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Grocers, innovators work to save $31B in food from being trashed in Canada each year
Canada wastes an estimated $31 billion worth of food each year. More than half of that waste occurs before it gets to the dinner table, when it's discarded by farmers, food manufacturers and distributors. People like Lori Nikkel are trying to change that. 'Shelves will be empty:' Supply of food in question after fire at Iqaluit store
IQALUIT, Nunavut: Grocery retailers were moving Thursday to ensure critical supplies remained available in Nunavut's capital after a fire destroyed significant parts of Iqaluit's largest retail store. Project aims to 'fire-smart' central B.C. properties by removing wildfire fuel
A program to help seniors and residents with disabilities remove wildfire fuel from their properties has been introduced in central B.C. Evacuees prepare to return home 3 months after wildfire devastates Telegraph Creek
More than 250 wildfire evacuees from Telegraph Creek have been given the go-ahead to return home, after months of staying in hotels and with friends and family across B.C and Yukon. New Westminster WWI veteran gets grave marker after 79 years
On April 14, 1939 veteran William A. Stevenson was buried at Fraser Westminster, but because there was no money for a grave marker, his plot has been nameless until now. Trudeau's immigration numbers boost poses many challengesMisc CDN | 207278 hits | 11:25 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Trudeau government is ramming through its plan to boost immigration levels, despite survey after survey showing that Canadians oppose this idea.An Angus Reid poll from August 2018 found that half of Canadians want lower immigration compared to only 6% Daylight time ends this weekend: what you need to know
Starting at 2 a.m. Sunday, most Canadians will need to roll their clocks back one hour as daylight time ends this year. Misc CDN | 207074 hits | 10:20 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The brother of convicted child-killer Terri-Lynne McClintic says the only reason his sister is in a healing lodge is because she manipulated the Corrections system. 'Our hearts are just filled with joy': 1st train in over a year arrives in Churchill
A train rolled into Churchill, Man., for the first time in more than a year after spring flooding damaged the tracks and severed the town’s only land link to the rest of the province. Canadian government crushes British Muslim Jack Letts' hopes of being freed from Kurdish jailMisc CDN | 206664 hits | 12:09 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Jack 'Jihadi Jack' Letts, 22, has dual British-Canadian citizenship and is locked up in a Kurdish jail after he allegedly joined ISIS. The Canadian government have said they can't help him. Ocean water too warm to cool Canadian science ship's engines
Offshore Nova Scotia surface ocean temperatures were so warm earlier this month they forced a Canadian research ship that uses seawater to cool its engines to slow down. Several earthquakes strike off Vancouver Island, with no reports of damage
A series of three large earthquakes struck off the coast of British Columbia late Sunday, followed by aftershocks early Monday morning. British Columbia is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an active seismic zone where thousands of mostly small earthqu Alberta farmer donates 10,000 kg of root vegetables to food banks
An Alberta farmer has donated 10,000 kilograms to the Edmonton and Calgary food banks and plans to donate more this week. Defender of Sir John A. statue serves mayor defamation noticeMisc CDN | 207619 hits | 7:28 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
VICTORIA, BC: Mayor Lisa Helps and the City of Victoria were issued defamation notices earlier today by local taxpayer advocate and Victoria resident Aaron Gunn for false and defamatory statements made by the Mayor on October 16th, 2018 on CFAX radio. 'Where the human meets further proof of the divine': Aga Khan officially opens Islamic garden
A decade ago, plans for construction of the world’s northernmost Islamic garden located southwest of Edmonton seemed an unlikely dream, the Aga Khan told a crowd that gathered Tuesday to celebrate the opening of a $25-million garden he gifted to the Unive Canada Post workers could begin rotating strikes Monday
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has given strike notice to Canada Post that workers could walk off the job as early as next week. Amanda Lindhout reveals the angel who paid her ransom and gave her life
Licia Corbella: For the first time, the former freelance journalist and hostage shared who paid the bulk of the $1-million ransom nine years ago Emaciated golden retriever spent years tethered outside: BC SPCA
Goldie would chew and eat anything she could reach. As a result, her teeth were worn down to the root. 
Canadian consular officials have been trying to find out where the Canadians are being detained in order to give them consular assistance. Canada gives $50M to UN Palestinian refugee agency that U.S. says is 'flawed'Misc CDN | 206810 hits | 2:09 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Canada is contributing $50 million to the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency -- after the United States decided to stop funding what it called an "irredeemably flawed" organization. What it's like to have railcars derail in your backyard for a 2nd time
Jim Clark knows better than most the sound of boxcars derailing. He heard again on Tuesday morning in his Stellarton, N.S., backyard. 
Seven Canadians are among almost 500 foreign women affiliated with ISIS who have been captured and are being held in camps in this Kurdish-controlled region of Syria. Alberta chief and council award themselves nearly $700,000 in bonuses from band-owned company
The Bigstone Cree Nation band council's decision to take the payment points to problems with its governance and could be unlawful, a lawyer says CBC joins international initiative to boost transparency in news
CBC has added its name to a growing list of news organizations around the world that are committed to enhancing transparency and building trust with their audiences. 
The radar sites detect potential threats entering North America’s airspace and transmit a stream of data to military command centres in the south Following Saint John oil refinery blast and fire, Irving Oil to focus on cause
Irving Oil will work with a number of agencies to determine what caused an explosion and fire at its refinery in Saint John Monday, says a company official. Scientists trying to save B.C.'s western rattlesnakes from becoming roadkill
University and government researchers have been focusing on one population of western rattlesnakes in a fairly pristine basin where there hasn't been much development. The snakes are shy, defensive and natural rodent killers, but some drivers travelling t 'To us, it's a miracle': Churchill residents celebrate repair of railway washouts
People living in the town of Churchill, Man., are getting ready to celebrate the completion of repairs to the lifeline into their community.
But uncertainty remains for when the lifeline into their community could be up and running again. 'Aggressive moose behaviour' shuts down trail at Cape Breton Highlands park
The Skyline Trail at the Cape Breton Highlands National Park is temporarily closed because of "aggressive moose behaviour," says Parks Canada. Parks Canada says it is monitoring the situation and will post new information when it becomes available. Moose fight! New Brunswick man films rarely seen spectacle
Denis Levesque spends most of his time in the woods, but the forestry technician and avid hunter couldn’t believe the sight he and a friend happened upon Tuesday. Toronto man arrested, charged after allegedly kicking anti-abortion protester | Globalnews.caMisc CDN | 206677 hits | 8:27 AM on Sunday | posted by JaredMilne
Asylum seeker not eligible to vote receives voter registration cardMisc CDN | 206713 hits | 8:52 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
An asylum seeker who has only been in Canada for 18 months was sent a voter registration card from Elections Canada, the Sun has learned.The letter, dated Sept. Toronto man roundhouse kicks female anti-abortionist in viral video
Toronto police are investigating after a man was caught on camera kicking a female anti-abortionist supposedly in the name of 'defending women’s right to choose.' 
Three Arctic communities fear they've been cut off from crucial winter supplies and other necessities after a government-owned company cancelled an annual barge run. Documentary chronicles near-fatal 200 km journey by horse and wagon
A documentary profiling a 200 km journey by the Xeni Gwet'in is screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a year after a nearly fatal accident. Saudi diplomat demands apology from Canada: 'What are we, a banana republic''
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has asked Canada to apologize for demanding the release of Saudi women’s rights activists and stop treating the kingdom as “a banana republic” if it wants to resolve a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Feds working to iron out kinks in public alert system
Officials behind the country's system to alert mobile devices about impending natural disasters say there are still several kinks in the system to iron out, even as the alerts are being credited with saving lives just last week. Posters advertising sex doll brothel plastered in downtown Vancouver
A similar service that was supposed to open this month in Toronto was shut down over a bylaw issue. On its website, Bella Dolls promises “an experience like no other, where you are in complete control. Environment Canada confirms 3rd tornado in Calabogie
Environment Canada has confirmed that a third tornado touched down in Calabogie, Ont., on Friday. The tornado touched down shortly after 4:15 p.m. ET and tracked roughly 15 kilometres east to White Lake. Trudeau government has removed only six out of 900 asylum seekers already facing U.S. deportationMisc CDN | 207588 hits | 12:17 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Since early 2017, more than 34,000 asylum seekers have crossed into Canada through unofficial points. To date, only a total of 398 — or about one per cent — have been removed. 'Burying rivers is not a great idea:' Cities work to uncover their hidden waterways
Cities built atop networks of culverts and sewers where creeks and rivers used to flow are looking for ways to bring forgotten waterways back to the surface. Misc CDN | 207651 hits | 10:21 AM on Sunday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Border Security Minister Bill Blair says most of the people who arrived in a surge of migrants last year have left. Immigration detainee Ebrahim Toure finally free after more than five yearsMisc CDN | 207854 hits | 10:27 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
After five-and-a-half years in immigration detention — mostly spent in a maximum-security jail — and 69 hearings before the Immigration and Refugee Board, Ebrahim Toure was released Friday. Raising of historic Haida pole comes with apology from B.C. premier
A ceremony on Friday to raise the historic Haida totem pole at Peace Arch Provincial Park aims to right a wrong for three B.C. First Nations. The pole is a replica of a pole from the Haida village of Skedans and was carved for the Royal British Columbia M Wet weather means all types of burning, forest use, OK in two B.C. fire centres
All restrictions on fires or forest use are being lifted in two of British Columbia's six fire centres for the first time since early summer.Back to Canada News
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