Dec 27th, 2008 · The jangly opening chord of The Beatles' hit has long frustrated amateur guitarists seeking to replicate it. So a Canadian mathematician used sound-wave analysis to figure it out. It appears that the Fab Four got by with a little help.
Dec 24th, 2008 · The Canadian singer-songwriter, who notes that she hails from the setting of Anne of Green Gables, was one of the winners of the Mountain Stage NewSong Contest. Here, she performs songs from her third album, If You Were for Me.
Dec 9th, 2008 · A federal appeals court in New York hears arguments Tuesday over a lawsuit filed by Maher Arar, a Canadian detained at JFK airport in 2002 and deported to Syria, where he was tortured. Arar says his goal is to hold U.S. officials responsible for violating his human rights.
Dec 9th, 2008 · An appeals court has agreed to hear the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was arrested in New York and sent to Syria to be tortured. Arar is pursuing a federal lawsuit charging the U.S. government violated his right to due process.
Dec 4th, 2008 · Canada is having a constitutional crisis. The conservative parliament that was elected less than two months ago is in danger of being ousted. The opposition party says the prime minister is not doing enough to deal with the global economic crisis. Naheed Nenshi, of the Bissett School of Business at Calgary's Mount Royal College, and Keith Boag, of the Canadian Broadcast Company explains how Canadians are sorting through a political drama.
Dec 4th, 2008 · You've heard how Canadian radio hosts put a fake call to Sarah Palin. That was not going to happen to a prominent member of Congress. The Miami Herald reports Ileana Ros-Lehtinen got a call from a man claiming to be President-elect Barack Obama. She hung up. Then she got a call from a guy, claiming to be Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff. She hung up. Finally she got a call from a fellow Congressman, who told her she'd hung up on the real Barack Obama.
Nov 24th, 2008 · A surge of diamond mining in northern Canada aims to be a boon for the economy. Running a mining operation in the remote tundra region of the Northwest Territories is costly and challenging, but demand for conflict-free diamonds is high.
Nov 19th, 2008 · The world's biggest automaker says it will stop production at all U.S. and Canadian factories for two days next month. Toyota's assembly, transmission and engine plants will close in late December as the company tries to work through excess inventory. The Japanese carmaker is in much better financial shape than its U.S. rivals, but sales of Toyota's vehicles also are plunging.