The statement made by Jair Bolsonaro (pictured), who takes office in January, appealed to many Brazilians who want to use guns for self-defense amid sky-high levels of violent crime.
Posted: | 12:04 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207658 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Counter-terrorism police have been called in to help protect people working in the meat industry from increasingly extreme protests by militant vegans.
Posted: | 9:08 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207401 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Canada will welcome nearly one million immigrants over the next three years, according to the multi-year strategy tabled by the Liberal government today in what it calls "the most ambitious immigration levels in recent history."
Posted: | 8:46 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207331 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:09 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207398 |
Rating: | 20740 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Alex Edler scored 3:06 into overtime to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday night. In a back-and-forth overtime, Edler one-timed a pass from Brock Boeser that just dribbled through the pads of David Rittich.
Posted: | 10:24 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207405 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Two Ontario university professors who are being sued for defamation by controversial author and professor Jordan Peterson over comments made during a private meeting allege a former teaching assistant who recorded the conversation is responsible for its b
Posted: | 12:44 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207484 |
Rating: | 20748 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
At the heart of the complaint is two monetary donations Progress Alberta received from the U.S.-based foundation
Posted: | 11:47 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207290 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Mizzou officials made the claim as Jeremy Rowles (right) challenged them in a lawsuit surrounding his suspension in 2016 for the romantic proposal to his student dance instructor Annalise Breaux (left).
Posted: | 11:46 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207716 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Aaron Herbert Doering, a well-known climate change expert and professor at the University of Minnesota, was charged Thursday with two felony counts of domestic assault by strangulation in Hennepin County District Court, the Star Tribune reports.
Posted: | 3:33 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207405 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A Vancouver-area First Nation's decision to support the Woodfibre LNG project may have come as a surprise to some, considering the nation's role in helping to derail the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion earlier this year.
Posted: | 11:48 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207526 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Michael Asiamah said the army exposed him to the cold on Salisbury Plain, despite knowing people of black Caribbean and African origin are more susceptible to cold injuries.
Posted: | 11:28 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207639 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:24 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207392 |
Rating: | 20739 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
For the past two months, two men have been racing nearly 1,000 miles (1,600km) across a frigid void.
Posted: | 11:23 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207557 |
Rating: | 20756 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A five-kilogram average daily haul of lobster earns a windfall for divers in one of the most impoverished regions of the Americas, so many take risks, and many suffer for it.
Posted: | 10:22 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207696 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Indonesia has raised the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano to the second highest and ordered all flights to steer clear, days after it triggered a tsunami that killed at least 430 people.
Posted: | 10:14 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207462 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Climate change is prompting glaciers in British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta to retreat faster than at any time in history, threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists say.
Posted: | 9:06 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207539 |
Rating: | 20754 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Tanks, armoured troop carriers and soldiers are gathering along Turkey's southern border as they prepare to move into Syria as soon as US troops leave following Trump's shock announcement.
Posted: | 4:13 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207650 |
Rating: | 20765 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 2:24 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207585 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The US president and first lady make an unannounced Christmas visit to US service personnel.
Posted: | 2:20 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207428 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
In the late evening of July 28, 1944, an air armada of 494 RAF Lancaster bombers took off from eastern England to attack enemy targets on the continent.
Posted: | 1:14 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207499 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Zimbabweans have had to scale back their seasonal celebrations as the economic crisis worsens.
Posted: | 11:33 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207466 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A 3-year-old K9 named Cigo of the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office was shot and killed chasing a suspect in an attempted murder fleeing through the parking lot of a Florida mall.
Posted: | 11:31 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207486 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 11:30 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207468 |
Rating: | 20747 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Thousands have taken advantage of perfect summer weather to flock to Sydney's Bondi Beach and Byron Bay on the NSW far north coast to celebrate an Australian outdoor Christmas.
Posted: | 11:29 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207605 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people, warning more victims are expected to be uncovered as the search expands.
Posted: | 9:47 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207348 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth.
Posted: | 6:46 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207553 |
Rating: | 20755 |
Poster: | Hyack |
B.C. bear expert Lana Ciarniello confirms bears are being sighted later in the season across the country, and she believes this will be the new norm. 'Bears may still be finding enough food on the land and feeding on some of these things,' said conservati
Posted: | 6:44 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207463 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:33 PM on Monday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207763 |
Rating: | 20776 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 6:26 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207406 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
From a taxidermied duckling named Giuseppe to $155,000 worth of light beer, CTVNews.ca takes a look at some of the strangest things reported stolen in Canada in 2018.
Posted: | 6:23 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207411 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
BC Hydro is sending more crews to help restore power on Vancouver Island and the Southern Gulf Islands, as more than 21,000 customers are still without power.
Posted: | 12:55 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207341 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Joel Fedd moved into a $500k home just bought by a family after claiming he owned the land because he was 'Moorish American'. He was later charged with criminal trespass in Georgia.
Posted: | 1:18 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207663 |
Rating: | 20766 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Quebec's attempt to establish a firearms registry is facing resistance.
Posted: | 12:58 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207432 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The People's Party of Canada says it has reached its goal of setting up 338 riding associations as it sets its sights on being a competitive force in the upcoming federal election.
Posted: | 12:36 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207434 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:32 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207620 |
Rating: | 20762 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The anonymous mother and father, aged 32 and 34 respectively, fronted a Sydney court on Sunday, accused of failing to provide for a child and causing serious injury.
Posted: | 12:26 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207362 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
It's not just Trump: Shutdowns happened every year when Jimmy Carter was president. Here's an explainer on what actually goes on
Posted: | 12:24 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207361 |
Rating: | 20736 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Police said the vehicle fled the scene, and officers are searching for a black Acura without a front licence plate.
Posted: | 4:00 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207237 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Simcha Rotem rose up against Nazi deportations in 1943 and was one of the few to escape.
Posted: | 3:59 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207609 |
Rating: | 20761 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:41 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207508 |
Rating: | 20751 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Volcanic activity sent a wave crashing into villages and hotels in a popular tourist area on the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. Follow all the developments here
Posted: | 8:10 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207171 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
Rally 4 Resources, a grassroots movement based in Red Deer that promotes resource-based industries, is planning a Convoy to Ottawa beginning on Feb. 15.
Posted: | 11:44 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207341 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The owners of a cargo ship which was hijacked by stowaways from Nigeria have told of the moment the Special Boat Service (SBS) 'stormed aboard' the ship to secure the situation.
Posted: | 11:13 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207262 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Statistics Canada may be coming to your door with some very personal questions next year. About 250,000 Canadian households are being targeted for a 'pilot' census in May and June - a dry-run for the full-scale census in 2021. Many new personal questions
Posted: | 2:33 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207709 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer says he believes that China's detention of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig is a retaliation against Canada over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
Posted: | 9:47 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207415 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Moderates are much better at figuring out when they're likely to be mistaken.
Posted: | 9:30 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207366 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A former Canadian diplomat detained in China is being denied legal representation and is not allowed to turn the lights off at night, people familiar with the situation said, offering new details on the closely watched case.
Posted: | 5:57 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207341 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The House of Representatives on Thursday night voted to approve a temporary spending bill that includes $5 billion in funding for a Mexico border wall, bringing...
Posted: | 12:13 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207636 |
Rating: | 20764 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Two boys almost bled to death from botched circumcisions performed by a Winnipeg doctor who has been suspended.
Posted: | 12:12 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207419 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A little thrush that's a long way from home is enchanting bird watchers in British Columbia's southern Interior. A species of thrush usually found in Europe, Asia or North Africa, has been making itself comfortable with a flock of robins in Salmon Arm.
Posted: | 10:23 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207421 |
Rating: | 20742 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A unique cache of well-preserved dinosaur fossils from 100 million years ago have been unearthed in the cliffs near Hastings, England. The detailed fossils show claw imprints and skin textures from at least 7 dinosaur species
Posted: | 10:21 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207412 |
Rating: | 20741 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The tiny Arctic community of Gjoa Haven, NU, grieved over six tragic deaths in just two weeks in August. Now, CBC News has learned that some in the community are afraid that the tragedies are somehow linked to Parks Canada divers "disturbing" the newly di
Posted: | 10:17 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207244 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 10:13 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207206 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | Hyack |
It is one of the most admired planets in our solar system: Saturn. But a new study suggests that the ringed beauty will lose its most stunning feature. According to the study published in the journal Icarus, Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun and the o
Posted: | 10:07 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207336 |
Rating: | 20734 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The federal cabinet this month approved a new design for the loonie to commemorate the elimination of laws against homosexuality in 1969. The initiative 50 years ago was led by Pierre Trudeau. In 2017, his son Justin Trudeau issued an official apology for
Posted: | 9:27 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207352 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Tavish Campbell says samples he collected from discharged waste reveal that the PRV virus, which is potentially harmful to wild salmon, is still present. B.C.'s environment ministry says a review of permits at all fish processing facilities is underway.
Posted: | 8:04 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207161 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Almost 280,000 BC Hydro customers have lost power as of 7 p.m. PT as another "significant" windstorm batters B.C.'s South Coast, also leading to widespread ferry closures and shutting down access to parts of Vancouver's Stanley Park for the sake of public
Posted: | 8:01 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207260 |
Rating: | 20726 |
Poster: | Hyack |
A helicopter rescue was required to save a person from the White Rock pier Thursday after the dock broke apart in strong winds and powerful waves. On Vancouver Island, four people had to be saved from a houseboat adrift off Maple Bay.
Posted: | 8:00 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207227 |
Rating: | 20723 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:58 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207350 |
Rating: | 20735 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 1:42 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207383 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
After a two-year police ban, Pride Toronto appears to be dangerously close to insolvency with nearly a $700,000 deficit outstanding and not enough assets to cover its commitments.
Posted: | 1:40 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207429 |
Rating: | 20743 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The department store says it stopped selling the hats in October, but a shopper spotted them on Saturday.
Posted: | 1:30 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207154 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Jack Mintz has written a piece for the Financial Post titled, "Alberta has better reasons to Albexit than Britain did for Brexit."
Posted: | 1:22 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207155 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Meanwhile, green energy's marginal and largely meaningless existence will be expensive for both taxpayers and electricity customers
Posted: | 10:03 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207172 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Every year, Environment and Climate Change Canada releases its top ten weather stories. And this year from coast-to-coast, no region was spared from increasingly extreme climatic events.
Posted: | 7:32 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207120 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:01 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207181 |
Rating: | 20718 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Marlboro cigarette maker Altria Group Inc. on Thursday announced it would pay $12.8 US billion to take a 35 per cent stake in Juul Labs Inc., a marriage between an old-line tobacco giant and a fast-growing electronic-cigarette rival looking to make inroad
Posted: | 6:58 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207215 |
Rating: | 20722 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs contradict a key component of the new North American trade agreement dealing with cars.
Posted: | 6:38 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 206957 |
Rating: | 20696 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Calgary jury has convicted Edward Downey of two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Sara Baillie and her five-year-old daughter, Taliyah Marsman.
Posted: | 5:09 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207016 |
Rating: | 20702 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Two drones spotted flying near the runway brought Gatwick airport to a standstill last night with thousands of passengers diverted as far away as Bordeaux and warned the chaos could last all day.
Posted: | 5:10 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207715 |
Rating: | 20772 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Uber driver, Mohiussunnath Chowdhury who allegedly attacked police with a samurai sword outside Buckingham Palace has been found not guilty of preparing acts of terrorism.
Posted: | 4:07 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207959 |
Rating: | 20796 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The group No One Is Illegal - Toronto will be at this afternoon's Toronto Police Services Board meeting to push their case for a don't-ask, don't-tell policy in police dealings with undocumented immigrants.
Posted: | 1:31 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206340 |
Rating: | 20634 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
President Trump orders US troops out of Syria, declaring victory over the Islamic State group.
Posted: | 1:26 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 206966 |
Rating: | 20697 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A recent tweet by the Saudi Customs Authority answering a question about the ban imposed on Christmas trees in Saudi Arabia has been going viral.In response to a question whether it is legal to allow
Posted: | 1:25 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207333 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 1:00 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207112 |
Rating: | 20711 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 1:01 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207504 |
Rating: | 20750 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Alibaba founder Jack Ma fired a shot at the United States in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Ma was asked by CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin about the U.S. economy in relation to China, since President-elect Donald Trump has b
Posted: | 12:23 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207000 |
Rating: | 20700 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
B.C.'s Appeal Court has upheld a ruling that gave a couple convicted of planting explosive devices on the grounds of the legislature their freedom in 2016.
Posted: | 12:09 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206924 |
Rating: | 20692 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's privacy watchdog warns marijuana users to pay with cash rather than plastic if they're worried about the collection of their personal information, among other guidelines published on Tuesday.
Posted: | 7:25 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206915 |
Rating: | 20692 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi in a year when more than half of all journalists killed were targeted deliberately reflects a hatred of the media in many areas of society, according to the group Reporters Without Borders.
Posted: | 7:23 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206914 |
Rating: | 20691 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A third Canadian has been taken into custody in China, according to Global Affairs Canada. A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Canadian officials found out about the detention on Tuesday by someone who knows the latest detainee.
Posted: | 7:05 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207024 |
Rating: | 20702 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Facial recognition technology continues to be trialled by police forces in the UK despite warnings of high error rates. In the latest test, the technology is being used to scan the faces of Christmas shoppers in London, with police hoping to spot wanted c
Posted: | 7:04 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207043 |
Rating: | 20704 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A tornado touched down south of Port Orchard shortly before 2 p.m., the National Weather Service in Seattle said on Twitter.
Posted: | 5:24 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207162 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Actress Penny Marshall, who found fame in TV's "Laverne & Shirley" before going on to direct such beloved films as "Big" and "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 75.
Posted: | 4:50 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207208 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | Freakinoldguy |
Five new green energy collaborations between private companies and Alberta First Nations are expected to create 1,000 jobs and enough renewable electricity to power nearly 300,000 homes.
Posted: | 10:08 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207195 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The federal government is promising more than $1.6 billion to support the ailing energy sector, just as tensions in the Ottawa-Alberta relationship are rising.
Posted: | 9:51 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207060 |
Rating: | 20706 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
High surf warnings extend from north of the Oregon and Washington border to about north of Los Angeles. High surf advisories or gale warnings stretch from the Canada to Mexico border
Posted: | 9:01 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207152 |
Rating: | 20715 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Behind locked gates, barbed wire and hundreds of cameras, men and women are sewing sportswear that can end up on U.S. college campuses and sports teams
Posted: | 8:38 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207141 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
With Microsoft's decision to end development of its own Web rendering engine and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google. That's a worrying turn of events, given the company's past behavior.
Posted: | 8:27 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 206973 |
Rating: | 20697 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A University of Calgary professor says he's concerned about what he calls "climate misinformation" presented by a Conservative member of Parliament last week to junior high students in Red Deer.
Posted: | 7:50 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 206913 |
Rating: | 20691 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
For weeks, jurors and spectators at the trial of Edward Downey have heard distressing details of the deaths of Taliyah Marsman, 5, and Sara Baillie, 34
Posted: | 6:24 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207092 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system, and they've nicknamed the pink cosmic body "Farout." "Farout" is about 120 astronomical units away -- that's 120 times the distance between Earth and the sun, or 11 billion miles.
Posted: | 2:35 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 207078 |
Rating: | 20708 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Growing up in a, let's see how can I put it, a much different Toronto, how well I remember each approaching Christmas season.Of course, there were the special church services complete with a carol sing-along and the nativity play at Eglinton United on She
Posted: | 11:51 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207295 |
Rating: | 20730 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
French security forces are ready to smother the centre of Paris with a chemical weapon in a bid to keep rioters away from key buildings. The country has been hit by five weekends of violence.
Posted: | 11:50 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207196 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The Ukrainian Orthodox council has elected a leader of the country's newly-established independent Orthodox church. The decision to cut ties with Moscow has caused a split within the Ukrainian church hierarchy.
Posted: | 11:27 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 207380 |
Rating: | 20738 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 10:26 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207330 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:32 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207266 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Winnipeg reservist who the military said died during training last November in fact stepped away from other soldiers on that exercise and killed himself a year after telling his superiors he was being bullied and harassed.
Posted: | 7:27 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207241 |
Rating: | 20724 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:26 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207162 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A controversial figure who ran as a Toronto mayoral candidate has been ordered to pay more than $43,000 in legal fees to Bell Media after her lawsuit was dismissed by the Ontario Superior Court.
Posted: | 6:43 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207332 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late on Saturday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming.
Posted: | 6:05 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207026 |
Rating: | 20703 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
It's often the case that jihadist attacks are carried out by individuals already identified as a risk.
Posted: | 11:36 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207029 |
Rating: | 20703 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The last Syrian town under the control of Islamic State fell on Friday, marking a defeat for the jihadists which will prove difficult to come back from.
Posted: | 11:13 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207052 |
Rating: | 20705 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The United Nations' annual climate conferences, like the latest in Katowice, Poland, attended by thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, diplomats, scientists, special interest groups& and media are a circus and a fraud.
Posted: | 11:10 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207138 |
Rating: | 20714 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 10:24 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207533 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
About 200 people donned in bright yellow clothing gathered on Regina's Albert Memorial Bridge to protest a variety of issues on Saturday.
Posted: | 4:10 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207597 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | martin14 |
Brock Boeser notched a goal and an assist Saturday night, leading his Vancouver Canucks to a 5-1 win over the slumping Philadelphia Flyers. Chris Tanev, Loui Eriksson, Josh Leivo and Markus Granlund also scored for Vancouver (15-16-4), and Troy Stecher ad
Posted: | 7:48 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 207187 |
Rating: | 20719 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 12:03 PM on Saturday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207118 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Canada is stuck in the middle over Meng Wanzhou and taking punishment -- and its ally to the south has been conspicuously absent in coming to its aid
Posted: | 11:56 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207125 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 10:46 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 207534 |
Rating: | 20753 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
On Wednesday afternoon, federal Bill C-69 passed second reading in the Senate by a vote of 56-29.The response from the Alberta government on this troubling news? Crickets.
Posted: | 10:43 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207211 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
PM Scott Morrison says Australia will not immediately move its embassy from Tel Aviv.
Posted: | 10:41 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207125 |
Rating: | 20713 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Almost a year after billionaire couple Honey and Barry Sherman were found dead in their Toronto mansion, police are still struggling to solve the mystery.
Posted: | 10:31 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 206999 |
Rating: | 20700 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Ruba and Saqib both carry a gene for I-cell disorder, which means their children have a one-in-four chance of dying in early childhood.
Posted: | 10:10 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Lifestyle |
Hits: | 207275 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Everybody involved agreed it was a miracle that the man shot more than 30 times survived.They also agreed a miracle would be needed to catch the three guys who allegedly did it which surveillance video showed them pumping 33 bullets into a helpless man wh
Posted: | 4:55 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207681 |
Rating: | 20768 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
The U.S. navy believes it has the answer to what doomed the USS San Diego: An underwater mine set by a German submarine cruising in waters just miles from New York City.
Posted: | 3:54 PM on Friday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 207732 |
Rating: | 20773 |
Poster: | Hyack |
The first of three new Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers refitted at Quebec's Davie Shipyard will be named after a female maritime pioneer. The ship, one of three bought from Norway in August, is the first new icebreaker floated by the Coast Guard in 25 ye
Posted: | 3:41 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207160 |
Rating: | 20716 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Seventeen open-pen fish farms in B.C.'s Broughton Archipelago will be phased out by 2023 under a new agreement between First Nations and the provincial government, the premier announced Friday.
Posted: | 3:39 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207088 |
Rating: | 20709 |
Poster: | Hyack |
Posted: | 1:14 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207213 |
Rating: | 20721 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
Posted: | 12:42 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 208350 |
Rating: | 20835 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said two Canadian citizens being held in China are being unlawfully detained and they should be returned to Canada.
Posted: | 12:30 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207063 |
Rating: | 20706 |
Poster: | Robair |
"Almost 40 per cent of participating pilots said that they are rarely or never able to have their aircraft effectively de-iced at remote airports," said lead TSB investigator David Ross.
Posted: | 12:14 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207098 |
Rating: | 20710 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, has died.
Posted: | 12:12 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207272 |
Rating: | 20727 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel is again calling for a complete review and audit of the immigration screening system in response to a CBC News investigation that revealed a Somali gang member with an extensive criminal record was twice rel
Posted: | 12:04 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207202 |
Rating: | 20720 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A statue of the Indian independence leader was opposed by lecturers at the University of Ghana.
Posted: | 10:11 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207120 |
Rating: | 20712 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |
A factory worker in China survived after a rogue robot malfunctioned and plunged ten huge steel spikes into his chest and arm.
Posted: | 10:10 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 207286 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | N_Fiddledog |