Canada Standard news Canada Standard news Rss feed

  • Space was too good not to share it says Canadian astronaut

    Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has said that he his life in space was "too good" to not share on social media. With nearly 1 million Twitter followers, Cmdr Hadfield, who was on the International Space Station (ISS) since December 2012 and landed on Tuesday, has a following of nearly 1 million people on Twitter. Hadfield, who was in command of the vessel since March, tweeted about his life ...

  • Canada’s NDP denounces China signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”

    Canada's Official Opposition, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP), brought forward a motion last month to scuttle the recently negotiated Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA).Though their motion was doomed to be overwhelmingly defeated and quickly forgotten, the social democrats used the occasion to repeatedly denounce the ...

  • Photos London beats Saskatoon 3-2 in Memorial Cup

    Saskatoon Blades goaltender Andrey Makarov stops a shot from London Knights centre Ryan Rupert during first period Memorial Cup action in Saskatoon, Sask., on Friday, May 17, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam ...

  • Wharnsby Senators in need of home cooking

    Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson, left, lets in a goal by Pittsburgh Penguins sniper Sidney Crosby, not shown, as Penguins forward Pascal Dupuis, right, and Ottawa Senators winger Cory Conacher watch during the first period of Game 2 in Pittsburgh, Penn. (Jason ...

  • Did You See That Crosby burns Senators with hat trick

    Pittsburgh Penguins sniper Sidney Crosby almost single-handedly took down the Ottawa Senators on Friday, scoring a hat trick in his team's 4-3 Game 2 win. (Justin K. Aller/Getty ...

Movie Review

Ocean's Thirteen

Ocean's Thirteen

If one were superstitious enough, one might imagine that there is some danger involved in having the word Thirteen in the title of a movie about conning a Las Vegas casino out of millions of dollars. However, in the case of Ocean's Thirteen, the dreaded unlucky number turns out ... ...

On Facebook

  • Update Man charged in deaths of Calgary woman and her son

    Calgary police have charged a man in the deaths of a woman and her young son. Thirty-five-year-old Chona Manzano and five-year-old Gabriel Manzano were found dead Thursday in a home on the northwest edge of the city. Police say a family member was alerted to a problem and went to the home around lunch time. He found the woman’s body on the main floor of the house and the child ...

  • Three arrested in racially-motivated attack at Vancouver bar www.privateofficer.com

    – Three Clark County men were arrested for felony assault and racially-motivated malicious harassment in a March 18 assault at a Vancouver bar. The three men assaulted three other men with a deadly weapon at the Quarter Deck Bar, according to court documents. They were accused of making racist comments toward an interracial couple, and then getting a gun from a car and making death ...

  • Suspect in Tim Bosma’s death was always ‘a little different’ and did ‘odd stuff’ at private school classmate says

    More than the record-breaking flight as a prodigy pilot or his family's notable history or wealth, schoolmates of Dellen Millard, who is charged with first-degree murder in a shocking kidnapping case of an Ontario father, remember his dog biscuits. In grades 6 and 7, Mr. Millard walked the corridors of his elite private school carrying a box of dog treats, drawing out one bone-shaped ...

  • Missing woman contacted murder suspect Dellen Millard shortly before her disappearance

    Police are revisiting a months-old missing persons case after receiving information of a possible connection between the missing woman and the man accused with murdering Tim Bosma. Sgt. Stephen Woodhouse -- who was the lead detective in the search for Laura Babcock almost a year ago -- was informed earlier this week that Hamilton and Toronto police were looking into the stagnant ...

  • Canadian PM to Visit Peru Next Week

    Lima, May 18 (Prensa Latina) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will officially visit Peru on next Tuesday as announced by the Peruvian Foreign Ministry. The report said that Harper will be received in the Palace of Government by Peruvian President Ollanta Humala. The objective of the Canadian Prime ...

More Canada Standard news