NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2010

Canada's best Olympic medal contenders will perform when we need them the most, but that won't be until the final days of the Winter Games.

Sony is rolling out demonstrations of 3-D television at its stores in Canada in preparation for an early summer launch.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - If warm temperatures and lack of snow weren't causing enough headaches for 2010 Games organizers at outdoor Olympic venues, Vancouver's wily weather can also wreak havoc indoors.

The latest effort to save the Blanding's turtle, an endangered species in Nova Scotia, began Tuesday at Acadia University in Wolfville.

A cruise ship that was to serve as a floating hotel in the port of Vancouver during the Olympics will not be showing up, leaving hundreds of tourists high and dry.

Tomas Plekanec scored the game-winner in the third and Jaroslav Halak made 44 saves as Montreal ended Vancouver's seven-game winning streak with a 3-2 victory on Tuesday night

A teenager from New Zealand has saved herself from the jaws of a shark by using her body-board to defend herself.

Securing the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a daunting assignment, one that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, supported by the Canadian Forces and other security partners, have been working towards for years.

EDMONTON -- A distraught dad found his two sons drowned in the bathtub of their Millet, Alta. home about 3 p.m. Monday, says a close family friend.

TORONTO -- One man is dead and another fighting for his life in a horrendous crash Tuesday between a car and fire truck in Vaughan.

A University of Calgary expert in modern terrorism says small disruptions by domestic groups are the most likely security threat to the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, but organizational issues are also a critical concern.

A matchup against one of the NHL's hottest teams won't make it easy for the Montreal Canadiens to break out of their current slump. Doing so without their leading goal scorer figures to add to the challenge.

Canada's two most famous furry forecasters and their American counterpart saw their shadows when they arose from their slumbers Tuesday morning, bringing bad news to those yearning for an early spring.

Less than an hour after playing in the Calgary Flames 3-0 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers Monday night, Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust were bound for Broadway, dealt to the New York Rangers in exchange for Chris Higgins and Ales Kotalik.

Past days have given followers of the Calgary Flames plenty to chew upon. How would the four newcomers from the Toronto Maple Leafs pan out? How much would The Dion be missed?

Exasperated hockey fans in Edmonton breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday night as their beloved Oilers ended a 13-game winless skid with a 4-2 victory over the visiting Carolina Hurricanes before a capacity crowd of 16,839 at Rexall Place.

A First Nation group from northeast British Columbia has gone to court to fight to protect a tiny, endangered caribou herd from a potential coal mine development.

Fans attending Olympic events can expect to wait up to four hours to get into venues because of stringent security screening, Games organizers said Monday.

Canada risks becoming the international poster child of unsound resource development if it doesn't do a better job of developing the oilsands, says federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice.

Ten American missionaries knew they were doing something wrong when they tried to take 33 children out of Haiti, the country's prime minister is charging.

Convincing under-aged co-workers to send him naked pictures of themselves has landed a Calgary man a five-year prison term.

Unionized workers and activists in India capitalized on Quebec's trade mission this week to blast the province for its active role on the global asbestos market.

A new Olympic information centre for international journalists opened on Vancouver's troubled Downtown Eastside on Monday, designed to help the visiting media understand life on the streets just a few blocks away from the main Games venues.

An Alberta company's plan to charter a cruise ship and use it as a floating hotel in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games has run into financial problems and could leave hundreds of guests stranded.

Animals rights groups are taking the City of Edmonton to court over Lucy, the Asian elephant at the city-run Valley Zoo.

A thin coyote spotted roaming around a playground in Ottawa's south end just metres away from children playing on a play structure has prompted a call for the city to hire a trapper to remove the animal.

Vancouver Olympic organizers will spend the next two to three days trucking in extra snow to Cypress Mountain

Metro Vancouver's sex industry is preparing to welcome a deluge of visitors when the Olympic Games begin in less than two weeks. Vancouver's most prominent strip club is planning Olympic-themed decorations, but keeping them secret for fear of a clampdown

It was nearing the end of the work day and Lieutenant-Commander Shekhar Gothi just wanted some fresh air and a chance to stretch his legs. Seconds later he was buried beneath mounds of rubble as the UN Headquarters building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti collap

Their dispute over the ownership of tiny Hans Island has cooled in recent years, but conflict between Canada and Denmark is heating up over another diminutive object of contention: the northern shrimp.

Injuries among soldiers in Afghanistan that the Canadian Forces categorize as unrelated to battle soared to 330 last year from only 84 in 2006, the first year of combat in the Kandahar region.

TORONTO -- When Canadian soldiers head home from Afghanistan, they are first given a week to "decompress" on the island paradise of Cyprus.

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States.

Three dogs believed to have mauled a young boy to death on a northern Saskatchewan reserve were destroyed by the RCMP, the reserve's chief said Monday

All eyes are on furry forecasters Feb. 2, watching to see if marmots will send an instant message heralding spring.

A male police officer dressed as a woman helped nab an alleged serial purse snatcher in Windsor, Ont., after the wrong granny was picked on Friday night.

An Ontario volunteer firefighter is dead after a training exercise took a deadly turn near Sarnia on Saturday.

The New York Post reported Monday that the parent of Intrawest ULC, the company which owns one of the venues for the Vancouver Winter Olympics, wants the Canadian government to put up $90 million US before the Games start or it will sue.

It's a painful time for fans of the Edmonton Oilers as the club stretched their winless streak to 13 games with a 6-1 loss to the rival Calgary Flames on Saturday, but its not just fans who are feeling the affects, businesses say they too are getting pinc

A young boy was killed over the weekend when he was attacked by a pack of dogs on a northern Saskatchewan reserve.

TORONTO - Little or no grammar teaching, cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, all are being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write properly.

Motorists in Ontario and British Columbia may now start paying a price for answering the phone or texting a friend while driving.

I'm not saying Tebow's negotiations with the Montreal Alouettes are evidence he will wash out of the draft, then head north to play football. I'm just saying the CFL pays better than the UFL.