The Canadian women’s hockey team caused a bit of a stir with their gold medal celebration on Thursday. Half an hour after the medal ceremony, when fans had left the building, the women were asked to return to the ice to be photographed. They certainly obliged. Players – still in uniform and with medals around their necks – celebrated joyfully, complete with beer, Champagne, and cigars. The... 

With a deficit of $24.7 billion this year, the Canadian province of Ontario is looking for ways to make more money. The financially strapped province has been considering ways to help the economic situation and the most recent idea, supporting online gambling, has been met with much debate. Although the current government of Ontario, under Premier Dalton McGuinty, has been known to stand against measures... 

Another gold medal was added to Canada’s medal count last night as Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir win the ice dance competition at the Vancouver Winter Games. This is the country’s first gold medal in the event. Virtue and Moir skated to “Symphony No. 5” by Gustav Mahler, and finished with a combined score of 221.57 with a score of 11.42 in the free-dance portion of the event. These two skaters... 

July 1,2010 will bring a new tax to Ontarians. The Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is set to go into effect that day. This tax will cost the people, on average, an extra $225 a year in utilities alone. New home buyers will suffer with additional taxes on services, such as home inspection fees and moving fees. The HST tax, imposed by the provincial government, will be in addition to the already standard... 

Thirty years ago, the United States hockey team faced, and defeated, a Soviet Union team that was called unbeatable. This year, the United States is celebrating a miniature version of 1980’s miracle on ice after defeating the Canadian hockey team in the 2010 winter Olympic games. The host of this year’s Olympics is Vancouver, so that makes the defeat doubly hard for the Canadians to handle, though... 

The 64 passengers and crew of the Canadian tall ship, SV Concordia which had served as a floating classroom for many Calgarian students were stranded on rafts in the Atlantic Ocean after their vessel sank off the coast of Brazil. There were no casualties, no one was lost and only one injury was reported. After spending over two weeks at sea, the tall ship began having trouble over 300 miles off the... 

While the Canadian national hockey team is a favorite to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games, they had just about all they could handle on Thursday from a surprising opponent. The Canadians barely outlasted the Switzerland Olympic hockey team and won 3 goals to 2 in a shootout. This came as a complete surprise as many hockey experts expected the Canadians to win this game with ease. Clearly... 

Shaw to Test Ultra-Fast Internet Speeds Shaw Communications is unleashing a new gigabit internet technology for Canada’s high-speed internet access. It is now available to its customers and runs at 100mbps speed. It is called High-Speed Nitro and is being offered by Shaw in Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The service will be offered over Fiber-to-the-Home or FTTH and will be able to support new,... 

Contrary to what had been announced yesterday, Canadian-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is not dead. The Orillia, Ontario native gave an interview to 680 News in Toronto, fifteen minutes after the media group CanWest had announced his death. The news spread rapidly. “I am healthy. I’m fine,.” said Lightfoot. Lightfoot, 71, was apparently at the dentist when rumors began to circulate,... 

February 19,2010 – On Thursday, Canada’s last remaining soldier from World War I, John Babcock, passed away at the age of 109. Prime Minister Stephen Harper honored the memory of Babcock and used the occasion to highlight the war’s impact on Canada’s emergence as a great nation that defended freedom and democracy. The head of the Canadian military, Michaelle Jean echoed these sentiments in...