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Time: 9:33 AM on Tuesday
For the children of Charley Fox -- a Canadian war hero credited with hitting 56 ground targets and injuring one of Hitler's top commanders -- Remembrance Day has special meaning this year.Comment:
Time: 9:27 AM on Tuesday
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The families of six Canadian soldiers completed a pilgrimage of sorts today, taking part in a Remembrance Day ceremony in the barren and dangerous country where their loved ones lost their lives in the war against the Taliban.Comment:
Time: 9:25 AM on Tuesday
Canadian and coalition troops gathered in a square at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan to mark Remembrance Day and honour their fallen comrades on Tuesday.Comment:
Time: 9:21 AM on Tuesday
Thousands of Canadians gathered under grey skies at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Tuesday morning for Canada's largest Remembrance Day ceremony.Comment:
Time: 4:28 PM on Monday
An internet scam has been using the photo of a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan to try to sell supposed used vehicles.Comment:
Time: 4:27 PM on Monday
Feeling lucky?
What if the big prize for the lottery ticket you just bought has already been won? And no one told you?Comment:
Time: 8:56 AM on Monday
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif - One nightmare haunts the producers of Dexter, the controversial television series about a serial killer.
It's that nightmare that sees the show encouraging copycat killings in real life.Comment:
Time: 8:50 AM on Monday
VANCOUVER - Police have known for years who is behind the slaying of journalist Tara Singh Hayer, his son told a memorial service Sunday in Surrey, B.C.Comment:
Time: 8:43 AM on Monday
OTTAWA (Reuters) - As much of the developed world slides into a recession after almost a decade of economic prosperity, Canadians may find they're winning a resilient economy at the cost of an environmental hangover.
High energy and commodity prices ovComment:
Time: 8:37 AM on Monday
TORONTO -- Two fugitives sought by Interpol while hiding in the Toronto area were among 215 suspects arrested this year as they tried to slip into the U.S. at Niagara Falls, say U.S. border patrol officials.Comment:
Time: 8:27 AM on Monday
CALGARY -- The grandson of a Second World War veteran and proud Canadian says he feels ashamed his employer won't let him wear a Remembrance Day poppy to work.Comment:
Time: 8:23 AM on Monday
TORONTO -- A Montreal-based philosopher and a biologist working at a Toronto hospital Monday became the first Canadians to receive the Kyoto Prize -- Japan's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.Comment:
Time: 8:15 AM on Monday
EDMONTON -- Michael Kalmanovitch might not be allowed to sell white poppies this Remembrance Day, but that hasn't stopped him from keeping the message of the controversial flower alive.Comment:
Time: 8:06 AM on Monday
Abducted CBC reporter Mellissa Fung was released in exchange for two prisoners connected to the criminal gang holding her captive in Afghanistan, according to reports from a Pakistani news agency.Comment:
Time: 5:07 PM on Sunday
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Chained, blindfolded and imprisoned in a tiny hole in a remote mountain area - that was Mellissa Fung's world for the month she spent in the hands of kidnappers in Afghanistan.Comment:
Time: 9:17 AM on Sunday
Mothers Against Drunk Driving says 75,000 people are arrested annually in Canada for drinking and driving.Comment:
Time: 8:53 AM on Sunday
Sue McGill stared straight ahead, helpless and horrified, as a car raced head-on towards the Jeep her husband was driving -- and prepared for her life to end.Comment:
Time: 8:49 AM on Sunday
A passenger who punched the pilot aboard a Summit Air flight from Fort Simpson, N.W.T., to Yellowknife Thursday was arrested shortly after the plane touched downComment:
Time: 8:37 AM on Sunday
WINNIPEG -- Highway crews in western Manitoba's Riding Mountain National Park have a unique problem to solve after freezing rain and high winds downed over 100 trees there.Comment:
Time: 8:27 AM on Sunday
Intelligence officials in Afghanistan said Sunday they have arrested three people involved in the kidnapping of Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung, who was released Saturday after nearly four weeks in captivity.Comment:
Time: 9:45 PM on Saturday
TORONTO - For Al Hebburn, the Royal Canadian Legion has long been a vital part of his life, as it has been for tens of thousands of others who have served the country in war.Comment:
Time: 7:01 PM on Saturday
CBC journalist Mellissa Fung was released to Canadian officials in Kabul on Saturday, four weeks after she was abducted.Comment:
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Time: 3:17 PM on SaturdayTopic: Misc CDN
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Time: 10:40 AM on Saturday
All the cards were stacked against Corey Collins last week when he fell out of a small boat off Newfoundland's northeast coast and into the frigid Atlantic Ocean.Comment:
Time: 9:33 AM on Saturday
The campaign is initiated and organized by volunteers, mainly members of the Legion. The money raised annually—more than eight million dollars—is used in the geographical areas were it is collected.Comment:
Time: 8:47 AM on Saturday
Calgarians expressed disappointment and puzzlement Friday at the federal government's decision to scrap the process of finding a permanent home for the Portrait Gallery of Canada after the city spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bid to host the iComment:
Time: 8:32 AM on Saturday
Edmonton is the most dangerous Canadian city to drive in - and the design of our intersections is partly to blame.Comment:
Time: 1:28 AM on Saturday
Among hundreds of high school students invading the northeast food court, only a handful of red poppies could be seenComment:
Time: 1:23 AM on Saturday
BARRIE -- Flowers, a teddy bear and a card on a quiet country road are all that remain after the three-week flurry of activity in the hunt to find Brandon Crisp.Comment:
Time: 12:08 PM on Friday
The Peace Glen Hotel, which was built in 1929, was demolished as the blaze ripped through the complex on Wednesday just before noon, Jan Hamack, manager of the hotel and pub, told CBC NewsComment:
Time: 11:59 AM on Friday
A standoff between Mounties and a man holding a 10-year-old boy hostage ended just after 10 a.m. today.Comment:
Time: 9:01 AM on Friday
Court appearances for a man accused of beheading a passenger on a Greyhound bus last summer have been limited following threats against him.Comment:
Time: 8:51 AM on Friday