Aritzia Warehouse Sale 2014 Lineups Are Crazy (PHOTOS)
The sight of hundreds of (mostly) women lined up outside the Vancouver Convention Centre is competing with the view of the harbour and cruise ships. It's so remarkable that a European tourist asked us...
View ArticleWindsor Police To Take Donated Military Vehicle Into Service (PHOTOS)
The Windsor Police Service is set to jack up its armoury. Police in the southern Ontario city will take a Cougar, a light armoured vehicle donated by the Department of National Defence (DND), into...
View ArticleCalgary man fights off coyote in living room with vacuum
A four-legged visitor got a little too close for comfort to a Calgary family earlier this week. The coyote wandered into the Easthope family's home in the northwest community of Arbour Lake on Tuesday...
View ArticleCamper Chris Cloutier recalls 3-day ordeal in Manitoba wilderness
A Manitoba camper who was lost in the woods for three days says he relied on skills he saw on TV to survive, as well as a lighter and a bag of all-dressed potato chips. Chris Cloutier, 24, was...
View ArticleFatal navy plane crash 51 years ago marked by memorial
A memorial was unveiled Thursday for two navy pilots who died 51 years ago when their fighter jet crashed into Mount Strachan in Cypress Provincial Park. - For never-before-seen footage of the search...
View ArticleTour bus crash reported on Coquihalla south of Merritt
B.C. RCMP say they have received reports a tour bus has crashed on the Coquihalla Highway 30 km south of Merritt. RCMP say initial reports indicate about 40 passengers were on board. No word yet on...
View ArticlePender Island House Auctioned Off For B.C. Cancer Foundation
A donated waterfront house was sold at an auction for half of its $1.4-million listing price, but all proceeds went to the B.C. Cancer Foundation. The modern 2,662 sq.-ft. North Pender Island home,...
View ArticleSurfing In Calgary, Brought To You By The 2013 Flood (VIDEO, TWEETS)
Calgarians didn't have to travel thousands of kilometres to sunny resorts to ride the waves this summer. Instead, surfing came right to them, courtesy of the 2013 flood. Surfing is nothing new in...
View Article9-Year-Old Surrey Girl Abducted From Bedroom, Sexually Assaulted
B.C. RCMP are looking for a suspect who allegedly lured a nine-year-old girl from her bedroom in Surrey and then sexually assaulted her in a nearby park. The girl had been sleeping in her room on...
View Article'Mom Confessions' Is The Funniest Ad Campaign We've Seen In A While
The "honest parenting" trend may be prompting moms and dads to pour their hearts out in their Facebook statuses, but none other than a massive technology company has figured out how to use that to...
View ArticlePremiers take the ice bucket challenge in Charlottetown
Premiers Darrell Pasloski of Yukon, Christy Clark of British Columbia and Nunavut's Peter Taptuna wrapped up Council of the Federation meetings in Charlottetown Friday by enduring a shower of icy water...
View ArticleNATO Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen Urges Canada To Boost Defence Spending
NATO's outgoing secretary general is repeating his call for member countries like Canada to boost their defence spending in response to the "wake-up call" of recent crises like the one unfolding in...
View ArticleCorn Recipes: Salad, Salsa And Other Dishes To Make This Week
WHAT WE'RE COOKING THIS WEEK: Corn Corn is just one of those vegetables you have to eat during summer. Whether it's corn on the cob, corn salad or even corn salsa with chips, corn can be eaten as an...
View ArticleEbola test underway for Gatineau, Que., child in isolation
A young child from Gatineau, Que., is in isolation after feeling sick upon returning from visiting family in Sierra Leone, one of the west African countries hard hit by this year’s Ebola outbreak. Dr....
View ArticleOur Readers Really Want Tims To Stay Canadian
Tim Hortons may be one of Canada’s most popular brands, but rarely does our beloved coffee-and-doughnut chain capture the attention of a global audience the way it did this week. The announcement that...
View ArticleTest your knowledge of Fan Expo characters
How well do you know comic book, video game and movie characters? How recognizable are these Fan Expo costumes? Take this quiz to test your ability to recognize the costumed characters at Toronto's Fan...
View ArticleOPP In Standoff With Armed Man In Petawawa
Ontario Provincial Police have cordoned off a residential neighbourhood in Petawawa and deployed the force's tactical response unit as part of a standoff with an armed man. The police response began...
View ArticleAnti-radicalization program being developed by RCMP
The RCMP is developing a program to stop Canadians from becoming radicalized by violent ideologies, a new report reveals. As of early 2014, about 130 people with Canadian connections were believed to...
View ArticleB.C. Woman Sues Ex-Boyfriend To Pay For Failed Class After Breakup
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A 22-year-old B.C. woman is suing her ex-boyfriend to pay tuition for a class she says she failed due to distress over the breakup.Roopam Plawn, a marketing student at Thompson Rivers...
View ArticleAttractive Vancouver Condos For $300,000 Or Less Actually Exist
With recent data showing that house prices are still rising in the Vancouver area, you'd be forgiven for thinking that buying a home in the world's third best place to live is impossible. Vancouver saw...
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