Toronto | 5 days ago
Woman scams Canadians by faking cancer
Toronto, Aug 9 - A 23-year-old Canadian woman, who faked having cancer and then created a bogus charity to raise thousands of dollars only to blow the money away, says she did it all to settle scores with her parents for her miserable childhood.'I was trying to get my family back together. I didn't want to feel like I'm nothing anymore,'' Ashley Kirilow who turned herself in Friday and will appear ... read more

Toronto | 7 days ago
Shooting in Canada, Akshay says 'Singh is Kinng 2' next year
Toronto, Aug 7 - Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, who is busy shooting romantic comedy 'Thank You' here these days, says a sequel to his hit film 'Singh is Kinng' would be out next year.The 'khiladi,' who has been chosen as Canada's tourism brand ambassador in India till 2012, wants to shoot more movies in the country and even intends to spend more time in Canada after he retires. He said he would als ... read more

Toronto | 1 month ago
Plants too show intelligence in capturing nutrients
Toronto, June 26 - Researchers have discovered that a plant's strategy to capture nutrients in the soil is the outcome of integrating different types of information.University of Alberta ecologist J.C. Cahill says that the plant's strategy mirrors the daily risk-versus-reward dilemmas that animals experience in their quest for food. Biologists established long ago that an animal uses information a ... read more

Toronto | 1 month ago
Mammohan Singh invites Indo-Canadian lawmakers for meeting
Toronto, June 25 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet all MPs and provincial lawmakers of Indian origin in Canada during his visit here for the G-20 summit at the weekend. This is being organised at the prime minister's initiative.Manmohan Singh's initiative assumes significance in the light of India's concerns to the Canadian government about the activities of anti-India elements. 'The meeti ... read more

London | 1 month ago
Murray's fairytale Wimbledon victory fit for a Queen
London, June 24 - Scot Andy Murray turned in a command performance on court as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made her first visit to Wimbledon in more than three decades in time for her subject's 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Jarkko Nieminen Thursday.The bemused Nieminen, a proud Finn from one of northern Europe's strongest democracies, played along with the ancient pomp and ceremony demanded under Briti ... read more

Toronto | 1 month ago
Faster employees inspire colleagues to bolster output
Toronto, June 16 - You wouldn't think that there would be much similarity between a hockey line and an automobile assembly line.However, University of Alberta - management-science researcher Ken Schultz says that both groups can learn something about line design and human behaviour to help them perform better. Schultz analysed production-line data from a General Motors plant and identified that th ... read more

Toronto | 2 months ago
3E super partnership between India, Canada urged
Toronto, June 13 - A leading educationist here has called for a 3E 'super partnership' - involving energy, entrepreneurship and education - between India and Canada in mutual interest.Indira Samarasekera, who is the president of the University of Alberta, said India and Canada can forge this super partnership by strategically focussing on energy, entrepreneurship and education as their interests c ... read more

Toronto | 2 months ago
Squirrels show softer side by adopting orphaned pups
Toronto, June 2 - The squirrels you often see fighting over scraps may not seemaltruistic, but they have a softer side too -- seen occasionally when they adopt orphaned kin. The study by Andrew McAdam, professor at Guelph University, along with researchers from the University of Alberta and McGill University, revealed that red squirrels will adopt pups that have lost their mother. It's a signifi ... read more

Vancouver | 2 months ago
Mumbai professor for G8 University Summit
Vancouver, May 20 - Dr Narayana Jayarama, of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, will represent India and be one the keynote speakers at the G8 University Summit here next month. At the University Summit, presidents of 50 universities from 14 countries will prepare advice on development issues for world leaders meeting at G8 and G20 summits in Canada June 25-27.'The overarching theme ... read more

Toronto | 3 months ago
China gets big foothold in Canadian oil sector
Toronto, May 14 - The Chinese got another major foothold in the Canadian energy market Thursday with a billion-dollar cash deal with the energy major Penn West Energy Trust. Canada holds the second largest reserves of oil after Saudi Arabia, and is the biggest energy provider for the US.Penn West is one of the largest oil and natural gas producers in North America, and the China Investment Corp is ... read more