An elderly American couple visiting Toronto have turned into actor John Malkovich's biggest fans. The Ohio senior was saved from severe bleeding when the acclaimed actor, on the sidewalk at the right time, used his own scarf to tie around the man's neck to cover the wound.
Canadian Premier Dalton McGuinty has signed a landmark agreement with a South Korean consortium to generate 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power in Ontario, providing clean electricity to 580,000 households and 16,000 new jobs over six years.
Canadian utility workers gave one of their own an amazing bucket truck salute, lining the road as his funeral procession passed by.
Odin, a 13-year old from Peterborough, Ontario with Aspergers, has trouble making friends. When no one RSVP-ed to his birthday party, his mom took to social media to garner some birthday wishes for her son. Celebrities began tweeting greetings and the support snowballed into a grand party at a bowling alley.
A Whitby restaurant has offered to help a nine-year-old autistic Oshawa boy whose lemonade stand was nearly shutdown by a sour neighbour who called police on him during a recent holiday. All proceeds will go to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
EdgeWalk at the CN Tower, has become Toronto's most extreme attraction. Thrill lovers will walk on the edge of one of the world's tallest buildings -- 116 stories high above the ground. Visitors will walk with a guide, in groups of six, while attached to an overhead safety rail via a trolley and harness system.
In 1983, Tom Hall was the 45th patient in the world to receive a lung transplant, but the first to live more than a few days or weeks afterward. Hall, then 58, lived more than six years after receiving the organ. Grateful family members were reunited with the surgeon last week to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic operation in Toronto.
A Toronto man looking for a travel partner with the same name as his ex-girlfriend has finally found his match.
A retriever protected 11-year-old Austin from a charging cougar during a bloody, against-all-odds confrontation Saturday in Canada.
A new exhibition opened last week at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, exploring the creation of new designs from existing or salvaged products.
The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination and invasive species. The plan envisions spending more than $2.2 billion (U.S.) for long-awaited repairs after a century of damage to the lakes, which hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water.
Now there's another kind of prowess achieved by women in their 40s that men peak at earlier in life. Math. Not only do female math students outperform men at Ontario's community colleges, but it's the 40-something female multi-taskers juggling jobs, families and mortgages who edge out their classmates of either sex at any age, new research shows.
Beekeepers have discovered that bees kept in urban areas are healthier and produce better honey. Fewer pesticides and a greater biodiversity help bee colonies thrive there. Today, beehives are quietly buzzing in cities all over the globe -- Chicago, Toronto, Paris, London and New York -- where thousands of different species of plants are blossoming in the gardens and parks to benefit the bees and sweeten the honey.
Let's take a moment to thank the people who do nice things, who take the high road, and who strive to do good every day. They're all around us, and they need to be recognized even if they don't dominate the headlines. Here are some of the little known acts of heroism and honesty that happened in the great state of Canada...
An announcement by WestJet on Sunday seemed too good to be true, especially for parents traveling with little kids. And considering it was made on April 1, it was. On April Fools Day, the airline issued a statement saying it would start introducing child-free cabins on certain flights with an exciting VIP area for kids beneath the plane called, Kargo Kids.
Ontario residents on holiday to the cottage country may think some of the trees are growing on steroids, but they're actually Bell Canada cellphone towers. The telecommunications company plans to disguise towers it erects in the Muskoka area to look like trees so they are not such a direct eyesore.
A new government survey shows the polar bear population in a crucial part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought -- 66 percent higher than earlier estimates -- and might be growing.
Libya will start destroying its ageing stockpiles of mustard gas within months after Canada's donation of 4.5 million euros to the global chemical weapons watchdog, the group said Tuesday.
A Newfoundland boy sent a letter along with his soccer medal to the Canadian men's 4X100 relay team saying he simply wanted to boost their spirits after they were disqualified from an Olympic bronze medal. His handwritten note garnered national attention after Justyn Warner, a member of the team, tweeted it.
A Newfoundland boy sent a letter along with his soccer medal to the Canadian men's 4X100 relay team saying he simply wanted to boost their spirits after they were disqualified from an Olympic bronze medal. His handwritten note garnered national attention after Justyn Warner, a member of the team, tweeted it.
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