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| Water park vote faces last-minute delay CBC.ca Two city councillors have told CBC News that Canalta Hotels wants more time to explain their plans in greater detail. Canalta, along with water park designer Waterfun Products, wants to build a 50000-square-foot facility on city-owned land near the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Don't mess with curling fans CANOE In Stursberg's new Douglas & McIntyre book, The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC, the CBC side of 2005's TV curling debacle is finally told, and Canadian curling fans come off as bug-eyed freaks. Some excerpts: The enraged ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ignatieff's quote on Quebec separation sparks strong reaction CBC.ca Ignatieff responds Excerpts from a statement provided to CBC News: "The interview on the issue of the referendum on Scottish independence made clear that Canada offers an internationally recognized model for the conciliation of political differences. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Don't mess with curling fans Toronto Sun In Stursberg's new Douglas & McIntyre book, The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC, the CBC side of 2005's TV curling debacle is finally told, and Canadian curling fans come off as bug-eyed freaks. Some excerpts: The enraged ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Picasso's art collection unveiled in Toronto display CBC.ca "When it comes out of the crate… there's that moment of 'Eureka! It's here!'" he told CBC News. "It's the greatest display of Picassos in the world, at the moment, and it's here!" The Toronto venue is the sole Canadian stop for the exhibit. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Vancouver Sun Student Video Award winners announced Vancouver Sun The winner of each category will receive $1000 gift card from Best Buy CanadaThe judging was completed by the Vancouver Sun's Mark Yuen, CBC's Wayne Williams and Sheila Peacock and Vancouver Film School's Paula Simson. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| VFS presents the 4th Annual Women in Games Scholarship Gamasutra April 24, 2012 – Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Film School (VFS), Canada'spremier entertainment arts institution and one of the most distinguished in theworld, is pleased to present the Women in Games Scholarship to Kristina Soltvedt Wiik of Norway. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Funding cools but docs still hot rabble.ca By June Chua "People keep saying to me 'this is the Golden Age of Documentary,'" sighs Lisa Fitzgibbons, executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). "But there's a huge disconnect between what people think and the reality. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ING DIRECT introduces Canadians to forward banking Sacramento Bee ING DIRECT will introduce the new brand to Canadians through a 60-second national television spot, called "Old Ways", airing from April 25 to May 1. This commercial will run in various prime time spots in English and French on both network (CBC, CTV, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| BuzzTaxi finds bevy of buyers Realscreen Toronto-based distributor BuzzTaxi Communications has announced a raft ofinternational and domestic sales, with Beyond Survival (pictured) headed to Quebec, Sibling Rivalry to Finland and GetConnected to Korea. In Canada,CBC's digital channel ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Not coming to our backyard South Shore Now ... the other sites Michelin has around the world,” said Dana LeBlanc, according to a CBC news report. “It's not do or die, but it's very serious.” Both opposition parties, the Retail Council of Canada, the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Montreal conference looks at the changing nature of journalism rabble.ca OpenFile.ca is an investor-backed news service operating in six Canadiancities in which citizens suggest stories that they want covered and then are linked up with journalists who investigate. The value of OpenFile is its "ability to grow the story" ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Quebec headed for independence? That's news to its premier GlobalNews.ca There are some surprised reactions to remarks from ex-Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, who suggested in a BBC interview that Quebec and Canada are almost two separate countries floating towards a breakup. THE CANADIANPRESS/Paul Chiasson MONTREAL - Is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Doctor captivates Appleby College students InsideHalton.com Students and faculty sat captivated for nearly an hour as the founder of War Child Canada — a non-profit organization that helps raise awareness and support of war-affected children globally through local and internationalinitiatives — told stories ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican refugee deported from Toronto is killed one month after being expelled ... Open File (blog) Canada can argue about how many immigrants and refugees to accept in any given year, but inevitably there are going to be horrible stories about the people we send back to their homelands, since people who move thousands of miles to come here are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Today in Drugs The Mark But that doesn't stop the world's scientists from trying to figure out just what effects they have on the human brain. Take cocaine, for instance. New research suggests heavy use of the expensive white powder drastically increases aging of the brain. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Yep, James Cameron and The Google Guys Will Mine Asteroids The Mark Also gone is the historical drama Camelot and the entirely superfluous talent show Cover Me Canada, while the future of Battle of the Blades remains uncertain at this point. Among the new additions to the CBC lineup will be a Titanic: Blood and Steel, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Kazakhstan Thanks Borat For Tourism 'Boom' The Mark But that doesn't stop the world's scientists from trying to figure out just what effects they have on the human brain. Take cocaine, for instance. New research suggests heavy use of the expensive white powder drastically increases aging of the brain. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Brian Brett wins Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence Gulf Islands Driftwood Brett has been a celebrated journalist and his cultural advocacy work includes initiating the BC Poetry-In-The-Schools program, which introduced school children of all ages to world poetry. He has given writing workshops all overCanada and is a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Science for partygoers — and youth Ottawa Citizen Present in the 320-person crowd was former Nortel executive Greg Mumford, chair of the soiree and incoming chair of the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation (CSTMC) Foundation. Also seen were the museum's new director general, Luc Fournier, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Wife fears for Canadian on death row in Iran - World - CBC News The wife of a Canadian on death row in Iran says she spoke with her husband on Sunday, as he waits to learn his fate and the Canadian government pleads for ... www.cbc.ca/news/.../iran-death-sentence-ghassemi-shall.html |
| Canada and U.S. singled out at summit over drugs, Cuba - World ... Canada and the United States are finding themselves at odds with Latin American countries on two thorny issues — the war on drugs and the exclusion of Cuba ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../harper-summit-americas.html |
| Canada, U.S. scuttle Summit of the Americas statement - World ... The summit of nearly 30 Western Hemisphere leaders meeting in Colombia has ended without a joint declaration due to divisions over Cuba and Argentine... www.cbc.ca/news/world/.../summit-of-the-americas-ends.html |
| Canadian accused in Gadhafi plot cries for Ottawa's help - World ... Canadian consultant Cyndy Vanier is calling on Ottawa to intervene in her case, accusing Mexico of human rights abuses and wrongly imprisoning her on ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../vanier-mexico-gadhafi.html |
| Canada suspending Burma sanctions - World - CBC News Canada is suspending its sanctions against Burma in recognition of its moves towards democracy. www.cbc.ca/news/world/.../burma-canada-sanctions.html?cmp... |
| RCMP secretly ended probe into Canadian held by Taliban - World ... Documents obtained through access to information show that Foreign Affairs secretly asked the RCMP to stop investigating the abduction and death of Beverley ... www.cbc.ca/.../bc-giesbrecht-kidnap-investigation-closed-rcm... |
| Harper gains trade support in Chile - World - CBC News Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera announced an agreement Monday to modernize the free trade deal between their two ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/04/.../pol-harper-chile.htm... |
| Harper arrives at Summit of Americas meeting - World - CBC News Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has arrived in Colombia to attend the Summit of the Americas, where the war on drugs and trade issues are expected ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../summit-americas-harper.html |
| EU delays 'anti-oilsands' fuel quality directive decision - World - CBC ... The European Union is delaying its decision on a fuel quality directive until early 2013. The Canadian government calls the measure that would disadvantage ... www.cbc.ca/news/.../pol-fuel-directive-europe-canada.html |
| Canadian sets world record in men's wheelchair at Boston ... - CBC.ca Joshua Cassidy knew he'd win his first Boston Marathon once he reached the top of the course's Heartbreak Hill with the lead in the men's wheelchair race. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.../04/.../toronto-cassidy-boston.html |
| Canada-U.S. price gap blamed on multinational companies - World ... Many brand-name products still cost 35 to 40 per cent more in Canada compared to south of the border, and a major retail group says suppliers — not... www.cbc.ca/.../canada-us-price-gap-senate-hearings-retail-cou... |
| Kabul warfare ends as Taliban holdouts killed - World - CBC News Skip to main content; Skip to Kabul warfare ends as Taliban holdouts killed; Skip to supplementary story content ... CBC News World ... CBC News Navigation ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/.../afghanistan-kabul-explosions.html |
| Brian Stewart: New Libya post-mortems highlight NATO's ... - CBC.ca New post-mortems on the war in Libya are making it harder for Canada and our NATO partners to portray their Libyan air and sea campaign as an unblemished... www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../f-vp-stewart-nato-libya.html |
| CBC's Margaret Evans on conflict zones, vulnerable interviewees ... Welcome to the second installation of Ask CBC News. ... questions and get answers from the CBC News team, journalists across Canada and around theworld. www.cbc.ca/news/.../04/welcome-to-the-first-installation.html |
| Giant puppets march through Liverpool - World - CBC News Three giant puppets have made their way across the streets of Liverpool, England, as the city ushers in a week of theatrical festivities to mark the anniversary of ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../giant-puppets-liverpool.html |
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