Paul Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane who stayed with the seminal San Francisco band through its transformation from 1960s hippies to 1970s hit makers as the eventual leader of successor group Jefferson Starship, has died at age 74. Ka
Posted: | 9:55 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 208215 |
Rating: | 20822 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
Devon McDiarmid and partner Stew Edge just completed an epic crossing of Antarctica. First he and Edge and two others skied 900 kilometres from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf on the Antarctic coast to the South Pole.
Posted: | 4:45 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207775 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Rideau Canal Skateway is closing at 10 p.m. Sunday, with a warm, wet forecast following the first weekend of Winterlude.
Posted: | 4:42 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207548 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The fish were biting like mad on Molson Lake over the weekend, and one Manitoba couple caught the feeding frenzy unfolding right beneath their feet.
Posted: | 4:27 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207629 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Two people are dead and three others are in hospital after gunfire broke out in downtown Toronto early Sunday in an often crowded part of the city known for its late-night bars and restaurants.
Posted: | 4:25 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207474 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Federal officials are meeting with representatives of a Quebec town on Monday to discuss an abandoned cargo ship that some fear poses an environmental risk.
Posted: | 4:24 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207533 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 4:23 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207589 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Saskatoon was determined to take a Guinness World Record on Sunday afternoon. Organizers estimated more than 8,200 people showed up to the snowball fight.
Posted: | 4:20 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207863 |
Rating: | 20787 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Environmental groups want the eight countries that ring the North Pole to take a stand on banning the use of heavy fuel oil, considered one of the greatest threats to the Arctic ecosystem.
Posted: | 11:54 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207598 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A team of experts are expected to make a final attempt on Monday to salvage a cargo ship that has been adrift off the coast of France for five days before it runs aground.
Posted: | 11:39 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207539 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Dozens of Yukoners gathered at the Whitehorse airport Saturday to welcome Yukon's newest residents: a family of 11 Syrian refugees who are the first to settle in the North under the current sponsorship program.
Posted: | 11:37 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207784 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | Hyack |
B.C. pilot Kirsten Brazier hopes to have more gender equality in the aviation industry. Her outreach event provides free flights for girls and women of all ages who are first-time flyers.
Posted: | 11:35 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207463 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The NHL is going with a new format for Sunday's all-star game in Nashville (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 5 p.m. ET), a 3-on-3 tournament that should be heavy on speed and skill and light on backchecking and defence. And $1 million US goes to the winning squad.
Posted: | 11:32 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207469 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Toronto driver is fortunate today after a car went over a guard rail on one of the city`s busiest highways and landed in a river. The incident took place in the southbound lanes of the highway near the Gardiner Expressway.
Posted: | 9:32 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207742 |
Rating: | 20774 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Water toxicity experts estimate that roughly 10 per cent of Canadians are at risk of being exposed to lead through their drinking water as Americans in Flint, Mich., grapple with an ongoing drinking water scandal.
Posted: | 9:49 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207388 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base was testing thrusters on the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, which is designed to crash into enemy missiles and destroy them.
Posted: | 9:46 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207967 |
Rating: | 20798 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
England is home to more than three million Muslims for the first time ever, new figures show. The number has doubled in just over a decade as a result of soaring immigration and high birth rates.
Posted: | 9:45 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207894 |
Rating: | 20789 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
With a couple of days of rough weather and a little seasickness along the way, the Canadian warship HMCS Fredericton and its crew have joined their allies in Turkish waters to participate in NATO measures in Central and Eastern Europe.
Posted: | 9:29 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207701 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Chloe Dufour-lapointe from Montreal won gold in women's World Cup moguls Saturday at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary. Her sister Justine was second and Andi Naude of Penticton, B.C., was third for a Canadian sweep of the podium.
Posted: | 7:14 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207558 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Four people occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge held their position Saturday and posted live videos that reveal their hyper-vigilance against federal officials who they fear may try to move them out to end the month-long standoff.
Posted: | 7:13 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207502 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Police are searching for a man who allegedly pretended to be a firefighter and persuaded seven businesses in Dartmouth to turn on their own fire alarms.
Posted: | 7:12 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207357 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A spokesman for Joint Task Force Atlantic says a Coast Guard ship rescued five people from a sinking fishing boat about 30 km off the coast of Yarmouth early Sunday morning.
Posted: | 7:11 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207374 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Golden Triangle Snowmobile Association has installed new reflective blue signs along popular snowmobile trails in Waterloo Region that will help paramedics find injured riders in an emergency.
Posted: | 7:08 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207417 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Power still out for about 11,000 Nova Scotia Power customers in Cape Breton and eastern Nova Scotia. Some may have to wait until 11:30 p.m tonight before power is restored
Posted: | 7:06 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207603 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canada's Alex Gough, Mitchel Malyk, Tristan Walker, Justin Snith combined for a podium finish at the luge world championships in Germany on Sunday, winning bronze in the team relay.
Posted: | 7:05 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207327 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Police say five people were shot and two have been killed during an overnight shooting in downtown Toronto. Altercation took place at around 3 a.m. near Spadina Avenue and College Street
Posted: | 6:54 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207459 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A battle involving gunfire and knives erupted at a Denver motorcycle exposition on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least one person dead and sending seven people to the hospital, authorities said.
Posted: | 12:17 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207424 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
If you don't have any spare change to give Detroit homeless man Abe Hagenston, that's no problem. He takes credit card donations too. The 42-year-old panhandles by the Eight Mile Road overpass of Highway I-75, and has been homeless for about a decade.
Posted: | 12:15 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207541 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A huge cloud of gas travelling at more than 1,000,000 km/h is going to collide with our galaxy. But relax, it won't happen for 30 million years.
Posted: | 12:10 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207689 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Hyack |
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman insisted Seattle is not in the running to land an expansion team. Las Vegas and Quebec City have submitted expansion applications, but a decision whether to grant both, either or neither city an NHL franchise does not appear
Posted: | 12:07 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207463 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Hyack |
More than 750 people are taking part in a python hunt in the Florida Everglades, hoping to capture the massive reptiles that have overrun the area and prey on native species such as rabbits, birds and even the occasional alligator.
Posted: | 11:19 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207721 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Two parents watching over an awkward child with weight issues that's still living with them isn't really news. Unless the child in question is a king penguin.
Posted: | 11:12 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207397 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:11 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207560 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | shockedcanadian |
The Toronto Maple Leafs have confirmed they are ready to reveal their new logo next week, but one logo expert says don't expect a drastic change.
Posted: | 5:53 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207537 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Five snowmobilers who died Friday in a major avalanche near the B.C. Interior community of McBride have been identified, as the "heartbreaking news" ripples through the snowmobiling community.
Posted: | 5:42 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207448 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Pentagon says USS Curtis Wilbur was sent near Triton island as a challenge to countries that are trying to restrict navigational rights, provoking angry Chinese response
Posted: | 4:26 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207491 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
John Wood, a former Marine, and his wife Melissa Wood, filed a civil rights complaint against La Plata High School in Maryland, alleging their daughter was indoctrinated into Islam.
Posted: | 11:47 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 208160 |
Rating: | 20816 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:39 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207372 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:28 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207319 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Arguing that his local pool is awash with people spitting into showers and hawking into pool grates, a Richmond, B.C., man is urging a city crackdown on public expectoration.
Posted: | 11:23 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207438 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Vancouverites greeted the new year with the news that most homes in the city now cost $1 million or more -- plus, your firstborn child. Just kidding -- no one can afford to raise children in Vancouver anymore.
Posted: | 11:19 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207398 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:18 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 208177 |
Rating: | 20818 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Footage taken in Murmanskaya Oblast, in Russia's far north west shows the man screaming out in pain as the bear clamps its teeth around his arm.
Posted: | 11:07 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 208013 |
Rating: | 20801 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A 32-year-old man who bought guns in Washington state and then smuggled them into B.C. for resale has been sentenced to prison time.
Posted: | 10:45 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207332 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The main Syrian opposition delegation left Saudi Arabia for Switzerland on Saturday, however it remained unclear whether the delegation would actually participate in UN-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war.
Posted: | 10:32 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207227 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Much of Newfoundland remains under wind and blizzard warnings as a winter storm makes its way through Atlantic Canada.
Posted: | 10:31 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207317 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Five snowmobilers were killed and eight others were injured in an avalanche in northeastern British Columbia on Friday.
Posted: | 10:31 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207213 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 10:16 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207470 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Greater vasa parrots have officially been granted membership in the exclusive club of animals that use tools, thanks to a recently published study that found they can do something never seen before in any animal species.
Posted: | 11:51 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 208000 |
Rating: | 20801 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Alberta could be eligible for payments to help offset double-digit revenue declines in resource prices.
Posted: | 11:47 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207423 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Toronto man was quietly convicted last October of harassing and threatening the Conservative MP, while a similar case that resulted last week in acquittal was making international headlines
Posted: | 11:46 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207204 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
​Former United Nations high commissioner for refugees Antonio Guterres says there is a growing perception that new policies being brought in by the Liberal government will put Canada in a position to be an "honest broker" on the world stage.
Posted: | 11:46 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207123 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
After Alberta's NDP government criticized the royalty rates being paid by oil and gas companies, a five-month review of the system resulted in a recommendation that will not increase the government's revenue in the foreseeable future.
Posted: | 11:38 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207302 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
More than half of tickets to many events are held for industry insiders or otherwise unavailable to the general public, says NY attorney general.
Posted: | 9:52 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207902 |
Rating: | 20790 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
Posted: | 9:50 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207201 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
New projections about rising greenhouse gas emissions in Canada show the scale of the task facing the country's environment ministers, who are meeting in Ottawa today.
Posted: | 6:35 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207402 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | andyt |
Identical twins may be alike in everything from their eye color to their favorite foods, but they can diverge in one important characteristic: their weight. A new study uncovers a molecular mechanism for obesity that might explain why one twin can be extr
Posted: | 6:13 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207327 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The federal government intends to move ahead with lifting sanctions against Iran and normalizing relations with the country, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Tuesday during question period.
Posted: | 12:01 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207369 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Support at Toronto's York University is pulled because of a pro-Palestinian mural.
Posted: | 3:44 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207522 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
As families of the lost Challenger astronauts gather with NASA to mark the space shuttle accident's 30th anniversary, there's a new voice to address the crowd. June Scobee Rodgers -- widow of Challenger commander Dick Scobee and longtime spokeswoman for t
Posted: | 2:26 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207252 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Somali-born Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, appeared in court in Gothenburg, Sweden, charged with murdering Alexandra Mezher, 22, at the child migrant centre where she worked on Monday.
Posted: | 2:16 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207562 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Record low temperatures have wreaked havoc in several Asia countries, with 85 people reported dead in Taiwan and tens of thousands stranded at airports.
Posted: | 1:07 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207376 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
We need to do a lot better than sign any free trade deal that comes along simply because it's there.
Posted: | 12:37 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207111 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A man has been arrested with two firearms at the entrance to a hotel at Disneyland Paris, French police say.
Posted: | 9:26 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207376 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A federal watchdog says Canada's electronic spy agency broke privacy laws by sharing information about Canadians with foreign partners.
Posted: | 8:42 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207175 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:28 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207328 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:19 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207419 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A new law is driving DeLorean to start production once again. The carmaker now has plans to manufacture the 2017 DMC-12, which is expected to house a V6 rear engine with 300 to 400 HP.
Posted: | 6:17 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207322 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Pipeline projects will face a new environmental assessment process, a move the federal government says will restore the confidence of Canadians in the regulatory regime for major energy projects.
Posted: | 12:52 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207277 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Sweden is making plans to expel up to 80,000 failed asylum-seekers over coming years, the interior minister is quoted as saying.
Posted: | 12:50 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207291 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Eight Los Angeles Police Department officers who mistakenly opened fire on two newspaper delivery women during a manhunt for rogue ex-LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner will not face charges, prosecutors announced...
Posted: | 12:33 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207153 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:35 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207500 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Refugees are being handed leaflets warning them about how to behave for next week's Carnival celebrations, after hundreds of women in Germany were assaulted on New Year's Eve.
Posted: | 2:25 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207440 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The Liberals are poised to abandon the Conservative hardline approach to contract talks with public labour unions, a move that could cost the federal balance sheet nearly $1 billion this fiscal year.
Posted: | 2:20 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207149 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Police chief Dan Eliasson, 54, said he is distraught for murdered Alexandra Mezher, but also for the 15-year-old Somali boy accused of stabbing her to death in Molndal, Gothenburg, on Monday.
Posted: | 10:37 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207300 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | martin14 |
National Energy Board chair Peter Watson is speaking to the Toronto Region Board of Trade ahead of new rules coming today for the way the regulatory tribunal assesses pipelines and other projects. CBC online will carry his speech live starting at 1 p.m. E
Posted: | 10:26 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207219 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | andyt |
The coroner will not call an inquest, saying 'public disclosure of the behaviour exhibited by (both victims) be prejudicial to both of their reputations'
Posted: | 10:16 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207357 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | shockedcanadian |
Is my yellow the same as your yellow? Does your pain feel like my pain? The question of whether the human consciousness is subjective or objective is largely philosophical. But the line between consciousness and unconsciousness is a bit easier to measure.
Posted: | 9:39 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207396 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:03 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207456 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
At least 10 people are in custody after police executed search warrants and busted an alleged online pedophile ring in six Quebec cities and Toronto following a three-year investigation.
Posted: | 8:24 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207265 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | andyt |
About half of Canada's soldiers have a history of child abuse, which is significantly higher than the general population, indicates a new study led by a Manitoba researcher.
Posted: | 8:21 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207365 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 7:03 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207259 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
People living near homes abandoned after the 2013 flood will soon have their say on what should be done with the land once the houses are torn down.
Posted: | 6:53 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207171 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:43 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207612 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Scientists are closer to changing everything we know about one of the basic building blocks of the universe, according to an international group of physics experts involving the University of Adelaide.
Posted: | 6:36 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207465 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An Ottawa father is eating his words after making a last-minute bet with his two boys that he'd buy them a puppy if Ottawa Senators forward Bobby Ryan scored a goal on Sunday night.
Posted: | 10:32 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207185 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A photo of a Nova Scotia one-year-old celebrating her first birthday by spending some time on the slopes is getting a lot of attention on Facebook.
Posted: | 10:21 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207407 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
When staff at an elementary school in Stratford, P.E.I., set up a surveillance camera to catch the thief who's been making off with the school's newspapers, they weren't expecting the culprit to be of the four-footed variety.
Posted: | 10:20 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207145 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | Hyack |
James Neal scored late in the third period to give the Nashville Predators a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.
Posted: | 10:18 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207228 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Cleveland officials said Tuesday they are firing six police officers involved in a 137-shot barrage that killed two unarmed black people after a high-speed chase.
Posted: | 10:16 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207227 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The largest bald eagle to ever visit the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Nova is flying free once again after nearly dying of lead poisoning.
Posted: | 10:13 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207245 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | Hyack |
In 2014, there was an unconfirmed sighting of a threatened Blanding's turtle near the future site of Chicopee Hills Public School. It is considered a threatened species in the province, meaning it is not endangered, but could become endangered if steps ar
Posted: | 10:09 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207244 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Police say two people have been fatally shot and three others wounded by gunfire at a homeless encampment in Seattle. Assistant Seattle Police Chief Bob Merner said at a news conference the victims lived at the encampment.
Posted: | 10:07 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207112 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Abe Vigoda first died in Calgary. It was 1982 and Vigoda, fresh off his stint in the TV show Barney Miller, was performing in The Fifth Season, a comedy about a couple of fashion designers, at Stage West. He was not, therefore, at the wrap party for the M
Posted: | 8:46 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207558 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A long-awaited training centre for marine search and rescue volunteers from around the province is on track to open this spring near Victoria.
Posted: | 8:44 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207044 |
Rating: | 20704 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 8:43 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207305 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A pair of snowmobilers were forced to spend two days and nights in the cold until Vernon Search and Rescue could pull them out of a gully they were trapped in.
Posted: | 8:39 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206984 |
Rating: | 20698 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The hikers set off for the gruelling seven-hour hike on the closed trail at 6:30 a.m., says NSR team leader Mike Danks. The pair called 911 around 8 p.m. PT saying they had gotten lost, but were prepared to stay overnight.
Posted: | 8:36 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207134 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Concerns have been raised that someone in Qualicum Beach, B.C., might be abusing cats, after two of the creatures were recently found with wires bound around their stomachs.
Posted: | 8:34 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207143 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A police chase near Fort Nelson, B.C., on Tuesday ended with the arrest of a prisoner who escaped custody the day before with help from an armed gunman.
Posted: | 8:33 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207114 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | Hyack |
As the world gears up for this summer's Rio Olympics, Canada Soccer has announced the roster of women who will be carrying Canada's qualification hopes.
Posted: | 8:29 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207058 |
Rating: | 20706 |
Poster: | Hyack |
This would-be car thief ended up with a lot more than he bargained for -- a five-year-old sitting in the back seat.The man who made off with the car then noted the boy's presence in the back seat and returned the vehicle to the station before fleeing on f
Posted: | 8:26 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207039 |
Rating: | 20704 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Recording artist B.o.B's claim that the Earth is flat has sparked a rap battle with the nephew of renowned astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Posted: | 8:21 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207658 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A decision by Italian officials to cover up ancient nude statues to not offend Iran's visiting president is drawing ridicule in Rome. When images of the coverup made the Italian media Tuesday, politicians from across the spectrum decried and derided the d
Posted: | 8:19 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207189 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The FBI on Tuesday arrested the leaders of an armed group that has occupied a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for the past three weeks, conducting a traffic stop that prompted gunfire - and one death - along a highway through the frozen high country.
Posted: | 8:18 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207204 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Danish parliament has passed a bill to confiscate valuables from asylum-seekers to help pay for their stay despite criticism from human rights groups.
Posted: | 8:18 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207147 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Saudi authorities arrested a man who tried to smuggle 14 bottles of liquor in his underpants while returning from Bahrain. The bottles were attached with adhesive tapes to the man's legs.
Posted: | 12:29 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207075 |
Rating: | 20708 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A prisoner escaped custody Monday morning when a masked man with a handgun confronted two corrections officers outside a Peace River hospital and demanded they release the man they were transporting.
Posted: | 12:22 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207036 |
Rating: | 20704 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Character actor Abe Vigoda, memorable for roles in TV's Barney Miller and in The Godfather, has died at the age of 94. The cause of death was old age.
Posted: | 12:14 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207704 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:13 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207170 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 10:58 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207147 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Conservative Party's interim leader says she would support removing the Tories' same-sex marriage ban from its official policy if it comes up at the party's convention in Vancouver in May.
Posted: | 10:32 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207047 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:53 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207748 |
Rating: | 20775 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A police patrol of 10 officers was forced to flee a refugee center in Sweden after being surrounded by a mob of violent migrants. Law enforcement officials had arrived to relocate a 10-year-old boy after reports of his repeated rape at the facility.
Posted: | 9:33 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207332 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | martin14 |
After a 72% crash in prices in less than two years, the cartel that has been holding global oil markets for ransom says it is ready to embrace rivals and thrash out a compromise
Posted: | 8:10 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207226 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | shockedcanadian |
Charlie Lyne's forces examiners to watch film of paint drying in protest over censorship
Posted: | 7:43 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 207684 |
Rating: | 20768 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Nine emotional years after she first challenged the federal government, First Nations child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock is awaiting a ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that will determine if Canada has discriminated against children on
Posted: | 6:11 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207204 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
The University of Missouri media professor who drew scorn for siccing "some muscle" on a campus reporter hit with assault charge.
Posted: | 1:11 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207164 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Sweden's prime minister describes as a "terrible crime" the stabbing of a female employee at a centre for young asylum seekers.
Posted: | 10:39 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207270 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A new study has found that Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan would result in big reductions in emissions but that the cost of boosting renewable energy usage would mean significantly higher electricity rates.
Posted: | 9:32 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207513 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
There are many examples of security breakdowns prior to the carnage in Paris on Nov. 13, and much has been made of them. But there are a number of others that have received less public attention.
Posted: | 6:44 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207231 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | andyt |
A British adventurer has died after suffering exhaustion and dehydration while attempting to become the first person to cross the Antarctic alone and unsupported.
Posted: | 12:45 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207386 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:40 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207415 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The all-male migrant teen gangs are spreading terror in the centre of the Swedish capital, stealing, groping girls and assaulting security guards, according to Stockholm police.
Posted: | 12:30 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207349 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Labour ministry nabs 238 workplaces for violations of Employment Standards Act in blitz focused on precarious employment. Infractions include poor record keeping, excess hours, and failure to shell out overtime pay.
Posted: | 10:23 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207276 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |
Required Grade 10 history and civics classes earn province a higher rating than others.
Posted: | 10:09 AM on Monday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 208098 |
Rating: | 20810 |
Poster: | BeaverFever |