Toronto | 1 hour ago
Economic recovery in N.America slipping: Bank
Toronto, Sep 3 - Despite reports from the US Thursday that initial jobless claims fell to 472,000 last week and pending home resales were up 5.2 per cent in July, Canada's top Toronto Dominion - Bank said the economic recovery in North America is slipping after positive hints four months ago.'Does the world look as good as it did four months ago? No, it doesn't really,'' TD Bank CEO Ed Clark told ... read more

Toronto | 2 hours ago
Measure stress in hair to assess cardiac risk
Toronto, Sep 3 - The levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in one's hair can tell when a person is most likely to suffer a heart attack.University of Western Ontario researchers, led by Gideon Koren and Stan Van Uum, developed a method to measure cortisol levels in hair and gauge stress levels in the months prior to a heart attack. Cortisol secretion, which goes up during stress, has traditionall ... read more

Toronto | 23 hours ago
Canadian woman judge in inter-racial porn scandal
Toronto, Sep 2 - In a shocking sex scandal that has hit the Canadian judiciary, a black man is suing a white lawyer for harassing him to have sex with the lawyer's wife who herself is now a senior judge.In his $67-million lawsuit Wednesday, Alexander Chapman, a 44-year-old black man who is a computer specialist by profession, says lawyer Jack King, 64, repeatedly harassed him in 2003 to have sex w ... read more

Toronto | 1 day ago
Bombardier's profits dip despite robust metro demand
Toronto, Sep 2 - Bombardier, a world leader in metro rail cars and aerospace business, said Wednesday that orders for its business jets still remain slack despite signs of global recovery. But demand for its metro cars remains strong, the company said, reporting a 27 percent drop in its quarterly profits.The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation - has just placed additional orders for 40 rail cars at a cos ... read more

Vancouver | 2 days ago
Air India bomber faces fresh trial next week
Vancouver, Sep 1 - Air India Kanishka bombing convict Inderjit Singh Reyat, who was released last year after spending 15 years in jail, faces a fresh perjury trial from Sep 9. If convicted, he faces another 14 years in jail.Reyat was the only person jailed in the 1985 Air India bombing by Khalistani extremists to avenge the Indian Army operation at the Golden Temple against Sikh militants in 1984. ... read more

Toronto | 3 days ago
Microsoft takes Word patent battle to US apex court
Toronto, Aug 31 - Microsoft, which lost its patent battle over Word processing software to a tiny Toronto firm i4i Inc. and was ordered to pay $290 million in damages last year, has taken the matter to the US Supreme Court.The Canadian company had taken the software giant to court in 2007 over violations of its patent in Word applications and won the case and got $290 million in damages last Decem ... read more

Toronto | 3 days ago
Canada `pleased' with reprieve for BlackBerry
Toronto, Aug 31 - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion - Monday refused to comment on concessions it has granted India in getting a 60-day reprieve for ban on its services from Aug 31. But Canadian International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan was 'pleased' with the developments between RIM and the Indian government.'We'll let you know when we have any further updates,'' RIM told IANS in its brief re ... read more

Toronto | 4 days ago
Smoking contributes to blues among teens
Toronto, Aug 30 - Some teenagers smoke to puff away their blues, but it may actually end up worsening their depressive symptoms.'Smokers who used cigarettes as mood enhancers had higher risks of elevated depressive symptoms than teens who had never smoked,' says study co-author Jennifer O'Loughlin, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Montreal. As part of the study, 662 high sch ... read more

Washington | 4 days ago
Why mothers bond so well with their kids
Washington, Aug 29 - Children share a special lifelong bond with their mothers which may be rooted in how the brain reacts when we see our mothers' face.When adults look upon their mothers' face, it triggers a stronger response in the brain than when they look at pictures of strangers and that of their father, according to scientists. Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging - machines, researchers measu ... read more

Toronto | 4 days ago
Speak up against Roma expulsion by France, India told
Toronto, Aug 29 - India must speak up against France for the en masse expulsion of Indian-origin Roma people, said Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian health minister and top Indo-Canadian leader.The Roma people - also called gypsies - claim their roots in north India from where they were enslaved and taken away by invaders from Afghanistan and Turkey almost a millennium ago. In the 14th and 15th centu ... read more