Tina Fey argues for free speech, preps for new Netflix show (with video)
PASADENA, Calif. — Tina Fey: mother, actress, comedian, female role model, TV producer, writer, Vanity Fair cover model, eight-time Emmy winner, recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor,...
View ArticleTsunamis toss Japanese buoys and hard hats into B.C. forest
VANCOUVER — Japanese hard hats and fishing floats are now lying in old growth forests on the B.C. coast after being washed into the Pacific Ocean by the biggest tsunami of 2011, and then out of the...
View ArticleHorrific tsunami led to global warning system
Huge waves washing boats, vehicles, trees and bodies up streets and hillsides. Desperate parents and families searching for children and relatives who had been swept away. Heart-breaking images of...
View ArticleUkraine’s propaganda war: Good TV but bad for truth
DONETSK, Ukraine — Television images of riots, fires, gun battles and helicopters getting shot down by surface-to-air missiles suggest that Ukraine is under mob rule. That is hardly the case, although...
View ArticlePhotos May 4 : Top images from around the world
The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. An Afghan boy looks on he stands at the site of a landslide that...
View ArticleMigrating shorebirds — and the goo they eat — is a sticky issue for Port...
VANCOUVER — The sandpipers are right on schedule, hundreds of thousands of them touching down on the mudflats just south of the city. The “peeps” are here to refuel, some almost doubling their weight...
View ArticlePhotos: Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankees
The Canadian nation anthem is played as the Toronto Blue Jays get ready to take on the New York Yankees. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Melky Cabrera #53 of the Toronto Blue Jays is congratulated by...
View ArticleFeds need to do more to fight climate change, finds deputy ministers’ report
OTTAWA — A secret report from a committee of federal deputy ministers stresses the need for the federal government to further combat climate change and manage the risks that threaten Canadian...
View ArticlePacific herring fishery was once sustainable over ‘millennia,’ study finds
Hundreds of herring were hanging from the rafters of native long houses when Captain James Cook first sailed along the coast of British Columbia in the spring of 1778. And First Nations people can be...
View ArticleHungry polar bears robbing Arctic bird colonies
There were more than 300 nests in the bird colony when the polar bear arrived. When it meandered off with a belly full of eggs only 24 nests remained, say scientists who witnessed the “near total”...
View ArticleSatellite data sound alarm on safety of bitumen extraction
OTTAWA — Satellite imagery used by the federal government to review a major bitumen leak last year in Alberta has found the project’s steam-based extraction caused “measurable levels of ground...
View ArticleTax cheats whistleblower hotline up and running
OTTAWA — Ten months after it was first trumpeted in the budget, the Conservative government announced Wednesday its whistleblower hotline to crack down on tax cheats is finally operational. A week...
View ArticleFederal ombudsman says taxpayers being declared dead a ‘systemic issue’
OTTAWA — The federal taxpayers’ ombudsman says the Canada Revenue Agency does, indeed, have a “systemic issue” with taxpayers wrongfully declared dead, even though the CRA says that determination has...
View ArticleAt least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools, commission finds
OTTAWA — Thousands of Canada’s aboriginal children died in residential schools that failed to keep them safe from fires, protected from abusers, and healthy from deadly disease, a commission into the...
View ArticleWhile some provinces will get text-911 service in New Year, others will wait...
Deaf Canadians in some parts of the country will likely be able to access 911 emergency services using text messaging starting next year, but others may have to wait until well into 2015. Advocates say...
View ArticleYear in a minute: A Supreme Court hiring boondoggle
OTTAWA — It’s a mistake that could dog Justice Minister Peter MacKay well into 2014: the appointment of Quebec Federal Court Justice Marc Nadon to Canada’s top bench. MacKay first alluded to the issue...
View ArticleCoast Guard reviewing navigation and icebreaking fees, services
OTTAWA — For the first time in 15 years, Canada’s coast guard is reviewing the amount it charges transport ships, ferries and other commercial vessels for navigational and icebreaking services. The...
View ArticleOur overreaching prostitution laws have put people’s lives at risk
The striking thing about the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford is not how radical it is, but how reasonable. Which is perhaps to say how unreasonable the laws...
View ArticleStephen Harper describes learning about secret Senate payment
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he felt betrayed and deceived at being left in the dark over the secret $90,000 cheque his former chief of staff gave to Sen. Mike Duffy. Harper made the...
View ArticleRob Ford tops Postmedia survey as Canadian newsmaker for 2013
In a concession that, just this once, Toronto may be the centre of the universe, Postmedia senior editors nationwide have chosen Toronto Mayor Rob Ford as Canadian newsmaker of the year. The annual...
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