After more than a decade of devastating huge swaths of Arctic tundra, booming populations of snow geese may have finally stabilized.
Posted: | 9:20 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207342 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A powerful earthquake struck near remote Japanese islands and shook most of the country Saturday evening, but it occurred well beneath the earth's surface and did not trigger a tsunami warning.
Posted: | 9:15 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207407 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Hundreds of people filled a church in the Mississippi Delta for the funeral of B.B. King, who rose from sharecropper in the area's flat cotton fields to worldwide fame as a blues singer and guitarist.
Posted: | 9:13 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 208101 |
Rating: | 20810 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Southern California mountain lions gene pool is draining as traffic forces the big cats to cross highways to find new mates. CBC's Kim Brunhuber spent time with a field biologist trying to save them.
Posted: | 8:57 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207466 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Anthony Cirelli's second goal of the game at 1:28 of overtime lifted the Oshawa Generals to a 2-1 victory over the Kelowna Rockets in the Memorial Cup final on Sunday night.
Posted: | 8:54 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207408 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
After 120 days and 4,000 kilometres, Sarah McNair-Landry and Erik Boomer arrive in Iqaluit early Sunday, retracing a journey McNair-Laundry's parents took 25 years ago.
Posted: | 8:44 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207436 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Muslim chaplain said she was the subject of discrimination after a United Airlines flight attendant refused to give her an unopened can of pop because it could be used "as a weapon."
Posted: | 7:59 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207571 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | andyt |
An internal memo at Finance Canada says foreigners own between 40 and 50 per cent of the energy sector, a level higher than reported by StatsCan. And that means Canada's economy was partially shielded from the impact of dropping oil prices because foreign
Posted: | 7:56 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207344 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | andyt |
How the press wailed about Boko Haram before Isis dominated the news, yet the defeat of one of the most vicious Islamist insurgencies in modern Africa has gone all but un-remarked.
Posted: | 10:27 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207666 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Mermaid tails have been on the market for a few years but recently started gaining popularity in Canada. Now, some cities are banning the swimming accessory.
Posted: | 8:47 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207664 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A five-day hearing to determine certification of a class-action proceeding involving 362 former and current female RCMP members is set to begin Monday in B.C. Supreme Court. The women are alleging gender discrimination, bullying and harassment.
Posted: | 8:32 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207386 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Asharq Al-Awsat says Moscow has pulled military experts from Assad's war room in Damascus, evacuated non-essential personnel and stopped declaring there is no alternative to Assad.
Posted: | 8:31 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207432 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Across the country, Israelis were told to cut their shower time by two minutes. Washing cars with hoses was outlawed and those few wealthy enough to absorb the cost of maintaining a lawn were permitted to water it only at night.
Posted: | 12:18 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207820 |
Rating: | 20782 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Alberta's oil industry has been mostly diplomatic with the NDP government in charge. But this week, one company decided to dial up the pressure on the new premier.
Posted: | 10:11 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207628 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | martin14 |
They're easy to drive and hard to stop, can be made on a farm and destroy a city block: the Islamic State group's monstrous truck bombs are reshaping the battlefield.
Posted: | 7:06 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207517 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A South Bay recycling firm is looking for a woman who, in early April, dropped off boxes of electronics that she had cleaned out from her house after her husband died.
Posted: | 7:20 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207439 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A Hawaiian man was killed Friday after he was apparently impaled by the bill of a fish, officials said.
Posted: | 7:09 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207585 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The Kingdom of Enclava claimed land between Slovenia and Croatia but after being forced to move, it has staked out territory on the River Danube already claimed by the Principality of Celestinia.
Posted: | 1:06 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 208010 |
Rating: | 20801 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 1:15 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207712 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A fossilized skull and teeth from a new species of beaver that lived 28 million years ago have been unearthed in eastern Oregon.
Posted: | 9:40 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207547 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An Ottawa woman is speaking out after she watched the chair of the National Arts Centre's board of trustees park in a disabled parking spot for more than a week.
Posted: | 8:23 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207353 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Hyack |
An Ontario woman was honoured Friday for a secret mission she carried out for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in 1964.
Posted: | 8:19 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207454 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Squamish SPCA is asking the public for donations to help care for a seven-week-old kitten found severely injured in a metal recycling dumpster north of Pemberton, B.C.
Posted: | 4:21 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207415 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A Prince Albert man has pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death in a crash that killed 2 people including a pregnant woman.
Posted: | 12:52 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207523 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
The Jerusalem Hug event has been taking place for nine years. Participants gather around the Old City walls and walk hand in hand.
Posted: | 9:43 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207625 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million US in hush money to keep a person from the town where he was a longtime high school teacher silent about "prior misconduct" by the Illinois Republican who was once second in line to the U
Posted: | 9:41 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207703 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | andyt |
The Obama administration on Friday formally removed Cuba from a U.S. terrorism blacklist as part of the process of normalizing relations between the Cold War foes.
Posted: | 9:42 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207536 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The city of Paris has decided, once and for all, to get rid of the hundreds of thousands of love locks that adorn the historic Pont des Arts.
Posted: | 9:32 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207574 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A man who once was deputy education minister in Ontario and Manitoba was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for child-porn related offences.
Posted: | 9:30 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207454 |
Rating: | 20745 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Prescription drug spending in Canada reached an estimated $28.8 billion last year, driven by new biologics that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient.
Posted: | 8:30 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207500 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | Regina |
Justice Minister Peter MacKay will announce today he won't run in the next federal election, CBC News has learned.
Posted: | 7:16 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207677 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 6:11 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207481 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:50 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207529 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 8:47 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207369 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Tired of seeing a fake nude of herself being shared and posted online, one Richmond B.C. woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
Posted: | 1:29 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 208447 |
Rating: | 20845 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 1:28 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207484 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Two men convicted of first-degree murder in a mass execution that left six people dead are suing the British Columbia government for their alleged mistreatment in prison.
Posted: | 1:20 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207392 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
It was one small ban for mankinis, one giant step for an English seaside resort town. Officials in Newquay say crime has fallen since they cracked down on stag parties with revelers wearing the revealing one-piece garments.
Posted: | 1:15 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207496 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Using adjectives like "chunky," "swirly" and "euphoric," Ben & Jerry's announced their latest flavour, "Save our Swirled," on Wednesday.
Posted: | 1:08 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 207693 |
Rating: | 20769 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The mystery of Swiss cheese and its disappearing holes has been solved: The milk's too clean.
Posted: | 1:03 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207530 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The federal government plans to remove the tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products, effective July 1.
Posted: | 12:54 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207550 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Rabbis have also said that children dropped off at London schools by their mothers should be turned away because women drivers break 'the traditional rules of modesty in our camp'
Posted: | 12:20 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207629 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:13 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207659 |
Rating: | 20767 |
Poster: | Alta_redneck |
No one knows what's killing them, but scientists estimate that almost half of the world's saiga have perished since May 10th.
Posted: | 10:16 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207483 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:50 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207517 |
Rating: | 20752 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Temperatures the last two days have hovered near 45 C during the most intense heatwave in years. As of Thursday, there have been 1,412 heat-related deaths
Posted: | 8:13 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207430 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Dozens of contract workers were asked to stay home earlier this month to accommodate a press conference by the prime minister at an auto parts manufacturer in Windsor, Ont. A worker brought the request to light in a letter published by the Windsor Star
Posted: | 8:09 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207350 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The parents of an 8-month-old baby are desperately searching for a liver donor to help save their little girl's life.
Posted: | 7:04 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207359 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | Robair |
Bacon prices in the U.S., both wholesale and retail, are down substantially from this time last year. Industry experts say the pork product industry in Canada and the U.S. are closely tied so what happens south of the border with prices could move north.
Posted: | 6:51 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207352 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | Regina |
Booking travel using reward points can be so daunting and expensive people are now offering to do the booking for you, for a fee. Award Booking services specialize in building itineraries using reward points and will also help you avoid fees and surcharge
Posted: | 6:48 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207215 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | Regina |
NASA has documented Alaska's record warmth in May, and the image is shocking.
Posted: | 6:42 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207495 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
In his first interview since his release on bail, Omar Khadr talks about the controversial firefight with U.S. soldiers in 2002, his decade incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay and his new-found "freedom high."
Posted: | 6:38 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207313 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Douglas Garland will go on trial charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of five-year-old Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents last summer. A Calgary judge decided to upgrade the charge in the young boy's death.
Posted: | 6:32 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207262 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An emergency meeting called by Thailand will take place Friday, but Myanmar reportedly refused to attend if Rohingya were named in the invitation. The UN says the Muslim minority is effectively stateless in their country of origin.
Posted: | 6:31 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207153 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The federal government's consultation on a voluntary top-up of the Canada Pension Plan looks as if it was built to be killed. Without complex rule changes, extra payments may damage a system admired around the world and make little tax sense. Worse, it st
Posted: | 6:24 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 207435 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Would prevent 'foreign laws' from being used in Texas courts. Opponents call it 'anti Islamic'
Posted: | 10:20 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207621 |
Rating: | 20762 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Nebraska abolished the death penalty on Wednesday in a landmark veto-override vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment.
Posted: | 4:54 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207226 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | andyt |
Alberta's budgetary predicament is more dire than expected, Premier Rachel Notley told media in Calgary as the NDP's first cabinet meeting got underway today.
Posted: | 3:08 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207619 |
Rating: | 20763 |
Poster: | ShepherdsDog |
Felix Kiprono Matagei, who is originally from Kenya but is studying at Oxford, said he will put the marriage proposal to President Obama when he visits Kenya next month.
Posted: | 2:19 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207253 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Concentrations of ozone depleting chemicals was at its peak in 1993, but over the years they have declined and a new research points out that the Montreal Protocol, which came into force in 1987, has played a major role in not only ensuring that use of th
Posted: | 12:13 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207219 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A remote Arctic hamlet is declaring victory after a consortium of energy companies cancelled this summer's controversial plans for seismic testing off Baffin Island.
Posted: | 10:59 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207152 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Montreal engineer is hoping the day will soon arrive when Canadians can wake up in the morning and hop on their hoverboards.
Posted: | 10:45 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207281 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to stand down from his role as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU, sources confirm.
Posted: | 9:57 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207250 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Market forces were supposed to help First Nations resolve their housing crises when the Harper government created a special $300-million mortgage-support fund in 2008. Six years later, the fund's aggressive target of 25,000 new homes looks highly unrealis
Posted: | 9:46 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207234 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | martin14 |
​A London, Ont., teen says she was sent home from school for wearing ripped jeans and a tank top to class on Monday.
Posted: | 9:49 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207764 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | Zipperfish |
Ian Tyson was the perfect candidate for a Heritage Canada project to pair iconic songs and military bands to honour Canada's World War I history.
Posted: | 9:32 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207349 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 8:48 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207942 |
Rating: | 20794 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
'These spine-chilling actions, some of which amount to war crimes, were designed to exact revenge and spread fear across the Gaza Strip'
Posted: | 6:44 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207120 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's military is doing a much better job of protecting Arctic sovereignty in an increasingly busy North than Canadians think, says a new think-tank report.
Posted: | 6:26 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207393 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Film star and Vancouver native Ryan Reynolds has made a sick kid's dream come true.
Posted: | 4:10 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207399 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Robair |
The U.S. air force last week unveiled its new electromagnetic pulse weapon, called the counter-electronics high-powered microwave advanced missile project, or CHAMP, which can fry electronics with precision accuracy.
Posted: | 10:53 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207420 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Flooding brought Houston to a near-standstill Tuesday and killed as many as five people there, sending normally tame rivers and bayous surging past their banks, inundating streets and homes, and leaving roadways littered with thousands of abandoned, ruine
Posted: | 10:52 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207335 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Rescuers are working to free nine miners trapped underground in a gold mine in the Abitibi region of Quebec.
Posted: | 10:52 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207118 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Out of control forest fires in Alberta are affecting several oilsands facilities in the northern part of the province.
Posted: | 10:32 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207229 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canadian telecommunications providers have been handing over vast amounts of customer information to law enforcement and government departments and agencies with little transparency or oversight, a new report says.
Posted: | 10:28 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207200 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:37 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207419 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 9:04 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207380 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Two young women with the best of intentions attempted a rescue last night, but ended up needing some help of their own.
Posted: | 8:54 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207108 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Canada Post and the City of Hamilton are off to court this afternoon in a fight over the placement of large community mailboxes.
Posted: | 8:53 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207459 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Two of the three children tossed onto a South Florida beach from a bounce house sent flying by a waterspout have been sent home from a hospital with minor injuries, hours after the inflatable was sent airborne above palm trees and a four-lane road, police
Posted: | 8:50 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207284 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Warning from state-run China newspaper as Beijing reveals plans for development of disputed South China Sea islands
Posted: | 8:25 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207385 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A 14-year-old boy is convicted of terrorism offences in Austria, including a bomb plot potentially targeting a railway station in Vienna.
Posted: | 8:12 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207272 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 8:03 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207214 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 8:02 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207205 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
She's not a household name, but Marg McCuaig-Boyd is now one of the most important cabinet ministers in Rachel Notley's new NDP government in Alberta.
Posted: | 4:53 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207347 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | martin14 |
A $50.7-million hydro bill sent to the Canadian Forces military base at Garrison Petawawa, Ont., last summer is just one of many examples of inflated, miscalculated or undelivered bills cited by Ontario's ombudsman in a new report that looks at Hydro One'
Posted: | 4:39 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207152 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | martin14 |
With rising housing prices and the lure of low interest rates, more Canadians are living house poor. We profile one family willing to talk about living "hand to mouth" as they struggle to keep their home and pay the bills.
Posted: | 4:38 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207758 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Posted: | 2:22 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207339 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Barrie police took a man into custody early Monday morning who claimed to be werewolf.
Posted: | 2:19 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207384 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
About 230 people have died since mid-April in a heat wave sweeping two southeast Indian states, officials said Saturday.
Posted: | 12:57 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207219 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:56 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207710 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 12:18 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207103 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A 22-year-old Sikh man earned worldwide attention last week when he took off his turban to help a car accident victim in Auckland, New Zealand.
Posted: | 12:03 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207304 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Activists have called on an eighth century pub in St Albans to change its name from 'Ye Olde Fighting Cocks' to 'Ye Olde Clever Cocks' to reflect today's compassion for animals.
Posted: | 11:31 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 207587 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:27 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207265 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | Tyler_1 |
Instances of financial crime since the crisis have been revealed via chat room transcripts, which have laid bare the widespread, manipulative activities
Posted: | 10:47 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207384 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The flood waters are receding but the tide of trouble hasn't ended for residents of Cache Creek, B.C., who will get no financial relief from insurers as they pick through the remains of their waterlogged homes.
Posted: | 10:44 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207191 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A B.C. cancer patient is speaking out after she says she tried to get employment insurance and was told to call the welfare office instead.
Posted: | 10:38 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207277 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The newly-crowned winner of the Miss World Canada beauty pageant says her father has been threatened in China because of her stance against human rights abuses.
Posted: | 10:37 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207312 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Saskatchewan-born comedian Brent Butt has come out swinging against sexual harassment faced by female comedians after Toronto comedian Jen Grant says she was heckled to the point she felt "objectified" by a man in the audience at a country club where she
Posted: | 9:04 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207411 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Regina |
An Air France flight from Paris was escorted by U.S. fighter jets to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, according to WABC television.
Posted: | 8:55 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207194 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | Regina |
The Ontario government said they will introduce back-to-work legislation, after the Education Relations Commission issued its ruling Monday morning.
Posted: | 8:30 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207646 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | OnTheIce |
Facebook users in Canada will receive Amber Alert notices in their news feeds when they are near where police believe children have been abducted, the company announced Monday.
Posted: | 8:10 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207210 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | Regina |
Ontario's ombudsman says Hydro One "lost sight of its public interest purpose" and failed to consider the impact on its customers of a new information system that resulted in massive billing errors for about 100,000 households.
Posted: | 8:03 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207096 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | Regina |
Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country's police chief said on Monday.
Posted: | 8:03 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207095 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 7:58 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207132 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | Regina |
Ad blocking companies are moving into the mobile market, which could devastate websites dependent on ad revenue. Experts say there's a simple solution, however: make less annoying ads, and people won't need ad blockers.
Posted: | 7:51 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207267 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | Regina |
Actress Anne Meara, the New Yorker who gained fame as half of the comedy team Stiller & Meara and went on to star in TV and film, has died. She was 85.
Posted: | 7:50 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207282 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | Regina |
Posted: | 7:37 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 207413 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Constitutionally protected speech, no matter how offensive, is a glorious and uniquely American invention, Neil Macdonald writes. But these days it seems to be under attack from thought police everywhere, even in the U.S.
Posted: | 7:34 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207203 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Travelling the country's lakes and rivers in a canoe is an iconic Canadian pastime but Alexandru Duru just might change all that with his new Guinness World Record-breaking hovercraft.
Posted: | 7:04 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207292 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The California Assembly voted 58-11 in favor of banning the microbeads, which are found in toothpaste and body washes and are responsible for tons of plastic water pollution.
Posted: | 7:03 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207162 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's takeover of the Iraqi city of Ramadi shows that Iraqi forces do not have the "will to fight," U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter says.
Posted: | 2:57 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207456 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | andyt |
Bringing along a few pieces of day-old bread to feed the ducks at a local pond seems innocent, but a biologist says it can hurt them in more ways than one.
Posted: | 2:36 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207239 |
Rating: | 20725 |
Poster: | Hyack |
If you're wondering why British Columbia experienced such a mild winter and early spring, you could maybe blame it on a mysterious "blob" of warm water in the Pacific Ocean.
Posted: | 2:27 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207331 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Hyack |
But the veil-wearing girl he spoke to from the IS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria was actually an undercover reporter for a Canadian TV network
Posted: | 10:18 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207354 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
'Under clear skies and calm winds, ground temperatures overnight and early Saturday morning are expected to be at or a few degrees below freezing'
Posted: | 10:14 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207240 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 10:11 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207168 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
John Nash, 86, the mathematician made famous in the 2001 Russell Crowe movie A Beautiful Mind, has been killed in a taxi crash in New Jersey along with his wife Alicia, 82.
Posted: | 10:10 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207369 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped Iraq build up chemical and biological weapons, it was revealed last night
Posted: | 8:36 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207394 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | andyt |
Posted: | 4:14 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 207794 |
Rating: | 20779 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The U.S. warned China Thursday against confronting U.S. aerial patrols over the South China Sea days after a verbal dispute between a Chinese military dispatcher and a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft.
Posted: | 1:11 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207436 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
How much has the political landscape in Alberta changed? Big Oil is now pushing for a carbon tax.
Posted: | 6:50 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207329 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | andyt |
A quarter of those serving in the UK's armed forces want to quit, a Ministry of Defence survey of nearly 12,000 personnel suggests.
Posted: | 9:46 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207349 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Ottawa is considering retrofitting commercial ships to resupply the Royal Canadian Navy. The measure is considered a stopgap, as the navy no longer has ships capable of delivering food, water, ammunition, spare parts and other necessities to vessels at se
Posted: | 6:28 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207243 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:24 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207324 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | Hyack |