Canada's Christine Nesbitt sets world record at ISU sprint championships
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:49:22 -0800

By Kristen Odland calgary canadian Christine Nesbitt set a new world record in the 1000 metres Saturday to open the 2012 ISU world sprint speed skating championships at the Olympic Oval. The reigning sprint champion, 2010 Olympic gold medallist in ...

Couple left Canada for Jamaica to keep baby
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:32:07 -0800

Both live on the same street as Stephanie and Alphonso Warren did. both say that the couple moved to Jamaica to avoid having Joshua taken away by child services in Canada . (Supplied photo) A former Toronto couple now sitting in a Jamaican prison after ...

Canada Reads, so why not join in?
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:29:21 -0800

Canada Reads is CBC Books' literary version of Survivor. Since 2007 this annual event has been held to choose the year's favourite book by a Canadian author. For a two-week period in September and October CBC Radio called for nominations of books from ...

Shafia murder trial jury begins deliberations
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:53:37 -0800

Journey from Afghanistan The Shafias moved to Canada in 2007. They fled their native Afghanistan more than 15 years earlier and had lived in Dubai and Australia before moving the family to Montreal and applied for citizenship.

Atlantic Canada at risk of stagflation, Moody's warns
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:17:32 -0800

The report covered Canada as a whole, but Mr. Hopkins did touch on the risks to Atlantic Canada of stagflation, slow growth, high unemployment and rising inflation. Unemployment rates in the four eastern provinces top the national average of 7.5 per ...

Romney Pays More Taxes than He Would in Canada and Many European Countries
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:46:20 -0800

The belief that the richest 1 percent in Europe and Canada pay for a subsidized ride for the bottom 99% is a common delusion on the American Left. It's the basis for their fantasy that vast new government programs can be paid for simply by taxing the ...

Toronto transit boss steers image 'undercover'
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:23:08 -0800

TTC chair Karen Stintz dressed in a disguise during an upcoming episode of Undercover Boss Canada . Courtesy of Corus Entertainment. An upcoming episode of a new Canadian reality show will feature TTC chair Karen Stintz, the woman tasked with managing ...

Alberta has one of Canada's lowest number of nurses per capita
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:17:02 -0800

Canada's average nursing workforce per every 1000 people was 931 in 2010, while Alberta's was 918, the third-lowest in the country behind Ontario at 869 and Quebec at 969. Newfoundland boasted the highest number of nurses per every 1000 at 1521.

Man Brought to NY From Canada Over Fraud Charges
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:38:43 -0800

A former operator of a New York-based immigration law firm has been extradited to the United States from Canada to face charges he led a massive immigration fraud ring that processed thousands of false immigration applications, earning millions of ...

Canada reaches space with Lego
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:21:25 -0800

Seventeen-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad simply attached a helium balloon to four cameras and a Lego strip connected to a Lego man and his cool tiny Canada flag and let them fly. Once the whole rig descended back to Earth, the collection was ...

Wiatr leads West Canada to girls indoor track win
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:14:47 -0800

By anne delaney haley Allen of Clinton and West Canada Valley's Sarah Wiatr each won three individual events and West Canada earned the team title at the Center State Conference girls indoor track and field championships at Colgate University on Friday ...

Video: Cat Escapes Carrier, Commandeers Air Canada Cockpit!
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:14:31 -0800

(Ripples the Cat, seen here in custody after a failed attempt to cat-jack an Air Canada flight yesterday.) Happy Friday, here's the story of Ripples the Cat, a freedom-lovin' feline who grounded an Air Canada flight for four hours yesterday after he ...

Canada determined to build Gateway pipeline
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:02:32 -0800

It's the latest sign that Canada's leader is gearing up for battle with anti-Canadian-oil interests. So are recent statements by his Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, that environmental and other radical groups are trying to hijack Canadian oil ...

Tories pitching 'significant' immigration reform
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:47:44 -0800

By Daniel Proussalidis ,Parliamentary Bureau Jason Kenney, Canada's Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, arrives to address the Muslim Canadian Congress in Toronto January 22, 2012. (Ernest Doroszuk/Qmi agency) As Parliament resumes sitting on ...

Joe Oliver continues to promise change to speed up development
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:30:14 -0800

Toronto canada needs to start expanding energy projects outside of the United States if it wants to remain internationally competitive, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Friday. "We need to get around pipeline bottlenecks leading to US ...

Canada reviewing implications of slowed U.S. F-35 production
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:19:28 -0800

By Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News January 26, 2012 OTTAWA - The federal government is reviewing Canada's planned purchase of up to 65 F-35s after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed Thursday his country will be slowing production on the ...

Research and Markets: Canada In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2017 ...
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:55:01 -0800

Global Data's new report, Canada In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2017 - Clinical Chemistry Genetic Testing, Haematology, Histology And Cytology, Immuno Chemistry, Infectious Immunology and Microbiology Culture provides key market data on the ...

Canada's Peliwo loses to Saville in Aussie Open boys final
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:10:39 -0800

"Thanks to the team back home in Canada , they did a lot of work and it paid off for the most part," said Peliwo. "I had so much support from back home form those who support Canadian tennis." Peliwo trains a the National Tennis Centre in Montreal.

Canada's worst federal employees and why some still have their jobs
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:29:57 -0800

Jesse Mc Lean Staff Reporter David Bruser Staff Reporter The gatekeepers of Canada's prisons, borders and tax system are suspended and fired for misconduct and incompetence more than any other type of federal employee. Their cases are among at least ...

Canada's Groenewoud wins X Games women's superpipe
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:27:06 -0800

Note: Canada's Justin Dorey partially dislocated his left shoulder after falling in the men's final. The Vernon, BC, skier landed hard on the lip of the pipe, sliding down the side. He walked off the course holding his left arm gingerly.