A federal inquiry into the collapse of the 2009 Fraser River sockeye salmon run has released its final report.
Posted: | 10:47 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207674 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A convicted drug dealer has been given a break on sentencing to avoid him being deported to Vietnam and facing possible execution as an escaped prisoner of war.
Posted: | 8:26 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207832 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Residents of a remote community in northern Manitoba will no longer have to go without their double-double and maple-glazed doughnut after Tim Hortons opened its first-ever "fly-in" franchise.
Posted: | 3:48 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207749 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | Curtman |
A photo of Toronto Maple Leafs centre Tyler Bozak wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume drew widespread criticism after it was posted Tuesday night on his Twitter account.
Posted: | 11:46 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207930 |
Rating: | 20793 |
Poster: | snookums |
Posted: | 12:18 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207782 |
Rating: | 20778 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canadians in hurricane Sandy's path should be prepared to look out for themselves for at least 72 hours in case of emergency, the Canadian Red Cross says
Posted: | 12:08 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207676 |
Rating: | 20768 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canada's newly appointed top military officer says it's important to get it right when it comes to replacing the Canadian Forces' aging fleet of CF-18 fighter jets -- equipment he said the military will rely on for decades.
Posted: | 12:05 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207922 |
Rating: | 20792 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A group of Afghanistan war veterans has filed a class-action lawsuit against the federal government, saying the disability payment regime under the New Veterans Charter violates their human rights.
Posted: | 12:02 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207922 |
Rating: | 20792 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canada's public works department said the construction of a new international border crossing in Windsor, Ont., poses a threat to two endangered plants.
Posted: | 12:00 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 208040 |
Rating: | 20804 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The B.C. Wildlife Park in Kamloops, B.C., is now home to an extremely rare white bear, also known as Kermode or spirit bear. It's the first of its kind in captivity.
Posted: | 11:58 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207592 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The most devastating storm in decades to hit the densely populated U.S. northeast cut off modern communication and left millions without power Tuesday, as thousands who fled their waterlogged homes wondered when life would return to normal.
Posted: | 7:48 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207686 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Hyack |
For months, an Islamist regime has been terrorizing northern Mali. Hundreds of thousands have already fled the region, and those who have stayed behind are experiencing new forms of cruelty with each passing day. A SPIEGEL reporter documents a two-week jo
Posted: | 4:34 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207590 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
U.S. Coast Guard officials say the missing captain of the Nova Scotia-built replica tall ship HMS Bounty could still be found alive because of a combination of warm water and air temperatures.
Posted: | 2:53 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207725 |
Rating: | 20773 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Walt Disney Company has acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cash and stock and announced a new Star Wars movie to be released in 2015. Kathleen Kennedy, current co-chair of Lucasfilm, will become Lucasfilm's president, reporting to Walt Disney St
Posted: | 2:48 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 208084 |
Rating: | 20808 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
Posted: | 8:23 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207753 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | Scape |
Canada's biggest-circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, is preparing to build a paywall for its website.
Posted: | 11:15 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207704 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | OnTheIce |
Posted: | 9:56 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207508 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | stemmer |
The Coast Guard has responded to a distressed ship with 17 people aboard. The ship is about 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C.
Posted: | 2:48 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207663 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | Scape |
Catarina Migliorini, 20, a Brazilian student, auctioned off her virginity in an online auction at Virgins Wanted. The winning bid, made on Oct. 24, 2012, the last day of bidding, was $780,000. Miglorini claims she wants to open an NGO and help the poor fa
Posted: | 5:59 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 208086 |
Rating: | 20809 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards
Posted: | 8:28 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207901 |
Rating: | 20790 |
Poster: | Scape |
Some might prepare for the end of the world by checking off items on their bucket list. But at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, curators are launching an exhibit designed to demystify the Maya and debunk the myth that the ancient culture predicted d
Posted: | 2:56 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207760 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | Hyack |
SunNewsNetwork.ca uses video, photos, and interactive tools to cover Canada's national and international news, politics, and varying opinions.
Posted: | 2:55 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207980 |
Rating: | 20798 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It's 10 years in the penalty box for an amateur coach who punched a player in the head.
Posted: | 1:11 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207579 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Mountie in northern British Columbia got the fright of his life when a moose climbed on top of his cruiser, smashed his driver's side window and struck him on the shoulder early Thursday.
Posted: | 9:20 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207708 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
About a quarter of working-age people in recession-hit Spain - and more than half of young people - are unemployed, new figures show,
Posted: | 1:20 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207819 |
Rating: | 20782 |
Poster: | martin14 |
(CNN) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday he's endorsing President Barack Obama for a second time, saying he was "uncomfortable" with Mitt Romney's views on foreign policy. "I voted for him in 2008, and I plan to stick with him in 2012
Posted: | 10:00 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207782 |
Rating: | 20778 |
Poster: | Robair |
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is sentenced to four years in prison - later reduced to one year - for tax fraud, but is expected to appeal.
Posted: | 9:28 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 208160 |
Rating: | 20816 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Fake Doctor Tricked Friend into Lesbian Sex
Posted: | 3:28 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 208021 |
Rating: | 20802 |
Poster: | xerxes |
As Skyfall premieres and the film franchise marks its 50th anniversary, BBC News looks at James Bond's vital stats.
Posted: | 10:30 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 208316 |
Rating: | 20832 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Canada's prison system is grappling with an explosion of gangs that is fuelling violence and the drug trade behind bars and crime on the street, according to documents obtained by CBC News Network's Power & Politics.
Posted: | 10:11 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 208018 |
Rating: | 20802 |
Poster: | Scape |
A few days ago we told you about the controversial and illegal geoengineering project that's already underway near Canada's Pacific coast. Some new details are emerging about the project — including insights which suggest that the Canadian gover
Posted: | 3:59 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 208055 |
Rating: | 20806 |
Poster: | Canadaka |
Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp dies aged 108, officials say.
Posted: | 11:46 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207943 |
Rating: | 20794 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 10:33 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207957 |
Rating: | 20796 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
A U.S. woman whose husband killed her and two others at the spa where she worked said he threatened to throw acid in her face and jealously terrorized her "every waking moment," according to court documents.
Posted: | 8:04 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207712 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Strutz |
About 1,500 people have gathered in Victoria at what is expected to be a raucous protest against the Northern Gateway pipeline project.
Posted: | 8:00 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207687 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The leaders of a controversial ocean fertilization project off the west coast of British Columbia say they have not violated any Canadian or international laws.
Posted: | 12:14 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207887 |
Rating: | 20789 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Vancouver Whitecaps are the first Canadian team to ever qualify for the Major League Soccer playoffs. Vancouver advanced despite being upset 1-0 by the Portland Timbers in their final home game of the regular season.
Posted: | 12:08 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207758 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha has become North America's first aboriginal saint in a canonization ceremony conducted by Pope Benedict XVI.
Posted: | 12:07 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 208028 |
Rating: | 20803 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canadians will want to cast their gaze skyward this Saturday night, as fragments from the most famous comet in the solar system will put on a show in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Posted: | 1:26 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207864 |
Rating: | 20786 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An extremely rare bottle of Glenfiddich single malt scotch has sold at auction in Toronto for the Canadian record price of $52,000.
Posted: | 1:17 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 208163 |
Rating: | 20816 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Iraq-born Canadian citizen should be extradited to the US on charges he was linked to at least two deadly suicide bombings in Iraq, a judge rules.
Posted: | 11:44 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207824 |
Rating: | 20782 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A beluga whale spotted a dozen times in Montreal's Old Port since late Sept. could survive, if it heeds nature's call to migrate downstream to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the next few weeks, said Quebec's leading marine mammal researcher on Friday.
Posted: | 10:40 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207774 |
Rating: | 20777 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Eight teenage girls at a high school in London, Ont., have been arrested in connection with a bullying incident involving another student, police say.
Posted: | 10:37 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207839 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Mike Reilly passed for two touchdowns and Paul McCallum booted six field goals as the B.C. Lions clinched first place in the CFL's West Division on Friday night with a 39-13 victory over the Edmonton Eskimos.
Posted: | 9:53 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 208166 |
Rating: | 20817 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A tiny First Nations village that poured iron into the deep Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to boost salmon stocks insisted Friday the project was legal and safe, but the community's explanations did little to convince skeptical scientists, including an Amer
Posted: | 8:29 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207846 |
Rating: | 20785 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Alex Brink rushed for two TDs while Chad Simpson and Will Ford ran for others as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers powered past the Toronto Argonauts 44-32 to keep their slim CFL playoff hopes alive.
Posted: | 8:24 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207496 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A day after NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and his negotiating committee swiftly rejected three variations of a players' counter-proposal, the league on Friday cancelled another week of games from the regular-season schedule, bringing the total up to 135 g
Posted: | 8:23 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207518 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A new American court ruling in favour of Osama bin Laden's driver has cast doubt on the validity of Omar Khadr's war crimes convictions, legal experts said Wednesday.
Posted: | 1:20 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207517 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
Conservatives move to exempt new span from environmental laws in anticipation of U.S. legal challenges
Posted: | 9:51 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207672 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
The federal broadcast regulator has unconditionally rejected BCE Inc.'s proposed $3.4-billion takeover of Astral Media, saying it would place too much power in the hands of one company and threaten the competitive media landscape in Canada.
Posted: | 4:21 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207686 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Nearly 500 confidential files relating to abuse allegations at Scouts Canada could see the light of day, a lawyer specializing in sexual abuse law said.
Posted: | 4:20 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207707 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The federal government is spending up to $250,000 to study the sex habits of Canadian youth.
Posted: | 4:18 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207662 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A look at some of the first wearable tech gadgets which are seeking to monitor, document and augment our lives.
Posted: | 3:49 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207458 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Posted: | 3:38 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207649 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Posted: | 2:02 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207738 |
Rating: | 20774 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in downtown Belfast, unleashing angry protests on the street and uniting Catholic and Protestant politicians in calls to investigate the new facility.
Posted: | 1:59 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207300 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Posted: | 1:58 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207565 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | Strutz |
World-famous Turkish pianist Fazil Say appears in court in Istanbul charged with inciting hatred and insulting the values of Muslims over tweets he wrote mocking radical Islam.
Posted: | 11:22 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207547 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The case of a man fired over a negative posting about Amanda Todd highlights a tricky area where the law and the rapidly changing world of social media cross. Just when is it legal to dismiss someone because of something he or she posts online?
Posted: | 10:18 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Websites |
Hits: | 210113 |
Rating: | 21011 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A European-style debt crisis could happen in Canada unless a number of provinces, specifically Ontario and Alberta, change the long-term direction of their finances, a report from a major Canadian think tank warned Thursday.
Posted: | 10:12 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 207952 |
Rating: | 20795 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Greeks brace themselves for another general strike in protest at further spending cuts needed to receive the next bailout instalment.
Posted: | 10:58 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207356 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Fears of a violent gang are keeping some northern B.C. residents from sharing information about the torture and decapitation of a young man following a party last winter, CBC News has learned.
Posted: | 9:53 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 208019 |
Rating: | 20803 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Having denounced evolution as a lie "straight from the pit of hell," Republican Rep. Paul Broun has won himself a new political opponent: Charles Darwin. A talk radio host in nearby Atlanta is trying to rally voters to cast write-in votes for the English
Posted: | 9:25 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207516 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Federal law enforcement officials foiled an attempted terrorist attack by a Bangladeshi national to blow up the New York Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan with what the man believed was a 1,000-pound bomb.
Posted: | 1:03 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207575 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Ontario's funding of Catholic schools violates the charter and should be stopped, a Toronto woman is arguing in a court challenge the province will try to shut down today.
Posted: | 6:25 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207762 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | OnTheIce |
The US embassy in Stockholm was evacuated on Wednesday with Swedish emergency services and police on the scene investigating reports of a mystery letter containing "an unidentified white powder".
Posted: | 5:25 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207486 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The NHL has presented a new offer to the players that it hopes will end the lockout and allow for a full 82-game season. League commissioner Gary Bettman says the long-term deal will split revenues with players 50-50 across the board and takes steps to gu
Posted: | 10:29 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207414 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The shadow of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back in Europe. It is disguised as CETA, the Canada-European Union and Trade Agreement. As reported by EDRI, a rather strange and surprising e-mail was sent this summer from the General Secre
Posted: | 8:13 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207353 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An experimental project in which 100 tonnes of iron sulfate were dumped into the ocean off B.C.'s north coast is sparking controversy.
Posted: | 7:54 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207847 |
Rating: | 20785 |
Poster: | Hyack |
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes responsibility for the deaths of four Americans in Libya, ahead of the US presidential debate.
Posted: | 12:25 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207928 |
Rating: | 20793 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 4:44 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207864 |
Rating: | 20786 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
Worldwide average temperatures last month matched an all-time high for the hottest September, U.S. scientists say, with record warmth in parts of Canada.
Posted: | 3:49 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207643 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | Scape |
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is resigning as Ontario premier and as leader of the Liberal Party.
Posted: | 3:44 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 208001 |
Rating: | 20800 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
The prize, financed by Sudanese telecom billionaire Mo Ibrahim, is awarded to a democratic African leader who has peacefully left power in the past three years
Posted: | 6:01 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207278 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 5:44 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207650 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | Regina |
A US cruiser collides with a nuclear submarine during naval exercises off the Atlantic coast, reportedly causing damage to sonar equipment.
Posted: | 7:12 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207833 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Austrian Felix Baumgartner begins his 36.5km ascent in a helium-filled balloon to the edge of space as he attempts to break the record for the world's highest skydive.
Posted: | 10:40 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 208101 |
Rating: | 20810 |
Poster: | martin14 |
One of the richest men in the United States -- David Siegel, the CEO of Westgate Resorts -- has threatened to shut down his company and lay off some 8,000 employees if Barack Obama is re-elected president.
Posted: | 7:53 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207935 |
Rating: | 20794 |
Poster: | HaRdLy |
At least 15 people are killed in a market bombing apparently aimed at an anti-Taliban group in north-west Pakistan, security officials say.
Posted: | 6:50 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207724 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The Canadian government added its voice to those sticking up for Canadian soccer star Christine Sinclair Friday after FIFA decided to suspend her for comments made about officials during the London Olympics.
Posted: | 12:41 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207544 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Despite squandering numerous goalscoring chances, Canada downed a mysteriously undermanned Cuba 3-0 on Friday night at Toronto's BMO Field to remain on course in its World Cup qualifying campaign.
Posted: | 12:20 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207438 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | Hyack |
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman still hasn't spoken to players' union chief Donald Fehr since a brief meeting Wednesday, but negotiators on both sides are back in contact as the lockout drags on.
Posted: | 12:18 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207439 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Diagnosed with dementia, he was a prominent voice in the fight for better protection from head injuries in football
Posted: | 11:16 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207398 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 7:40 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207473 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Travis Lulay had two touchdown passes, while running back Andrew Harris registered two majors of his own, as the BC Lions' downed the Tiger-Cats 37-17 on Friday night.
Posted: | 6:25 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207378 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the Syrian plane that was forced to land in Turkey was legally carrying Russian radar parts for Syria.
Posted: | 4:18 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207571 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
Posted: | 2:07 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207699 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall was sentenced Friday to 99 years in prison.
Posted: | 2:04 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207544 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
People who live as the opposite sex in Ontario can now change their gender on their birth certificates without first undergoing sex-change surgery.
Posted: | 1:59 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207373 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Federal lawyers have agreed to a fast-track formula that will see roughly 900 of the country's most severely injured veterans compensated for a clawback of their disability pensions.
Posted: | 1:54 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207491 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A giant eyeball found on a Florida beach this week could belong to a deep sea squid or a large swordfish, says an assistant biology professor at Florida International University in Miami.
Posted: | 1:53 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207302 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Two RCMP officers will receive medals of bravery from the Governor General Friday for rescues in Northern waters.
Posted: | 1:41 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207422 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Ottawa police are looking for two men suspected of spray painting a swastika and an offensive message at the Canadian War Museum.
Posted: | 1:39 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207545 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Harper government is once again renegotiating the multi-billion-dollar contract to replace the air force's outdated Sea King helicopters with choppers from Sikorsky.
Posted: | 1:33 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207495 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A stranded ferry that services Pelee Island in Lake Erie was pulled free just before 1 p.m. Friday, ending a 24-hour ordeal for 33 people who spent the night on the boat.
Posted: | 1:29 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207524 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | Hyack |
FIFA is handing Canadian women's soccer star Christine Sinclair a four-game suspension and fined an undisclosed amount for displaying unsporting behaviour at the London Olympics.
Posted: | 1:26 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207340 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An expensive plan to relocate mountain caribou from northern B.C. to the Kootenays, has failed after 15 of the 19 transplanted caribou died from accidents, predators or undetermined causes.
Posted: | 1:21 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207665 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The EU wins the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of advancement of peace, reconciliation and human rights in Europe.
Posted: | 8:18 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 208139 |
Rating: | 20814 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Regulator seeks public consultations in move toward forming a national standard for consumers
Posted: | 7:07 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207641 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | Regina |
Malala Yousufzai and two other girls were shot in a school bus on their way home from school
Posted: | 6:59 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207226 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | Regina |
Former Sergeant Gilad Schalit said his captors mostly treated him well, but he feared he would never be released
Posted: | 6:54 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207350 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Regina |
Quebec's education minister is rejecting accusations she's trying to politicize the province's school system with her plan to cut back English classes and augment studies on the history of the sovereignty movement.
Posted: | 6:01 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207765 |
Rating: | 20777 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
The creators of Big Bird call on the Obama campaign to withdraw a new advertisement that uses the character to attack rival Mitt Romney.
Posted: | 10:08 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207569 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah has admitted launching an Iranian-made drone that was shot down over Israel last week.
Posted: | 9:59 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207327 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Sun News reports the Gainsville, Fla., pastor was held for four hours at the Detroit-Windsor crossing Thursday and denied entry by Canada Border Services agents.
Posted: | 2:50 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207598 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Department of National Defence has confirmed to CBC News that Jeffrey Delisle is still being paid and will continue to hold his rank as sub-lieutenant.
Posted: | 8:37 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207755 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Moscow accuses Turkey of endangering Russian lives by using its military to force a Syria-bound passenger plane to land in Ankara.
Posted: | 8:31 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207351 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A Yemeni man working on security issues with the US embassy in the capital Sanaa has been killed in a drive-by shooting, officials say.
Posted: | 8:25 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207258 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Regulator urges companies to make sure practices are up to snuff ahead of new law coming into force next year
Posted: | 6:18 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207458 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Regina |
A new survey suggests interested women should head west
Posted: | 6:11 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 208014 |
Rating: | 20801 |
Poster: | Regina |
Yonhap news agency says police had initially concluded in 2010 that the man's girlfriend suffocated while swallowing an entire octopus that stuck in her throat
Posted: | 6:10 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207696 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Regina |
Officials say Qassem Aqlani was shot dead by gunman on motorcycle while on his way to work
Posted: | 6:08 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207365 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | Regina |
Islamists who seized northern Mali are using money from drug trafficking to buy child soldiers, a senior UN official who visited the area says.
Posted: | 10:34 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207553 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A group that advocates on behalf of women in the justice system is shocked after a Cornwall, Ont., woman allegedly gave birth without a doctor present while in a segregation cell at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, CBC News has learned.
Posted: | 8:35 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207514 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A Quebec coroner is challenging the autopsy findings of Thai officials that ruled two Quebec sisters found dead in their hotel room in June were accidentally poisoned.
Posted: | 8:02 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207479 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to help build a headquarters in Jordan and bolster that country's military capabilities, according to U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta.
Posted: | 8:01 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207609 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The burden of mental illness and addictions is more than 1.5 times that of all cancers, a new report suggests.
Posted: | 7:46 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207380 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Strutz |
In all, the federal cabinet has already approved more than $64 million in ad spending for 2012-13 -- seemingly well on its way to matching the $83.3 million they spent in 2010-11, the last year for which complete numbers are available.
Posted: | 5:07 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207530 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | Curtman |
Scientists have observed these detached shells around many stars but have never glimpsed what was inside of them. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a new radio telescope, Maercker and his team were able to see the spiral struc
Posted: | 11:18 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207628 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Aerospace giants say government interests couldn't be adequately reconciled
Posted: | 6:50 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207443 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 6:49 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207474 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Regina |
A small earthquake was felt in and around the Montreal region early Wednesday morning.
Posted: | 11:36 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207655 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Despite all the recent chatter wondering if college is still worth the investment, a new study shows that we've continued to flock to college at record rates. So which nation is the most educated?
Posted: | 5:45 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 208167 |
Rating: | 20818 |
Poster: | RUEZ |
Ottawa officially enters talks to create a vast trading zone in the Pacific that the government hopes will boost the fortunes of Canadian exporters.
Posted: | 4:01 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207355 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
The federal government's tough-on-crime agenda is "excessively punitive" for youth and is a step backwards for Canada's child rights record, says a United Nations group.
Posted: | 1:44 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207515 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms, authorities said Monday.
Posted: | 8:11 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207583 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | Hyack |