Search results

OTTAWA - Some prominent Alberta energy companies are among 10 major Canadian businesses that were selected in a new ranking of the planet's 100 most sustainable publicly-traded corporations by business publication, Corporate Knights. The annual list, released Wednesday in Switzerland by the...

Sorry, gopher...........this one really is on Obama. There are things going on that shouldn’t be going on. There are people getting away with things who shouldn’t be getting away with things. We all know that. And then there’s this interesting question: More than four years since the...

Premieres May 27, 2013 on PBS The most shameful and best-kept secret in the U.S. Military? The epidemic of rape and sexual assault within the ranks. An American female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. A culture of privilege...

Winter has come to the vast, northernmost reaches of Canada, the sparsely populated area surrounding the Arctic Circle historically characterized by severely cold weather. But these days refrigeration systems are needed to keep the ice cold at hockey arenas. It has been too warm for...

WHETHER streaming from the tailpipes of cars or the smokestacks of so many power plants and factories, carbon dioxide emissions keep growing around the globe. Now a Canadian company has developed a cleansing technology that may one day capture and remove some of this heat-trapping gas...

Came across this on Bill Moyers website. "On a summer night in early August, the earth below the Bayou Corne, located near a small residential community in Assumption, simply opened up and gave way. Several acres of swamp forest were swallowed up and replaced with a gaping sinkhole that...

"Sunday marked the seventh day of protests in India after medical student was raped Dec. 16 on a moving bus by several men, the latest in a series of violent crimes against women in northern India. The victim of the gang rape suffered severe intestinal injuries after being attacked with an...

REGINA — Eagle Keys, a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame who coached the Saskatchewan Roughriders to their first-ever Grey Cup championship, died Thursday in Burnaby, B.C. He was 89. Keys was an assistant coach with the Roughriders in 1964 before being promoted to head coach the...

One of my favorite times of the season when the international Junior games finally get underway. Canada played its first pre-tournie game against the Fins today and did not do well. They spent too much time in the penalty box, Subban was not stellar in goal and in general the team looked like...

A new, bowdlerized edition of Twas The Night Before Christmas that pulls the pipe from Santa’s mouth and drops all references to his smoking habit has sparked a backlash in Canada and reopened debate over whether it’s acceptable to apply modern mores to classics written in a different time...

A band of prisoners responsible for enormous carnage — murders, rapes, vicious home invasions, kidnappings, beatings, bank robberies and the stabbing of a prison guard — is suing the Queen over their “awkward” and “uncomfortable” detention in prison. They complain that barber services are...

Happened to see this headline on MacLean's website today. As I look out my window while writing this, I have to wonder just how fitting it might be. The temp here today is +8 C, the snow is gone, the lake is almost ice free again and I was outside with the dogs in a light jacket. And yes...

ENGRAVED ON A NATION: WAR-TORN HISTORY OF '42 GREY CUP PLAYERS SHANE MCNEIL, TSN.CA STAFF A mission to reconstruct the history of the most heroic team to ever win the Grey Cup began with just one photograph. Twenty-six men jubilantly celebrate winning the top prize in Canadian...

Watching CTV, I happened catch Governor Rick Synder of Michigan speak in glowing terms of Canadian efforts in aid of a new link between Detroit and Windsor, namely the Ambassador Bridge. Long been seen as a bottleneck in the speedy flow of cross-border traffic, the Canadian government offered...

So, who is going to grow their 'stache to help raise money for Prostate Cancer? Anyone on the forum? Come on guys, it is for a great cause. Here's a few style ideas for you. :smile: Check it out. Movember Canada - Home

I decided to put this in American politics because it is a political story and has little to do with the climate, in spite of its title. Last night, PBS aired a Frontline documentary titled, 'Climate of Doubt'. It is an revealing look into the rise of the climate change 'skeptics', the power...

TSN's highly anticipated original documentary series ENGRAVED ON NATION kicked off with an average audience of more than half-a-million viewers (530,000) on Thanksgiving Monday for THE 13th MAN – making it the most-watched documentary ever on TSN. Overall, more than 1.5 million Canadians...

Powered by a slate of documentaries directed by some of Canada's most acclaimed and award-winning filmmakers, TSN announced the broadcast schedule for the network's ambitious original documentary series, Engraved on a Nation, leading up to its broadcast of the 100th Grey Cup on November 25...

There is a movement afoot - a petition - to have Paul Henderson inducted into the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame - I mistakenly had thought he already had been especially considering his contributions in that series. After all, it was Paul Henderson who scored the last three winning goals of the...