NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2009

Feeling nostalgic for a time of gin mills and jalopies, fly boys and dizzying dames? Well, you're in luck.

A 24-year-old man is in hospital after being shot by an RCMP officer in Smithers, B.C.

The country's high-end coffee market remains a competitive battleground despite months of recession, with increasing numbers of specialty cafes and the arrival of new international players on the scene -- all vying for the toonies and loonies of Canada's

The Cerro San Pedro mine in central Mexico stopped digging for gold Wednesday, on orders from the country's environmental enforcement agency.

Ignatieff, I think, represents an excellent leader for Canada," Rebagliati said.

GENEVA - Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs

TORONTO - Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged journalists to "shine light into dark corners" of government affairs during a speech late Saturday, but wouldn't take questions from reporters covering the event.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled children from around the world for decades.

LONDON - An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - U.S. Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles (350 kilometres) above it.

TORONTO - When James Terry hung up on the telemarketer he thought nothing more of it, mainly because he could barely understand a word the man was saying.

TORONTO - A St. Catharines math teacher is using the Toronto Maple Leafs dismal season as a learning opportunity for his students

NEW YORK - The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

From a translucent jumbo octopus to a fish bearing barbed fangs, scientists say they have discovered hundreds of new species living several kilometres beneath the ocean surface and in total darkness

DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander said Sunday.

Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said.

Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defence war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities against any possible attack, state television reported.

Kristina Groves of Ottawa won her first World Cup gold of the season on Sunday, prevailing in the 1,500-metre race in Hamar, Norway.

The Vancouver Canucks should have Daniel Sedin back in the lineup for the first time in 19 games Sunday night when they host the Chicago Blackhawks.

OTTAWA - Rankin Inlet Mayor John Hickes has become a voice for discontent about federal stimulus money in the North. He reads about government money gushing to infrastructure projects in the south, and he hears about government officials making announceme

BELANDAY, Afghanistan - When Capt. Jean Vachon's lost dog came back, the war against Taliban insurgents in Kandahar suddenly didn't seem so hopeless after all.

It's the Grey Cup champs versus Rider Pride on Sunday afternoon in one of the most anticipated games in recent Canadian Football League history.

MONTREAL -- Anthony Calvillo tied a CFL playoff record with five touchdown passes as the Montreal Alouettes romped to a 56-18 victory over the B.C. Lions before 53,792 fans on Sunday afternoon to advance to the Grey Cup game.

The Montreal Alouettes are off to the Grey Cup for the seventh time since 2000 after doing the expected by kicking the stuffing out of the B.C. Lions, 56-18, in the CFL's crossover "East" final Sunday afternoon at Olympic Stadium.

Alberta and B.C. are looking to add more international sparkle to Canada's Rocky Mountain parks.

Two separate shootings in Toronto overnight have left one person dead and five injured

NANTON -- Only a six-month-old baby found strapped in its car seat survived a horrific head-on crash that killed four women about 75 km south of Calgary yesterday afternoon.

Steve and Heather Boey have always felt safe in their Vancouver-area home, having an RCMP officer living nearby.

At least 87 people are now known to have died in a coal mine blast in northern China, state media report.

HMCS Fredericton will spend the next six months patrolling int he Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa

HALIFAX, N.S. - Whether Canadian troops stay or leave Afghanistan could largely depend on the eloquence of U.S. President Barack Obama and his ability to rally western nations, says former chief of defence staff Rick Hillier.

Having gone a brilliant, confidence building 1-1 in last week's picks, and not planning any trips to Regina in the near future, we present our choices for this Sunday's Canadian Football League division finals.

Canada's sledge hockey team settled for a silver medal after losing 3-2 in overtime to the United States in Saturday's gold medal game at the World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Charlottetown.

The Olympic torch hit P.E.I.'s famous red soil Saturday afternoon, where it was greeted by large crowds of people, many of them sporting red attire.

U.S. Senator John McCain says military exit dates and exit strategies in Afghanistan should not even be discussed until NATO gets the upper hand in its fight against Taliban militants.

An evacuation order has been lifted for hundreds of south Vancouver Island residents forced from their homes by flooding

The Roman Catholic Church has appointed a replacement for Raymond Lahey, the bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish, N.S., who is facing child pornography charges.

The NDP have surged up six points in the latest Ipsos Reid poll. The Conservatives continue their lead over the Liberals with the support of 37 per cent support. The Liberals have fallen to 24 per cent support.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadian soldiers are pushing deeper into insurgent-controlled areas southwest of Kandahar city as their commander awaits an expected NATO request that Canada take on greater responsibilities.

The outspoken wife of former Liberal leader Stephane Dion has some scathing criticism for the party and current leader Michael Ignatieff. Janine Krieber wrote on the popular social networking site Facebook that the party is in full collapse. She warns the

The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices. It could undermine

REGINA -- He's 68 and looks like a guy who might be comfortable sitting on a combine or participating in a Farmer's Day horseshoe pitching tournament. "He'd like to be on a combine, you know," said Ken Miller's wife,

Vancouver chased the Avalanche goalie after two periods last Saturday and followed up with five goals on Friday night for the Canucks' third consecutive win over Colorado, 5-2 at General Motors Place.

This is my boom stick. Well, not mine, but General Atomics'. Known primarily for manufacturing the Predator drone, General Atomics has also moved into the weapons business, as demonstrated by this first ever successful test of their "Blitzer" rail gun. Th

A United Nations committee has approved a Canadian-led resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of its disputed presidential elections.

The operators of the Large Hadron Collider have successfully sent a beam of protons around the ring of the world's largest particle collider.

OTTAWA - A new immigration handbook that adds sections on military history, legendary inventors and some of the darker aspects of Canada's past seems to be a hit with the public, a poll suggests.

Flood waters on the Cowichan River and Koksilah River have forced the evacuation of about 300 to 400 homes in the Cowichan Valley and Duncan area of southeast Vancouver Island, officials have confirmed.

Defence Minister cites 'incredible holes' in testimony by Richard Colvin alleging Canadian government's complicity in the abuse of Afghan detainees

In a move that may increase international pressure on Ottawa to extend its combat mission in Kandahar beyond July 2011, NATO is likely to announce within days that Canada's Task Force Afghanistan will grow in size as thousands of more U.S. combat troops a

Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released today.

The treatment of detainees at the hands of their Afghan captors has been a concern "for some time," and Ottawa wants to help that government improve its human rights record, says Defence Minister Peter MacKay.

The driver of an SUV involved in a fiery crash with a National Defence Navy bus near Halifax, N.S. has died, police have confirmed.

UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care - and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence - two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights

Claims estranged husband wanted to kill his wife, then make her lover suffer as much as he did

PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A rarely seen French secret report on Adolf Hitler is among thousands of documents on 1920s Germany that are about to emerge from obscurity as part of a major overhaul of the French National Archives

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole's most beloved icon

About 200 people were rescued Friday from flood waters in northern England's Lake District. Emergency workers used inflatable boats to rescue trapped residents, while Royal Air Force personnel broke through rooftops to hoist people to safety in helicopter

The federal government said it stands behind its decision to arm border guards despite a report warning of the potential for violence at a crossing on Mohawk land near Cornwall, Ont

For the second time in less than a week, anti-Semitic graffiti has been spray-painted on several locations in Calgary

Canadian Mellisa Hollingsworth captured her first World Cup gold medal of the season on Friday in Lake Placid, N.Y.

If you're the Count of Monte Cristo, you wait years to exact revenge, plotting your every move until the time is just right to put your plan into action. If you're the Colorado Avalanche, six days is plenty

A search is underway for a solo sailor who left Nova Scotia and has not turned up in Bermuda as planned.

Former chief of defence staff Rick Hillier said Thursday he never heard suggestions that Canada may have been complicit in the torture of detainees in Afghanistan

Mammoth dung has proved to be a source of prehistoric information, helping scientists unravel the mystery of what caused the great mammals to die out.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said.

More than 100,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine were withdrawn Thursday, due to a warning that one particular batch of the vaccine had a higher than usual amount of adverse reactions among patients.

TORONTO - Coca-Cola Canada says it will have new plastic packaging for its bottles at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, with 30 per cent of the material derived from plants.

MONTREAL - While world leaders gear up to discuss reducing emissions, a growing community of scientists is looking to far more drastic solutions they say could one day save the world from the impact of global warming

A lavishly illustrated commemorative coffee table book celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Navy was launched in Ottawa November 16.

Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

Personal care workers who betray their position of trust and authority by violently abusing elderly and vulnerable patients will be dealt with harshly by the courts, an Ottawa judge said Wednesday before sentencing a man to eight months in jail for assaul

People travelling on BC Ferries Thursday found themselves facing long waits thanks to a fall present from Mother Nature.

The Carolina Hurricanes looked like the cardiac 'Canes of old as they rallied in Raleigh to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 after a shootout Thursday.

Police in Surrey, B.C., say they have busted a large-scale drug lab in a shopping complex. The lab was producing "doda," a highly addictive substance made by grinding the seed pods of opium poppies and brewing the powder as a tea.

There has been a massive debit-card fraud in B.C.'s Lower Mainland involving thousands of cards and possibly millions of dollars, CBC News has learned.

On the cool, sunny morning of Nov. 8, more than 200 Army, Air Force and Navy personnel, as well as many local Dutch citizens, gathered to remember the wartime sacrifice of several thousand Canadian soldiers.

A six-metre croc with three sets of fangs is among the five ancient relatives of modern-day crocodiles found in the Sahara Desert, scientists said Thursday.

A New York stamp collector auctioned parts of his collection in New York on Thursday, including a Canadian-issued stamp that is one of the world's rarest.

Canada's Conservative government joined several other countries in backing Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he was sworn in for a second term on Thursday

CORNWALL, Ont. - An internal report warned the Canadian Border Services Agency of potential violence resulting from plans to arm border guards with handguns at a controversial crossing on Mohawk land outside the eastern Ontario community of Cornwall

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's campaign against Taliban insurgents is in for an overhaul under a new commander who's concerned with the deteriorating security situation in Kandahar city and facing the prospect of taking more American forces under his wi

Innu hunters continued to kill caribou in a closed hunting zone in central Labrador Thursday, with some hunters shooting at the animals from the middle of the Trans Labrador Highway, as the animals wandered down the road.

Hundreds of curious onlookers have been gathering on the shore of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Ontario to watch tugboats try to free a large ship that ran aground this week.

The unrelenting series of storms pounding the West Coast has brought good news for skiers, dumping a record snowfall on at least one coastal ski resort. On Thursday, the Whistler-Blackcomb resort broke its previous record for all of November when it recei

Charges are imminent in the death of 16-year-old Hilary Bonnell, RCMP said Thursday as hundreds of people attended the teen's funeral in Esgenoopetitj First Nation

The father of RCMP Const. Christopher Worden, who was slain in the line of duty two years ago in Hay River, N.W.T., says he is pleased a jury has found his son's killer guilty of first-degree murder.

In 2009, total health-care spending is expected to be highest in Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador, at $6,072 and $5,970, respectively. Quebec and British Columbia are forecast to have the lowest expenditure per capita at $4,891 and $5,253, respectiv

"Screw everything about Saskatchewan. I don't care. It's that time of year, I don't got any love on for anyone. I'm going to smack somebody around."

LOS ANGELES - Left wing Ryan Smyth could be out of the Los Angeles Kings' lineup for a month because of an upper body injury.

When Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium and CTV News began planning their coverage of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay, the question (a challenge, really) was: "How do we cover the relay every step of the way, live?"

A convicted criminal shot to death outside a Vancouver halfway house earlier this fall was the victim of mistaken identity, Vancouver Police say.

U.S. President Barack Obama has acknowledged that he will not be able to meet his pledge to close the controversial detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January.

While the Montreal Alouettes had seven more players named to the CFL's all-star team Wednesday than B.C., it's another number seven that could bode well for the Lions heading into the East Division final Sunday (1 p.m. ET).

A hotly contested battle for domination of Canada's cellphone and wireless telecommunications market is headed to B.C. Supreme Court.

Winds hitting 90 km/h in the southern portion of the Georgia Strait forced the cancellations of four B.C. Ferries sailings Wednesday, and more cancellations are possible.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban kept to the shadows of Haji Baba on Wednesday as Canadian soldiers trying to seize control of the insurgent stronghold continued to pick up apart its defences.

Hockey star Sidney Crosby carried the Olympic torch in Halifax on Wednesday. The captain of the Stanley Cup winning Pittsburgh Penguins made a brief stop in his home province to join the Olympic torch relay festivities.

The only pet cemetery in Greater Vancouver could eventually disappear under a developer's bulldozer, but some pet lovers are trying to have the property turned into a park.

PAMELA Anderson has opened up to a chat-show host about her turbulent love life and drug-taking.

`Smiling Buddha' bomb uproar a distant memory, as Canada prepares to overturn technology ban

The man convicted of kidnapping, drugging and repeatedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Armstrong, B.C., girl three years ago will appeal the ruling.

The thousands of NATO forces currently fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan will never bring democracy to the war-torn country, says the youngest person ever elected to the Afghan parliament, who is calling on Canada to withdraw its troops and step up huma