GeneralBaboons can identify words, still like treatsBaboons can identify words but can’t read, according to a new French study. The researchers used a computer program to teach the...
GeneralZingers fly in competitive Alberta debate, with Smith roughing up Redford at timesThe leaders of Alberta’s four main political parties faced off Thursday in the lone debate in what has already been dubbed that...
GeneralKinder Morgan’s ’southern gateway’ could ship an extra 550,000 barrels a day through B.C.Kinder Morgan revealed plans Thursday for an expanded $5 billion pipeline linking Alberta’s oil sands to the Pacific port in the...
GeneralOntario politicians, Ottawa mayor and police chief reject safe injection sites, scienceMere minutes after a panel of experts recommended safe drug injection sites for Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario’s health minister...
GeneralBritish study tracked thousands of kids born in the 90s, kept lots of gross stuffIn a study that comes off like a scientific Facebook experiment, researchers in Britain obsessively tracked thousands of children...
GeneralCanadian Cyndy Vanier, accused in a Gadhafi smuggling plot, speaks out from jail in MexicoThe strange story of Saadi Gadhafi, SNC-Lavalin and the Canadian plot to smuggle the former dictator’s son to Mexico got a little...
GeneralU.S. sues Apple, publishers over e-book prices—Amazon set to profit from itThe U.S. government is suing Apple and five major publishers, claiming they colluded to keep prices for e-books artificially...
GeneralDefeated Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj claims fraud in his Toronto-area 26-vote defeatBorys Wrzesnewskyj, a three-time Liberal MP who lost his Toronto-area seat in last spring’s election, is calling for a...
CanadaNew sanctions threatens the future of longboarding in B.C.The sport doesn’t sit well with everyone who lives in Vancouver’s North Shore
BusinessUsing bacteria to extract metals from shaleA Toronto company is betting on a new breed of microscopic miners