Canada Post swamped by Internet shoppers (The Globe and Mail)
Surge in Internet cross-border shopping by Canadians trying to cash in on the soaring loonie creates headaches for consumers, border agents and Canada Post ...more...Internet shopping by Canadians causes backlog (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
EDMONTON, Alberta -- A surge in Internet cross-border shopping by Canadians trying to cash in on the soaring loonie is creating headaches for consumers, border service agents and Canada Post. ... - By John Cotter Canadian Press...more... News Index (Prince George Citizen Online)
EDMONTON - A surge in Internet cross-border shopping by Canadians trying to cash in on the soaring loonie is creating headaches for consumers, border agents and Canada Post....more... Edmonton engineer among plane crash victims (Global TV Winnipeg)
EDMONTON â?? Local businessman Allen Williams was one of the men killed when a small plane went down Sunday near Golden, B.C. Williams was CEO and founder of A.D. Williams Engineering and a lifelong pilot. He was one of two men killed in the crash....more... Edmonton engineer among plane crash victims (Windsor Star)
EDMONTON - Local businessman Allen Williams was one of the men killed when a small plane went down Sunday near Golden, B.C. Williams was CEO and founder of A.D. Williams Engineering and a lifelong pilot. He was one of two men killed in the crash....more... Age not a factor as teens light it up all over NHL ice (USA Today)
The parade of teenagers in the NHL isn't exclusive to the Chicago Blackhawks. There are 14 teenagers on NHL rosters, including second-year Pittsburgh Penguins center Jordan Staal already a star at 19. That doesn't include the Ottawa Senators' Nick Foligno, who turned 20 Wednesday....more... Call for troops to be comfortable in both official languages (Toronto Star)
MASUM GHAR, Afghanistan?In battle, sometimes the slightest deviation from orders can spell disaster and lead to loss of life. For that reason, there are calls for newly minted officers in the Canadian military to be even more comfortable speaking Canada's two official languages than before....more... International Housing Activist Miloon Kothari (World Headlines)
Miloon Kothari, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Housing, recently visited Canada on a fact-finding mission to look at the issues of homelessness, Aboriginal housing, women's housing and the impact of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver....more... Robert Goulet, the Suave Baritone, Is Dead at 73 (New York Times)
Robert Goulet played a dashing Lancelot in 1960 and went on to a wide-ranging career as a singer and actor, winning a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy....more... |