| Seema Biswas makes first filmic foray into comedy with 'Cooking with Stella' Indian film actress Seema Biswas, who is vastly known for the serious roles she plays in movies, has made her first filmic foray into comedy with 'Cooking with... | |
| We're Canadians, Not Vulcans C 'mon. You have to admit that some days, the evidence is undeniable that we are a nation of morons. Despite the rousing fellow feeling generated by our gold medals and the return of the Crosby puck... |
| How The Conservatives Dodged The Climate Bullet A Greenpeace billboard erected during last year's Copenhagen conference on global warming mockingly depicts Prime Minister Harper in 2020 saying: 'I'm sorry. We could have stopped catastrophic... |
| Marc And Craig Kielburger's Do-gooding Social Enterprise His Holiness the Dalai Lama waves to youth attending "We Day" as Craig and Marc Kielburger look on in Vancouver, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Dubbed ?The Day We Change The World,? the youth empowerment... |
| Rookie Mp Shoots For Royal Commission On Hockey Violence H ockey and politics don’t usually mix. But Glenn Thibeault is mixing it up in a couple of different ways. Last Sunday the rookie NDP MP from Sudbury took 21 Sudbury Wolves hockey players,... |
| Manitoba To Help Keep Greyhound Buses Running T he Manitoba government says it will provide Greyhound with $3.12-million to keep the passenger bus service from shutting down for at least a year.Transportation Minister Steve Ashton says the money... |
| B.c. Hikes Provincial Park Fees I t's going to cost more to enjoy provincial parks in B.C., with rates going up on everything from basic camping fees to emptying RV sewage tanks. On the upside, campers will be able to reserve... |
| Rcmp Fail To Locate Travellers Stranded On Melting Roads A n RCMP rescue mission has failed to locate a dozen people stranded for days on thawing winter roads in northern Manitoba.The stranded travellers were driving north from Winnipeg to their homes in... |
| Air Canada Supports Pilot Caught In Dispute TORONTO Air Canada is standing by a pilot whose co-workers refused to fly with him, fearing he was suicidal and accusing him of threatening to ditch his aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean. ... |
| Viz Media Announces The Canadian Broadcast Premiere Of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster On Super Channel, Presented By Manga Entertainment Animated Psychological Suspense Masterpiece Anime, is Based On Critically Acclaimed Manga Series, Offers aTale of Conspiracy, Political Intrigue and... |
| British Columbia's Longest Consecutively Operated Cannery Announces Its Diversification Into The Tourism Market 121 years in the making, nestled in the estuary of the Skeena River, the historic Cassiar Cannery, BC’s longest consecutively operated cannery, is pleased to announce its diversification into... |
| Canada's Economic Action Plan Creates Jobs And Improves Housing On Reserve In Saskatchewan The Government of Canada announced today an investment of $20.7 million, as part of the year one funding through Canada's Economic Action Plan to improve housing conditions for First Nation... |
| Governments Of Canada And Saskatchewan Partner To Help Unemployed Older Workers Prepare For New Jobs (Marketwire - March 19, 2010) - A joint initiative of the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan will assist unemployed older workers in developing new skills that will help them to find and keep new... |
| Canadian Sci-fi Writer Convicted In Border Case A Canadian science fiction writer has been convicted of assaulting, obstructing and resisting a police officer during an inspection in Michigan last year by U.S. Customs and Border Protection... |
| Ottawa Helps First Nations Cut Off By Thawed Roads The federal government will help Manitoba reserves cut off by the early closure of northern winter roads, Prime Minister Stephen Harper... |
| Quebec Wants Public Sector Negotiating Blitz The Quebec government is calling on the province’s biggest public sector unions to take part in a negotiating blitz before the expiry of their members' collective agreement at the end of the month.... |
| Caffeine In Sodas Ok: Health Canada Caffeine is safe when used in low concentrations as a food additive in non-cola soft drinks, Health Canada says. The health agency issued a release Friday saying synthetic caffeine is fine if it is... |
| Icahn Moves For Lions Gate Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his year-long dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following... |
| Cornell Scores Ncaa Upset For Ivy League Louis Dale scored 21 points, Ryan Wittman added 20 and No. 12 seed Cornell beat fifth-seeded Temple 78-65 Friday in Jacksonville, Fla., in the opening round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. ... |
| Nexen's Gulf Find Boosts Shares Calgary-based oil and gas producer Nexen Inc. said Friday it has made a "significant" oil discovery in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The find at the Appomattox project in a formation called the... |
| Bernard Trottier Sports Stores To Close Quebec-based Bernard Trottier Sports is shutting its doors after 45 years in the sports wares business. The company, which specialized in ski, tennis and golf equipment is blaming financial... |
| Quebec Budget Coming March 30 Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand will table the province’s budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year on March 30, he announced Friday. Bachand has indicated the upcoming budget, which comes as... |
| Facebook Gag Fools Pm's Spokesman A Quebec television show has exposed an embarrassing hole in the personal security of prime ministerial communications director Dimitri Soudas. Soudas, who is Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief... |
| Police Arrest Man With Submachine Gun In Park Police in northeast Toronto arrested a man carrying a loaded submachine gun in a park Thursday. Officers on patrol in the park, near Markham Road and Lawrence Avenue East, noticed a group of men... |
| Man, 55, Charged In Child Abduction A 55-year-old man has been charged with child abduction after an incident Wednesday evening near a school playground in Whitecourt. People in the area became suspicious of an exchange between a man... |
| U Of T Receives Rare Hong Kong, Taiwanese Films Colin Geddes, a Toronto International Film Festival programmer, rescued some of the rare films from closed Chinatown cinemas, and even from the... |
| Father Troy Dies At 92 Flags at Edmonton's Catholic schools are at half mast to mark the death of Father Michael Troy. The well-known priest and teacher — who had a junior high school named after him in 2003 — died... |
| Rochette Takes Well-earned Rest Joannie Rochette never needed figure skating more than at the Vancouver Olympics. It gave her a comfort zone as she competed days after her mother died of a heart attack, winning a bronze medal with... |
| Accused Church Arsonist Guilty Of Break-ins A man accused of setting fire to two churches in Wetaskiwin, Alta., in October pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of breaking-and-entering. Peter Terence Jones, 23, was charged with two counts of... |
| Film On Bathurst Basketball Team Planned A Moncton-based production company is hoping to make a movie based on the Bathurst High School basketball team that won the 2009 provincial championships a year after the tragic van accidcent that... |
| Teen Arrested In Anti-jewish Vandalism A teenager wanted for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on several Jewish locations in Calgary has been arrested in Winnipeg. The teen, 18, cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act... |
| Video May Be Key To Yaletown Death Vancouver police are hoping the release of a surveillance video will help them uncover why a homeless man was found dying from unexplained injuries in a downtown alley almost two weeks ago. Thomas... |
| Funding Crunch Means Cuts At B.c. Schools School districts across B.C. say they will have to lay off teachers and close schools to deal with looming budget deficits, despite a boost in funding announced by the provincial government earlier... |
| Vancouver Police Release Video Connected To Homeless Man’s Death A screen grab from a surveillance video released by Vancouver police in an effort to find the killers of homeless man Tom Sawyer, a flower seller. This frame shows two men returning after they had... |
| West Vancouver's Maelle Ricker Takes Third At Final Snowboard Cross Event Of Season LA MOLINA, Spain — Canada’s Maelle Ricker wrapped up the World Cup snowboard cross season on a high note Friday, taking third place in the final event of the season.The native of West Vancouver,... |
| Canadians Shipwrecked In Galapagos To Return Home Sunday 16 Canadian tourists had to be rescued after the yacht they were travelling on struck a reef in the Galapagos Islands Wednesday evening, a spokesman for their tour group said... |
| Team Canada's Jennifer Jones Back On The Ice After Attending Olympics As A Reporter Jennifer Jones' perspective on the Ford world women's curling championship is as different as the one she had at the 2010 Winter Olympics.Jones, a four-time Canadian women's curling champion, was at... |
| Jesse James's 'mistress' Claims Montreal Link The heavily tattooed San Diego stripper who calls herself Michelle "Bombshell" McGee and claims she had a year-long affair with movie star Sandra Bullock’s husband, Jesse James, says she grew up... |
| Avalanche Almost Became Canada's Deadliest, New Report Says Search and rescue workers probe amongst wreckage and debris in the area where a large avalanche occurred near Revelstoke, BC, Sunday, March 14, 2010. The avalanche started near the top of Boulder... |
| Deadly Snowslide Close To Being Canada's Worst Avalanche Ever Luck and a quick response prevented last week's avalanche in eastern British Columbia from being the deadliest in Canadian history, according to a preliminary report released Friday by the Canadian... |
| Man Wanted For Calgary Racial Graffiti Arrested In Winnipeg CALGARY - Authorities have arrested a man wanted on warrants in connection with anti-Semitic graffiti that was spraypainted on Jewish monuments in CalgaryCalgary police just made the announcement and... |
