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South Korean family 'too much burden' on Canadian healthcare, being deported A Moncton family who moved to Canada from South Korea in 2003 is being ordered to leave the country by the end of the month because of their youngest son's illness. Sung-Joo Maeng, 15, was diagnosed with autism and...

Canada ranks as 2nd happiest country according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Better Life Index By Michael B. Sauter, Charles B. Stockdale, Douglas A. McIntyre 24/7 Wall St. updated 6/6/2011 7:39:52 AM ET What makes people happy? The question, which has been debated...

Canadian scientists 'bottle' antimatter Testing now possible to help solve mystery of what happened to 'lost half' of universe Makoto Fujiwara has spent more than a decade in laboratories hunting an elusive prey, the stuff of science fiction – the missing half of everything. He and other...

Lake Manitoba is all but unique among the planet's 40 largest lakes in that it's growing larger. In other parts of the world, large lakes are shrinking in what amounts to one of the planet's most horrific environmental disasters...

Why do we pay so much for cell phone service? It's because of the restrictions the government and regulators put on who can actually be in this market. Restrictions inflate cellphone costs for users: Globalive Wind Mobile exec says curbs on foreign investment play into hands of Rogers, Bell...

On the lighter side... Help name Stephen Harper's new cat! Prime Minister Stephen Harper's as-yet-unnamed new cat. It’s the capper to a near purrfect spring after winning his long-sought majority: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a new pet cat. The Harpers announced the arrival of...

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Chinese boy sells kidney for an iPad A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report. The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet. The story only came to...

Hackers stole secret Canadian government data Hackers who attacked two of Canada's federal departments stole classified information before being discovered last January, CBC News has learned. The revelation comes from documents obtained under Access to Information laws, and contradicts what...

Daycare caterer passes off meals from discount stores as organic, kosher, halal The scammer herself A Toronto catering company that claims to have fed one million of the “highest-quality” meals to Ontario children is a fly-by-night operation working out of a fast-food...

Provinces want Senate abolished Three provinces are advising Prime Minister Stephen Harper to forget about reforming the Senate and simply abolish the upper chamber. Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia say instead of introducing legislation to set term limits for senators and allow for...

The Liberal caucus is famously leaky. Now recently released diplomatic cables show that even the party’s top brass – including current Interim Leader Bob Rae – were spilling party and caucus secrets to the U.S. Embassy. A handful of diplomatic cables released over the past week by Wikileaks...

Woohoo! I've been working on ways to make these forums faster by doing many things like: Cleaning up, rewriting and combining JavaScript files (the features that make using the site easy) Removing the need to refresh the page everytime someone wants to see an update Removing all images from...

The Toronto Transit Commission unveiled its new line of subway trains on Thursday, celebrating a new design meant to be both safer and more reliable. The new line of trains – dubbed the Toronto Rocket – is expected to roll out in a few weeks. The cars have more room, can accommodate up to 10...

Technique could be used to design therapies for Alzheimer's and other diseases. By defying the classical rules of antibody engineering, researchers have constructed an antibody that is readily shuttled into the brain. The results suggest that the approach could be used to generate...

Great advances in the development and distribution of vaccines mean that some diseases can be eradicated. Measles is an important case study: efforts to stem the disease have been successful, but uneven political commitment, lack of funds and public fear threaten to undermine the progress...

Hardly news. Belongs in the Alternate Theories Forum.

I've had a couple of reviews from various people after I relaunched the homepage and various people mentioned that it doesn't look Canadian enough. One even said it looked like "the conservative colours". Hrmpf. I added a Canadian flag to the top menubar, but is it enough? Any suggestions on...

I've finally managed to push this server to the limits and managed to crash it after around 1 year uptime. Argh. Anyways we're back.

Since I've completely revamped the home page, I've also put a lot of work into organizing articles submitted by members which cover a lot of different topics. The great thing about the forums is we can discuss opinions openly and talk about what's going on with current events. This idea makes it...