Services are gradually returning in the North after problems with a Telesat satellite disrupted communications in a wide swath of northern Quebec and Nunavut on Sunday.
Posted: | 8:29 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206761 |
Rating: | 20676 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A National Defence audit has found many of Canada's military bases are falling apart because of chronic underspending on the maintenance, repair and replacement of sewers, roads and electrical, heating and drinking water systems.
Posted: | 7:51 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207104 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | uwish |
Posted: | 7:31 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206534 |
Rating: | 20653 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:09 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207067 |
Rating: | 20707 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Joe Dion, CEO of a First Nations owned oil company, says the way to break the pipeline gridlock is to design a new agreement between Canada and First Nations, which would make First Nations owners, and therefore beneficiaries, of resource projects.
Posted: | 11:01 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206641 |
Rating: | 20664 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
Hungarians voters appeared to support Prime Minister Viktor Orban's opposition to mandatory European Union quotas for accepting relocated asylum-seekers, but Sunday's referendum could be invalid because turnout would likely fail to exceed the 50-per cent-
Posted: | 10:51 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206667 |
Rating: | 20667 |
Poster: | andyt |
A trip to the grocery store in Nunavut's capital city can be a shocking experience for visitors, but people who live in Canada's North are used to paying more.
Posted: | 1:52 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206788 |
Rating: | 20680 |
Poster: | Hyack |
John Burn's 110-square-foot, shingle-sided, truck-mounted shack is heated by a wood-burning stove. The retiree is living on the streets of East Vancouver as he tries to complete his first album.
Posted: | 1:36 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207045 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A wildlife-watching vessel operated by the same company whose boat sank last year, killing six people, ran aground near Tofino, B.C., late Saturday evening.
Posted: | 1:34 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206785 |
Rating: | 20679 |
Poster: | Hyack |
'She was so in shock to see that polar bear, she was just standing there looking at it. And it didn't move. It kept on staring at her.'
Posted: | 1:33 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 206639 |
Rating: | 20664 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Buried in federal regulations is a measurement known as the "social cost of carbon," an estimate of the cost associated with climate change's impacts on agricultural production, human health, flood risk and ecosystems.
Posted: | 8:24 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206765 |
Rating: | 20677 |
Poster: | andyt |
Prime Minister Theresa May tells the BBC she will formally begin the Brexit process using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty by the end of March 2017.
Posted: | 2:26 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206604 |
Rating: | 20660 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 9:12 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 206750 |
Rating: | 20675 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 1:49 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206611 |
Rating: | 20661 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
An N.S. woman was forced to take evasive action behind the wheel of her car Friday when she was chased by a man in a clown outfit.
Posted: | 1:48 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207045 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured a hill on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo under the cove
Posted: | 1:47 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206543 |
Rating: | 20654 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Low-income workers in several provinces got a raise on Saturday as the governments of Alberta, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan hiked their minimum wage.
Posted: | 1:46 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206910 |
Rating: | 20691 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A 74-year-old Canadian photographer who "saw beauty in everything" was killed in Merida, Mexico, officials and a business associate said Saturday.
Posted: | 1:46 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206491 |
Rating: | 20649 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The theft of a cellphone led RCMP to an unexpected seizure of $500,000 worth of stolen vehicles and firearms from a property near Rocky Mountain House.Mounties also arrested two suspects at the scene.
Posted: | 12:03 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206440 |
Rating: | 20644 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
The disturbing incident happened in the northern city of Tocuyito. Food shortages in the South American country mean people have resorted to desperate attempts to source their next meal.
Posted: | 2:14 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 206560 |
Rating: | 20656 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Britain's giant services sector grew strongly in July, according to official data giving the clearest sign to date that the economy did not slump immediately into a major slowdown after the country's vote in June to leave the EU.
Posted: | 12:10 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206865 |
Rating: | 20687 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |