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Canada finds $33M undeclared in Swiss banks
The Canada Revenue Agency has uncovered at least $33 million in undeclared income from Canadians feeling the heat over their offshore accounts with two Swiss banks. Cruise ship carrying sick on way to N.B.
Tourism operators in Saint John say they've been warned about an approaching cruise ship carrying some passengers with gastrointestinal problems. Family of missing elderly couple to put up billboardsMisc CDN | 206601 hits | 8:13 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl
The family of Lyle and Marie McCann -- a couple from St. Albert who have been missing since July -- are planning to launch a series of billboards along highways west of Edmonton to generate some tips about the couple's disappearance. The endangered male teacher
The male elementary teacher is the spotted owl of the education system, the leatherback turtle, the Beluga. Laporte honoured with Que. monument
A granite monument to honour Quebec politician Pierre Laporte was unveiled Sunday in Saint-Lambert, on Montreal's south shore. Laporte was the provincial labour minister when he was kidnapped at gunpoint by the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) during t Loved ones can send holiday packages to soldiers for free
Again this year, soldiers' family and friends can send holiday packages to troops serving abroad for free. Descendants of child migrants reunited after 6 decades
Six cousins were reunited in British Columbia Sunday, to share a bond of ties through birth and a shared history of dislocation and hardship. 3 Alberta workplace deaths in 3 days
A man injured at an oilfield east of Edmonton has become the third worker in three days to die on the job in Alberta.
RCMP spent Olympic security money on diffusing fights
They were ready for bombs but fights were the only thing the RCMP appeared to have to diffuse during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. There were 876 incidents in the Mounties' emergency management software database during the Games, according to a summary o Where am I from? Where race shouldn't matterMisc CDN | 206869 hits | 7:17 AM on Sunday | posted by CommanderSock
"...There are many second- and third-generation Canadians, visible minorities, whose families will remain visible minorities until their gene pool changes." Woman's suit seeking info on sperm donor can proceedMisc CDN | 206914 hits | 8:09 AM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
A woman who was conceived through sperm donation has won the right to proceed with a lawsuit aimed at getting information about the donor. No charges for firemen who took beer from burning hotelMisc CDN | 206830 hits | 8:06 AM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
Firefighters accused of stealing beer kegs from a burning building in an Okanagan town earlier this year will not face criminal charges. Driver killed, four children hurt in bus collisionMisc CDN | 206745 hits | 7:56 AM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
The end of the school week came to a tragic conclusion Friday when a 52-year-old female driver near the completion of her run was killed in a collision between her school bus and a semi-trailer hauling diesel fuel. Duceppe: Quebec will win 'Berlin Wall' battle for independence
WASHINGTON - Fifteen years removed from the last referendum on sovereignty, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe was in the U.S. capital Friday with a message familiar to Canadian ears but a potential eyebrow-raiser south of the border: Quebec separatism, Drop war-resister policy: rights activists
A new immigration policy is denying American war resisters due process, human rights advocates say, and they are calling on the government to rescind it. Firm walks off Parliament Hill job, calls RCMP
OTTAWA — There's more trouble and fresh allegations involving a big-money Parliament Hill renovation contract being probed by the Mounties. Masonry work ground to a halt on the West Block renovation Friday after a sub-contractor walked off the job and wen Shhhh! Bowen Islanders seek day of silence
A group of loud-mouthed residents from the island community, just 20 kilometres north of Vancouver, are proposing that all objectionable noises -- such as construction, loud music and even loud cars – be banned on Sundays. N.S. coyote bounty begins
Nova Scotia's coyote bounty begins Friday with the start of trapping season. Trappers will get $20 for each coyote pelt until March 31, when the season ends. Carr statue unveiling marred by bronzed typo
A bronze statue of the late West Coast artist Emily Carr was unveiled near her home in Victoria, but it was the dedication plaque that soon caught some unexpected attention. Nor'easter causes crashes, power outages
A heavy storm hit Atlantic Canada on Friday, causing power outages and car crashes and leaving hundreds of ferry passengers stranded. School bus collides with tanker truck in Sask.
A school bus driver is dead following a crash with a tanker truck hauling diesel fuel in rural Saskatchewan near Melville. The Rankings: Canada's most dangerous cities
First, the good news. For the second year in a row, Caledon, Ont., 40 km northwest of Toronto and a world away, ranks as the safest city in Maclean’s annual crime ranking of Canada’s 100 largest cities. Hundreds of B.C. dams in need of repair: report Misc CDN | 206646 hits | 7:37 AM on Friday | posted by wildrosegirl
The B.C. government says an investigation of small dams across the province has turned up four small dams that required immediate repairs and hundreds more that also need work. Loonie hovers near parity with U.S. dollarMisc CDN | 206745 hits | 6:43 AM on Friday | posted by wildrosegirl
The loonie rose slightly higher than the U.S. dollar Thursday morning before closing out at 99.4 cents. Mackenzie pipeline panel blasts governments
The independent panel that reviewed the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline has blasted the federal and N.W.T. governments for rejecting many of its recommendations on how to make the project successful. Feds rip Toronto Star over 'false' story
The federal government blasted a front-page Toronto Star story on Thursday as “completely false” and questioned the paper’s journalistic standards. Sarah Palin quietly goes 'rogue' in Vancouver
When Sarah Palin shows up, it's usually with a mob of supporters, protesters and reporters in tow. Not so in Vancouver, where the one-time U.S. vice-presidential candidate arrived Wednesday night to give a speech to British Columbia's elite. Regina, Halifax and Victoria engage in coast-to-coast food fight for charity
REGINA - There's a coast-to-coast battle of the food banks brewing, and Regina's right in the middle. The Saskatchewan city's food bank has accepted a challenge laid down by its counterparts in Victoria and Halifax. Secret Cold War plan included mass detentions
At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation. Slain B.C. girl's parents issue appeal
The parents of a slain 15-year-old Delta, B.C., teenager have made an emotional appeal for help to find her killer. B.C. city passes Canada's first puppy sale ban
The public will now get a chance to weigh in on the decision to ban retail puppy sales in suburban Vancouver, after three readings of the new bylaw were passed unanimously Tuesday night. Toronto scaffold deaths bring criminal charges
Three men and a construction company face criminal charges over a Christmas Eve accident that killed four men who plunged 13 storeys when scaffolding at the Toronto apartment building they were working on snapped. Muddy fields swallowing farm machinery
Some Saskatchewan farmers in a race against time to finish the harvest are getting that sinking feeling — with crucial pieces of machinery stuck in muddy fields. Slain Quebec girl's family speaks out
The nephew and extended family of Moussa Sidimé spoke out in his support Tuesday even as they mourned the death of his 13-year-old daughter, Nouténé, who died three days after he allegedly assaulted her in their Longueuil, Que., home. Loonie nudges close to parity
The Canadian dollar rose to a five-month high Wednesday as it once again was on the verge of trading at parity with the U.S. currency. Amtrak may cut 2nd Vancouver-Seattle train
The second daily Amtrak train between Vancouver and Seattle and Portland could be cancelled because the Canadian government will soon start charging for the extra shift of border guards required to inspect the late-night train. Tuna goes to coyote feed
Prices for tuna caught off P.E.I.'s North Shore last week were poor, and buyers could not be found at all for some fish, leaving fishermen to figure out how to get rid of the catch. Fiery Moncton crash closes highway
A fiery crash near Magnetic Hill closed a portion of the westbound Trans-Canada Highway in Moncton, N.B., Tuesday night. Stowaways want to stay in Canada
Two of the nine stowaways discovered aboard a freighter that docked in Montreal last week told an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing Tuesday they want to stay in Canada, though they haven't applied for refugee status. Cannon blames Ignatieff for Canada's UN vote loss
Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon says the lack of support from Michael Ignatieff for Canada's bid to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council helped scuttle it, an assertion the Liberal leader called "ridiculous." Coyote sightings in Calgary go online
Calgary's coyotes are now under the Internet scrutiny of a million pairs of eyes. After 45 'wasted' years, treasure hunt speeds up
American Dan Blankenship has spent half of his long life trying to uncover Nova Scotia's Oak Island treasure -- if it exists. With the law changing soon, he only has weeks left to make a find worthwhile Hillier slams 'field marshal wannabes' in memoir
OTTAWA — Canada's former top soldier is warning that "field marshal wannabes" are angling to take a bigger role in directing the day-to-day operations of military forces in the field. Yukon First Nation bars social workers
A Whitehorse First Nation is banishing Yukon government social workers from its lands over frustration about how children are being apprehended. Cops and ambulances involved in crashes
WINNIPEG - Saturday was not a good day on the road for city police and paramedics. 'Experimental Eskimos' tells story of attempt to assimilate Inuit kids in 1960s
MONTREAL - When federal bureaucrats plucked three smart young Inuit boys from their families in the 1960s and sent them to high school in the south, they probably had little idea that they would help transform Canada. Queen Mary 2 answers distress call off N.S.
The Queen Mary 2 luxury ocean liner changed course in response to a distress call early Sunday from a 13-metre pleasure boat off Nova Scotia. Ont. migrant workers march in protest
Migrant workers in Ontario have passed the halfway point in their 50-kilometre march for better working and housing conditions B.C. highway crash kills 2
RCMP in southern B.C. say speed is considered a contributing factor in a car crash that has left two people dead. Strike multiculturalism from the national vocabulary
With Europe’s retreat from multiculturalism, the debate has become more fraught, while the terminology has ceased to have any real meaning. It signifies very different things to different people, and has turned into a flashpoint and a distraction.Back to Canada News
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