Marc Emery, B.C.'s 'Prince Of Pot,' Returns To Vancouver
Marc Emery, B.C.s self-proclaimed "prince of pot," is scheduled to arrive in Vancouver today after returning to Canada Tuesday following his release from a U.S. prison. A celebration is being planned...
View ArticleMontreal snow-removal app contest won by Heritage Software
It’s still summer, but the City of Montreal is already thinking about winter — particularly, how to remove all the snow more efficiently than it has done in the past. The city held a contest asking...
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Bloc Québécois' Shift Under New Leader Should Help Liberals, NDP
The strategy adopted by new Bloc Québécois leader Mario Beaulieu, to put the push for Quebec independence front and centre in the next federal campaign, threatens to marginalize the party even more...
View ArticleBanff seeing 'unprecedented' wildlife incidents, says ecologist
There have been an "unprecedented" number of wildlife incidents in Banff National Park this year, says a wildlife ecologist. Staff have dealt with more than 1,000 encounters, ranging from bears looking...
View ArticleDowntown stabbing sends 2 men to hospital
Two men are in serious conditions after a stabbing in downtown Toronto early Sunday morning. The incident happened around 3 a.m. near Adelaide and Peter streets, according to emergency crews. One man...
View ArticleHEALTHBEAT: Brain scans show how kids learn early math, suggests practicing...
WASHINGTON - Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain...
View ArticleSurrey RCMP police cruiser in rollover accident
Surrey RCMP are investigating a rollover accident involving a police cruiser. The accident happened near the corner of King George Boulevard and 77 Ave. in Surrey around 11 p.m. PT Saturday. The male...
View ArticleResisting Nazis, He Saw Need for Israel. Now He Is Its Critic.
THE HAGUE — In 1943, Henk Zanoli took a dangerous train trip, slipping past Nazi guards and checkpoints to smuggle a Jewish boy from Amsterdam to the Dutch village of Eemnes. There, the Zanoli family,...
View ArticleMan faces slew of charges after weekend crime spree
A 39-year-old man is facing numerous charges after a crime spree over the weekend across the County of Brant. The sequence of events started early Saturday morning when an officer on patrol found a...
View ArticleExplosion destroys Poco camper trailer hours after trip
A Port Coquitlam family is grateful it wasn't using the trailer when an explosion levelled it around midnight early Sunday morning outside their home at 1939 Anderson Way. Dean McIntosh says the family...
View Article'The Listener' Cancelled: Series Finale To Air After Five Seasons, 65 Episodes
CTV's "The Listener" will make a quiet exit with its series finale on Monday, after a five season, 65-episode run. The procedural drama follows paramedic Toby Logan (Halifax's Craig Olejnik), a...
View ArticleTransports Québec closes 2 Hwy 720 ramps until November
Montreal commuters, take note — two ramps on the Turcot Interchange are closing this week and they will stay closed until mid-November. At 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Transports Québec will close the ramp...
View ArticleUniversity Of Toronto, 3 Other Canadian Schools Make It Onto Top 100 List
Four Canadian universities have made it onto a prestigious list of the top schools in the world. The University of Toronto, The University of British Columbia, McGill University and McMaster University...
View ArticleChristina Aguilera Gives Birth To A Baby Girl
Christina Aguilera has given birth to her second child! According to Us Weekly, the 33 year old welcomed her baby girl via C-section on Saturday, August 16 in Los Angeles.
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Heidi Klum's Creative Arts Emmy Awards Dress Is A Blue, Fringed Showstopper
Now this is what you call a "make it work" moment! Heidi Klum stole the show at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, in an electric blue and black fringed dress which made her want to twirl up a...
View ArticleSupplies For School You Never Would Have Used 30 Years Ago
It’s time to gear up for back to school, but kids can still sing the famous rhyme, “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers with dirty looks”. That’s because pencils have been replaced with...
View ArticleToronto Argonauts Fans Burn Bon Jovi Albums To Protest A NFL Team In Canada
You might remember Bon Jovi from his self-titled 1984 debut album which includes the song "Burning For Love." Well, protestors outside Toronto's Rogers Centre burnt at least 50 of the band's albums...
View ArticleCourt awards nearly $300K to woman targeted by malicious lawsuit
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered nursing home owner Eddie Savoie to pay nearly $300,000 in damages and other costs to the daughter of a nursing home resident whom he tried to sue for...
View ArticleCost of raising a child to 18 hits $245,340 in U.S., report finds
Raising a child born today in the United States to the age of 18 will cost a family $245,340, the U.S. government said in an annual report today. The U.S. Agriculture Department issued an annual report...
View ArticleArbutus community gardens: NPA's Kirk LaPointe accused of flip-flop over land...
The controversy over CP Rail's plans for the Arbutus Victory Gardens continued Monday as the Non-Partisan Alliance's mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe was accused of flip-flopping over his response to...
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