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'Eagle fever' soars as world waits for eaglet hatching Last Updated Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:11:32 EDT CBC News Eagle fever has swept the online world, and has even gripped the Vancouver man who started it all. Doug Carrick, who is monitoring an eagle nest in his Hornby Island backyard with a...

The death of Kenton Carnegie CBC News Online | March 07, 2006 On Nov. 8, 2005, 22-year-old Ontario student Kenton Carnegie went for a walk near the northern Saskatchewan mining camp where he was doing a co-op placement. Hours later, his body was found at the edge of a frozen lake, surrounded by...

british columbia news Friday, Apr 28, 2006 Soldier hit in head with axe out of coma, joking with nurses VANCOUVER (CP) - A Canadian soldier who suffered severe head wounds in an axe attack in Afghanistan has gone from a drug-induced coma to quipping with nurses about his beer-drinking...

I see that Mark Crawford has joined the ranks of the unemployed coaches. I wouldn't feel too sorry for Crawford because it is all a big musical chairs game. Crawford will turn up in Toronto or somwhere else. Since it is easier to fire the coach than a dozen or so players, the coach is...

Addictions bleed nearly $40B a year from economy: study Last Updated Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:47:50 EDT CBC News Addictions to tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs cost the Canadian economy $39.8 billion a year, according to survey results released Wednesday. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse...

Softwood lumber deal appears close BARRIE MCKENNA AND STEVEN CHASE From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Canada and the United States appear very close to a historic breakthrough in the enduring softwood lumber dispute. Industry sources who have been briefed on the discussions told The Globe and...

Canadians happier in the bedroom than Americans JILL MAHONEY SOCIAL TRENDS REPORTER Canadians are more sexually satisfied than Americans, but Austrians and Spaniards are happiest in the bedroom, according to new research. The study -- which is billed as the first of its kind to compare...

british columbia news Monday, Apr 17, 2006 Muslim newspaper launching in Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto (CBC) - The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada plans to publish a new national newspaper in four cities on Tuesday, spurred in part by the controversy over caricatures of the...

Over the last year, there have been quite a few home invasions where the occupants of the home have been beaten and robbed and even raped. In the case I picked off the news, the police arrived in time and one man was shot and killed and the other was eventually caught. The thing that...

Biker gangs' feuds leave bloody trail Turf wars between rivals have killed club members and innocent bystanders HAYLEY MICK AND TU THANH HA TORONTO AND MONTREAL -- In the aftermath of the discovery of eight bodies in rural Ontario this weekend, police sources have pointed to outlaw biker...

What do we know about hangovers? The Six Stages of Hangovers From Colleen Graham, How Hungover are You? I received this a few years ago via email and have since come across two or three versions, this being the cleanest. Please let me know if you know the origin of the "Hangover Scale" as I'd...

Prison official disciplined for screening 'Brokeback Mountain' Last Updated Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:35:15 EDT CBC Arts A correctional officer in Massachusetts is being disciplined for screening the award-winning film Brokeback Mountain for inmates. Actors Heath Ledger (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal...

sports | mytelus Wednesday, Apr 05, 2006 Sweet reward for Norwegian coach who helped Albertan Olympian OSLO, Norway (CP) - Bjoernar Haakensmoen's act of sportsmanship was rewarded Wednesday - with more than five tons of Canadian maple syrup. At the Turin Olympics, the Norwegian...

CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD Globe and Mail Update Kandahar, Afghanistan — It may have been “friendly fire” that killed Canadian Private Robert Costall and U.S. medic Staff-Sergeant First Class John Stone and wounded five others last week. Canadian and U.S. military officials announced here early this...

I notice that some of us have a little problem with links and other formatting procedures. Formatting is using the BBCode to underline, make bold, colour, make links etc. I am guilty myself in that I sometimes just enclose a url in the url tags when with a little more effort I could make a...

Canada and the U.S. signed an agreement on free trade between our countries. Canada, the U.S., and Mexico further signed an agreement on free trade in North America. The dispute between Canada and the U.S. regarding softwood lumber has been judged by the WTO two or three times,and at least...

Last Updated: Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 13:56 GMT 14:56 UK French government eyes 'le baby boom' In the latest in our series about motherhood and the role of the state in encouraging couples to have more children, Hugh Schofield in Paris reflects on efforts made by successive French governments...

More deaths as Iraq war enters fourth year BAGHDAD (AP) — At least 39 people were killed by insurgents and shadowy sectarian gangs, police reported Monday — continuing the wave of violence that has left nearly 1,000 Iraqis dead since the bombing last month of a Shiite Muslim shrine...

A young boy and his dog went over a cliff in North Vancouver somehow and they were trapped on a small ledge. The North Van Fire department were on the scene and a fireman rappeled down and brought up both the boy and the dog. It is on CTV news net.

Monday, Mar 27, 2006 Human error questions in ferry sinking go unanswered The vessel's hull was ripped open from the bow to the stern when it hit rock at eighteen knots. (CBC) - The Transportation Safety Board has ruled out mechanical failure as the cause of the sinking of a B.C. ferry and...