Experts at a zoo in the Moroccan capital of Rabat are trying to understand why an elephant hurled a stone toward visitors, killing a 7-year-old girl.
Posted: | 4:12 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207706 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Thousands gathered to protest in Berlin and thousands more across Germany, while a key political ally in the coalition that keeps her in power slammed her immigration policy.
Posted: | 3:26 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207359 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
One man is undergoing surgery and another is in stable condition after a suspect opened fire during an outdoor fitness class at Christie Pits Park in Toronto's west end on Saturday morning.
Posted: | 1:51 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207319 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
No one appeared to survive a hot air balloon crash in Central Texas, authorities said Saturday.
Posted: | 1:39 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207420 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Dozens of employees at Turkey's highest court have been suspended from their jobs as part of the government crackdown in the wake of a failed "military coup," authorities said Saturday.
Posted: | 1:38 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207324 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Authorities say fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish rebels in the restive southeast of the country has killed eight Turkish soldiers and 35 Kurdish fighters.
Posted: | 1:37 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207392 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Up to 20 partygoers were at the event in Mukilteo when a shooter walked in and fired around 20 bullets on Saturday morning. Police have confirmed Allen Ivanov is in custody following the shooting.
Posted: | 10:59 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207333 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Music festival organizers may have the best intentions, but when thousands of strangers show up to party, how they act is largely out of their control.
Posted: | 6:08 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207396 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | andyt |
It's a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to Illinois until it disappeared from many states a half-century ago. Persecuted by
Posted: | 3:31 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207908 |
Rating: | 20791 |
Poster: | Robair |
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has overturned the convictions of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody who planted pressure cooker bombs outside the B.C. Legislature.
Posted: | 12:00 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207483 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 10:18 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207578 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | martin14 |
"You have sacrificed nothing and no one."
Posted: | 7:27 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207599 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | andyt |
A bouncer from Medicine Hat, Alta., is sharing his side of the story after a transgender woman at the bar he worked at was told she couldn't use the women's bathroom.
Posted: | 7:03 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207458 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Statistics Canada said Friday that gross domestic product fell by 0.6 per cent in May as fires in Alberta caused a sharp drop in oil extraction
Posted: | 6:59 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 207522 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Corsican nationalist FLNC group vows to retaliate for any jihadist attack on the French island.
Posted: | 2:45 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207654 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Fresh food is very costly in the North because much of it has to be flown in at great expense. But a cutting-edge, igloo-shaped greenhouse in the community of Naujaat, Nunavut, located right on the Arctic Circle, is defying the harsh climate to produce pe
Posted: | 2:25 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207610 |
Rating: | 20762 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 1:58 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207610 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
In the alarming footage filmed in Birmingham city centre an Islamic street preacher yells furiously at a police officer who was investigating a complaint made about him.
Posted: | 8:56 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207568 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Canada sits on an enviable top-10 perch when it comes to quality of life around the world, but a new analysis points to significant disparity among its provinces and territories.
Posted: | 11:42 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207426 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The investigation began in 1999 and was supposed to highlight the government's new organized crime laws, but 17 years later, it's in shambles
Posted: | 9:15 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207286 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | shockedcanadian |
Posted: | 7:30 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207577 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
All e-cigarettes emit toxic chemicals, and levels of those compounds are affected by factors such as temperature, type and age of the device, a new study finds.
Posted: | 7:18 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207416 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Alberta Energy Regulator is planning to audit nine coal mines to make sure there are enough resources to clean up after the mines close.
Posted: | 6:33 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207284 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A key battle that could shape the future of the navy's multi-billion dollar frigate replacement program has been playing out behind-the-scenes in Ottawa this week. At stake is a demand by the federal government that warship designers sign over access to a
Posted: | 6:30 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207763 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Air Miles is hiding certain merchandise from collectors who have enough points to buy it, claim some customers.
Posted: | 6:20 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207259 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:17 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207347 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Amina Al-Jeffery was born in Swansea but then taken to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia (pictured), aged 16, because her father, an academic, did not agree with her western lifestyle.
Posted: | 5:28 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207772 |
Rating: | 20777 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Move over, British Columbia: Canada's oilpatch next door in Alberta is on track to have Canada's most aggressive carbon pricing system by 2020.
Posted: | 1:15 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207338 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | uwish |
Scientists have made the rare discovery of a whale species, which lives in the Bering Sea between Japan and Alaska.
Posted: | 12:21 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207563 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Native American Chief David Bald Eagle, who appeared in the Oscar-winning 1990 film Dances With Wolves, has died aged 97.
Posted: | 11:44 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207625 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Prosecutors' decision comes after a judge had already acquitted three of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015.
Posted: | 11:30 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207269 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A terror attack plot in Stuttgart has been foiled by German police who found knives, explosives and bullets in a 15-year-old boy's home. He was in contact with the Munich attack gunman online.
Posted: | 10:46 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207525 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral two years ago, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, has helped identify a new gene behind the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, researchers say.
Posted: | 10:38 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207369 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Brant Hutterite Colony in southern Alberta aims to produce roughly 13,000 eggs a day while creating no net greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted: | 7:01 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207338 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:36 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207418 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Wilhelm Dege was sent to the North Pole with a team of 11 to establish a German weather station in the Arctic and spent a year battling sub-zero conditions and polar bear attacks.
Posted: | 6:46 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 208813 |
Rating: | 20882 |
Poster: | martin14 |
At a time when climate change is opening up the Arctic Ocean to shipping, and powerful nations like Russia and China pose new threats to Canada's sovereignty, the viability of the only deepwater port connected to the nation's transportation network is no
Posted: | 6:36 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207381 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The pensioner, who lives in a nursing home, was attacked while visiting the grave of her sister in Ibbenbueren in Western Germany. The suspect, 40, has been charged with rape.
Posted: | 6:31 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207410 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 5:23 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207265 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The six bearded men in their 20s burst into the pool in Geldern, pictured, in North Rhine-Westphalia and volleyed threats in both German and Arabic as well as spitting at women and children.
Posted: | 2:34 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207876 |
Rating: | 20788 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The Canadian Olympic Committee has announced Canada's full 313-athlete team for the Rio Olympics. The large Canadian contingent is made up of 187 women and 126 men, ranging in age from 16 to 56.
Posted: | 11:34 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207510 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canada's elections watchdog has sanctioned the Green Party for deliberately pushing "misleading" polling data on the eve of last fall's federal election.
Posted: | 12:00 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207350 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 11:50 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207260 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The UN weather agency says it suspects a 54-degree Celsius temperature recorded in Kuwait has set a record for the eastern hemisphere. The World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday it is setting up a committee to look into whether the temperature rec
Posted: | 8:22 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207433 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 5:41 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207473 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 5:37 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207477 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 2:35 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207664 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
Two men armed with knives reportedly took two nuns and several worshippers hostage at a church and kidnapped their priest in the French town of Rouvray, near Rouen.
Posted: | 2:19 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207424 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 10:37 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207294 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
At least 15 people were killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack Tuesday at a facility for the handicapped in a city just outside Tokyo in the worst mass killing in generations in Japan.
Posted: | 6:04 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207547 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The 27-year-old bomber, a Syrian man who was denied asylum in the country, injured 12 people in a packed wine bar attack in Ansbach, near Nuremberg last night.
Posted: | 11:39 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207270 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 8:54 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207051 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Many of Canada's patrol frigates have been fighting a battle against mouldy air-conditioning and ventilation systems. The former sailor who tried to raise the alarm says a multibillion-dollar refit of the warships has failed to completely address the heal
Posted: | 7:17 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207419 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:05 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207214 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Two people were killed and at least 16 were wounded in a shooting early Monday at a nightclub that had been hosting a party for teenagers in Fort Myers, in southwestern Florida, authorities said.
Posted: | 6:49 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207112 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:48 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207257 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Transportation Security Administration's woes continue as reports emerge that nearly half their employees have gotten citations for misconduct.
Posted: | 6:44 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207131 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Thousands of demonstrators are taking to Philadelphia's sweltering streets Sunday, cheering, chanting and beating drums in the first major protests ahead of the Democratic National Convention, as the city wilts during a heat wave.
Posted: | 2:10 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207348 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The victim had been jogging near RAF Marham, Norfolk, where Tornados used to bomb IS targets are based, when the attempted kidnapping took place on Wednesday.
Posted: | 11:19 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207166 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:17 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207783 |
Rating: | 20778 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The attack happened in the south western city of Reutlingen near Stuttgart where one woman was killed and two others injured before the man wielding the machete was injured by the police.
Posted: | 10:36 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207343 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The middle-aged woman was killed instantly after she followed a younger woman out of the car, which was in the tiger enclosure at the Badaling Wildlife World, near the Great Wall of China.
Posted: | 8:59 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207435 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | martin14 |
From lonely pensioners to Japanese schoolgirls with shattered dreams, Takanobu Nishimoto and his crew of middle-aged men will lend an ear to clients who would never dream of spilling their guts to a therapist or worse, their families.
Posted: | 12:51 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207360 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The Iraqi military will use a medieval tactic to keep control of Fallujah after recapturing it from the Islamic State group last month: It is digging a trench around the city.
Posted: | 12:39 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207223 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A so-called 'heat dome' is the main reason for the scorching temperatures above 30 C across central Canada, the Maritimes and 26 U.S. states this weekend.
Posted: | 12:38 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207265 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
KABUL -- The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a peaceful protest in the Afghan capital on Saturday that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 200, marking the first time the extremists have struck Kabul
Posted: | 12:31 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207160 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
CELINE DION blew millions of fans away last night when she gyrated her hips to the likes of Cher and Rihanna in a skimpy bejewelled dress on Jimmy Fallon.
Posted: | 12:24 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 208262 |
Rating: | 20826 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Eco warrior enthusiast Leonardo DiCaprio is back to doing what he does best: Fighting for the environment while simultaneously contributing to its demise.
Posted: | 12:15 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207208 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Scientists in Victoria have successfully placed the first offshore earthquake early warning sensor along the Cascadia fault off Vancouver Island.
Posted: | 11:11 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207729 |
Rating: | 20774 |
Poster: | Hyack |
After recent shootings of black men by police in the United States, and the retaliatory shootings of police officers, Ottawa police recruiter Const. Mark Miller says his job is getting tougher, particularly when it comes to his own community.
Posted: | 1:11 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207285 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
Hip fans in B.C. are breathlessly anticipating tonight's concert, as the band plays its first show since late May's shocking revelation that front man Gord Downie has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
Posted: | 11:58 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207513 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | Robair |
Humans and wild animals often help each other out, but the relationship is usually accidental. For example, birds of prey sometimes follow farm equipment through fields because the hardware flushes small animals out. Humans don't help the birds intentiona
Posted: | 11:27 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207703 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Digby, N.S., man who helped free a whale from a fishing net said he's convinced it came to the downtown waterfront looking for help.
Posted: | 10:32 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207239 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The capture of CO2 from smokestacks could make an important contribution to limiting climate change, but there are two obstacles. One is that you have to store that CO2 somewhere (like underground reservoirs). The other is that the capture process require
Posted: | 10:52 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207269 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Shots are fired in a Munich shopping centre and a major police operation is under way, German media report.
Posted: | 9:42 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207396 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Al Saraha, a monthly magazine printed in Arabic and widely distributed around London, Ont., recently printed an article with the headline "The Question Which Everyone Ignores: Why Did Hitler Kill the Jews?"
Posted: | 6:28 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207254 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A serviceman who was threatened with a knife near an RAF base was the victim of an attempted abduction, police say.
Posted: | 1:18 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207354 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 10:34 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207086 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
After accusations that Windows 10 collects too much data about users, France's National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has order Microsoft to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. The company has been ordered to "stop collect
Posted: | 9:59 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207248 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:56 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207345 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to expand the company into electric semi trucks and buses, car sharing and solar energy systems
Posted: | 8:56 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207323 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A new brain treatment has helped save an athlete's life and get back on her skis again.
Posted: | 8:41 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207175 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Day two of the Council of the Federation talks in Whitehorse sees the 13 provincial and territorial leaders wrestle with one of the most perennially dysfunctional aspects of Canada's economy: how hard it is to do business across provincial borders.
Posted: | 8:21 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207307 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:19 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207231 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:08 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207463 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The figure of 103 for the UK was the highest in the EU, with six member states reporting 211 in total in 2015, according to Europol.
Posted: | 6:22 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207209 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Canada will support the U.S. and France as they take on a more active role in liberating Iraq's second largest city from ISIS, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says.
Posted: | 6:41 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207229 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 3:06 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207150 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | Robair |
Writer-director Garry Marshall, whose deft touch with comedy and romance led to a string of TV hits that included "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley" and the box-office successes "Pretty Woman" and "Runaway Bride," has died. He was 81.
Posted: | 1:58 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207551 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A "notable" uptick in police-reported crime in Alberta contributed to the first increase in the national rate in 12 years, Statistics Canada says.
Posted: | 1:37 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207398 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Robair |
Posted: | 12:44 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207576 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Authorities are investigating after a riot broke out for six hours Tuesday night at the Burnaby Youth Detention Centre, and inmates set fire to the place, causing extensive property damage
Posted: | 12:40 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207072 |
Rating: | 20707 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Bees are bringing in big bucks to B.C.'s economy, generating $500 million in activity, according to a new report by Vancity credit union.
Posted: | 12:26 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207096 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Morgan faulted the institution rather than the individuals involved for a bout of violence that nearly erupted into a full-scale riot
Posted: | 12:24 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207072 |
Rating: | 20707 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:23 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207217 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
While Ottawa plans to position self-nominations as move to transparency, it has quietly set up committee to provide short list for PM
Posted: | 12:19 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207083 |
Rating: | 20708 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A debate over free speech erupted online after Twitter permanently suspended the account of a well-known conservative pundit.
Posted: | 12:10 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207285 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A Nova Scotia teen has kicked his way into Queen's University on a football scholarship.
Posted: | 12:08 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207080 |
Rating: | 20708 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The parents of a two-month-old baby girl are facing charges after the infant was left unattended inside a hot vehicle in Markham, Ont. earlier this week, police say.
Posted: | 12:07 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207205 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has tasked the country's top civil servant with overseeing a troubled system that has botched paycheques for 80,000 federal workers.
Posted: | 12:01 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207127 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:59 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207207 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
MELANIA Trump's speech writer has claimed responsibility for inserting passages in a speech that resembled an address made by Michelle Obama.
Posted: | 11:34 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207328 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Robert Mugabe isn't known for his subdued taste, and his million-dollar birthday was just as extravagant as people have come to expect.
Posted: | 11:30 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207783 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
An Italian restaurant has come under fire after attempting to take a light-hearted stance on the Black Lives Matter protest movement for an advertisement.
Posted: | 10:48 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207535 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The City of Mississauga is apologizing to a Muslim woman after she and her 11-year- old autistic daughter were asked to leave a public outdoor swimming pool.
Posted: | 9:57 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207970 |
Rating: | 20796 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Most Canadian parents with children under the age of 18 will see more money starting today, as the Liberal government's new Canada Child Benefit payments start flowing to families.
Posted: | 7:19 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207420 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | Robair |
Conservation groups across the country are calling into question both the ethics and the effectiveness of a proposal to recover woodland caribou in Alberta.
Posted: | 6:10 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207302 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A group called Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil has pledged allegiance to ISIS less than three weeks before the Rio Olympics are due to begin.
Posted: | 1:02 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207251 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A group of 300 young migrants have reportedly 'barricaded' themselves inside a building in southern Italy to demand better living conditions.
Posted: | 1:08 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207386 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | martin14 |
The vessel, Henry VIII's flagship, has gone on display in the newly-revamped Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth exactly 471 years after it perished in the Solent on July 19, 1545.
Posted: | 1:07 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207415 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 12:12 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207379 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
This was the third stabbing the city had seen in less than 30 hours. Six people were injured in two separate stabbings in the ByWard Market over the weekend. Police have charged both Mohamed Hamed Mohamed, 26, and Ali Abbari, 21
Posted: | 10:40 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207509 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A woman and her three daughters have been attacked by a knife-wielding man at a holiday site in the south of France, French media report.
Posted: | 10:43 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207192 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Alexander Migues sped his motorcycle alongside the 19-tonne truck driven by Mohamed Bouhlel as it ploughed along the promenade in Nice, killing 84 people watching fireworks on Bastille Day.
Posted: | 10:26 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207164 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The family were attacked on holiday in the Hautes Alpes near Montpellier in the south of France by 37-year-old knifeman Mohamed Boufarkouch, who fled but was later arrested by police.
Posted: | 10:23 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207311 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Three Walmart stores in Thunder Bay, Ont., are no longer accepting Visa, the payment company said Monday as it encouraged its customers to take their business elsewhere.
Posted: | 8:05 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207503 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | uwish |
The judge said there was no evidence to determine what the indigenous woman meant by her words during the attack.
Posted: | 7:48 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207668 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | stemmer |
Posted: | 6:58 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207179 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Setbacks and shortcomings at the federal government's tech support agency could delay Statistics Canada's release of "mission critical" information required by the Bank of Canada, Department of Finance and commercial banks, according to a new report.
Posted: | 6:53 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207365 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Newly released documents shed light on Edward Downey, the man accused of murdering a five-year-old girl and her mother last week. The Parole Board of Canada documents paint the accused as a career criminal who often worked as a pimp and in the drug trade.
Posted: | 6:43 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207148 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Speedy little birds react to the size and movement of objects in their environment.
Posted: | 6:13 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207276 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 3:27 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207397 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A drunk British tourist in Canada was brutally punched and kneed by police as they tried to arrest him for causing a ruckus during the popular Calgary Stampede festival.
Posted: | 12:56 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207380 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The swift rounding up of judges and others accused of taking part in a failed coup in Turkey indicates the government had prepared a list beforehand, the EU commissioner dealing with Turkey's membership bid has said.
Posted: | 9:38 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207885 |
Rating: | 20790 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
GERMAN officials are reporting a 'massive failure in the rule of law' as thousands of refugees due for deportation remain in the country.
Posted: | 9:12 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207178 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 8:56 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207379 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |