Posted: | 8:47 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207772 |
Rating: | 20777 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The government is expected to announce Thursday that Canada will harmonize its auto emissions standards with the United States, in a deal worked out with the Obama administration, CTV News has learned.
Posted: | 8:46 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207706 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Shaw Communications will air the upcoming Masters golf tournament in 3-D, beating other Canadian cable and satellite distributors to the punch in the new technology.
Posted: | 8:38 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207806 |
Rating: | 20781 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A man who was behind the wheel in a central Newfoundland road race that resulted in a woman's death says he's sorry and is asking her family for forgiveness
Posted: | 8:36 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207702 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A ship ran aground in Port aux Basques harbour Wednesday afternoon, driven to shore by high winds as its new owner tried to leave the harbour for the first time.
Posted: | 8:34 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207723 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | Hyack |
RCMP divers searched a lake on Vancouver Island on Wednesday along the same winding hiking trail where the burned body of a Grade 12 student was found nearly two weeks ago.
Posted: | 8:32 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207750 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Concerns over the handling and safety of detainees in Afghanistan were relayed to Defence Minister Peter MacKay and other senior officials as potential "mission killers," a diplomat said Wednesday.
Posted: | 8:31 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207619 |
Rating: | 20762 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A skier has been killed in an avalanche in southwestern B.C.
Posted: | 8:29 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207734 |
Rating: | 20773 |
Poster: | Hyack |
ADAMZAI, Afghanistan - Two Canadian combat engineers recently trudged through the desert to a road southwest of Kandahar, where Afghan soldiers had detained a suspicious white van that had already tried to avoid another checkpoint in the area.
Posted: | 6:06 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207695 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A former Winnipeg community centre worker who downloaded and tended to a large, "meticulously organized" collection of child pornography on a work computer has been ordered back to jail.
Posted: | 6:00 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207612 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Three people in New Brunswick pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a Toronto woman in a wheelchair last summer.
Posted: | 5:59 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207694 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The large steeple of an old Anglican church outside St. John's was found on the ground Wednesday morning, hours after preservationists thought they had prevented a church council from demolishing the building.
Posted: | 5:55 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207575 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A high-risk offender who was under strict monitoring conditions has been charged in Calgary with sexual assault and breaching those restrictions.
Posted: | 5:53 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207724 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Police say they've solved the mystery of who's been pointing green lasers into flight cockpits in the Sydney area.
Posted: | 5:51 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207785 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A laptop and six of the 10 hockey jerseys donated for charity and stolen from a Vancouver car dealership have been recovered, but the thief is still at large, police say.
Posted: | 5:48 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207644 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Gulf Stream does not appear to be slowing down, say US scientists who have used satellites to monitor tell-tale changes in the height of the sea.
Posted: | 4:47 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207832 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It's no practical joke - from camping fees to ferry fares, prices are increasing across British Columbia on April 1.
Posted: | 4:46 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207804 |
Rating: | 20780 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 4:41 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207660 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 4:34 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207896 |
Rating: | 20790 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The head of a Chechen militant group is claiming responsibility for bombings on the Moscow subway Monday that killed 39 people and wounded many more.
Posted: | 4:24 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207751 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Lack of March snowfall sets records nationwide. A dramatic lack of snowfall during a March month that behaved more like a lamb with no sign of the lion has set records across the country.
Posted: | 4:19 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 208338 |
Rating: | 20833 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Details concerning the mounting financial crisis facing the Queen have been disclosed to The Independent after ministers agreed to hand over secret correspondence between Buckingham Palace and the Government.
Posted: | 4:17 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207788 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A mysterious, 1,700-year-old coffin made from a 360-kilogram slab of lead -- bizarrely folded over its ancient corpse like a "burrito" -- has been unearthed on the outskirts of Rome by a team of archeologists that includes a visiting professor at Hamilton
Posted: | 4:08 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207713 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Scientists says the rattling and loud noises reported by people in eastern Maine was from a magnitude 3 earthquake.
Posted: | 12:30 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207694 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | tritium |
Easter eggs may be good for you, but only if you eat small ones made from cocoa-rich dark chocolate, according to a German study.
Posted: | 3:10 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207953 |
Rating: | 20795 |
Poster: | tritium |
A High Court decision yesterday paved the way for the Federal Government to extradite Dragan Vasiljkovic, also known as Daniel Snedden, to Croatia.
Posted: | 3:07 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207842 |
Rating: | 20784 |
Poster: | tritium |
When Dave Carroll got angry with customer service at United Airlines, he didn't write a letter, he penned a song.
Posted: | 1:03 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207800 |
Rating: | 20780 |
Poster: | tritium |
He began as a teenage comic in Windsor, Ont., performed in Toronto clubs and wound up in Los Angeles as a writer for the Fox Network.
Posted: | 1:00 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 208235 |
Rating: | 20824 |
Poster: | tritium |
A New Westminster man has been charged with murder in the death of a 43-year-old woman last May in West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park.
Posted: | 12:57 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207829 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | tritium |
-- Ten million Americans a year are victims of identity theft. It's a growing problem in the United States, but fighting it doesn't appear to be a priority, a new report says.
Posted: | 12:56 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207654 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | tritium |
A Colombian soldier captured as a teenager by the country's left-wing FARC rebels has been released after more than 12 years as a hostage.
Posted: | 12:50 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207750 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | tritium |
A disabled New Zealand woman who sparked a debate over the right for people to commit suicide has died after refusing to eat for 16 days.
Posted: | 12:47 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207861 |
Rating: | 20786 |
Poster: | tritium |
But now research suggests the common European garden toad might be able to predict earthquakes days before they occur.
Posted: | 12:46 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207806 |
Rating: | 20781 |
Poster: | tritium |
WASHINGTON - An Iranian nuclear scientist who had been reported missing since last summer has defected to the U.S. and is assisting the CIA in its efforts to undermine Iran's nuclear program, ABC News reported Tuesday
Posted: | 10:51 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207682 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Hyack |
WASHINGTON - With the president of France at his side, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place "within weeks," not months, because of its continuing nuclear program. He acknowledged he still l
Posted: | 10:47 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207540 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
GATINEAU, Que. - She heated up Arctic politics, did some public arm-twisting on Afghanistan, and had blunt words on abortion. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's two days of summitry in Canada came and went like a hurricane, leaving the Harper gover
Posted: | 10:44 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207768 |
Rating: | 20777 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 10:42 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207872 |
Rating: | 20788 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Henrik Sedin had a short-handed goal and two assists Tuesday as the Vancouver Canucks closed in on a playoff berth with a 4-1 win over the Phoenix Coyotes.
Posted: | 10:40 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207610 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Actress Pamela Anderson is trying a new approach in her fight to stop Canada's seal hunt, hoping to enlist public support by appealing to taxpayers' wallets.
Posted: | 9:50 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207599 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | Hyack |
STRATFORD, Ont. - Mother Nature played a role in motivating Sherrie Giddings to create a bottle cover for beer lovers who like to enjoy a cold one outside on a windy day.
Posted: | 4:01 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 208374 |
Rating: | 20837 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Vancouver Canucks are not calling it a suspension but defenceman Shane O'Brien will miss three NHL games for disciplinary reasons.
Posted: | 3:59 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207739 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Opposition to B.C.'s new harmonized sales tax is heating up at both ends of the political spectrum, with the NDP opposition and a former Social Credit premier aiming to mobilize those opposed to the new tax.
Posted: | 3:01 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 208267 |
Rating: | 20827 |
Poster: | tritium |
Metro Vancouver residents and health care professionals are on alert after authorities confirmed a measles outbreak in the region. The BC Centre for Disease Control says 10 laboratory-confirmed measles cases and four suspected cases have been identified i
Posted: | 12:33 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207538 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
With less than two weeks remaining in the NHL regular season, Vancouver Canucks centre Henrik Sedin will try to accomplish a feat no other Canuck has - win the league's scoring title.
Posted: | 12:28 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207604 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:23 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207625 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:22 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207770 |
Rating: | 20777 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Vancouver has won nine of its last 11 at home and is among the league leaders in home wins with 27. The club has won three of its last four at home versus Phoenix and is 13-2-0 with a tie in the last 16 home meetings in the series.
Posted: | 12:14 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207450 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:09 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207491 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Turning off someone's moral compass is as easy as holding a magnet up to their head, new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests.
Posted: | 12:03 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207705 |
Rating: | 20773 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:00 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207664 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | Hyack |
KHENJAKAK, Afghanistan - It was billed as a sweep of the last major Taliban stronghold southwest of Kandahar, but for a combined force of 1,000 Afghan and Canadian troops, it was more like chasing ghosts.
Posted: | 11:58 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207534 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | Hyack |
714 executions reported in 18 countries, but Chinese data secret. Amnesty International urged China Tuesday to release details on the "thousands" of people it is believed to have executed last year.
Posted: | 11:55 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207554 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Russians were observing an official day of mourning Tuesday after suicide bombers attacked two Moscow subway stations during the rush-hour commute Monday morning, killing 39 people.
Posted: | 11:53 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207537 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A B.C. animal breeder whose cats and dogs were seized from her ranch must pay the SPCA $34,000 to cover the cost of caring for her critters if she wants them back, says a B.C. Supreme Court judge.
Posted: | 11:48 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207450 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Yellowknives Dene and the N.W.T government have reached a deal to keep the band supplied with caribou meat.
Posted: | 11:38 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207373 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:32 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207380 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:29 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207232 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The lawyer for a comedian accused of discrimination after trash-talking a lesbian turned in his own performance yesterday, denouncing the human rights case brought against his client and walking out of the hearing.
Posted: | 11:25 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207512 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:21 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207293 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:20 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207244 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:18 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207408 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:16 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207321 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:08 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207332 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:02 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207304 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 10:58 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207630 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 10:55 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207509 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Ontario's Peel Regional Police say an investigation has resulted in the uncovering of an international child pornography ring with 73 suspects in 20 countries.
Posted: | 10:52 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207282 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A 56-year-old French man is in Canadian custody after he was arrested in Ontario at the request of U.S. authorities who say he recently made notice that he wanted to purchase a five-year-old boy.
Posted: | 10:50 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207285 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Hyack |
GATINEAU, Que. - A spokesman for Stephen Harper says U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not asked the prime minister to extend Canada's military mission in Afghanistan.
Posted: | 10:44 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207248 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It may be invisible, but that hasn't stopped NASA from producing a sharp 3D map of the mysterious substance called dark matter.
Posted: | 10:41 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207556 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 10:31 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207453 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The world's largest atom smasher set a record for high-energy collisions on Tuesday by crashing proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before.
Posted: | 10:29 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207496 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Assured of making the playoffs, the Phoenix Coyotes have a bigger goal in mind when they roll into GM Place on Tuesday night to face a Vancouver Canucks team looking to carve out its own spot in the post-season.
Posted: | 10:23 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207302 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The fight over the harmonized sales tax will finally move to the floor of the B.C. legislature this week.
Posted: | 12:37 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207490 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | tritium |
The Ottawa Senators have signed coveted U.S. collegiate forward Bobby Butler to a two-year entry-level contract, GM Bryan Murray announced Monday.
Posted: | 12:28 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207563 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Trooper, the emaciated golden retriever whose story provoked outrage across B.C., made a special appearance on Sunday at a fundraiser held to help pay for his care.
Posted: | 9:51 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207455 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 9:44 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207327 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 9:31 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 208193 |
Rating: | 20819 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 9:40 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207517 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Eleven Toronto police officers are on the ground in Afghanistan patrolling and training local forces and building a complete justice system, as part of an international effort to establish a rule of law in the country.
Posted: | 9:38 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207641 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
THE family of Garth Isfeld is demanding to know why their father had to walk a block to an ambulance after he was allegedly bashed on the head with a beer bottle by a party crasher early Saturday morning.
Posted: | 9:34 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207380 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
A stick-smashing tirade by the coach of a B.C. American Hockey League team has become an internet hit, generating more than half a million hits since the Saturday night game.
Posted: | 9:19 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207562 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Broadcast Date: March 29, 1966 Fight night. March 29, 1966. Maple Leaf Gardens. Fifteen rounds for the World Heavyweight Title. George Chuvalo, a working-class boxer from Toronto, takes on Muhammad Ali, "the greatest of all time." In this historic clip f
Posted: | 9:16 AM on Monday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207614 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
CALGARY - Calgary Transit is singing the praises of a bus driver who found himself in a peculiar situation during his Sunday morning shift.
Posted: | 9:07 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207513 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
CALGARY - Free university tuition for dependents of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan is coming under fire from professors who say the practice glorifies militarism.
Posted: | 9:03 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207703 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
He's 24, unemployed and has no specialized computer skills. Using sheer wit and persistence, the Frenchman managed to infiltrate Twitter administrators' accounts and post confidential company documents online, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Posted: | 12:35 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207790 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | tritium |
Salt Lake City - An energy company with government approvals to launch the first significant U.S. oil sands project is trying to raise money to build a plant in eastern Utah that would turn out 2,000 barrels of oil a day
Posted: | 12:31 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207616 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | tritium |
Canadian soldiers may trade fighting the war in Afghanistan for a more traditional UN peacekeeping mission in Africa when the Kandahar mission ends next year.
Posted: | 12:28 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207877 |
Rating: | 20791 |
Poster: | tritium |
Four Europeans vying to become guinea pigs for a 520-day simulated mission to Mars say they are proud to be putting their lives on hold for the sake of scientific advancement.
Posted: | 12:22 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207429 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | tritium |
Posted: | 12:20 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207332 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | tritium |
Four people are in hospital and a questionable nightclub is again under a magnifying glass following an early morning shooting.
Posted: | 12:17 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207675 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | tritium |
Premier Brad Wall says he's disappointed that a group of University of Regina professors are protesting a scholarship program for the children of fallen soldiers. Earlier this week, CBC News reported that 16 professors had signed a letter to University
Posted: | 10:13 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207435 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
Standing by an open hatch on a Russian military plane high up in the sky is tricky. All the more so when your job is to "seed" clouds, shovelling chemicals outside to cause rain.
Posted: | 2:12 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207509 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets.
Posted: | 1:43 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207532 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The force of Friday's mysterious explosion which sunk a South Korean naval ship appears to have split the vessel's hull in two, officials say.
Posted: | 1:40 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207557 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos has launched her campaign for a seat in parliament, as the country's congressional race formally began
Posted: | 1:35 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207467 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The looming fight over the Great Bear Rainforest will once again put B.C. at ground zero of the global environment movement
Posted: | 1:30 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207834 |
Rating: | 20784 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:28 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207320 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | Hyack |
At the 1939-40 World's Fair in New York, General Motors' Futurama attraction stole the show with its depictions of life 20 years into the future. After the misery of the Great Depression, GM's vision of personal car ownership and a vast interstate freeway
Posted: | 1:19 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207499 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
In a blistering speech that took aim at Canada's foreign policy, diplomat Robert Fowler said Sunday the government should refocus its efforts from Afghanistan to Africa, where instability poses a greater threat.
Posted: | 1:17 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207277 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:12 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207381 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:09 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207297 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Ottawa will introduce new legislation this week to fix what it calls a broken refugee system that delays legitimate asylum claims while allowing bogus claimants to remain in Canada through a years-long appeals process.
Posted: | 1:05 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207437 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:42 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207567 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:31 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207507 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Manitoba flood officials have raised the gates of the Red River Floodway, a man-made water diversion channel built to alleviate the risk of springtime flooding inside Winnipeg's city limits.
Posted: | 12:25 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207484 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Cape Breton may become a Canadian version of Florida's historic Cape Canaveral where astronauts and rockets have been launched into outer space for decades.
Posted: | 12:22 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207522 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | tritium |
McLaren's Jenson Button survived a first-corner collision and successfully gambled on a bold tire strategy to win a thrilling Formula One Australian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Posted: | 12:23 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207427 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canada's Jennifer Jones has salvaged a bronze medal at the women's world curling championship in Swift Current, Sask.
Posted: | 12:21 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207378 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Hyack |
MONTREAL - Cape Breton may become a Canadian version of Florida's historic Cape Canaveral where astronauts and rockets have been launched into outer space for decades.
Posted: | 12:16 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207525 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Two teenagers accused of robbery with violence in Manitoba simply walked out of the Regina youth detention centre where they were being held.
Posted: | 12:14 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207695 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Hyack |
General Motors of Canada says it will recall about 885 workers at Ontario plants this year to build more Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossover SUVs.
Posted: | 12:10 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207500 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | tritium |
Inuit artist Kannanginak Pootoogook and Blackfoot cultural leader Tom Crane Bear are among this year's recipients of the 17th annual National Aboriginal Achievement Awards in Regina on Friday.
Posted: | 12:09 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207390 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:08 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207305 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | tritium |
The town of St. Anthony on Newfoundland's northern peninsula held its second rally in two days on Saturday to protest the loss of its air ambulance service.
Posted: | 12:05 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207261 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Three-dimensional television has arrived in Canada with Samsung selling LCD screens equipped with the feature as of Friday, but they're not cheap.
Posted: | 12:02 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207680 |
Rating: | 20768 |
Poster: | tritium |
A weeklong hearing exploring how to manage the Bathurst caribou herd took a surprise turn on Friday, when the Tlicho aboriginal government asked for more time to resolve its disagreements with the N.W.T. government.
Posted: | 12:00 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207289 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It would seem natural, then, to offer motorists friendly, yet stern warnings about another bad habit: holding a cell phone while driving, whether for texting or talking.
Posted: | 11:47 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207400 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | tritium |
Surrey RCMP are investigating a pair of weekend homicides. At about 6 p.m. Saturday, a man believed to be in his 20s was shot at a McDonald's restaurant at 110th Street and Scott Road.
Posted: | 11:54 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207466 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A second person has been charged with murder in the death of a Kingston, Ont., man whose body was found in a ravine in February.
Posted: | 11:53 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207390 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A witness at the scene of a serious crash on the outskirts of Winnipeg early Sunday says passersby pulled the wrecked vehicle's driver to safety as the car burned.
Posted: | 11:51 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207415 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Three adults and a seven-year-old boy died after flames ripped through a triplex in the Verdun district of Montreal early Sunday
Posted: | 11:48 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207439 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A woman has been killed in a single-vehicle accident near Hope, B.C., RCMP reported Saturday.
Posted: | 12:44 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 208991 |
Rating: | 20899 |
Poster: | tritium |
Posted: | 10:22 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207366 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | Hyack |
MONTREAL-Liberals grappled with the prospect of more seniors living in poverty, fewer government services and declining health care as the party's "ideas" convention came face to face with the impact of a poorer Canada.
Posted: | 10:15 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207737 |
Rating: | 20774 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Millions of Canadians turned off their lights Saturday during the third annual Earth Hour, an event that plunges cities around the world into darkness to heighten awareness about climate change.
Posted: | 10:10 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207455 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Hyack |