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October 21, 2010: Toyota recall due to brake fluid leak concerns
October 20, 2010: Elfe stroller recall details
October 1, 2010: Pakistan flood relief: how you can help
October 1, 2010: China landslide relief: how you can help
October 1, 2010: Lyle & Marie McCann disappearance investigation
September 30, 2010: Mattel Fisher-Price toy recall details (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
September 30, 2010: Author and "music nerd" Bob Mersereau’s list of the top 100 Canadian singles of all time
September 24, 2010: Guatemala Stove Project (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile)
September 23, 2010: Breast Cancer Incidence and Hormone Replacement Therapy in Canada study (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
September 15, 2010: Childhood overweight and obesity management study: A national perspective of primary health care providers’ views, practices, perceived barriers and needs by the Pulsus Group Inc. (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
September 13, 2010: Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Economic Survey of Canada (as featured in Peter Harris’s story)
September 13, 2010: Canadian Payroll Association’s findings on workers living paycheque to paycheque: news release and results (PDF) (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
September 9, 2010: McGill University Health Centre: "Research on psychological impact of shooting at Dawson College sheds light on post-traumatic disorders; yields recommendations and SECURE intervention program" (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
September 9, 2010: Public Library of Science: "Homocysteine-Lowering by B Vitamins Slows the Rate of Accelerated Brain Atrophy in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial" (as featured in Tara Nelson’s story)
September 8, 2010: Canadian Diabetes Association’s reports: The Cost of Diabetes in Ontario and The Burden of Diabetes in Ontario (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
September 8, 2010: BP’s full report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster
August 30, 2010: Industrial Impacts on Water in Alberta (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
August 30, 2010: More on Sebastian Terry’s bucket list
August 25, 2010: Transportation Safety Board of Canada: Rail Reports (2009) (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
August 23, 2010: 2010 Report Card on Health Care in Canada (as featured in Christina Stevens’s story)
August 17, 2010: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s credit card payment calculator tool (as featured in Christina Stevens’s story)
August 16, 2010: Canadian Real Estate Association on HST affecting BC and Ontario housing markets (as featured in Christina Stevens’s story)
August 11, 2010: Lancet Infectious Diseases article on new superbug from India (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
August 11, 2010: Costco cookie recall: Canadian Food Inspection Agency release
August 9, 2010: Dog survey results (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
August 6, 2010: Robert Pickton transcripts (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis’s story)
August 4, 2010: Report of the Investigators of Surgical and Pathology Issues at Three Essex County Hospitals: Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital, Leamington District Memorial Hospital and Windsor Regional Hospital (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
August 4, 2010: More on Sebastian Terry’s bucket list (as featured in Amanda Ferguson’s story)
July 30, 2010: British Medical Journal: Effect of calcium supplements on risk of myocardial infarction and cardiovascular events (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
July 30, 2010: Ipsos Reid Consumer Confidence Survey
July 29, 2010: Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada: Recommendations of the Sodium Working Group and Health Canada on sodium (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s and Robin Gill’s stories)
July 29, 2010: Toyota recalls Avalon information
July 27, 2010: Nissan Cube recall details
July 26, 2010: Canadian Medical Association Journal on caffeinated energy drinks (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
July 22, 2010: ROPOS Underwater Expedition blog (as featured in Ross Lord’s story)
July 20, 2010: Statistics Canada: Police-reported crime statistics
July 15, 2010: The Lifesaving Society’s study: the Influence of Ethnicity on Aquatic Participation and Drowning in Canada (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
July 14, 2010: Fresh Express salad product recall
July 8, 2010: Canadian melanoma study published in the American Journal of Pathology
July 6, 2010: Global News-Ipsos Reid poll on G20 police actions (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
July 5, 2010: Global News-Ipsos Reid poll on Toronto being the G20 host (as featured in Lauren McNabb’s story)
July 1, 2010: Canada Day quiz
July 1, 2010: Toyota’s warning about stalling engines
June 28, 2010: Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) article on Avandia: Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Heart Failure, and Death in Elderly Medicare Patients Treated With Rosiglitazone or Pioglitazone (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
June 23, 2010: Rolling Stone article with Stanley McChrystal (as featured in Paul Johnson’s story)
June 18, 2010: Study on risk factors for stroke (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
June 18, 2010: We CANcer VIVE (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile of Joe Whitfeld)
June 17, 2010: The full Air India inquiry report (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
June 16, 2010: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Services: "How Many Canadians will be Diagnosed with Diabetes Between 2007 and 2017?" report (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
June 15, 2010: Caught in a time crunch? Take this quiz (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
June 12, 2010: Deli meat recalled due to listeria concerns
June 8, 2010: General Motors (GM) recall
June 7, 2010: Chrysler recall
June 4, 2010: McDonald’s recalls Shrek-themed glassware (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s story)
June 4, 2010: Field of Dreams Movie Site (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
June 3, 2010: Maytag dishwasher recall details
May 31, 2010: Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise program (as featured in Robin Gill’s story)
May 26, 2010: Sign up to receive AMBER Alerts on your wireless device
May 26, 2010: Statistics Canada’s population projection (as featured in Ross Lord’s story)
May 26, 2010: Study on women reacting to stomach drugs
May 26, 2010: Facebook’s blog on the social networking site’s privacy changes
May 21, 2010: Global National/Ipsos Reid poll on abortion views in Canada
May 21, 2010: Maddox Flynn’s Facebook page and Maddox Flynn’s Journey blog (as featured in Ross Lord’s story)
May 20, 2010: Science Magazine: Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s story)
May 20, 2010: Pow Wow Idol: Online Native American Indian Singing Contest (as featured in Ross Lord’s story)
May 19, 2010: Canadian Cancer Society: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2010: Special Topic: End-of-Life Care (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
May 18, 2010: Harvard School of Public Health study on processed meats and your health
May 18, 2010: Donations for Maddox Flynn: e-mail maddoxflynntrustfund@hotmail.com or visit any RBC branch in Edmonton and donate to the Maddox Terrence Flynn Trust Fund (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
May 17, 2010: Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association: Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case–control study (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
May 13, 2010: University of Victoria’s study on O Canada (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
May 12, 2010: Step2 Buggy recall
May 12, 2010: The Facebook page of Kanellos, the Greek protest dog (as featured in Stuart Greer’s story)
May 10, 2010: The Official Site of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command for the Gulf of Mexico Oill Spill Response (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
May 9, 2010: Processed meat products recalled due to Listeria concerns
May 7, 2010: The Lancet’s editorial on Canada’s stance on abortion
May 5, 2010: 65th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands (as featured in Tara Nelson’s story)
May 4, 2010: Bearing The Brunt: How the 2008-2009 Recession Created Poverty for Canadian Families (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis’s story)
May 1, 2010: McNeil Consumer Healthcare/Johnson & Johnson children’s medicine recall
April 29, 2010: Read e-mails released pertaining to the Rahim Jaffer scandal (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis’s story)
April 29, 2010: Toyota USA’s latest recall information; also check out Toyota Canada’s vehicle safety information page
April 29, 2010: Participate in the study looking at the long-term cell phones have on your health (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
April 28, 2010: A Day Without Media: study on internet, social media, and cell phone addictions
April 28, 2010: As You Sow (as featured in Robin Gill’s story)
April 26, 2010: Full video of good samaritan attack in New York (as featured in Paul Johnson’s story)
April 23, 2010: Ipsos Reid poll on Conservatives’ popularity as Helena Guergis/Rahim Jaffer scandal widens (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis’s story)
April 21, 2010: Mozhdah Jamalzadah (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
April 19, 2010: International Luge Federation’s report into death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili (as featured in Robin Gill’s story)
April 19, 2010: Toyota USA’s latest recall information; also check out Toyota Canada’s vehicle safety information page
April 19, 2010: "Nothing New. Nothing Wasted." – Calgary family’s blog on not buying anything new for a whole year (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
April 15, 2010: Black History Canada on Viola Desmond (as featured in Ross Lord’s story)
April 14, 2010: Georges Brossard’s bugs at the Montreal Insectarium (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
April 12, 2010: Poll results from Ipsos Reid on how many Canadians know someone who has been sexually abused by a priest (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
April 12, 2010: Post your condolences for Pte. Tyler William Todd
April 12, 2010: Terry Fox Foundation (as featured in Ross Lord’s story)
April 8, 2010: New England Journal of Medicine: Lung Function in Rescue Workers at the World Trade Center after 7 Years
April 8, 2010: Royal LePage house price survey on consumer confidence
April 8, 2010: Watch Tiger Woods in his new, controversial ad for Nike (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
April 6, 2010: Watch the dramatic and disturbing video of a 2007 U.S. military Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed 12 people, including two Reuters employees, released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks (as featured in Stuart Greer’s story)
April 2, 2010: Silani Mozzarella Cheese product recalled due to listeria concerns
March 31, 2010: Helping Mariah MacKinnon: Donate at any TD-Canada Trust, In Trust for Justin MacKinnnon; or e-mail him at justinmackinnon24@hotmail.com
March 24, 2010: Become a Facebook fan of the Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s story)
March 24, 2010: Infantino baby sling recall (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
March 22, 2010: Send your condolences to the family of Cpl. Darren James Fitzpatrick
March 19, 2010: Health Canada on caffeine (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
March 19, 2010: Live: Fargo flood cams (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
March 18, 2010: Bauer hockey stick recall information (as featured in Jas Johal’s story)
March 18, 2010: Graco high chair recall information (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
March 16, 2010: Mexico travel advice and advisories from Foreign Affairs (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
March 16, 2010: Transportation Safety Board’s concerns and recommendations
March 16, 2010: American Honda Motor Co., Inc.’s statement on the driver’s airbag inflator recall (for Canadian information, read this story)
March 16, 2010: Lay’s Smokey Bacon chips recalled due to salmonella contamination concerns
March 15, 2010: Food Recall Information from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
March 15, 2010: Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
March 14 & 15, 2010: Canadian Avalanche Centre Bulletins (also see the main Canadian Avalanche Centre page)
March 14 & 15, 2010: Avalanche facts and safety tips from the Government of Canada
March 12, 2010: Siena brand Prosciutto Cotto Cooked Ham recalled due to Listeria concerns (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
March 12, 2010: Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis’s story)
March 11, 2010: Lawsuit against Bayer, the maker of the Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
March 11, 2010: Forbes counts down the world’s billionaires (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s story)
March 11, 2010: Ask your questions to Prime Minister Stephen Harper through YouTube
March 10, 2010: Environment Canada: Temperature & Precipitation in Historical Perspective (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
March 10, 2010: More foods (popcorn seasoning, dips) recalled due to salmonella concerns
March 9, 2010: Statistics Canada study: Projections of the diversity of the Canadian population (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s story)
March 9, 2010: Toyota recall information in Canada; and the U.S. (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s story)
March 9, 2010: More foods (soup mixes, snacks) recalled due to salmonella concerns
March 8, 2010: More snack foods (pretzels) recalled due to salmonella concerns
March 5, 2010: Tim’s Cascade Snacks recalled due to salmonella concerns (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
March 4, 2010: Budget 2010
March 3, 2010: List of Juno nominees for 2010
March 3, 2010: List of torchbearers for the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
March 2, 2010: GM recalls compact cars to fix power steering assist
March 1, 2010: Ipsos Reid poll results of Canwest News Service/Global National poll on federal politics (as featured in Jacques Bourbeau’s story)
February 26, 2010: Read the full study on Wii helping stroke victims (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
February 25, 2010: Health Canada Recall Notice: Generation 2 Worldwide and "ChildESIGNS" Drop-Side Cribs
February 23, 2010: Send your congratulations to Ashleigh McIvor (as featured in Robin Gill’s story)
February 23, 2010: Send your congratulations to Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (as featured in Robin Gill’s story)
February 23, 2010: Statistics Canada’s full report on life expectancy (as featured in Mike Le Couteur’s story)
February 23, 2010: Post your condolences for Therese Rochette (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
February 15, 2010: Post your condolences for Nodar Kumaritashvili (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis’s story)
February 11, 2010: American Heart Association: Stent Procedure 101 (as featured in Paul Johnson’s story)
Feburary 9, 2010: Honda USA recalls vehicles due to airbag defect
February 9, 2010: Vectorial Elevation, a site allowing you to transform Vancouver’s sky as an interactive light show called Vectorial Elevation takes shape
February 7, 2010: Shari’s Mission (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
February 5, 2010: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis’s story)
February 4, 2010: The New England Journal of Medicine: Willful Modulation of Brain Activity in Disorders of Consciousness study
February 3, 2010: Toyota Canada’s news release on accelerator pedal recall fix; you can also read Toyota USA’s news release (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s story)
January 29, 2010: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Robin Gill’s story)
January 27, 2010: Toyota Canada’s news release on the suspension of sales; you can also read Toyota USA’s news release and get more details in this article (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
January 27, 2010: CNET on the launch of the Apple iPad tablet
January 25, 2010: A Perfect Storm of Heart Disease Looming on Our Horizon, 2010 Heart and Stroke Foundation Annual Report on Canadians’ Health (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
January 22, 2010: Toyota Canada’s news release on accelerator pedal recall; you can also read Toyota USA’s news release and get more details in this story
January 22, 2010: Haiti Earthquake Hotel Montana (as featured in Amanda Jelowicki’s story)
January 21, 2010: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
January 15, 2010: Rolaids products recalled
January 12, 2010: Catastrophe in Haiti: Foreign Affairs Emergency Operations Centre: Canadians with Family in Haiti: Call 1-800-387-3124 toll free or (613) 943-1055 collect; or e-mail sos@international.gc.ca
January 12, 2010: Flight Information/New Security Rules (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s report)
“¢ Calgary International Airport
“¢ Edmonton International Airport
“¢ Halifax International Airport
“¢ Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport
“¢ Ottawa International Airport
“¢ Regina International Airport
“¢ Saskatoon International Airport
“¢ Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport
“¢ Vancouver International Airport
“¢ Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson Airport
“¢ Links to more Canadian airports
January 12, 2010: Facebook Group: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
January 12, 2010: New York’s assault on salt (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
“¢ New York City’s salt reduction targets
“¢ Health Canada’s page on sodium
“¢ Government of Manitoba’s tips on reducing salt in your diet
“¢ U.S. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
January 11, 2010: Post condolences for the five Canadians killed in Afghanistan in December
January 8, 2010: Autism study from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
January 7, 2010: Post your condolences for slain Ottawa police Cst. Ireneusz "Eric" Czapnik (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
January 7, 2010: Canadian Partnership Against Cancer survey results news release (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story); also check out Colon Cancer Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society
January 7, 2010: 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
January 6, 2010: Facebook Group: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
January 4, 2010: Rising Tide: the Impact of Dementia on Canadian Society: Read the full study from the Alzheimer Society of Canada (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
January 1, 2010: Post condolences for the five Canadians killed in Afghanistan this week
January 1, 2010: New laws in 2010
“¢ The new year in British Columbia brings a ban on talking on cell phones and texting while driving.
“¢ A similar ban on cell phones is also in effect in Saskatchewan.
“¢ Penalties will be toughened for certain traffic offences in Ontario.
“¢ Smoking in vehicles with children is prohibited in New Brunswick.
December 30, 2009: Environment Canada’s top 10 weather stories of 2009 (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
December 29, 2009: Best Job Ben: Following the adventures of Ben Southall around the world
December 25, 2009: Easter Seals Camp Horizon (as featured in Bindu Suri’s story)
December 24, 2009: Pictures Talk project (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
December 23, 2009: Some of the Christmas charities you can donate to (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story):
December 22, 2009: E-mail Health Canada about the use of asparaginase; e-mail must have the word "asparaginase" in the subject; the deadline is February 21, 2010 (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s story)
December 21, 2009: Snowball fight in New York’s Times Square video on YouTube
December 20, 2009: Shoes For Souls (as featured in Ross Lord’s story on Kyle Warkentin); you can also link to the page on Kijiji
December 17, 2009: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announces the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
December 17, 2009: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
December 16, 2009: RBC poll reveals fewer Canadians planning and saving for retirement (as featured in Mike Drolet’s story)
December 15, 2009: Cornwall Public Inquiry Report (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
December 15, 2009: Roman blinds recall (Health Canada’s notice); You can also check out this notice from the Home Depot
December 14, 2009: Radiation from CT scans may raise cancer risk study (from the Journal of the American Medical Association; as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
December 11, 2009: Heinz Mixed Cereal warning; may be contaminated with Ochratoxin A (OTA)
December 10, 2009: Calculate your body mass index (BMI) at Health Canada’s website (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
December 8, 2009: The Virtual Haydn (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s story)
December 7, 2009: Canadian Medical Association: Prescribing of opioid analgesics and related mortality before and after the introduction of long-acting oxycodone (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
December 1, 2009: Help Lesotho (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
November 26, 2009: Toyota Canada and Transport Canada complete floor mat investigation; issuing list of recommendations
November 25, 2009: Take Picture Don’t Steal (as featured in Christina Stevens’s story)
November 25, 2009: Toyota Canada’s news release on potential hazard with gas pedals; also check out Toyota USA’s statement
November 24, 2009: Stork Craft Baby Crib Recall Notice from Health Canada; also check out the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission & Health Canada’s Joint Release
November 23, 2009: Human trafficking links and resources
November 20, 2009: Computed Tomographic Assessment of Atherosclerosis in Ancient Egyptian Mummies Study
November 20, 2009: Link to the provincial and territorial breakdown of the H1N1 flu situation at FightFlu.ca’s interactive map or click from the list below:
November 20, 2009: Looking For Martin: the search for the man who saved Laura Beauparlant, this week’s Global National’s Everyday Hero; e-mail lookingformartin@gmail.com
November 18, 2009: Canadian TV Networks vs Cable Companies (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
November 18, 2009: Insurance Institute For Highway Safety’s winners of the 2010 Top Safety Pick award
November 6, 2009: Justin Hines (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile); also check out Courage Portraits, where you can create your own "Courage Video" to Justin’s music, and share it with your friends and family
November 3, 2009: 2009 November Report of the Auditor General of Canada (as featured in Peter Harris’s story)
October 26, 2009: Vintage Wings of Canada Foundation (as featured in Kevin Newman’s story)
October 24, 2009: How do Canadians feel about the H1N1 flu and vaccine? Check out the results of a Global News/Ipsos Reid poll.
October 24, 2009: Canadian Forces Personnel and Family Support Services Military Families Fund (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile)
October 22, 2009: Government of Canada’s H1N1 flu vaccine dosage recommendations
October 19, 2009: Hamilton – The Waterfall Capital of the World (as featured in Christina Stevens’s story)
October 16, 2009: Read the blog of the two men who fought off a grizzly bear and lived to tell the tale
October 16, 2009: GlobalMedic (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile)
October 15, 2009: The Canadian Real Estate Association’s statement on MLS home sales (as featured in Mike Armstrong’s report)
October 13, 2009: Petition to save the Best Polka Album category at the GRAMMYs
October 12 & 13, 2009: Listen to Michael Jackson’s new single This Is It
October 12, 2009: Ipsos Reid/Global News federal political party poll results (as featured in Jacques Bourbeau’s report)
October 12, 2009: JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association): Critically Ill Patients With 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Infection in Canada (as featured in Mike Drolet’s report)
October 9, 2009: SACRED: The Society for Assisted Cooperative Recovery from Eating Disorders (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile)
October 8, 2009: NASA Blog: LCROSS Flight Director’s Blog (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s report)
October 8, 2009: The Cable Song: a YouTube video in the campaign to save local TV
October 6, 2009: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: My Privacy, My Choice, My Life (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s story)
October 2, 2009: Donate to Carpe Diem 88 Inc. (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile)
September 30, 2009: Toyota/Lexus Consumer Safety Advisory: Potential Floor Mat Interference with Accelerator Pedal; also see Toyota Canada’s statement on the warning (as featured in Eric Sorensen’s story)
September 28, 2009: Goodwin Learning Centre’s Pebble Drive Memorial Project (as featured in Christina Stevens’s story)
September 25, 2009: Are you addicted to the internet? Take the test at the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery’s website (as featured in Robin Gill’s story)
September 24, 2009: Additional details on the AIDS vaccine breakthrough (as featured in Ben O’Hara-Byrne’s story)
September 24, 2009: Moon on the water study details from NASA (as featured in Peter Harris’s story)
September 24, 2009: Parkinson’s Disease
September 22, 2009: 2009 Summit on Climate Change
September 22, 2009: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resources (as featured in Shirlee Engel’s special series Invisible Wounds)
September 21, 2009: A Million Tweets to Remember: Tweets for Alzheimer’s
September 19, 2009: Gigagalaxy Zoom: Tour the Milky Way with a new interactive map
September 18, 2009: Service Canada Job Bank (as featured in Francis Silvaggio’s report)
September 18, 2009: The Comfy Cozy Fund (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero profile)
September 15, 2009: Canadian Paediatric Society’s information page on ear infections (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s report)
September 14, 2009: Global News/Ipsos Reid poll on Canadians’ support for political parties
September 14, 2009: Cancer Drug Access for Canadians Report from the Canadian Cancer Society; the report’s page 34 (or the 37th page of the entire document) lists the funding status of selected newer cancer treatment drugs (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s story)
September 11, 2009: Office of the Correctional Investigator’s Report on Prison Deaths in Canada
September 11, 2009: The Jessica Campaign (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero story)
September 9, 2009: The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario’s report card on the heart health of Ontario children (as featured in Jennifer Tryon’s report)
September 4, 2009: Back to Basics Social Developments (as featured in this week’s Everyday Hero)
September 4, 2009: Winton Train Project (as featured in Tara Nelson’s story)
August 29, 2009: Listeria warning: More than a dozen types of deli meats sold across Canada were hit by a recall over fears they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
August 27, 2009: On Thin Ice: Dr. Gordon G. Giesbrecht’s research on cold water immersion
August 27, 2009: Discovery in the St. Lawrence: Learn more about the American WWII plane that crashed in 1942 – and was recently found.
August 27, 2009: Laptop recalls: A fatal fire involving an overheated laptop has experts calling on owners to pay attention to recalls.
August 26, 2009: Hypermiling: A new trend in driving aimed at saving you gas
August 26, 2009: Windows blinds recall: Over 5.5 million window blinds and shades are being recalled due to strangulation concerns.
August 17, 2009: Canadian Medical Association’s 9th Annual National Report Card on Health Care: Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Health of Canadians (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh’s report)
August 14, 2009: World Pipe Band Championships 2009
August 13, 2009: Lightning safety tips from Environment Canada
August 13, 2009: Viral photo: Check out the picture of the cheeky squirrel photo crasher
August 13, 2009: Donating to the Kanata 5 (the Ottawa cyclists injured in a collision in July, as featured in Jacques Bourbeau’s report)
August 12, 2009: Typhoon Morakot information for Canadians
August 12, 2009: Exposing The Cove
August 11, 2009: Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP’s Police Investigating Police Final Report
August 5, 2009: The duck hunting video promoted on August 5 is no longer available due to copyright issues
August 5, 2009: Viral video: A YouTube video shows a Georgia mom dragging her child through a store
August 4, 2009: Maple Leaf Foods wieners recalled due to possible Listeria contamination
August 4, 2009: Quebec’s mini driver: Watch the YouTube video of a seven-year-old boy driving along a deserted dirt road in Quebec
August 3, 2009: B.C. wildfire information
July 31, 2009: More on NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour
July 31, 2009: World Pinball Championships
July 29, 2009: Advice on finding financial advisors
July 27 & 28, 2009: Job search resources for older workers
July 26, 2009: VIA Rail’s schedules
July 22, 2009: Learn more about Brenda Lussier, who began an important swim across Lake Ontario. She’s hoping to raise $40,000 towards the construction of a wheelchair accessible waterpark at the Bob Rumball Camp of the Deaf. You can donate to her cause by clicking here.
July 21, 2009: Government of Canada’s full report on the 2008 listeriosis crisis
July 21, 2009: Vote for the New 7 Wonders of Nature
July 21, 2009: Victoria Times-Colonist’s coverage of the murders of Anne Durrant and Leif Carlsson in Tofino, B.C.
July 20, 2009: We Choose The Moon, a website celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s lunar landing
July 20, 2009: Google Moon
July 17, 2009: Public Health Agency of Canada’s FluWatch Page
July 16, 2009: Cross Canada Century Flight 2009: Track the itinerary of the 100 year celebration of flight in Canada
July 15, 2009: NASA’s Weather Criteria For Launching Space Shuttles
July 14, 2009: SwindledByEarlJones.com: A website is launched to reach out to victims of alleged fraud artist Earl Jones
July 9, 2009: A graphic YouTube video shows three white men attacking a lone black man in B.C.
July 5, 2009: Rebuilding Edzimkulu: Learn more about a Canadian couple helping AIDS-stricken children in South Africa
June 29, 2009: Canada’s Organic Products Regulations from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
June 27, 2009: Health Canada’s Warning About Reusable Grocery Bags
June 23, 2009: If you’d like to help someone who needs a liver transplant, log onto www.onematch.ca or www.stepbystep.ca
June 22, 2009: Is This Your Luggage? A British woman launches a website aimed at reuniting travellers with their suitcases (as featured in Tara Nelson’s report)
June 19, 2009: Ottawa wants to stop the use of phthalates in soft vinyl toys and child-care articles
June 17, 2009: The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada’s new guidelines on caesarean sections and breech births
June 9, 2009: Kurt Perschke’s RedBall Project
June 4, 2009: Watch NASA’s full video of Neil Armstrong’s One Small Step
June 2, 2009: Learn to strut in high heels, thanks to AbsoluteConfidence.com
May 28, 2009: Tuberculosis warning to Greyhound bus passengers
May 28, 2009: The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies on Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines
May 26, 2009: Learn more about donating stem cells at OneMatch
May 25, 2009: The Forgotten, a special project dedicated to honouring the memories of Vancouver’s forgotten women
May 23, 2009: Pistachio products recalled due to possible contamination from salmonella
May 19, 2009: The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) statement on the NRU reactor shutdown
May 15, 2009: Undeclared milk warning in Sensational Soy beverages
May 14, 2009: Canadian researchers perform a study on infant respiratory infections
May 14, 2009: Victims 2 Victors: View the photo album of Capt. Trevor Greene, who was featured in Ross Lord’s story
May 13, 2009: Who’s the weaker sex? McGill University’s new study on the difference between the immune systems of men and women
May 11, 2009: NASA’s details on Space Shuttle Mission: STS-125 (Space Shuttle Atlantis)
April 29, 2009: Tax tips from Jamie Golombek, CIBC’s director of tax and estate planning
April 24, 2009: Resources on divorces
April 23, 2009: Bank of Canada’s Credit Conditions
April 22, 2009: Future Vehicle Technologies has a very cool car that won’t heat up the environment
April 20, 2009: American Association for Cancer Research: Could a urine test better predict someone’s risk for lung cancer?
April 17, 2009: Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Canada’s new citizenship laws
April 17, 2009: Government of Ontario’s report into the 2008 listeriosis crisis
April 17, 2009: Canwest Canspell National Spelling Bee
April 16, 2009: Canadian Cancer Society’s cancer statistics
- Honda expected to announce Ontario EV battery plant, part of a $15B investment
- Trudeau says ‘good luck’ to Saskatchewan premier in carbon price spat
- Canadians more likely to eat food past best-before date. What are the risks?
- Hundreds mourn 16-year-old Halifax homicide victim: ‘The youth are feeling it’
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