The Queen and three guards spotted at Friday’s Winnipeg Jets game are part of a regal movement to return Her Majesty’s wayward portrait to Winnipeg. 22 February

While the Federal Government announced Tuesday it’ll begin taking applications for the next phase of Public Safety Canada’s Youth Gang Prevention Program, the head of one local community-based project said it’s not enough to keep kids away from gangs. 22 February

A man has been named in Winnipeg's fifth homicide. 22 February 12:17

The “suspicious circumstances” police began investigating on Monday have now been ruled Winnipeg’s fifth homicide. 21 February

CBC's Rick Mercer took a swing through Winnipeg this month to give Canadians a televised tour of The Forks that aired on this week's Rick Mercer Report . 22 February

RED DEER, Alta. - Sixth Draw 21 February

FREDERICTON - The federal government is spending $150,000 in New Brunswick to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. 22 February

VANCOUVER - Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is standing by mandatory minimum sentencing legislation, despite a new warning that such laws don't work. 22 February 15:29 ⁽⁶⁾

RCMP said a woman died on the perimeter highway Tuesday morning after a two-vehicle crash. 21 February

LONDON - Respected American journalist Marie Colvin, who spent decades reporting on conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria, focusing on the suffering of women and children in wartime, died in a fierce shelling attack Wednesday in Syria. 22 February

Nine members of the Canadian Forces were safely evacuated after their military aircraft caught fire Tuesday at a base in the U.S. 22 February

CALGARY - An Alberta woman who was severely beaten in Mexico has been released from hospital. 21 February

HALIFAX - A plan to integrate the separate emergency radio systems for the three Maritime provinces has been scrapped, two years after it was announced. 21 February

MONTREAL - A convicted child molester who has been on the run from U.S. authorities for a decade, and was featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted," has been captured in Canada. 22 February 18:10

NEWARK, N.J. - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighbourhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it. 22 February 18:03

WINNIPEG - One of Canada's most abhorred sex offenders and notorious former junior coaches stood in a courtroom Wednesday and apologized for the sexual abuse which shattered the trust of the hockey world and the lives of some of its most promising players. 22 February 18:02

OTTAWA - Trade unions remain a force to contend with in the NDP leadership contest, even though they've been stripped of their financial clout and voting heft. 22 February 18:00

WASHINGTON - It's been almost a month since the last Republican presidential debate, and once again the race for the party's nomination is vastly different than it was when Mitt Romney efficiently put the boots to his biggest threat, Newt Gingrich, during a Florida faceoff. 22 February 17:55

BRAMPTON, Ont. - There is "no mystery" about who killed a 13-year-old girl found stuffed in a garbage bag with 37 knife wounds and 27 blunt-force injuries, an Ontario judge said Wednesday as the trial began. 22 February 17:51

VANCOUVER - A teen who police had said was drugged and repeatedly raped at a rave party two years ago says she's devastated sex assault charges have been stayed. 22 February 17:44

CANBERRA, Australia - Former foreign minister Kevin Rudd says he is encouraged by support from government colleagues to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the leadership of their Labor Party. 22 February 17:39

OTTAWA - Just hours after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden, Canada's spy agency predicted Islamic radicalism would live on despite the al-Qaida leader's death. 22 February 17:37

HALIFAX - Peter Kelly has decided to end a 12-year run as the mayor of Halifax amid questions surrounding his handling of some key municipal issues and his role as executor of a friend's estate. 22 February 17:36

OTTAWA - Former Quebec justice minister Marc Bellemare has one way of helping the state save money: make well-to-do criminals pay for their stay behind bars. 22 February 17:36

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a downtown station on Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded around them. It was Argentina's worst train accident in decades. 22 February 17:24

WESTPORT, N.S. - Crews are looking for a 48-year-old man who was apparently swept away from his friends while scuba diving off southwestern Nova Scotia. 22 February 17:23