Ongoing efforts to save some spectacular-but-threatened hangars at Downsview Airport offer valuable lessons on the challenge of rehabilitating landmarks
Posted: | 7:43 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206688 |
Rating: | 20669 |
Poster: | kitty |
Strategic purchases of well-known brands and alliances with Western car firms have put China in the fast lane of industry
Posted: | 7:41 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206948 |
Rating: | 20695 |
Poster: | kitty |
Thumbing a sentence in under four seconds flat bestowed on Kathy "Babysweetz" Spence the title of Canada's fastest texter, but now the nimble-fingered Toronto teen is honing a new skill to win a world title.
Posted: | 7:39 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 206898 |
Rating: | 20690 |
Poster: | kitty |
Some structures exert a mysterious and powerful hold on the severely depressed. Officials in San Francisco are debating a barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge to thwart leapers, just as Toronto did with its 'Luminous Veil.'
Posted: | 7:31 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206746 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | kitty |
The family dog is more family than you think.
Posted: | 7:28 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206776 |
Rating: | 20679 |
Poster: | kitty |
A Montreal man no longer faces a public beheading in Saudi Arabia, but his supporters say he still has a long way to go as he must now brave a trio of new judges and a fresh trial in connection with a fatal after-school brawl in 2007.
Posted: | 7:25 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206622 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | kitty |
An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a U.S. Marine and an Afghan soldier, Britain's military said Sunday.
Posted: | 7:23 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 206660 |
Rating: | 20667 |
Poster: | kitty |
A marketing professor is amazed at how quickly public opinion on the internet spurred Loblaws to drop its lawsuit for damages in the 2008 New Brunswick accident that killed seven members of the Bathurst High School basketball team and the coach's wife.
Posted: | 12:05 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207234 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | tritium |
The RCMP said officers were pursuing a driver who had struck several other vehicles in the Deep Cove neighbourhood at about 2:30 p.m. PT.
Posted: | 12:05 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206655 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | tritium |
A group of imams from across Canada issued a fatwa Friday to condemn any attacks by extremists against Canada or the United States to be attacks against the 10 million Muslims living in North America
Posted: | 10:10 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 206781 |
Rating: | 20678 |
Poster: | Hyack |
St. Stephen Mayor Jed Purcell is hoping the end of long lineups this summer will also bring an economic boost to the downtown. "It will help the businesses and help attract business, because nobody's going to open a store in this town with the backup of t
Posted: | 4:54 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206824 |
Rating: | 20682 |
Poster: | gigs |
Posted: | 3:08 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206826 |
Rating: | 20683 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Crowds gathered in the Downtown Eastside on Saturday morning to witness the return of a Vancouver landmark: A massive, 6700-lb. red 'W'.
Posted: | 2:54 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206865 |
Rating: | 20687 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 2:49 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206710 |
Rating: | 20671 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 8:42 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 209304 |
Rating: | 20931 |
Poster: | wildrosegirl |
Ontario's push to have family doctors work in collaborative teams with other health professionals is paying off financially for the physicians and is resulting in better patient care, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Posted: | 6:38 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 206590 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | kitty |
Canada's national radio broadcaster has partnered with e-Radio Inc. of Toronto to test a way to control "smart grid" appliances using FM radio frequencies. So far, the companies say, the results are encouraging.
Posted: | 6:15 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206665 |
Rating: | 20668 |
Poster: | kitty |
Cold winter weather has finally arrived. Even though pets have fur coats, they still require care when the mercury drops. Keep your family companions safe with a few precautions and the following tips.
Posted: | 5:55 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 206663 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | kitty |
An Ontario woman who made national headlines for her plight in a Mexican prison and who was returned to jail on Thursday night on a charge of violating her parole, is �crying out for help,� says a close friend.
Posted: | 5:58 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206650 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | stemmer |
She's 19, has a gun licence and is a beauty queen being hailed as an unlikely hero of Canada's fading commercial seal hunt. Miss Newfoundland and Labrador, Sara Green, took to the airwaves Friday in defence of the centuries-old tradition after a gory d
Posted: | 5:50 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206652 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | kitty |
Sexting (text + sex) seems a logical product of a culture where cellphones and sexy, suggestive images are ubiquitous. Although there are no known Canadian statistics, a recent Pew Research Center study suggests 15 per cent of U.S. teenagers age 12 to 17
Posted: | 5:46 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207145 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | kitty |
Posted: | 5:37 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 206828 |
Rating: | 20684 |
Poster: | kitty |
Posted: | 9:53 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206608 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Spruce Grove, Alta., native was nearly perfect at a World Cup moguls event Friday, earning her 22nd career World Cup title in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Canada Olympic Park near Calgary.
Posted: | 9:49 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206609 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 3:00 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 206909 |
Rating: | 20690 |
Poster: | kitty |
The leader of Northern Ireland is under withering political fire after it emerged that his wife, a 60-year-old MP, may have given political favours to her teenage lover.
Posted: | 2:58 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206735 |
Rating: | 20674 |
Poster: | kitty |
Documentary celebrates anniversary of Fox show that has changed the way we watch cartoons
Posted: | 2:48 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207091 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | kitty |
As Olympic organizers in Whistler, B.C., gear up for the 2010 Winter Games in February, the area's homeless are being forced to relocate.
Posted: | 1:27 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206784 |
Rating: | 20678 |
Poster: | tritium |
Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on December 25, pleaded not guilty Friday to six federal charges.
Posted: | 11:21 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206604 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | putz |
At least 30 RCMP officers have converged on the Alberta farm of Wiebo Ludwig, and have taken the convicted oil-patch bomber into custody, CTV British Columbia's Lisa Rossington reported.
Posted: | 11:19 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206908 |
Rating: | 20691 |
Poster: | putz |
man who decided to help clear the street with his own push snowblower ended up with a public intoxication ticket.
Posted: | 9:50 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206780 |
Rating: | 20679 |
Poster: | tritium |
Posted: | 7:58 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206770 |
Rating: | 20676 |
Poster: | gigs |
Paula Sladewski, a 26-year-old who once modeled for Playboy, was identified Wednesday by Miami police as the person found dead and "burned beyond recognition" in a trash bin on Sunday.
Posted: | 6:53 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207972 |
Rating: | 20798 |
Poster: | Brenda |
Imagine looking up from the bottom of the CN Tower and seeing the belly of a shark.
Posted: | 4:21 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206707 |
Rating: | 20671 |
Poster: | kitty |
Sharon Brown was hiking with family and her 1-year-old daughter in a Kenyan nature reserve when their unarmed guide suddenly froze in his tracks. Around a corner was an elephant.
Posted: | 4:19 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206925 |
Rating: | 20693 |
Poster: | kitty |
Hopes Kim Yu-Na will benefit from his Olympic experience
Posted: | 3:53 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206894 |
Rating: | 20689 |
Poster: | kitty |
WASHINGTON - Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.
Posted: | 10:38 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206579 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
CANBERRA, Australia - The high-tech anti-whaling boat damaged in a collision with a Japanese whaler sank off Antarctica on Friday, but posed no threat to the pristine environment, a conservation group said.
Posted: | 10:35 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206628 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Saskatchewan man using prescribed marijuana is appealing a decision by the province's Workers' Compensation Board not to pay for the drug.
Posted: | 10:26 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 206633 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
People planning to take the new rapid transit line from Vancouver International Airport will have to pay a $5 surcharge on top of the regular fare if they don't have prepaid tickets, starting Jan. 18.
Posted: | 10:24 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206605 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | Hyack |
VANCOUVER - Alex Burrows recorded his second-straight hat trick and Roberto Luongo made 31 saves for his 50th career shut out as the Vancouver Canucks blanked the Phoenix Coyotes 4-0 on Thursday night.
Posted: | 10:15 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206565 |
Rating: | 20658 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The smallest-known planet outside our Solar System, Corot-7b, probably began as a Saturn-sized "gas giant" planet, say researchers.
Posted: | 6:13 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206648 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says virtually all Canadian soldiers will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2011, making some of his most definitive statements yet on his vision of Canada's future role there
Posted: | 6:09 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206613 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches....Whatev
Posted: | 6:05 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 206647 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:03 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206622 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:01 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206553 |
Rating: | 20656 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:00 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206597 |
Rating: | 20660 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A disgruntled employee opened fire inside a St. Louis-area manufacturing plant, killing three people before turning a gun on himself, as co-workers scrambled for cover
Posted: | 5:58 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206588 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:55 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206556 |
Rating: | 20656 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Vancouver Island mother got behind the wheel so drunk she ended up passing out with two of her children in the backseat, police said Thursday.
Posted: | 5:53 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206708 |
Rating: | 20672 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine are offering new ideas for preventing the thousands of post-surgery infections that affect patients in Canada every year.
Posted: | 5:50 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 206652 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The capsule contains memorabilia, artifacts and sealed letters from politicians of the day. But the location of the capsule was never marked, and for the last few months city officials have been appealing to the public for help in finding it.
Posted: | 5:46 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206709 |
Rating: | 20671 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A man who's lived on campus at the University of Victoria since 1991, even though he hasn't completed a course for credit since 1997, is on his way out after losing a court battle.
Posted: | 5:42 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207011 |
Rating: | 20701 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:41 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206569 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A former NHL prospect once considered a rising star is facing weapons and robbery charges for allegedly holding up a convenience store in his hometown in Newfoundland.
Posted: | 5:37 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206608 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:36 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206718 |
Rating: | 20672 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:27 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206568 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | Hyack |
SYDNEY, Australia - Conservationists monitoring Japanese whalers in the Antarctic said Friday that they remained committed to protecting whales despite a dangerous clash this week that resulted in one of their boats sinking.
Posted: | 5:25 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206589 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:21 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206550 |
Rating: | 20655 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:17 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206874 |
Rating: | 20687 |
Poster: | Hyack |
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- If the Olympic rings don't tickle your fancy, a local store hopes theirs will.
Posted: | 5:13 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206932 |
Rating: | 20694 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:09 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 206660 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
TORONTO - Two more people have been arrested at the Toronto Humane Society, adding to the five senior staff who were arrested in November following the execution of a search warrant on the downtown animal shelter.
Posted: | 5:07 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206667 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 5:02 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207721 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A fire on Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba that killed a boy is being treated as an arson-related homicide by police, who have a 16-year-old boy from the community in custody.
Posted: | 4:56 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206534 |
Rating: | 20653 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Scientists have found that male cleaner fish will punish their female partners if they do something that offends the larger client fish they are cleaning.
Posted: | 4:55 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206823 |
Rating: | 20683 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Coral reefs are recognized as important habitat for preserving the diversity of ocean species, but scientists now say reefs are important sources of new species, as well.
Posted: | 4:53 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206705 |
Rating: | 20671 |
Poster: | Hyack |
More than 800 B.C. forestry workers are slated to lose their jobs by the end of January, and some say the mountain pine beetle is to blame.
Posted: | 4:51 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206724 |
Rating: | 20673 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Investigators have no reason to believe two cases of arson in Montreal early Thursday morning are related to a recent string of firebombings in the city
Posted: | 4:50 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206583 |
Rating: | 20658 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An Ottawa police officer killed in the line of duty last week was honoured Thursday during a ceremonial procession and a funeral attended by thousands of police officers from across North America.
Posted: | 4:46 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206557 |
Rating: | 20656 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Parks Canada is planning to cull moose in two of Newfoundland and Labrador's national parks in order to save the region's trees, which are being damaged by the animals.
Posted: | 4:44 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 206623 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Miss Newfoundland and Labrador says she was gobsmacked when she saw what an anti-sealing group did to a picture of her wearing a sealskin fur coat that she posted on the Internet.
Posted: | 4:44 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206677 |
Rating: | 20668 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The red-hot Vancouver Canucks have just one loss in their last seven games, but tonight they face the club that dealt them that setback. Vancouver will try to turn the tables on the Phoenix Coyotes tonight in a matchup at General Motors Place.
Posted: | 4:02 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206618 |
Rating: | 20662 |
Poster: | Hyack |
When the most significant off-season personnel change on an 11th place roster was replacing MVP Dwayne Roloson, it almost seemed like the only plan the Oilers organization could come up with was Blame MacTavish.
Posted: | 6:19 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206744 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
3-D hit Cameron's not the only one laughing all the way to the bank
Posted: | 3:08 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207042 |
Rating: | 20704 |
Poster: | kitty |
Top designers reach new audiences by creating collections for TV
Posted: | 2:55 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206686 |
Rating: | 20669 |
Poster: | kitty |
For Jana Rawlinson, it was a simple choice to make: Olympics ... or bust. The Olympics won.
Posted: | 2:50 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206826 |
Rating: | 20683 |
Poster: | kitty |
Research debunks myth of gender gap in math
Posted: | 2:48 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206802 |
Rating: | 20680 |
Poster: | kitty |
In one of her song videos, Lhasa de Sela plunges feet-first to the bottom of a lake, where she seems to have no more trouble walking than if she were in her own home. Lhasa (as we all called her) was always getting down to the bottom of something, well be
Posted: | 2:46 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207425 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | a2zme |
With the annual Consumer Electronics Show kicking off in Las Vegas this week, there will be the usual spotlight on new gadgets and gizmos expected to make a splash this year. But, for the first time, a special summit also will focus on a booming target ma
Posted: | 2:41 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206614 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | kitty |
Posted: | 1:54 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206804 |
Rating: | 20680 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A new memorial in Windsor, Ont., will commemorate Canadian casualties of a major battle during the Second World War.
Posted: | 1:49 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206907 |
Rating: | 20692 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:39 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206579 |
Rating: | 20658 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An explosion tore through a group of children gathered around foreign soldiers visiting a U.S.-funded road project Wednesday, killing four kids and a policeman and wounding scores, including at least three American troops, officials said.
Posted: | 1:37 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206656 |
Rating: | 20666 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An upcoming research expedition to an Arctic island could help kickstart a new wave of oil and gas exploration in Canada's Far North
Posted: | 1:32 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206816 |
Rating: | 20682 |
Poster: | Hyack |
OTTAWA - More Afghan women are choosing suicide to escape the violence and brutality of their daily lives, says a new human-rights report prepared by Canada's Foreign Affairs Department.
Posted: | 1:30 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206667 |
Rating: | 20667 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Toronto police have issued an arrest warrant for a man claiming to be the "Chinese Warren Buffett" for allegedly defrauding more than 100 people of a combined $30 million.
Posted: | 1:20 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206587 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Toronto Hydro will "continue to monitor" stray shocks such as the one that injured a Toronto dog Monday but the utility admits it cannot eradicate the problem.
Posted: | 1:14 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206689 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Stephen Harper will revive a contentious plan to reform the Senate after Parliament resumes in March, setting the stage for a showdown with the opposition and a handful of provinces over whether senators should be elected and held to term limits.
Posted: | 8:46 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206693 |
Rating: | 20669 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Major Meagan McGrath, an aerospace engineer with the Air Force, began her odyssey on Dec. 1, 2009 at approximately 80 degrees south latitude. She crossed the 87th degree on Jan. 4, 2009 and travelled 20 nautical miles, or 37 kilometres on the same day.
Posted: | 8:40 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 206699 |
Rating: | 20671 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The giant halo of dark matter that surrounds our galaxy is shaped like a flattened beach ball, researchers say.
Posted: | 8:34 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206703 |
Rating: | 20670 |
Poster: | Hyack |
In a sign of confidence that repairs to the crippled Chalk River nuclear reactor are succeeding, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is asking the United States for a fresh supply of highly enriched uranium to make medical isotopes.
Posted: | 8:29 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206646 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Jim Walsh, a former Liberal cabinet minister in Newfoundland and Labrador, has been sentenced to 22 months in jail for his part in a spending scandal that rocked the province.
Posted: | 8:21 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206754 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 8:16 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206968 |
Rating: | 20697 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 8:14 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206589 |
Rating: | 20659 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The Alberta government has installed a new piece of equipment to monitor geological movements on a dangerous mountain, part of which collapsed in 1903, killing 70 people in the town of Frank.
Posted: | 7:40 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206893 |
Rating: | 20689 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum is not afraid to admit it has been taken in.
Posted: | 7:35 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206684 |
Rating: | 20669 |
Poster: | Hyack |
American researchers suggest the melting season for Arctic sea ice is growing faster across much of the Canadian Arctic than anywhere else in the world.
Posted: | 7:27 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206603 |
Rating: | 20660 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A nine-year-old girl was sexually assaulted Monday after a teenager convinced her to follow him to a park on Vancouver's west side, police said Wednesday.
Posted: | 7:21 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206876 |
Rating: | 20689 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Calgary Stampede official is defending a survey dubbed the "redneck test" by a critic because of questions dealing with the definition of marriage and women's role in the workplace.
Posted: | 5:57 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206654 |
Rating: | 20665 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Posted: | 5:44 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206615 |
Rating: | 20663 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
A Muslim woman alleges she was mistreated by border officials at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport after she was denied entry to the United States. Ayat Manna, who lives in Halifax, said she had a one-way ticket departing Monday for Cleveland, w
Posted: | 5:42 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206915 |
Rating: | 20693 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Posted: | 5:26 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206728 |
Rating: | 20674 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
A US white supremacist accused of murdering a guard at Washington DC's Holocaust Memorial museum has died in a prison hospital, officials say.
Posted: | 3:44 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207153 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | snookums |
Television manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets capable of adding that extra visual dimension expected to hit store shelves in force by the middle of 2010.
Posted: | 11:54 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206897 |
Rating: | 20690 |
Poster: | tritium |
Posted: | 10:56 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206876 |
Rating: | 20688 |
Poster: | tritium |
Alberta has reserved a luxury train during the Vancouver Olympics as part of a $7- million marketing plan meant to woo tourists and business executives.
Posted: | 9:54 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206947 |
Rating: | 20695 |
Poster: | tritium |
An RCMP puppy that fell off the back of a truck on Vancouver Island Sunday night has been found, thanks to an observant 10-year-old boy.
Posted: | 9:45 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206845 |
Rating: | 20686 |
Poster: | tritium |
A granite bench in Pelham, Ont., marks Aqsa Parvez's death. Her slaying struck a nerve with a local fire chief and town councillor.
Posted: | 4:34 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206746 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | kitty |
Everyone knows you shouldn't run in high heels. And running barefoot is not such a great idea, either.
Posted: | 4:28 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 206749 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | kitty |
What can the Royal Ontario Museum do for an encore after drawing more than 300,000 visitors to its striking and engrossing Dead Sea Scrolls show, which ended its six-month run on Sunday with shivering crowds lined up all the way around the block?
Posted: | 4:26 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207006 |
Rating: | 20702 |
Poster: | kitty |
Jordan Eberle got some consolation for Canada's heartbreaking loss in the final of the world junior hockey championship.
Posted: | 4:22 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206817 |
Rating: | 20682 |
Poster: | kitty |
Posted: | 4:20 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206571 |
Rating: | 20657 |
Poster: | kitty |
A Danish online dating website has expelled 5,000 members, including 500 Canadians, because they no longer met the site's beauty standards.
Posted: | 11:51 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207114 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | tritium |
The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.
Posted: | 11:06 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207211 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope has detected its first five exoplanets, or planets beyond our Solar System.
Posted: | 11:03 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206841 |
Rating: | 20684 |
Poster: | Hyack |
SYDNEY, Australia -- A magnitude 6.8 undersea earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Tuesday, the latest in a series near the South Pacific island nation since Monday
Posted: | 10:42 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206692 |
Rating: | 20669 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 10:39 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 206748 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A conservation group says one of its boats is sinking after a collision with a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctica.
Posted: | 10:33 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206833 |
Rating: | 20683 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Alex Burrows scored three times for Vancouver on Tuesday as the surging Canucks pounded the slumping Columbus Blue Jackets 7-3.
Posted: | 10:24 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206724 |
Rating: | 20672 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) wants more Inuit to call its toll-free "polar bear hotline" and record their concerns about polar bears in the North.
Posted: | 10:20 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206560 |
Rating: | 20656 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will take whatever steps are necessary to protect the safety of airline passengers, but may not necessarily adapt a watch list approach as the United States has done.
Posted: | 10:19 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206639 |
Rating: | 20664 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The cardiac Canadian kids had their hearts broken and world junior gold rush ruined by a deserving United States team in Saskatoon on Tuesday evening.
Posted: | 10:13 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 206668 |
Rating: | 20667 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The contest immediately prompted Harper's office to point out that the prime minister is not, in fact, on vacation, whether or not Parliament is sitting. He was working in his office Monday and Tuesday and gave an interview on Tuesday afternoon. The prime
Posted: | 7:27 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206763 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | gigs |
Posted: | 5:01 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207219 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | tritium |
Investigators in the Florida Keys say they lured a suspected marijuana grower into turning himself in by leaving a ransom note in place of six seized pot plants. The sheriff's office in Monroe County says detectives discovered the plants in a wooded lot a
Posted: | 4:57 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206879 |
Rating: | 20688 |
Poster: | tritium |