Fuel tanker runs aground in Northwest Passage - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:49:10 EDT
A fuel tanker carrying more than nine million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Canadian Coast Guard has confirmed. | Oil sheen at site of Gulf of Mexico blast disputed - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:08:54 EDT
The U.S. Coast Guard has backed off its report of an oil sheen spreading from the site of a platform explosion Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico. | Photos in judge sex scandal ordered returned - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:56:08 EDT
A Court of Queen's Bench justice has ordered a Winnipeg man to ask that sexually explicit pictures of a prominent Manitoba judge be returned to his possession. | Hurricane Earl weakens but still powerful - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:11:36 EDT
Hurricane Earl is weakening slightly but is still packing winds of more than 200 km/h as it blows toward North Carolina's coast. | 600 B.C. patients' data in stolen laptop - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:57 EDT
Personal information about more than 600 patients of the Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia is contained in a laptop stolen from Burnaby General Hospital. | Netanyahu, Abbas agree to meet again - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:08:34 EDT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to meet again following their first direct talks since December 2008. | Free parks passes no federalist plot: PM - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:49:50 EDT
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dismissing a Bloc Québécois MP's assertion that offering free passes to Canada's parks for Grade 8 students across the country is a federalist plot. | Pakistan flood effects will linger: aid agencies - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:01:56 EDT
The flood waters that inundated a large swath of Pakistan and forced millions of people out of their homes are starting to recede in some areas - but humanitarian organizations are warning that the need will linger long after the water has poured into the sea. | Kitchen survey shows health risks - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:53:50 EDT
A study from California's Los Angeles County found only 61 per cent of home kitchens would get an A or B if put through the rigours of a restaurant inspection. | Hadfield named space station commander - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:43:43 EDT
Col. Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station during a mission launching late in 2012. |
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Body of latest fallen soldier returns to Canada - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:14:31 Z
The body of a Canadian soldier who died Monday in a German military hospital after being wounded during an Afghanistan foot patrol arrived back on Canadian soil Thursday afternoon. | Activists hope to start new right-wing movement in Quebec - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:02:36 Z
A group of six Quebecers is trying to start a conservative-libertarian movement in the province that they hope will redefine Quebec nationalism — without including sovereignty. | 'A big storm coming': Maritimers brace for Earl - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:16:12 Z
Emergency officials in the Maritimes issued stark public warnings Thursday about the threat posed by hurricane Earl, expected to strike the coasts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on Saturday. | Court orders return of Manitoba judge's sex-scandal photos - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:48:07 Z
The man at the centre of a sex scandal involving a prominent Manitoba judge and her voyeur husband has been ordered by a judge to return all photos and e-mails involving the couple. | Alberta delegation to pump up oilsands in Ontario PR blitz - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:02:15 Z
It's the oil belt meets the rust belt. | Canadian to command space station - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:19:49 Z
Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. | Canadians more secure in their jobs, but split on economic future: Poll - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:02:56 Z
The economic bulls and bears are running neck-and-neck in Canadian public opinion, according to a poll released Thursday that suggests nearly as many people think a double-dip recession is in the offing as believe more hopeful times are ahead. | 3 Mounties in jail sex voyeurism probe suspended - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:25:21 Z
Three of four RCMP officers who were under investigation after being accused of watching two women have sex in a jail cell in Kamloops, B.C., have been suspended. | Electric Beetle making its way across Canada - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:02:40 Z
Ricky Gu helped turn a relic of a past automotive age into a symbol of the future of cars. | Toronto on radar as worst in Canada for speed traps: Online survey - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:02:32 Z
Canada's most populous city also has the country's largest number of speed traps, according to an online survey from the National Motorist Association (NMA), which lists the "Worst North America Speed Trap Cities, by State and by Province." |
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No oil slick from site of new Gulf explosion - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:12:12 -0400
The U.S. Coast Guard says it hasn't been able to confirm a report that an explosion on another oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has produced an oil slick more than a kilometer long. | Hurricane watch issued for parts of Nova Scotia - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:28:18 -0400
A hurricane watch was issued for parts of Nova Scotia on Thursday as anxious residents await the arrival of Hurricane Earl, which is expected to hit the U.S. coast Thursday night before tracking north. | Canadian to take command of space station in 2013 - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:50:05 -0400
The Canadian Space Agency announced veteran astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian to take command of the International Space Station. | Direct Mideast peace talks resume after 2 years - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:52:27 -0400
Israeli and Palestinian leaders sat down for their first direct peace talks in two years on Thursday, pledging to overcome deep skepticism spawned by disappointment with U.S.-brokered attempts in the past to resolve the long-running conflict. | Family of Orangeville woman brace for worst - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:03:24 -0400
Police told the family of a missing southern Ontario woman to expect the worst on Thursday, as the investigation into her whereabouts stretched into the fourth day. | Many kitchens wouldn't pass health inspection muster - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:59:45 -0400
A new study conducted by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) finds that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of inspections that restaurants have to go through. | Judge punishes juror for Facebook post with essay - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:22:11 -0400
A Detroit-area woman who was removed from a jury for commenting about the ongoing case on Facebook has a longer writing task ahead: a five-page essay about the constitutional right to a fair trial. | Blair memoir draws parallel to Chretien-Martin feud - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:56:11 -0400
Rarely do political relationships mirror each other the way former British prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and former Canadian prime ministers Jean Chretien and Paul Martin did. The closely drawn parallel was something Blair noted too, in his memoir, "A Journey," released this week. | Sugar may not stop pain when babies get needles - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:35:31 -0400
Did Mary Poppins have it all wrong when she advised sugar to help the medicine go down? Doctors in England suspect she may have -- at least when it comes to newborns. | Hawking asserts God didn't create universe - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:35:52 -0400
In his new book, physicist Stephen Hawking says God wasn't necessary for the creation of the universe. |
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