Police search for 'dangerous' suspect in Toronto shooting
Toronto police are searching for a “dangerous” suspect in what investigators are calling a case of attempted murder. Early Friday morning, a man went to a house in the area of Bathurst Street and...
View ArticleNathan O'Brien's Grandfather Had ‘Petty' Dispute With Douglas Garland Over...
The dispute was a petty one. The grudge that may, according to family members, link Douglas Garland to the alleged murders of a Calgary couple and their grandson was over nothing more tangible than...
View ArticlePemberton Music Festival suspicious death, IHIT called out
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called to the site of what it was describing as a suspicious death at the Pemberton Music Festival Friday. Music Fest organizers issued an emailed...
View ArticlePemberton Music Festival Death: Police Investigate Suspicious Case
Homicide investigators are probing a "suspicious death" at a campground of the Pemberton Music Festival on Friday night. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) released few details other...
View ArticleMike Duffy and the bribery thing: why a one-way charge?
Of all the 31 charges announced against Mike Duffy by the RCMP Thursday, the one that whip lashed most observers and stirred up the bulk of media coverage was the lone charge of "bribery of a judicial...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17: The Challenges Of Investigating In A 'Hot War...
Investigators assigned to the deadly crash of the Malaysia airline jetliner face the additional obstacles of conducting a probe in the middle of a major regional conflict, a significant challenge that...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 FAQ: Surface-To-Air Missiles
A growing number of high-level authorities are saying that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile. Indeed, one of those claims was made by U.S. President Barack...
View ArticleAlbert Einstein's hobbies and those of 9 other physicists revealed
What did great minds like Marie Curie and Albert Einstein do when they weren't making groundbreaking scientific discoveries like the new radioactive element radium and the theory of general relativity?...
View ArticleIs Hotel Waverly's lurid past keeping it from heritage designation?
One of Toronto’s oldest (and, some say, seediest) hotels does not meet the criteria for a heritage building, it was decided recently. Hotel Waverly is a four-storey low-rise hotel located in on Spadina...
View ArticleBus Crash Passengers Return To Quebec
Passengers from an ill-fated weekend bus trip to New York City that saw a Lévis teen die when the charter coach careened off the highway and rolled onto its side began arriving back in Quebec late...
View ArticleStudy: HIV diagnosis rate fell by a third in US over last decade, may mean...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The rate of HIV infections diagnosed in the United States each year fell by one-third over the past decade, a government study finds. Experts celebrated it as hopeful news that the...
View ArticleWest Island osteopath faces College of Physician charges
Quebec’s College of Physicians is expected to present an injunction Monday against a West Island osteopath and naturopath who it says is practising medicine illegally and misrepresenting his...
View ArticleBacon Prices Soar, Again, In June: StatsCan
Bacon prices in Canada are nearly 27 per cent higher today than they were a year ago, as a crisis in the industry continues to push costs into the stratosphere. Bloomberg reporter and former Bank of...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Releases Flight MH17 Passenger Manifest
Malaysia Airlines has released a full list of passengers aboard the plane that was shot down over Ukraine Thursday. All those on board Flight MH17 died. According to the passenger manifest, 193 of the...
View ArticleAlberta Jobs: 31 Occupations That Are In High Demand
Alberta released its short-term employment forecast Thursday, highlighting in-demand jobs as well as the occupations which could face a labour shortage over the next 10 years. Jobs Minister Kyle...
View ArticleCasey Kasem's Remains Sent To Montreal, Funeral Home Confirms
SEATTLE - The head of a Washington state funeral home that had initial responsibility for radio personality Casey Kasem says he personally made sure his remains were put on a flight to Montreal last...
View Article'Trippy' care room offers patients sensory treatment for medical recovery
VICTORIA - Marya Brown twirls a lighted fibre cable above her head at least twice a week.She says it reminds her of her teenage years when she held up lighters in darkened arenas during encores at rock...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster has low-key Dutch seething
The tragedy that befell the Netherlands this week is still reverberating though the country and through capitals around the world. At last count, there were 193 Dutch citizens among the 298 people who...
View ArticleWomen on corporate boards: companies need 'to open their minds'
Liberal Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette is determined to speed up the glacial pace at which women are cracking the ranks of corporate boards of directors. Hervieux-Payette has introduced a private...
View ArticleVille-Marie triplex heavily damaged by frying pan fire
Fire officials say a frying pan that was left unattended is to blame for a fire that seriously damaged a triplex on the corner of Fullum Street and Lalonde Avenue in Ville-Marie early Sunday morning....
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