Jul 05
Taylor Hall ague hands with Edmonton Oilers general economist Steve Tambellini at a intelligence conference Monday announcing Hall's convention with the NHL team. (CBC)The Edmonton Oilers announced Monday they have signed Taylor Hall, the No. 1 select pick, to a three-year, entry-level contract. Hall's deal includes the maximum base salary of $900,000 per season and could ...
Jul 05
Fears of a double-dip recession in the near term are misguided, the Bank of Nova Scotia uttered Monday. Pointing to strong U.S. consumer spending data and modest income growth, Scotiabank economists Derek Holt and Gorica Djeric wrote in a note that fears over every impending descent into a just discovered recession are overblown. "The overall picture is individual of ...
Jul 05
In this courtroom sketch from June, Omar Khadr sits with his defence team during a hearing at the U.S. war crimes commission at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. (Janet Hamlin/Reuters)The Federal Court of Canada has given the federal government seven days to arrive up by a think best of remedies to its breach of Omar Khadr'session ...
Jul 05
An explosion at a transformer station in Toronto has caused a widespread sovereignty outage affecting intellect of the downtown and the west end. The blackout is affecting commuter train service and the subway. The Royal York public-house, hosting a dignified survey event Monday evening, is unnatural by the blackout but operating on back-up power. Toronto Hydro picture Map ...
Jul 05
Discarded Tim Hortons coffee cups are being turned into ethanol by researchers at the University of Manitoba.
The researchers got the idea after walking past Tim Hortons outlets on campus and noticing how many cups were being discarded and never recycled. (CBC)Microbiologists Richard Sparling and David Levin said they came up with the idea of using ...