| Robyn Doolittle on Rob Ford and being compared to Zoe Barnes Posted: 16 Feb 2014 01:28 PM PST  Robyn Doolittle, one of the Toronto Star reporters who brought us the Rob Ford crack scandal and viewed the infamous tape is as ubiquitous in Toronto right now as Justin Bieber is ever. Her new book, Crazy Town, The Rob Ford Story, is a fun and comprehensive breakdown of the city's last four years under Rob Ford
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| Saskatchewan at the Olympics: Feb. 17 Posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:01 PM PST Two of Saskatchewan's Olympic veterans are hitting the ice today for team Canada in Sochi.  |
| Police seek handcuffed man's missing BMW Posted: 16 Feb 2014 05:57 PM PST Toronto police are trying to track down the whereabouts of a silver luxury car, as part of an attempted murder investigation.  |
| Are animals becoming more aggressive towards humans? Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:12 PM PST  An owl tries to rip a hunter's face off. A moose bushwhacks a passing woman who's minding her own business. An octopus tries to mug a diver for his camera. Could it be that the animal kingdom is getting fed … Continue reading →
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| Is funding for Olympic athletes a good use of taxpayer money? Posted: 16 Feb 2014 09:51 AM PST  Since coming into power, the Harper government has spent a record amount of money funding elite athletes. According to Sport Canada statistics, funding for Winter Olympic sports has more than doubled since the lead-up to the Torino … Continue reading →
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| Canada kicks off second half of Sochi Games with multi-medal performance Posted: 16 Feb 2014 01:17 PM PST  SOCHI, Russia - Canada kicked off the second half of the Sochi Olympics with its fourth multi-medal performance of the Games. Dominique Maltais took silver in women's snowboard cross Sunday, becoming the first athlete to win two Olympic medals in the event. Also on the slopes, Jan Hudec won bronze in the men's super-G. The medal ended Canada's 20-year podium drought in alpine skiing. The medals came after a bit of a lull for Canada, which started off the Games with a bang but slowed down with two silvers and a bronze over four days of competition heading into Sunday's action.
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| Former general Leslie accuses Tories of smear over moving expenses Posted: 16 Feb 2014 02:34 PM PST  OTTAWA - A retired general who once led Canada's troops in Afghanistan is accusing the federal Conservatives of a "personal attack" over his moving expenses to undermine his new role as a Liberal adviser. Former lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie brushed off what he characterized as a partisan smear Sunday, saying he's been shot at by "real bullets" and can withstand the scrutiny that comes with working for Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. The 35-year Canadian Forces veteran posted the comments online the same day the Defence Minister said he would ask his department to explain how it approved in-city moving expenses of more than $72,000 for Leslie — a Rob Nicholson said appeared "grossly excessive." "In the meantime, it is important for Andrew Leslie to explain why he believes this is a reasonable expense for hard working Canadians to absorb," Nicholson said in a statement.
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| Winter storm blasts Atlantic provinces, cuts off bridge traffic to P.E.I. Posted: 16 Feb 2014 02:42 PM PST  HALIFAX - A massive and powerful storm was causing havoc across eastern Canada on Sunday, causing a multi-vehicle pileup that shut down a bridge linking two Maritime provinces. Environment Canada says the major winter storm blanketed New Brunswick with snow overnight Saturday and into Sunday and brought a mix of rain, freezing rain, ice pellets and snow to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. "We saw quite significant amounts of snow in eastern New Brunswick, anywhere from 41 centimetres in Bathurst to 31 centimetres in Moncton," said meteorologist Jeremy March in Halifax on Sunday. Up to 35 centimetres of snow was expected across Newfoundland on Sunday, with winds gusting up to 130 kilometres an hour in some areas.
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| Prince Edward Island government confirms first case of pig virus Posted: 16 Feb 2014 01:54 PM PST  CHARLOTTETOWN - A professor at a Prince Edward Island veterinary college says his worse fears have been realized with confirmation of a case of the deadly pig virus porcine epidemic diarrhea on an Island farm. We were hoping it wouldn't come," said Dan Hurnik, a professor of swine health management at the Atlantic Veterinary College. The province's Agriculture Department says the National Centre of Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has confirmed the presence of the virus, a highly contagious disease that has already killed millions of piglets in the United States.
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| Winter travel warnings issued for Sask. highways Sunday Posted: 16 Feb 2014 09:56 AM PST Highways near Regina and Saskatoon have reduced visibility due to blowing snow and powerful winds Sunday.  |
| Moir, Virtue second after short dance, trail American rivals Davis and White Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:56 PM PST  SOCHI, Russia - The moment the music ended, Scott Moir turned and skipped across the ice, dancing to his own impromptu bit of choreography. He scooped partner Tessa Virtue off her feet and buried his face in her shoulder. While the moment was exactly what Moir and Virtue had been hoping for, the marks, however, were not. Virtue, from London, Ont., and Moir, from Ilderton, Ont., scored 76.33 to finish 2.56 points behind American rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
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| Canada's Mexican visa rule to persist, despite warnings that it's bad for trade Posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:02 AM PST  OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper won't be bringing the news his Mexican host wants to hear, nor hearing any himself from U.S. President Barack Obama, as North America's beleaguered Three Amigos converge on Mexico this week. Officials say Harper will not announce an end to Canada's contentious travel visa on Mexico — an omission that will make the prime minister's trip "an unmitigated disaster," says one analyst who has been advising the Mexican government. Caught in the middle will be President Enrique Pena Nieto, who is keen to showcase his country's growing prosperity while kick-starting an ambitious new phase of the moribund Three Amigos club to leverage the newfound energy wealth of all three countries. Ahead of Obama's arrival, Pena Nieto will host Harper for a separate a bilateral visit that begins Monday, but their tete-a-tete won't bring the announcement Mexico is craving — an end to the 2009 visa the Conservatives imposed on Mexican travellers to curb bogus asylum claims.
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| Warnings from the U.S. as Canada plans changes to voter ID rules Posted: 16 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON - A participant in the bruising American battle over voting rights warns that Canada is treading on dangerous ground with its proposed electoral reforms. One of the lawyers who helped strike down the voter ID law in Pennsylvania last month says legislation tabled by the Harper government will inevitably wind up depriving some people of their voting rights. That's why any change to voting requirements should be made with the strictest care, in the spirit of achieving more accurate election results, said Witold Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union for Pennsylvania. That warning comes from a country where voting rights are an especially emotional subject, for obvious historical reasons.
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| Mission, B.C., crossbow attack kills 1 man, injures another Posted: 15 Feb 2014 11:23 PM PST  A 59-year-old Nanaimo, B.C., man is dead and a younger relative of his from Mission, B.C., is in hospital, following a crossbow attack outside a Mission eatery late Valentine's Day.
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| RSA eyes sale of Canadian unit: Sky News Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:51 PM PST  (Reuters) - British insurer RSA is looking for prospective buyers for the sale of one of its Canadian businesses, which could help the company raise as much as 200 million pounds ($335 million), Sky News reported on Sunday. RSA has begun the auction of Noraxis Capital Corporation, a network of Canadian regional insurance brokers, the news service said, citing unidentified sources. RSA spokeswoman said a business review was under way and RSA would announce the outcome on February 27. She declined to comment on the Sky News story.
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| Sears Canada responds to trespassing charges Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:50 AM PST  A representative from Sears Canada has responded to allegations it called police on a disgruntled customer and later charged her with trespassing.
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| Volunteer firefighter killed in New Germany crash remembered Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:22 PM PST Canada's volunteer firefighter community is expressing condolences to the family of a fellow volunteer who died in a car accident near New Germany, N.S., on Friday while responding to a call.  |
| This photo from Vancouver gives man hope of finding lost brother Posted: 16 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST  But fame was always just out of reach for Bruce Sauer. As Sauer's dreams of stardom faded, so did the frequency of his calls and visits to his family back in Alberta. "He was pretty much following his musical dream," said Sauer's brother, Bill Olsen. "Through the 70s and the 80s, Vancouver was the place to be if you were in the entertainment industry and he'd kind of hang with that sort of business.
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