5 scholars, scientists win $100K Killam Prizes
TORONTO - Five of the country's top scholars and scientists have been named winners of the 2014 Killam Prize, created to honour Canadians who have made contributions to research that has had...
View ArticleSpace station launch Monday despite dead computer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The International Space Station is about to get some fresh groceries and material for an urgent repair job.An unmanned SpaceX rocket is on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. It's...
View ArticleStem-cell technique regrows lost muscle: study
TORONTO - Researchers have been able to rebuild severely damaged leg muscles in a small number of patients by implanting a pig bladder "scaffold" that draws the body's own stem cells to the site and...
View ArticleCity songbirds linked to northern forest: report
EDMONTON - Environmentalists are trying to connect the dots between the songbirds city-dwellers enjoy at backyard feeders and the need for extensive conservation areas in Canada's boreal forest.Two...
View ArticleNewfoundland whale relocation gets underway
The first phase of a multi-year project is underway as a team from a Toronto museum began the laborious process of removing, stripping and preserving the carcasses of two blue whales that have been...
View ArticleAlberta sells off habitat of endangered caribou
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is planning to sell off crucial caribou habitat to the energy industry just days after a federal scientific panel said the herds were in immediate danger of vanishing...
View ArticlePrehistoric girl’s bones found in flooded cave
TORONTO - The pristine skeleton of a teenaged girl who lived about 13,000 years ago, discovered in a deep, water-filled underground cavern in the sprawling cave system in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, is...
View ArticleAlberta to go ahead with sale of caribou range
EDMONTON - Some of Alberta's last remaining habitat for two endangered caribou herds has been sold off for energy development and auctions for more of it will proceed despite calls for a halt."There...
View ArticlePCs accuse Wynne of secret $317M bailout
TORONTO - Ontario's Tories released documents Thursday that they said show the governing Liberals secretly approved a $317-million bailout of a Toronto building project by a private developer and a...
View ArticlePCs say MaRS cost way more than $317 million
TORONTO - The Liberal government's decision to bail out a real estate project in downtown Toronto could cost Ontario taxpayers more than the $1.1-billion gas plants scandal, the Progressive...
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