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The Oilers used a three-goal first period and a perfect outing by their backup goalie to beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-0 in Edmonton on Monday.

Facing a two-goal deficit heading into the third period, the Senators rallied and gave Mike Fisher the chance to play overtime hero as Ottawa beat the Washington Capitals 4-3.

Dwayne Roloson made a career-high 58 saves and Josh Bailey scored 4:18 into overtime as the New York Islanders beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Monday.

Residents of a subdivision in Beaver Dam, N.B., say they want the province to step in and fix their sewage system while the standoff continues between the government and the owner of the waste treatment system.

More than 1,300 homeless people across Canada will be provided housing as part of a massive four-year project to study the link between mental health and homelessness.

The federal Conservative government plans to introduce new legislation this week requiring internet service providers to take a more active role in reporting child pornography to police, CBC News has learned.

A sit-in at federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice's constituency office in Calgary ended after eight hours Monday with the arrest of seven protesters.

The latest Parks Canada survey of caribou numbers in Jasper National Park shows a drop of 30 per cent between 2008 and 2009.

If 19-year-old John Tavares is the New York Islanders' Butch Cassidy, his older teammate Matt Moulson has played a competent sidekick role of the Sundance Kid.

The families of four sealers who died after their fishing boat sank near the Magdalen Islands in March 2008, have filed a $2.7 million lawsuit against the Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Quebec's chief public health officer is concerned people may become complacent about getting vaccinated as swine flu approaches its peak in the province.

A man has been killed in an apparent hit-and-run incident near 200th Street and 59th Avenue in Langley, B.C.

An Ottawa gay and lesbian film festival was left scrambling after copies of three films were delayed at the border for customs inspections.

The man who murdered Adam Eisenhauer and Tyler Sampson in 2005 will not be eligible for parole for 13 years.

A jury has been selected in the trial of a Chapel Island, N.S., man accused of second-degree murder.

Montreal Canadiens tough-guy Georges Laraque will miss the next five games after being suspended by the NHL for his knee-on-knee hit on Detroit's Niklas Kronwall.

Health officials in Nova Scotia's largest health district say there are signs that swine flu infections in the province are slowly waning.

Officials have ordered the demolition of a southwest Calgary house that partly collapsed Monday afternoon during renovations.

Calgary city council rejected adding funding for new transit peace officers on its first day of budget deliberations, keeping the proposed property tax increase at 4.8 per cent for now.

Pauline Marois is "radicalizing" the Parti Québécois with talk of imposing additional restrictions to education in English, Premier Jean Charest says.

A 29-year-old man from the Esgenoopetitj First Nation in northeastern New Brunswick has been given two weeks to consult a lawyer before entering a plea on sexual assault charges.

A bio-refinery that will extract oils from specialty seeds will be built in Kensington, P.E.I., with the help of $6 million in funding from the federal and provincial governments.

There has been an outpouring of support over the weekend for a refugee family from Colombia who were forced out of their Charlottetown home by fire last week.

[IMAGE]The president of the Union of Quebec Bar Owners is appealing to Montreal-area businesses to co-operate with police after a string of firebombings.

A citizen's group in O'Leary, P.E.I., is holding a public meeting next week to discuss concerns residents have about acute care services at Community Hospital

Critics have long questioned whether the Northern Adventure ferry is suitable for the stormy waters off B.C.'s north coast, and Monday's aborted voyage, which saw the vessel return to shore because of high winds, is bound to add to the controversy.

Two men have been charged with a variety of drug offences after police searched a home in Winnipeg.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest is painting himself as a world leader on climate change issues, announcing the province will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from its 1990 levels by 2020.