There were grim scenes at the BlackBerry headquarters at Waterloo near here Monday after the most famous Canadian company axed 2,000 jobs - about 11 percent of its total workforce.

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CANADA IS the most Web-addicted nation on the planet. Canadians spend more time on the Web and its offshoots — Facebook, YouTube and Twitter — than people anywhere else in the world.

The mythical deluge in the biblical story of Noah’s Ark could have be an actual event caused by unprecedented worldwide floods triggered in Canada in 6000 B.C., says a new theory.

The Dalai Lama, winding up his three-day visit here by leading prayers at the newly-opened Tibetan cultural centre, did not rule out a female successor.
The purpose of the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation is to serve the Buddha, the 14th Dalai Lama told a weekend audience of over 15,000 at Rogers Centre here. “If a female reincarnation is more useful — why not?” he retorted when asked if the next Dalai Lama could be a woman.

An Al Qaeda-linked terror plot was unearthed by Canadian security agencies Wedn-esday, with one of the suspects reportedly hailing from India. Under what is curiously called “Operation Samosa,’’ the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two suspects on Wednesday.

Stewart Beck, who currently serves as his country’s consul general in San Francisco, is among the front-runners to be appointed Canada’s new high commissioner in India soon, according to well placed sources.

The sexual harassment scandal that cost David Davidar his job as president of Penguin Canada has been buried with his accuser Lisa Rundle settling her lawsuit with him and the publishing company amica

A life-size statue of Mahatma Gandhi was inaugurated on Wednesday in the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg.