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Lake Winnipeg meeting swells with anger
Anger in Gimli, Man., over storm damage from the waters of Lake Winnipeg spilled into a meeting that was supposed to focus on the environmental health of the lake. Nude calendar stunt helps pave Sask. highway
A publicity campaign featuring rural Saskatchewan residents in the buff and posing along a stretch of pothole-damaged highway has paid off. Icon of Alberta badlands fenced off
The same force of nature that carved out Alberta's hoodoos over millions of years is now rapidly wearing them down. Police suspect B.C. licence tag scam underway
Authorities in Abbotsford will be on the lookout for phony license plate insurance tags starting in the new year, police say. No charges laid in KKK costume investigation
CAMPBELLFORD, Ont. - The Campbellford Legion re-opened Friday afternoon, though the provincial executive branch will continue its management of the embattled branch. Air Canada targets Yemeni passengers
Air Canada has ordered its staff to subject anyone connected to Yemen to undergo extra security checks after the discovery last week of two packages containing explosives that originated from the country. New veterans ombudsman appointed
Guy Parent, a retired chief warrant officer, will be Canada's new veterans ombudsman. Veterans Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn announced Friday that Parent will replace Pat Stogran, the retired colonel who led a controversial campaign to improve be Suspended senator costs taxpayers $700,000
Despite being suspended from the Senate three years ago, Liberal Sen. Raymond Lavigne has managed to cost the Canadian taxpayer more than $700,000 since 2007, public accounts reveal. Gov. Gen. David Johnston visits troops in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Canada's new governor general chose Kandahar, Afghanistan as the site of his first foreign trip as the Queen's Representative. Legion may sue over white poppy campaign
The Royal Canadian Legion is mulling whether to launch a lawsuit if groups in Prince Edward Island and Ontario do not stop handing out white poppies ahead of Remembrance Day. Springing forward, falling back
Standard time for 2010 begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 7. Be sure to set your clocks back one hour. Older vets feel sidelined by Afghanistan-focused VA
Some older military veterans say they're being forgotten and left to struggle with government bureaucracy on their own while much of the current focus is on soldiers returning from Afghanistan. No poppy without permission, news site told
The Royal Canadian Legion has told an Ottawa-based internet news site to stop using its poppy image to commemorate Remembrance Day. Pierre Bourque removed the Canadian poppy symbol from his website and replaced it with a British poppy image after warning Royal Canadian Mint Commemorates 65th anniversary of the end of Second World War with 25-cent coin
As Canada prepares for nation-wide Remembrance Day ceremonies on the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Mint, in association with the Royal Canadian Legion, is proud to issue its latest coloured circulation coin, featu Record yields for Ontario farmers
LONDON, Ont. - Here's something you don't see every day -- a big smile on a farmer's face. Frank Dietrich was beaming as he put away his combine Tuesday. Angry Calgary war veterans take to streets in protest against new charter
After putting their lives in harm's way for their country, Canadian veterans are angry with the treatment injured soldiers are receiving once they return home from Afghanistan. Veterans Affairs staff fear becoming scapegoats
OTTAWA — Information sessions to school bureaucrats on the handling of personal information have prompted a backlash among staff at Veterans Affairs, who fear they're being used as scapegoats in the privacy scandal that's rocked the department. Alleged war crimes could make migrant inadmissible
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. — One of the Tamil migrants who arrived in Canada aboard the MV Sun Sea could be inadmissible because of alleged war crimes, says the Canada Border Services Agency. U.S. pornographer targets Winnipeg aboriginals
Some members of Winnipeg's aboriginal community are fuming after discovering a U.S. pornography site that features explicit videos of city native women. The Florida-based man who created the adult-only website also blogs online about coming to Winnipeg an Canadian Polar Commission board named
There is a new board of directors at the Canadian Polar Commission, which had been without a board for over two years. Indian and Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan has announced the appointment of 10 new directors to Canada's lead polar research agenc Clean energy strategy draws support
A new national energy strategy plan meant to make Canada a "centre for clean energy innovation" is drawing the interest of federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers Urban trophy hunters take on deer in Saanich, B.C.
Urban poachers are taking aim at the exploding deer population in a suburb of Victoria, B.C., and police, say that it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. Polar Commission still lacks board after 2 years
The ongoing absence of a board of directors at the Canadian Polar Commission could hurt Arctic research, says one prominent researcher. Treasure hunting to be banned in N.S. waters
Nova Scotia has introduced legislation that would put an end to all underwater commercial treasure hunting along its coast. Mountie honoured for Beaufort Sea rescue
An RCMP constable in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., has received a medal for rescuing two people from drowning in the icy waters of the Beaufort Sea in the summer Front-yard Virgin Mary to come down
A Windsor homeowner has been ordered to remove a Virgin Mary shrine from her front-yard after her neighbour complained that dozens of people show up on the street every day to pray in front of it. Gay couple in P.E.I. says house fire was attackMisc CDN | 206738 hits | 7:08 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl
A married gay man says a fire that destroyed the Prince Edward Island home he and his partner lived in was the culmination of homophobic events that included a note condemning same-sex love as sinful. Vancouver's $50M lotto winners claim prize
A Vancouver couple quit their jobs Monday and spent Tuesday claiming the $50-million jackpot in the Lotto Max draw. Memorial crosses honour fallen soldiers
The number of crosses erected alongside Calgary's Memorial Drive over the weekend more than doubles last year's display. Leaked documents show feds expected to hand out fewer vet disability claims
OTTAWA - A trove of leaked internal Veterans Affairs documents suggests bureaucrats knew from the beginning that a new system of benefits would mean less cash for injured soldiers with one analysis projecting savings of up to $40 million per year. N.B. woman named Silver Cross Mother
A woman from Bathurst, N.B, whose son died in Afghanistan will lay the wreath for the mothers of killed soldiers at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Nov. 11. Border clashes on upswing
The number of clashes at Canada’s borders rose again last year as more officers pulled their guns and swung their truncheons to deal with troublesome travellers. So-called use-of-force incidents are up 170 per cent in just four years — and more border off Young men hit by train never heard it coming
MONTREAL — Montreal police have confirmed that three young men who were struck and killed by a train rolling through the Turcot yards were spray painting graffiti at the time. Diver films shark attacking him in Bay of Fundy
A commercial diver working in the Bay of Fundy captured the shot of a lifetime last week, when he filmed a shark attacking him, gaining him a worldwide audience. Canada's Arctic rescuers not based in North
Search and rescue crews that conduct Arctic rescue missions are based nowhere near the Arctic, according to the Conference Board of Canada. Because the technicians are based so far from the remote areas they are supposed to serve, it can take hours or lon Amid bomb plot, Canada bans Yemeni air cargo
Transport Minister Chuck Strahl says Canada is banning all air cargo from Yemen as investigators attempt to track down the tentacles of a complex terror plot, which was unearthed aboard two cargo flights last week. Project honours Canada's fallen heroes
The Canadian music industry has teamed up with Postmedia newspapers and corporate sponsors to create a moving tribute, in music and words, to those who've sacrificed for Canada No one injured as plane skids off runway in N.L.Misc CDN | 208609 hits | 7:50 AM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
Police say a small plane carrying six people went off the end of a runway in Gander, N.L., on Saturday, possibly because of weather conditions. 3 dead after being hit by VIA train near MontrealMisc CDN | 208592 hits | 7:37 AM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
Three young men are dead after they were struck by a VIA Rail train in southwest Montreal early Sunday morning. Loaded rocket launcher still a mysteryMisc CDN | 208676 hits | 8:21 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
Bomb disposal experts say a rocket launcher discovered on a major highway north of Victoria earlier this week is the first such live explosive device ever found in B.C. Tories tightly scripted Regis and Kelly: docsMisc CDN | 208679 hits | 7:35 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
It may be called LIVE! with Regis and Kelly, but new documents reveal just how tightly the Harper government scripted the announcement that the popular morning show was coming to Prince Edward Island last summer. $5 billion, 15 years to fix up Parliament BuildingsMisc CDN | 208452 hits | 7:26 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
With a price tag well into the billions and a timeline that could stretch to 2025, the modernization of Ottawa's Parliament Buildings isn't the average renovation project. One winning ticket for $50M Lotto Max draw sold in B.C.Misc CDN | 208505 hits | 7:06 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
There is one winning ticket for the $50-million jackpot in Friday's Lotto Max draw, and it was sold somewhere in British Columbia. Missing boy found safeMisc CDN | 208531 hits | 6:47 PM on Friday | posted by wildrosegirl
An Amber Alert issued for 12-year-old Jacob Telford has been cancelled by Strathcona County RCMP. Amber Alert issued in Alberta
A 12-year-old boy from Sherwood Park, Alta., is believed to have been abducted by his mother, RCMP in Alberta said Friday. Teachers skeptical about Campbell's education promise
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell has promised that within five years, every grade-four student will be reading, writing and doing math at their grade level, but teachers say the goal is unlikely to be reached. Defence chief apologizes to soldier's mother
Canada's chief of defence staff has offered an apology to the mother of a soldier who took his own life after serving in Afghanistan. Multiple communities declare state of emergency following storm
Almost a dozen Manitoba communities were under a state of emergency Thursday after a storm brought strong winds and heavy rains to the province Wednesday. Saving a B.C. lake one $10 click at a time
Eighty-six-year-old Bob McMinn has embarked on an unprecedented social networking campaign to save a Vancouver Island lake, and he's betting $100,000 of his own money on its success.Back to Canada News
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