NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2008

The parents of an 8-month-old baby are facing charges after their child was left alone outdoors last night.

A passerby casting a glance at the downtown branch of the Ontario Bank on Friday, Oct. 12, 1906, would have been impressed by the imposing size and ornate facade of the stone fortress that anchored the corner of Wellington and Scott Sts.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - A shot that failed to find the back of the net might have made all the difference for the streaking New York Islanders.

LOS ANGELES - The calendar reads February, yet the Phoenix Coyotes are making a push worthy of the playoffs.

NEWARK, N.J. - The fight for the top spot in the Eastern Conference is now a three-way battle.

DENVER - The Detroit Red Wings halted a six-game winless streak, Chris Osgood got his confidence back and the team was still in a sour mood.

Peter Forsberg is not coming back to the NHL this season. Or at least it's highly unlikely, according to his agent, Don Baizley.

Mike Keenan knows the pain of early loss. He's seen its devastation.

After a gruelling 10-days of continuous hockey, both in frigid and balmy weather conditions, Brent Saik and 39 other players inked a new record of 241.5 hours of ice time.

The Czech Republic has provided the Afghan National Army (ANA) with the first three of six modernised Mil Mi-17 helicopters as plans were revealed for the long-term build-up of the Afghan National Army Air Corps (ANAAC).

Canada's annual inflation rate dropped to 2.2 per cent in January, as the GST cut that took effect at the start of the year helped to keep the cost of living down.

Following several days of rumors, Toshiba has confirmed that it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, effectively ending the high-def format war.

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who ruled the country for nearly half a century, announced Tuesday that he is stepping down as president.

OTTAWA - A political split is looming over a federal review of the CBC. The all-party House of Commons Heritage committee is in the final throes of drafting a report on the future of the taxpayer-funded broadcaster, but the chances of the report being

Another video from nutters of WBC

NAPLES, Fla. - One-minute penalties for overtime during the regular season? That was one of the many issues discussed Monday as the NHL's 30 GMs broke out into four different groups to tackle a number of subjects.

OTTAWA - The first batch of Leopard C2 tanks purchased by the Tory government from the Netherlands are undergoing upgrades in Germany, raising questions about how much work Canadian defence contractors will get from the multi-million dollar program.

OTTAWA - The chairman of the Commons ethics committee is pressing Brian Mulroney to testify for a second time on his business dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber - and threatening to subpoena him if he won't come voluntarily

QUEBEC - Stephane Dion said Monday his Liberals might let the federal budget pass if they believe it is not too detrimental to the economy.

OLD chemicals used by businesses for decades are causing new problems in the environment as scientists turn their attention toward compounds that are accumulating in rivers, lakes and oceans.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Scores of Afghan civilians were killed by a suicide bomber yesterday at a dog-fighting rally 10 kilometres northwest of Kandahar City, an area that falls inside the Canadian military's zone of security and combat operations in sou

WINDSOR, Ont. - Windsor Spitfires captain Mickey Renaud died today after collapsing at his Tecumseh, Ont. home.

EDMONTON - The lowly beaver is a loyal friend in the battle against drought, says a University of Alberta researcher.

DALLAS - Long-hidden items and documents relating to the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy are being revealed for the first time in decades

The governor of Kandahar said he had warned NATO about patrolling the area where at least 38 civilians were killed Monday in a suicide car bomb that targeted a Canadian convoy in southern Afghanistan.

There is a strange and tragic twist in the investigation of the arson attack and explosion that destroyed two businesses in downtown Vancouver last week

2008 Chevy Silverado 250 at Daytona International Speedway, where the Nascar Craftsman Truck series hits the track where Mike Skinner and Brendan Gaughan got together on Lap 20 leading to a huge eight-car crash with P.J. Jones' truck catching on fire.

Owners of The Carpenters' former home aren't feeling on top of the world about the legions of fans who keep stopping by to pay tribute.

An elderly Sioux Falls, S.D. couple died together Saturday, side by side, of separate illnesses, reports the Argus Leader.

Investigators have uncovered what they suspect is a wedding scam involving more than 200 British and Canadian couples who paid hundreds of dollars for Dominican marriages that were never officially recorded.

BEAVERTON, Ore. - Nike and Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash are releasing a new basketball shoe made with manufacturing scraps, called the Nike Trash Talk shoe.

A wrong turn just outside Dawson City may have cost Lance Mackey the lead in this year's Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, as the three-time defending champ has since been chasing Quest rookie Ken Anderson for first place.

UNICEF Team Canada takes the gold medal in lance and the bronze medal in pairs. Having never even qualified an athlete for the world championships before 2007, Canada goes into day two as the giant-killer of the 2500 year-old sport of equestrian skill-at

Nine more species of shark are to be added to the endangered list as scientists warn that oceans are being emptied of the fish by overfishing and finning

Lakshmi Tatma, the Indian girl born with eight limbs, has recovered from major surgery and taken her first steps - albeit with the aid of a baby-walker

Titillating idea sours when body rejects implants

The Taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing that targeted a convoy of Canadian soldiers but killed 37 Afghan civilians

The oft-cited ice age scare of the 1970s can't be compared to the great volume of research that supports today's understanding of climate change

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rises in the sea level around Antarctica in the past decade are almost entirely due a warming ocean, not ice melting, an Australian scientist leading a major international research program said.

Story Highlights: -Toshiba may end its HD DVD video business -Sony's Blu-ray technology is the likely winner in next generation DVD battle -Toshiba estimates 1 million people have already bought HD DVD players -A decision may be reached as soon as Tu

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Another thriller, another heartbreak at the Daytona 500. For the second straight year, The Great American Race came down to the last lap. This time the drama rewarded Ryan Newman, who hadn't won in 81 races over more than two yea

The owner of a Vancouver restaurant destroyed in a suspected arson attack has committed suicide, police said Sunday.

Ken Schellenberg, who has adopted the alter-ego on his company website, wants to put a simple but highly engineered bottle rocket into orbit.

OTTAWA - A hog farm on a former air force base in southern Manitoba could be laden with Second World War-era explosives, and the federal government wants to hire someone to scour the area for any remnants.

OTTAWA - Ottawa's policing of the shellfish industry is so fraught with problems that the health of consumers is being put at risk, says a newly released report

Researchers believe a deadly fungus first seen on Vancouver Island might be spreading to British Columbia's Lower Mainland, a heavily populated area that includes Vancouver and suburbs such as Surrey, Richmond, and Delta

A 13-year-old named Carly is challenging the conventional notions of autism, demonstrating emotional skills that lay hidden for years, until one day, a computer helped her reveal to the world what it's like to have her condition.

DALLAS -- A curious transcript purportedly about president John F. Kennedy's assassination has been discovered among boxes of memorabilia that were long forgotten in an old safe at the Dallas County district attorney's office.

WASHINGTON (CAP) - Seeking to bolster its reputation as the planet's foremost proponent of peace, the Bush administration yesterday announced plans to solve a conflict that has been simmering for centuries. While novel and breathtaking in its approach, t

General managers from the NHL's 30 teams are all arriving in Naples, Florida on Sunday for three days of meetings

Alberta university and college students would get a $1,000 break on tuition and a $300 credit to help them buy books and tools beginning this fall under a Liberal education platform released Friday by leader Kevin Taft

Up the Yangtze follows one peasant family as their home and way of life is swept up in the rising tide of China's march towards progress.

Few British Columbians realize that the probability of a major volcanic eruption hitting B.C. is the same as that for a mega- thrust subduction earthquake expected sometime in the next 50 years.

A search of the ground, sea and air continued Saturday for a missing seven-year-old American boy who disappeared while playing on a rocky beach in the small Vancouver Island community of Tofino.

In the latest of several alerts on the safety of fentanyl pain-relief patches, Health Canada has announced the recall of two brands of the powerful patches. The agency advises against using:

Former prime minister Jean Chretien has advised Liberal Leader Stephane Dion to trigger an election now, says a former senior Liberal.

Police in eastern Ontario don't believe that foul play was involved in the case of three bodies found on an aboriginal reserve Friday.

VANCOUVER -- A group of Vancouver sex-trade workers has incorporated the country's first sex industry co-operative with the goal of setting up a legal brothel.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A former Yukon man charged with killing American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash 32 years ago wants federal prosecutors to turn over evidence from the body for DNA testing.

Enbridge is set to charge its Ontario customers a new fee to help pay the costs of an out-of-court settlement. In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled against the natural gas company -- for charging unfair fees.

A Montreal-area man accused of killing his wife and children in Ohio last month has been indicted on murder charges and could face the death penalty if he's convicted.

Afghanistan has suffered what may be its deadliest terror attack since the fall of the Taliban in 2001

Kosovo's parliament has voted in favour of declaring independence from Serbia, a move that Russia has already protested.

Though a pathological optimist, I realised that my teammates' misgivings about UNICEF Team Canada's prospects might not be entirely misplaced..

Experience turns out to be a good teacher, as science confirms that many traditional maxims really do keep us healthy

Vancouver moves past Colorado into a Western Conference playoff spot

Sixty years after their spectacular Gold Medal win at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the surviving members of the RCAF Flyers hockey team are finally getting their due.

KANDAHAR -- More combat operations from Canadians, not fewer, is what's needed to crush the insurgency in Kandahar, one of the province's most powerful politicians says.

MOSCOW -- Russia said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America's missile defence system

PRISTINA, Serbia - Tiny Kosovo - poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-western - braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people and years of limbo under the rule of the United

Jeremy Wotherspoon of Red Deer, Alta., Denny Morrison of Fort St. John, B.C., and Winnipeg's Shannon Rempel all captured medals Saturday at a World Cup long-track speedskating event in Inzell, Germany.

Three children of Canadian soldiers who died on duty have been awarded the first grants from a new educational fund

The Vancouver Canucks want to avoid another shootout confrontation with the Edmonton Oilers Saturday night (CBC, 10 p.m. ET) at General Motors Place.

It has been an interesting, but uneventful four hours of flying for the four-man crew of Transport Canada's Dash 8 aircraft, a twin turboprop that bristles with high-tech equipment while conducting patrols for marine polluters off B.C.'s west coast.

The victim of a homicide at a city homeless shelter died following what investigators are calling an unprovoked attack.

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- An Afghan civilian was reportedly injured by a Canadian bullet in Kandahar city Saturday morning, after a soldier traveling inside an armoured vehicle fired a warning shot at a car that was perceived as a threat.

When Jerry Conlogue heard Polaroid will soon stop producing its instant film, he worried about his mummies.

Tomas Kaberle was leisurely surfing the Internet yesterday when he spotted his name mentioned in a story on one of his favourite Czech websites.

Police released two suspects Friday as they continued investigating the death of a 12-year-old Nova Scotia girl whose body was discovered a week ago on a steep, snow-covered riverbank.

Steven Kazmierczak's quiet, dependable and fun-loving exterior masked troubling details from his past that emerged as a stunned community struggled to understand what caused the 27-year-old to open fire on a class at Northern Illinois University, leaving

Volunteers poured into a Vancouver Island community centre Friday, offering their help in the search for an eight-year-old Washington state boy last seen playing on a rocky beach.

Sir Paul McCartney settles divorce case with Heather Mills for about $110 million.

World's fattest cat put on forced diet after getting stuck in its cat door.

Canada's efforts to bring stability and peace to Kandahar would be much further ahead if it had more troops, the general in charge of the military's overseas operations has told Canwest News.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - More combat operations from Canadians, not less, is what's needed to squelch the insurgency in Kandahar, says one of the province's most powerful politicians

The gunman who killed five people at Northern Illinois University was identified Friday as 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak -- described as a promising former student who was "revered" by faculty.

A judge in Chicago on Friday accepted a request by the wife of Steve Fossett to declare the U.S. millionaire adventurer legally dead five months after his plane disappeared

The Internet poses a major security threat to Canadian soldiers fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan, a ranking Canadian military official says.

For the third time in six months, a right foot wearing a sneaker has washed up on the shores of the Gulf Islands, in the Strait of Georgia.

Another candid video of Chris Berman, this time talking about drugs in Canada.

Toxic pollution from the tarsands has created what amounts to a slow motion oil spill in the region's river systems, and could be worse than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. First Nations living downstream are already seeing deformed pickerel and walleye in

For the past 12 years, Canadian Michael Kapoustin has been serving time in a Bulgarian prison for fraud -- a crime, he says, he didn't commit.

DEKALB, Illinois (CNN) -- Steven P. Kazmierczak, identified as the gunman in Thursday's shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University, was "an outstanding student" who reportedly stopped taking medication recently and became "somewhat erratic," th

Police have released the two people they arrested in connection with the slaying of a 12-year-old Nova Scotia girl, but say they continue to be suspects.

VANCOUVER - Minnesota coach Jacques Lemaire will probably have nightmares about his team's third period on Thursday, but he'll sleep better knowing they almost always get the job done in a one-goal game.

TORONTO - The New York Islanders were written off by many after a seven-game winless skid, but that's old news to the players wearing the uniforms.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Mathieu Garon hadn't had much luck in his career against the San Jose Sharks until Thursday night.

PHILADELPHIA - With each road victory, the Tampa Bay Lightning are desperately trying to make a late run at a playoff berth.

GLENDALE, Ariz. - If the Phoenix Coyotes make a playoff run, they will need the scoring of winger Radim Vrbata.

RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes were missing three key defensemen against a Pittsburgh offense that ranks among the NHL's best. Then they discovered an effective way to slow the Penguins' goal-scorers: Turn up the pressure at the other end of th

DENVER - Manny Legace was pelted with more shots than he cared to recall. "They kept coming and coming," he said

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The first goal usually gives a team confidence. Scoring the first three goals makes a team hard to beat.

In a solar system thousands of light years away, two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn are orbiting a star about half the size of our sun, astronomers report.

The death toll from the Northern Illinois University shooting rose to six students Friday, as investigators continue to scour the campus.

A CF-18 Hornet fighter from Alberta made an emergency landing at the Thunder Bay, Ont., airport Thursday after part of a rudder broke off, said a report.

Flashing a bright smile to reporters and arranging her shiny blond hair for the cameras, Lisa Klassen did not look like someone who narrowly escaped death just nine days ago.

Police have identified a man they believe to be responsible for an explosion on West Broadway after he arrived at Surrey Memorial hospital with burns to 40 per cent of his body.

LONDON -- A subsidiary of Canada's Jim Pattison Group, which owns the Ripley's Believe It or Not franchise, has acquired Guinness World Records from HIT Entertainment for an undisclosed price.

Investigators probing the murder of a 12-year-old Nova Scotia girl have arrested two suspects and say they feel the case is moving forward.

An Irish pub in Montreal will fight an order from Quebec's language watchdog to take down antique advertising posters from its walls.

MONTREAL - Everybody knows the president of the United States is the most powerful man in the world, right?

OTTAWA - A Conservative MP brought the families of murdered women to Parliament Hill on Thursday to back legislation that would treat unborn babies as separate victims when their mothers are killed or attacked

There was a shooting at Northern Illinois University Thursday, with several people taken away by ambulance, according to a note on the university's website.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish hockey star Peter Forsberg is suing a local company and the owners of a horse racing track for 12 million kronor (C$1.87 million) for causing an accident that led to his horse being put down.

Former Maple Leafs' general manager John Ferguson Jr. told TSN on Wednesday night that if he was still in charge, the For Sale sign would be out

SHILO, Manitoba – Rides, slides, games, clowns and large furry characters lent a family centred air to the departure ceremonies for members of Task Force 1-08 (TF 1-08) departing Shilo starting at the end of January. The day-long event took place at Kap