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TaxiSaver program saved in TransLink reversal

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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TransLink has reversed its controversial decision to eliminate the TaxiSaver program, following an outcry from users. "We have heard that ...

Dad who pleaded for experimental cancer drug dies

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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A Toronto man has succumbed to cancer just weeks after making a public appeal for access to an experimental drug that his oncologist suggested was his...

Iranian-Canadian Accounts CLOSED

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada Business

Several Iranian-Canadians are crying foul after the TD Bank abruptly closed their accounts with little explanation other than to say it had to comply ...

TMX in talks with Direct Edge, Journal says

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the TMX Group, the company that owns Canada's largest stock exchange, is in talks to acquire Direct Ed...

B.C. Bears Gorge On Backyard Chickens

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada

B.C. bear experts say backyard chickens are becoming a big problem as they draw bears close to people's homes. Adrian Lafleur says she's l...

Hamilton human-trafficking probe sees 3 arrested

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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Three more people were arrested Tuesday by the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency in relation to allegations they were part of a Hamilton-base...

Alberta filmmaker tracks female grizzly in documentary

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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A Canmore, Alta., filmmaker's latest project is garnering international attention for its portrayal of a grizzly bear that tells its own tragic story....

Coconut Water Debunked

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada Living

Endurance athletes who drink coconut water after their workouts could save their money. Pop makers in the U.S. market coconut water — t...

WATCH: Charges Laid In 300 Km/h Motorcycle Joyride

CP | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada

SAANICH, - Police have charged a man they believe responsible for a hair-raising motorcycle ride along a Vancouver Island highway that reached speeds ...

Disabled man trapped without emergency wheelchair repair

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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A disabled Vancouver man is asking the B.C. Ministry of Social Development for help after his wheelchair broke last weekend, leaving him stuck in bed,...

Help!

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada Business

Students need help from the federal government to find summer jobs, Liberal MP Scott Brison said Wednesday. Citing statistics showing a po...

Quebec Election Speculation Ramps Up

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada Politics

There are more signs today that Quebecers could be in for a summer election campaign. A report in Montreal's La Presse newspaper speculate...

Police offer reward for info on missing GTA woman

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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A Richmond Hill woman has been missing for months and police are now offering a $10,000 reward for information about her disappearance. Ch...

Broken main triggers South Shore water restrictions

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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A broken water main on Montreal's South Shore has triggered a drinking water restriction in several communities. The City of Longueuil sen...

St. Andrews scientist speaks out over cuts

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada Politics

A retired scientist from St. Andrews is speaking out against recent federal science cuts, saying human health and local wisdom are at stake. ...

N.B. organ donation program suspended

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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The New Brunswick government is temporarily suspending the province's organ donation program after a Health Canada inspection raised some quality assu...

Plane stalled before deadly Saskatchewan crash

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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A floatplane that crashed in northern Saskatchewan a year ago, killing all five people aboard, stalled in midair and was too low to recover, the Trans...

Ontario plugs $2M into Elliot Lake businesses

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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The governing Liberals say they'll spend $2 million to help Elliot Lake businesses recover after a deadly mall collapse. They say the two-...

Alberta Wildfires Force 300 From Homes

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada

The province is escalating the fight against an out-of-control wildfire threatening Zama City in northwest Alberta. "We do have a Type 1 ...

Bentley won't say who cancelled Mississauga gas plant

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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Energy Minister Chris Bentley isn't saying who made the decision to cancel a proposed gas plant in Mississauga just a few days before last year's elec...

Pardon, Partner?

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada Politics

Stephen Harper's declaration that Calgary is the greatest city in Canada is threatening to stir up a national round of hometown rivalry. ...

Sliammon First Nation approves contentious treaty

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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Members of a Sunshine Coast First Nation have approved a treaty with the federal and provincial governments. The treaty gives the Sliammon...

Man missing from psychiatric ward found

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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Police have found a man who they said was potentially violent and was last seen at Toronto East General hospital's psychiatric ward. Polic...

Autopsies to clarify suspicious Quebec fire deaths

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada
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Autopsy results to be released Thursday are expected to shed light on the grisly deaths of two children and their father in Warwick, Que., this week. ...

'Divine Intervention' Needed To Win Afghan War: Taliban Leader

CBC | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada

A veteran leader of the Taliban has expressed strong doubts the group can win the war in Afghanistan, adding he's relieved Osama bin Laden is dead and...