Posted: | 8:16 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207681 |
Rating: | 20768 |
Poster: | sam22 |
A tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego was equipped with lighting, ventilation and an electric rail system, U.S. authorities said Thursday, making it one of the most sophisticated secret passages discovered along the U.S.-Me
Posted: | 7:37 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207849 |
Rating: | 20785 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Posted: | 5:50 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207642 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
A camper has been rescued after three months in the wilderness and a run-in with a bear. Marco Lavoie, 44, set out for a two-month canoe trip on July 16, but after three months without word his family contacted police.
Posted: | 1:52 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207498 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Pure North, a health-care program that focuses on preventing disease, is asking for provincial funding but some Alberta physicians say they are concerned not enough study has been done to prove the program is effective.
Posted: | 12:20 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207405 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The start-stop nature of pickup hockey may not be as risky to the hearts of middle-aged men as feared, a Toronto researcher says.
Posted: | 10:20 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207679 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 10:06 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207465 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Regina |
The Vancouver Aquarium freed two sea lions trapped in marine debris on the west coast of Vancouver Island last week, marking the first time sea lions have been disentangled in Canada in the wild.
Posted: | 8:54 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207547 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:00 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 207984 |
Rating: | 20799 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 6:54 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207303 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
Three barges that showed up on the east and west coasts of the U.S. this week are fuelling intense speculation, with some convinced they are floating Google data centres and others suggesting they're an elaborate gimmick to sell Google Glass eyewear.
Posted: | 2:05 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207538 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Magnum Cars pulled the wraps off the suspicously Batmobile-like MK5 supercar. New, made-in-Canada supercar is a Batmobile track toy that's also street legal
Posted: | 12:41 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207541 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
U.S. Steel will permanently close its idle iron and steel-making operations in Hamilton by the end of the year, resulting in the loss of 47 non-union jobs.
Posted: | 9:46 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207458 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Archeologists have recovered five more cannons from the wreck Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Posted: | 8:24 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207451 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | Regina |
Why do people, invited for a dinner party at 7:30, think it's cool to arrive at 8:30? It's rude. It's inconsiderate. And it's selfish.
Posted: | 8:22 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207578 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | Grawg |
OTTAWA - Gravely injured troops are being booted from the military before they qualify for a pension... - Canada - Winnipeg Free Press.
Posted: | 8:11 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207686 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Grawg |
The growth of health care spending in Canada slowed to its lowest rate in nearly 15 years, according to a new report. Total health spending is expected to rise by 2.6 per cent this year, less than half the average growth of seven per cent per year between
Posted: | 7:47 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207471 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The chief executive of a synthetic marijuana company whose product was being sold in Hamilton is in trouble with the law again after a $2-million drug bust.
Posted: | 7:13 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207475 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:12 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207433 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:40 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207430 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | Regina |
A new, smaller version of NASA's space shuttle is recuperating from a rough first landing.
Posted: | 10:35 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207534 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | Regina |
Veterans say Dickin and other government officials have undertaken a smear campaign against those like Blais who criticize the Conservative government for failing to meet the needs of former soldiers.
Posted: | 5:35 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207497 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Curtman |
From the blog Daily Brew: An unruly subway passenger acting in an intentionally obtuse manner, possibly drunk and probably a bit dangerous? Thanks to a new video going viral online, that can forever be known as a "Toronto Problem." A video posted on Faceb
Posted: | 2:10 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 208040 |
Rating: | 20804 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Posted: | 8:36 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207393 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The maker of Sriracha hot sauce is under fire for allegedly fouling the air around its Southern California factory. The city of Irwindale filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday asking a judge to stop production at the Huy Fong Foods factory,
Posted: | 8:05 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207605 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | Regina |
Researchers are tracking the movements of a great white shark that has made its way to Placentia Bay, in southern Newfoundland.
Posted: | 7:25 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207857 |
Rating: | 20786 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 7:09 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207540 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Vancouver police officer who was involved in a fatal shooting that was captured on a cellphone video won't face charges because he could reasonably argue self-defence, a special prosecutor announced Monday.
Posted: | 7:09 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207455 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Sears Canada is closing five of its department stores, including its flagship location in Toronto's Eaton Centre as part of a $400-million deal.
Posted: | 6:57 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207461 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Regina |
Scientists said Monday they have documented for the first time that an Asian carp species has successfully reproduced within the Great Lakes watershed, an ominous development in the struggle to slam the door on the hungry invaders that could threaten nati
Posted: | 6:56 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207531 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | Regina |
Two shipwreck hunters from Thunder Bay have discovered the wreck of the first ship to be registered in Canada.
Posted: | 6:55 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207828 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | Regina |
"The PMO had the Conservative Party's lawyer, Arthur Hamilton, pay my legal fees," Duffy said in an impassioned speech.
Posted: | 6:30 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207630 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | Curtman |
Posted: | 2:06 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207714 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Robair |
Posted: | 12:22 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207503 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
CBC News has learned there will be no decision Monday on a change to the motions to suspend Senators Patrick Brazeau, Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin without pay over their expense claims.
Posted: | 12:20 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207384 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:16 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207471 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A well-known TV chef and author says boycotting the Canadian seafood in order to protect seals is a ridiculous idea. "I'm all for protecting seals, but a total ban dooms the indigenous people above the Arctic Circle to death or relocation."
Posted: | 12:14 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207356 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 11:03 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207539 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A recurring theme in American politics right now is that Obama's wild, uncontrolled spending is dragging a once prosperous nation into a future of indentured servitude. The reality, Neil Macdonald writes, is much different.
Posted: | 6:54 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207739 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | Robair |
The people of Nunavut will go to the polls on Monday for just the fourth time in the territory's history, to elect the 22 people who will be their next Members of the Legislative Assembly.
Posted: | 5:00 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207463 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Lou Reed, the punk poet of rock 'n' roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the Velvet Underground and remained a vital solo performer for decades after, has died at age 71.
Posted: | 4:59 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207674 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Marcia Wallace, the voice of scoffing schoolteacher Edna Krabappel on 'The Simpsons, whose wise-cracking characters on The Bob Newhart Show and other prime-time hits endeared her to generations of TV viewers, has died.
Posted: | 4:56 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207757 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Posted: | 9:38 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207455 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Sarah Palin found a novel way to turn down an interview request from Piers Morgan, posting a picture on Facebook of a bear she shot and saying she was busy.
Posted: | 9:34 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 208207 |
Rating: | 20821 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
In a dramatic moment during a Senate debate over his suspension without pay, Senator Patrick Brazeau said he was offered what he called a "backroom deal" by the government leader of the Senate Friday morning.
Posted: | 1:40 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207415 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Vancouver Aquarium researcher is sounding the alarm over what he calls "puzzling" changes observed in the killer whale pods that live off the southern British Columbia coast.
Posted: | 8:30 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207473 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:22 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207337 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The head of the Edmonton International Airport says he is concerned by a letter from Air Canada, saying it suspended its direct flight to London after the airport promoted Icelandair's direct flight to Reykjavik.
Posted: | 8:21 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 209622 |
Rating: | 20962 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Greater Manchester police analyse 3D printer and suspected components in what's thought to be first ever seizure of next generation weapon
Posted: | 4:07 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207961 |
Rating: | 20796 |
Poster: | stemmer |
A former UC Davis police officer whose pepper-spraying of protesters gained worldwide notice thanks to a viral video has been awarded more than $38,000 in workers' compensation from the university for suffering he experienced after the incident. Former po
Posted: | 11:36 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207834 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Grocery giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. says it will provide long-term financial assistance to the victims and families affected by a deadly factory collapse in Bangledesh in April.
Posted: | 8:08 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207405 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The European Parliament has voted to suspend the sharing of financial data with the US, following allegations that citizens' data was spied on. The allegation forms part of leaked documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden. It comes a day after it was al
Posted: | 8:06 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207177 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
BlackBerry Ltd said its popular chat application BBM for rival Android-based handsets and Apple Inc smartphones like iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C has witnessed over 10 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its re-launch.
Posted: | 7:12 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207376 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Curtman |
The Obama administration denies reports that the National Security Agency tapped the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Posted: | 2:35 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207786 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Sonoma County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a 13-year-old boy Tuesday who was carrying what turned out to be a fake rifle in Santa Rosa, authorities and acquaintances of the boy said. Deputies determined that the rifle was a "replica of an assault we
Posted: | 2:03 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207548 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Pamela Wallin finally got her say on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, and used the podium to take some shots at fellow senators.
Posted: | 12:40 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207355 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:38 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207690 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Debate on the possible suspension of three senators embroiled in expense scandals will resume Wednesday, following explosive testimony in which Sen. Mike Duffy alleged he had received orders from the Prime Minister himself to repay $90,000 in housing expe
Posted: | 8:59 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207452 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 5:07 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207594 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 4:02 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207669 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | Curtman |
Tana Clymer, 14, who visited Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark., Saturday afternoon with her family uncovered a 3.85-carat diamond that might be worth thousands.
Posted: | 12:53 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207454 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Some federal prison inmates in Canada's Prairie provinces will soon be making poppy pins for Remembrance Day 2014, but the plan doesn't sit well with the union representing prison guards.
Posted: | 12:31 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207244 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 10:55 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207199 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:46 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207642 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Researchers in Finland could be close to a breakthrough in the search for a vaccine against Type 1 diabetes. Clinical trials could start soon.
Posted: | 6:37 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207446 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Canadian Coast Guard has launched what it's calling one of its largest operations ever to clean up a Second World War-era wreck that's leaking oil off the coast of B.C.
Posted: | 10:53 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207658 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | Regina |
The date palm plant, which grew from seeds recovered in 1963 from the Masada fortress in Israel, has been confirmed as the world's oldest-sprouted seed.
Posted: | 3:20 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207401 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
Posted: | 2:16 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207492 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Crowd had formed to greet group of elephants, including former game-show host and animal-rights activist Bob Barker, who has spent several years and a small fortune lobbying for the move
Posted: | 12:30 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207191 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Thunder Bay woman is still horrified by the neglect her 100-year-old mother suffered in long-term care two years ago.
Posted: | 12:28 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207569 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 12:26 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207309 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:11 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207310 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | Delwin |
An identity theft service that prosecutors say illegally sold social security numbers, birth dates, driver license numbers, and other sensitive data for more than 500,000 people purchased much of the information from credit service Experian, according to
Posted: | 11:50 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207202 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber attacked a bus in southern Russia on Monday, authorities said, killing at least six people in the deadliest such blast outside the volatile North Caucasus region
Posted: | 11:15 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207396 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A rare oarfish has washed up on the California coast for the second time in less than a week, authorities said on Sunday, leaving experts stumped. The second carcass of the eel-like species was discovered on Friday on a beach in Oceanside, a city police d
Posted: | 8:28 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207197 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Visibility shrank to less than half a football field and small-particle pollution soared to a record 40 times higher than an international safety standard in one northern Chinese city as the region entered its high-smog season.
Posted: | 8:27 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207327 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Once Britain led the world in atomic energy, but decades of political dithering and irrational protests mean today's historic deal will be signed with Chinese and French firms, says Michael Hanlon
Posted: | 7:02 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207464 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Posted: | 5:48 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207480 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
The first case of a child being trafficked to Britain in order to have their organs harvested has been uncovered.
Posted: | 4:41 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207588 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
France's top appeals court has upheld a fraud conviction and fines totalling hundreds of thousands of euros against the Church of Scientology, for taking advantage of vulnerable followers.
Posted: | 2:46 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207628 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | Curtman |
A CN Rail train carrying liquefied petroleum gas and crude oil has derailed and exploded west of Edmonton, prompting an evacuation in the tiny community of Gainford.
Posted: | 12:19 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 208077 |
Rating: | 20808 |
Poster: | Canadian_Mind |
Police in Greece appeal for help to find the real parents of a 4-year-old girl found living with a Roma couple who DNA testing proved are not related to her.
Posted: | 4:49 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207645 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | maldonsfecht |
From Yahoo Sports Canada: REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall jokes that if former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar moves to the province, Lesnar can pretty much pick any house he wants.
Posted: | 1:12 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207523 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | Robair |
Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes has signed a trade co-operation agreement with China, with the province hoping it will pave the way for increased energy exports.
Posted: | 1:09 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207317 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A judge at a Surrey, B.C. courthouse has sentenced as an adult the young man who beat 15-year-old Laura Szendrei to death in 2010, handing down a life term without a chance of parole for seven years.
Posted: | 12:34 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207427 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Major nine-country survey finds 40% of French Jews won't wear Jewish symbols, 91% of Hungarian Jews see rise in anti-Semitism
Posted: | 12:33 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207346 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
Carl Campeau was kidnapped eight months ago from Golan Heights, likely by rebels, where he was working with UN peacekeepers
Posted: | 12:28 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207393 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate now serving time in Edmonton Institution, will remain in the federal penitentiary after an Alberta judge rejected arguments that he be transferred to a provincial jai
Posted: | 11:23 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207370 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Pierre Police Department plans to examine its policy on the use of stun guns in the wake of an incident in which an officer used one on an 8-year-old girl
Posted: | 9:48 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207266 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The 16-day U.S. government shutdown that ended today will have lasting effects on the state of global science, CBC science columnist Torah Kachur reports. Thousands of experiments were put on ice during the shutdown, an innumerable amount of data was not
Posted: | 9:28 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207209 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Supreme Court of Canada dismisses an appeal that would have permitted doctors to end life support for a severely brain-damaged man without the consent of his family or substitute decision maker.
Posted: | 9:15 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207316 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An Ottawa-area mother is in mourning after her daughter died in a balcony collapse at the Mexico resort where she was honeymooning.
Posted: | 7:13 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207412 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's two largest newspapers acted responsibly and in the public interest in reporting on drug allegations against Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Coun. Doug Ford, the Ontario Press Council ruled Wednesday.
Posted: | 9:55 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207645 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
Ontario consumers face higher rates for electricity starting Nov. 1, especially during off-peak hours
Posted: | 5:53 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207447 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Posted: | 3:15 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207411 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Posted: | 12:57 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207254 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Posted: | 12:19 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207281 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Malware that takes computers hostage until users pay a ransom is getting meaner, and thanks to the growing prevalence of Bitcoin and other digital payment systems, it's easier than ever for online crooks to capitalize on these "ransomware" schemes. If thi
Posted: | 11:36 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207460 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Shale gas protesters and RCMP trying to enforce an injunction are clashing in Rexton, N.B., with the violence including two police vehicles that have been set on fire and a report that Elsipogtog First Nation Chief Arren Sock has been arrested.
Posted: | 10:48 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207557 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Research by a British scientist concludes the legendary Himalayan Yeti may in fact be a sub-species of brown bear.
Posted: | 8:32 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207307 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Wesley Bland of Kenora offered test close at hand in Winnipeg but rules force him to make long drive to Thunder Bay and back
Posted: | 8:23 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207430 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
A Canadian UN worker abducted eight months ago in Syria appeared on Syrian state television a free man after reportedly managing to escape his captors, who had forgotten to lock him in.
Posted: | 7:45 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207258 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Defense minister halts transfer of construction supplies to the Strip after 500 tons of cement used to construct underground passage
Posted: | 7:27 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207399 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
Veteran character actor Ed Lauter, whose TV and movie career stretched across five decades, died Wednesday at the age of 74.
Posted: | 7:24 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207372 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Regina |
Urban Canadians have access to consistently faster network speeds than their neighbours in the U.S., according to a study by PC Magazine.
Posted: | 6:10 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207358 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
A 570-kilogram chunk of the massive meteorite that injured more than 1,100 people when it exploded over Chelyabisnk, Russia, in February has been recovered from the bottom of a lake.
Posted: | 2:29 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207382 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canadian automaker Magnum Cars will host the world premiere of its all-new, ultra-lightweight, high-performance sports car on October 30th. The track-oriented, street-legal Magnum MK5 will become the first Canadian model to break through the global superc
Posted: | 2:23 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207266 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Andrew Gardner of Waterloo, Ont., says he was only trying to raise $14,000 to manufacture his modular magnetic pen when he started his Kickstarter campaign, which he says has brought in more than $790,000, but has also attracted some unwanted attention fr
Posted: | 11:14 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207334 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
The decline of moose populations in certain parts of Ontario reflects a growing concern across some other parts of North America.
Posted: | 11:09 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207464 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
Canada and the European Union have reached a tentative free-trade agreement after Canada agreed to higher imports of cheese, sources tell CBC News. The deal still needs sign-off from the EU and Canada, and approval from the provinces.
Posted: | 8:34 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207343 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Associates of Edmonton MLA Peter Sandhu orchestrated what is alleged to be a public smear campaign, featuring defamatory news stories, against an Edmonton Punjabi-language journalist, a CBC News investigation has found.
Posted: | 7:40 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207496 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:39 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207128 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:19 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207304 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Franco Yiu Kwan Orr, the Vancouver-area man convicted of human trafficking in a case involving a live-in Filipina nanny, is sentenced to 18 months in prison in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
Posted: | 12:19 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207485 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Gov. Gen. David Johnston will serve as the sharp end of a political stick that the Harper government is pointing at China this coming week, amid renewed concern that Chinese investment in Canada is drying up.
Posted: | 2:29 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207376 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | saturn_656 |
A new study from the University of British Columbia has found more than half of people are genetically predisposed to spot danger wherever it lurks. "We already knew that people who have this genetic variant are more inclined to have strong emotional memo
Posted: | 8:20 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207478 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Rebels in Syria killed as many as 190 civilians and seized more than 200 hostages during a military offensive in August, Human Rights Watch says.
Posted: | 8:19 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207422 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:41 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207247 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.
Posted: | 7:27 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207430 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 10:04 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207499 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Seven months after his historic conviction for public corruption, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison today for running what the government called a money-making racket out of city hall that steered millions to himsel
Posted: | 3:24 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207333 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
A fire that broke out on Columbia Street in downtown New Westminster, B.C., on Thursday morning has destroyed at least half a block of the historic neighbourhood.
Posted: | 11:06 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207367 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The B.C. Court of Appea​l, in a split decision, has affirmed the law against assisted suicide, in a controversial and historic right-to-die case.
Posted: | 11:00 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207264 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
This November, the PS4 will herald the eighth generation of console gaming, bringing more hardware horsepower to living room gamers than ever before. Unfortunately, a new report suggests that all that horsepower is the result of the toil of unpaid student
Posted: | 9:40 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207571 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A southern Alberta woman has lost a round in her legal battle against the contentious process of hydraulic fracturing. She claims gas wells fracked around her property in Rosebud, Alta., unleashed hazardous amounts of methane and ethane gas and other chem
Posted: | 9:36 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207346 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:39 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207179 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | stemmer |