A controversial University of Windsor student referendum on boycotting Israel has sparked what police call a hate crime after someone ransacked an office and spray painted �racist� graffiti on a flag supporting Canadian soldiers.
Posted: | 8:01 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207715 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
Posted: | 11:48 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207746 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Nearly two months after Michael Schumacher suffered serious head injuries in a skiing accident and was placed in a drug-induced coma, some neurologists say the seven-time Formula One champion seems unlikely to make a full recovery.
Posted: | 10:56 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207553 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The quality of water in Lake Erie has been falling for a decade and decisive government action is needed, a new report says.
Posted: | 10:28 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207511 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Calgary-based energy corporation is being accused of unfairly driving up energy prices by the Government of Alberta.
Posted: | 10:27 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207463 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 1:15 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207807 |
Rating: | 20781 |
Poster: | OnTheIce |
Canada will sign a protocol of understanding with the Aga Khan in an effort to strengthen its relationship with the spiritual leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says
Posted: | 10:50 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207444 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence
Posted: | 10:44 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207604 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Alberta provides more choice in schools than any other province, according to a report released by the Fraser Institute on Thursday.
Posted: | 8:29 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207517 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Physicists have discovered an exotic new type of particle that they call a quantum droplet, or dropleton.
Posted: | 8:24 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207685 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:04 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207563 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
For Canadians who crave fresh strawberries in winter, California's devastating drought may mean having to pay more for certain produce. But the agricultural havoc in the Golden State may have a silver lining for at least some Canadian exporters.
Posted: | 8:03 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207513 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Uganda's harsh anti-gay law sparked a firestorm of disapproval in the West. But not in the U.S. Bible Belt where evangelical groups have pressed a dozen states to consider gay discrimination laws in the name of religious freedom. Arizona actually passed o
Posted: | 8:01 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207862 |
Rating: | 20787 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Posted: | 7:53 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207697 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
H.J. Heinz Co. has signed a letter of intent with Highbury Canco Corp. to acquire the Heinz Leamington facility and become a contract packer for the food giant.
Posted: | 7:51 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207353 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Imagine going to work every day knowing you will likely be punched, kicked or spit on. That's what workers say happens at a Burnaby, B.C., centre for children with mental illness.
Posted: | 7:47 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207738 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
A coalition of groups is urging the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the prescription drug Zohydro.
Posted: | 7:34 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207660 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
NASA today will admit that the near-death of an astronaut during a spacewalk last year could have been avoided, according to a report from ABC News. In a report to be released Wednesday morning, NASA will acknowledge that astronaut Luca Parmitano's suit l
Posted: | 6:45 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207815 |
Rating: | 20782 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Scientists think they can now explain the astonishing discovery of a graveyard of fossil whales in Chile that accumulated more than five million years ago.
Posted: | 6:42 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 208230 |
Rating: | 20823 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A store owner in Chelsea, Que., has been told to change her Facebook page from English to French or she could face legal action, but the owner argues social media is not part of Quebec's language law.
Posted: | 6:42 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207673 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The uranium miner-focused exchange traded fund is heating up as the Japanese government reversed plans to shift away from atomic energy for good, revealing a new nuclear energy plan Tuesday.
Posted: | 11:52 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207489 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Each year, half a million horseshoe crabs are captured and bled alive to create an unparalleled biomedical technology. The thing about the blood that everyone notices first: It's blue, baby blue.
Posted: | 11:18 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207837 |
Rating: | 20784 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 10:16 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207637 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The smog is so bad even the statues wear masks. Or at least they do in pictures of a campus stunt that circulated online Tuesday as parts of northern China suffered a sixth straight day of severe pollution.
Posted: | 7:02 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207573 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The number of extremely hot days has been increasing steadily globally despite a "pause" in the rise of average surface temperatures over the past 15 years, a new study has found.
Posted: | 6:57 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207441 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Canadian official says his attempt to discuss human rights with a foreign government prompted it to throw Quebec's controversial values charter back at him.
Posted: | 6:51 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207455 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The deteriorating health of B.C.'s oceans is impacting not only the province's marine life, but also its economy. Millions of shellfish are dying off before they can be harvested at Island Scallops, near Parksville, B.C., due to increased acidity levels i
Posted: | 6:50 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207602 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Prospectors in Southern California are heading to the hills, saying the severe drought has exposed gold that has never been touched by human hands. As water levels continue to drop more nooks and crannies are easier for these gold hunters to access. News,
Posted: | 12:43 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 206330 |
Rating: | 20633 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Kelly-Marie Dugmore, 30, and husband Paul Jones, 43, spoke out today about the bullies who allegedly taunted their son Aaron Dugmore for 'being white'.
Posted: | 10:16 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207689 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Police in northwestern Alberta have issued an Amber Alert after a truck was stolen with a seven-month-old girl inside.
Posted: | 2:12 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207580 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | Robair |
Posted: | 11:39 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207392 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Associated Press, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and Reuters are part of a group of 18 media groups that filed a friend of the court brief urging the Virginia Supreme Court to put a stop to Mann hiding his taxpayer funded activities from publ
Posted: | 11:03 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207418 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | stemmer |
The economy, political uncertainty, taxes and jobs are all reasons why 51 per cent of English-speakers said they had considered moving out of the province, a new EKOS poll commissioned by the CBC suggests.
Posted: | 7:06 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207826 |
Rating: | 20783 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A researcher at Virginia Tech has developed a novel way of classifying and naming organisms based on their genome sequence, allowing scientists to communicate more specifically about different species
Posted: | 6:47 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207521 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A CBC examination of federal Liberal Party documents released Monday reveals that key details are still missing, eight months after the party announced it would make its travel expenses transparent, as it began a release of travel claims by senators who w
Posted: | 5:29 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207457 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 5:06 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207708 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The human rights adjudicator ordered Alberta's association for engineers to pay $10K for 'discriminating' against a Czech immigrant who failed the professional exam
Posted: | 10:10 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207444 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A Muslim man wore a traditional woman's burka and female shoes before he strangled his estranged wife in the company of their toddler son.
Posted: | 8:40 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207648 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | llama66 |
With the curtain having finally closed on the Sochi Olympics, all eyes are turning on the 2018 Winter Games, with some wondering whether Pyeongchang, South Korea, will be able to pull off a Games as successful as those hosted by Russia.
Posted: | 4:18 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207470 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A man who beheaded and then ate parts of a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus almost six years ago might soon be granted unescorted day trips outside his mental hospital.
Posted: | 4:12 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207555 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Saskatchewan wants the federal government to immediately oversee talks between grain companies and railways to set parameters for getting grain to port. Economy Minister Bill Boyd says there need to be service agreements with financial penalties for both
Posted: | 10:08 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207747 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | Robair |
A row has erupted over a plan to dig up a third of a million bodies from an historic east London cemetery to make way for a new Muslim burial site
Posted: | 10:05 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207835 |
Rating: | 20785 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Russia and Norway will be urged at Greenland meeting to join other three Arctic states in support of agreement
Posted: | 9:55 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207498 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The remarkable satellite image shows the stark contrast between North and South Korea which glows bright next to its neighbour.
Posted: | 9:54 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207555 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's WWII Lancaster bomber will soon be flying across the Atlantic to join the only other airworthy plane of its kind for a series of special flights over the U.K.
Posted: | 9:35 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 208213 |
Rating: | 20821 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is squaring off at the Supreme Court with industry groups and Republican-led states over a small but important program aimed at limiting power-plant and factory . . .
Posted: | 7:24 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207365 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | stemmer |
University of Hawaii scientists have been tracking the spread of debris from the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.
Posted: | 7:32 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207610 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at age 110. The accomplished pianist's death comes just a week before her extraordinary story of surviving two years in a Nazi prison camp through devotion to music is up for an Oscar.
Posted: | 2:43 AM on Monday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207618 |
Rating: | 20762 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
The Canadian Olympic team may not have hit the medal count they were hoping for in Sochi, but they can be secure in the knowledge that a record they set in Vancouver will live on.
Posted: | 10:16 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207575 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Hockey-crazed Canadians from coast to coast thought nothing of getting an early morning start and streaming into bars to watch and triumphantly celebrate Team Canada capturing Olympic gold.
Posted: | 10:13 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207584 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 7:42 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207334 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | Curtman |
Hundreds of soldiers are learning cold-weather survival and warfare techniques with the help of Canadian Rangers in the Kivalliq and the Kitikmeot regions of Nunavut this month.
Posted: | 7:37 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207699 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Calgary speedskater who gave up his spot at the Olympics could be honoured with a special medal if one Toronto design firm gets its way.
Posted: | 7:32 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207223 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 4:20 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207234 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canada will not be adding a gold medal to its tally after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed an appeal that tried to disqualify three French medallists in the Olympic men's ski cross event.
Posted: | 7:07 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207294 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Posted: | 12:36 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207270 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Repeat bobsled champions Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse have been named Canada's flag-bearers for the closing ceremony at the Sochi Olympics.
Posted: | 12:35 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207335 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Watch as crew on the HMCS Iroquois cheer on the men's Olympic hockey team as they fight for gold.
Posted: | 12:34 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Videos |
Hits: | 208907 |
Rating: | 20891 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A man and a woman who were detained in January after allegedly committing a sexual act on an Air Canada plane are now facing more charges.
Posted: | 12:33 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207262 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The fishing crew aboard the Cape Dorset is safe after the vessel sinks off the Burin Peninsula.
Posted: | 12:32 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207336 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Sports arbitration court to rule Sunday on illegal aerodynamicity.
Posted: | 6:10 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207367 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Posted: | 1:39 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 207681 |
Rating: | 20768 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The five-year fixed mortgage at an advertised rate below three per cent has returned to Canada for the first time since last year.
Posted: | 1:20 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 207581 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
The mother of an autistic child is livid with a Langley, B.C., theme park after she received a crude email in response to her complaint about the park's admission policies.
Posted: | 1:17 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207437 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
The boyfriend of a missing Halifax woman told CBC News he is suspicious about the last text message he received from his girlfriend's cellphone before she mysteriously disappeared.
Posted: | 1:15 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207392 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
A photo posted online of a Calgary woman standing with her dog as it defecated on a gravesite has sparked a debate on public shaming.
Posted: | 1:14 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207338 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Alberta bars will be able to open and serve early Sunday morning for the men's hockey final.
Posted: | 1:13 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207310 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
A sinkhole eight metres wide and 12 metres deep opened up at the construction site digging the eastern entrance to Ottawa's light rail tunnel. The cause isn't yet known, city officials say.
Posted: | 1:12 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207243 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Posted: | 1:11 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207445 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
The harsh police response to protests against the sexual assault of a student led to widespread anger at the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.
Posted: | 1:01 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207140 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Ukrainian protesters said they had taken control of the presidential administration building in central Kiev, as opposition leaders pressed for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovich today.
Posted: | 1:00 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207140 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue sk
Posted: | 7:35 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 215924 |
Rating: | 21592 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Scientists who pretend to know the effect of carbon dioxide emissions decades hence are propagandists.
Posted: | 7:22 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207421 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 7:19 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207135 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Manitoba is the first jurisdiction in North America to declare the Hells Angels as a criminal organization, Justice Minister Andrew Swan said today.
Posted: | 3:24 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207402 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | Curtman |
In the worst weather prediction since Michael Fish reassured the nation in October 1987 that there was no hurricane on the way, forecasters said the Somerset Levels and the rest of the West Country would be especially dry.
Posted: | 11:44 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207398 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The proposed world's-largest optical telescope, designed in Canada, is one step closer to construction after the University of Hawaii approved a plan to lease land at the summit of the island's Mauna Kea volcano.
Posted: | 8:19 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207332 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
When severe storms hit one question that is often asked is if the storm is somehow connected to climate change. Scientists are often quick to point out that storms and weather are caused by the jet stream.
Posted: | 7:07 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207343 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:42 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207497 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 8:40 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207304 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 8:33 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207283 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An Ottawa man is among 10 others facing charges after a human trafficking investigation in York Region.
Posted: | 4:32 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207330 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Four members of a gang of immigrants who raped and sexually abused girls as young as 12 and with severe learning difficulties were today jailed.
Posted: | 4:30 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207351 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Conservation officers in Cranbrook, B.C., say they were forced to shoot a group cougars after they were spotted feeding on a deer in a residential neighbourhood.
Posted: | 2:03 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207459 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 2:01 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207443 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Homes are being sought for five puppies that were found in a dumpster in North Battleford on Valentines Day.
Posted: | 1:59 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207094 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:25 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207337 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Homeland security officials on Wednesday abruptly shelved a proposal to build a national database of license-plate scans after criticism from privacy advocates.
Posted: | 1:07 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207239 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Supreme Court will soon grapple with the science of how intellectual disability is measured. The arguments will bear on applying the death penalty to people who don't understand the legal process
Posted: | 12:35 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207475 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Canadian women's hockey team staged a late third-period rally and then defeated the U.S. in a thrilling 3-2 overtime win Friday at the Bolshoy Ice Dome in Sochi.
Posted: | 11:59 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207546 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | Canadaka |
Tracts of land that had been set aside for reindeer grazing in Canada's North have instead been offered up by the Conservative government for oil and gas exploration, newly released documents show.
Posted: | 11:07 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207246 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
More than 70 years after dashing out toward his father as he marched off to the Second World War, Warren (Whitey) Bernard has revisited the B.C. street corner where the iconic image was taken.
Posted: | 8:38 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207617 |
Rating: | 20762 |
Poster: | Regina |
The Foreign Office is making a "formal protest" to the Spanish authorities after a warship entered British-controlled waters around Gibraltar.
Posted: | 8:13 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207448 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | maldonsfecht |
Middle-class families are struggling economically, but at least one of them is doing quite well, thank you very much: the working parents with two kids who appear as a fictitious examples in the federal budget each year. Critics say the family's rapidly r
Posted: | 7:00 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207289 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The rise recorded by National Crime Agency could be down to better awareness, thought the number of trafficking and domestic slavery cases have also shot up.
Posted: | 12:56 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207392 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:39 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207200 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:36 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207190 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
President Obama pushing at the boundaries of scientific knowledge about the relationship between climate change and drought.
Posted: | 12:32 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207176 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:28 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207474 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Blow for government as one planned wind farm scrapped, another scaled back and industry chief warns turbines are unlikely to be manufactured in the UK
Posted: | 12:20 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207255 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:18 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207155 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Water samples from off the B.C. coast have found up to about 9,200 particles of plastic per cubic metre, the director of a new ocean pollution program at the Vancouver Aquarium said Tuesday. Based on 34 water samples taken between inshore waters and 1,20
Posted: | 9:30 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207266 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:24 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207380 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:22 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207242 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto are being urged to do something to save a delicate symbol of the continent: the monarch butterfly. The three leaders are being asked to review farming and
Posted: | 7:20 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207173 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:12 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207257 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An 84-year-old nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for breaking into and defacing a storage bunker holding bomb-grade uranium in a peace demonstration at a Tennessee weapons plant.
Posted: | 12:01 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207256 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Grizzly and black bears are using overpasses and underpasses crossing the Trans-Canada Highway to rendezvous with members of the opposite sex, a new study confirms.
Posted: | 11:59 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207362 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Iran warns it may send forces into Pakistan if it does not take action to free five border guards seized in Sistan Baluchistan earlier this month.
Posted: | 3:44 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207198 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Victoria Wheatley, who serves with the unit which protects the Sellafield nuclear site, complained that her gun and body armour were too big for her.
Posted: | 3:34 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207603 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 3:32 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207181 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The sweet melodic sounds of songbirds have become a distant memory for some people in the Mackenzie Delta.
Posted: | 3:30 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207346 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Capt. Aaron Noble, the commander of a 2011 search and rescue mission near Igloolik that cost a searcher his life, will receive a Meritorious Service Cross at Rideau Hall this morning.
Posted: | 3:25 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207325 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Four years ago, Carey Price went ice fishing near his hometown of Anahim Lake, B.C., caught a couple rainbow trout and then settled in to watch Sidney Crosby put the entire country in a euphoric state with his golden goal.
Posted: | 1:33 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207268 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Although Syria and Israel have officially been at war since 1948, Israel has quietly offered state-of-the-art medical treatment to hundreds of Syrians wounded in the civil war in the past 13 months, writes Derek Stoffel.
Posted: | 1:27 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207697 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
RCMP members are before the Supreme Court of Canada making a final pitch for their right to form an independent union.
Posted: | 1:26 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207445 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Jerry Renkers, a 65-year-old widower, has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court in an attempt to retrieve a Tiffany engagement ring that cost nearly $228,000.
Posted: | 1:24 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207423 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Mavis Gallant, the internationally celebrated Canadian short story writer who lived and worked for most of her life in Paris, has died in the French capital. She was 91.
Posted: | 1:23 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207352 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Thousands of police armed with stun grenades and water cannons charged into the large opposition camp in Ukraine's capital that has been the epicentre of nearly three months of anti-government protests after at least nine people were killed in street clas
Posted: | 1:18 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 211171 |
Rating: | 21117 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Environmentalists are pushing for stricter trade laws in Canada involving at-risk species after the recent shipment of fin whale meat across the country.
Posted: | 11:55 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207068 |
Rating: | 20707 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Using water cannons and stun grenades, Ukrainian riot police moved in against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kyiv
Posted: | 11:54 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207179 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A trade ban on lacy lingerie has Russian consumers and their neighbours with their knickers in a twist. The ban will outlaw any underwear containing less than six per cent cotton from being imported, made, or sold in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Posted: | 10:04 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207395 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Bid to have bars, pubs open early for Olympic final raises too many issues, according to B.C.'s Justice Minister
Posted: | 7:25 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207271 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields is set for its close-up on a live webcast as it whizzes by Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people.
Posted: | 4:03 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207419 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
A man in Saudi Arabia has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 60 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the centre of the outbreak.
Posted: | 4:03 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207245 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
As Jamaica joins a rush to lure the bigger, deeper-drafting ships expected to cross an expanded Panama Canal by mid-2015, political leaders and civic boosters envision the Old Harbour area as a cornerstone of what they envision as a transformative, dream
Posted: | 3:56 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207273 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |