Jordan Giblett, a Burlington Chartered Accounting student, was one of just 20 Ontario students to make the prestigious Honour Roll for top marks on this year's Canada-wide Uniform Evaluation (UFE). T...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:13:00 -0500

CSCO ) today announced the winners of the Cisco® Networking Academy® NetRiders Skills Challenge, an interactive contest designed by the...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:12:44 -0500

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - In a speech entitled Canada's Banks - Turning global respect today into long term success tomorrow, Nancy Hughes Anthony, President and CEO of the Canad...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:12:35 -0500

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - More First Nations communities across Canada will be able to take advantage of renewable energy systems, thanks to the First Power solar hot-water heati...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:12:35 -0500

--> Attention: Assignment Editor, City Editor, News Editor MONTREAL/QUEBEC/MEDIA ADVISORY--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - Young people never think a road crash will happen to them, but the number...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:12:28 -0500

MELBOURNE, Australia ? The Australian government said doctors were watching a Canadian citizen who is on a hunger strike to protest his imminent deportation from the country over visa problems. ...
CTV Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:07:33 -0500

A politics professor explains how the evolving economic landscape is making Canada focus to the East for our future, rather than to the U.S. and Europe.
CTV Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:07:27 -0500

More searchers are joining the effort to find James Delorey, a seven-year-old boy with autism who wandered away from his Cape Breton home two days ago. The search was scaled back Sunday night, with s...
CBC News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:57:01 -0500

Quebec politicians, cultural elite and the public gathered to pay their final respects Saturday to one of the province's most beloved filmmakers. Over two thousand people converged on Montreal's stat...
CBC News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:57:01 -0500

A Montreal man arrested after the killing of a cab driver is expected to appear in court Monday afternoon to face related charges. The 26-year-old suspect, who can't be named until he is formally cha...
CBC News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:57:01 -0500

TORONTO -- Guards twice admonished an anxious man and his wife yesterday for trying to communicate with the 14-year-old teen charged with abducting a baby boy. The man's search of more than a decade...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:50 -0500

TORONTO -- Spring Phillips offered a man a place to stay at her downtown apartment. Her good intentions may have resulted in her murder. The 26-year-old woman was found dead by her boyfriend in he...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:47 -0500

Carlie Stobbe, 11, stands by a fence where her house use to be after fire gutted five homes in the northwest community of Citadel. Carlie is being hailed a hero by her family and fire officials for sa...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:45 -0500

WINNIPEG -- A police investigation into a tryst between an on-duty firefighter and a woman at a Winnipeg fire hall last summer has been closed without anyone being charged, Winnipeg police say. In a...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:44 -0500

EDMONTON -- A man was taken to hospital with serious injuries yesterday afternoon after he was reportedly struck by a car following an alleged road rage incident in the city's north end. Police said...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:43 -0500

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics could be among the most watched sporting events in Canadian history, according to a new poll.Nearly three-quarters of Canadians surveyed in a telephone poll in early Novemb...
Vancouver Sun Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:05 -0500

The City of Vancouver prepared for a week of sub-zero temperatures by opening 200 additional beds for the homeless on the weekend.Temperatures in Vancouver were expected to dip to -5 C overnight Sunda...
Vancouver Sun Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:55:54 -0500

Two North Korean soldiers (C) keep watch as Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, Dec. 7, 2009.
National Post Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:50:17 -0500

South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak shakes hands with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during their meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Dec. 7, 2009.
National Post Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:50:11 -0500

B arack Obama is coming to Toronto. As suspected, it will be Toronto, not Muskoka, that will host the G20 summit of major developed and developing nations next June. Prime Minister Stephen H...
The Globe and Mail Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:46:42 -0500

ScreenScape allows business customers to create do-it-yourself digital video signs and connect them with other business and community organizations to share each others messages...
PR Web Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:53:34 -0500

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - On Monday, December 7, 2009, on behalf of the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, Senator Linda Frum will announce a new sola...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:50:15 -0500

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - A correction from source is being issued with respect to the release sent out this morning at 12:00 AM. EDT. In the 6th paragraph, it should read 2070 C...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:50:15 -0500

Caroline van Vlaardingen sat down with some of the people directly affected by the massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. They talk about the pain of the past, and their hope for the fut...
CTV Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:45:45 -0500

Caroline van Vlaardingen sat down with some of the people directly affected by the massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. They talk about the pain of the past, and their hope for the fut...
CTV Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:43:56 -0500

Saint John has purchased more than 78 square kilometres of land in an ongoing effort to prevent development that might threaten its supply of drinking water. Much the land would be classified as prim...
CBC News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:35:19 -0500

Former Canadian hostage Amanda Lindhout is expected to return to Canada early this week, according to a blog posting on a website dedicated to her release. The website is not affiliated with Lindhou...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:35:01 -0500

TORONTO - The Crown is expected to call Monday for the acquittal of an Ontario woman convicted of killing her four-month-old son. Sherry Sherret-Robinson was found guilty in 1999 of killing her i...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:34:57 -0500

Hero Group subsidiary Hero Electric will soon set up a joint venture with Canada-based battery maker Electrovaya for manufacturing lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Business Standard Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:24:24 -0500

SBM ), an emerging biotech company focused on drug development for diabetes and obesity, announced today the fourth major appointment this month to its Scientific Advisory Board, Professor B. Mario...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:29:10 -0500

VANCOUVER, BC -- 12/07/09 -- Sirona Biochem Corp. (TSX-V: SBM), an emerging biotech company focused on drug development for diabetes and obesity, announced today the fourth major appointment this m...
Earth Times Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:02:31 -0500

The Conservative government is set to slash millions of dollars in funding to Alternatives, a Montreal-based nongovernmental organization associated with a number of left-leaning causes and which has ...
National Post Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:53:24 -0500

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's national security advisor said on Friday the United States hopes Canadian troops will "stay as long as they possibly can" in Afghanistan and encouraged NATO nations to avo...
National Post Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:53:19 -0500

OTTAWA — A Canadian lab has found what makes a "superbug" stronger: tweaks to as few as two or three tiny bits of its DNA code.Along the way, the University of Ottawa team showed that evol...
Canada.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:52:53 -0500

Leslie Widynowksi, 63, was reported missing on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. She was last seen at her home in Surprise, Arizona. She is described as a white female, 5’ 2”, 125 lbs, with brown hair and ...
Canada.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:52:50 -0500

Canadian tourism officials celebrated yesterday after Canada finally received its coveted approved destination status from China. The designation essentially allows Chinese travel agents to begin mar...
National Post Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:51:49 -0500

South of Alberta's Badlands, where rainfall averages are lower than parts of Ethiopia, Nicholas Savidov's self-contained ecosystem has grown literally tons of fish, vegetables and fruit, for years, al...
National Post Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:47:11 -0500

Elisabeth Goergl of Austria won Sunday's super-G to spoil Lindsey Vonn's bid for three World Cup wins in three days.Vonn finished just 0.03 seconds behind Goergl's winning time of 1 minute, 21.91 seco...
eTaiwan News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:45:29 -0500

Somber ceremonies in Montreal on Sunday marked the anniversary of the antifeminist rampage that left 14 women dead at a university campus 20 years ago.In what was the deadliest shooting spree in Canad...
eTaiwan News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:43:13 -0500

Leslie Widynowski has been missing since last Wednesday. SURPRISE, Ariz. - Police in a small Arizona community have found the body of a woman matching the description of an Edmontonian reported missin...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:32:09 -0500

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, and his wife Laureen, second from right, are greeted by officials upon their arrival at the Seoul Military Airport in Seongnam, south of Seoul, South Kor...
C News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:32:09 -0500

A group in Korea is taking aim at Canadians and other foreigners teaching English in the country, claiming a high percentage of them have no morals, abuse drugs, rape Korean girls, molest children and...
Canada.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:32:07 -0500

A group in Korea is taking aim at Canadians and other foreigners teaching English in the country, claiming a high percentage of them have no morals, abuse drugs, rape Korean girls, molest children and...
Leader-Post Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:30:54 -0500

MONTREAL — The Olympic torch run will pass through a Quebec reserve despite an earlier threat by the Mohawk Nation to stop RCMP escorts from entering their territory.The Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake i...
Vancouver Sun Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:30:54 -0500

A group in Korea is taking aim at Canadians and other foreigners teaching English in the country, claiming a high percentage of them have no morals, abuse drugs, rape Korean girls, molest children and...
Vancouver Sun Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:30:46 -0500

A group in Korea is taking aim at Canadians and other foreigners teaching English in the country, claiming a high percentage of them have no morals, abuse drugs, rape Korean girls, molest children and...
Canada.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:19:51 -0500

A group in Korea is taking aim at Canadians and other foreigners teaching English in the country, claiming a high percentage of them have no morals, abuse drugs, rape Korean girls, molest children and...
Windsor Star Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:19:32 -0500

Video news release featuring interviews with Ellen Malcolmson, President & CEO, Canadian Diabetes Association and Michele Blackstock who has lived with diabetes since 2000...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:24:14 -0500

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - Ottawa Community Housing is proud to unveil the renewed and "greener" Banff-Ledbury Community. Thanks to more than $6 million in funding from all levels ...
Market Wire Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:24:11 -0500

Edmonton's Kevin Martin won his first game at the Canadian Olympic curling trials in Edmonton on Sunday but he had his hands full against his 25-year-old opponent. Jason Gunnlaugson of Winnipeg jumpe...
CBC News Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:06:27 -0500

Women in Ottawa observed the 20th anniversary on Sunday of a shooting spree that left 14 women dead at a college in Montreal. Parliament's response to the crime was a long-gun registry, which requires...
International Herald Tribune Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:01:14 -0500

MONTREAL — Canada has the largest crude oil deposits in the world after Saudi Arabia, and the biggest in the Western Hemisphere. But approaching the United Nations climate change conference, whi...
International Herald Tribune Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:01:06 -0500

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- 12/07/09 -- Editors Note: There is one video, one report, and one audio file associated with this Press Release. In a report released today, An Economic Tsunami: The Cost of D...
Earth Times Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:53:31 -0500

More than a hundred senior managers and experts from European space industry, national agencies and ESA packed a Geneva conference room earlier this week to learn about the commercial opportunities of...
Space Daily Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:04:53 -0500

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong dropped its last restriction on imports of Canadian beef, which may boost the value of the shipments by 76 percent, Canada's government announced.
The China Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:54:07 -0500

What do you get when you mix two NHL clubs who've recently been struggling to take command of their games? A shootout, of course. Alex Kovalev and Daniel Alfredsson scored in the shootout to help the...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:45:53 -0500

Download Flash Player to view this content. Dan Cleary scored from a nearly impossible angle with 2:03 remaining to push the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-1 win over the Rangers in New York on Sunday. ...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:45:52 -0500

At least 100 people were stranded in the biting cold on a Whistler Mountain chairlift Sunday morning after a mechanical fault on one of the towers.Dave Brownlie, Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort presiden...
The Province Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:45:28 -0500

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, and his wife Laureen, second from right, are greeted by officials upon their arrival at the Seoul Military Airport in Seongnam, south of Seoul, South Kor...
C News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:45:21 -0500

WINDSOR, Ont. — An Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged with street racing after a marked cruiser crashed into a ditch in Kingsville, near Windsor, last week.According to a news releas...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:45:09 -0500

VANCOUVER — North Shore Search and Rescue issued a warning over the weekend after a snowshoer died when he fell 400 metres into Kennedy Lake from North Vancouver’s Goat Mountain.The fall happened ...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:45:08 -0500

In Montreal, eight-year-old Marjolaine Ouimet, the niece of Geneviève Bergeron — one of Marc Lépine’s victims 20 years ago — places a flower Sunday on her marker at a memorial site named Place...
Times Colonist Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:44:38 -0500

MONTREAL — Canada has the largest crude oil deposits in the world after Saudi Arabia, and the biggest in the Western Hemisphere. But approaching the United Nations climate change conference, whi...
International Herald Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:40:18 -0500

A 17-year-old teenager was stabbed and killed Sunday afternoon in Quebec City after getting into a fight on a bus. The victim got into an argument with a man he didn’t know on the bus. When the bus ...
The Gazette Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:31:51 -0500

OTTAWA ? Canada may end crucial training programs for the Afghan National Army when it pulls its troops out of Kandahar in 2011, The Canadian Press has learned. Allies at NATO and in the broader...
CTV Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:23:13 -0500

Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who admitted betting on league games for about four years, said in his first major television interview since serving a prison sentence that stars Allen Iverson and Kob...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:11:55 -0500

Lauryn Kronick, Ashley Hunkin and Josie Caro were among dozens of supporters, many of them women, who came out to Minto Park in Ottawa for a vigil in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the massacr...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:11:25 -0500

Lauryn Kronick, Ashley Hunkin and Josie Caro were among dozens of supporters, many of them women, who came out to Minto Park in Ottawa for a vigil in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the massacr...
The Province Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:09:45 -0500

Thousands of bundled spectators line the streets of downtown Vancouver to watch the 6th Annual Rogers Santa Claus Parade in the near freezing temperature on Sunday, December 06, 2009 in Vancouver.
The Province Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:09:43 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:56:30 -0500

Hong Kong and Canada signed on Sunday a working holiday arrangement to benefit young people from the two places starting on March 1, 2010. The Memorandum was signed by Hong Kong Secretary for Labor an...
People's Daily Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:29:14 -0500

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State (Sport), today congratulated medal winners and announced a contribution to the 2009 Essent ISU World Cup Spe...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:55:21 -0500

Troy Merritt had a two-stroke lead over former Weyburn, Sask., native Graham Delaet on Sunday when fifth-round play in the rain-delayed PGA Tour qualifying tournament was suspended for the day because...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:41 -0500

Supporters of a man who froze to death in a Vancouver alley 11 years ago held a vigil in his memory on Sunday. Frank Paul, 48, died of hypothermia on Dec. 6, 1998 after a police officer left him in a...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:32 -0500

Austria's Elisabeth Goergl won Sunday's World Cup super-G at Lake Louise, denying Lindsey Vonn a sweep at the Alberta resort. Vonn captured the downhill races held Friday and Saturday. The two-time d...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:32 -0500

South of Alberta's Badlands, where rainfall averages are lower than parts of Ethiopia, Nicholas Savidov's self-contained ecosystem has grown literally tons of fish, vegetables and fruit, for years, al...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:33:09 -0500

HALIFAX - About 100 people braved a winter storm Sunday to gather for the 92nd anniversary of the Halifax Explosion in honour of the thousands who died in one of the most devastating accidents in Cana...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:33:05 -0500

T he country “is the dirty old man of the climate world,” according to a recent Guardian article. Another prominent article published ahead of the Copenhagen climate-change summit called i...
The Globe and Mail Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:26:58 -0500

TROIS-RIVIERES, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - On behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State (Sport), Senator Fortin Duplessis today celebrated the arrival of the Olympic Flame in Tr...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:29:25 -0500

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - Over the past five days, investigators for the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals probing animal cruelty allegations at the Toront...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:29:25 -0500

Canada 's recent descent into what he claimed is a "petro-state," he was talking about Canada's global reputation. But what he was actually addressing is a long history of domestic inter-governmental ...
The Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:30 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
The Province Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:55 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Leader-Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:35 -0500

Glitzy nightclubs in Toronto's entertainment district say they have fallen upon hard times this year as low-key party-goers head west to smaller venues. Circa, Toronto's largest nightclub, has confir...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:13 -0500

A snowshoer climbing the North Shore Mountains in North Vancouver this weekend without proper gear died after falling 400 metres. The man, in his early to mid-20s, was descending the mountains, which...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:09 -0500

A 30-year-old man died after his snowmobile crashed into a sport utility vehicle east of Edmonton on Sunday afternoon. Police said they responded to a report of a collision on Range Road 213 north of...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:13:57 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Vancouver Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:12:21 -0500

Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, who was released last month after spending 15 months as a hostage in Somalia, is expected to return to Canada this week.
Vancouver Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:11:57 -0500

Flames erupt from an exploding train car spewing thick smoke into the sky hours after a CN train derailment east of Spy Hill, Saskatchewan on Dec. 6, 2009.
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:41 -0500

The government's consumer product safety legislation could lead to information about your child ending up in the hands of some corrupt government agency in the Third World. Or could it? Last week, L...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:37 -0500

OTTAWA - A much-touted federal program designed to encourage auto, manufacturing and other workers to retrain if they are jobless after years of employment is proving a near bust. Promoted by the Har...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:34 -0500

SEOUL -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join more than 50 prime ministers and presidents at the leaders' summit on climate change in Copenhagen and push for a binding deal to commit the nations to...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:31 -0500

LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State (Sport), today announced that the Government of Canada will provide funding of $250,000 to Alpine Canada...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:07:50 -0500

The institution was placed on a general lockdown on December 4, 2009 in order to facilitate a search of Institution. The lockdown and search are being conducted to ensure the ongoing safety and se...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:07:49 -0500

A monument paying tribute to the victims of the Montreal Massacre was unveiled in P.E.I. on Sunday, the 20th anniversary of Canada's worst mass shooting. The names of the 14 young women are etched on...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:16 -0500

Washington Redskins running back Rock Cartwright, right, hustles away from New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant in the first quarter on Sunday. The Skins had this one before the Saints roare...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:10 -0500

The first major stormstorm in New Brunswick apparently caught some people by surprise — and without a snowblower. Three men from the Fredericton area are facing theft charges after police caught th...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:05 -0500

A snowshoer climbing the North Shore Mountains in North Vancouver this weekend without proper gear died after falling 400 metres. The man, in his early to mid-20s, was descending the mountains, which...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:04 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:52:49 -0500