CKA Canadian News

Son tries to sell sexy photos of mum on Internet after row

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:58:03 -0700

A New Zealand teenager tried to sell some sexy photographs of his mother on an Internet auction site after the pair had an argument, a newspaper there reported. The 18-year-old student opened an auction for "five naked photos of my Mum" on the Trade Me

Twister touches down in Red Deer

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:23:23 -0700

Central Park residents, just north of Red Deer, took cover Saturday night while a tornado or funnel cloud knocked down about 20 huge trees. Miraculously none of the trees fell on homes in the small Red Deer County neighbourhood off C&E Trail.

Biofuel fraud exposes some big names

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:48:53 -0700

A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you�ve read Anthony Trollope�s THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like this. Scams are as old as the stock market. If you follow any

Kovalev signs two-year deal with Senators

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:24:30 -0700

A day after some fans held a rally to keep Alex Kovalev in Montreal, the forward's tumultuous tenure in La Belle Province has come to an end as the enigmatic sniper has signed a two-year, $10 million contract with the Ottawa Senators.

Oldest known Bible goes online

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:30:40 -0700

Scores killed in China protests

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:17:49 -0700

Violence in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has left at least 156 people dead and more than 800 people injured, state media say.

Biden strikes tough note on Iran

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:13:10 -0700

US Vice-President Joe Biden has hinted the administration will not restrain Israel if it decides on military action to remove any Iranian nuclear threat.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard takes control

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:59:17 -0700

The top leaders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard publicly acknowledged they had taken over the nation's security during the post-election unrest and warned late Sunday, in a threat against a reformist wave led by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, that there was no

Michael Jackson's Ghost spotted at Neverland?

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:55:54 -0700

An eerie shadow resembling Jacko's figure appeared on a wall in the singer's former home during a live television programme last week - and walked across the corridor. It moved quickly from left to right before disappearing. ;-)

Iran frees Brit but not Canuck

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:55:29 -0700

Iran said yesterday it has released a British-Greek journalist detained for two weeks during its post-election crackdown as opposition forces pressing their claims of fraud called for parliament to dismiss President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. An Iranian-Canadia

GM bankruptcy plan approved

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:37:08 -0700

Taliban Says It Captured U.S. Soldier in Afghanistan

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:02:59 -0700

CAIRO � The Taliban's Web site claims it has captured a missing U.S. soldier American authorities had earlier said may have been kidnapped.

$1B needed to fight swine flu: UN

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:00:51 -0700

Poor countries may need about $1 billion US to fight the swine flu pandemic for the rest of the year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.

Italian earthquake survivors march ahead of G8 summit

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:58:44 -0700

Hundreds of survivors of the April 6 earthquake marched overnight Monday through the ruined city of L'Aquila � where leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations were to gather for a summit this week.

Chinese Muslim protests spread to 2nd city

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:56:42 -0700

Protesters from the Uighur ethnic group took to the streets in a second city in northwestern China on Monday, a day after a demonstration in the provincial capital turned into a riot that left 140 dead.

US, Russia agree to cut nuclear weapons

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:05 -0700

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reached a preliminary agreement on Monday to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear warheads to as few as 1,500 each, pointing the two countries' arsenals toward lower levels than in any previous

IAF to train overseas for Iran strike op

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:52:55 -0700

On the day that US Vice President Joe Biden seemed to give Israel a green light for military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat, The Jerusalem Post learned that the IAF plans to participate in aerial exercises in the US and Europe in the coming mon

Brangelina love nest on Alberta market

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:33:30 -0700

EDMONTON -- Want to live in the five-bedroom Alberta love nest where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's romance blossomed? It could be yours for just under $1 million.

Pot crusader Marc Emery's farewell tour

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:28:40 -0700

Calgary - Calling his U.S. pot charges a �great injustice,� Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery says he hopes his looming prison sentence below the border will stoke up support for the cannabis movement.

Falling commodity prices send TSX tumbling

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:27:15 -0700

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market was deep in the red Monday morning, led by falling commodity stocks as oil and metal prices retreated amid pessimism about an economic recovery.