NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2011

Two Vancouver men allegedly involved in the white supremacist group Blood and Honour have been charged in a number of assaults on minorities.

CTV Toronto - A Toronto designer is trying to make the city a more considerate place. People who talk on the phone while paying for groceries, stand in the subway doorways, or text while walking -- he's looking at you.

Generations of neophyte bakers have shrugged off warnings about how eating raw cookie dough could make them sick. Now, researchers who investigated a 2009 outbreak of foodborne illness are providing extra backup.

A full investigation has been ordered into a horrific blaze at a hospital in Kolkata, India that killed close to 90 people as staff reportedly fled the building.

The provinces are expected to shoulder the majority of the extra costs associated with the legislation, which it estimates at $14 billion.

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has reached a preliminary deal to sell its 80 percent stake in the owner of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and the NBA's Raptors to Rogers Communications Inc and BCE Inc for C$1.3 billion, the Globe and Mail reported on Frida

Paralympic silver medallist Monique van der Vorst has miraculously become an able-bodied Olympic hopeful after a crash reversed her paralysis. Paralysed from the hip down since she was 13, the 27-year-old handcyclist, who has just signed with the Rabobank

Pounding rain, high winds and the threat of heavy snow caused power outages in four provinces, school closures, ferry shutdowns and a rare total closure of Confederation Bridge.

Statistics Canada says the average area covered by sea ice during summer has declined in all nine of Canada's northern sea-ice regions over the past four decades.

The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing arguments in the case of a woman who wants to wear the niqab while testifying in court, a legal matter that pits religious rights against the right of defendants.

THE Red Cross is investigating whether 600 million gamers are violating the Hague and Geneva conventions when they kill and blow stuff up for fun.

Cody Hodgson scored twice, including the only shootout goal, and the Vancouver Canucks overcame a three-goal deficit for a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.

The federal government has given the green light for the Joslyn oilsands project to go ahead, nearly six years after it was first proposed, and added fuel to the debate over what message Canada should send to the world.

Recently passed Senate legislation would make sodomy and sex with animals legal under military law, ending long-standing prohibitions and triggering cries of perversion from conservative groups.

Hundreds of people who lost their licences after failing roadside breathalyzer tests are getting their permits back after a judge tossed out part of the B.C.'s tough law against drinking and driving.

NASA's Opportunity rover has seen a mineral on Mars that could only have formed in the presence of liquid water.

Rumors are flying about a December 13 update on the search for the long-sought Higgs boson at Europe's Large Hadron Collider

The Montreal father accused in the so-called honour killing of his three daughters testified that his children "did a lot of cruelty to me."

Global financial conditions stemming from the debt crisis in Europe are deteriorating rapidly, placing Canada's economy under greater stress and Canadians with large debts at greater risk, warns the Bank of Canada.

A report for the federal government suggests Canadians are confused about salt. The report says many Canadians are in the dark about how much sodium they should consume, and how to go about effectively lowering their intake.

Italian police on Wednesday arrested the most senior boss of the Camorra mafia still at large, digging through a secret bunker near Naples to end his 16 years on the run, officials said.

A published report says the remains of many more U.S. troops have been dumped in a landfill than the military originally acknowledged.

Sears is under attack from all corners. Can a new CEO turn it around?

The new $50 bill goes into circulation in March, the $20 bill late next year, the $10 and $5 in 2013.

Facebook claimed Wednesday to have fixed an embarrassing glitch that saw its founder Mark Zuckerberg's own private photos leaked onto the Internet. Hackers highlighted the security flaw in the social networking site by posting of the billionaire's persona

About 1,000 asteroids big enough to cause catastrophic damage if they hit Earth are orbiting relatively nearby, a NASA survey shows

Dobie Gray, a smooth balladeer who recorded the timeless hit "Drift Away" in 1973, is dead at age 69.

Researchers in Chile have released a series of time-lapse photos showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia.

The last total lunar eclipse of the year is Saturday. And there won't be another one for three years.

B.C.'s new police watchdog agency tasked with probing serious and fatal uses of force across the province will be led by Richard Rosenthal, a hardnosed U.S. attorney with a reputation for being tough on cops.

Notorious convicted sex offender and former junior hockey coach Graham James pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting former NHL star Theoren Fleury and one other player he once coached.

Canada and the United States unveiled two plans Wednesday intended to tighten border security while speeding up travel and trade and aligning regulations between the two countries.

A Federal Court judge rules Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has breached the Canadian Wheat Board Act by making changes without holding a plebiscite among producers.

America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes. The NOAA said Wednesday it recalculated the number of disasters passing the billion-dollar mark.

The United States isn't giving Canada a lot of love today even though the prime minister is in Washington to announce a landmark border security deal with his presidential counterpart.

Health Canada is warning the public and doctors about cases of blindness in the U.S. that have been linked to off-label use of the drug Avastin.

A stunt for the TV show "MythBusters" sent an errant cannonball through a California family's house and into a parked minivan a few hundred feet away.

Emmy-winning character actor Harry Morgan, whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on "MASH" highlighted a career that included nine other series, died Wednesday. He was 96.

The chances of a white Christmas increase as you head north in Canada, with Yellowknife, Whitehorse and Iqaluit all but guaranteed to see some white stuff on the ground on Dec. 25. But in the rest of Canada the odds of a white Christmas are a lot slimmer.

The founders of a Toronto agency were so struck by what they say is a hidden crisis of Canadian seniors living in poverty, they decided to hold a contest to do something about it.

The protesters who have camped out in Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary since mid-October will now have to pack up by Friday afternoon, the city announced Tuesday.

Bruce Arthur: Realignment's underlying order is so elegant that you can say this: This may be the most realistic response to its problems that the modern NHL has ever produced.

A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside Earth's solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It is a bit too big.

More than three decades after launching, NASA's workhorse spacecraft is inching closer to leaving the solar system behind.

U.S. military officials said Monday they are concerned that Tehran may have an opportunity to acquire information about the classified surveillance drone program after one of the stealthy aircraft crashed in Iran while patrolling in western Afghanistan.

Wally Buono is giving up his head coaching duties with the BC Lions to concentrate on his role as general manager of the CFL team.

NHL officials approved a radical realignment plan Monday that will give the league four conferences instead of six divisions and guarantee home-and-home series among all teams.

A teen, charged with making and distributing obscene material as well as child pornography, entered a surprise guilty plea Monday morning

As usual, it�s the colloquial that captures it best, in this case what the witness in the stand once described as �the crude Arabic expression that �A man�s honour lies between the legs of a woman.� �

Canadian taxfilers reported making charitable donations of just under $8.3 billion in 2010.

Do you have the best holiday lights display in the GTA? We want to see it!

Department of Foreign Affairs says it is working with local authorities to confirm the deaths of two Canadians in Progreso, Mexico.

The Attawapiskat third-party manager has been asked by the band to leave, CBC News has confirmed, just hours after federal officials announced he was on the ground at the remote James Bay community.

A Tory MP from Alberta has voluntarily left the party caucus after facing a charge related to impaired driving.

A bag of kittens were dumped out on a country road and left to die, but two kittens were rescued by an unlikely hero.

CTV Toronto - Canada's federal environment minister has formally announced that Ottawa will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol by the end of next year.

Nine children ranging in age from eight to 14 were caught in a stolen truck, Saskatoon police say.

The nine leadership candidates vying for the top job of the New Democratic Party did their best to show how they would manage the economy in the first of six televised debates.

Two Red Deer RCMP officers have been transported to an Edmonton hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after an exchange of gunfire outside a home near Breton, Alta.

A canister containing powerful explosive material blew apart the front of a minibus near the British Embassy in Bahrain's capital on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said. There were no injuries

Unable to persuade key neighbour Pakistan to reconsider its boycott of an international gathering on Afghanistan's future, participants said they will go ahead with promises of continued aid for Afghanistan after most foreign forces leave the country.

Italian Premier Mario Monti said Sunday his government has approved austerity and growth measures worth $40.53 billion US to reawaken the Italian economy and help save the euro from collapse.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party struggles to hang onto its majority in Russia's parliamentary election, suggesting Russians are wearying of the man who has dominated Russian politics for more than a decade.

A school in Austria promising to "teach the art of giving and receiving sexual pleasure" opens its doors next January.

A Saturday afternoon RCMP call to a shooting near the town of Breton, Alberta escalated into an exchange of gun fire between RCMP and an unknown number of suspects.

Over the past two years, Mexico has kicked off a rebranding effort o help it gain a toehold in the rest of Latin America, Europe and Asia.

The nine contenders in the New Democrat leadership race square off today in the first of six all-candidates debates.

Earthquakes, explosions and mudslides blew a hole in Foreign Affairs' budget for consular services to Canadians last year, creating the first deficit since the evacuation of Canadians from Lebanon five years ago.

CTV Edmonton - Robot deployed to examine suspicious package downtown - Canadian Television

The RCMP say they're treating the death of convicted sex offender Troy Squires, who was serving time at B.C.'s Mission Institution, as a homicide.

Netflix is promising that 2012 will be a big year for the company in Canada, with plans to double its acquisition spending for movies and TV shows and give Canadians access to more quality content -- although it still won't match the selection available i

Greg Westlake's clutch performance earned Canada a gold medal at the World Sledge Hockey Challenge.

The Edmonton Oilers president of hockey operations insists the revelation from the Toronto Maple Leafs president and general manager Friday of planning to rent a barn for a fist fight between the two over Lowe signing Dustin Penner was a revelation

An Ontario nurse who needed surgery to reattach part of her leg after a shark attack in Mexico is questioning some of the care she received.

FOX News Chicago anchor Robin Robinson found herself on viewers' naughty list after saying Santa Claus doesn't exist during a live broadcast.

Communications lines drafted by the bureaucracy about the government's plan to establish an Office of Religious Freedom reveal a deep-seated nervousness about how the venture will be perceived by the public.

Corin Mullins started experimenting with healthy breakfast cereals after her husband Brian was diagnosed with diabetes.

Canada's Agricultural Minister has denied reports indicating the federal government is getting rid of random food-label accuracy tests.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to consume Tropik Splash brand Lemonade because the product may contain glass fragments.

Officials in Germany's western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated as officials try to defuse a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river.

For anyone who needed official word, a new study confirms that many of us -- and the majority of young adults -- go online for no good reason at all.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson ignored questions Thursday about how a massive new crime bill will deal with Canadians living with mental illness, including young offenders who find themselves being sentenced as adults.

A Nova Scotia man has been given an 18-month jail sentence for sexual assault after he poked holes in his girlfriend's condoms and had intercourse with her.

Next year could see more work stoppages across Canada's public sector as frustrations mount between cash-strapped governments and employees, according to the latest forecast by the Conference Board of Canada.

Service Canada sent out a memo last month advising that Christmas decorations should not be on public display at its Quebec offices.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told smartphone users that they are vulnerable to a 'mass surveillance' industry that has been steadily growing since the September 11, 2001 attacks. "Who here has an iPhone? Who here has a Blackberry? Who here uses Gm

One student fought for the right to hang the Confederate flag in his dorm room window. Not a white student. A black student fought for what he says he believes in.

This week, University of Guelph professor Francesco Braga woke to the news that, without so much as a phone call, the new Italian government had appointed him its undersecretary of agriculture

A new study that looks at how a colony of worms survived six months in orbit is providing new insight on how humans might last on long space journeys.

Apple's voice-activated personal assistant Siri appears to draw a blank when asked about abortion clinics, leading some to accuse the software of having a pro-life bias.

The deadline is approaching for Iranian diplomats to leave Britain following their expulsion by the U.K. government after protesters attacked the British embassy in Tehran.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May says since her own government doesn't want her contribution at an international conference on climate change, she's offered it to the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay's explanation of why a search-and-rescue helicopter was used to pick him up from an exclusive fishing lodge in Newfoundland appears to be at odds with newly released emails documenting the July 2010 flight.

Prince Michael, 14, Paris, 13, and nine-year-old Prince Michael II made an appearance as the TV show paid tribute to their late father.

There are signs that Canadian consumers have slowed down their borrowing this year, after peaking in the fourth quarter of 2010.

U.S. officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically for the worse in the past five years. It is melting at a near record pace, and it is darkening and absorbing too much of the sun's heat.

Two women who operate a Surrey pet rescue centre are being accused of stealing dogs from people's yards and then adopting them out to animal lovers.

For the third year in a row, Canada has slid down a list that ranks countries by perceived levels of corruption.

Two Ontario men whose drunken antics forced a Beijing-bound flight to land at the Vancouver International Airport on Monday have been ordered to pay $71,757 in restitution.

The Wall Street Journal this week ran an excellent series on government surveillance tools in the digital age. One story looked at FinFisher, a remote spying Trojan that was marketed to the governments of Egypt, Germany and other nations to permit surrept

Carlyle is fourth NHL coach to be fired in young season, and the third this week

Playing violent video games produces changes in areas of the brain that help control emotions at for at least a week, new research suggests.