Stories tagged "canadian"

In little more than a year, athletes from around the world will be coming to Vancouver and Whistler for the 2010 Winter Olympics. And when they arrive, they'll meet a new, performance-enhanced Canada. I

Selection of our Canadian Wildlife Photos and Pictures, from bears over birds to whales

He doesn't think he did anything wrong. He says, just like Wayne Gretzky, that he had to go somewhere else to make it big, but he never forgot who he was, or where he was from, or how he got there.

On that basis, then, the 13th Canadian-born player ever to wear a Blue Jay suit seems destined to become the 15th Canadian to surface in a World Series.

Men of Iron: The Life and Times of the Weider Brothers

Ben Weider, the Canadian who helped turn body building from a fringe activity into a worldwide fitness phenomenon, died suddenly in Montreal on Friday. He was 85.

Thousands of poetry awards and prizes are given throughout the world, ranging from very well-respected down through ones that are nothing more than con schemes designed to milk gullible would-be poets.

TORONTO, Oct. 15 /CNW Telbec/ - The turmoil in the United States is limiting Canadian economic growth to 0.8 per cent in 2008, but Canada will avoid a recession, according to the Conference Board's Canadian-Outlook-Autumn 2008, released today

Newly re-elected Prime Minister is reviewing options to further aid banks, but says he can't attend premier's meeting to discuss the economy.

Canada's Conservative prime minister appears poised to retain his job as Canadians vote in national elections on Tuesday, but he faces a greater challenge in winning a parliamentary majority.