Most Canadians across the country can look forward to a warmer-than-normal winter, right through until spring, according to Environment Canada's latest forecast.
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A senior climatologist with Environment Canada says the country should expect a cold winter, but warns that forecasting is getting more and more difficult.
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Protesters camping out for the Canadian Occupy movement are bracing for the spectre of a teeth-chattering winter, as mayors and police in several cities ramp up the pressure to drive demonstrators out of public areas.
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-- A powerful winter storm coated Oklahoma in white early Wednesday as yet another round of frigid weather began marching across the United States.
The new storm comes barely a week after a record-setting weather system pummelled the Plains and the Midwest.
Up to 12 inches of snow was forecast...
Help protect Ontario’s bats
Five years ago in upstate New York, bats started dying from a mysterious condition.
Dubbed “white nose syndrome” because of a fungus that grew on affected bats, it has now killed more than a million bats in eastern North America.
In March 2010, the syndrome was...
Heart deaths in Australia peak in winter
BRISBANE, Australia, (UPI) -- The rate of heart attacks in Australia rises in the winter because many people don't know how to bundle up from the cold, a researcher says.
Dr. Adrian Barnett of the Queensland University of Technology's Institute of...
NASA's crippled Spirit Mars rover is still awake as it prepares for the oncoming Martian winter, which has already left it colder than ever before.
Spirit has been parked in her winter position since early February, when scientists decided to stop maneuvering the rover and prepare for the...
LOS ANGELES – Toxicology tests will determine whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the death of Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son, who police said jumped to his death from a downtown apartment building, a coroner's official said Monday.
Michael Blosil left a suicide note before he leaped from...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – While the Vancouver Olympics aren't finished, the medal races are — and in spectacular fashion for North Americans.
The United States is guaranteed 37 medals and Canada will finish with at least 13 gold medals. Both are the best of these games and part of the...
A winter statistic
98% OF CANADIANS SAY 'OH SHIT' BEFORE
GOING IN THE DITCH ON A SLIPPERY ROAD.
THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM ALBERTA,
AND THEY SAY, 'HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS.'