BEIRUT - The pilot of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight made a "fast and strange turn" minutes after takeoff from Beirut in a thunderstorm, Lebanon's transportation minister said Tuesday, revealing new clues about the plane's few minutes in flight
Posted: | 6:11 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206704 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The small skull of a diminutive hominid fossil found on a remote island in Indonesia seven years ago are consistent with primate evolution and not likely the result of a disease, researchers say.
Posted: | 6:10 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206851 |
Rating: | 20685 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Chicago Blackhawks got off to a promising start on their season-high eight-game road swing.
Posted: | 6:09 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206701 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
North Korea has issued two no-sail zones near its disputed western sea border with South Korea, according to South Korean defence officials, fuelling speculation the North may be preparing to conduct another round of missile tests.
Posted: | 6:07 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206678 |
Rating: | 20668 |
Poster: | Hyack |
After years of shutdowns and layoffs in B.C.'s forest industry, Kitimat is bracing for a major economic blow, but there is a glimmer of hope for another mill town.
Posted: | 6:03 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206678 |
Rating: | 20668 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Resolute, Nunavut, man is safe at home after he was rescued Monday from a large ice floe in the High Arctic, where he was stranded for more than three days.
Posted: | 6:02 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206649 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Vancouver Canucks plan to meet with staff of the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada over criticism of Alex Burrows, general manager Mike Gillis said Tuesday.
Posted: | 5:59 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206768 |
Rating: | 20677 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:16 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 206821 |
Rating: | 20682 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Police growing frustrated at repeated incidents, including hit-and-run death
Posted: | 1:10 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206738 |
Rating: | 20674 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 1:08 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206701 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
One of two Edmonton females involved in the brutal 2005 golf course sex-slaying of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.
Posted: | 1:07 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206630 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Every Canadian athlete will be eligible for bonus money if they step on the podium in Vancouver next month.
Posted: | 10:12 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206759 |
Rating: | 20677 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Staff at Vancouver City Hall are being told to make sure their socks match their pants, avoid gossiping about their personal lives and to remember to smile, but not too much, as part of their protocol training for handling Olympic dignitaries.
Posted: | 10:10 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206610 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
A female former employee at a southern Alberta school faces seven charges, including sexual exploitation and luring a child, in connection with allegations she communicated by cellphone and text message with two boys who attend the school.
Posted: | 10:08 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206570 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 10:03 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206906 |
Rating: | 20691 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 10:01 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 206696 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 8:59 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206771 |
Rating: | 20677 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 8:54 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206572 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | Hyack |
In a Northlands news release Monday announcing the move, neither Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz nor the Oilers were mentioned as partners or players in the arena project
Posted: | 6:45 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206859 |
Rating: | 20688 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Posted: | 6:31 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207013 |
Rating: | 20701 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Posted: | 6:23 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206621 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Posted: | 10:46 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206817 |
Rating: | 20682 |
Poster: | tritium |
LIMA, Peru - Heavy rains and mudslides in Peru blocked the train route to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu on Monday, keeping nearly 2,000 tourists stranded.
Posted: | 10:06 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206618 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
VANCOUVER -- Brad Lukowich scored his first goal in 111 games Monday and the Vancouver Canucks extended their winning streak to a season-high five games by defeating the Buffalo Sabres 3-2.
Posted: | 10:04 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206655 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canadians will need passports to enter Mexico as of March 1, the country's tourism board advises.
Posted: | 9:58 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206851 |
Rating: | 20685 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Dene leaders in the Northwest Territories plan to take legal action against the government's ban on caribou hunting in an area north of Yellowknife, arguing that it violates their treaty rights.
Posted: | 9:55 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206680 |
Rating: | 20668 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 9:53 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206696 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
OTTAWA -- Green party Leader Elizabeth May has come under attack by senior members of her own party who are upset with her management of the organization and fear she is trying to avoid a mandatory leadership review that party rules say must be held this
Posted: | 2:59 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206837 |
Rating: | 20686 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 2:47 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 206674 |
Rating: | 20667 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Blizzard conditions wreaked havoc across Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba Monday.
Posted: | 2:44 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206629 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
OTTAWA - Onetime Canadian hero Steve Fonyo has lost his Order of Canada.
Posted: | 2:40 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207094 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Search teams recovered 21bodies after an Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people, including a Canadian, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Monday, officials say.
Posted: | 2:36 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206625 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Jupiter's two largest moons look different because Ganymede was pelted with so many comets that it melted while Callisto was spared this bombardment, say astronomers.
Posted: | 2:32 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206722 |
Rating: | 20672 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 2:25 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206645 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Fresh off a convincing home win over one of the top teams in the NHL Western Conference, the Vancouver Canucks will measure themselves against one of the best in the East when they face the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night
Posted: | 2:21 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206708 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Oceans of liquid diamond topped with solid "icebergs" of the precious gems could be on Uranus and Neptune, new research has revealed
Posted: | 1:22 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206776 |
Rating: | 20679 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
The verdict is in. Rouyn-Noranda Huskies forward Patrice Cormier was suspended for the balance of the season and the playoffs by the QMJHL on Monday.
Posted: | 8:32 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 209059 |
Rating: | 20910 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
CALGARY - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean sang an emotional song of hope for Haiti on Sunday as she told a Calgary audience about the power of art to heal and rehabilitate.
Posted: | 10:21 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206781 |
Rating: | 20680 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 10:18 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206840 |
Rating: | 20684 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A small Ontario firm is using retrofitted shipping containers to provide some of the essential equipment aid organizations need when working in areas as devastated as the parts of Haiti damaged in last week's earthquake
Posted: | 10:10 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206848 |
Rating: | 20685 |
Poster: | Hyack |
After some warm, problematic weather on Cypress Mountain, which will host the Olympic snowboarding, freestyle and ski-cross events next month, Mother Nature lent VANOC a helping hand on Sunday in the form of some freshly fallen snow
Posted: | 10:07 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206815 |
Rating: | 20682 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanese aviation and security officials said.
Posted: | 9:59 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207008 |
Rating: | 20701 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Three major road closures are planned this week as part of a continuing attempt by the City of Vancouver to reduce traffic leading into the 2010 Olympic Games
Posted: | 7:07 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206649 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
DALLAS - Crews worked Sunday to protect two sensitive wildlife areas after a crude oil spill shut down parts of a major southeast Texas port
Posted: | 7:06 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206654 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- A 16-year-old has set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.
Posted: | 1:55 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206757 |
Rating: | 20676 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:54 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206614 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canada is joining its NATO allies in providing its infantry with new basic equipment, including electronic gear that, until quite recently, no one saw the troops getting for a decade or more
Posted: | 1:47 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 206866 |
Rating: | 20687 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Earth "changes the colour" of asteroids by shaking them up as they pass, according to scientists.
Posted: | 1:45 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206663 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Ordinary cotton and polyester fabrics have been turned into batteries that retain their flexibility.
Posted: | 1:43 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206646 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Microsoft has released a fix for a hole in Internet Explorer that was the weak link in a "sophisticated and targeted" cyber attack on Google.
Posted: | 1:41 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206888 |
Rating: | 20689 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It is pitch black, icy cold and the pressure is phenomenal. The deepest parts of the ocean are some of the least hospitable places on Earth - yet footage from recent expeditions reveals that life in the oceanic trenches is thriving
Posted: | 1:37 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206867 |
Rating: | 20687 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Governments must tackle the underlying causes of biodiversity loss if they are to stem the rate at which ecosystems and species are disappearing.
Posted: | 1:34 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 206616 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A new US assessment of Venezuela's oil reserves could give the country double the supplies of Saudi Arabia.
Posted: | 1:32 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206672 |
Rating: | 20667 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Some Iraqi officials are insisting that a controversial bomb detection device works, despite a BBC inquiry in which experts said the item was useless.
Posted: | 1:27 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206625 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The new patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church has been enthroned at a ceremony in Belgrade, pledging to back Serbia's claims to Kosovo.
Posted: | 1:23 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 206732 |
Rating: | 20673 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Venezuelan government has taken six cable television channels off the air for breaking a law on transmitting government material.
Posted: | 1:19 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206823 |
Rating: | 20683 |
Poster: | Hyack |
More victims of deadly religious clashes in central Nigeria have been found, with scores of bodies stuffed in wells and sewage pits.
Posted: | 1:16 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206588 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:10 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207336 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:08 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206628 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:04 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206608 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:02 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206688 |
Rating: | 20669 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:59 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206640 |
Rating: | 20664 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:46 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206643 |
Rating: | 20664 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti would damage any city, but the death toll and degree of destruction has more to do with economics and engineering than geology.
Posted: | 12:39 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206747 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:35 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206618 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The confirmed death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake has topped 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area alone
Posted: | 12:32 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206573 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:11 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206617 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Kelsey Serwa of Kelowna, B.C., and Christopher Del Bosco of Sudbury, Ont., won gold Sunday in World Cup skicross action in Lake Placid, N.Y., while Dave Duncan of Golden, B.C., finished third to secure a spot on the Olympic freestyle team.
Posted: | 12:10 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206663 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Quebec junior hockey player Patrice Cormier will learn his fate Monday at 11 a.m. ET after eight days of endless replays, dozens of editorials, hundreds of thousands of written words and one semi-apology
Posted: | 12:07 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206611 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:06 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207052 |
Rating: | 20706 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The driver of a bus with five passengers aboard that plunged into the Tracadie River in northeastern Nova Scotia Saturday night was behind the wheel during a similar crash less than a year ago
Posted: | 12:01 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206563 |
Rating: | 20656 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Canadian military has a helicopter on standby to rescue a hunter from a drifting ice floe in the Northwest Passage, but they can't reach the man because of stormy weather.
Posted: | 11:58 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206628 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A massive winter storm blowing its way through parts of Saskatchewan and into Manitoba is wreaking havoc, with many people waking Sunday to power outages, icy highways and whiteout conditions.
Posted: | 11:55 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206628 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It was the e-mails that gave Cheryl Bernard an early hint about how drastically her life was about to change after winning the Tim Hortons Olympic Curling Trials.
Posted: | 7:26 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207042 |
Rating: | 20704 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
TORONTO -- No wonder he's tired. The TTC collector caught sleeping inside a Scarborough station is a veteran employee who once saved the life of a rider
Posted: | 10:26 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206887 |
Rating: | 20689 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Roberto Luongo is making Canadian Olympic hockey coach Mike Babcock's job tougher by the day.
Posted: | 10:22 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206703 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The diocese of Bathurst, N.B., has asked the Vatican to strip a priest, who was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for 22 sex-related offences, of his status.
Posted: | 10:16 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 206695 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 3:58 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 206590 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 3:55 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 206700 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that left tens of thousands dead and millions homeless in Haiti may not have been an isolated incident, according to one expert.
Posted: | 3:46 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206642 |
Rating: | 20664 |
Poster: | Hyack |
TORONTO - Canadians who endured two tough winters and the "summer that wasn't" may be heartened to hear that the mild January weather seen in much of the country may set the trend for the rest of this winter.
Posted: | 3:41 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 206651 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are in for a weekend of stormy weather as two nasty systems move through the region. The first storm began Friday night and delivered five to 10 centimetres of snow and, in some areas of Manitoba, freezing rain. More precipitatio
Posted: | 3:39 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206632 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Thousands of people attended rallies in towns and cities across Canada on Saturday to speak out against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to suspend Parliament until March
Posted: | 3:36 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206893 |
Rating: | 20689 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:02 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206636 |
Rating: | 20664 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
BOSTON -- Jason Spezza scored the winner in the second period to help the surging Ottawa Senators earn their sixth straight victory, a 2-1 decision over the Boston Bruins on Saturday.
Posted: | 12:50 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206696 |
Rating: | 20671 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame is on its way to having a permanent home.
Posted: | 9:28 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 206935 |
Rating: | 20695 |
Poster: | kitty |
Statistics claim that from three to 10 per cent of Americans have a sex addiction, but the condition is not listed in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and not all experts agree that problematic s
Posted: | 9:14 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 206764 |
Rating: | 20676 |
Poster: | kitty |
Down 3-2 late in the third, the Oilers looked like they were sending the game to overtime after sustained pressure in the Stars zone as Sam Gagner was credited with his second goal of the game after Mike Modano inadvertently kicked it into his own goal wi
Posted: | 9:18 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206739 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Posted: | 9:08 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 206974 |
Rating: | 20698 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 9:09 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206789 |
Rating: | 20679 |
Poster: | kitty |
First she lost her Daddy. Now Daniela and her family face losing their home
Posted: | 9:04 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206782 |
Rating: | 20678 |
Poster: | kitty |
A Charlottetown man convicted of attempting to lure a 12-year-old over the internet has been left "culturally and socially isolated," his lawyer said at a sentencing hearing Friday.
Posted: | 9:05 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206820 |
Rating: | 20682 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 9:02 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206598 |
Rating: | 20660 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 8:57 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206572 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
The federal government has removed its cap on the dollar amount it will give to match Canadians' donations to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Saturday.
Posted: | 8:49 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206646 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
LOS ANGELES - Fans trickling out of the final taping of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien describe a show that will air tonight as whimsical, sad, yet still upbeat.
Posted: | 8:45 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 206827 |
Rating: | 20683 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
For every 300 Muscovites, there's a stray dog wandering the streets of Russia's capital. And according to Andrei Poyarkov, a researcher at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the fierce pressure of urban living has driven the dogs to ev
Posted: | 6:46 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206681 |
Rating: | 20668 |
Poster: | DerbyX |
Flag-draped caskets carrying the bodies of Sgt. Mark Gallagher and Chief Supt. Doug Coates arrived under sunny skies at CFB Trenton, east of Toronto, from Haiti shortly after 3:30 p.m. ET.
Posted: | 5:46 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206630 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
The U.S.-based Hope for Haiti Now telethon merged a series of celebrity appeals with stunning musical performances on Friday night. Actor George Clooney and musician Wyclef Jean pulled together Hollywood's best and brightest for the two-hour telethon t
Posted: | 5:42 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 206901 |
Rating: | 20691 |
Poster: | commanderkai |
CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick - In response to the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti January 12, the Canadian Forces (CF) is conducting Operation HESTIA.
Posted: | 11:39 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 206779 |
Rating: | 20678 |
Poster: | Hyack |
While Canada is considered a powerhouse in the curling world, there is hope that new research into the sport will help make the home team nearly invincible at the Olympics in Vancouver next month.
Posted: | 11:28 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206595 |
Rating: | 20660 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Canadian Jeff Batchelor won a silver medal at the World Cup halfpipe competition Friday to secure a spot on the Canadian Olympic snowboard team.
Posted: | 11:26 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206587 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
While Rouyn-Noranda Huskies' forward Patrice Cormier awaits word on the severity of his suspension, the victim of his brutal hit, Quebec Remparts' defenceman Mikael Tam broke his silence Friday, revealing the details of his struggle since suffering brain
Posted: | 11:11 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206642 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 11:10 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206980 |
Rating: | 20700 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Haitian officials have confirmed that the death toll from the January 12 earthquake now stands at over 110,000, with 193,000 more people wounded and another 609,000 forced into temporary shelters.
Posted: | 10:45 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206771 |
Rating: | 20677 |
Poster: | tritium |
Five journalists plan to lock themselves away in a French farmhouse with access only to Facebook and Twitter to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites.
Posted: | 5:34 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206857 |
Rating: | 20686 |
Poster: | tritium |
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, speaking to his caucus on Parliament Hill, says "Canada is safer, stronger and better off" after four years of Conservative rule.
Posted: | 5:32 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206932 |
Rating: | 20693 |
Poster: | tritium |
Auditor General Sheila Fraser says she is impressed with development work Canada's military has undertaken in Afghanistan, but has concerns over what will happen to projects once the soldiers pull out.
Posted: | 5:00 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206688 |
Rating: | 20669 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A green sea slug found off North America's east coast not only looks like a leaf, but can also make food out of sunlight, just like a plant.
Posted: | 4:52 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206988 |
Rating: | 20700 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Inuit in Canada are not pleased with the federal government for quietly banning the export of polar bear parts in Nunavut's Baffin Bay area.
Posted: | 4:45 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206700 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
MRI analysis shows dolphins are more self aware than scientists realized
Posted: | 1:58 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206684 |
Rating: | 20668 |
Poster: | tritium |
The federal government ran a deficit of $4.4-billion in November, figures released Friday show.
Posted: | 1:54 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206633 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | tritium |
Dan Woolley used medical application to diagnose injuries, help stop bleeding after being trapped in wake of 7.0-magnitude earthquake
Posted: | 1:49 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206732 |
Rating: | 20674 |
Poster: | tritium |
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer looks toward a car coming toward him on Saturday crossing between the U.S. and Canada in Blaine, Wash.
Posted: | 1:43 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206594 |
Rating: | 20658 |
Poster: | tritium |
Mellisa Hollingsworth has full confidence that the track at the Whistler Sliding Centre will be in immaculate, consistent shape for the women's skeleton event at the Vancouver 2010 Games.
Posted: | 1:44 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206642 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Beijing issued a stinging response Friday to Hillary Clinton's criticism that it is jamming the free flow of words and ideas on the Internet, accusing the United States of damaging relations between the two countries by imposing its "information imperiali
Posted: | 1:35 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206658 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | tritium |
The World Wide Web might want to consider a name-change now that its reach has expanded beyond the confines of our planet.
Posted: | 9:59 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206714 |
Rating: | 20672 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
When the man who nearly killed Shayleen Richtik finally boarded a plane leaving Canada, it opened her door to the world again, she said.
Posted: | 9:55 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206966 |
Rating: | 20698 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
A winter storm has once again exposed a large section of a century-old shipwreck on P.E.I.'s North Shore.
Posted: | 9:48 AM on Friday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207410 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's top cleric wants Muslims to answer the call to prayer, but not when its ringing on their cellphones.
Posted: | 9:22 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 206871 |
Rating: | 20688 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 9:20 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 206861 |
Rating: | 20686 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
TORONTO -- A fully loaded, 9-mm, semi-automatic handgun � tucked away in a sock � allegedly sat atop the night table in Venkat Milligan�s room on the 14th-floor of St. Michael�s Hospital when undercover drug cops took him down.
Posted: | 9:14 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 206948 |
Rating: | 20695 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Vancouver Police are apologizing to a man who was injured in an arrest last week -- in what ended up being a case of mistaken identity that was further complicated by language barriers.
Posted: | 9:10 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206664 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
CALGARY -- Calgary Police laid an assault charge against one of its own officers Thursday related to an on-duty incident last January.
Posted: | 9:08 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206566 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 9:06 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 206814 |
Rating: | 20681 |
Poster: | WDHIII |
Posted: | 9:04 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206772 |
Rating: | 20677 |
Poster: | WDHIII |