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Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 2:22 pm


 Syrian Embassy in Ottawa vandalized

The Syrian Embassy in Ottawa has been splashed with what appears to be red paint.
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 2:06 pm


 The ecstasy and the agony

Not so long ago, Myles Murphy popped "E" caps like they were candy.
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 1:07 pm


 Montreal mortgage scam yields fraud charges

Two Quebec men face fraud charges following an investigation by the RCMP into a mortgage scam that cost victims more than $4 million.
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 1:04 pm


 Harper's China trip a chance to strengthen growing ties: observers

Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to China on Monday for one of his most important foreign missions this year, hoping to sew stronger economic ties with Canada's second-largest trading partner and key market for future energy...
Vancouver Sun - Business
Sat Feb 4th at 12:53 pm


 Canada's SNC Lavalin linked to Gadhafi son's escape plot to Mexico

A Canadian engineering firm, which oversaw billions of dollars worth of projects in Libya, was loosely linked Friday to a failed plot to smuggle a son of ex-Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi into Mexico.
Vancouver Sun - News
Sat Feb 4th at 12:09 pm


 Syria massacre puts pressure on Russia to back U.N. action

Syrian forces killed hundreds of people in an assault on the city of Homs, activists and world leaders said on Saturday, the bloodiest night of an 11-month revolt giving sudden urgency to a push at the U.N. to demand President ...
Vancouver Sun - News
Sat Feb 4th at 12:09 pm


 Italian father throws toddler off bridge over custody battle

An Italian man has thrown his 16-month-old son off a bridge into the river in Rome in a fit of rage following a row with his partner over custody, Italian media are reporting.
Vancouver Sun - News
Sat Feb 4th at 11:49 am


 U.S. Senator John McCain warns China that 'Arab Spring is coming'

U.S. Senator John McCain warned China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that "the Arab Spring is coming to China" and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country.
Vancouver Sun - News
Sat Feb 4th at 11:45 am


 Terror in Homs: more than 200 killed as Syrian forces fire mortar rounds, tank shells

Dazed and shocked residents of the battered Syrian protest hub of Homs emerge from their homes after a night of terror to search the rubble for loved ones.
The Gazette - News
Sat Feb 4th at 10:16 am


 Collapse was an accident: firm V-P

Three Quebec engineering firms, whose consortium was fingered by Transport Quebec on Friday in the collapse of a tunnel undergoing repair on the Ville Marie Expressway in July, will likely not see the incident put a dent in the...
The Gazette - News
Sat Feb 4th at 9:30 am


 New oilsands watchdog a victory for science

As the oil sands industry invests billions of dollars to more than double its production by 2020, Alberta and Ottawa worry that the growing outcry over the environmental impact of this "dirty oil" will harm its export markets a...
The Gazette - News
Sat Feb 4th at 7:41 am


 Responsibility not ours: Pierre Moreau

Moreau's explanation for the Ville Marie Tunnel collapse had all the hallmarks of Transport Quebec's traditional ways - deflecting blame and favouring the status quo.
Vancouver Sun - Business
Sat Feb 4th at 7:21 am


 Generation Y works by different set of rules

When it comes to recruiting and retaining Generation Y, employers need to use different methods than what worked for previous generations.
Vancouver Sun - News
Sat Feb 4th at 7:21 am


 Generation Y works by different set of rules, psychologist says

When it comes to recruiting and retaining Generation Y, employers need to use different methods than what worked for previous generations.
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 6:08 am


 Top dentists gross $1M a year on reserves

Treating impoverished First Nations patients is a surprisingly lucrative enterprise for the country's dentists, with the six highest-billing practitioners receiving more than $1 million a year from Health Canada, according to g...
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 3:13 am


 Abel: Postcard from Washington

The honoured living photographer poses in a suite of dead things. Behind her, we see pressed yellow flowers, the bones and skull of a pigeon, steamer trunks, riding boots, a man's high hat.
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 3:13 am


 Census to reveal big changes in makeup of Canada

Major changes in the makeup and population of the Canadian federation will come into sharp focus next week as Statistics Canada unveils the first results of its 2011 census.
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 3:12 am


 Rushing to bobsled gold

Canada 1 claims victory in Whistler
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 3:07 am


 Haitian-born killer taught respect for women by aboriginal elders: parole documents

Federal documents have offered a glimpse into a controversial hearing last month in which a Haitian-born convicted killer was able to access an aboriginal-style parole hearing at Manitoba's Stony Mountain Institution, a medium-...
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Sat Feb 4th at 3:07 am


 Sole survivor of Alta. crash, 16, on the mend

Zach Judd wants to play football again.
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 3:07 am


 Arthur: Ghosts are in Giants' corner Sunday

Familiar faces abound as 2008 foes set to do battle again
Vancouver Sun - News
Sat Feb 4th at 2:54 am


 Photos: World’s skinniest homes

Think your home is cramped and crowded? Think again. Take a look at these thin homes from around the world (and one in Canada!) that may just make your home, sweet home feel just a little bit sweeter.
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 2:25 am


 Duff: Howe deals with memory loss

Red Wings reporter recounts his own experiences
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 2:18 am


 Leman leads Canada to big day in ski cross

Calgarian golden at Ontario World Cup
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 2:13 am


 Mackinnon: Young Oilers give fans a peak at what future may hold

Gagner's eight-point night the talk of the NHL
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 2:07 am


 Flames’ backup battle brewing

Karlsson, Irving both vying to remain with the big club
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 2:07 am


 Hitmen winning streak iced with defeat in Kootenay

Cranbrook club quickly becoming Calgary’s nemesis
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 2:07 am


 Sliding Hawks have no bounce-back answer in Calgary

A night after being shellacked in Edmonton, Chicago produces middling performance
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 2:05 am


 Flames complete Alberta sweep of Chicago

Fuelled by a Big Mac, Jokinen helps send Hawks to 0-4 record in Wild Rose Country this season
Vancouver Sun - Business
Sat Feb 4th at 1:14 am


 Super Bowl fans expected to pack Vancouver’s bars and restaurants

It may be the year’s biggest U.S. sports extravaganza, but businesses north of the border are also cashing in.
Calgary Herald - Sports
Sat Feb 4th at 1:06 am


 Roughnecks relish team bonding weekend

Club next plays against Washington on Feb. 10
Vancouver Sun - Business
Sat Feb 4th at 12:46 am


 Wind power sector eager to deliver on B.C. power promise

As Christy Clark’s Liberals tie British Columbia’s economic future to an unprecedented natural gas boom, proponents of the province’s renewable energy resources hope for an opportunity to join in. B.C., predisposed to both mass...
National Post - Top Stories
Fri Feb 3rd at 11:58 pm


 Russian awakening: Dissident aims to rally masses against Putin

Peter Goodspeed: Boris Nemtsov doesn’t expect to see a touch of the Arab Spring in Moscow’s winter, but he aims to bring thousands of protesters into the streets Saturday to demand an end to Vladimir Putin’s presidential ambiti...
Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 11:45 pm


 Clark softens approach to sustainability as part of B.C.'s new energy strategy

Premier Christy Clark announced a new provincial energy strategy Friday that trades off the energy self-sufficiency target of the Gordon Campbell government for a new liquefied natural gas industry that has the potential to att...
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 11:37 pm


 Edmonton crash victims ‘beautiful, wonderful people,’ best friend says

An Edmonton family of four killed Wednesday evening north of Barriere, B.C. has been identified.
Vancouver Sun - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 11:28 pm


 Photos: Top images from around the globe

View the best photographs from hot spots around the world
National Post - Top Stories
Fri Feb 3rd at 10:36 pm


 Pickton case 'has all the familiar hallmarks of a police cover-up': lawyer

Brian Hutchinson: Cameron Ward represents the families of 23 missing and murdered women at the Pickton inquiry. Five months in, his faith in the process has crumbled


Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 10:24 pm


 Tech toys: A look at hot new gadgets

Take a look at a few of the hottest tech toys to hit the market.
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 10:12 pm


 Closure of Caterpillar plant signals change for Canadian manufacturing

The closure Friday of Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., paints a bleak picture for the future of the Canadian manufacturing industry, one expert says, adding the "writing was on the wall" for the southwestern Ontario plant ...
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 10:10 pm


 Sole survivor of Grande Prairie crash that killed four teammates will soon return to school

Zach Judd wants to play football again. The only survivor of an October highway crash that killed four of his teammates from the Grande Prairie Composite High School Warriors football team, Judd will have be content with non-co...
Vancouver Sun - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 10:07 pm


 Victoria Stafford jurors to visit site where body found

Jurors in the upcoming high-profile trial of a man accused in the murder of eight-year-old Victoria Stafford will visit the rural area where the little girl's remains were found, a judge ruled Friday.
Vancouver Sun - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 10:06 pm


 Canucks' grate expectations: When just winning isn’t good enough

It is a sign either of the evolution of a hockey team or the degeneration of its market that the Vancouver Canucks are third in the National Hockey League, 7-3-3 in the last five weeks, and still the sky is falling.
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:50 pm


 Katz Group hires WAM to develop land around arena

The Katz Group teaming up with WAM Development Group to develop a downtown arena district gives the project a huge boost, say development experts.
Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:49 pm


 Update: Imperial Oil launches $2-billion Cold Lake oilsands expansion

Imperial Oil Ltd. will go ahead with a $2-billion expansion of its flagship Cold Lake oilsands project, adding 40,000 barrels per day of new production to Canada’s largest thermal oilsands development.
National Post - Top Stories
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:32 pm


 Canadian imam to issue fatwa against 'honour' killings

Canadian imam to issue fatwa against 'honour' killings

Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:30 pm


 Digital Life: Rogers throttling decision ends fight started by Vancouver's Openmedia.ca

An issue raised by Vancouver's Openmedia.ca has reportedly been ended by a decision by Rogers.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:25 pm


 Charges laid after accidental shooting at Saskatoon school

A 43-year-old man faces charges after an 11-year-old brought a handgun to school to show his friends, and it went off in a classroom.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:18 pm


 Medicine Hat couple wins $25 million lottery jackpot

For four days, Tim Elliott of Medicine Hat, Alta., had almost $25 million hidden in the corner of his wallet and he didn't even know it.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:16 pm


 Shafia father files appeal, mother to file later

Mohammad Shafia, the father convicted of killing his three teenage daughters and first wife in a polygamous marriage, has filed an appeal, according to a media report.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:15 pm


 Canadian imam to issue fatwa against honour killings

A Calgary imam will take the bold step of issuing a fatwa — an official religious edict pronounced by a scholar of the Muslim faith — against honour killings and domestic abuse on Saturday.
Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:11 pm


 $50M joint oilsands monitoring strategy announced

Alberta and Ottawa have announced a joint $50 million a year monitoring strategy for Alberta’s oilsands that will greatly increase the area and amount of testing of land, air and water as well as the substances tested, minister...
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:07 pm


 Calgary Muslim leader condemns honour killings and domestic abuse

A Calgary imam will take the bold step of issuing a fatwa — an official religious edict pronounced by a scholar of the Muslim faith — against honour killings and domestic abuse on Saturday. Imam Syed Soharwardy, who is head ima...
The Gazette - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:07 pm


 Woman, 30, dies in car accident in St. Simon

A 30-year-old woman died Friday after her car veered off the road and hit a pole on Highway 20 in St. Simon, about 90 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
The Gazette - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:07 pm


 Police seek man in stabbing incident

Police are looking for a man in his 30s alleged to have stabbed another man in St. Henri Friday afternoon.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:07 pm


 Court eases house-arrest conditions for Toronto terror suspect Mahjoub

Mohammad Mahjoub, a Toronto man detained and subsequently held under house arrest for the past 12 years on a national security certificate because of alleged terrorist ties, was granted more freedoms by a federal court Friday.
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:07 pm


 Simons: Occupy protesters should fold the tents and stick with issues

For every action, said Newton, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Perhaps over at the University of Alberta, they need to add a new law to the canon.
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 9:06 pm


 Catholic board will look at closer co-operation with city to support older communities

The Catholic school board will look favourably on closer co-operation with the city to help support older neighbourhoods, says chairwoman Debbie Engel, reacting to a new report on community sustainability. “The Catholic board a...
The Gazette - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 8:59 pm


 Repair process blamed for Viger Tunnel collapse

The collapse in summer 2011 of the Ville Marie Expressway's Viger Tunnel was caused by the “conception” of repairs being conducted at the time, Quebec Transport Minister Pierre Moreau said Friday.
National Post - Top Stories
Fri Feb 3rd at 8:51 pm


 Shooting victim feared retaliation for testifying

Christie Blatchford: “He was afraid because usually, when you testify against someone, they find out you’re a snitch, and people don’t like snitches,” Kenneth Mark’s friend said Friday


Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 8:48 pm


 Skier killed by avalanche in B.C.'s Kootenays

One man is dead after triggering an avalanche with a small group of holidaying skiers around 11 a.m. Friday morning on Meadow Mountain, about 100 kilometres north of Nelson, B.C.
Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 8:46 pm


 Teacher's job hunt illustrates tight B.C. labour market

Moving to Vancouver was a dream come true for Amanda Pullishy.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 8:08 pm


 Harper heads to China to talk trade and pandas

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet China's top brass and the "next generation" of leaders during his visit to the Middle Kingdom next week, but he won't get any face time with presidential heir-apparent Xi Jinping.
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 8:07 pm


 Medicine Hat couple set to cash $25 million lottery ticket bought in Calgary

For four days, Tim Elliott had almost $25 million hidden in the corner of his wallet and he didn’t even know it. While picking up oil rig parts two weeks ago, he bought four lottery tickets from a southeast Calgary gas station.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 8:02 pm


 Maher: Sun TV plays dirty with trumped-up CBC porn scandal

This week, the opposition and reporters had a bit of fun at the expense of Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who had to stand up in the House of Commons and apologize for the fact that his department sent some ...
National Post - Top Stories
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:57 pm


 Ghosts of past hover around Super Bowl

Bruce Arthur: Four years later New York Giants defensive lineman Justin Tuck is back in the same place, more or less. So too are the principals from the most iconic Super Bowl of our time


Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:37 pm


 Coyne: CAW stumbled into Caterpillar shutdown without a plan

After workers were locked out New Year's Day at the Electro-Motive Diesel locomotive plant in London, Ont., union leaders boasted they would keep the plant from operating in the usual way: by physically blocking replacement wor...
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:32 pm


 Alberta, Ottawa announce $50M joint oilsands monitoring strategy

Alberta and Ottawa have announced a joint $50 million a year monitoring strategy for Alberta’s oilsands that will greatly increase the area and amount of testing of land, air and water as well as the substances tested, minister...
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:30 pm


 $13-million condo blaze started hours before 911 called

Nobody placed a call to 911 for nearly four hours after a plumber’s torch ignited insulation in the boiler room of a south Edmonton condominium last month, resulting in a $13-million blaze that destroyed at least two-thirds of ...
The Gazette - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:09 pm


 McGill responds to asbestos allegations

McGill University issued a terse response Friday to allegations some of its researchers have, over several decades, colluded with the asbestos industry to play down or cloud the fibrous mineral’s devastating health impacts.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:09 pm


 Canada is Israel's top ally: Baird

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says that Canada is Israel's staunchest ally in the world, surpassing even the United States in its support.
The Gazette - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:09 pm


 Two Montreal men face fraud charges in mortgage scam

Two Montrealers face fraud charges following an investigation by the RCMP into a mortgage scam that cost victims more than $4 million.
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:08 pm


 Crown wants dangerous offender status for rapist

A man who pleaded guilty on Friday to the random abduction and rape of a woman near the Queen Elizabeth Pool in July 2010 will face a dangerous offender hearing later this year. Anthony Winston Clark, 34, entered guilty pleas t...
Edmonton Journal - News / Edmonton & Alberta
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:08 pm


 Storify: Pecha Kucha Night 12 in Edmonton

Spotlights arced across the night sky from the red-carpeted entrance to Pecha Kucha Night 12 at the Garneau Theatre Feb. 2. More than 500 turned out to hear provocative presentations about everything from local banking to bread.
Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:08 pm


 Year-end results show a stable 2011 with strong growth in key sectors

Port Metro Vancouver has released its 2011 year-end results, showing a hike in the amount of cargo handled over 2010 and continued growth in key sectors. The amount of coal and lumber products moving through the port are up con...
National Post - Top Stories
Fri Feb 3rd at 7:06 pm


 Nasty as Caterpillar may be, it had something workers wanted: jobs

Andrew Coyne: The closing of the London, Ont., Caterpillar plant is a terrible blow to the workers and the city. It can hardly come as a surprise, however


Vancouver Sun - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 6:39 pm


 Jarrod Bacon found guilty at cocaine conspiracy trial

Notorious gangster Jarrod Bacon and his former father-in-law Wayne Scott were found guilty Friday of conspiring to traffic cocaine back in 2009.
Calgary Herald - News / National
Fri Feb 3rd at 6:30 pm


 Caterpillar's Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., to close

Angry locked-out workers from Electro-Motive vowed Friday to indefinitely occupy the locomotive plant's entrance after being hit with the news that Caterpillar Inc. plans on shutting down the company's operation following month...
Vancouver Sun - Business
Fri Feb 3rd at 6:07 pm


 Upbeat U.S. jobs report vaults Nasdaq to 11-year high, Dow to pre-2008 levels

A surge in hiring in the world's largest economy last month drove the Nasdaq to an 11-year high on Friday as optimism grew that the labor market is on a steady path to recovery. The broad-based gains on solid trading volume al...
National Post - Top Stories
Fri Feb 3rd at 5:48 pm


 Court dismisses Attawapiskat's request to remove third-party manager

The community of Attawapiskat cannot legally block the work of a third-party manager overseeing the band’s finances, a Federal judge has ruled


The Gazette - News
Fri Feb 3rd at 5:08 pm


 PQ rejects transport minister's Viger Tunnel explanation

Nicolas Girard, the Parti Québécois transport critic, rejected the explanation Friday by Transport Minister Pierre Moreau’s that three private engineering firms, and not his department, are responsible for the collapse July 31 ...
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