How News is Made

Boing Boing found an interesting piece that analyzed how news gets made.  It's less Chomski and more plain old common sense.  What is lacking in an outright conspiracy is compensated for with a dash of laziness, a desire to answer the unknowable and nobody to represent the...

Blogging the Canadian Election

Canada is going to the polls early next year after the fall of the Liberal Government, and the booming Canadian blogosphere is providing some great coverage. Blogs Canada has always been my source for anything to do with the Canadian blogosphere...

Canada: Green Party Kept Out of TV Debates

As our Canadian readers know, a federal election is coming up next January in Canada. In recent years, the Green Party of Canada has been getting more popular and in the last election...

Device Stops Speeders From Inside Car (Slashdot)

frdmfghtr writes "CNN reports that the Canadian government is testing a new anti-speeding device." From the article: "The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device...

Help bring Byron home

On November 4, 2005 a nineteen year old young man made a call to his grandmother stating he was scared and would she come to were he was.When the grandmother arrivied, she saw that the young man was upset and told him to follow her into their home town of Milton Freewater...

No party surging ahead in first campaign poll (CTV.ca)

According to the results of a poll conducted as the Liberal minority government fell and the election campaign began, there's been little movement in voting intentions. But there has been a shift in opinion of the leaders' messages.

Tory tax cut promise dominates campaign Day 3 (CTV.ca)

Tax cuts were top of mind Thursday, after Conservative leader Stephen Harper announced his party's plan to slash the much-maligned GST.

Melting Arctic ice risks Canada-US territorial dispute - Yahoo! News

MONTREAL (AFP) - Global warming is melting the Arctic ice so fast that a new sea route is opening up between the Atlantic and the Pacific -- and with it the risk of a territorial dispute between Canada and the United States. Temperatures around the North Pole are rising...

Workers back Jack (DurhamRegion.com)

OSHAWA -- Federal NDP leader Jack Layton basked in a hero's welcome when he rolled into Oshawa Thursday morning, drawing thunderous applause from hundreds of supporters gathered at the CAW Union Hall to hear his plans for the struggling auto industry.

AIDS in the 1980s

First World AIDS Day: CBC archive A short clip from December 1st, 1988, the first World AIDS Day (with a Canadian focus). Also of interest from the CBC archives are two pages of radio and video clips (21 in all) on the early years of the disease.

Decision Canada: The First Poll Of The Winter Election Campaign

Toronto, ON %u2013 According to a new CanWest News Service/Global News survey conducted by Ipsos Reid throughout the hours following the fall of the government in Ottawa by a successful loss of confidence vote, the federal Liberals (31%, -3 points from a survey conducted...

US Housing Inventory at Highest Levels in 20 years

Is this the beginning of the end of the housing bubble:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of existing U.S. homes slowed in October and the inventory of unsold houses rose to the highest level in nearly 20 years, a trade group said on Monday in a report that provided more evidence...

Martin attacks Conservatives, Bloc after vote (CTV.ca)

Prime Minister Paul Martin told his caucus after their defeat on a non-confidence vote about what he saw as the stark choices in the upcoming election.