Columbia Sports Teams Gear Up for Busy Season

Columbia International College’s sports season has kicked off to a great start. According to the Athletics Department, this is the busiest time of the semester for intramural and extramural programs. With a wide range of activities going on at Columbia, students are engaged...

Festival of lights shines in Toronto Canada

Hindus and Sikhs celebrated Diwali in a big way this year with Mahautsav, a 30-hour concert and film premiere. Mahautsav, which is being touted as the biggest and longest South Asian event in the history of...

Examiner.com launches Canada Edition

Examiner.com is now international. The citizen journalist giant launched six Canadian editions:Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa,Calgary, Vancouver, and Canada National over night and the websites are up and running. This is big news because hyperlocal search...

Meteorite Strikes SUV in Ontario

A golf ball sized meteorite smashed through the windshield of an SUV belonging to an Ontario woman, Yvonne Garshinky.  It came from a piece of meteorite that streaked across the sky above Southern Ontario on the...

Violent Arrest of UWO Student Caught on Video

University of Western Ontario student Irnes Zeljkovic, 22, was filmed on video being violently arrested by campus officers, who repeatedly beat and struck him with fists, knees, and batons.  Police officers...

David Caplan, Canadian Health Minister, Quits on Eve of Report

David Caplan, the Canadian Health Minister has quit on the eve of a report that addresses the spending amounts at a health agency tasked with creating electronic health records of patients. The Liberals have not confirmed the Minister has quit, but sources told the Canadian...

Harper's Conservatives making inroads in Toronto, poll suggests

Canadian politics can be interesting from time to time.  Granted the debates and allegations on either side are never as heated as they are in the U.S., where Democrats accuse Republicans to be lunatics and...

White Stripes to close out TIFF

The White Stripes tour doc The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights is set to close out the Toronto International Film Festival today. From the description: "Are the White Stripes still the...

A father honours his son - A fallen Hero

Trooper Jack Bouthillier died in Afghanistan on March 20th this year.  He was the victim of an IED, the weapon of choice of the Taliban. In his honour his father had his truck painted to provide a mobile...

Bad Harvest - the troubled Great Lakes fishery

As environmental advocates, we encourage people to get to know Lake Ontario. But some parts of the lake are so polluted that touching the water or eating the fish that lived there can be a health risk. We do not...

Ontario to roll back air quality protections

When Premier McGuintyʼs  government first introduced new air quality regulations in 2005, the province described them as “the cornerstone” of the governmentʼs efforts to protect local air quality.  This week, the McGuinty government appears...

CNSC hearing reveals cracks in radioactive waste “plan”

Question: When is a plan not a plan? Answer: When it is Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s “cleanup” proposal for the town of Port Hope, Ontario.At a packed hearing last week, Canada’s nuclear regulator, the...

Canadians Dominate Alabama, in New York?

On Saturday afternoon Veteran Woodbine Jockey Robert Landry shifted his tack from the comforts of home to Upstate New York's and more specifically Saratoga Race Course. Landry, who could have stood pat in...

Toronto Storm Video: Tornado hits GTA, Southern Ontario

Tornado has hit the Greater Toronto Area. Earlier today a tornado warning has been issued in Toronto for Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville, Halton Hills, Milton, Mississauga, Brampton, Linsday, and Southern Kawartha...

Tornado Hits Durham, Ontario

A tornado has reportedly hit the town of Durham, Ontario. Environment Canada has issued a tornado warning for Owen Sound, the Blue Mountains, and northern Grey County. The Ontario Province Police has confirmed...

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