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Afghan prison transfers halted more than once, general says
An Afghan agency, at one time entrusted to monitor Canadian-captured insurgents in Kandahar, says it has documented nearly 400 cases of torture across the country.
Ignatieff proposes restrictions on taxpayer-funded propaganda
The Liberals are proposing new rules to control how much partisan mail MPs can send to their constituents at taxpayers' expense.
Kids suspended over 'Kick a Ginger Day'
BURLINGTON (Nov 23, 2009) - About two dozen kids at Burlington Central Elementary School were suspended late last week after allegedly taking part in "Kick a Ginger Day," which encourages people to...
Flaherty foresees balanced budget
Don't expect any new big-ticket spending in the next federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said yesterday.
Sony links up gadgets with content
Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said.
Gold prices propping up Oliver Jewellery
With gold surging, cash-for-gold outlets like Oliver Jewellery and Harold the Jewellery Buyer are more prosperous than ever. See the video.
Darwin 1st edition found on toilet bookshelf
An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
Deep sea census finds bizarre marine life
From a translucent jumbo octopus to a fish bearing barbed fangs, scientists say they have discovered hundreds of new species living several kilometres beneath the ocean surface and in total darkness.
Man killed in Bay St. shooting
A violent morning in the city has left one man dead and five people wounded from gunfire.
An analyst says that the BlackBerry 9900 QWERTY slider with a touchscreen will see the light of day in 2010.
SIMPSON: A clean Afghan handover is a long way from reality
Every NATO country mired in Afghanistan, including Canada, agrees that military and security tasks must be handed over to the Afghan army and police. The goal is correct, but the reality is...
RUSSELL: Procurement exemption will backfire
Taxpayers' dollars should be used to create and support taxpayers' jobs, not export them to another country. At least that's what U.S. governments believe. But Canada's federal and provincial...
HÉBERT: Parizeau's vision bold ... and old
As he approaches his 80th birthday, Jacques Parizeau no longer assumes he will live to see Quebec secede from Canada, but he still does not expect the 1995 referendum to go down in history as the...
D. MARTIN: Stimulus tab ugly sign for taxpayers
Parents spotting any construction workers resting on shovels at road paving or bridge repair projects should alert their kids: Those paycheques are on their tab, plus a generation's worth of...
A second public biography of Senator Leo Housakos is changed after press calls
A second public biography that tied a Conservative senator to an engineering firm that won a lucrative federal stimulus contract was quickly edited to delete references to the position, following...
Debt climbing to $500 billion
With the country days away from watching its debt level cross the half-trillion mark, expectations are mounting that the federal government will release more specifics in next year's budget about...
Inflation posts first rise since May
Canada's annual inflation rate rose 0.1 per cent last month, the first increase in five months, as consumers paid more for food, furnishing and tuition. Consumer prices rose after registering a...
G20 summit to move to Toronto from cottage country: report
There are reports the Group of 20 economic summit, set for next June, will not be held in Ontario's picturesque cottage country because the logistics and security planning are proving too...
IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines
Researchers from IBM Corp. are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer.
UN: Fight climate change with free condoms
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the UN Population Fund said Wednesday.
Harper wraps up Indian visit with tour of Golden Temple
Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a three-day tour of India on Wednesday with a chaotic tour of the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Ex-sports exec goes on fraud & crack bender
Back when Scott Smith was playing on the national men's field hockey team and vying for a spot on the Olympic squad, illegal drugs were the farthest thing from his mind.
How to exit sinking car
Discouraged by the lack of public awareness, Professor Popsicle found himself back in cold water again.
MP tweets herself into hot water
A Toronto-area MP tweeted herself into hot water Tuesday after she posted a message on Twitter commenting on the weight of a fellow MP.
Recession sending Canadians to food banks
Tough economic times are driving more Canadians to queue up at food banks, a new report finds.
Man scammed burial plot next to wife he killed
A man accused of murdering his wife has been charged with forging documents to steal a cemetery plot so he could be buried beside her.
Putin reaches out to hip hop artists
Putin in da house? Da! He's tracked Siberian tigers wearing military camouflage, sat in the cockpit of a fighter jet, and shown off black-belt judo moves. Now Vladimir Putin is adding another...
Airlines helped craft passenger bill of rights
The federal transport minister’s office worked in lock step with the airline industry to draft the government’s passenger rights campaign, despite concerns from the bureaucracy about how the plan...
Feds can't promise H1N1 shot for all by Christmas
If every Canadian heeds the advice of public health officials to get the H1N1 shot, there will not be enough vaccine available by Christmas as the federal government has been promising, the chief...
Canadian eye surgeon target of alleged murder-for-hire plot
A prominent laser eye surgeon who operates clinics in Western Canada was the target of a murder-for-hire plot commissioned by his business partner and former brother-in-law, court documents allege.
Mountie-killer Emrah Bulatci shot to kill: Crown
A jury will soon have to decide what Emrah Bulatci was thinking when he shot an RCMP officer in the neck on an October morning two years ago.
Environmental accord possible in Copenhagen: Prentice
A political agreement to address global warming could be reached on the international stage next month, but the Harper government has no immediate plans to cap pollution from large industries in...
How one family won the battle to ban homework
Faced with frenzied nights and kids overloaded with work, the Milleys decided to take matters into their own hands
Canada spending millions on private security in Afghanistan
Documents show military approved at least $7.78-million for firms to guard military bases
Ad campaign takes aim at climate change
Calgary-based group runs campaign claim the planet has actually been becoming cooler in the past 10 years
CBC admits Palin book gaffe
Broadcaster inadvertently used graphic depicting anti-Palin book in story about former Alaska governor's new memoir
Harper government plans to move G20 summit to Toronto
Ottawa seeks new host site for expanded economic council, while Huntsville, Ont., remains site of smaller G8 gathering
Ignatieff's new staffers believe less is more for Liberals
The between-the-lines message of the staff changes in Michael Ignatieff's office is straightforward: Don't panic. Peter Donolo, Mr. Ignatieff's chief of staff, has recruited political veterans to...
Feds eye battle over cable fees
Officials with Heritage Canada watching proceedings as Ottawa ponders ramifications of a fee hike to consumers before a possible election
Ignatieff returns to climate
Appearing in the House for the first time in days, the Liberal Leader presses the government on its environmental position - or lack thereof
No fat jokes, please
An offensive Tweet by a Liberal MP earns Dean Del Mastro, who's slimmed down by 80 pounds, an apology after Question Period
The ADQ goes ‘kamikaze'
The Quebec press dissects Gilles Taillon's resignation, bombshell accusations and the resulting implosion of the once-mighty right-wing party
Ottawa holds back climate rules pending global deal
Prenitce stresses ‘continental' approach as he announces delay, which could stretch into late 2010
Charity sending money to Canada is an Iranian government front: U.S.
An organization the United States alleges is a front for the Iranian government has been bankrolling programs in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, charity records show
Emissions per capita at ‘all-time high’: report
A record 1.3 tonnes of carbon was pumped into the atmosphere for every person on the planet last year, according to a new report
Climate accord possible next month: Prentice
Officials from Denmark are drafting a political agreement that could be reached next month at a climate change summit, Environment Minister Jim Prentice says
Parliamentary restaurant to serve seal meat
Members of Parliament and senators soon will be able to decide for themselves when seal meat comes to their swishy private restaurant.
We are India's nuclear 'friend,' Harper says
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada is ready to turn a page in its relations with India by ending a long-standing ban on Canadians selling civilian nuclear technology here.
Caledonia man suspects crates held AK-47s
(Nov 18, 2009) - A Caledonia man who lives beside the former Douglas Creek Estates told court about spying on native protesters as they unloaded wooden crates that OPP later speculated could have...
The new OLO
Here it is. The new staff lineup in the Liberal leader's office; as laid out in a memo that just went out to MPs' offices this morning. Dear Liberal Colleagues, Today is my first day on...
Indian news reports link Canadian to Mumbai attacks
Indian news reports have linked an American and a Canadian man to last year's deadly Mumbai attacks, weeks after the two men were arrested on terror charges in the United States. The reports cite...
Canada's no-fly list compiled without adequate info
The federal bureaucrat in charge of Canada's "no-fly list" does not necessarily have the information needed to make informed decision about who should be banned from boarding domestic and...
Research In Motion and LinkedIn Unveil Business Networking App for BlackBerry
Google Books deal: Don't expect a library Utopia, but bring it on
'Unfriend' Chosen as Oxford Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year
IVISON: HST a hard sell for new converts
It's too bad for Dalton Mc-Guinty that one of the promises he didn't break after the 2003 election was the pledge to ban taxpayer-funded propaganda advertising. The Ontario Premier brought in...
YAFFE: Senator finds post-2011 plans for Afghanistan don't make sense
Liberal Senator Colin Kenny is calling on the Harper government to fess up to its plans for engagement in Afghanistan after 2011. A government website continues to declare: "Canada's aim is to...
D. MARTIN: H1N1 hysteria eases amid Grit fearmongering
The H1N1 germs are still spreading, but the pandemic's potential to cause a bad political reaction has peaked. The spectre of mask-wrapped commuters in rush hour, young victims gasping through...
SPECTOR: A year later, who's the man? Harper, actually
Last November, Barack Obama swept to power in one of the greatest victories in recent Democratic Party history. And in the two months between Election Day and Inauguration Day, his personal approval...
L. MARTIN: Crafty Harper succeeding at making us feel good
Few could have predicted this — that a year after almost losing the government over his boneheaded budget update, Stephen Harper would be riding higher than ever. A year ago, it looked that...
TRAVERS: Liberals, Tories victims of their own success
Liberals and Conservatives have long had more in common than either party freely admits. Along with ruling from the centre after campaigning from opposite sides of the political spectrum, one is as...
ADQ working on new leadership race
The Action démocratique du Québec executive will meet tomorrow to decide the rules for its new leadership race and could also name an interim leader, replacing recently elected leader Gilles...
Canada eager for renewed nuclear trade with India
It's no secret Prime Minister Stephen Harper's passage to India means more than a diplomatic handshake. It's a personal sales call to expand the $5 billion-a-year trade between Ottawa and New Delhi...
Suspected human remains found north of Kingston
Suspected human remains that were found north of Kingston, Ont., will be examined Monday at the coroner's office in Toronto.
Who will be the new GG Literary Award winner?
CanLit legend Alice Munro, Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey and B.C. novelist Annabel Lyon are among those vying in the fiction category for the Governor General's Literary Awards.
Twins joined at head successfully separated
A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain...
Almost 1 in 5 Canadians immunized against H1N1
The country's chief public health officer says about one in five Canadians have been immunized against swine flu.
Janet Jackson blames doctor for her brother's death
Janet Jackson blames Dr. Conrad Murray for her brother Michael's death, and says in a TV interview that he should no longer be allowed to practice medicine.
Grow-op discovered in burning house
Firefighters found more than smoke and flames while dousing a blaze in Dover yesterday morning.
Charities feeling the pinch of recession
Scrooge should feel right at home this Christmas.
Gadhafi hosts Italian women, tries to convert them
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news...
Digital book reader, Kindle, now available in Canada
Canadians book worms have waited long enough. Amazon.com Inc.’s popular digital book reader is officially available in Canada, the company announced Tuesday.
Least corrupt in the Americas
Canada is viewed as the least corrupt country in the Americas and is an "inspiration" for the U.S. and other neighbours in the hemisphere, Transparency International said in its annual report...
Clear Louis Riel of treason: Manitoba MP
A century and a quarter after he was hanged for treason, Louis Riel deserves to be exonerated and honoured in bronze for his role in creating Manitoba, says a Winnipeg MP.
Most Canadians satisfied with the way their cities are run
Most Canadians are satisfied with the quality of life and services in their cities, but show some different priorities, depending on where in the country they live, according to results of a poll to...
Hundreds rally against Supreme Court language ruling
The Quebec National Assembly must defy an Oct. 22 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada striking down a Quebec law on English-language schooling, a coalition of Quebec nationalist and union groups...
Saskatchewan court clears man of nut theft
Helping yourself to a few snacks from a grocery bulk bin is, technically, stealing. But getting busted for it? That, in a legal sense, is just nuts.
MPs try to persuade companies to lower sodium content
Two major food companies defended their actions in reducing the amount of salt in their products in front of a committee of MPs Monday that included some skeptical voices about their efforts.
Sale, Simpson skate away with Battle of the Blades crown
Jamie Sale is an Olympic gold medallist; Craig Simpson is a two-time Stanley Cup champion. Now the pair can add inaugural Battle of the Blades winner to their respective resumes.
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