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Harper travelling to Colombia as ‘observer’ at Pacific Alliance trade meeting
OTTAWA -- The prime minister heads to South America this week to suss out membership in a new trading bloc he has been working to join for many years. The Pacific Alliance was formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru in 2011 and Canada took a spot on the sidelines the next year, along with several other countries as observers. This week, alliance leaders will meet in Cali, Colombia, and be ...
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While Toronto gets perfect 25C weather for Victoria Day Gander Newfoundland digs itself out of record 54cm snowfall
GANDER, N.L. -- Newfoundland and Labrador is digging out of a spring storm that walloped parts of the province over the weekend with record-breaking snowfall amounts. Environment Canada says 54 centimetres of snow fell in Gander on Saturday and Sunday over a 20 hour period. Meteorologist Wanda Rideout says the total climbs to 66 centimetres if you include the snow that had already melted ...
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‘RHOOC’ star Tamra Barney tweets support to Heather Dubrow
Heather Dubrow over the past couple of months. The two have never had any beef with each other and now, Tamra has chosen to make Heather her bridesmaid for her upcoming wedding to Eddie Judge. Fans saw how Terry wasn't necessarily the ...
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Search dogs at Canada’s borders more likely to sniff out meat than drugs records show
OTTAWA -- Federal search dogs at international border entry points have a penchant for sniffing out one thing more than anything else: meat.The release of the data comes as federal officials question the necessity and effectiveness of the dogs, with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) dismantling some of its search-dog teams over the past year -- a move the federal union believes will erode ...
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NDP calls on RCMP to investigate $90000 cheque from Harpers former top aide
OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are calling on the Mounties to investigate the actions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff. NDP MP Charlie Angus, the party's ethics critic, has written to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson asking the force to determine if Nigel Wright broke any laws by giving Sen. Mike Duffy $90,000 to help him cover the repayment of improper ...
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Vancouver man murdered in targeted Costa Rican hit says private investigator
Vancouver father Brad Deering, 42, and three others were inside his gated community home in San Jose in Costa Rica on Thursday morning, when three men stormed the house, shot and killed Deering and tied up the others. A local private investigator believes the killing was a targeted hit. The PI believes Deering was selling ...
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Canadians invited to weigh in on wind turbine proposal for Juno Beach
Canadian veterans make their way down Juno beach to the waters edge following a ceremony marking the 60th Anniversary of D-Day in Courseulles-sur-Mer, France, on the Normandy coast on June 6, 2004. For years visitors to the D-Day beaches on the northwest coast of France have looked out at the English Channel, taking in the journey made by Allied troops that marked a turning point in the Second ...
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Jose Mourinho wont coach Real Madrid next season
Head coach Jose Mourinho of Real Madrid reacts during the Copa del Rey Final against Club Atletico de Madrid at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on Friday in Madrid. (Denis Doyle/Getty ...
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York Regional Police revise assessment on abduction report
A few hours after police reported an attempted abduction in York Region, they now say that it may not have occurred. On Monday morning, police reported that a man had allegedly tried to abduct a two-year-old child at Vaughan Mills Park. Further investigation has left police unclear if that happened. York Regional Police tweeted on Monday afternoon that their investigators say the male ...
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Quebecer dead in Mexico after scuba diving incident
A man originally from Alma, Que. died in southern Mexico after a scuba diving excursion went wrong last Thursday. Martin Simard, 57, who was on vacation in Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, was an experienced diver and was well-known amongst the region's diving community. The day before his death, he had to undergo a hyperbaric chamber treatment after resurfacing too ...
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Harper escapes to South America
More allegations of questionable accounting from Duffy as critics step up attack OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper darts off to South America Tuesday as his party and office attempt to put a lid on an explosive Senate firestorm at home. Harper will dodge the direct ire of opposition parties this week, which will demand answers after his chief of staff Nigel Wright resigned and Senators ...
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Man shot dead at Toronto barbecue
Toronto police are investigating the killing of a man in the Dundas St.-Ossington Ave. area. (JACK BOLAND, Toronto Sun) TORONTO - A long weekend barbecue turned bloody after a 35-year-old man was shot dead at an apartment building in the Ossington Ave.-Dundas St. W. area. Quincy Ramirez was fatally shot at least once in the chest around 7:40 p.m. on Sunday. A 67-year-old building resident, ...
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Freak snowstorm hits Gander N.F on Victoria Day weekend
Slushy southern Ontario storm causes closures, cancellations While Ontarians were lounging on beaches and barbecuing on the Victoria Day weekend, Newfoundlanders were digging out after a freak snowstorm buried parts of the province under about two feet of snow. According ...
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Canadian mine may host 2.6-billion-year-old ecosystem
"IT'S BEEN called the Galapagos of the subsurface." Barbara Sherwood Lollar's enthusiasm for the fertile watery world her team has found 2.5 kilometres beneath Earth's surface is palpable. The water circulates through fractures in the rocks of a Canadian copper mine. Dating techniques indicate it has been isolated from the rest of the planet for up to 2.64 billion years ...
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Canadian singer apologizes for U.S. anthem botch
A Canadian jazz singer apologized for botching the U.S. national anthem at the Memorial Cup junior ice hockey game in Saskatchewan. Alexis Normand said she had been asked the day before the Saturday game to learn the Star-Spangled Banner to perform at the Western Hockey League game ...
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Canada pitches startups with lower taxes instant residency
Canada's new immigration-centric pitch to Silicon Valley's many foreign-born entrepreneurs. Canada is pitching Silicon Valley entrepreneurs on northern migration. The gist: Easier access to visas for foreign-born entrepreneurs, a growing base of engineering talent, R&D tax credits and lower corporate taxes. Low-tax U.S. states like Arizona, Nevada and Washington have pitched financial ...
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Canadian and American believed kidnapped in Mexico report
Mexican media are reporting that a Canadian and an American have gone missing from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.The online newspaper Noticias PV says Diego Hernandez, a Canadian martial arts instructor, and his friend Craig Silva vanished on May 8.The paper says Puerto Vallarta's director of public safety, Silvestre Chavez, didn't learn of the men's disappearance until five ...
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RHOA star Porsha Stewart reveals she is happy even though she is homeless
divorce without her knowing. She learned of the news on Twitter and was completely heartbroken. He filed for divorce as the show was airing and fans were watching their marriage falling apart, as he couldn't see how Porsha could balance both a career and a baby. While fans don't know what went wrong in their marriage, it sounds like she is thrilled that it is over considering how he ...
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‘Teen Mom’ star Maci Bookout is shocked by New York City
Maci Bookout introduced her world to the show on "16 & Pregnant" as she invited everyone to share her adventures. She was 16 and pregnant at the time, living at home with her parents in Chattanooga at the time. ...
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‘RHOOC’ star Gretchen Rossi works as Tamra celebrates with friends
Tamra Barney on the first episode of the previous season, but it sounds like she hasn't been there for Tamra lately. Over the weekend, Tamra and Eddie headed to Las Vegas to celebrate their bachelor and bachelorette parties as their wedding is just weeks away. And according to some pictures from the weekend, Gretchen was not there to support Tamra at her party. Instead, Heather was there ...
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Bryan Colangelo out as Raptors GM offered corporate role reports
It appears Bryan Colangelo is out as president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors, but he could be staying with the team in another capacity. According to multiple media reports, the Raptors are negotiating with Colangelo to take on a corporate, non-basketball role with the team. The reports did not specify what Colangelo's new duties with the team would be. Colangelo joined the ...
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Poisonous algae germinating N.B. lakes say researchers
Algae feed on phosphorous -- and that phosphorous comes from fertilizers and detergents that wash down driveways, onto streets and into streams and creeks. ...
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Can the Senate fire a senator
An expert on parliamentary rules says the Senate has the power to turf a senator from the chamber, as long as a majority approves the expulsion. Ned Franks, an emeritus political science professor at Queen's university, said, "The Senate is master of its own house." Franks cautioned that the removal of a senator cannot be done without cause, but, "If the Senate considers ...
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Anthony Gose back with Blue Jays despite average Triple-A stats
Given his numbers at triple-A Buffalo, Anthony Gose wasn't expecting a call from the Blue Jays. When it came, he still didn't quite believe it. "Definitely surprised," he said of the call-up. "I didn't even know what to think. They called me this morning, told me I was going up. I kept asking was it real? I didn't know what was happening. I just ...
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Harpers constituents react to chief of staffs resignation
Nigel Wright has resigned as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, following revelations he wrote a $90,000 cheque to repay improperly claimed housing expenses for Senator Mike Duffy. In a statement issued Sunday, Wright said Harper has accepted his resignation "in light of the controversy surrounding my handling of matters involving Senator ...
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