Last Updated: Thursday, August 19, 2010 | 9:27 PM ET
- La Ronde T-shirt censorship draws complaint
- Montreal's La Ronde amusement park is defending a security guard who ordered a man to cover up his T-shirt depicting Bob Marley and marijuana because it violated the facility's family-friendly dress code. more »
- Sherbrooke woman stabbed to death: autopsy
- A Quebec woman found dead in a nature reserve near her home in Sherbrooke had been stabbed, according to an autopsy report. more »
- Calvillo carted off field during Als-Bombers game
- Alouettes quarterback Anthony Calvillo was carted off the field in the second quarter of Montreal's game against Winnipeg on Thursday. more »
- Que. mother charged in daughter attack gets bail
- Johra Kaleki, a Montreal mother accused of attempting to murder her teenage daughter, is granted bail while she awaits her trial. more »
- Côte St. Luc considering neutering stray cats
- A city councillor in the Montreal suburb of Côte St. Luc wants to put in place a program to spay or neuter stray cats before returning them to the streets. more »
- Quebec gets C for entrepreneurship
- Quebec gets only a passing grade in wealth creation and must act quickly to maintain social programs, the Quebec Employers Council says. more »
- Nannies, foreign workers face new rules
- The federal government is tightening the regulations affecting live-in caregivers and temporary foreign workers, as well as the people who hire them. more »
- EU seal ban suspended
- A European Union ban on seal products has been suspended after Inuit leaders challenged its legality. more »
- Quebec helicopter crash probe begins
- Provincial police and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada are investigating a helicopter crash that killed four people Tuesday afternoon in northeastern Quebec. more »
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Canada »
- Intense B.C. wildfires 'snowing' ash
- Ash from wildfires in B.C.'s Cariboo region is falling like snow in Williams Lake, where the Environment Ministry has rated the air quality as the poorest in the province.
- Some Mounties cool to workplace probe
- Some Mounties are unhappy with a probe into the workplace environment of the RCMP, an assessment sparked by complaints over the management style of the force's top boss.
- Rob Ford to Miami cop: 'Take me to jail'
- Toronto mayoral candidate Rob Ford says he was convicted of refusing to give a breath sample while driving in Florida 11 years ago and also faced a pot possession charge.
World »
- U.S. boosts Pakistan flood aid to $150M
- The United States will increase its contribution to flood relief efforts in Pakistan to $150 million, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.
- Last U.S. combat brigade leaves Iraq
- The final brigade of U.S. combat troops has pulled out of Iraq, signalling a new chapter in the country's future.
- EU seal ban suspended
- A European Union ban on seal products has been suspended after Inuit leaders challenged its legality.
Health »
- Butt out smoking on silver screen: MDs
- Efforts to prevent children from smoking are being undermined by federal and provincial subsidies to Hollywood studios, a doctors' group says.
- More prostate cancer diagnosed in brothers: study
- Men with a brother who has prostate cancer are more likely than other men to be diagnosed with the disease, but screening rather than genetics may be behind it, a new study suggests.
- B.C. smoke triggers Alta. health warning
- Health officials have issued a warning that smoke drifting into Alberta from the forest fires in British Columbia poses a potential health risk.
Arts & Entertainment »
- VIDEO: Arcade Fire singer criticizes Wyclef's presidential bid
- Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean is campaigning for president of Haiti and he's drawing criticism from some unlikely quarters, including from Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler, whose wife, Régine Chassagne, is of Haitian origin and who has questioned Jean's French language fluency.
- Ottawa film festival to focus on local scene
- The organizers behind the first Ottawa International Film Festival opening this weekend are hoping to draw the eyes of the world on what they say is a thriving local film scene.
- 3-D is exploding - but where's the next Avatar?
- Eight months after the premiere of Avatar, Hollywood is still using 3-D technology mostly for cheap thrills.
Technology & Science »
- Radiation could pinpoint black hole merger
- Astronomers may be able to get an early warning about where to look for merging black holes and study gravitational waves thanks a new model created by Canadian and U.S. astrophysicists.
- BP oil plume a long-lasting threat: study
- A 35-kilometre-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill.
- Moon shrinking with age
- The moon may be shrinking. Not to worry though, lovers and crooners, it won't be disappearing any time soon.
Money »
- Markets close lower on U.S. jobless data
- North American stocks lost ground Thursday on lower employment data in the U.S., and despite a big takeover bid in the high-tech industry.
- $1.3-trillion U.S. budget deficit expected
- This year's U.S. federal budget deficit will surpass $1.3 trillion US, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says.
- The foreign ownership debate renewed
- The possibility that Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan could fall into foreign hands is renewing the debate over the potential loss of resource industries in Canada.
Consumer Life »
- Nannies, foreign workers face new rules
- The federal government is tightening the regulations affecting live-in caregivers and temporary foreign workers, as well as the people who hire them.
- Anti-oilsands postcards target Alberta tourism
- The anti-oilsands groups behind the Rethink Alberta billboards have opened a third front in their campaign to get potential tourists to reconsider visiting the province.
- Cameron Diaz most dangerous net search
- Putting the name of Hollywood star Cameron Diaz into a search engine can be downright dangerous according to security company McAfee.
Sports »
- Ex-pitcher Clemens charged with perjury
- A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.
- Calvillo carted off field during Als-Bombers game
- Alouettes quarterback Anthony Calvillo was carted off the field in the second quarter of Montreal's game against Winnipeg on Thursday.
- Wozniacki advances to quarters at Rogers Cup
- No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki remained the top seed left at a Rogers Cup full of upsets after a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory over 15th-seeded Flavia Pennetta in Montreal.
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