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Italian Banks Bottom Out After Moody's Downgrades

CP | The Associated Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Business

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Moody's Investors Service downgraded the debt ratings of 26 Italian banks Monday as they struggled with the effect of the weak econom...

Killer To Hear From Victim's Family Before Heading To Prison

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - The powerful and angry words of the judge presiding over Michael Rafferty's case rang through the courtroom Tuesday — "twisted," "dev...

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Shriners Donation Addressed To Conservative Party?

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 05.15.2012 | Canada Politics

An elderly Quebec man was shocked to find out he was expected to send his Shriners donation to the Conservative Party of Canada. Lorenzo Sirois, w...

Are These Eyelashes Easy To Apply And Do They Add Oomph To Eyes? We Took The Test

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 05.17.2012 | Canada Style

At some point, we've all purchased something whose results were, er, questionable, and didn't live up to our expectations or deliver the results we we...

Injectable Treatments Compared To What?!

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 05.15.2012 | Canada Style

Are cosmetic injectable treatments just "like good grooming," as a certain star might say? Probably not, but they've certainly become more common, a s...

CONFIRMED: Tories Cut Agency's Funding Due To Carbon Tax Research

CP | Heather Scoffield and Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The federal government has confirmed what the rumour mill suspected: it shut down an arm's length, independent advisory group because it didn...

Was The Controversial Publication Ban Worth It?

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada

LONDON, Ont. - A publication ban that prevented the public from knowing for more than seven months that Terri-Lynne McClintic had pleaded guilty to th...

Kids, You'll Eat Your Vegetables and Like Them!

Rose Reisman | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada
Rose Reisman

Ontario students in a Brampton high school are fighting the 2011 ban of all junk food available in their cafeteria. Their argument is that offering healthy options is fine, but students should be given a choice. This country has to wake up to the fact that we have an obesity epidemic.

TSX Dives As Chaos Grips Greece

Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market tumbled to close at its lowest level since early October as talks aimed at forming a new Greek government failed. ...

The Rarest Of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Cases

CP | Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada

ATLANTA - Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her...

One Canadian City Makes It On 'World's Most Powerful' List

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada Business

Canada, get ready to resent Toronto even more. The country’s largest city has placed as the 18th most powerful metropolitan area in the world in ...

From Iranian Prison to Outdoor Wedding

Farah Mawani | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada
Farah Mawani

I recently attended the wedding for Sarah and Shane, with Josh as their best man and witnessing the vision they had more than two years ago, while still held hostage in Iran, was as surreal as their capture and captivity. The contrast was dramatic: ALL outdoors with their ceremony and reception in a field surrounded by mountains, followed by brunch the next day on a beach overlooking the crashing waves of the Pacific ocean.

Investigators Hunt For Clues In Mid-Air Plane Crash

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada

ST. BRIEUX, Sask. - A witness to a mid-air collision in Saskatchewan that took the lives of five people saw one of the planes nose-diving before it di...

Standing Ovation For Accused Montreal Metro Smoke-Bombers

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - There were rousing cheers and a standing ovation in the courtroom as four people accused of smoke-bombing Montreal's subway system last wee...

17 Things We Keep Wasting Money On

The Huffington Post Canada | Arti Patel | Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada Living

If your weekend outings include last-minute city parking spots, overpriced drinks at bars or a few dollars wasted on ATM transactions, just remember, ...

Canadians Continue To Eat Too Much Salt And Sugar

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Living

OTTAWA - Canadians have made slight progress in the battle to combat chronic disease through diet choices even as the nation's children fall even furt...

WATCH: Man Interrupts Train's "Marry Me" During Concert To Propose

2 For Couples | Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada Living

Imagine proposing live on stage to your girlfriend at a Train concert while the band sings their classic hit wedding song "Marry Me". Well tha...

Watchdog: RCMP Acted Reasonably During G8-G20 Protests

CP | Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The RCMP acted in a "reasonable and appropriate" fashion during the Toronto G20 summit marred by violence and mass arrests, says the watchdog...

Should Alberta's Oil Go East?

CBC | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Business

Former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge is not a man for wild ideas. So his recent suggestion that it might make more sense to send the...

Canadian Companies Advertise On Teen Sexting Site

CBC | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Business

A Calgary father and web specialist is going public to warn other parents about a popular website — where major Canadian corporations a...

Man Who Beheaded Bus Passenger Faces Annual Review

CP | Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.13.2012 | Canada

WINNIPEG - Vince Li could soon be granted temporary passes away from a mental hospital four years after he beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenge...

Harper Meets Polish Counterpart, Talks EU Woes

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.13.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The ongoing economic woes in Europe will be no doubt a major topic of discussion when Prime Minister Harper sits down with his Polish counter...

Who Needs Humans? Company Moves To Fully Robotic Production

CP | Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press | Posted 07.13.2012 | Canada Business

TOKYO - Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs — a key change being played out across Japa...

Float Plane Crashes Near Peachland, B.C.

CBC | Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada

A float plane with five people on board has crashed near Peachland, B.C., about 25 kilometres southwest of Kelowna, according to local reports. The...

Float Plane Crashes In B.C.

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.26.2012 | Canada

KELOWNA, B.C. - A horrified former pilot who watched a float plane crash and burst into flames in southern British Columbia says he held out little ho...