NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2012

Canada defeated host Russia 4-1 today to lock up a semifinal berth at the world junior hockey championship. Canada won all four of its preliminary-round games to finish first in Pool B.

Ryan Smyth scored the winning goal in the first period and added another as Canada skated to a 7-2 win over HC Davos in the Spengler Cup final on Monday in Switzerland.

A bus carrying 30 people slides off a slippery highway in P.E.I., as a winter storm continued to blow through the Maritimes.

Multiple sources say the National Hockey League and its union will hold the first face-to-face negotiating session in almost a month on Monday, as the clock ticks towards virtual midnight for a resolution to the 106-day lockout. The sides spent the weeken

Authorities say a Vancouver-bound tour bus crashed Sunday on an icy stretch of interstate in Oregon, killing nine people and injuring at least 20 others.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan Strome scored for Canada in a 2-1 win over the United States at the world junior hockey championship Sunday. Malcolm Subban made 36 saves in a goaltending duel against American netminder John Gibson, who sturned away 30 shots.

The NHL and its players' union are expected to hold more phone discussions on Sunday morning, possibly leading to a face-to-face session by the afternoon as they try to end a 105-day lockout, multiple sources say.

In December, the City of Winnipeg announced it set aside a plan to extend water pipes into the RMs of Rosser and West St. Paul after receiving a letter from the International Joint Commission, which raised undisclosed issues.

A New Year's Eve possum drop that attracts thousands of people to a tiny western North Carolina town will go on this year, with one big change: it won't involve a live possum.

The Canadian Forces will need more than 350 people if it wants to create a new squadron for unmanned aircraft but the capability promised by Prime Minister Stephen Harper more than six years ago is still being studied within the military.

Vladimir Tkachyov scored the winning goal in the third period as Russia held on to beat the United States 2-1 on Friday at the 2013 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.

A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths by Hitler's regime, and it is provoking mixed reactions.

FBI files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and re-issued, revealing the names of some of the movie star's communist-leaning friends who drew concern from government officials and her own entourage.

China's national legislature amended its law on the elderly Friday to require that adult children visit their aged parents 'often' -- or risk being sued by them.

The Senate gave final congressional approval Friday to a bill renewing the U.S. government's authority to monitor overseas phone calls and emails of suspected foreign spies and terrorists -- but not Americans -- without obtaining a court order for each in

Some concerned mothers in Nova Scotia are lending their support to a Cole Harbour mom who was asked to leave a store in Mic Mac Mall because she was breastfeeding her infant daughter.

A Vancouver Island woman who was brought back to life after a bizarre accident at a McDonald's drive-thru last month is thankful to those who saved her life.

A university student in Ohio has won a stalking order against her parents, claiming that they tracked every detail of her life and went as far as installing monitoring software on her computer and phone.

Every winter, Canadians hear about people who are hospitalized or even die from heart attacks while clearing snow. So what is it about shovelling that makes it such a health menace?

The winter storm that dumped a record-breaking amount of snow on Montreal is now hitting Newfoundland, with Environment Canada saying northern and central parts of the province can expect 20 to 30 centimetres.

Ryan Strome scored a pair of goals as Canada came from behind to beat Slovakia 6-3 at the world junior hockey championship Friday. Canada improved to 2-0 in Pool B and faces the United States on Sunday.

The NHL has made a significant new proposal to the players association that could indicate a move towards a collective bargaining agreement to end the months-long lockout, according to media reports confirmed by Hockey Night in Canada's Elliotte Friedman.

Byron Ritchie scored two second-period goals to lead Canada to a convincing 5-0 win over HC Davos in Spengler Cup action Thursday in Switzerland.

A wildlife rescue and rehabilitation group in Delta, B.C., says it has seen a record number of hungry birds of prey, snowy owls in particular, coming through its facility this winter.

Retired general H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gul

Parents in Canada and the United States are being warned to stop using all models of Nap Nanny baby recliners after five infant deaths and dozens of injuries.

A former Winnipeg resident whose six-year-old was killed in the Newtown, Conn., massacre says on Facebook post that she remembers kissing her daughter before she boarded a school bus wearing a purple T-shirt emblazoned with a peace sign the morning of the

‘What bugs me, he took a Canadian kid’s spot in the Canadian Hockey League,’ Cherry tweets

Two rail workers are in critical condition and another is in hospital with undisclosed injuries after they were hit by a train while clearing snow from a set of tracks east of Edmonton.

Gerry Anderson, puppetry pioneer and British creator of the sci-fi hit Thunderbirds TV show, died peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday after being diagnosed with mixed dementia two years ago. He was 83.

More than 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers have urged the country's new Communist Party leaders to undertake moderate political reforms including separating the party from government, though they avoid any mention of ending one-party rule.

Veteran cattleman George Graham has a common-sense solution for how to prevent a repeat of an E. coli outbreak and extensive product recall in the fall that made 18 people sick, threw thousands out of work and smeared the Canadian beef brand. Officials wh

China on Wednesday opened the world's longest high-speed rail line that more than halves the time required to travel from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal and four assists to pace Canada to a 9-3 win over Germany to open the 2013 world junior hockey championship Wednesday.

Southern Ontario is bracing for its first major winter wallop of the year, and the Greater Toronto Area could get its biggest snowfall since 2010, with between 10 and 15 centimetres expected to fall overnight.

An ailing George H.W. Bush is in the intensive care unit in a Houston hospital, his spokesperson said Wednesday evening.

Following referendum showing 63.8% of population supports controversial constitution, President Morsi signs document into law; Egyptians rush to withdraw savings from banks; US: We urge Morsi to bridge division.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has launched a fundraising program in the Maritimes over Christmas to help Moose find their way to some cross-border love.

Santa Claus delivered billions of presents to children around the world, according to the team at the North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) tracking his reindeer and sleigh.

Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV's "The Odd Couple" and the crime-fighting coroner in "Quincy, M.E.," died Monday, a son said. He was 90.

A tiny island between New Brunswick and Maine is the subject of renewed calls from both sides of the border to settle a territorial dispute once and for all.

Two firefighters are dead and two others are in hospital after being shot at while responding to a call in upstate New York early Monday morning, a local police representative has confirmed.

The North Pole's first lady isn't all kind words, frilly aprons and sensible shoes; she's got an engineering degree, a knack for invention and makes a

Torontonian Albert Wong, a retired lieutenant-commander, helps Canadian soldiers and diplomats posted in Afghanistan bring home adopted pets.

Archeologists are studying the ruins of a buried Christian empire in the highlands of Yemen. The sites have sparked a number of questions about the early history of Islam. Was there once a church in Mecca?

An aboriginal protest closed the Trans-Canada Highway near Espanola, in northern Ontario, for about three hours today.

A decades-old cat sanctuary nestled behind Canada's Parliament buildings is heading towards a quiet end as its feline population slowly shrinks.

A winter storm has left thousands without power in Ontario and Quebec on the last weekend before Christmas.

A plane en route to Nunavut from Winnipeg has crashed with nine people aboard, killing a six-month-old infant, RCMP say.

A Nova Scotia restaurant owner says customers complained about her breastfeeding, sparking a hygiene investigation.

Argentina says the United Kingdom's decision to rename a vast swath of Antarctica Queen Elizabeth Land is a throwback to imperialism and has formally complained to the British ambassador in Buenos Aires.

A Montreal deacon has been accused of producing and distributing child pornography.

Rescue crews on Vancouver's North Shore are trying to reach a snowboarder reported stranded near Cypress Bowl, just days after rescuing another man after a gruelling search in the same area.

The bodies of four young people were recovered from a car hours after it plunged into the Tracadie River in northeastern New Brunswick early Saturday morning, RCMP say.

Police are on the hunt for a pair of men and a third man in connection with two separate carjackings in B.C.'s Fraser Valley.

Jonathan Huberdeau and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored in the shootout Saturday as Canada defeated Sweden 2-1 in the team's final warmup game before the world junior hockey championship.

Santa Claus may see you when you're sleeping, but only a privileged few can actually see Santa during his high-speed international flight on Christmas Eve.

Nasa's Ebb and Flow gravity mapping satellites end their highly successful mission to the Moon by crashing into a lunar mountain.

There is a scene in the documentary "Chasing Ice" that shows the edge of the massive Ilulissat glacier in Greenland collapsing -- or "calving" -- and violently crashing into the sea below. The piece of ice that breaks away is compared to the size of lower

Researchers have determined in the largest online study on the intelligence quotient (IQ) that results from the test may not exactly show how smart someone is.

At least five schools in Alberta were closed today over what officials are calling potentially threatening situations, news that comes a week after the deadly mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

The NHL Players' Association's membership voted in favour of granting the association's executive board the authority to dissolve the union on Friday, according to multiple reports.

Authorities in Arizona, with the help of Toronto police, have arrested a 16-year-old high school girl who they say was plotting to gun down her classmates and then kill herself.

The executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association called today for the U.S. Congress to act immediately to get armed police officers into all schools, a recommendation made just hours after a memorial was held to mark a week since the Newtown

No one was quite sure at what time the 5,125-year cycle in Mayan calendar would officially end on Dec. 21. Some think it already ended at midnight Thursday. Others looked to Friday's dawn in the Mayan heartland. Some had later times in mind.

Premier Dalton McGuinty says he wants a "locked door" policy at all elementary schools in Ontario starting next September.

The Canadian Red Cross, tongue firmly in cheek, is warning people to prepare for doomsday.

In a find that local Jewish groups have described as highly significant, Greek police said Thursday that hundreds of marble headstones and other fragments from Jewish graves destroyed during the Nazi occupation in World War II have been recovered.

Chris Hadfield used to dream of being an astronaut as a boy. He will now make history as the first Canadian commander on board the International Space Station.

When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after the assassination of her mother and before the killing of her dictator father. After defeating Moon Jae-in in election

The mystery of the trainload of biodiesel that crossed back and forth across the Sarnia-Port Huron border without ever unloading its cargo, as reported by CBC News, has been solved.

An Ontario man says he has solved something that's stumped even Britain's top spy agency. He says he's cracked the code of a secret message dating back to the Second World War that was attached to the skeletal remains of a war-time carrier pigeon.

Are young Canadian women undergoing too many Pap tests? New research suggests they probably are.

A 16-year-old has been charged after a brutal attack on a security guard at a Port Coquitlam construction site.

An RCMP helicopter crew has spotted a 33-year-old Vancouver snowboarder who went missing last Sunday.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield's goals are clear over the next six months, particularly when he becomes the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station in March, but much less certain is the country's future in space over the coming decade.

French actor Gerard Depardieu says he is handing back his French passport after the prime minister criticised him for moving to Belgium to avoid taxes.

A 27-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis died of cancer after she was given the donor lungs of a smoker.

Serial killer Robert Pickton got away with murdering women for years because of a systemic police bias against his poor, aboriginal, drug-addicted victims, a public inquiry has concluded.

Text messages, videos and even tweets are some of the new technologies that could be used to contact 911 that the federal broadcast regulator may have to consider as it looks at ways to improve the emergency service.

Northamptonshire Police lose a box of bullets after leaving it on the roof of one of their cars while responding to an emergency.

The Ministry of Defence says it will auction some of the radio frequency it owns in a move that will increase the capacity for 4G mobile services.

Up to 1,000 people take part in a peace rally at Belfast City Hall in response to the violence of the past two weeks.

A former army medic is found guilty of misleading and dishonest conduct after the death of Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa in 2003.

A six-year-old boy who is believed to be British is among the 26 victims of the massacre at a school in Connecticut, US.

n review, Ottawa spent more than $10 million over the past decade maintaining an abandoned military barracks and accompanying base housing while it fought four First Nations that wanted the first right to buy the land. The land and buildings were valued a

Commentary - Updated | The hacking collective known as Anonymous renewed their war on the Westboro Baptist Church today. After the haters from the infamous

Video shows masked men from various Palestinian factions announcing establishment of the Brigades of National Unity in Hebron; spokesman says group will pursue struggle until it "expels occupation, liberates all of Palestine."

The Canadian junior hockey team roster announced Thursday includes a pair of 17-year-old forwards. The inclusion of Halifax Mooseheads Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin among the 13 forwards is significant because the NHL lockout made all the country's

President Barack Obama is urging the NHL and the players' association to do right by your fans and find a solution to the league's lockout.

A young RCMP officer has pleaded guilty in a deadly crash that claimed the life of a 20-year-old man in B.C.'s Fraser Valley last year.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a large earthquake has struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California and Mexico.

The federal government has decided to sell off the Crown-owned Ridley Terminals in Prince Rupert, a key asset in B.C.'s growing coal export industry.

A fictitious story about a controversial Montreal bylaw proposal requiring dogs to be comfortable in the country's two official languages has rippled through the realms of social media and fooled even some seasoned news sites.

The executive board of the NHL Players' Association is seeking the power to dissolve the union -- a decision that would allow it to file a class-action anti-trust lawsuit against the league.

Twin NASA spacecraft are preparing to crash into the lunar surface next week after a successful mission mapping the moon's gravity.

Circus trainers claim two of their elephants were saved from the deadly Siberian cold by vodka.

A growing majority of Americans think global warming is occurring, that it will become a serious problem and that the U.S. government should do something about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds.

Several neglected dogs and cats have been rescued in London, Ont., after one of the dogs alerted authorities by honking the horn of a truck where they were being held for several days.

Senior military officials are sounding the alarm over the outdated software used to co-ordinate search-and-rescue missions.

A horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday has left as many as 27 people dead, including 18 children, the Associated Press reports.

The wide gap between oil's global benchmark price and what Canadian producers can get for their oil is costing Canada $2.5 billion a month, according to new research that sees the spread remaining for years even if new pipelines are built.

Police in Nova Scotia say they can't lay criminal charges following an investigation into long-standing allegations of physical and sexual abuse at a Halifax orphanage.

Four cases of E. coli infection have prompted a recall of frozen hamburgers across the country. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Loblaw Companies Ltd. are warning the public to avoid certain Butcher's Choice Garlic Peppercorn Beef Burgers because o

A little-known hearing disorder affecting two to three per cent of Canadian children is being misdiagnosed as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, health advocates say.

An 18-year-old is recovering in hospital from severe burns after being doused with accelerant and set ablaze at a Kelowna house party.

Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector of commerce worldwide, has died. He was 91.

An imprisoned U.S. man whose infatuation with Canadian singer Justin Bieber included a tattoo of the pop star on his leg has told investigators in New Mexico he hatched a plot to kill him.

For years, the sombre fairy tale about a lonely candle that wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark's National Archives. Its recent discovery has sent ripples through the literary world because it is believed to be one of the

The constitutionality of Canada's anti-terror law comes under the microscope Friday when the Supreme Court of Canada delivers a series of major rulings on the legal definition of terrorism.

Border agents at the Emerson crossing in Manitoba are refusing to work today over a mandatory name-tag policy that came into effect this week.

Grab something warm and head out to a dark place to experience the wonder of the Geminid meteor shower, which peaks Dec. 13 and 14.