Shafia canal deaths case in hands of jury - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:18:04 EST
The fate of three Montrealers accused of killing four family members is now in the hands of the jury after the trial judge finished giving his instructions on Friday.
 | Mexico arrests man in beating of Canadian woman - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:13:13 EST
A Mexican man has been accused of the brutal beating of a Canadian woman at a five-star resort.
 | RCMP apologizes for not catching Pickton earlier - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:45:56 EST
The RCMP has issued an apology for not catching B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton earlier.
 | Retirement income changes won't be sudden, government says - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:16:15 EST
Whatever changes the government makes to retirement income won't happen overnight, Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies said Friday.  | Asteroid makes close approach to Earth - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:10:03 EST
An asteroid about 11 metres in diameter roared past the Earth early Friday in one of the closest approaches ever recorded for such an event, astronomers say.
 | Canada condemns Libya amid reports of prisoner abuse - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:03:52 EST
Canada is delivering a diplomatic scolding to Libya over reports of deaths and systemic torture in Libyan prisons.  | Costly federal appointments office has nothing much to do - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:17 EST
Canadian taxpayers have spent millions of dollars on supporting a federal appointments commission that doesn't exist, in the six years since the Harper government came to power.  | Hockey helmet adds anti-concussion liner - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:38:22 EST
A sports equipment maker is trying to reduce head injuries with a new type of helmet.
 | Online economy expected to double by 2016 - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:10:25 EST
The size and value of the business conducted online is forecast to almost double by 2016, a report from a major consultancy says.  | Prince William's Sea King flight pleased military - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:38:53 EST
Prince William helped garner positive press for the military when he piloted a Sea King helicopter during last year's Royal Tour in Canada, newly released records show.  | Cruise ship survivors offered $14,454 compensation - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:59:47 EST
The company that owns the Costa Concordia — the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany — is offering uninjured passengers €11,000 ($14,454 Cdn) each to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma.  | Condo owner must pay for meter or unplug electric car - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:07:44 EST
An Ottawa man is fighting the board of the condominium complex where he lives because it does not want him charging his electric car on other residents' dimes.
 | Federal deficit $17B and falling - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:52:28 EST
The federal budget deficit now stands at $17.3 billion, eight months into the fiscal year, the Finance Department reports.  | Maritimes battle snow, freezing rain - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:45:27 EST
A winter storm is expected to blanket parts of New Brunswick with up to 30 centimetres of snow Friday afternoon, followed by freezing rain in the evening.  | Neilson recalls Trutaste milk over contamination - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:21:22 EST
People should not drink certain Neilson microfiltered partly skimmed milk because it may be contaminated with a cleaning solution, federal food officials say.
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Shafia trial: Tragic car accident or homicide made to look like a crash? - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:08:45 Z
Leaving the scene of an accident, or multiple charge of murder: this is the stark choice facing jurors in the Shafia trial, says Postmedia's Christie Blatchford. | RCMP apologizes for delay in Pickton arrest - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:25:37 Z
The commanding officer of the RCMP has responded to recent criticism of the force raised at the Missing Women inquiry in British Columbia by issuing an apology for not solving the missing women case sooner. | Jury deliberations nearing in honour killing trial - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:07:05 Z
Jurors who will decide the fate of three members of a Montreal family accused of murdering four others have three options, they were told Friday by the judge presiding over the case. | Stephen Harper says 'major' changes coming to Canada's pension system - Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:57:03 Z
Prime Minister Stephen Harper signalled his government will bring forward "major transformations" to the country in the coming months — in areas such as the retirement pension system, immigration, science and technology investment and the energy sector. | Federal deficit shrinking faster than forecast - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:07:57 Z
With just four months left in fiscal 2011-12, Ottawa should come in well under its full-year projection for a $31-billion shortfall. | Changing old-age benefits fragile situation for government - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:16:54 Z
Messing with public pensions is a minefield one would think most prime ministers would avoid if possible. One only has to look at Brian Mulroney's experience in 1985 when public backlash forced him to retreat from a plan to de-index old age pensions from inflation. | TSX advances for sixth straight week - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:09:58 Z
Canadian stocks posted their sixth straight weekly advance Friday, despite a tepid session to end the week, as technology stocks and gold producers lifted Canada's benchmark index. | Mexico beating victim Sheila Nabb returns home - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:45:39 Z
A Canadian woman who was savagely beaten in an attack at a Mexican resort touched down in Calgary Thursday, transported from Mazatlan by a private air ambulance company and with her husband travelling at her side, according to the pilot who says he flew the aircraft. | Milk that may be contaminated with cleaning products recalled - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:51:23 Z
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning people not to consume a certain brand of milk that may be contaminated with cleaning products | 'I saw death': Canadian in Bahrain says he's hiding to escape his torturers - Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:18:03 Z
Terrified that he will be beaten to death if he is dragged back to prison, a Kuwait-born Canadian citizen says he has gone into hiding in Bahrain after losing his appeal of his conviction for breaking the country's illegal assembly laws. | Rogers uses charter claim to fight truth-in-advertising law - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:45:45 Z
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking an Ontario court to strike down part of a federal law requiring a company to have "adequate and proper" tests of a product's performance before advertising claims about the product — on the grounds that it violates its freedom of expression. | Frequent overtime more than doubles chance of depression, study says - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:07:46 Z
A new study shows people who work overtime regularly are more than two times as likely to experience a new "major depressive episode" than their counterparts who work a standard work day. | Tainted ecstasy tied to sixth death in Alberta - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:07:18 Z
Calgary police said Friday they are investigating a sixth death tied to tainted ecstasy. | Canada reviewing implications of slowed U.S. F-35 production - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:04:25 Z
The federal government is reviewing Canada's planned purchase of up to 65 F-35s after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed Thursday his country will be slowing production on the troubled stealth fighters. | Manitoba researcher bakes up $160,000 muffin - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:48:01 Z
When a flaxseed muffin costs $160,000, it better taste really good and be terrifically super-healthy for you. |
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Suspect arrested in beating of Canadian in Mexico - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:31:36 -0500
A suspect has been arrested in the brutal beating of a Canadian woman who was vacationing in a five-star Mexican hotel last week. | PMO backs away from proposed pension cuts - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:09:52 -0500
A brewing controversy over pensions has forced the federal government to back away from future cutbacks on federally-funded plans like Old Age Security -- at least for now. | RCMP sorry for not catching killer Pickton sooner - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:52 -0500
Decades after women started to go missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the RCMP has apologized for not doing more to find the killer. | Alberta's weekly wages highest in Canada - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:33:56 -0500
Alberta workers had the highest weekly earnings in the country in November, while Ontario showed the weakest wage growth in the last year, Statistics Canada says. | Shafia jury mulling first- and second-degree murder - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:38:21 -0500
The jurors in the Shafia murder trial have received their final instructions from the judge and have begun their deliberations. | Murdered Toronto barber not just 'some guy': family - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:56:50 -0500
The family of a popular barber shot dead earlier this week said he wasn't just "some guy," and invited the gunman to attend a candlelight vigil Friday night to see the damage they have caused. | Cynthia Nixon's remarks on gay 'choice' worry activists - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:16:02 -0500
Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political, after she was quoted as saying that for her, being gay was a conscious choice. | 'Barefoot Bandit' sentenced to 6 1/2 years - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:57:58 -0500
A federal judge on Friday sentenced "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010. | Report: Filing for Facebook IPO could come next week - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:01:59 -0500
Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report. | Canada blasts Libya over torture reports - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:04:29 -0500
Canada delivered a harsh diplomatic rebuke to Libyan officials in both countries Friday after "credible" reports of torture linked to the country's interim government. | Federal deficit ahead of schedule in reducing deficit - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:25:42 -0500
The federal government is well ahead of schedule in reducing the size of the deficit, even as it is preparing to cut back on pensions and the size of the public service. | Bieber pumps life into Ontario organ donations - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:39:53 -0500
A rally cry from Justin Bieber asking fans to become organ donors has done wonders for Ontario's Trillium Gift of Life Network, which has seen a boost in organ donors since the plea was made last week. | Plans in full force six months before London Olympics - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:18:28 -0500
Director Danny Boyle offered a sneak peek of 2012 London opening ceremony that would include the ringing of a massive bell and the National Health Service. | Windsor, Ont., bar holding dwarf tossing contest - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:33:33 -0500
There was outrage in the past when a dwarf tossing event was held in Windsor, Ont., and it's happening again. | More than 50 killed in 2 days of turmoil in Syria - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:24:34 -0500
Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed more than 50 people as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings, fired on crowds and left bleeding corpses in the streets in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday. |
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