| Is the Green Party about to double in size? Posted: 08 Dec 2013 11:36 AM PST  Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada could soon be getting a much needed boost. According to the Chronicle Journal, independent MP Bruce Hyer is poised to join a political party, but won't announce which one until Dec. 13. Continue reading →
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| Canada's truth commission learned from Mandela, says head Posted: 08 Dec 2013 08:40 PM PST Aboriginal Canadians have shared in the struggles Nelson Mandela faced in his fight for racial equality, says the head of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  |
| Officers, ordinary Torontonians pay respects to Const. Zivcic Posted: 08 Dec 2013 07:38 PM PST Hundreds attend the visitation for Const. John Zivcic at a Toronto funeral home, paying their respects to the young officer who was fatally injured in the line of duty last weekend.  |
| Quebec honours Lac-Mégantic emergency crews Posted: 08 Dec 2013 12:40 PM PST  Both Quebec Premier Pauline Marois and Lac-Mégantic mayor Colette Roy-Laroche cried as they hugged at an emotional ceremony honouring first responders of the train catastrophe that killed 47 people.
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| Israel’s best friend: Stephen Harper Posted: 08 Dec 2013 11:08 AM PST  The Prime Minister's support seems less strategic than a reflection of his deeply held personal beliefs
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| Government words, deeds don't match on caribou: environmentalists Posted: 08 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST  EDMONTON - Darcy Handy has been going to a once-untouched area of forest and wetland in northwest Alberta for more than 20 years to hunt, fish and trap and well remembers what it used to be like. Handy's concerns are echoed by environmentalists who ask why government rhetoric on saving caribou habitat isn't matched by what's happening on the ground. They point out that both Ottawa and Alberta have committed to preserve the very area currently being hammered by development. "The lines are already on the map as to what the range is," said Carolyn Campbell of the Alberta Wilderness Association.
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| Gold-embossed business cards for Clement, Hawn, against rules: documents Posted: 08 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST  OTTAWA - At least two more key Conservatives got gold-embossed business cards, contrary to long-standing government rules against fancy stationery. Tony Clement was given his gold cards shortly after being promoted to Treasury Board president in the May 2011 cabinet shuffle, following the election of a Conservative majority. And colleague Laurie Hawn, an Edmonton MP appointed temporarily to a cabinet committee looking at cost-cutting, got his own set of gold-embossed cards at the same time. The Arms of Canada on both sets of cards was highlighted in gold foil.
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| Roméo Dallaire on PTSD and the deaths of 4 Canadian soldiers Posted: 08 Dec 2013 05:46 AM PST  The senator and former UN general in Rwanda during the genocide says he crashed his car on Parliament Hill this week because of exhaustion brought on by his post-traumatic stress disorder.
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| Third burial discovered by workers digging watermains near Parliament Hill Posted: 07 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST  OTTAWA - The movers and shakers on Parliament Hill usually know where the bodies are buried. But deposits of human bones uncovered within sight of the Peace Tower seem to have caught everyone off guard. Construction workers digging out part of downtown Queen Street have come across yet another burial under the busy road, the third finding of human remains since September. The excavation is to upgrade old watermains before the Big Dig, a massive tunnelling project for light-rail-transit trains that will rumble for 2.5 kilometres under the city core, dubbed the Confederation Line.
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| Harper travels to South Africa to pay final respects to Nelson Mandela Posted: 08 Dec 2013 04:38 PM PST  OTTAWA - A who's who of Canadian politics is on its way to South Africa with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to pay their final respects to Nelson Mandela. Harper will attend a public memorial for Mandela on Tuesday in Johannesburg, as well as his lying in state in Pretoria on Wednesday. He's being accompanied by three of his predecessors — Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Kim Campbell, all of whom were invited by Harper to fly on the prime ministerial plane to attend the service. Joe Clark, meantime, is already in Africa and will join the Canadian delegation when it arrives in South Africa.
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| Snake venom may stop clots that cause heart attack, strokes Posted: 08 Dec 2013 08:24 AM PST  A team of researchers has purified a protein from the snake's venom to develop an experimental drug aimed at preventing blood clots that can cause a heart attack or stroke. Scientifically known as Deinagkistrodon acutus, the 1.5-metre patterned snake is also called the sharp-nosed viper or Chinese moccasin and is indigenous to China, Taiwan and Vietnam. Using venom milked from the snake, researchers filtered out all but one protein to create a drug called Anfibatide, which in human testing prevented blood clots from forming but didn't prolong bleeding as is the case with some clot-busting drugs. "The concept that we can harness something potentially poisonous in nature and turn it into a beneficial therapy is very exciting," said Dr. Heyu Ni, a scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto involved in the drug's development.
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| Environmental review panel to begin hearings on B.C.'s proposed Site C dam Posted: 08 Dec 2013 11:42 AM PST  FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - To Gwen Johansson, the most valuable thing about the Peace River that wends its way though northern British Columbia and Alberta is the view from her kitchen window. It's been her home for almost 40 years, but it will be one of dozens flooded if BC Hydro's $8-billion Site C hydroelectric dam is approved. Johansson is one of a small but determined group of landowners who hope to convince an environmental review panel that the Crown agency's "clean" hydro power plans are not so green. "I live here because of the valley, because it's such a beautiful place to live," says Johansson, who is also the mayor of Hudson's Hope, a small community of about a thousand people that will find itself with a reservoir view — minus a riverfront road or two — should the dam go ahead.
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| U of C brain cancer discovery could shrink tumours Posted: 08 Dec 2013 09:43 AM PST Researchers at the University of Calgary have made a discovery that could lead to better treatment for patients suffering from brain cancer.  |
| An anti-bully intervention gone awry Posted: 08 Dec 2013 11:08 AM PST A teenager's talk of harming her bully got her two weeks in custody and months of house arrest. Nine years later, she's suing for $4 million.  |
| Free portrait event snaps smiles at Winnipeg shelter Posted: 07 Dec 2013 01:11 PM PST  A group of professional photographers is putting smiles on hundreds of faces in Winnipeg on Saturday.
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| Lac-Mégantic gets 48 Christmas trees for those lost Posted: 08 Dec 2013 10:11 AM PST Yesterday friends, family members and neighbours decorated Christmas trees in the memory of those who perished in the July 6 train derailment and explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Que.  |
| Mandela colleague thanks Canada for help building post-apartheid government Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:05 PM PST  OTTAWA - They were a government in waiting — ready to follow their fearless, newly freed leader, Nelson Mandela — except for one major problem. None of the heady, young members of the African National Congress had any idea how to actually govern a country. Within a few years in the early 1990s, all that would change, thanks to a major training effort by Canada's International Development Research Centre. In 1994, when Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first democratically elected president, 18 cabinet ministers stood with him — 10 had been Canadian-trained.
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| HootSuite giving out $100,000 to 17-year-olds with business ideas Posted: 08 Dec 2013 12:15 PM PST  VANCOUVER - The founder of the social media management tool HootSuite started two businesses as a teenager, and now he wants to help other young Canadian entrepreneurs make it big for themselves. Ryan Holmes began his rise into the business world by opening a pizza restaurant and a paintball company when he was in his mid-teens. "I think there's a bit of a disconnect between traditional education programs and entrepreneurs," he said at HootSuite's headquarters in Vancouver. "A lot of entrepreneurs are very experiential and hands on learners and they need to just go and get into things.
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| Quebec honours Lac-Megantic first responders for service following derailment Posted: 08 Dec 2013 06:51 PM PST  LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. - Residents in this Quebec community gathered on Sunday to pay tribute to those who were first to arrive on the scene of the train derailment that devastated the town five months ago. But it may have been the community's 45 firefighters, who battled the flames for two days following the explosion, and then spent weeks sifting through the rubble, who received the biggest ovation. "It was very touching to see our work recognized, and also the work of other first responders," said Lac-Megantic fire chief Denis Lauzon. Lac-Megantic mayor Colette Roy-Laroche, who was front and centre following the tragedy, was the first to be honoured with a medal.
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| As Keystone ruling nears, Canada short on time for climate plan Posted: 08 Dec 2013 11:49 AM PST  By Patrick Rucker and Nia Williams WASHINGTON/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada is running out of time to offer U.S. President Barack Obama a climate change concession that might clinch the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, as the country's energy industry continues to resist costly curbs on greenhouse gas emissions. Concessions from Canada would make the pipeline more palatable in Washington, experts say, since Obama has made fighting climate change a second-term priority and has said that Canada could do more to reduce carbon emissions. By linking Alberta's fields to refiners in the Gulf Coast, the 1,200-mile (1,900-kilometer) Keystone XL pipeline would be a boon to an energy patch where oil sands are abundant but lead to more carbon pollution than many other forms of crude.
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