The leaders of British Columbia's main political parties have kicked off their final week of campaigning before the election set for next Saturday.
Posted: | 7:47 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207909 |
Rating: | 20791 |
Poster: | Strutz |
An enormous drawing of a cat, etched into the side of a hill thousands of years ago, has been uncovered in Peru, adding another image to the country's catalogue of mystifying geoglyphs.
Posted: | 7:41 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 208325 |
Rating: | 20833 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Posted: | 11:07 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 208218 |
Rating: | 20822 |
Poster: | JaredMilne |
A couple from upstate New York found dozens of whisky bottles dating back to the 1920s hidden in their walls and floor boards, all but confirming their suspicions that the old home once belonged to a prohibition-era bootlegger.
Posted: | 10:31 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 208395 |
Rating: | 20840 |
Poster: | Strutz |
With anywhere from 200,000 to 800,000 boats, some as far afield as Argentina, China is unmatched in the size and reach of its fishing armada. Fuelled primarily by government subsidies, its growth and activities have largely gone unchecked, in part because
Posted: | 10:24 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207706 |
Rating: | 20771 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A Yukon air charter company found itself with a plane stuck on a remote snow-covered airstrip a couple of weeks ago. The company almost had to abandon the $200,000 plane for the winter.
Posted: | 8:08 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 207682 |
Rating: | 20768 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The federal government says it's investing $20 million in the nuclear industry to help Canada meet its target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Posted: | 7:56 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207489 |
Rating: | 20749 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
John Brittain, who shot four people to death in Penticton, B.C., over a neighbours' dispute, has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Posted: | 7:55 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 207703 |
Rating: | 20770 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The French history museum calls the move an attempt at censorship and suppression of Mongolian culture and history
Posted: | 7:54 AM on Friday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 208095 |
Rating: | 20810 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:52 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 208592 |
Rating: | 20859 |
Poster: | Strutz |
An unidentified man was seen flying in a jetpack near the Los Angeles International Airport for the second time in six weeks.
Posted: | 7:51 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 208166 |
Rating: | 20817 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The effects of global warming have reached one of the coldest regions on Earth in southern Antarctica, according to U.S. researchers who discovered the remarkably preserved remains of an ancient penguin colony that was revealed by recent snow melt.
Posted: | 5:46 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 208015 |
Rating: | 20802 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to do more than send tweets to settle an increasingly violent dispute over an Indigenous-led lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, a First Nations chief said Thursday.
Posted: | 5:41 PM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207851 |
Rating: | 20786 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The vandalism prevented the farm from opening for most of the day Saturday, during what is normally one of its busiest weekends of the year.
Posted: | 8:10 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207595 |
Rating: | 20760 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Police stopped a motorcyclist in Burnaby last week for using a fake licence plate made of paper, and they say it's not the first time the driver has been stopped for that exact offence.
Posted: | 8:09 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 208143 |
Rating: | 20814 |
Poster: | Strutz |
With Halloween less than four weeks away, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control has released its guidelines for the holiday amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted: | 7:57 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207573 |
Rating: | 20757 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Crews were called to deal with another mercury spill in Vancouver on Monday, marking the fourth incident to be reported in recent weeks.
Posted: | 7:54 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 208079 |
Rating: | 20808 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A state of local emergency has been declared in the Municipal District of Bighorn, in the foothills west of Calgary near the mountain parks, as a wildfire burns out of control.
Posted: | 7:52 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 207593 |
Rating: | 20759 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The staggering scale of California's wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single fire surpassed one million acres.
Posted: | 7:50 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 207312 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Iman Vellani, a teen from Markham, Ont., is reported to be starring as Ms. Marvel, the first Muslim superhero for Marvel Studios and the latest in a string of Canadian talent saving the day.
Posted: | 9:39 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 207999 |
Rating: | 20800 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The federal government has quietly settled a lawsuit filed by survivors and family members in the wake of a suicide bombing outside the Canadian embassy in Kabul four years ago that killed 15 Nepalese Gurkhas and Indian private security contractors, CBC N
Posted: | 9:28 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207461 |
Rating: | 20746 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Water in southern Alberta's Milk River could soon be flowing at full capacity again, after it was on the verge of drying up completely.
Posted: | 9:16 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207315 |
Rating: | 20732 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Three brass-coloured plaques were removed from a circular stone monument. This is the second time military memorials in the north Edmonton neighbourhood have been targeted.
Posted: | 8:14 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 207443 |
Rating: | 20744 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Texas' governor has ordered that voters can drop off their mail-in ballots at only one location per county in the lead-up to the presidential election. Republican Governor Greg Abbott said the move would stop illegal voting. Critics have accused Mr
Posted: | 8:05 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 208419 |
Rating: | 20842 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has announced plans to allow only 15,000 refugees to resettle in the country in the 2021 fiscal year that began on Thursday. The refugee cap was cut to 18,000 in the 2020 fiscal year that ended on Wednesday, bu
Posted: | 7:58 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 207368 |
Rating: | 20737 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 7:43 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 207312 |
Rating: | 20731 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 5:58 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207286 |
Rating: | 20729 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:53 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 207325 |
Rating: | 20733 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 9:35 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207282 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Several television productions have been paused just as they were ramping back up in Vancouver as a result of a backlog in COVID-19 testing, CBC has confirmed.
Posted: | 7:39 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 207278 |
Rating: | 20728 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:22 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 207809 |
Rating: | 20781 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Posted: | 6:11 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 207173 |
Rating: | 20717 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |