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Vancouver pooch rides YouTube to Rose Bowl
A Vancouver dog with a talent for skimboarding is off to Pasadena, California to take part in the 2011 Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day.
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Odd 2010: Sound the vuvuzela for year of the mystic mollusc
The astounding predictions of an octopus, the perils of "chexting" and the pain of getting around on planes were the laughing matters of 2010.
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Capt. Canuck awarded the Order of Canada
The Governor General has announced 54 new appointments to the Order of Canada.
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'Father Christmas' arrests Italian mafioso
Father Christmas had a bad surprise in store last Thursday for a suspected Sicilian mafia member - an arrest for racketeering.
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Traffic tip for Santa: reflective reindeer collars
Norwegian reindeer owners have a Christmas safety tip for Santa -put reflectors on his fleet-footed animals so they won't get hit by cars.
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Virtual Santa brings the holidays to sick children
For children in hospital over Christmas a visit from Santa Claus -- especially a cool, virtual Santa beamed in from the North Pole -- is like a breath of fresh air.
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Prepare to pay up to insure ’12 Days of Christmas’
Everyone knows it would be prohibitively expensive to gift someone the treasures from the "12 Days of Christmas," but it would be even more pricey to insure - nearly 20 times the cost of buying the presents from the famed holiday carol.
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Dutch police welcome snow as crime busting aid
While commuters complain of disruptions caused by recent heavy snow, Dutch police have welcomed it as an unusual aid in catching illegal cannabis growers and other criminals.
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MIKE BOONE
Developers' ties to the community outlasted their ties to communism
They were characters right out of a Mordecai Richler novel.
MARIANNE ACKERMAN
Hong Kong gets a grip on ex-Montrealers
Montreal has ways of holding people, and sending them away. It seemed somehow inevitable that Christopher DeWolf would leave, he being one of the most neighbourhood-conscious young Montrealers I met upon my own return in 2004, after an absence of seven years.