NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2009

VANCOUVER - Vancouver city officials have rewritten a controversial sign bylaw that enraged activists who alleged it would give police sweeping powers to enter homes and seize protest materials during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Once upon a time in Etobicoke, there lived a beautiful princess, Kezia Laird, 24.

Like a dog with a bone, Parliament and predictable types among the public agitate the question of prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan being turned over to Afghan authorities who are accused of torturing them.

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD - Five-year-old Kamila Gul should not have survived the landmine blast that slammed shrapnel into her tiny body, most of it to her skull.

Three topless female protesters tested the limits of artistic freedom Thursday at a protest outside the B.C. legislature against government cuts to the arts.

DUBLIN, Ireland - Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland's government concluded Thursday.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.

VIENNA, Austria - The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday his probe of Iran's nuclear program is at "a dead end" and that trust in Tehran's credibility is shrinking after its belated revelation that it was secretly buildi

HAVANA, Cuba - Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.

The former U.S. secretary of state raised the issue of Iraq with the United Kingdom hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, Britain's former ambassador told an inquiry into the Iraq war Thursday

Even with Daniel Sedin back on the ice, the Vancouver Canucks are still looking for some offensive consistency.

Al-Jazeera English, the English-language service of the Qatar-based broadcaster, has been approved for distribution via satellite in Canada. Ethnic Channels Group Ltd., a Toronto-based satellite service, had applied in February to the Canadian Radio-telev

Management at Nortel Networks Corp., already under fire for handing out executive bonuses, approved a plan this fall to give another round of raises to its top managers, according to an internal corporate document

Rogers Communications announced Thursday it is laying off 900 employees across Canada

U.S. journalist Amy Goodman said she was stopped at a Canadian border crossing south of Vancouver on Wednesday and questioned for 90 minutes by authorities concerned she was coming to Canada to speak against the Olympics.

Fredericton military widow says she feels betrayed by the Canadian Forces and federal government. Susan Short was reacting to being told by CBC News that the military has no idea what happened to the men suspected of killing her husband in 2003.

Bombardier Aerospace is laying off 715 workers in its Montreal-area facilities because of slow orders for its CRJ regional jet airliners.

People who want to work at the Diavik diamond mine will have to live in the Northwest Territories from now on, as part of the mine's push towards a northern resident workforce.

A Northwest Territories MP is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to protect Canada's claim to a disputed area in the Beaufort Sea, where the United States wants to drill for oil and gas.

Five senior Toronto Humane Society officials, including president Tim Trow, have been charged with cruelty to animals and obstruction of a peace officer after a search warrant was executed Thursday afternoon

The Supreme Court of Canada has broadened the scope of an appeal by convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, giving him more grounds to argue his conviction should be overturned.

Ottawa's former top advisor to Afghanistan has denied allegations that Canadian officials were aware of reports that detainees transferred to local authorities faced the risk of being tortured.

This afternoon several senior Liberals quit their frontbench positions over Mr Turnbull's insistence that the party back the Government's emissions trading scheme.

Calgary's Grey Cup festival enjoyed a rousing kickoff yesterday, but resentment over the absence of the hometown Stampeders lingered. Riding in on a chuckwagon, Rangeland Derby star Kelly Sutherland delivered the Grey Cup to Municipal Plaza

The Canadian dollar rallied by more than a cent against the U.S. currency Wednesday after a report that the Russian central bank is preparing to buy loonies to include in its official reserves.

OTTAWA - It's not easy for Rick Hillier to be overshadowed in a hearing of military men. But the garrulous, blustery former chief of defence staff played second fiddle Wednesday to the quiet efficiency of the man seated to his left in a House of Commons c

Allegations that detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured have had little impact on troops in Afghanistan, say soldiers returning to Ottawa from a tour of duty there.

Concerns about Canada's handling of Afghan detainees has also raised an entirely different question: What was done with captured Afghans suspected of killing or wounding Canadian soldiers?

Astronomers have devised a game to help uncover the basis of galactic pile-ups.

Two Beefeaters at the Tower of London have been dismissed for harassing Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater.

BC Ferries is conducting an internal safety investigation after a ferry was caught in a storm off Prince Rupert early Monday morning.

Amanda Lindhout has been freed, 15 months after the young Canadian journalist was abducted in Somalia in August 2008.

The head of Canada's Inuit organization wants to draw national attention to Inuit culture and issues next year, which has been declared the Year of the Inuit.

Christopher Little, a Toronto-area man, has been found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder for killing his estranged wife and another woman two years ago.

Although Canada is spending more than $500 million on the development of an American-built stealth fighter aircraft and is considering earmarking billions of dollars more to purchase the planes, the U.S. won't be sharing key software needed to maintain th

Rick Hillier will appear before a House of Commons special committee Wednesday, when the former chief of defence staff is expected to rebut a claim that he was warned about the dangers of his troops handing over detainees in Afghanistan

The Great Lakes face imminent threat from an invader that could cause its entire eco-system to collapse.

ATLANTERRA, Spain - A Swiss adventurer went down in the Atlantic on Wednesday while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain with jet-powered wings strapped to his back. A rescue helicopter pulled him from the water and he appeared unhurt.

Twenty years after the House of Commons resolved to eliminate child poverty in Canada, almost one in 10 Canadian children still live in low-income families, according to a new report.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific off the coast of the Polynesian kingdom of Tonga, sending panicked residents in many of the country's islands into the streets at night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

An investigation into Britain's involvement in the Iraq war opened public hearings Tuesday with a moment of silence for those who died in the conflict.

Alberta is spending $495 million over 15 years for a 240-kilometre pipeline that companies can hook into for collecting and storing carbon dioxide, it was announced Tuesday.

Americans are wasting food at a rate of 1,400 calories per person per day which has implications for obesity and climate change, U.S. researchers say.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The head of a British Columbia crib manufacturing company behind a massive recall says his products are safe - if used properly.

The federal government is not protecting rivers and groundwater near the northern Alberta oilsands, affecting people living as far upstream as Yellowknife, according to a report co-released Monday by seven environmental groups.

An older brother of the man killed during a police chase in Hinton, Alta., says his family just wants to get the body home to Saskatoon before getting caught up in whether the police chase was justified.

Conservative MP Gerald Keddy is apologizing for referring to some unemployed Haligonians as "no-good bastards."

Family members of Kyle Gallant and Jamie Bone broke down as they read victim impact statements in court on Tuesday at the sentencing of an Ontario man who was driving the Jeep Cherokee that crashed and killed two of his passengers in eastern P.E.I.

The Chrysler minivan plant in Windsor, Ont., will return to full production on Dec. 7, according to a union leader

Two and a half weeks after she was brutally attacked and stabbed, Brenda Van Leyen, 47, says she's on the road to recovery.

This year will be one of the top five warmest years globally since records began 150 years ago, according to figures compiled by the Met Office.

Hamilton police are on the hunt for an escaped prisoner and two armed suspects who allegedly assisted in the getaway.

A BC Ferries crew that aborted a trip after hitting violent seas knew about the storm before departing, but the storm hit much more quickly and with greater ferocity than expected, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

RCMP have solved a bizarre mystery: How did $15.3 million in gold vanish from the Royal Canadian Mint? And while their report is still two weeks away, CTV News has learned the answer.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Jordan Nicurity had been dragging his body across sharp sandstone on an empty belly for three days, shock and adrenaline the only salve for his crushed pelvis, when a raw moment of do or die arrived.

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider successfully smashed together two beams of protons in the machine's particle accelerator for the first time on Tuesday.

A large fire has destroyed an old residential building at the former military base in Chilliwack, B.C., east of Vancouver, after witnesses reported seeing flames shooting 30 metres into the air.

A man arrested Monday in connection with a mass murder in Surrey, B.C., had just won a huge poker jackpot.

Some 240 Canadian soldiers posted for the last 10 months in Afghanistan returned to their home barracks in Edmonton on Tuesday

Quick action by a BC Ferries crew saved a 63-year-old man who jumped overboard from a ferry Tuesday

A flood watch has been issued for large parts of Vancouver Island as officials warn more than 100 millimetres are forecast to fall over the next 24 hours.

Pascal Leclaire can't avoid injury even when he's on the bench.

REGINA -- Nobody has talked like this in Saskatchewan since Ron Lancaster, George Reed and Hugh Campbell. Maybe not even them.

REGINA -- Calgary needs time to mourn the loss of the Stampeders from their own Grey Cup game. OK ... that's long enough. The great green invasion is on the way.

A deer on the loose in downtown Toronto is getting a lot of attention this morning. "This is way better than watching squirrels," said Brittany Rosenbloom, a researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children. "It is pretty cool. I wonder how it got here."

"Gas from the tar sands gives a Prius the same carbon footprint as a Hummer," the former U.S. vice-president told the Star in an interview prior to a Toronto speaking engagement scheduled for Tuesday evening.

Calgary police are looking for a self-proclaimed white supremacist and a teenager suspected of leaving explosive devices outside an apartment unit that were later detonated in a nearby parking lot.

Critics have long questioned whether the Northern Adventure ferry is suitable for the stormy waters off B.C.'s north coast, and Monday's aborted voyage, which saw the vessel return to shore because of high winds, is bound to add to the controversy.

The Canadian military's 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron based in Edmonton has been awarded the Billy Bishop Trophy for its efforts to quickly deploy aircraft and personnel during the Afghan conflict.

Caribou numbers in Jasper National Park dropped 30 per cent since 2008, according to the latest Parks Canada survey of the caribou population.

A German antique car dealer claims he has tracked down a Mercedes convertible owned by Adolf Hitler.

No charges are expected to be laid against a Texas Ranger who reportedly shot and killed a popular New Brunswick singer-songwriter in his wheelchair in Fort Stockton, Texas, on Friday.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing.

Two women face charges after Halton Police put an end to a crime spree reminiscent of Thelma and Louise.

A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - A French amphibious assault ship like the one Russia hopes to buy arrived Monday in St. Petersburg, fueling concern in Georgia and other ex-Soviet nations that Russia is upgrading its navy to intimidate its neighbours.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A secret U.S. plan to support anti-Taliban militias, which is raising concerns about further destabilizing Afghanistan, echoes similar ideas being voiced by the head of Canada's army.

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari says he was regularly beaten and threatened with execution while imprisoned in Iran for 118 days.

The coal mine in northern China where 104 people were killed in a gas explosion on Saturday had too many workers underground, a government official said Monday.

A group of about 10 Inuvialuit people has returned from Washington, D.C., after examining 19th-century Northwest Territories artifacts at the Smithsonian Institute.

Billy Graham rapid response teams are among dozens of outreach efforts that Metro Vancouver's Christian groups are putting together for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

HALIFAX, N.S. - A soldier who fatally shot his close friend in Afghanistan in 2007 has applied to be released from prison pending his appeal before the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.

record number of vessels, from rowboats to cargo ships, travelled through the Northwest Passage this year, according to the Canadian Coast Guard.

Most residents in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake are not happy with how Quebec's provincial police are patrolling their territory and they want a new native force created to target criminal activity

The families of four sealers who died when their fishing boat sank near the Magdalen Islands in March 2008 have filed a $2.7-million lawsuit against the Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Delirious fans poured onto the streets of Regina Sunday night after the Saskatchewan Roughriders won the CFL western final.

The man accused of taking nine people hostage at the Workers' Compensation Board building in Edmonton last month has been sent to Alberta Hospital for a psychiatric assessment

The Opposition walked out of the Ontario legislature en masse Monday to protest the government's refusal to hold public hearings on its bill to create a 13 per cent sales tax that would go into effect in July.

A new research project designed to study the link between mental health and homelessness is giving more than 1,300 people across Canada a chance to get something many might not have thought possible: a roof over their head.

Immigrants to Canada tend to make less in the workforce and are more likely to settle for part-time work and temporary jobs over full-time work than Canadian-born workers, the latest study from Statistics Canada suggests.

The federal Conservative government plans to introduce new legislation this week requiring internet service providers to take a more active role in reporting child pornography to police

Manslaughter charges have been dismissed against four of those accused in the 2005 shooting death of 15-year-old Jane Creba in downtown Toronto.

Children should be allowed to get dirty, according to scientists who have found being too clean can impair the skin's ability to heal.

After outscoring Alberta's NHL teams by a combined score of 12-3, the Chicago Blackhawks needed only one goal and a superb effort by Antti Niemi to topple the Canucks 1-0 on Sunday night in Vancouver.

Researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say they are delighted with the progress made since the machine restarted on Friday

The East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years, according to an analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission.

Darian Durant and the Saskatchewan Roughriders ruined the biggest party to begin Grey Cup Week by kicking the hosts and defending champions to the sideline.