GeneralRobocalls scandal touches ’pretty much the whole country’: Elections Canada chiefAppearing before a House of Commons committee on the same day that most reporters were tied up with budget speculation and...
GeneralIsrael closes off West Bank ahead of Palestinians’ Land Day demonstrationsIsrael is tightening security and closing off the occupied West Bank as Palestinians and their supporters prepare for what are...
GeneralGood-bye penny, hello multiples of fiveStarting this fall, there will be no more digging through pockets and purses for spare pennies to pay the odd number of cents for...
BusinessRoll up Tim Hortons’ (spill-proof) rimIn 2012, the iconic company finally unveiled a cup lid that didn’t drip hot coffee down your leg
GeneralConservative budget expected to raise retirement age, herald in spending cutsIt’s budget day on Parliament Hill. The Globe and Mail reported this morning that the Conservatives’ first budget as a majority...
GeneralKhadr, a convicted murderer, could be back in Canada by the end of May: CP reportsSome see Omar Khadr as a victim, a child soldier who’s spent 40 per cent of his life behind bars at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo...
GeneralDeveloping world leaders call for voting changes at the IMF and World Bank at BRICS summit in New DelhiLeaders of the world’s largest developing countries want to shake up the world order so that they play a more central role in...
GeneralPark rangers in Kenya kill six poachers in effort to protect elephantsRangers from the Kenya Wildlife Service have killed six suspected elephant poachers in the past week. On Tuesday, three poachers...
GeneralAmazon’s Jeff Bezos finds Apollo 11 engines at the bottom of the ocean, plans to bring one upJeff Bezos remembers watching the launch of the Apollo 11 on television in July 1969. He was only five, but he can recall seeing...
WorldA spiced-up TV show on a legendary Ottoman sultan divides Turkey The soap opera is drawing viewers—and criticism from the religious conservatives as well as nationalists