2014年10月31日 星期五

2014-11-01 Canada English More Top Stories

  Toronto Sun   
Jian Ghomeshi story shouldn't have gotten this ugly: DiManno  Toronto Star
If you didn't believe one woman, do you now believe nine? Even the most ardent defenders of media darling Jian Ghomeshi — those who worshipped at the altar of his popular CBC radio cultural affairs program — have been busy this past week deleting ...

2014-11-01 Canada English Health

  Reuters   
Canada imposes visa ban on three Ebola-hit countries  Reuters
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will stop issuing visas to people from the three West African nations where Ebola is widespread, the government said on Friday. The federal citizenship ministry, explaining the move, said in an official document that "the ...

2014-11-01 Canada English Science

  CNN   
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashes after 'anomaly' during test, killing one  Washington Post
A Virgin Galactic spacecraft intended to carry tourists crashed in the Mojave desert due to an “in-flight anomaly” during a test flight Friday, killing one person, the company said. The accident, the second this week involving a craft intended for spaceflight, left a ...

2014-11-01 Canada English Sports

  Times of India   
Djokovic handles Murray; Raonic ousts Federer in Paris  The Province
Paris, France (SportsNetwork.com) - World No. 1 Novak Djokovic cooled off Andy Murray, while Canadian slugger Milos Raonic upended Roger Federer in Friday's quarterfinal action at the $3.7 million Paris Masters. The reigning champion Djokovic topped ...

2014-11-01 Canada English Entertainment

  CTV News   
New TIFF exhibit chronicles filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's career  CTV News
TORONTO -- Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist who cared fiercely about every detail in his films, says his widow as a new exhibit chronicling his life's work opens in Toronto. "A perfectionist is someone who really thinks he's never perfect. And he tried to be," ...

2014-11-01 Canada English Technology

  MobileSyrup.com   
Handset maker Huawei to create 325 jobs at Ontario operations  The Globe and Mail
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., continuing its efforts to polish its reputation in Canada, is announcing plans to invest $210-million in its Ontario operations and create 325 new jobs over the next five years. The Chinese telecom equipment supplier first opened ...

2014-11-01 Canada English Business

  Proactive Investors USA & Canada   
Canadian stock market rebounds amid Japan's stimulus program  Xinhua
TORONTO, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Canada's main stock market rebounded Friday after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly expanded a key stimulus program aiming at boosting the world's third-largest economy. Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark S&P/TSX ...

2014-11-01 Canada English Canada

  Toronto Sun   
Jian Ghomeshi story shouldn't have gotten this ugly: DiManno  Toronto Star
If you didn't believe one woman, do you now believe nine? Even the most ardent defenders of media darling Jian Ghomeshi — those who worshipped at the altar of his popular CBC radio cultural affairs program — have been busy this past week deleting ...

2014-11-01 Canada English World

  Irish Times   
Army chief takes power in Burkina Faso  Irish Times
Anti-government protesters gather in the Place de la Nation in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, today. Photograph: Joe Penney/Reuters. Topics: News · World · Blaise Compaore · Francois Hollande · Honore Traore · African Union · United Nations ...

2014年10月29日 星期三

2014-10-30 Canada English More Top Stories

  National Post   
Canadian actress alleges Jian Ghomeshi slapped and choked her at his home  National Post
Four days after CBC host Jian Ghomeshi was fired amid accusations that he abused women, four more alleged victims have stepped forward, including actress Lucy DeCoutere, who portrays Lucy on Trailer Park Boys. In 2003, she alleged Mr. Ghomeshi ...

2014-10-30 Canada English Health

  National Post   
6-year-old BC girl exposed to HIV during vaccination  Vancity Buzz
A six-year-old girl was inadvertently exposed to HIV during a routine vaccination, and will have to undergo rigorous testing to monitor her health. The child was getting a booster shot at the Fort St. James Health Unit in early October, but flinched during the ...

2014-10-30 Canada English Science

  ABC News   
Antares Rocket Explosion Destroyed These Kids' Science Projects  ABC News
Students across the nation watched their science projects go up in flames as the rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after takeoff. The Antares rocket was carrying kids' science projects as well as food and supplies for ...

2014-10-30 Canada English Sports

  Montreal Gazette   
Giant relief: Bumgarner, Giants hold off Royals 3-2 for 3rd World Series title in 5 ...  Montreal Gazette
The San Francisco Giants celebrate after defeating the Kansas City Royals to win Game Seven of the 2014 World Series by a score of 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium on Oct. 29, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri. Jamie Squire / Getty Images. Share Adjust Comment ...

2014-10-30 Canada English Entertainment

  National Post   
Canadian actress alleges Jian Ghomeshi slapped and choked her at his home  National Post
Four days after CBC host Jian Ghomeshi was fired amid accusations that he abused women, four more alleged victims have stepped forward, including actress Lucy DeCoutere, who portrays Lucy on Trailer Park Boys. In 2003, she alleged Mr. Ghomeshi ...

2014-10-30 Canada English Technology

  ABC News   
Big Retail: We don't hate Apple, just the credit card companies  Register
The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) went on a PR offensive on Wednesday to explain what happened in the hacking attack that saw its testers' emails exposed, why its member retailers banned Apple Pay and Google Wallet, and what makes its ...

2014-10-30 Canada English Business

  CBC.ca   
Poloz says Canada's economic growth at risk if low oil price persists  The Globe and Mail
Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz says the sudden plunge in the price of crude will knock roughly a quarter percentage-point off economic growth next year. Making his first public remarks since last week, when he postponed a planned news ...

2014-10-30 Canada English Canada

  CBC.ca   
Conservatives to follow through on income-splitting promise  Toronto Star
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to announce Thursday the Conservative government will move ahead with a long-promised plan to allow families with children 18 years old or younger to split their income for tax purposes. The measure ...

2014-10-30 Canada English World

  CBC.ca   
Sri Lanka mudslide search continues but few survivors expected  CBC.ca
All hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by first light on Thursday, though a government minister cut the estimated death toll to more than 100 from 300 the previous night.. Sri Lanka mudslide ...

2014年10月27日 星期一

2014-10-28 Canada English More Top Stories

  CBC.ca   
Toronto election: John Tory elected mayor  CBC.ca
John Tory has won the election to be Toronto's next mayor — ending the often gruelling, hotly contested race for the city's top job and the tenure of outgoing mayor Rob Ford. Shortly after 11 p.m. ET, Tory was shown winning some 394,900 votes, or 40.3 per ...

2014-10-28 Canada English Health

  National Post   
Most Internet sources on prostate cancer disagree with expert panel's ...  Science Codex
SAN FRANCISCO—Only 17 percent of top-ranked consumer health websites advise against screening for prostate cancer, a recommendation made more than two years ago by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), according to a study ...

2014-10-28 Canada English Science

  Sarnia Observer   
ABC signs on for comedy TV pilot about Sarnia astronaut​  Sarnia Observer
Chris Hadfield says he didn't even know Warner Bros. was interested in turning his memoir, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, into a situation comedy until a book tour made a stop last year in Los Angeles. The Sarnia-born former astronaut who caught the ...

2014-10-28 Canada English Sports

  USA TODAY   
World Series: Giants have a bullpen that no one talks about  San Jose Mercury News
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- If there's anything that can be safely predicted about the Giants as they try to close out the World Series, it's that they won't be getting any more four-hit shutouts. Madison Bumgarner's brilliance has been expended as a starter, and ...

2014-10-28 Canada English Entertainment

  Toronto Star   
Rough sex and consent: drawing a line in the shades of grey  Toronto Star
While some like it rough, consent isn't always as simple as just saying “yes.” In a statement posted to Facebook on Sunday, former Q host Jian Ghomeshi alleged he had been fired from the CBC “because of the risk of my private sex life being made public.
Christie Blatchford: Jian Ghomeshi another man vilified by anonymous accusers ...   National Post
Jian Ghomeshi lawsuit says CBC made 'moral judgment' about his sex life   OurWindsor.ca
Scandal-plagued radio host Jian Ghomeshi was becoming an international star   The Province
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  Toronto Sun   
Prince to play eight-minute jam on 'SNL'  Toronto Sun
3RDEYEGIRL Prince's new female band, 3RDEYEGIRL. Tweet. Change text size for the story; Print this story. Report an error. Related Stories. Prince planning secret Coachella set? Chris Rock, Prince heading to 'SNL'. Pop superstar Prince will play an ...

2014-10-28 Canada English Technology

  Vancouver Sun   
Shelley Fralic: What's in a name? Maybe some dough  Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — One reason that the Steves — Jobs and Wozniak — chose Apple for the name of their computer company, which they started in a garage nearly 40 years ago, is because it was better than, say, Lemon. Jobs later said he was on a fruit diet at ...

2014-10-28 Canada English Business

  CBC.ca   
Closing Bell: TSX steps back after large gain, energy stocks slide on Goldman ...  Montreal Gazette
TORONTO – The Toronto stock market closed lower Monday with losses led by energy stocks amid a warning that oil prices have even further to slide. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 74.82 points to 14,469, giving back a chunk of last week's 2.25 per cent ...

2014-10-28 Canada English Canada

  CBC.ca   
Toronto election: John Tory elected mayor  CBC.ca
John Tory has won the election to be Toronto's next mayor — ending the often gruelling, hotly contested race for the city's top job and the tenure of outgoing mayor Rob Ford. Shortly after 11 p.m. ET, Tory was shown winning some 394,900 votes, or 40.3 per ...

2014-10-28 Canada English World

  Fox News   
Search for missing Mexican students turns up more human remains  Fox News
October 27, 2014: Mexican marines guard the area where new clandestine mass graves were found near the outskirts of Cocula, Mexico. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez). MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities searching for 43 missing college students have ...

2014年10月26日 星期日

2014-10-27 Canada English More Top Stories

  Toronto Star   
Video left by Ottawa shooter reveals political and ideological motive: RCMP  The Globe and Mail
The man who committed the brazen attack on Parliament Hill that left a Canadian soldier dead was driven by a political and ideological motive, the RCMP said, as it provided new details that shed light on the assault that shook Ottawa last week. Michael ...

2014-10-27 Canada English Health

  Toronto Sun   
White House questions new Ebola rules, nurse plans to sue  Toronto Sun
PPE A man wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) as a Halloween costume, stands in front of the building where Dr. Craig Spencer lives in New York October 25, 2014. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz ...

2014-10-27 Canada English Science

  PetaPixel   
Chris Hadfield Explains How Zero Gravity Makes it Possible to Take Sharp ...  PetaPixel
Have you ever noticed how, in every photo of an astronaut using camera gear in the International Space Station, there's pretty much never a tripod or monopod or special mount in sight? They're always just handholding this massive camera with a 400mm ...

2014-10-27 Canada English Sports

  USA TODAY   
Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras dies in car accident  USA TODAY
St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras and one of the top prospects of the past several seasons, died today in an auto accident in his native Dominican Republic, Dominican police confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. Taveras' girlfriend also died in the ...

2014-10-27 Canada English Entertainment

  Toronto Star   
CBC fires Jian Ghomeshi over sex allegations  Toronto Star
CBC star Jian Ghomeshi has been fired over “information” the public broadcaster recently received that it says “precludes” it from continuing to employ the 47-year-old host of the popular Q radio show. Shortly after CBC announced Ghomeshi was out the door ...

2014-10-27 Canada English Technology

  Canada News   
OPP lament rash of deaths of people not wearing seatbelts  CBC.ca
Twelve people who weren't wearing seatbelts died on Ontario roads in the past month, including five fatalities during the Ontario Provincial Police's two-week Fall Seatbelt Campaign. As of September 21, 32 people who weren't wearing seatbelts died on ...

2014-10-27 Canada English Business

  Reuters   
Euro comes safely through ECB stress test, Aussie up  Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - The euro held firm on Monday after the European Central Bank's stress tests found smaller capital shortfalls among European banks than expected, lending a tailwind to the recovery in risk sentiment over the past week. Twenty-five out of ...

2014-10-27 Canada English Canada

  Toronto Star   
Video left by Ottawa shooter reveals political and ideological motive: RCMP  The Globe and Mail
The man who committed the brazen attack on Parliament Hill that left a Canadian soldier dead was driven by a political and ideological motive, the RCMP said, as it provided new details that shed light on the assault that shook Ottawa last week. Michael ...

2014-10-27 Canada English World

  IBNLive   
Rousseff narrowly wins Brazil re-election  Hindustan Times
Brazilians narrowly voted leftist President Dilma Rousseff back into office on Sunday for a second term after a bitter election campaign that split Latin America's biggest economy largely between the poor north and richer south. Rousseff, Brazil's first woman ...

2014年10月25日 星期六

2014-10-26 Canada English More Top Stories

  Toronto Star   
How the Parliament shootings played out, moment by moment  Toronto Star
OTTAWA—The lockdown of Parliament Hill lasted hours but the stunning assault inside was all over in a matter of, at most, a couple of minutes. Lone gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau is believed to have been shot first by a plainclothes Commons security guard ...

2014-10-26 Canada English Health

  Reuters   
US nurse quarantined over Ebola calls treatment "frenzy of disorganization"  Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Illinois joined New York and New Jersey in imposing mandatory quarantines for people arriving with a risk of having contracted Ebola in West Africa, but the first person isolated under the new rules, a nurse returning from Sierra Leone, ...

2014-10-26 Canada English Science

  Uncover Michigan   
Chris Hadfield launches photo book  Uncover Michigan
Chris Hadfield, Canada's most famous astronaut, has launched a new photo book 'You are Here: Around the World in 92 minutes'. This book is indeed very special as it is full of 200 never-before-seen photos of the Earth that were taken by Hadfield during a ...

2014-10-26 Canada English Sports

  Toronto Star   
Leafs fall to Bruins, ACC crowd chants 'Let's Go Raptors'  Toronto Star
It was a dejected bunch of Leafs who skated off the Air Canada Centre ice Saturday night, jeered after another loss to the Boston Bruins, this time 4-1. They heard fans chant “Let's Go Raptors” throughout the third period. Then they were chewed out by their ...

2014-10-26 Canada English Entertainment

  Reuters   
Former Cream frontman Jack Bruce dies aged 71  Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Jack Bruce, who formed influential British rock band Cream in the 1960s with guitarist Eric Clapton, has died aged 71, his family said on Saturday. Bruce co-wrote some of Cream's biggest hits including "Sunshine of Your Love" and "I Feel ...

2014-10-26 Canada English Technology

  Welland Tribune   
Halloween scares become frightfully hi-tech  Welland Tribune
No, I'm not talking about websites like halloween.com or spirithalloween.com, I'm talking about how technology has affected decorations and parties. Animatronics (a combination of animate and electronics) is arguably the area of Halloween that has been ...

2014-10-26 Canada English Business

  Market Business News   
ValueAct has 5.7 percent stake in Agrium  Market Business News
ValueAct Capital Management LP has bought a 5.7% stake (almost 8.2m shares) in agricultural products and services retailer Agrium Inc., just eighteen months after it fended off another activist Jana Partners LLC. ValueAct's Agrium shares are worth about ...

2014-10-26 Canada English Canada

  Toronto Star   
How the Parliament shootings played out, moment by moment  Toronto Star
OTTAWA—The lockdown of Parliament Hill lasted hours but the stunning assault inside was all over in a matter of, at most, a couple of minutes. Lone gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau is believed to have been shot first by a plainclothes Commons security guard ...

2014-10-26 Canada English World

  ABC Online   
Marysville shooting: Family faces 'nightmare' as police seek motive in 14yo ...  ABC Online
Relatives of a Washington state teen accused of a high school shooting rampage say they are living in a "nightmare" and struggling to understand why the boy targeted his two cousins and several friends before killing himself. The Friday incident at ...

2014年10月24日 星期五

2014-10-25 Canada English More Top Stories

  CBC.ca   
Cpl. Nathan Cirillo: Outpouring of emotion for 'Canada's son'  CBC.ca
Thousands of Canadians lined highway overpasses on a 600-kilometre stretch from Ottawa to Hamilton, Ont., Friday, waving flags and bursting into spontaneous renditions of "O Canada" to honour Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as a procession carried his body home.
Ottawa shooter's robbery attempt a cry for help: criminologist   CTV News
Ottawa shooter's life marked by estrangement   The Globe and Mail
Canada vows tougher laws as citizens worry in face of attacks   Reuters Canada
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  BBC News   
One killed in Washington state school shooting  BBC News
One person was shot dead and four students wounded in a school cafeteria by a student who then took his own life, police in the US state of Washington have said. The shooting occurred at Marysville Pilchuck High School near Seattle. The four students ...

2014-10-25 Canada English Health

  BBC News   
Ebola crisis: 'Many exposed' to infected Mali girl  BBC News
Health officials fear many people may have been exposed to Mali's first Ebola victim - a two-year-old girl. She recently arrived from Guinea, one of the worst affected countries, and has since died. The girl showed symptoms, including a bleeding nose, while ...

2014-10-25 Canada English Science

  CBC.ca   
Astronaut Chris Hadfield launches space photo book  CBC.ca
Canada's most famous astronaut invites readers to take a 92-minute journey with him through space, looking down at planet earth, in his new photo book You are Here: Around the World in 92 minutes. Chris Hadfield's new book is full of almost 200 ...