2015-02-23 Canada English More Top Stories

Reuters   

Neil Patrick Harris kicks off 'whitest' Oscars; JK Simmons, 'Ida' win early awards   
Montreal Gazette
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris wasted no time kicking off a stormy 87th Academy Awards and conceding the ceremony's much-discussed lack of diversity. "Tonight we honour Hollywood's best and whitest — I mean brightest," Harris said ...

2015-02-23 Canada English Health

Toronto Star   

Florida health spa's cancer claims under fire   
Toronto Star
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.—Brian Clement points to a wooden carving of a woman on Hippocrates Health Institute's lush campus. “She was on the diet but it didn't work,” he says, with a belly laugh, motioning to the stout wooden carving that bristles with ...

2015-02-23 Canada English Science

Daily Science Journal   

American And Canadian Coast Guards Have Joined Forces To Rescue Trapped ...   
Daily Science Journal
The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are working together to break free the motor vessel Arthur M. Anderson, which is stuck in ice near Conneaut Harbor. A ship trapped in the ice on Lake Erie has defied efforts to free it for several days. The U.S. Coast Guard ...

2015-02-23 Canada English Sports

Toronto Sun   

Ryan Miller hurt in Canucks' win over Isles   
Toronto Sun
Ryan Miller is the latest Vancouver Canuck to go down to injury, even though he did pick up the victory Sunday against the New York Islanders. The Canucks improved to 2-1 on their five-game road trip with a 4-0 win over the Islanders, a game Miller left early ...

2015-02-23 Canada English Entertainment

National Post   

Oscars 2015: The full list of winners (so far)   
National Post
The song-and-dance number is complete, Neil Patrick Harris has cracked innumerable weak puns and someone has stumbled while presenting an award: The 87th annual Academy Awards are underway! We'll be keeping track of tonight's winners below, ...

2015-02-23 Canada English Technology

E Canada Now   

Calgary Company's One Tap App Hopes To Reduce Distracted Driving Accidents   
E Canada Now
One Tap, an app launched at Calgary's police headquarters on Wednesday hopes to help you manage your life while behind the wheel. The new app, developed by Calgary's AppColony detects when you're driving and manages your alerts and responds ...

2015-02-23 Canada English Business

Wall Street Journal   

Slumping Oil Prices Hit Calgary Housing   
Wall Street Journal
Calgary, Canada's fourth-biggest city, with 1.2 million people, is starting to feel the impact of the oil-price collapse. Many companies, including some of the region's largest employers, have slashed budgets, cut wages and frozen hiring, and some have started ...

2015-02-23 Canada English Canada

Kenney rejects call to increase oversight of national-security agencies   
The Globe and Mail
The federal government is rejecting calls for more independent oversight of Canada's national security agencies even as it speeds passage of legislation that would give sweeping new powers to spies and police in the name of fighting terrorism. Parliament ...

2015-02-23 Canada English World

CBC.ca   

West Edmonton Mall named in al-Shabaab video as possible target   
CBC.ca
Edmonton police say there is “no imminent threat” to the city after the al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab named West Edmonton Mall as a possible target in video online. The video appears to call on followers to attack shopping malls in the United States, U.K. ...