China Investigates Two Canadians For Allegedly Stealing State Secrets
TORONTO - Chinese media say two Canadian nationals are being investigated for suspected theft of state secrets.The allegations relate to China's military and defence research, but the reports gave no...
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Chinese media reported Monday that two married Canadian nationals are being detained by authorities and are under investigation for allegedly stealing state secrets. The suspects are identified as...
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Scandinavian Tourists 'Horrified' By Canada's Car Culture
Two Scandinavian tourists are honking their horns at Canadian car culture after a recent trip left them “horrified” by the sight of sprawling freeways and “unfulfilled communities.” They were so...
View ArticleTrinity Arsenault, St. Catharines, Ont. Girl, Becomes Youngest To Swim Across...
TORONTO - A 14-year old St. Catharines, Ont., girl has become the youngest person on record to make the 52-kilometre swim across Lake Ontario.Trinity Arsenault set out just after 6 p.m. Sunday from...
View ArticleScrabble Adds 5,000 Words In Dictionary Update
NEW YORK, N.Y. - To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages.The word "te" as a variant of "ti," the seventh tone on the musical scale, is a hardworking little gem among 5,000...
View ArticleBackyard roller-coaster good practice for engineering student
A 19-year-old engineering student has built a working roller-coaster in the backyard of his parents' home in Thornhill, Ont. Shortly after his Grade 10 year, David Chesney began tinkering around with...
View ArticleThousands of tiny jellyfish wash up on shore near Tofino, B.C.
Tofino beachgoers got a big surprise Monday morning when they discovered thousands of tiny jelly fish, known as Vellela, vellela. washed up on city beaches. George Timmins was getting ready for a...
View ArticleUltra-endurance sport training can hurt your heart health
There are currently a record number of middle-aged Canadians taking part in high endurance sports, like ultra-marathons and long-distance cycling. Training for these kinds of events, however, often...
View ArticleVELD Music Festival Deaths Spark Homicide Investigation Over Bad 'Party Drugs'
TORONTO - Toronto police have launched a homicide investigation after a 20-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man died at a weekend music festival.Police say 13 other people who attended the Veld Music...
View ArticleMount Polley mine tailings breach helicopter overflight
On mobile? Click here for aerial video of the huge spill The Cariboo Regional District has released troubling video of what locals are already calling an environmental disaster following the release of...
View ArticleNelson Hart, Newfoundland Man Who Drowned Daughters, To Learn Legal Fate Today
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Crown will confirm in court today whether a Newfoundland man convicted of drowning his twin daughters after a so-called Mr. Big police sting will face a new trial.Nelson Hart's...
View ArticleAhmad Waseem Case Illustrates Canada's Foreign Fighter Problem
An airline ticket and a will to fight for a cause. That's all some Canadians need in order to join insurgencies overseas, as the case of Ahmad Waseem, a 26-year-old Windsor, Ont., man who left Canada...
View ArticleFirst World War legacy: Commemorations of lives lost are 'all around you'
After Private Teddy Maines was killed in France in 1917, the residents of his home village of Blyth in southwestern Ontario thought they had to do something to commemorate the terrible losses the First...
View ArticleU.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Why Africa is cause for 'considerable optimism'
Typically, people only look at Africa through the lenses of either humanitarian, health or security issues, says Amadou Sy, a senior fellow in the Africa Growth Initiative at the D.C.-based Brookings...
View ArticleShooting at Muzik nightclub in Toronto sends 1 man to hospital
A man was rushed to a trauma centre with a gunshot wound after a shooting at Muzik Nightclub early Tuesday. Police were on the scene near the club located near Exhibition Place in Toronto and heard...
View Article2 passenger jets diverted to Halifax airport after emergencies on board
Two passenger airliners en route to destinations in Europe were forced to divert and land at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, N.S., only minutes apart from one another Tuesday night....
View ArticleMount Polley Mine Tailings Pond Breach: What Happened?
LIKELY, B.C. - LIKELY, B.C. - The president of Imperial Metals has apologized to residents living downstream from a toxic leak from one of the company's gold and copper mines in the British Columbia...
View ArticleBest Degrees To Get A Job Are In Health, Engineering: Workopolis Study
TORONTO - If you want to improve your odds of getting a high-paying job after finishing your education, forget that English degree.A new report by Workopolis suggests that nursing and pharmacy students...
View ArticleHow Canada's Ebola Outbreak Prep Has 'Led The World'
The deadly Ebola virus continues to claim lives in West Africa, but the risk of it spreading to the Canada public remains low, health experts say — and even if a case emerged here, the country is well...
View ArticleAnti-immigration signs and stickers plastered around Saguenay
Signs and stickers with strong messages against immigration have been appearing in the town of Saguenay recently, leaving some residents to worry they are giving the town in central Quebec a racist...
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