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  • One-billion-year-old water saltier than seawater

    University of Toronto scientists have found pockets of water that had been sitting 2.4 kilometres underneath the Earth's surface for more than a billion years. Earth sciences professor Barbara Sherwood, who admitted that she had tasted it from time to time, revealed that the water has the consistency of maple syrup and is much saltier than seawater, News.com.au reported. She told the LA ...

  • Ontario NDP seeking BlackBerry messages discussing Liberal gas plant cancellations

    New Democratic Party MPP Peter Tabuns answers questions from the media following the announcement that additional documents were uncovered by the OPA related to the controversial cancellation of gas plants in Toronto on Thursday, February 21, 2013. (Michelle Siu/THE CANADIAN ...

  • Toronto’s plastic bag debate is ‘dead’ committee says

    Customers receive plastic biodegradable plastic bags when shopping at Noah's Natural Foods on Yonge St., Toronto on November 26, 2008. Toronto's public works committee voted in favour of abandoning the issue once and for all on June 19, 2013. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...

  • Canada Raises Liability for Offshore Atlantic Arctic Operators

    The Canadian government will raise the absolute liability for oil and gas companies operating in the Atlantic Basin offshore eastern Canada from $1 billion to $30 billion and for companies working on the Canadian Arctic from $40 million to $1 billion. Officials said the changes would incentivize spill prevention by companies operating in the Atlantic offshore and support job and economic ...

  • Worrying Reports on Poverty in Canada

    Ottawa, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) At least 200,000 Canadians live in poverty in the streets of the northern country or seek shelter in friends' houses because they do not have their own, informed today non-governmental organizations. The research also brought about that nearly 1.5 million family groups, part of the low-income sector, are in danger of falling into extreme poverty conditions. ...


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Movie Review

Oleanna

David Mamet's play-turned-film, "Oleanna," is about a number of things -- sexual harassment, higher education, the battle of the sexes, the role of the middle class -- but more than anything, it is about power. The film takes two characters, a pedantic liberal arts professor named John (William H. Macy) and a confused, female student named Carol (Debra Eisenstadt), and depicts their desire for pow ... ...

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  • Canada deploying 34 peacekeepers to serve with Brazilians in Haiti

    Canada is sending 34 troops to Haiti to serve as a peacekeepers with a Brazilian battalion, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday. MacKay announced the deployment in Ottawa alongside Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy and Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff. They will deploy from June 21 until December 2013, MacKay said. "Members of the Canadian Armed ...

  • Transport Canada - Media Advisory - North Bay Airport

    Mr. Severino will be available for a photo opportunity and to answer questions from the media following the announcement. Please note that all details are subject to change. All times are ...

  • Thunder Bay pub to be 1st in Canada to offer pregnancy tests

    An organization dedicated to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder hopes to install pregnancy test dispensers in bars across the country -- starting in Thunder Bay, ...

  • Police release video of suspect vehicle in Toronto homicide

    Three weeks after the afternoon slaying of a Scarborough father working in his backyard, homicide investigators have released more video of the suspected gunman's car passing by the victim as he carts away bricks on his driveway. The footage, which was taken from neighbours' security cameras and released as four different clips, shows a dark four-door sedan, possibly a 1999-2003 Mazda ...

  • Pioneering report suggests homelessness costs Canada $7 billion affects 200000 people a year

    OTTAWA - Homelessness in Canada affects about 200,000 people every year and comes with a $7 billion price tag, the first-ever national report on the issue has found. The results paint a picture of a disaster in communities across the country, said Tim Richter, one of the report's authors and the president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. "In a natural disaster, the loss ...

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