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HEALTH / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 10:18pm neoform

CBC -- Even though the drug shrinks cancerous tumours, no pharmaceutical companies wanted to fund human trials because they couldn't make enough money selling it. And that's when Peace River stepped in. To date, the town in northwestern Alberta has collected.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Sep 30, 2007 @ 9:16pm neoform

CBC -- Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strateg.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:55am neoform

CBC -- A booming Canadian economy generated such big tax revenues this past year that the federal budget surplus approached $14 billion, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. The final surplus for the 2006-07 fiscal year came in at $13.8 billion, Harpe.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu Sep 20, 2007 @ 12:45pm neoform

CBC -- The Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. greenback on Thursday for the first time since November 1976. The loonie briefly reached $1.0003 US on foreign exchange markets shortly before 11 a.m. ET, the Bank of Canada said. The loonie's stint at p.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 8:31pm neoform

CBC -- Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que. However, the police force denied allegations its undercover officers were t.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 9:50am neoform

CBC -- Organizers of the protests at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que., say they have video that shows police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence on Monday. About 1,200 protesters were in the small resort town near.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 9:35am neoform

CBC -- Well, we can officially call ourselves Toker Nation now. According to the 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Canada has the dubious honour of leading the industrialized world in marijuana use, at least when calculated as a percent.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 9:10pm neoform

CBC -- The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a fine of $4,000 against an Ottawa man who operated a website and internet forum called the Canadian Nazi Party. Bobby James Wilkinson has also been ordered to "cease and desist" from communicating or help.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 1:14pm neoform

CBC -- Microsoft Corp. plans to set up house in the Vancouver area this fall with a new software development centre that would attract talent without encountering U.S. immigration issues. The location will be one of only a few development centres outside the.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun May 27, 2007 @ 12:44pm hiscity

CBC -- "Doctors were still uncertain how exactly Uchikoshi survived for weeks with his metabolism almost at a standstill.".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

CBC -- A former police officer says he believes he could have found explosives on Flight 182, but the plane had already left a Montreal airport by the time he arrived to check it, the Air India inquiry heard Wednesday. Serge Carignan — a former dog handler.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

CBC -- Proposed changes to Ontario's Education Act announced Tuesday are designed to stop students from posting online attacks against other students or teachers. At a news conference at Queen's Park, Education Minister Kathleen Wynne said the revamped act wi.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 7:40pm neoform

CBC -- Bucking the perception of the internet as a male-dominated world, a study released this week found more women than men are going online in the United States. An estimated 97.2 million females aged 3 and older will be online in 2007, or 51.7 per cent of.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Fri Apr 13, 2007 @ 7:12pm neoform

CBC -- Henrik Sedin scored to end the sixth-longest game in NHL history, giving Vancouver a victory in their playoff opener early Thursday morning. Sedin took a pass from his brother Daniel in the slot and fired the puck in the net at 18:06 of the fourth over.. Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 1:00am neoform

CBC -- Though they often bear the brunt of his jokes, Kazakh citizens have apparently rushed online to buy Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat film, released on DVD worldwide last week. According to the British arm of online retail giant Amazon, the DVD of Borat: Cultu.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 12, 2007 @ 7:48pm neoform

CBC -- A Canadian man suspected of helping to finance Islamist terrorist activities has been arrested by Spanish authorities as part of a continuing U.S. FBI investigation, authorities said Monday. Brian David Anderson, 61, was arrested by Spanish police on M.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 10, 2007 @ 2:46pm neoform

CBC -- Residents on Australia's northwest coast prepared Saturday for another cyclone to hit, less than 72 hours after a storm swept through a remote mining construction camp, killing two people. Forecasters said the latest cyclone, dubbed Jacob, could make l.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sat Mar 10, 2007 @ 2:18am neoform

CBC -- The common view that nerves transmit impulses through electricity is wrong and they really transmit sound, according to a team of Danish scientists. The Copenhagen University researchers argue that biology and medical textbooks that say nerves relay el.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:53am mrmdc

CBC -- Canadian forces will play an important role in a new NATO offensive launched Tuesday to drive the Taliban out of southern Afghanistan. Canadian armoured vehicles rolled out of Kandahar Airfield in the predawn hours to take part in Operation Achilles, s.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 12:33am neoform

CBC -- It was like old times as Mark Messier brought Edmonton fans to their feet on Tuesday night. The only difference was he failed to inspire the hometown Oilers to victory. Messier, who celebrated five of his six career Stanley Cups with the Oilers before.. Read More