,000 Canadians who lost their lives in WWI. For over 91 years Remembrance Day has been done in the name of the collective. Following the recent death of the last Canadian veteran from W