Water bomber crashes fighting B.C. wildfires - Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:13:29 EDT
A water bomber helping to battle more than 300 wildfires burning across B.C. has crashed south of Lytton. | WikiLeaks suspect had help: informant - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:54:11 EDT
An army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks had civilian help, a key figure in the case says. | Black 'enlightened' by prison time - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:24:15 EDT
Conrad Black has slammed the U.S. justice system as he reflected publicly on the 28 months he spent in a federal prison. | Chelsea Clinton ties the knot - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:08:04 EDT
Chelsea Clinton has married her longtime boyfriend at an exclusive estate along New York's Hudson River. | Green Party names ex-NHLer Laraque deputy leader - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:30:48 EDT
The federal Green Party is hoping former NHL tough guy Georges Laraque will help beef up the party's presence in Quebec. | Ont. young drivers face alcohol ban - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:59:07 EDT
Ontario's new zero blood-alcohol level policy for young drivers takes effect this weekend. | Flood disaster aid extended in Yorkton - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:19:23 EDT
Residents of Yorkton, Sask., who are still out of their homes after a flood July 1 will continue to receive disaster aid from the province. | Weather forecasters still see stormy 2010 - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:28:25 EDT
Weather experts are sticking with their forecasts that it will be an active hurricane season for the U.S. and possibly parts of Canada this summer and fall. | Love Parade's 21 victims remembered - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:45:00 EDT
Thousands of people paid their respects in the western German city of Duisburg to victims of the Love Parade tragedy. | Pakistan flooding deaths rise to 800 - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:20:53 EDT
Floodwaters in northwest Pakistan are now blamed for the deaths of more than 800 people this week, a government official says. |
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Waterbomber crashes as crews battle B.C. fires - Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:01:59 Z
A rescue was underway late Saturday after a waterbomber that was battling a blaze near Lytton, B.C., crashed. | Conrad Black speaks out about prison stay - Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:00:45 Z
As an appeals court reconsiders his criminal convictions and following his release from a Florida prison, former media baron Conrad Black is finally speaking about his release from a U.S. federal prison. | Families of the missing put lives on hold as search goes on - Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:02:03 Z
The doors are locked at B’s Diner and customers are fundraising to cover the rent as the owners use cadaver dogs to search the North Saskatchewan River. | Quebec politicians devise plan to save French-language school - Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:02:01 Z
Laval’s provincial Liberal politicians have come up with a plan to save a French private elementary school just weeks before the start of the fall academic year. | Canadian’s spin on windmill design touted as green-energy breakthrough - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:02:07 Z
Giant blades lay strewn around the field as if a helicopter had crashed. Leaving in a rush on a summer day four years ago, Glen Lux mistakenly forgot to unplug the brake and a strong gust brought his big wind machine to life, the six blades spinning in an out-of-control blur. | Former NHL tough guy Laraque named Green party’s deputy leader - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:43:58 Z
Georges Laraque is exactly what you’d expected for someone who spent nearly a dozen years pummelling some of the toughest heavyweights in the National Hockey League. | Top court denies serial killer Pickton a new trial - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:36:22 Z
After years hearing the gruesome details again and again, Cynthia Cardinal says her nightmare finally ended Friday when Canada's top court shutdown Robert Pickton's bid for a new trial in the killing of six women, including her sister, Georgina Papin. | Doe-eyed and dangerous: deer attacks spike in B.C. - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:01:55 Z
It began with the daylight mauling of a dog and has grown to include the bludgeoning of a newspaper carrier and the last-minute escape of a woman and her terrified canine from a charging red-eyed doe. | Oil-spill relief well off Canada’s Arctic coast would take three years: regulators - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:01:55 Z
Drilling a relief well in the ice-infested waters of the Beaufort Sea would take at least three years, leaving an oil spill off Canada’s Arctic coast to gush until the job is done, Canadian regulators warn in newly released documents. | 'Ready-to-eat' meat products recalled over food-poisoning fears - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:02:10 Z
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to consume a number of ready-to-eat cooked meat products because they may be contaminated with food-borne pathogens. |
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New role for ex-Hab Laraque: Greens' deputy leader - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:58:36 -0400
Elizabeth May has named former Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque as the Green Party's deputy leader, in an apparent move to boost the party's political presence in Quebec. | Death toll in Pakistani floods has risen above 800 - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:29:16 -0400
Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases. | Police searching for inmate who was mistakenly freed - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:12:48 -0400
Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for an inmate they describe as violent, who was mistakenly released from a Winnipeg prison several days ago. | More than 300 wildfires ravage B.C. Interior - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:19:09 -0400
Evacuation orders and alerts, as well as campfire bans, are in effect across the B.C. Interior this weekend as crews struggle to contain more than 300 wildfires. | Music fans mark sad anniversary at Alberta festival - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:28:40 -0400
Country music fans were marking a sad anniversary this weekend as they flocked to Alberta for the Big Valley Jamboree, where one spectator was killed last year during a violent windstorm. | Brandt Meat Packers issues recall, closes plant - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:26:33 -0400
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and G. Brandt Meat Packers Ltd. are warning the public not to consume certain Brandt ready-to-eat cooked meat products. | Chelsea Clinton weds in upstate New York - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:52:14 -0400
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend Saturday in a ceremony that had been shrouded in secrecy but was likely attended by a plethora of famous faces. | Scientists say Martian rock may hold evidence of life - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:44:20 -0400
Researchers say they have identified rocks that could hold four-billion-year-old evidence of life on Mars. | Germany holds memorial service for Love Parade victims - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:50:07 -0400
Germany held a memorial service Saturday for the victims of the Love Parade techno music festival, where 21 people were crushed to death and 500 injured in a tunnel that was the only entrance to the event. | WWII B.C. internment camp now a national historic site - Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:49:31 -0400
Nearly seven decades after the federal government forced a group of Japanese-Canadians from their homes and sent them to an internment camp in southeastern B.C., a memorial centre in the heart of the community has been declared a national historic site. |
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