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Provincial Politics | 113 hits | 12:28 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

You pay them anywhere from $400,000 a year to nearly $1 million a year. But they’re using money from your hydro bills to expense things like booze, gifts for staff and professional membership fees.

Environmental | 68 hits | 12:20 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Blow for government as one planned wind farm scrapped, another scaled back and industry chief warns turbines are unlikely to be manufactured in the UK

Misc World | 73 hits | 12:18 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

A popular beauty queen became the fifth of six Venezuelans to die in the country’s ongoing unrest after she was shot in the head during a demonstration for imprisoned opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.

Environmental | 125 hits | 9:30 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Water samples from off the B.C. coast have found up to about 9,200 particles of plastic per cubic metre, the director of a new ocean pollution program at the Vancouver Aquarium said Tuesday. Based on 34 water samples taken between inshore waters and 1,20

Misc World | 130 hits | 9:27 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Members of the performance-art group Pussy Riot were attacked on a public plaza Wednesday by Cossacks brandishing whips and discharging pepper spray, a day after police picked them up and held them for nearly four hours without charges. An Associated Pres

Environmental | 141 hits | 7:24 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

A new NASA image from space may make you even more anxious about California's severe drought. The picture, posted on a NASA blog last week, shows "the impact of drought on California’s farms, forests, and wild lands" and it should be a lot greener than it

Environmental | 88 hits | 7:22 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Glacier monitoring conducted by the federal government in Canada’s High Arctic shows the shrinking of ice caps that started in the late 1980s “has accelerated rapidly since 2005” and is part of a “strongly negative trend,” according to internal government

Environmental | 83 hits | 7:20 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto are being urged to do something to save a delicate symbol of the continent: the monarch butterfly. The three leaders are being asked to review farming and

Tech | 109 hits | 7:12 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Internet “trolls” appear to have some extreme personality issues, based on the results of a new study. They show signs of being sadistic and Machiavellian, says the recent study by Erin Buckels, a University of Manitoba psychology graduate student, and ps

Law & Order | 72 hits | 7:12 AM on Wednesday | posted by Regina

A Thunder Bay judge has sent a 79-year-old man from Serbia to two years in prison for drug trafficking.

Law & Order | 101 hits | 12:01 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

An 84-year-old nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for breaking into and defacing a storage bunker holding bomb-grade uranium in a peace demonstration at a Tennessee weapons plant.

Environmental | 100 hits | 11:59 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Grizzly and black bears are using overpasses and underpasses crossing the Trans-Canada Highway to rendezvous with members of the opposite sex, a new study confirms.

Misc World | 147 hits | 3:44 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Iran warns it may send forces into Pakistan if it does not take action to free five border guards seized in Sistan Baluchistan earlier this month.

Law & Order | 193 hits | 3:34 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Victoria Wheatley, who serves with the unit which protects the Sellafield nuclear site, complained that her gun and body armour were too big for her.

Misc CDN | 97 hits | 3:32 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Winnipeg police are investigating after a brawl at a kids’ hockey tournament over the weekend left a 12-year-old boy with a broken wrist.

Environmental | 104 hits | 3:30 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

The sweet melodic sounds of songbirds have become a distant memory for some people in the Mackenzie Delta.

Misc CDN | 111 hits | 3:25 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Capt. Aaron Noble, the commander of a 2011 search and rescue mission near Igloolik that cost a searcher his life, will receive a Meritorious Service Cross at Rideau Hall this morning.

Sports | 111 hits | 1:33 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

Four years ago, Carey Price went ice fishing near his hometown of Anahim Lake, B.C., caught a couple rainbow trout and then settled in to watch Sidney Crosby put the entire country in a euphoric state with his golden goal.

Political | 166 hits | 1:27 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

Although Syria and Israel have officially been at war since 1948, Israel has quietly offered state-of-the-art medical treatment to hundreds of Syrians wounded in the civil war in the past 13 months, writes Derek Stoffel.

Political | 105 hits | 1:26 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

RCMP members are before the Supreme Court of Canada making a final pitch for their right to form an independent union.

Misc CDN | 139 hits | 1:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

Jerry Renkers, a 65-year-old widower, has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court in an attempt to retrieve a Tiffany engagement ring that cost nearly $228,000.

Arts & Entertainment | 84 hits | 1:23 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

Mavis Gallant, the internationally celebrated Canadian short story writer who lived and worked for most of her life in Paris, has died in the French capital. She was 91.

Political | 129 hits | 1:18 PM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl

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Thousands of police armed with stun grenades and water cannons charged into the large opposition camp in Ukraine's capital that has been the epicentre of nearly three months of anti-government protests after at least nine people were killed in street clas

Misc CDN | 91 hits | 11:55 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Environmentalists are pushing for stricter trade laws in Canada involving at-risk species after the recent shipment of fin whale meat across the country.

Misc World | 92 hits | 11:54 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Using water cannons and stun grenades, Ukrainian riot police moved in against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kyiv

Law & Order | 80 hits | 11:19 AM on Tuesday | posted by shockedcanadian

Pilot project stems from recommendation in a 2013 report on police and community engagement.

Law & Order | 87 hits | 7:20 AM on Tuesday | posted by saturn_656

LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ruled on Tuesday that domestic laws on whole-life prison sentences were compatible with European human rights laws, disagreeing with a European court in a judgment that fed into a fierce debate on Britain's ties with Eur

Misc World | 129 hits | 10:04 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

A trade ban on lacy lingerie has Russian consumers and their neighbours with their knickers in a twist. The ban will outlaw any underwear containing less than six per cent cotton from being imported, made, or sold in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Misc CDN | 121 hits | 7:25 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

Bid to have bars, pubs open early for Olympic final raises too many issues, according to B.C.'s Justice Minister

Science | 165 hits | 4:03 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields is set for its close-up on a live webcast as it whizzes by Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people.

Health | 81 hits | 4:03 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

A man in Saudi Arabia has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 60 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the centre of the outbreak.

Business | 83 hits | 3:56 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

As Jamaica joins a rush to lure the bigger, deeper-drafting ships expected to cross an expanded Panama Canal by mid-2015, political leaders and civic boosters envision the Old Harbour area as a cornerstone of what they envision as a transformative, dream

Business | 81 hits | 3:56 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Irving Oil Ltd. has announced plans to voluntarily convert its DOT-111 tank railcars to meet higher standards by the end of April.

Misc World | 96 hits | 3:01 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

An Italian passenger says the man who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines jet threatened to crash it if the pilot kept trying to get back into the cockpit.

Military | 211 hits | 2:44 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Hundreds of shipping containers filled with expensive and important military equipment used in the Canadian combat mission in Kandahar were stranded in Afghanistan for years and are only now finally finding their way back to military storehouses in Canada

Sports | 79 hits | 2:40 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Alexandre Bilodeau is back home less than a week after taking the Olympic gold in men’s freestyle moguls skiing in Sochi, Russia.

Law & Order | 78 hits | 2:37 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

The investigation into human remains found in Abbotsford on Sunday has been taken over by B.C.'s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

Law & Order | 84 hits | 2:32 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Candies containing THC oil, the active ingredient in marijuana. were seized by police during a traffic stop outside Edmonton last month

Provincial Politics | 72 hits | 2:32 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Should Quebec's national assembly pass its new death with dignity law, it will be enacting legislation that has more in keeping with Europe's "unbearable suffering" approach to physician-assisted death than with what U.S. states have done.

Law & Order | 92 hits | 2:22 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl

Guillaume Gélinas, who served as a Canadian Forces reservist in Afghanistan, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a Joliette, Que., courthouse today.

Lifestyle | 190 hits | 8:58 AM on Monday | posted by Alta_redneck

“F*** all the athletes that posed with this dictator. You’re all dead to me,” wrote Andrea Houston online, triggering a social-media flame war to put the cauldron at Sochi to shame.

Environmental | 181 hits | 6:58 AM on Monday | posted by stemmer

U.S. Secretary of State to make the case that cost of inaction far outweighs expenses of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Lifestyle | 270 hits | 3:04 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Max Price from Walsall is a healthy, happy one-year-old who revels in playing with his collection of toy cars while wearing one of his favourite dresses.

Environmental | 217 hits | 2:37 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

A total of 175 householders in Longtown, Cumbria, received the new system from Warmer Energy Services, financed by Riverside Housing Association.

Lifestyle | 160 hits | 1:28 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

TORONTO - It’s every woman’s nightmare. A man posing as a woman invades her personal space: The gym. A washroom. A women’s shelter. That’s precisely the power that’s been given to any pervert in this province.

Arts & Entertainment | 122 hits | 10:01 AM on Sunday | posted by Strutz

Ralph Waite, who played the kind and steady father on the TV series The Waltons, has died at age 85.

Tech | 128 hits | 11:17 PM on Saturday | posted by Regina

A German sports journalist said he has discovered a ''new, undetectable doping agent'' developed by a Russian scientist who is prepared to sell it to athletes competing in the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Military | 120 hits | 4:06 PM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy

The NDP says the federal government is transferring veterans' medical records to the custody of a private American company.

Law & Order | 210 hits | 5:50 AM on Saturday | posted by GreenTiger

Justin Bieber could face federal prison time and a hefty fine if the Federal Aviation Administration finds he interfered with the flight crew aboard a privat...

Misc World | 165 hits | 10:56 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Olympic gold medal winners will receive a second medal this Saturday that contains a piece of the large meteorite that lit up the skies over Russia a year ago. Meanwhile, the United Nations is calling for efforts to ramp up preparations for the next objec

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