2010 Games given 'extraordinary' financial help Canada Dot Com | The depth of the financial crisis that hit the world last year was so severe that the International Olympic Committee felt it had to offer extraordinary help to the organizers of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, IOC president Jacques Rogge said. | In a wide-ranging and exclusive interv...
Apps golden for Vancouver IPhone programmer CBC The iPhone Colorsplash app has been in the top 50 downloads since its release in February. (Apple) | A Vancouver programmer has had cause to celebrate as the hugely popular iPhone passed a major milestone last month — the two-billionth download of an iPhone app. | Apple says the company has sold a...
Police trim budget by $4m, cut planned hiring Canada Dot Com | The Vancouver Police Department is cutting its budget by $4 million and won't be hiring 35 officers as planned this year. | The one-per-cent budget cut is part of a city-wide effort to make up a $60-million shortfall in the city budget. | De...
Taxman has no business regulating Canadian charities, new study says National Post | Financial Post Network Canada.com Newspapers National Post Victoria Times Colonist The Province (Vancouver) Vancouver Sun Edmonton Journal Calgary Herald Regina Leader-Post Saskatoon StarPhoenix Windsor Star Ottawa Citizen The Gazette (Montreal) ...
Western Canadian Coal Announces Fiscal Second Quarter 2010 Results redOrbit Posted on: Friday, 13 November 2009, 08:00 CST | VANCOUVER, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Western Coal Corp. (TSX: WTN, WTN.DB & WTN.WT and AIM: WTN) ("Western" or the "Company") announces its operating results for the three and six month peri...
Sex trade workers decry Salvation Army posters Canada Dot Com | Sex trade workers are decrying a Salvation Army campaign against human trafficking that depicts them as slaves and victims of brutal violence. | The "Truth Isn't Sexy" cam...
Budget cuts threaten state's anti-smoking efforts Seattle Times | For as long as he can remember, Anthony Gallucci, of Vancouver, Wash., was around smokers. His grandparents smoked, his mom smoked, and so did an uncle. As a teen, he, too, picke...
'Buy American' Hurts Canada Connection Hartford Courant The American and Canadian economies are profoundly integrated; we are partners and we must work together during this difficult downturn to effect economic recovery in North America...
Major fire guts Vancouver storefronts, several businesses destroyed National Post | Canwest News Service Network Canada.com Newspapers National Post Victoria Times Colonist The Province (Vancouver) Vancouver Sun Edmonton Journal Calgary Herald Regina Leader-Post Saskatoon StarPhoenix Windsor Star Ottawa Citizen The Gazette (Mont...
Markets boost Canada Pension Plan's return National Post | Karen Mazurkewich, Financial Post Network Canada.com Newspapers National Post Victoria Times Colonist The Province (Vancouver) Vancouver Sun Edmonton Journal Calgary Herald Regina Leader-Post Saskatoon StarPhoenix Windsor Star Ottawa Citizen The ...
Finance unit slashes Canadian Tire profit National Post | Eric Lam, Financial Post Network Canada.com Newspapers National Post Victoria Times Colonist The Province (Vancouver) Vancouver Sun Edmonton Journal Calgary Herald Regina Leader-Post Saskatoon StarPhoenix Windsor Star Ottawa Citizen The Gazette (...
A Look At The 10 Gitmo Detainees Headed To US WPXI WASHINGTON -- Ten high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are being transferred to face justice in the United States. | The five detainees heading to civilian court in New York to face charges they orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are: | --Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who admitted to interrogators that he was the mastermind of the attacks. He alle...
EU out of recession CBC | The 16-country eurozone has officially joined the United States and Japan in moving out of recession, after figures Friday showed its economy grew by 0.4 per cent in the third quarter compared with the previous three-month period. | The rise reported by the EU's statistics office, Eurostat, was not as large as the 0.6 per cent most economists had...
