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 Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger engaged
Avril Lavigne has stunned fans by announcing her engagement to Nickelback rocker Chad Kroeger. The Sk8er Boi hitmaker fell in love with the frontman after they teamed up to write a song for her new album in February), but they have managed to keep the romance out of the public domain.[...]
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 Ont. college teachers set for strike vote Sept. 6
LONDON, Ont. -- The union representing more than 10,000 faculty at community colleges across Ontario has asked for a Sept. 6 strike vote. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union said it hopes the vote will push management to start negotiating seriously.[...]
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 Don't let Bell get too big, competitors say
Casting Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) as an insatiable media colossus, three of Canada's smaller media companies have banded together to raise opposition to Bell's $3.4-billion takeover of Astral Media.[...]
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 Veteran Ont. MPP Sorbara to retire
TORONTO -- Veteran Liberal MPP Greg Sorbara is retiring. "This morning, @Greg_Sorbara will announce he's stepping down as MPP but will keep chairing #OLP campaign and Ontario Liberal Fund," Neala Barton, press secretary for Premier Dalton McGuinty, tweeted Wednesday.[...]
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 Canadian women lose Olympic soccer opener
The Japanese women's soccer team, the defending FIFA World Cup champions, outclassed the Canadian team en-route to a 2-1 win in opening day action at the London Olympics on Wednesday.[...]
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 Colorado police focus on suspect's booby-trapped home
A day after a gunman opened fire at a packed midnight showing of the new "Batman" film in a Denver suburb, killing 12 people and wounding 59 more, police on Saturday prepared to neutralize explosives in the suspect's booby-trapped apartment.[...]
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 Gunman kills 12 at 'Dark Knight' premiere
DENVER, Colorado - A masked gunman killed 12 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a gas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers.[...]
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 Privacy breach may involve 25 ridings
A massive privacy breach -- in which Elections Ontario staff lost USB data sticks with personal information on as many as 2.4 million voters -- is a stunning case of how abysmally public bodies handle private data, a leading technology analyst says.[...]
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 Top court rules on copyright royalties for online music
Online music retailers will no longer have to pay royalties when their clients download music or preview it on the Internet, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled. But they will still have to pay copyright fees for Internet music streaming services.[...]
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 Top court rules on copyright royalties for online music
Telecommunications giants will no longer have to pay royalties for allowing their clients to download music and preview it online, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled. But they will still have to pay royalties for online music streaming.[...]
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 Ontario reaches deal with Catholic teachers
Ontario Catholic school teachers have signed a deal with the province, ensuring that students will not be confronted with job action when they head back to class in the fall.[...]
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 Timmies to offer free Wi-Fi
Tim Hortons, in its ongoing battle to lure customers from other coffee chains, will soon introduce a Starbucks staple: free Wi-Fi. The Canadian coffee giant has announced it will roll out Bell wireless Internet to 90% of its stores, more than 2,000 locations, by September.[...]
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 Parise, Suter go with Wild
The timing is interesting. As talks on a new collective bargaining agreement get underway between NHL owners and players, the Minnesota Wild showed there's not much wrong with the current system when it comes to competing for top players.[...]
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 McGuinty commits to financial help for Elliot Lake
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has promised financial assistance for Elliot Lake as it begins a long cleanup after the destruction of its only mall. Before he left the northern Ontario city, McGuinty committed to economic assistance to help those who lost jobs and businesses.[...]
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 Telescope to hunt for killer asteroids
A California space research group plans to build, launch and operate a privately funded space telescope to hunt for asteroids that may be on a collision course with Earth, project managers said on Thursday.[...]
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Report: Crosby inks $100M deal
The Penguins are set to show their position on the persistent Sidney Crosby durability questions and do their talking with plenty of zeroes.[...]
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 No more bodies at Elliot Lake mall, officials believe
A second body has been pulled from the rubble of the caved-in mall in this northern Ontario city, officials confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Bill Neadles, of Toronto-based Heavy Urban Search and Rescue, told a press conference that he's 99% sure no others remain in the Algo Centre Mall.[...]
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