Cat in the cockpit grounds Halifax plane Canada Dot Com A kitty cat (not this little cutie) got into the wiring of a cockpit in an Air Canada jet Wednesday morning, forcing a four-hour delay. The kitty is safe and the plane eventually took off for its destination of Toronto. | Photograph by: Hemera, Thinkstock | It wasn't snakes on a plane, but a furr...
(photo: US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Pamela J. Manns)
Polar bear centre opens at Winnipeg zoo CBC | One of the most significant upgrades in many years to Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo is set to open. | The International Polar Bear Conservation Centre (IPBCC) will be unveiled on Monday. The $4.5-million centre — which will serve as the headquarters of Polar Bears International — will provid...
Canada encouraged to raise Tibet concerns with China The Examiner | As news of an escalation of hostilities in Tibet reaches the outside world there has been a drive for international initiatives to persuade China to ease up its crackdown on the Tibetans. The situation has become so critical that Buddhists in Syrac...
Buying now cheaper than renting, Halifax says The Guardian | Halifax report comes amid claims that first-time buyers are beginning to return to the property market Halifax claims that buying is now cheaper than renting. Photograph: Lewis Stickley/PA | Buying a house is now much cheaper than renting, mortgage...
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Canada maintains it will deport Rwanda genocide suspect Canada Dot Com Leon Mugesera, a Rwandan man who has been fighting expulsion from Canada since 1995 for his alleged role in the Rwandan genocide, is transported on a stretcher to the hospital...
Canadian bishop gets 15 months in child porn case Seattle Times TORONTO - | A Canadian Roman Catholic bishop who admitted he was addicted to looking at child pornography has been sentenced to 15 months in jail, but he should be released Wednesd...
Canada should not host Hamas, say Baird and Kenney Toronto Sun | OTTAWA - Two federal ministers have put up a "not welcome" sign for members of Hamas, a banned terrorist group in Canada, who might attend an International Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Quebec City this fall. | QMI Agency has obtai...
Canada played for a sucker Toronto Sun | Alleged Rwandan war criminal Leon Mugesera played Canada's ponderously slow judicial and immigration systems like a concert violinist, but now he is finally where he should have been more than a decade ago. | And that's in Rwanda, and a jail cell i...
