UPDATED: Liberal Video Attacks Conservative Deficit, Canada Perilously Close ...

Update: " The Conservatives pledged during the election campaign never to run a deficit, but Flaherty said the sudden decline in the global and domestic economies has brought Ottawa perilously close to a budget...

Stranded in snowy Nova Scotia

In the last years, snow usually didn't arrive until Christmas. This year it is a month early. Back to the way winter used to be." Getting around in many parts of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island is proving...

Ontario doctors against cellular driving

We've all seen it, the distracted driver yapping on the mobile and swerving all over the road, putting the lives of others at risk for the sake of making dinner plans or discussing a business deal (some of us may...

North America's Only Road Rally Underway in Newfoundland

The seventh annual Targa Newfoundland, a 2,200-kilometre rally through eastern and central part of Newfoundland, is underway. The rally, which consists of sports cars racing on public roads, is the only one of...

Icebergs in Atlantic ocean off Labrador and Newfoundland - The spectacular ic...

Large Icebergs off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean. More and more icebergs are appearing further south, a sign of global warming. Big junks are breaking off the glaciers in Greenland.As a...

Student aid records exposed in Internet security breach

The privacy of 90 post-secondary students has been compromised in a security breech of a student aid records database at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland.  The security breech was detected after students using an online form reported that they could see...

Cyborg Lobsters Foil Poachers

Lobsters outfitted with special microchips easily allowed Canadian fisheries officers to catch some poachers in the act. The chips are emitters that are implanted in each lobster, who then wander into unmarked and...

Canada celebrates its 141st birthday

People all across Canada celebrated how wonderful it is to be Canadian yesterday - either by taking part in firework displays, having a bar-b-que, becoming a citizen and being sworn in, and remembering what makes...

Titanic life jacket sells for $68,500

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said. The cork-filled...

Lakes across Canada to be used as toxic dump sites

Mining companies may soon have 16 Canadian lakes at their disposal, despite a Fisheries Act that makes it illegal to pollute fish-bearing waters. A very disturbing trend."CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes...

Fire pushes 3,000 people out of homes near Halifax

New Update, Halifax: 3,000 Nova Scotia residents evacuated their homes as 6 major fires are currently underway in Nova Scotia. Power outage affecting another 8,100 homes where the blaze damaged a transmission line,...

St. John's boys discover human remains in suitcase

Could you imagine the fright of being the parent of a young child, or worse, being the young child to discover such a horrific package while playing 'Cops & Robbers'.  This event is something that the boys...

Cruise Ships Don't Have to Report Crimes

Yet another saga of  'the blame game' for cruise ship "accidents".  Deaths, assaults, robbery, drugging, rapes... Who is to blame?  The passengers themselves?  The cruise ships with their obvious...

Arrests made on Farley Mowat

The Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans said today that the auction taken in the Gulf today by the government was to protect Canadians. Loyola Hearn says the boarding of the Farley Mowat and the arrest of the captain and the chief officer were to protect the livelihoods...

Man accused of arson asks for an assessment

The St. John's Telegram reports today that a Corner Brook man is facing charges after the police say he attempted to burn down a house owned by the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation. Melvin Charles Laing, who is 50, has been charged with recklessly causing damage...

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