Toronto, Dec 6 (IANS) Dalton McGuinty, premier of Canada's Ontario province, Saturday left for India on a week-long trade mission to sell green technology to the energy-starved country.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State (Sport), today congratulated medal winners and announced a contribution to the 2009 Essent ISU World Cup Spe...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:55:21 -0500

VANCOUVER, Wash. - A shop, a car and a duplex went up in flames Sunday morning as winds whipped through Vancouver, adding fuel to at least two Clark County fires. At...
KATU 2 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:54:52 -0500

Skip Jennifer Jones looks over at another game at the the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Edmonton on Sunday. Jones' rink lost their opener to Amber Holland's foursome.
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:41 -0500

Troy Merritt had a two-stroke lead over former Weyburn, Sask., native Graham Delaet on Sunday when fifth-round play in the rain-delayed PGA Tour qualifying tournament was suspended for the day because...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:41 -0500

An 11-year-old girl is being credited with saving her family from a huge fire in the northwest Calgary community of Citadel early Saturday. The fire gutted five houses and damaged two others before f...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:33 -0500

Supporters of a man who froze to death in a Vancouver alley 11 years ago held a vigil in his memory on Sunday. Frank Paul, 48, died of hypothermia on Dec. 6, 1998 after a police officer left him in a...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:32 -0500

Austria's Elisabeth Goergl won Sunday's World Cup super-G at Lake Louise, denying Lindsey Vonn a sweep at the Alberta resort. Vonn captured the downhill races held Friday and Saturday. The two-time d...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:32 -0500

VANCOUVER — North Shore Search and Rescue issued a warning over the weekend after a snowshoer died when he fell 400 metres into Kennedy Lake from North Vancouver’s Goat Mountain.The fall happened ...
Leader-Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:37:39 -0500

South of Alberta's Badlands, where rainfall averages are lower than parts of Ethiopia, Nicholas Savidov's self-contained ecosystem has grown literally tons of fish, vegetables and fruit, for years, al...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:33:09 -0500

HALIFAX - About 100 people braved a winter storm Sunday to gather for the 92nd anniversary of the Halifax Explosion in honour of the thousands who died in one of the most devastating accidents in Cana...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:33:05 -0500

T he country “is the dirty old man of the climate world,” according to a recent Guardian article. Another prominent article published ahead of the Copenhagen climate-change summit called i...
The Globe and Mail Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:26:58 -0500

TROIS-RIVIERES, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - On behalf of the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State (Sport), Senator Fortin Duplessis today celebrated the arrival of the Olympic Flame in Tr...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:29:25 -0500

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - Over the past five days, investigators for the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals probing animal cruelty allegations at the Toront...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:29:25 -0500

Canada 's recent descent into what he claimed is a "petro-state," he was talking about Canada's global reputation. But what he was actually addressing is a long history of domestic inter-governmental ...
The Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:30 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
The Province Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:55 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Leader-Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:35 -0500

Glitzy nightclubs in Toronto's entertainment district say they have fallen upon hard times this year as low-key party-goers head west to smaller venues. Circa, Toronto's largest nightclub, has confir...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:13 -0500

A snowshoer climbing the North Shore Mountains in North Vancouver this weekend without proper gear died after falling 400 metres. The man, in his early to mid-20s, was descending the mountains, which...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:14:09 -0500

A 30-year-old man died after his snowmobile crashed into a sport utility vehicle east of Edmonton on Sunday afternoon. Police said they responded to a report of a collision on Range Road 213 north of...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:13:57 -0500

TORONTO — Toronto police were investigating two separate homicides Sunday, and had issued a warrant for one suspect, warning the public the man is violent and should not be approached.A 26-year-old ...
Vancouver Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:12:25 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Vancouver Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:12:21 -0500

Prime Minister Stephen Harper (C) and wife Laureen prepare to lay a wreath during the annual commemoration ceremony at a war cemetery in Hong Kong December 6, 2009. The ceremony honours 1,975 Canadian...
Vancouver Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:12:06 -0500

Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, who was released last month after spending 15 months as a hostage in Somalia, is expected to return to Canada this week.
Vancouver Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:11:57 -0500

Flames erupt from an exploding train car spewing thick smoke into the sky hours after a CN train derailment east of Spy Hill, Saskatchewan on Dec. 6, 2009.
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:41 -0500

The government's consumer product safety legislation could lead to information about your child ending up in the hands of some corrupt government agency in the Third World. Or could it? Last week, L...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:37 -0500

OTTAWA - A much-touted federal program designed to encourage auto, manufacturing and other workers to retrain if they are jobless after years of employment is proving a near bust. Promoted by the Har...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:34 -0500

SEOUL -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join more than 50 prime ministers and presidents at the leaders' summit on climate change in Copenhagen and push for a binding deal to commit the nations to...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:31 -0500

Canadian soldiers accompanied by Afghan National Army soldiers secure the area near Howz-e-Madad ahead of a 'shura' in the Panjwaii District of southern Afghanistan as Chinook helicopters hover overhe...
The Globe and Mail Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:00:20 -0500

LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State (Sport), today announced that the Government of Canada will provide funding of $250,000 to Alpine Canada...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:07:50 -0500

The institution was placed on a general lockdown on December 4, 2009 in order to facilitate a search of Institution. The lockdown and search are being conducted to ensure the ongoing safety and se...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:07:49 -0500

A monument paying tribute to the victims of the Montreal Massacre was unveiled in P.E.I. on Sunday, the 20th anniversary of Canada's worst mass shooting. The names of the 14 young women are etched on...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:16 -0500

Washington Redskins running back Rock Cartwright, right, hustles away from New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant in the first quarter on Sunday. The Skins had this one before the Saints roare...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:10 -0500

The first major stormstorm in New Brunswick apparently caught some people by surprise — and without a snowblower. Three men from the Fredericton area are facing theft charges after police caught th...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:05 -0500

A snowshoer climbing the North Shore Mountains in North Vancouver this weekend without proper gear died after falling 400 metres. The man, in his early to mid-20s, was descending the mountains, which...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:53:04 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:52:49 -0500

SOUTH BAR, N.S. — Heavy snow and strong winds were no help in the search for a young autistic boy missing in Nova Scotia on Sunday, but nor were they a deterrent to hundreds of determined residents ...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:52:48 -0500

OTTAWA — A much-touted federal program designed to encourage auto, manufacturing and other workers to retrain if they are jobless after years of employment is proving a near bust.Promoted by the Har...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:52:44 -0500

The government’s consumer product safety legislation could lead to information about your child ending up in the hands of some corrupt government agency in the Third World. Or could it?Last week, Li...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:52:40 -0500

The government's consumer product safety legislation could lead to information about your child ending up in the hands of some corrupt government agency in the Third World. Or could it? Last week, L...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:47:29 -0500

OTTAWA - A much-touted federal program designed to encourage auto, manufacturing and other workers to retrain if they are jobless after years of employment is proving a near bust. Promoted by the Har...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:47:26 -0500

The University of South Florida accepted an invitation to play in the International Bowl on Jan. 2 in Toronto, the school announced. The Bulls (7-5) will face an opponent from the Mid-American Confer...
TBO.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:42:07 -0500

Speed skater Nesbitt races to World Cup gold Canada's women set a world record in the team pursuit at the World Cup ISU speed skating event in Calgary, Sunday. Kristina Groves, Christine Nesbitt and B...
TSN Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:33:29 -0500

VANCOUVER, Wash. — This striving city in the Pacific Northwest is not — repeat, not — the one that will host the Winter Olympics in February. But if you reserve a hotel during the...
Gadsden Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:22:41 -0500

An Ottawa resident who is trekking solo across Antarctica says she is doing fine despite a "pretty serious fall" down an icy crevasse just two days into her expedition. Meagan McGrath is attempting a...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:16 -0500

The NHL has suspended Philadelphia Flyers forward Dan Carcillo four games for his role in a fight that earned him 19 penalty minutes and a game misconduct. Carcillo landed a big punch on Washington's...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:12 -0500

The NFL has told the players' union it will cut a $100-million US annual supplemental revenue-sharing program that subsidizes lower-revenue teams. That plan, which is a small portion of the $6.5 bill...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:10 -0500

Werder Bremen failed to make up ground on Bundesliga leader Bayer Leverkusen when it managed only a 0-0 draw Sunday at lowly Cologne. Werder extended its unbeaten run to 23 games in all competitions ...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:10 -0500

Nancy ended a three-game losing streak in the French league with a surprise 3-1 victory over Auxerre on Sunday. Elsewhere, Grenoble beat Toulouse 1-0 to earn its first win of the season and 10-man Bo...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:09 -0500

An Ottawa resident who is trekking solo across Antarctica says she is doing fine despite a "pretty serious fall" down an icy crevasse just two days into her expedition. Meagan McGrath is attempting a...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:07 -0500

Two guests who were kicked out of an Elmwood-area house party this weekend returned with friends and shot three people, two of them fatally, Winnipeg police said on Sunday. More details of the invest...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:06 -0500

An Ottawa resident who is trekking solo across Antarctica says she is doing fine despite a "pretty serious fall" down an icy crevasse just two days into her expedition. Meagan McGrath is attempting a...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:06 -0500

An 80-year-old New Brunswick man is dead following a weekend pedestrian-vehicle accident. He was crossing Highway 11 on Saturday to attend a Christmas party at a seniors club in Barryville when he wa...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:04 -0500

A Facebook group started to show support for an Edmonton bus driver viciously attacked on the job attracted more than 1,300 members just days after it was created. Tom Bregg, 58, suffered severe inju...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:03 -0500

Graham DeLaet started the fifth round of PGA Q-School on Sunday in second place, behind Troy Merritt. The fourth round was suspended due to darkness on Saturday and golfers took to the course early S...
TSN Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:10:55 -0500

Saskatchewan native Graham DeLaet is two solid rounds away from earning his PGA Tour card for 2010. The 27-year-old shot a fourth-round 69 on Sunday morning at the Bear Lakes Country Club in West Pal...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:04:20 -0500

Allen Iverson practised with the Philadelphia 76ers for the first time in three years and is expected to start when they play Monday night against Denver. Iverson practised with the first team of Elt...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:04:13 -0500

Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe missed a stoppage time penalty as his side threw away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with struggling Everton in the Premier League on Sunday. Defoe had put Spurs ahead tw...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:04:12 -0500

A 19-year-old who tried help a woman who was being assaulted in downtown Vancouver late Friday night was stabbed multiple times, say police. Police say numerous people called 911 at about 11:30 p.m. ...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:04:08 -0500

The Maritime provinces are dealing with power outages, accidents and flight cancellations from the first major winter storm of the season. Southern New Brunswick was hit with about 15 centimetres of ...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:04:08 -0500

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, recovering in Kenya after spending 15 months as a hostage in Somalia, is expected to be back in Canada early this week, CBC News has learned. The Canadi...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:04:06 -0500

John Criswick has booked a US$200,000 flight on board Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Virgin Galactic) MONTREAL - After studying space physics and learning how to fly, John Cri...
C News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:03:52 -0500

John Criswick has booked a US$200,000 flight on board Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Virgin Galactic) MONTREAL - After studying space physics and learning how to fly, John Cri...
C News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:03:47 -0500

This NOAA satellite image taken, Dec. 6, 2009 at 12:45 a.m. EST shows cloud cover in the Northeast as a strong storm moves up the coast. AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND HALIFAX, N.S. - An early winter st...
C News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:03:46 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Vancouver Sun Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:02:43 -0500

SEOUL -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join more than 50 prime ministers and presidents at the leaders' summit on climate change in Copenhagen and push for a binding deal to commit the nations to...
National Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:57:16 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Windsor Star Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:52:25 -0500

CALGARY — As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegation will walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, bl...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:51:45 -0500

AVON, Colo. - In the fenced-off area that separated World Cup skiers from the cowbell-clanging throngs at the Birds of Prey course, Erik Guay wasn't fretting about his mediocre performance in the down...
TSN Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:47:14 -0500

PRWEB ) December 6, 2009 -- VisualMED Clinical Solutions Corp. (The “Company”) (NASDAQ OTC: VMCS.PK) (Frankfurt: VA6.F) announces that Ontario will go ahead with plans to fund Electronic H...
PR Web Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:00:19 -0500

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - A recent media story incorrectly described the application of national security concerns to documents released under the Canada Evidence Act. The notion...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:56:39 -0500

VANCOUVER ? The independent body in charge of keeping watch over the RCMP will release its report this week into the death of Robert Dziekanski, assessing the conduct of the four officers who rep...
CTV Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:52:14 -0500

HALIFAX ? An early winter storm is dumping 10 to 15 centimetres of snow on much of the Maritimes today, and is expected to peak in Newfoundland and Labrador's Avalon Peninsula with larger accumul...
CTV Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:52:11 -0500

HALIFAX ? An early winter storm is dumping 10 to 15 centimetres of snow on much of the Maritimes today, and is expected to peak in Newfoundland and Labrador's Avalon Peninsula with larger accumul...
CTV Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:50:53 -0500

Sesame Street ’s 40th anniversary, this column is brought to you by the letters A and C, and by the No. 13. With the Grey Cup safely in Montreal and winter sending Saskatchewan Roughriders fans to ...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:42:09 -0500

Injured New Jersey Nets forward Yi Jianlian is expected to miss at least another week after needing 50 stitches to close a cut upper lip. Yi hoped to return Sunday after missing 15 games with a sprai...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:42:08 -0500

The cost of everything from milk to gas in northern Manitoba could be driven up as warmer winter weather threatens ice roads that stretch thousands of kilometres into the most remote communities. The...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:42:04 -0500

OTTAWA: The Bank of Canada is widely expected to keep its hands off interest rates on Tuesday, holding them at near zero and committing to do so until at least July, despite growing evidence the ec...
Times of India Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:26:28 -0500

UFC 100 may have been a landmark in the mixed martial arts organization's history but Halifax welterweight T.J. Grant is doing his best to forget it. Grant, a late addition to the July 11 card in Las...
TSN Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:22:33 -0500

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2009) - On Monday, December 7, 2009, on behalf of the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, Senator Linda Frum will announce a new sola...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:35:35 -0500

The Ottawa Senators are in danger of heading home winless from a five-game road trip that ends Sunday night in Anaheim (8 p.m. ET). The jaunt got off on the wrong foot back east on Nov. 28 with a 3-2...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:20:12 -0500

Spain lifted the Davis Cup for the second straight year on Sunday after completing a 5-0 victory over the Czech Republic in the final. Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer both won singles matches on Sunday...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:20:11 -0500

Texas vs. Alabama for America's national college championship. And let the complaining by Texas Christian University and Cincinnati — even Boise State — begin. The Crimson Tide romped past Flori...
CBC News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:20:11 -0500

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency expanded its recall Sunday on a number of popular cream-cheese products over fears of salmonella contamination. The nationwide recall affects original cre...
Canada.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:19:32 -0500

Carole James hopes she can rally support to stop the passage of B.C.'s harmonized sales tax through Parliament. A preliminary Commons' vote on Thursday came out in favour of the tax, although there we...
The Province Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:19:05 -0500

A Victoria marijuana advocate is ready for a court fight, but he may not get one.An apartment-based marijuana "bakery" that was raided by police on Thursday is linked to the Cannabis Buyers Club of Ca...
Times Colonist Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:18:59 -0500

As the world works toward the most important climate-change agreement since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Canadian delegationwill walk into the Copenhagen conference hall with a big, black bull's-ey...
Edmonton Journal Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:16:34 -0500

Canada following the American plan to reimburse physicians up to $64,000 per provider Montreal, Quebec (PRWEB) December 6, 2009 -- VisualMED Clinical Solutions Corp. (The “Company”) (NASD...
Earth Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:05:51 -0500

Monday, December 7 What: Goddess of Democracy Rally at UBC Where: 6138 Student Union Boulevard (SUB Plaza between Aquatic Centre and Student Union Building) Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Speakers:...
Market Wire Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:12:06 -0500