The P.E.I. government has announced several new measures to prevent drivers from illegally passing school buses, in a province that already has the highest fines in the country for ignoring the law.
Posted: | 7:03 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207820 |
Rating: | 20782 |
Poster: | Robair |
Ukrainian officials on Friday barred Russian males between ages 16 and 60 from travelling to the country in the latest escalation of tensions between the neighbours.
Posted: | 6:08 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207581 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Niagara Regional Police officer is in stable condition in a Hamilton hospital after being shot by a fellow police officer in Pelham, Ont., the service says.
Posted: | 6:07 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207600 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Alberta needs to buy as many as 7,000 railcars if it wants to be able to meet its goal of shipping an additional 120,000 barrels of oil a day, says Premier Rachel Notley.
Posted: | 5:53 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207640 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Life expectancy in the United States declined from 2016 to 2017, yet the 10 leading causes of death remained the same, government researchers say. Increasing drug overdose deaths and suicides may explain this slight downtick. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfi
Posted: | 5:52 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207537 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
New Delhi police have arrested 63 suspects in the last two months working and operating 26 call centers that were engaging in tech support scams, posing as tech support staff at Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other major tech companies.
Posted: | 5:50 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207469 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A 78-year-old inmate who says he killed roughly 90 people as he moved around the country for nearly four decades offered his confessions as a bargaining chip to be moved from a California prison, authorities say.
Posted: | 9:24 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207500 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A ship strike has been blamed for the death of a female humpback whale that was found near Tsawwassen, B.C. The whale was found near a BC Ferries terminal on Nov. 16.
Posted: | 9:06 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207615 |
Rating: | 20762 |
Poster: | Hyack |
City staff say the king tides of today will be the high tides of 2050. A renewed climate change strategy is to be put before council next week. King tides are predictable sea level events that occur roughly twice a year. They are when the tide reaches its
Posted: | 9:04 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207498 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Fortifying an Illinois waterway to prevent invasive carp from using it as a path to Lake Michigan could cost nearly three times as much as federal planners previously thought, according to an updated report.
Posted: | 10:38 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207599 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Scientists are at a loss to explain a strange seismic event that shook the planet on November 11 and was picked up by earthquake sensors stationed across the globe.
Posted: | 10:08 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207648 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A conservative political advocacy group has launched a TTC ad campaign urging federal politicians to ban Saudi Arabian oil imports.With the campaign currently supported by radio spots, a mobile billboard and an ad-wrapped TTC streetcar, Ontario Proud foun
Posted: | 9:31 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207606 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 8:56 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207641 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Health Canada has been warning about MMS for years, the so-called Miracle Mineral Solution, a bleach-like product that can cause serious illnesses. Now, a B.C. man has been convicted of packaging, advertising and selling the solution.
Posted: | 8:52 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207578 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The number of police-reported hate crimes reached an all-time high in 2017, largely driven by incidents targeting Muslim, Jewish and black people, according to newly released Statistics Canada data.
Posted: | 8:50 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207440 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Police say a man was killed by a wild elephant after his speeding car hit the animal near a national park in northeastern Thailand.
Posted: | 6:14 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207514 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) said a man lawfully acquired multiple handguns during a nine-month period beginning in Feb. 2016. He then sold them on the black market, police said.
Posted: | 6:07 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207329 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Douglas Jesson could tell the little girl in red and white polka-dotted rubber boots had been crying as he watched her being escorted from one car to another by a man who had parked near the girl's home in northwest Calgary.
Posted: | 5:12 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207429 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Earlier this year, a federal judge in Fresno, California, denied prosecutors' efforts to compel Facebook to help it wiretap Messenger voice calls. But the precise legal arguments that the government made, and that the judge ultimately rejected, are still
Posted: | 5:07 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207205 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:25 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207566 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.When it comes to Canada’s role on the world stage, the Trudeau government has been quietly siding with the world’s worst tyrants and human rights abusers.
Posted: | 10:54 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207582 |
Rating: | 20758 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
Darwin Martinez-Torres, 25 has pleaded guilty to eight counts, including capital murder, in the June 2017 slaying of 17-year-old Muslim girl Nabra Hassanen in Virginia.
Posted: | 4:44 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207373 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Alleged online ISIS supporter Othman Ayed Hamdan was accepted as a refugee based on his claim that his abandonment of Islam had put him at risk in Jordan, but the government argued his "conversion to Christianity was bogus."
Posted: | 10:13 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207322 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Bill and Hillary Clinton launched their paid 13-city speaking tour in Toronto in an ice hockey arena Tuesday night.
Posted: | 10:00 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207413 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
People tucking into dinner at a Brazilian steakhouse were interrupted by vegan activists who stormed the restaurant then forced them to listen to the sounds of cows being slaughtered. The...
Posted: | 9:58 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207760 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A life-sized cut-out of a police officer keeping watch over a stretch of Mariner Way in Coquitlam is proving effective at slowing speeders, according to early results of a Coquitlam RCMP pilot project.
Posted: | 9:59 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207287 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
This young man is hard to kill.But as a disturbing surveillance video shows, the men who repeatedly shot him sure tried their best to do just that.
Posted: | 9:55 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207459 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 9:52 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207467 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The federal government's plan to award to a group of companies led by Lockheed Martin Canada the contract to design and support the construction of the navy's new frigates was dealt another setback late Tuesday by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal
Posted: | 9:02 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207506 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A legal challenge seeks to reveal purported charges in Virginia against the Wikileaks founder.
Posted: | 6:43 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207186 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An Ohio man charged with killing a woman during a white nationalist rally in Virginia in 2017 plans to argue that he believed he was acting in self defence when he drove his car into a crowd of counter protesters.
Posted: | 6:24 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207217 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
After over 30 years, Frank Ostrowski has won his fight to reverse his conviction for first-degree murder.
Posted: | 6:14 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207220 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A massive Australian cow named Knickers has been spared the slaughterhouse and the dinner table thanks to its sheer size.
Posted: | 6:12 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207287 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
It could take weeks to get a disaster-stopping piece of equipment to Newfoundland and Labrador in the event of a subsea oil blowout, according to documents filed by Statoil, now known as Equinor, the company behind the province's first foray into deepwate
Posted: | 7:01 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207383 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Gordon Smith initially applied for a bed in May, but was denied because he wasn't a Canadian when he served in the Second World War. The 91-year-old was with the British navy at the time, but immigrated to Canada after the war and served in the Royal Cana
Posted: | 6:55 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207374 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A life-sized cut-out of a police officer keeping watch over a stretch of Mariner Way in Coquitlam is proving effective at slowing speeders, according to early results of a Coquitlam RCMP pilot project.
Posted: | 6:52 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207159 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Bus was carrying students from College Heights Secondary School in Prince George. The crash happened on Highway 97 at around noon. A tweet from Interior Health said none of victims suffered serious injuries.
Posted: | 6:50 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207191 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:47 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207527 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:44 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207160 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Only a few of the prized fish remain in the pond of the Chinatown garden in Vancouver, B.C., as a wayward otter continues to elude capture. Staff at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden are now trying to save the few remaining fish, but first they
Posted: | 4:01 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207396 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Elias Pettersson has drawn awe from around the NHL with his stunning goals and mind-bending moves over the past two months, but those who've played alongside him say there's likely more to come. The Vancouver Canucks rookie has already notched 13 goals an
Posted: | 3:59 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207302 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Three days away from the target date for all three countries to officially sign the revised North American trade agreement, Canada and the United States are still haggling over what the deal actually says.
Posted: | 2:13 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207405 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Robair |
The 35-year-old woman was admitted at Services Hospital in Lahore on Friday where she underwent surgery for hemorrhoids and was discharged later in the evening.
Posted: | 1:21 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207707 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to cut all General Motors subsidies after the automaker announced thousands of jobs cuts.
Posted: | 12:53 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207691 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Robair |
Posted: | 11:11 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207195 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
"There are techniques in here around major case management and investigation that are, I believe, sensitive to police investigations," Regina police Chief Evan Bray tells reporters.
Posted: | 9:45 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207114 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
In the 'perverse' decision by the unnamed local authority, staff approached the jailed sex attacker and offered him help to be involved in his son's upbringing.
Posted: | 9:18 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207205 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 9:02 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207244 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Heart-stopping video shows Chris Gursky realizing he is not attached just seconds after the pilot took off. For the next two minutes he held on for dear life as the pilot tried to steer to safety.
Posted: | 8:50 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207603 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Syrian workers have exhumed more than 500 bodies from one of the largest mass graves near the northern city of Raqqa, once the capital of the Islamic State group's self-styled caliphate, and are still uncovering remains, a local official says.
Posted: | 7:51 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207127 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:35 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207079 |
Rating: | 20708 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:00 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207010 |
Rating: | 20701 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Solar panels are cheap and getting cheaper. A recent study found that the cost per kilowatt-hour of solar has fallen below coal and gas. Even a recent US tariff on Chinese solar cells and modules (the components that make up solar panels) hasn't been enou
Posted: | 6:41 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207174 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
National Access Cannabis, country's largest private marijuana retailer, has a team of five people watching for new inventory from Alberta's provincial regulator
Posted: | 6:37 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207006 |
Rating: | 20701 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci said the Liberals have been proving again and again that they just don't understand the crisis facing the oil industry.
Posted: | 6:33 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206973 |
Rating: | 20697 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
No punch line here! A bear had no trouble opening a door as it strolled into a California Highway Patrol office in a Truckee.
Posted: | 6:15 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 207264 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Bow River likely won't be able to support its "world-renowned" recreational fishery in future as the river's rainbow trout population is in drastic decline, according to a new study.
Posted: | 6:08 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207111 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A growing number of plastic surgeons are documenting high incidents of health problems with the textured implants. But device makers defend their safety, in part, through industry funded studies authored by researchers who are paid consultants.
Posted: | 5:17 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207076 |
Rating: | 20708 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Jeremy and Kirsty Morris won $75,000 in a lawsuit after they claimed an Idaho Homeowners Association discriminated against their religious beliefs when they tried to stop a nativity event.
Posted: | 4:53 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207422 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 4:28 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206976 |
Rating: | 20698 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
This report should be profoundly embarrassing to the government of Justin Trudeau
Posted: | 12:46 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207114 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Hundreds evacuate their homes in Queensland amid "unprecedented" weather conditions, officials say.
Posted: | 12:03 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207007 |
Rating: | 20701 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The RCMP organized two workshops last March to raise awareness about threats to critical systems, including espionage and foreign interference, cyberattacks, terrorism and sabotage, newly disclosed documents show.
Posted: | 7:10 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207132 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:32 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 206956 |
Rating: | 20696 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Thousands of employees at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., are bracing for devastating news today as government sources confirm the assembly plant is set to close in 2019.
Posted: | 6:31 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207261 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Ukraine's president is demanding that Russia immediately release Ukrainian sailors and ships seized in a standoff around Crimea that sharply escalated tensions between the two countries and drew international concern.
Posted: | 6:19 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206982 |
Rating: | 20698 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:02 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207173 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Scientists from the Rockefeller University and the University of Basel surveyed genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals and deduced that we sprang from a single pair.
Posted: | 1:55 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207227 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Jax Burnside was crabbing with his mom off the end of a dock in Colwood B.C. last weekend when his six-year-old hero instincts kicked in. The sun was just going down and it was their last catch of the day when Jax's mom, Shannon Burnside, lost her footing
Posted: | 9:42 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207021 |
Rating: | 20702 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Environment Canada says up to 80 mm of rain could fall in Metro Vancouver by Tuesday. Rainfall and wind warnings are now in place for 15 areas along B.C.'s coast as a strong winter storm hits the province.
Posted: | 5:26 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207122 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Former Toronto Blue Jay Jose Bautista has a new namesake buzzing around, thanks to a scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Entomologist Bob Anderson has dubbed a newly discovered species of beetle Sicoderus bautistai after the Major League
Posted: | 5:23 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207118 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Researchers have discovered a network of 4,000-year-old termite mounds in Brazil that are so big, they can be seen from space. We hear all about the discovery, and how the much-maligned termite could teach humans a lot about biofuels and even robotics.
Posted: | 5:05 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207000 |
Rating: | 20700 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A year after the Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed off several West Coast sports fishing area to protect orcas, fishermen say they're worried more closures are on the way along the southern Vancouver Island.
Posted: | 5:01 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 206952 |
Rating: | 20695 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Four koi are left at a classical Chinese garden in Vancouver after an elusive otter killed another three of them over the weekend. There was a glimmer of hope the day before, when garden staff caught and relocated one koi to the Vancouver Aquarium.
Posted: | 4:59 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206991 |
Rating: | 20699 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Intelligence sources on both sides of the Atlantic told the Telegraph that spy bosses in London were frantically appealing to Trump not to make the classified documents public.
Posted: | 2:48 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207119 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Half of 28 attempted replications failed even under near-ideal conditions.
Posted: | 2:42 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207246 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A sweatshirt worn by a protester at Thursday's pipeline rally is raising eyebrows, but the company's owner is standing by its design.
Posted: | 2:40 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207387 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
An audio recording from a 25-year-old Mississauga man's cellphone has prompted Peel Regional Police to launch an internal investigation.
Posted: | 2:36 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206981 |
Rating: | 20698 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Ersatz bread from Ukraine's 1932-33 famine was preserved for decades as criminal "evidence" against a church choir conductor who saved the scraps to tell future generations of the "terrible hunger."
Posted: | 2:34 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207440 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Finance Minister Bill Morneau said the government will provide $450,000 to Pride Toronto to lead an initiative that aims to improve the relationship between the LGBTQ community and the criminal justice system.
Posted: | 6:48 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206993 |
Rating: | 20699 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The prince, a former Saudi intelligence chief who has also served as ambassador to the United States, said the agency's conclusion that Iraq possessed chemical weapons before the U.S. invasion in 2003 showed it could be unreliable. This is my answer to
Posted: | 1:25 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206969 |
Rating: | 20697 |
Poster: | Robair |
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the current low price of Canadian oil is a "crisis" for Alberta, but brought nothing in the way of new help for the industry while greeted in Calgary by thousands of protesters on Thursday.
Posted: | 12:21 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207204 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 10:51 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207087 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The Liberal government spent $500,000 on outside advisers to come up with a logo, name and branding for a new agency that promises to alleviate poverty in developing countries, internal documents reveal.
Posted: | 10:46 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206964 |
Rating: | 20696 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Even as the economic hurdles pile up, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists his pledge to balance the federal books in four years is "very" cast in stone. Trudeau's remarks follow several revelations that his new government is standing on significantly sh
Posted: | 10:45 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207352 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali and his brother Diaa are facing jail for contempt of court after refusing to stop work on building an Islamic retreat north of Sydney.
Posted: | 9:38 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207655 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 3:31 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207201 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Five hundred cows, two luxury cars, $10,000, two bikes, a boat and a few cellphones made up the final price in a heated bidding war for a child bride in South Sudan that went viral after the auction was pointed out on Facebook. It is the largest dowry eve
Posted: | 3:33 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207103 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | Strutz |
B.C.'s public auto insurer is facing bigger than expected financial losses this year, and Attorney General David Eby warns the government will need to make even more changes to how ICBC operates.
Posted: | 1:22 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207048 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Three teens laughed as they took turns having sex with a 17-year-old girl, even as she cried out in pain and said "no." Two are now on trial, the third plead guilty last year. WARNING: Details of this story may be extremely disturbing to some readers.
Posted: | 11:25 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207156 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Two policemen were among four killed when militants attacked the building in Karachi, in Pakistan.
Posted: | 10:20 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207200 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 10:03 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206990 |
Rating: | 20699 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A spokesperson for Border Security Minister Bill Blair said that only 10 rooms remain occupied as of Nov. 21, down from 64 at the start of October
Posted: | 9:56 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207062 |
Rating: | 20706 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
One of George Soros's lieutenants says US politicians must investigate Facebook's smear campaign.
Posted: | 9:45 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207208 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Morneau said the government wants to protect the 'vital role that independent news media play in our democracy and in our communities'
Posted: | 9:41 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207307 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Virtually branded a racist, small landlord John Alabi loses at every turn.The Divisional Court has just refused to overturn the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario decision ordering him to pay an astounding $12,000 for violating the religious rights
Posted: | 8:52 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207134 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Most of the seven employees suffering dizziness, headaches and trouble concentrating are working in various new roles.
Posted: | 8:13 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207075 |
Rating: | 20708 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Speaker Darryl Plecas and his new special adviser are under fire Thursday morning after B.C. Liberal House Leader Mary Polak presented a sworn affidavit that Plecas wanted to appoint his friend Alan Mullen as the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Posted: | 8:10 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207211 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:55 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207195 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Erik Guay, one of Canada's most decorated alpine skiers, has decided to walk away from the sport effective immediately.
Posted: | 1:45 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207098 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | Robair |
Amnesty International says it obtained testimony from three different people who said the women detained in Dhahban Prison have been repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly.
Posted: | 11:22 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207116 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | Robair |
Posted: | 10:41 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207649 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
There were voices claiming that the federal Liberals would add to the deficit when they announced the federal government would buy the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion. Liberal spending plans will, indeed, keep Canada in the
Posted: | 10:40 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207156 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her government is close to finalizing investment deals on six projects on partial upgrading of oilsands bitumen that will be worth nearly $5 billion and create hundreds of long-term jobs.
Posted: | 7:57 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207132 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:53 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207448 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:10 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207243 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
China has long experimented with systems that grade its citizens, rewarding good behaviour with streamlined services while punishing bad actions with penalties
Posted: | 7:08 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207031 |
Rating: | 20703 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:43 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207163 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:38 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207160 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A travel Twitter account misplaced the popular B.C. attraction on a lush Portuguese island. To set the record straight. the Capilano Suspension Bridge is actually: Not a hiking trail but a bridge that's 70 metres above the Capilano River. In No
Posted: | 11:15 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207107 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A wayward otter who is ravaging the prized koi population at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, a popular Vancouver park is proving to be a slippery customer. The animal appeared in the garden five days ago, soon after it was spotted on Carrall Str
Posted: | 11:07 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207346 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Scientists have developed a video simulation of how whales become entangled in fishing lines, and say the technology could help lead to new and safer gear designs.
Posted: | 11:04 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207190 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The DFO was contacted by Cowichan Bay locals who believed the sea lion was in distress. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it will launch a rescue of a sea lion with what appears to be a packing strap deeply embedded in its neck in Cowichan Bay.
Posted: | 11:00 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207087 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Doug Clark of the University of Saskatchewan says he's got the first recorded proof of grizzly, black and polar bears all using the same land. "Scientifically, it has never been documented anywhere," he told The Canadian Press.
Posted: | 10:57 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207420 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A new study analyzed 37 million tweets from Americans and Canadians and found that Canadians tend to send tweets with more positive words, while Americans have a habit for swearing.
Posted: | 10:52 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206969 |
Rating: | 20697 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A 30-year-old B.C. woman was fined $2,300 for driving at 215 km/h in a 110 km/h zone north of Boyle Alta. on Aug. 14. Police also received complaints about that same vehicle driving fast and passing other vehicles on double solid lines near the school in
Posted: | 10:49 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207258 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Johnson Indoor Track at MIT probably won't go down in history in the same way as Kitty Hawk has, but it was the scene of a first in powered flight. A team of researchers has managed to build the first aircraft powered by an ionic wind, a propulsion sy
Posted: | 11:56 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207007 |
Rating: | 20701 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Two caribou herds have seen their numbers decline by 50 per cent. In response, the territorial government is considering tighter restrictions on hunting.
Posted: | 11:41 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207206 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 10:41 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207153 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
According to the people familiar with the detentions, at least one prisoner was hung from the ceiling during an interrogation
Posted: | 9:32 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207089 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The 250,000-litre spill happened on Friday morning while Husky Energy's SeaRose platform was preparing to restart production during a fierce storm that was, at the time, the most intense in the world.
Posted: | 6:39 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207218 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Two key officials at the British Columbia Legislature have been placed on indefinite leave over what an official says is a criminal investigation.
Posted: | 5:20 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207159 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A federal judge has dismissed several charges against Dr. Jumana Nagarwala in the historic female genital mutilation case, ruling that the federal law against female genital mutilation is unconstitutional.
Posted: | 12:10 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207049 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The global chemical weapons watchdog's initiative to apportion blame for poison gas and nerve agent attacks survived two institutional challenges from Russia on Tuesday and is set to become operational next year.
Posted: | 10:22 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207050 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:33 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207407 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including plastic bags and flip-flops, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting
Posted: | 8:22 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207554 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |