CNEWS Canada

B.C. city overwhelmed by flooding

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:16 -0500

Flooding caused by heavy rain and high tides forced the evacuation of 300 homes in the southern Vancouver Island city of Duncan and surrounding areas on Friday.

Reaction positive to no-homework deal

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:02 -0500

To assign or not to assign, that is the question.

No jail for woman who sexually assaulted son

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:50:00 -0500

A 55-year-old woman was given a sentence without any jail time, and was ordered to pay several thousand dollars, for sexually assaulting her teenage son.

Vancouver Olympic officials have no power to include female ski jumpers: court

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:25:00 -0500

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Vancouver Olympic organizers have no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Olympics, says British Columbia's highest court.

Who's torching Montreal's Italian cafes?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:55:21 -0500

Who's been firebombing all those Italian coffee shops in Montreal? Police are stumped � and the victims aren't talking.

Love triangle murder-suicide staged: Crown

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:14 -0500

Paula Menendez was not a woman left in turmoil after the separation from her husband -- she was "a catch" and she knew it as she excitedly crept toward a future she would never face, a Newmarket courtroom heard yesterday.