A piece of wreckage apparently from a Boeing 777 -- like the missing MH370 airliner -- was found washed ashore over the weekend on the coast of Mozambique, a U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday ( Read more... )

So, you've all probably already heard about the case in Quebec in which a 12-year old girl sues her father over his denying her permission to attend her 6th grade graduation trip, and apparently wins ( Read more... )

So, I'm sure by now everyone has heard about the NDP/Liberal Coalition with the Bloc's support. Something that keeps being brought up though is that Harper might prorogue parliament to prevent the coalition from taking over. While I follow politics I'm not all that savvy when it comes to such specific terms (all I can tell is that it means ( Read more... )

how many of you canucks have studied abroad? i'm seriously considering it when i get to university, and i'm wondering if i should downright go to uni in my desired country (quite expensive) or go to a canadian uni that offers a 'year of schooling at _______' kind of thing ( Read more... )

I remember riding the subway one day back in the late 1980s and noticing just how many of the people around me were not white and for whom English was not their first language. Mulroney had opened the immigration floodgates, the results were beginning to be visible (as it were) and I was beginning to worry ( Read more... )

Can someone please point me to a source for murder statistics in Toronto? Preferably a simple chart, showing the number of homicides per year, going back 20 or 30 or, ideally, 40 years? I've spent the past hour and a half with Google and have gotten nowhere.

I anyone can help, I'll be eternally grateful

The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is coming upon us once again.  Now, I'm all for preventing unwanted pregnancies, but I am not pleased with the way the NCPTP slanders teen parents and tries to keep them down in order to further their cause.  Previous ad campains have used the words "Dirty", "Cheap", "Useless" , and "Nobody" to describe ( Read more... )

Hey everyone.

Could ya'll please head on over to this questionnaire and fill it out? It'll take you 5 minutes, tops.

Also, if you could get other people (family, housemates, etc) to take it, I'd be really, really grateful.

It's for a presentation due tomorrow - so any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

(x-posted)

This story both delighted and irritated me ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm not a Canadian, but I wanted to drop by, say hi, and also tell you that it's enough with you guys putting your flags on your backpacks whenever you travel abroad.You're not fooling anyone. We know you guys aren't patriotic. And even if you were, it's not like the French or the Japanese staple their flags all over the place. There's only one ( Read more... )