$1.2 M of illegal drugs seized in St. John's CBC The police are charging four people with drug trafficking after seizing more than 50 kilograms of hash and marijuana in St John's. | Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers, in a co-ordinated arrest, swept in to pick up the men, last Thursday. | The...
2 plead not guilty in Creba murder trial CBC Jane Creba was shot to death on Dec. 26, 2005, as two groups exchanged gunfire amid a crowd of shoppers on Yonge Street. (Canadian Press) | Two men have pleaded not guilty to all charges against them in connection with a shootout in downtown Toronto ...
John Thain lands atop CIT CBC | John Thain is getting a second chance. | CIT Group Inc. tapped the former Merrill Lynch CEO to become its chairman and chief executive. Merrill Lynch executive John Thain speaks during a news conference in New York in September 2008. Thain was name...
Rights watchdog says Bahrain police using torture The News & Observer | MANAMA, Bahrain -- After abolishing torture more than 10 years ago, Bahrain's security services are once more resorting to the practice to extract confessions from detainees, including many Shiite protesters, said a report released Monday by an int...
IRA splinter group disarms; no apology for carnage The News & Observer | DUBLIN -- A ruthless IRA splinter group, the Irish National Liberation Army, declared Monday it had fully disarmed but offered no regrets for committing some of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland conflict. | "We make no apology for our pa...
Top Canadian defense official charged with murder The News & Observer | TORONTO -- The commander of a major military base in Canada has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women and in the sexual assaults of two other women. | Ontario Provincial Police Det. Insp. Chris Nicholas said Monday that C...
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Piping plovers watched at N.B. national park CBC | Parks Canada scientists are trying different tactics to boost the population of endangered piping plovers in one of New Brunswick's national parks. | When the tiny shorebird arri...
N.L. offshore oil worker focusing on search and rescue CBC | A worker in Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry said Wednesday that he has seen many safety improvements since the crash of Cougar flight 491 last March, but he...
Tim Hortons bans complaining customer CBC | A coffee enthusiast in St. Andrews, N.B., has learned the customer may not always be right. | After complaining three times about "burnt" decaffeinated coffee at the local Tim Hortons, Jimmy Craig is now banned for life from that outlet and the one...
Jamieson's constituents not happy CBC | Voters in Stuart Jamieson's Saint John-Fundy riding aren't happy their veteran MLA has been kicked out of cabinet over the controversial NB Power-Hydro-Québec deal. | Jamieson stepped down as tourism and parks minister Friday night at the request ...
Charge pending in Kingston shooting CBC This Ketchum Road home is where the 42-year-old victim was found lying in a pool of blood Friday morning. (CBC) | A 41-year-old man will appear in court Monday to face a charge in connection with a early morning shooting Friday on New Brunswick's Kin...
Minor earthquake hits Sussex area CBC | A small earthquake shook parts of New Brunswick shortly before midnight Friday night. | The 3.2-magnitude quake's epicentre was about 38 kilometres northwest of Sussex, according to Earthquakes Canada, a website operated by Natural Resources Canada...
The China bubble, gold and the markets Mineweb VANCOUVER, BC (The Gold Report) - | The news spotlight recently was stolen by Google, the Internet search engine giant. A statement issued by Google a couple of weeks ago was greeted by dismay on Wall Street as shares retreated in response to the company's announcement that it no longer supports China's censoring of searches that take pl...
China steps up defense of Internet controls Canada Dot Com | BEIJING (Reuters) - China widened its attack against U.S. criticisms of Internet censorship on Monday, raising the stakes in a dispute that has put Google in the middle of a political quarrel between the two global powers. | China has stepped up its defense of curbs on the Internet nearly two weeks after the world's biggest search eng...
