• Saudi coronavirus work stymied at Canadian lab

  The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg is working with a sample of the new coronavirus that's causing clusters of infections abroad -- but can't share the material with other researchers across the country despite the public health urgency. It was a Dutch lab that sent a Saudi sample of the virus to Winnipeg, where scientists are looking ...

• Canada PM’s aide exits over US$90000 gift scandal

  (23 mins ago) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff stepped down yesterday over an expenses scandal that also forced the resignation of a conservative senator. Nigel Wright announced his resignation in a statement following revelations that he gave a US$90,000 gift to a senator to help repay improper housing expenses. The senator, Mike Duffy, resigned last week. Wright, ...

• Costa Rica shooting victim originally from Vancouver

  A Vancouver man residing in Costa Rica who was shot to death by intruders last week lived a lavish lifestyle, according to a private investigator.Brad Deering, originally from Vancouver, was killed Thursday in a home invasion in the upscale suburb Escazu, southwest of San Jose, local media reported. Mr. Deering, 42, flaunted his wealth and worked in the investment industry, according to a ...

• When employers duck responsibility for training Canada loses

  The uproar over the federal government's temporary foreign worker program exposed a disturbing workplace undercurrent.Too many employers would rather import workers than train their own.Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce economist Benjamin Tal says he often talks to chief executive officers about the skills dilemma. And what he hears are sentiments such as: "I'm not in the ...

• Pittsburgh Penguins vs Ottawa Senators Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 3

  Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Tomas Vokoun (L) is congratulated by teammates Sidney Crosby and Paul Martin after they defeated the Ottawa Senators in Game 2 of their NHL Eastern Conference semi-final hockey game in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 17, 2013. Pittsburgh Penguins vs Ottawa Senators takes place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Sunday night with the Eastern Conference Semifinal series Game 3 ...

• Neil Reynolds an editor who refused to run with the pack dies at 86

  Neil Reynolds made a career out of steering Canadian newspapers along uncharted courses, looking for stories with scant regard for the safe or predictable. He wanted storytelling, and got it, by letting reporters off the leash with a rare degree of freedom. Reynolds died of cancer in Ottawa on Sunday at the age of 72. Born in Kingston, Ont., Reynolds was a high-school dropout who became city ...

• Missing Toronto womans parents unfazed by Millard link

  Missing woman Laura Babcock, 23, disappeared in June 2012. Amid revelations that she was friends with a suspect now charged with the murder of another man, her parents remain hopeful their daughter is safe. ...

• Lethbridge massage therapist charged with sexual assault

  A massage therapist in Lethbridge is facing charges after a client told police that they had been sexually assaulted. Lethbridge police charged the 43-year-old man with one count of sexual assault following an investigation. He has been released from custody and will be back in a Lethbridge court on May ...

• Rob Ford urged to address crack allegations

  Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home Friday, May 17, 2013, amid allegations there is a video showing him smoking crack cocaine. (CRAIG ROBERTSON/QMI ...

• ‘Subject to parliamentary approval’ Harper government buys prime-time ads to promote job grant program that may never exist

  The Harper government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising a program that does not yet exist. Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games – currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial _ that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers. The trouble is, the freshly announced program is at present little more than a concept ...

• Stanley Cup Playoffs 2013 Overtime Heroes

  San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture, front, reacts after netting the overtime winner on Saturday in a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. (Stephen ...

• Sang-Moon Baes 1st PGA win comes at Byron Nelson

  Sang-Moon Bae kisses the trophy as he poses for photos on the 18th green after winning the Byron Nelson Championship Sunday in Irving, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez/Associated ...

• Prince Andrew in Victoria for Highland Games

  Prince Andrew is in Victoria this weekend, as Scots celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Highland Games. The 53-year-old prince, the second son of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, opened the ceremonies on Saturday. "It's a great pleasure to be able to witness a wonderful parade by the Royal Canadian Navy," he said. "The armed services of the United Kingdom and Canada ...

• Police nab Calgary motorcyclist at 180 kmh

  RCMP in Airdrie arrested two men for speeding Saturday on Highway 2 near Crossfield, where one of the men was travelling at 180 km/h. An officer spotted two sport motorcycles travelling together at about 140 km/h in a posted 110 km/h zone. One of the motorcycles, a yellow Yamaha R1, stopped for police while the other, a blue Suzuki GSX R750, fled southbound. The officer contacted a partner who ...

• Matlow says council likely to reject casino at meeting

  City councillors will debate the casino issue at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, despite Mayor Rob Ford's prior efforts to quash the meeting. "It's not the mayor who gets to decide whether or not a casino is going to happen, just like he couldn't say that Transit City was dead or really any city policy," Coun. Josh Matlow said during an interview with CBC News on ...

• Bodies of missing lobster fishermen found off N.B. coast

  Two more bodies were found Sunday near a sunken lobster boat that went down after hitting a sandbar in rough water. Three crewmen were missing after the boat hit a sandbar about 5:30 a.m. Saturday and took on water. Hours later, the body of a 23-year-old man was recovered on the shoreline near where the boat sank. A 35-year-old man and a 32-year-old man remained missing but were located about ...

• Nigel Wright’s resignation sends a powerful signal serving Canadians is high risks with few rewards

  Long-distance runner: Most mornings Nigel Wright runs a pre-dawn half-marathon through the streets of Ottawa - and still beats most of his staff to the office. (Dave Chan For The Globe and ...

• Tre Kronor are world hockey kings - Swedes beat Swiss for gold

  Henrik Sedin scored twice on Sunday as Sweden won the gold medal at the IIHF World Hockey Championship with a 5-1 victory over Switzerland. Earlier, the United States beat Finland 3-2 in a shootout to win bronze. Erik Gustafsson, Simon Hjalmarsson and Loui Eriksson also scored for Sweden, which became the first country to win the title at home since the Soviet Union in 1986. Roman Josi opened ...

• Canadians Bouchard Gagne dive to silver at FINA Grand Prix event

  Maxim Bouchard of St-Constant, Que., and Philippe Gagne of Montreal won the silver medal in the men's 10-metre synchro on Sunday to conclude the fifth stop on the FINA Grand Prix diving circuit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Huo Liang and Jiang Yang of China were the victors with 444.24 points followed by the Canadians at 379.32 and David Dinsmore and Christopher Law of the U.S., third at ...

• Arsenal grabs final Champions League berth EPL

  Sir Alex Ferguson won 13 Premier League titles, two European Cups and five FA Cups at the helm of Manchester United. (Richard Heathcote/Getty ...

• Thief robs injures woman in wheelchair

  Police in Agassiz are searching for a purse-snatcher who robbed a woman in an electric wheelchair. The woman was travelling on Morrow Road around 4:00 p.m. Friday, when the thief grabbed her purse from behind. "As a result of [her purse] being over her shoulder, she was dragged out of her wheelchair and onto the ground," said Cpl. Dwayne Farlin of Agassiz RCMP. "The suspect ...

• Pigeon Lake businesses look forward to full season of camping

  Business owners in Pigeon Lake are looking forward to this year's season after most of the provincial campground closed early last year for renovations. About 200 sites were closed after the August long weekend so the province could upgrade power systems, roads and access for recreational ...

• Mooseheads expect better effort against Saskatoon

  The Halifax Mooseheads endured a fast-paced, shoot-out style game against the WHL-champion Portland Winterhawks last night, but head coach Dominique Ducharme doesn’t expect any drop off ...

• Rob Ford should resign if allegations true councillors say

  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, seen speaking with members of the media on Friday, has said allegations that there is a video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine are 'ridiculous.' (Frank Gunn/Canadian ...

• Montreal’s ‘Gandhi of hip hop’ takes on the musical

  A telling thing happens as Josh Dolgin, the Montreal musical performance artist who goes by the moniker "Socalled," sits down to talk about his two latest projects. Dolgin spent the winter creating a soundtrack album ...

• Prominent Canadians back petition to rename holiday Victoria and First Peoples Day

  A television presenter watches a monitor which shows Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as they wait to watch the Victoria Day firework celebrations at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto on May 21, 2012. A group of certain Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day. The group - which includes author Margaret Atwood, Green Party ...

• Police search for missing southwest Calgary teen

  (Courtesy: Calgary Police Service) Calgary police are seeking the public's assistance to locate a missing 15-year-old boy who disappeared on his way to a mall in southwest Calgary. Trey Kayseas was last seen leaving his home in southwest Calgary at about 4 p.m. Saturday. He was reported missing by a family member at 2 a.m. Sunday morning after he did not return home. Kayseas has a medical ...

• RCMP looking for man who robbed wheelchair-bound woman in Agassiz

  5/19/2013 The RCMP in Agassiz is asking for the public's help in locating a thief who knocked a woman out of her wheelchair and dragged her on the ground by her purse on Friday afternoon. Corporal Dwayne Farlin says the attack happened on Morrow Road east of Highway 9 in Agassiz. "The female in her wheelchair was grabbed from behind and pulled to the ground after the strap on ...

• Rolling Stones joined by Dave Grohl in Anaheim

  also joined the band for his token two songs "Midnight Rambler" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and the University Of Southern California Thornton Chamber ...

• Canadian military gear stranded in Afghanistan

  Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated ...

• Seniors targeted by Edmonton jewellery thieves

  After receiving reports about two recent daytime robberies, Edmonton Police are warning about jewellery thieves who appear to be targeting seniors. On Thursday, a man and a woman approached a 97-year-old man who was sitting outside a long-term care home near 110th Avenue and 76th Street around 6:30 p.m. One of the suspects forcibly removed a gold ring worth $1,000 from the man's finger. ...

• Six campers rescued after getting lost in Kananaskis Country

  (Lauren Krugel/Canadian Press) A group of six campers was rescued Sunday morning after becoming lost when they wandered away from their campsite near Gorge Creek Trail. The group was able to take shelter at an old hunting site overnight before climbing a ridge and getting cell service. One of the campers is a diabetic but rescuers say no one was seriously injured. "That Elbow area of ...

• RCMP ‘relieved’ to see charges in Baby Taylor case

  A 30-year-old New Brunswick woman has been charged in connection with the discovery of the body of a newborn boy found on Taylor Road near Monteagle, N.B. in 2009. ...

• Meet Ray Novak the PMs new chief of staff

  : "Ray is really good, and trusted. He's quiet and handles lots of tough issues. And yes, he stays out of the limelight." -- Jason Lietaer, former head of the Conservative Resource ...

• Busy weekend for OPP at Wasaga Beach

  The good weather has flooded the Wasaga Beach area with people seeking good times this weekend, though police say they are seeing some people enjoy themselves a little too much. In just the first few hours of the holiday weekend, the OPP reported that 14 people ended up behind bars, mostly for alcohol-related offences. OPP Const. Mark Kinney said a number of people were drinking too much and ...

• 1 dead 6 injured in Edson crash

  A 39-year-old man from Edson died early Sunday morning in a collision between a pickup truck and a minivan. The crash occurred around 12:50 a.m. where Range Road 184 meets the westbound lane of Highway 16. The man who was driving the minivan died at the scene. Six other people were injured. Two were flown to hospital in Edmonton. RCMP believe alcohol was a factor in the ...

• 6 lost hikers rescued after cold night in Alberta wilderness

  Area near Ware creek in Kananaskis Country. Photo courtesy Mike Koppang CALGARY -- Six lost hikers were rescued Sunday morning after a short stroll turned into an overnight stay in the Kananaskis Country wilderness. The group of friends from Black Diamond, Alta., were random camping along the Gorge Creek Trail and decided to go for a short walk about 11 a.m. Saturday, Kananaskis public safety ...

• Canadas Paul Henderson Danielle Goyette enter IIHF Hall of Fame

  Paul Henderson, flanked by IIHF president Rene Fasel, left, and 1972 Soviet Union team goalkeeper Vladislav Tretiak, is inducted at the IIHF Hall of Fame at the world hockey championship in Stockholm Sweden, Sunday. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian ...

• Blue Jays washed out of the Bronx

  Toronto Blue Jays pitcher R.A. Dickey will now start on Monday at home against the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday after his scheduled start on Sunday at Yankee Stadium was postponed by rain. (Mike Carlson/Associated ...

• Jeep driver apologizes after stunt kills Edmonton woman

  A man claiming to be the driver of a Jeep that struck and killed a spectator at a charity event in Edmonton Saturday says he is sorry for what happened. "I have never been so terrified in my life and I am soooooooooo sorry," he wrote on the site for a local Jeep drivers' group. "I know there will be a ton of hatred and speculation regarding what happened, and I accept that. ...

• East Vancouver residents in guerrilla gardening campaign

  Frustrated Vancouver residents have spent the weekend "guerrilla gardening" after repeated calls to the city to clean up the area's green spaces have fallen on deaf ears. "This isn't a high traffic area for people coming into the city," says Sharole Tylor, who lives near the 4,300-block of Fraser Street. On Saturday, Tylor was joined by other residents of the East ...

• Group wants Victoria Day holiday to be renamed

  Thousands of people witness a spectacular fireworks show to cap off the 11th annual Rotary Victoria Day Fireworks and Family Night on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Del Crary Park in Peterborough, Ont. (Clifford Skarstedt/QMI AGENCY) A group of prominent Canadians is asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Canada’s national Victoria Day holiday to Victoria and First Peoples ...

• ‘Teen Mom’ star Maci Bookout ‘I really just want to be with Bentley’

  Taylor . The two have been traveling back and forth to see each other and they even spend lots of time in FaceTime together to make things work. However, when Maci is visiting Taylor, she misses her son Bentley. In fact, whenever she is traveling, she is missing her son. And according to a new tweet released on May ...

• Hundreds of shipping containers with Canadian military supplies stuck in Afghanistan

  Two Canadian soldiers walk into the Christmas Day sunset at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. (Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN ...

• Chatter about crack allegations amid Fords radio silence

  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, seen speaking with members of the media on Friday, has said allegations that there is a video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine are 'ridiculous.' (Frank Gunn/Canadian ...

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