Town tries to take pony away from disabled 3 year-old

Sam Spiteri, a 3 year old with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, has enjoyed the company of his miniature pony, Emily, for most of his life; but, the town of Caledon may take away the boy's companion because of...

Thousands of Canadians may be living with undiagnosed epilepsy

Epilepsy is associated with violent seizures, 80 per cent of patients have more subtle ones that are often overlooked by doctors. There are many types of epilepsy like having mild abscence seizures, sound and...

Ecological disaster tourism - the world's most polluted tourist spots

Eco-tourism is slowly gaining groud as a way to protect and cultivate some of the most popular tourist spots around the world. MSN has put together some of the most polluted man-made disaster spots for you to go...

Man demands help for seniors stuck in Thailand

An Orangeville man worries about his parents, who are stuck in Thailand because of the political unrest.  They were among a group of senior tourists that were just ending a 30 day tour.  These people are...

Stephen Hawking Coming to Canada

The rumor is true: Professor Stephen Hawking is coming to Canada! He is trading the hallowed halls of Cambridge University for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario."Hawking will hold...

B.C. health care workers' Supreme Court win benefits Ontario farm workers

Last year, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the B.C. Liberal government of Gordon Campbell had violated the constitutional rights of health care workers with its contract-breaking legislation, Bill 29. In...

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...

BCE Buyout Falls Through

Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) ill-starred buyout bid has fallen through after an unfavorable audit by KPMG. This would have been the world's largest leveraged buyout, and the consortium led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board pretty much dodged a bullet.Meanwhile,...

For instant credibility, claim to be an ex-minor league catcher

With the Grey Cup set for Sunday evening and the Vanier Cup attracting the college crowd on Saturday afternoon, this weekend, Canada held the focus of the entire football world. Even famed ESPN...

Magna closes Newmarket, Aurora plants; 850 jobs lost

Auto parts giant Magna International announced today that they are closing two plants north of Toronto, eliminating 850 jobs by next June.  "Canada's largest auto parts company is shutting down two Toronto-area...

The 'shwa getting hit by automotive meltdown

Oshawa is getting pumelled by the fall of the automotive industry in the US and Canada."In the third week of September, 480,400 people across the country were getting regular EI benefits, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. That total was up 3.9 per cent from a year earlier....

Canucks First Round Draft Choice Shines

John Tavares may have been named NHL Central Scouting’s top rated Ontario Hockey League centre iceman prior to the June NHL entry draft but Brampton Battalion captain and the OHL all-star teams number two...

Toronto Snow: an Emotional Weather Report

This is Jordan with the weather in Toronto. Basically cold, snowy, frigid, icy. And, that's all you really need to know. Drive carefully. Temperatures will rise slightly, and then dip once it gets dark, which is at,...

A hat-trick, plus one

For the second Sunday running eighteen year-old New York Rangers prospect Evgeny Grachev captured the coveted first star leading his team to victory through a four goal outburst. Grachev’s team, the Ontario Hockey...

Liberal Leadership Race: Revised Odds, 1 Woman, 3 Gents and A Public Intellec...

With the Liberal Leadership Convention firmly slated for the weekend starting April 30th 2009 in lovely Vancouver, British Columbia now seems like as good a time as any to review the potential Leadership candidates...

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