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• Two men charged in Thai mans murder in Edmonton
  Edmonton - Edmonton police have arrested two men in connection with the murder of Apichat Sudsaneh, a 37-year-old welder who attempted to ...
• Half a century in the making
  Philadelphia - It was bound to bite one of them, in the end. A Stanley Cup final plagued by spotty goaltending ended with a spotty goal - Patrick ...
• And the lights go out
  Halifax - Nearly 1,000 lighthouses, including iconic ones at Cape Spear and Peggy's Cove, N.S., have been declared surplus property by the ...
• Flyers hoping overeager Hawks ripe for the picking
  Philadelphia - Somehow, for the Philadelphia Flyers, it all has to converge at Wachovia Centre Wednesday night team, town, tenacity, truculence, ...
• Long-suffering Blackhawks fans living a dream
  Chicago - The Chicago Blackhawks are back, and so are their fans. Not just in Chicago, displaced Blackhawk fans from around the country, and ...
• Biotech horror flick 'Splice' a harrowing,...
  When you feel your fingers spreading over the flesh of your face in a primal attempt to hide what's staring you in the eyeball, you know the ...
• Bitter defeat for Canada's Scripps speller, who...
  It was a cruel irony for a girl who hails from a bilingual country. Laura Newcombe, Canada's lone competitor at the Scripps National Spelling ...
• History no ally of Broad Street Bullies
  Philadelphia - Under heading of bad timing, consider the six occasions on which the Philadelphia Flyers have made it to the Stanley Cup final ...
• Esposito and Hall: their hearts are with Chicago
  Montreal - Glenn Hall doesn't have any specific recollections of the 1961 Stanley Cup final, a six-game series he backstopped to give his Chicago ...
• Some charities still reeling in wake of recession
  In a plea to Canadians, the Salvation Army announced last week that, three weeks into a month-long fundraising campaign, the organization was ...
• Habs post-mortem indicates long summer ahead
  Montreal - After their most successful playoff run since 1993, Canadiens fans are asking: What can the Habs do for an encore? The Canadiens ...
• 'Saving Places' from coast to coast
  Architectural rescue missions involving three coveted but crumbling heritage buildings in B.C., Ontario and Newfoundland will get a primetime ...
• Hawks happy to be home. Really
  Chicago - You've seen these stories in playoffs past: Stanley Cup parade plans leak out before the last game has been won. The arrogance! Or the ...
• 'Extremely difficult'
  Ottawa - Chevron Canada warned regulators five years ago it would be unable to clean up the vast majority of any big oil spill at a rig off the ...
• Habs hold plenty of questions, not many answers
  Montreal - Dire circumstances call for dire measures. And so, the Montreal Canadiens held a 45-minute - at least - team meeting Wednesday, before ...
• Seriously, Toews is good
  SAN JOSE, Calif. - The way the Chicago Blackhawks are going in these Stanley Cup playoffs, it may be time to reframe the debate over the identity ...
• Habs keep drawing blanks against Leighton
  PHILADELPHIA - "You don't score," Scott Gomez was saying, "you don't win." And if you don't score in 120 minutes, you don't win twice. The ...
• Don't count the Habs out just yet
  Philadelphia - Underdog to underwhelming to undertaker in 24 hours. Who said Montreal Canadiens fans overreact? Their heroes had been smoked 6-0 ...
• Body of fallen Canadian soldier returns home Sunday...
  The body of Pte. Kevin Thomas McKay, killed Thursday in Afghanistan, is to return to Canadian soil this afternoon. McKay, 24, of Richmond Hill, ...
• Playing with abandon in Brandon
  Alex Wall is competing in his first Canadian junior hockey championship and while he says that fact, "hasn't hit me yet," he's very excited about ...
• No guarantees against major oil spill, feds acknowledge
  Federal regulators acknowledged today that they can't make guarantees Canada is protected from offshore drilling accidents on the scale of the ...
• Offshore drilling regulations relaxed last year
  Ottawa - Canadian regulators relaxed offshore drilling regulations late last year, giving the energy industry more flexibility when putting in ...
• Blackhawks want to stay on the west coast
  Chicago - The Chicago Blackhawks flew to Vancouver Monday for what they hope is just a short layover en route to their preferred West Coast ...
• Canwest papers bought for $1.1B
  TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications has approved the sale of its newspapers to a group led by National Post president Paul Godfrey in a $1.1 ...
• St. John's soldier charged in sex assaults at Ont....
  A seven-year veteran of the Canadian Forces will appear in court today after being charged with four sexual assaults on and around a military ...
• Internet usage rising, changing: StatsCan
  Not only are Canadians surfing the web in larger numbers, many are changing the way they use the Internet, according to data released Monday by ...
• Researchers to implant 'BlackBerrys for fish' in Arctic
  A Canadian scientist will head to the Arctic this summer to hand out nearly 100 "BlackBerrys for fish" - part of a global research effort to ...
• Terrific third allows Habs to tie series
  MONTREAL - It would be an understatement to say the Montreal Canadiens didn't play their best hockey in the first two periods of Thursday's ...
• Forgo TV, computer games one day a week, MP urges
  Vancouver - MP Keith Martin is advocating a national turnoff day for children and adults. That's turnoff, as in turn off the television and turn ...
• Crowd was loud, but Pens were heard from
  Montreal - Evgeni Malkin scored on a power play to break a scoreless draw early in the first period and Marc-Andre Fleury made 18 saves to lead ...