Friday 18th May, 2012
O Canada, you retain the modesty so wrongly associated with my name
My dear subjects, the people of Canada,As you gather to celebrate my birthday with your annual festival of roasted meats and fermented grain, I must bestow my gratitude for all that you have given ...
Residents of Toronto riding receive robocalls after judge throws out federal election results
Borys Wrzesnewskyj talks to reporters outside court in Toronto Apr. 23, 2012. Wrzesnewskyj had requested the court to throw out the result of the May election in Etobicoke Centre due to serious ...
Quebec passes law in effort to end daily protests
Quebec's provincial government passed an emergency law Friday that sets restrictions on demonstrations and shuts some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests ...
Devils sticking with winning formula
CBC NewsIlya Kovalchuk (17) of the New Jersey Devils celebrates his first period goal with teammates in Game 2 against the New York Rangers Wednesday. (Paul Bereswill/Getty ...
Habs GM Marc Bergevin tight-lipped on team's next coach
CBC NewsNew Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin vowed that his search for a head coach would be confidential and he kept to his word when he arrived at the Mastercard Memorial Cup on Friday ...
Torts vs. Marceau: Who would make the better mime?
CBC NewsJohn Tortorella and Marcel Marceau? Both are quite the characters in their own right. Marceau, the late internationally acclaimed French actor and mime, made his reputation of entertaining ...
Stacy Lewis leading Match Play Championship
CBC NewsStacy Lewis is the top American left in the Sybase Match Play Championship, and it's really not a surprise. Lewis has been the best American on the LPGA Tour all season. On Friday, Lewis won ...
Health groups urge Ottawa to save refugee services
CBC NewsThe heads of eight national organizations representing health professionals have sent a letter to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, urging the Conservative government to reconsider ...
Across Canada, quality of life varies widely
CBC NewsBritish Columbians, shown running into English Bay during the annual Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, are among those Canadians with the highest quality of life, according to a new study comparing the ...
Teen charged in pedestrian death
CBC NewsPolice have charged an 18-year-old man with the death of a young woman who was hit by a car in March. The 20-year-old woman was hit when she was at a crosswalk near 156th Street and 87th Avenue ...
Vancouver Canucks' 1982: The miracle year in their own words
Vancouver SunOne year ago this week, one-third of the small Alberta town of Slave Lake was destroyed in a fire.The community is slowly rising from the ashes, but it will never again be the same. Read about it in ...
Harper nude sparks mixed reactions
C NewsArtist Maggie Sutherland sits in front of her painting Emperor Haute Couture, a nude portrait of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, May 18, 2012. The painting is hanging in the Kingston Public Library. ...
Week in Review: Superfoods for better health, transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova and the funeral of two Vancouver gangsters topped the news
Vancouver SunOne year ago this week, one-third of the small Alberta town of Slave Lake was destroyed in a fire.The community is slowly rising from the ashes, but it will never again be the same. Read about it in ...
Canada cruising for a major oil spill crisis in the Arctic, academic warns
Vancouver SunAn oil skimming operation works in a heavy oil slick near Latouche Island off Alaska in April, 1989, just weeks after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil ...
Dear Diary: ‘This ‘true north’ is an oppressive wasteland of malnutrition and pestilence’
National PostAll my life I believed Canada was a land of plenty; a country that hunger forgot. Now I see the truth: This "true north" is an oppressive wasteland of malnutrition and pestilence lorded ...
What the #!%*? is the ‘Dutch disease’ exactly and does Canada have it?
National Posttells you everything you need to know about a complicated issue. Today, New Democratic Leader Thomas Mulcair's evisceration of the oil sands, which drew the ire of the Western premiers. He said ...
Where Prince Charles and Camilla should eat and drink in Toronto
The Globe and MailThe festivities begin on Friday night at the Black Hoof, where the cocktails are crafted from house-made infusions, and the menu is bare-bones brilliant. Charles and Camilla might like the warm ...
Ottawa wrote off $125 million in EI overpayments as beyond recovery
Canada.comOTTAWA -- As the Conservative government proposes major reforms to the employment insurance system, new figures show Canadians made hundreds of thousands of fraudulent EI claims over the past four ...
Tories may appeal judge's decision to order new byelection in Etobicoke Centre
Canada.comThe Conservatives responded with a note of defiance on Friday after a Toronto judge threw out the election of a Conservative MP in the suburban Toronto riding of Etobicoke Centre.The case was ...
Mulcair's oilsands crackdown would put some operations out of business, says ally
Canada.comThe Suncor oilsands mine near Fort McMurray, Alberta. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair's proposed crackdown on oilsands operations would be enough to drive some of them out of business, says one ...
CMA president: Doctors 'greatly concerned' about Harper government cuts to safety net
Canada.comOTTAWA -- Canada's doctors have issued a blistering critique of the Harper government's budget -- blasting the Tories for "downloading" health-care costs to provinces and ...
Military ombudsman 'welcomes' probe into travel expenses, dysfunction
Canada.comThe Canadian Forces ombudsman brought his executive assistant and her sister, who was a 90-day contract employee, to Geneva for a two-day meeting at a cost of $16,500, according to newly released ...
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