No deaths have been reported as a result of a swift and vicious wildfire that consumed at least 500 homes in Boulder County, Colorado, and forced some 35,000 people to flee, authorities said Friday.
Posted: | 8:47 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 202902 |
Rating: | 20290 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Authorities are considering charges against a man attacked by a tiger after entering an unauthorized area after hours at a Naples, Florida, zoo, leaving a deputy no choice but to kill the critically endangered cat.
Posted: | 10:34 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202970 |
Rating: | 20297 |
Poster: | Strutz |
U.S. President Joe Biden promised during the presidential campaign to reinstate an effective ban on the use of landmines by the U.S. military which was undone by his predecessor Donald Trump.
Posted: | 6:37 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 203180 |
Rating: | 20318 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Chevrolet is hard-pressed with the production of its popular Corvette C8 but that got even more challenging with a tornado incident at Bowling Green.
Posted: | 5:56 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 202509 |
Rating: | 20252 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A sugar additive used in several foods could have helped spread a seriously dangerous superbug around the US, according to a 2018 study.
Posted: | 5:47 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202946 |
Rating: | 20296 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
TOKYO -- The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has lost two floppy disks containing personal information on 38 people, the department announced on on Dec. 27 (2021)
Posted: | 6:46 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 202988 |
Rating: | 20299 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A court in Moscow on Wednesday granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russian rights groups, independent media and opposition supporters.
Posted: | 6:41 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202849 |
Rating: | 20285 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy says while the fire that broke out on HMCS Fredericton last month was not due to a systemic issue in Canada's frigate fleet, the 30-year-old warships are starting to show their age.
Posted: | 6:31 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202901 |
Rating: | 20290 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
After years of criticism, the RCMP now says it has cleared its backlog of public complaints and is in the midst of implementing recommendations coming from its watchdog agency — but some of the complainants are no longer alive to see the results.
Posted: | 5:52 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202812 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A U.S. jury said they reached a verdict of guilty on Wednesday in the trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.
Posted: | 3:01 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202844 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | Scape |
Hong Kong police say they have arrested six current and former staff members of an online media company for conspiracy to publish a seditious publication.
Posted: | 6:03 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202839 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Governor General has appointed new Canadians to the Order of Canada, in a list that includes prominent political, cultural and academic leaders.
Posted: | 5:55 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 202907 |
Rating: | 20291 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The heaviest drinkers in the animal kingdom are punier than you might expect. Elephants, for example, are massive, but they are relative lightweights—they lack a gene for alcohol metabolism. Humans actually rank pretty highly, thanks to our ancestors’
Posted: | 4:10 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 203483 |
Rating: | 20348 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino has asked Twitter Canada to remove a tweet sent to Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Katharine Smart.
Posted: | 2:14 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202808 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | Scape |
Recent changes in the speed at which the Earth rotates may result in the need for a negative leap second. One expert explains what this is, and how it impacts timekeeping on Earth.
Posted: | 11:44 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 203518 |
Rating: | 20352 |
Poster: | Strutz |
A chemistry professor at Dalhousie University says snowflakes and crystals form in the sky in different ways based on temperature and humidity.
Posted: | 11:27 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 203628 |
Rating: | 20363 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights organizations should be shut down.
Posted: | 11:03 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202806 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The internal combustion engine is running on borrowed time. That's a fact. No one knows exactly how much longer it'll be around but automakers are quickly preparing for the day after. The electrification era is officially underway so does it make sense fo
Posted: | 6:11 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202902 |
Rating: | 20290 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Ontario Power Generation chose GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to build a light water reactor at its existing Darlington nuclear power plant, a decision that could shape Canada’s nuclear industry for decades to come
Posted: | 5:54 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 202931 |
Rating: | 20293 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Amazon has fixed its voice assistant so that it will not suggest the dangerous “challenge” again.
Posted: | 5:53 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 203053 |
Rating: | 20306 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
CBC Radio special, Circulation, takes a trip to Tilbury, Ont., to find out what happens when the local newspaper packs up and leaves.
Posted: | 5:47 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202768 |
Rating: | 20277 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
British police said Monday they were investigating a video linked to a man armed with a crossbow who was arrested at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day.
Posted: | 5:28 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202890 |
Rating: | 20289 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The pandemic has been a recipe for success for meal-kit companies, but experts question whether Canadians' appetites will change over time.
Posted: | 5:26 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202805 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan's two election commissions, as well as state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs, after deeming them unnecessary for the country's current situation.
Posted: | 5:25 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202807 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A blast of Arctic air brought snow to parts of British Columbia — including Metro Vancouver — and a cold snap to Alberta, with most of the province experiencing temperatures below –30 C.
Posted: | 5:22 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 202935 |
Rating: | 20295 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90.
Posted: | 10:49 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202874 |
Rating: | 20287 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An Ontario emergency room doctor is among those drawing attention to "granny dumping" at hospitals, calling it a cry for help from families struggling to care for elderly relatives.
Posted: | 6:35 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202948 |
Rating: | 20295 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Charges are no longer being pursued against two journalists who were arrested last month while reporting on the RCMP's enforcement of an injunction at a pipeline construction site in northern British Columbia.
Posted: | 6:34 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202783 |
Rating: | 20278 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
When Frankie the golden-doodle was let out by her owners, it took about an hour before they began to worry. They figured she was playing with some of her neighbourhood friends at a dog park, but she chose a different road.
Posted: | 6:18 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 202994 |
Rating: | 20300 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The move by Canadian chocolate maker Purdys to offer a braille box for blind and partially sighted people is one of several campaigns this year by companies trying to make their products more accessible to people with disabilities. But experts say the mov
Posted: | 5:52 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 203005 |
Rating: | 20302 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
New Brunswick’s attempts to fix its system for calculating private woodlot sales to sawmills have failed to persuade the U.S. government that the province has a free market in timber pricing.
Posted: | 8:55 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202867 |
Rating: | 20287 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's long-standing, stalwart support of Ukraine will be under new and intense pressure early in the new year as the West braces for possible military action by Russia, perhaps as soon as late January. CBC takes a look at the possible scenarios and obs
Posted: | 6:52 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202812 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of the dismantling of a sculpture marking victims of the crackdown at another university earlier this week.
Posted: | 6:45 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202815 |
Rating: | 20282 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
There was prayer, shared grief and calls for justice during a virtual vigil that took place Thursday evening to commemorate the life of a young boy killed in a shooting in Dartmouth, N.S., this week.
Posted: | 5:51 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202805 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Cold-stricken Europe is drawing a flotilla of U.S. liquefied natural gas cargoes amid an energy crisis that has sent gas prices to record levels. Facing a winter shortage and little relief from the continent’s main supplier Russia, natural gas in Nor
Posted: | 9:03 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202918 |
Rating: | 20292 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the West on Thursday to move quickly to meet Russia's demand for security guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine and the deployment of the military alliance's weapons there.
Posted: | 6:50 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202779 |
Rating: | 20278 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Clearwater man claims that drugs deputies found wrapped around his penis did not belong to him. 34-year-old Patrick Florence was riding in a car that was pulled over after police say was driving without its lights on early Saturday morning. The drive
Posted: | 6:43 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Funny |
Hits: | 203478 |
Rating: | 20348 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Relatives, lawmakers and other supporters of a trucker sentenced to 110 years in prison after an explosive brake-failure accident that left four people dead rallied in Denver Wednesday to plead for clemency.
Posted: | 3:31 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202851 |
Rating: | 20285 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he's taking all precautions and following all public health guidelines after three members of his staff and three members of his security team tested positive for COVID-19.
Posted: | 2:47 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202738 |
Rating: | 20274 |
Poster: | Scape |
Canada's Catholic bishops promised to release details of a $30-million fundraising campaign for residential school survivors in November. But now, just as millions of Catholics prepare for Christmas mass this weekend, CBC News has learned the national cam
Posted: | 8:10 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 203309 |
Rating: | 20331 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
China on Wednesday ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympic G
Posted: | 9:58 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202904 |
Rating: | 20290 |
Poster: | Strutz |
An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds.
Posted: | 9:57 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Science |
Hits: | 203490 |
Rating: | 20349 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday the discovery of remnants of two shipwrecks off the Mediterranean coast, replete with a sunken trove of hundreds Roman and medieval silver coins.
Posted: | 9:50 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | History |
Hits: | 203156 |
Rating: | 20316 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The battle over a coal mine in Alberta's southern Rocky Mountains continues to rage six months after the Grassy Mountain project was denied, as the company and its opponents wrangle over who pays costs for the hearing that turned the proposal down.
Posted: | 6:55 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 202851 |
Rating: | 20286 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.
Posted: | 6:51 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202801 |
Rating: | 20280 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The high inflation rate on P.E.I. is taking a toll — literally — on travellers crossing the Confederation Bridge.
Posted: | 5:57 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202980 |
Rating: | 20299 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Judge says the family needed “water-tight security” of 11 million pounds annually
Posted: | 6:52 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202728 |
Rating: | 20273 |
Poster: | Scape |
Canada's minister for international trade has announced the federal government is launching a challenge against U.S. softwood lumber duties under the new NAFTA agreement.
Posted: | 9:46 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202754 |
Rating: | 20275 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An Afghan family has successfully made it out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with the help of an Edmonton-area man, but the journey is far from over.
Posted: | 6:28 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 202872 |
Rating: | 20287 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said she is declaring a new state of emergency "to better deal with the turbulence caused by the Omicron variant" as COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in Montreal and across Quebec.
Posted: | 9:25 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202943 |
Rating: | 20295 |
Poster: | Scape |
Wildlife officials in Florida are preparing to feed manatees in the wild, an unprecedented response to the animals’ mass starvation caused by the loss of seagrasses they normally eat.
Posted: | 6:27 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 202829 |
Rating: | 20283 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The number of fatalities rises rapidly to at least 375, as the Red Cross appeals for urgent aid.
Posted: | 8:11 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 202777 |
Rating: | 20278 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Truck drivers are allegedly protesting a fellow trucker’s 110-year prison sentence for causing an accident that killed four people. Videos posted on social media, reportedly show lines of trucks whose drivers refuse to drive through the state of Colo
Posted: | 7:55 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202797 |
Rating: | 20280 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canadian military commanders are often accused of showing indifference toward complaints from junior members — especially misconduct complaints. Now, the defence department's ombudsman reports that one military member has waited for more than nine years
Posted: | 7:42 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202830 |
Rating: | 20283 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A little more than 12,000 customers are without power across Vancouver Island. According to BC Hydro’s website, as of 10:36 a.m. Saturday (Dec. 18), there are 51 outages affecting 6,246 customers in North Island and nine outages affecting 5,774 custo
Posted: | 6:23 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 202915 |
Rating: | 20292 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
In the fall of 2015, someone in the federal government decided to drop a multimillion-dollar residential school compensation case against Catholic Church groups. Advocates decry what they call a 'conspiracy of silence' and say survivors deserve immediate
Posted: | 6:16 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Religion |
Hits: | 203223 |
Rating: | 20322 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The Gävle Goat — an annual yuletide tradition in the Swedish town of Gävle — was set ablaze on Friday for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals illegally attempting to torch it while authorities scramble to stop t
Posted: | 11:23 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 203004 |
Rating: | 20301 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
With candidates limited to "true patriots" and the number of popularly elected seats reduced to from half to less than a quarter, Hong Kong's opposition has little hope of making inroads this Sunday when the city's residents head to the polls for the firs
Posted: | 11:24 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202831 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Poland's parliament passed a media bill on Friday that detractors say aims to silence a news channel critical of the government, in an unexpected move that will stoke concern over media freedom and reopen a diplomatic dispute with the United States.
Posted: | 9:56 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202241 |
Rating: | 20224 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Betty White turns 100 on Jan. 17 and is inviting fans to celebrate with her in a special movie event called 'Betty White: 100 Years Young -- A Birthday Celebration.<
Posted: | 12:31 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Arts & Entertainment |
Hits: | 203433 |
Rating: | 20343 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The federal government has released its latest plan to plant two billion trees by 2030.
Posted: | 12:12 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 202931 |
Rating: | 20294 |
Poster: | Scape |
Earthquakes Canada said there were no reports of damage from the magnitude 3.6 quake, which struck at 4:13 a.m. PT.
Posted: | 11:29 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 202882 |
Rating: | 20288 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The remaining Canadian and U.S. members of a missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the group said Thursday.
Posted: | 11:05 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202847 |
Rating: | 20285 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental health clinic in an eight-storey building in downtown Osaka in western Japan on Friday left 24 people dead in what police were investigating as a possible case of arson and murder.
Posted: | 11:03 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202835 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A study from the University of Victoria has found that British Columbians consumed more alcohol during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the previous 20 years.
Posted: | 10:58 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202825 |
Rating: | 20283 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Five children died and four others were in critical condition on Thursday after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 10 metres into the air by a gust of wind at a school on Australia's island state of Tasmania.
Posted: | 10:52 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202810 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Mayor John Vassilaki said it was important to reimburse the senior but raised issues with reports on the situation, including its release just before Christmas.
Posted: | 6:07 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202727 |
Rating: | 20273 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The NHL Players' Association acknowledged uncertainty about participation in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, one day after NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said it would be "a players decision."
Posted: | 2:04 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 203218 |
Rating: | 20322 |
Poster: | bootlegga |
Judge cites unreasonable delays in landmark eight-year-long national-security case against Qing Quentin Huang
Posted: | 6:43 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202789 |
Rating: | 20279 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
An inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children will be held in Australia after the country’s Senate voted to a launch a committee to investigate systemic causes of violence.
Posted: | 6:15 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202770 |
Rating: | 20277 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Parents, students and other community members in the small community of Chelsea, Que. rallied on Tuesday to show support for a local teacher who was recently removed from her classroom for wearing a hijab due to the province's Bill 21.
Posted: | 5:58 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202768 |
Rating: | 20277 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh says he would support federal intervention in a court challenge to a Quebec law known as Bill 21, which bans teachers and some ...
Posted: | 4:27 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202738 |
Rating: | 20274 |
Poster: | Scape |
In the past decade, dozens of people arrested in relation to public intoxication and detained in police holding cells died when they weren't monitored properly or their medical condition wasn't addressed, a CBC investigation has found.
Posted: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202874 |
Rating: | 20287 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
This may be MotorTrend's most significant announcement since 1949. It's crazy to think that an electric pickup truck from a startup automaker is the new king.
Posted: | 8:19 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202844 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The spending is contingent on Ottawa and child welfare advocates reaching an agreement over compensation the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered
Posted: | 5:57 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202761 |
Rating: | 20276 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Marineland has been charged under the Criminal Code with using dolphins and whales to perform as entertainment without Ontario government authorization, according to Niagara police.
Posted: | 11:07 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202757 |
Rating: | 20276 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's defence minister, top military commander and senior defence bureaucrat today delivered a long-awaited and history-making apology to the women and men whose lives were scarred by sexual assault, misconduct and discrimination within the military.
Posted: | 10:36 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202885 |
Rating: | 20289 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Shares in at-home exercise company Peloton fell to their lowest level in 19 months on Friday after a character in the Sex and the City reboot died after using one of the company's devices in the pilot episode.
Posted: | 7:20 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202839 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2021, a year that saw his electric car company become the most valuable carmaker in the world and his rocket company soar to the edge of space with an all-civilian cr
Posted: | 6:44 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202792 |
Rating: | 20279 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Toyotas that are 2018 or newer will require a subscription if drivers want to remotely start their car with their key fob. If the car comes with Audio Plus, drivers will get a free trial of the feature for three years, while cars that come with Premium Au
Posted: | 6:33 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 202946 |
Rating: | 20295 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the viral Birds Aren’t Real movement, is ready to reveal what the effort is really about.
Posted: | 5:36 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 203062 |
Rating: | 20306 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran anchor Chris Wallace signed off his “Fox News Sunday” show after 18 years to join CNN's new streaming service, dealing a blow to Fox's news operation at a time its opinion side has become preeminent.
Posted: | 10:56 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 203155 |
Rating: | 20316 |
Poster: | raydan |
Gary Bettman assured the media assembled at the league's board of governors meeting that the Arizona Coyotes "are fine, and they will be fine," before explaining why the deck continues to be stacked heavily against Quebec City — despite its hockey-mad f
Posted: | 11:35 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 203230 |
Rating: | 20323 |
Poster: | Strutz |
The bishop of Noto in Sicily stunned schoolchildren last week when he told them that Santa Claus does not exist. He has since apologized.
Posted: | 10:39 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202856 |
Rating: | 20286 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Vancouver and Whistler city officials along with First Nations representatives have announced the formation of a partnership that will explore the feasibility of making a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics.
Posted: | 10:33 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 203255 |
Rating: | 20326 |
Poster: | Strutz |
As British Columbia marks another tragic milestone in overdose deaths, pressure is growing on the federal government to decriminalize personal possession of drugs, including opioids.
Posted: | 10:03 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202781 |
Rating: | 20278 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Survivors of the horrific truck crash in Mexico that killed 55 migrants and injured more than a hundred recounted from their hospital beds how their location inside the truck determined who lived and who died.
Posted: | 9:54 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202787 |
Rating: | 20279 |
Poster: | Strutz |
At least 70 people are feared dead in Kentucky after tornadoes and severe weather tore through multiple states late Friday and caused catastrophic damage.
Posted: | 9:47 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Weather |
Hits: | 202840 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Anthony Rota said it's up to the House or a Commons committee in the new Parliament to decide whether to issue a new order for production of the documents
Posted: | 6:39 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202686 |
Rating: | 20269 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Judges are reassured by US promises to reduce the risk of the Wikileaks founder taking his own life.
Posted: | 6:05 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202825 |
Rating: | 20283 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Harm included cell death and occurred at levels of plastic eaten by people via their food
Posted: | 5:50 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 202942 |
Rating: | 20294 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The school board says it had no choice because of Bill 21
Posted: | 9:59 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 203121 |
Rating: | 20312 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
No New Zealander born after 2008 will be able to buy tobacco under proposed new health laws.
Posted: | 9:25 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202841 |
Rating: | 20284 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The historic plunge of oil prices last year forced Calgary-based Canadian Premium Sand to rethink its business plan, eventually deciding to shift away from the oilpatch and focus on using its sand to produce solar panels.
Posted: | 9:18 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202783 |
Rating: | 20278 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Ten years after a spy scandal rocked the Canadian military, the navy still has trouble keeping track of electronic storage devices with secret and classified data on them. Two Canadian warships were recently the subjects of military police and internal in
Posted: | 6:19 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202883 |
Rating: | 20288 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Sky high food prices were one of many negative impacts that Canadians felt during the pandemic plagued year of 2021. And a new report suggests that problem is only going to get worse next year.
Posted: | 6:13 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 203071 |
Rating: | 20307 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The number of journalists jailed around the world set another record in 2021. Invoking new tech and security laws, repressive regimes from Asia to Europe to Africa cracked down harshly on the independent press. A CPJ special report by Editorial Director A
Posted: | 6:09 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202786 |
Rating: | 20279 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Evergrande, the embattled Chinese property developer, has defaulted on its debt, according to Fitch Ratings.
Posted: | 5:59 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202788 |
Rating: | 20279 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A Quebec man has been charged with breach of trust for allegedly using his status as a Canadian Space Agency engineer to negotiate satellite station installation agreements with Iceland on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.
Posted: | 10:48 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 202900 |
Rating: | 20290 |
Poster: | Scape |
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says the government predicts it could take two years to fulfil its promise of bringing 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada.
Posted: | 10:17 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202723 |
Rating: | 20272 |
Poster: | Scape |
Three New Democrat MPs are putting new pressure on party leader Jagmeet Singh through a petition calling on him to demand that the B.C. NDP government and the federal government pull RCMP officers out of Wet'suwet'en territory.
Posted: | 10:16 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202823 |
Rating: | 20282 |
Poster: | Scape |
Indian air force says the joint military chief of defence staff Bipin Rawat and his wife are among 13 dead in incident
Posted: | 7:04 PM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202846 |
Rating: | 20285 |
Poster: | Scape |
A broad-based commission of civil society in Haiti has set up the most serious attempt in years to reverse Haiti's decline and hold genuine elections. But ambassadors for the U.S., Canada and France continue to exercise substantial power in Haiti and have
Posted: | 6:53 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202732 |
Rating: | 20273 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
British parliamentary authorities say they are calling in the police after a newspaper reported traces of cocaine had been found at numerous sites in parliament.
Posted: | 5:58 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202744 |
Rating: | 20274 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
As he prepares to leave his post of 12 years, Francis Collins reflects on the agency's biomedical advances, the dangers of polarizing medicine and the huge health gaps that still exist in the U.S.
Posted: | 5:55 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Health |
Hits: | 202813 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The bottom 50% of the world holds 2% of wealth, while the top 10% holds 76%, according to a huge data set that leading economists compiled for years.
Posted: | 5:54 AM on Wednesday |
Topic: | Economics |
Hits: | 202986 |
Rating: | 20299 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
ATLANTA — A yearslong human trafficking operation trapped migrant workers in “modern-day slavery” on South Georgia farms, according to a federal indictment unsealed last week. Victims include over one hundred laborers smuggled from Mexico and Centra
Posted: | 6:32 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Uncle Sam |
Hits: | 203080 |
Rating: | 20308 |
Poster: | Scape |
Officials have flagged numerous, ongoing environmental violations by Coastal GasLink that could harm sensitive waterways along the pipeline's route through northern B.C.
Posted: | 2:03 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Environmental |
Hits: | 202807 |
Rating: | 20281 |
Poster: | Scape |
Vice-Admiral Haydn Edmundson, the military's former commander in charge of military human resources, has been charged with sexual assault and committing indecent acts.
Posted: | 1:25 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202864 |
Rating: | 20286 |
Poster: | Scape |
THE bomb squad raced to an A&E after a patient arrived with an artillery shell stuck up his behind.Army explosives experts were scrambled after me
Posted: | 12:58 PM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Strange |
Hits: | 203382 |
Rating: | 20338 |
Poster: | Scape |
A Vancouver Island judge says courts need to reconsider sentencing ranges that make it almost a certainty addicts caught dealing fentanyl to support a drug habit are sent to jail.
Posted: | 6:48 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Law & Order |
Hits: | 202772 |
Rating: | 20277 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Canada's spy agency says China's attempts to distort and influence media in Canada "have become normalized." The warning is contained in documents prepared for Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director David Vigneault ahead of a meeting with Prime M
Posted: | 5:51 AM on Tuesday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202926 |
Rating: | 20294 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Four Conservative MPs have been absent from the House of Commons since it passed a motion tightening the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, with Leader Erin O'Toole refusing to say why.
Posted: | 8:28 PM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202717 |
Rating: | 20272 |
Poster: | Scape |
A tiny sliver of vacant land in Toronto that is less than 30 centimetres wide has hit the market for $50,000 and already has three offers.
Posted: | 6:29 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202822 |
Rating: | 20282 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Wreaths Across Canada had planned to lay 6,000 wreaths at a ceremony to remember and honour Canadian Armed Forces members in Ottawa on Sunday. Last weekend, nearly 3,000 were stolen and volunteers spent Saturday remaking the symbolic decorations.
Posted: | 6:12 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202864 |
Rating: | 20286 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
A court in Myanmar sentenced the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to four years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of incitement and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said.
Posted: | 5:58 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Political |
Hits: | 202714 |
Rating: | 20271 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
While French drank most times a week, Australians got drunk an average of 27 times a year, almost double the global average
Posted: | 5:36 AM on Monday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 203044 |
Rating: | 20304 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Plastic shopping bags will be banned in Vancouver in the New Year and consumers will have to pay extra for paper bags and single use cups.
Posted: | 6:00 PM on Sunday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202962 |
Rating: | 20296 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Gitxsan leaders say MLA Nathan Cullen is no longer welcome on their territory after he failed to meet them to discuss the deployment of RCMP officers against an encampment at a railway line in New Hazelton, B.C.
Posted: | 10:35 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Provincial Politics |
Hits: | 202959 |
Rating: | 20296 |
Poster: | Scape |
Rescuers were searching for survivors Sunday on the slopes of the highest volcano on Indonesia's island of Java after it was rocked by an eruption that killed at least 14 people, as smouldering debris and thick mud hampered their efforts.
Posted: | 5:46 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Misc World |
Hits: | 202789 |
Rating: | 20279 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
RCAF Sikorsky Cyclone helicopters are undergoing repairs after routine maintenance identified cracks in the tails of four of the aircraft.
Posted: | 5:35 AM on Sunday |
Topic: | Military |
Hits: | 202912 |
Rating: | 20291 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
P.E.I. potato growers and politicians are lobbying for the export of fresh potatoes to Puerto Rico to resume. Potatoes are one of Puerto Rico's biggest imports and there's no risk of spreading potato wart, as potatoes aren't grown domestically.
Posted: | 5:58 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202851 |
Rating: | 20285 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The trackers have anti-stalking measures, but those don't seem to be an issue for thieves
Posted: | 5:48 AM on Saturday |
Topic: | Tech |
Hits: | 203011 |
Rating: | 20301 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
Boston Celtics centre Enes Freedom — a journeyman NBA veteran who is one of the sports world’s fiercest critics of human rights abuse — is challenging NHL stars Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid to boycott the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Posted: | 9:11 PM on Friday |
Topic: | Sports |
Hits: | 203241 |
Rating: | 20324 |
Poster: | Strutz |
Canada's economy added 154,000 new jobs last month, surging past expectations and enough to move the jobless rate down to just six per cent.
Posted: | 6:11 AM on Friday |
Topic: | Business |
Hits: | 202785 |
Rating: | 20279 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |
The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government needs to increase planned spending if it wants to provide clean drinking water in First Nations.
Posted: | 6:10 AM on Thursday |
Topic: | Misc CDN |
Hits: | 202869 |
Rating: | 20287 |
Poster: | DrCaleb |