Pickering News

The devastation to families in the United States in addiction and death because of the criminal marketing of OxyContin is not just our problem -- it's cruelly shared by Canada.

Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 11 December, 2009 : - - West 49 Inc. reported net income in the third quarter improved 38.1% to Canadian $2.9 million , or CN5 cents per share, compared to CN$2.1 million , or CN3 cents per share, a year ago.

Using every bit of space outside their house at 1285 Ilona Park Rd. in Pickering, the Williams family lights up their neighbourhood each year, using more than 100,000 bulbs.

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Experts call it Canada's hidden drug problem, one that kills more people than heroin overdoses.

What kind of insurance policy do you take out if you operate a large nuclear plant in one of the most densely populated, fastest-growing communities in Canada? The Harper government believes $650 million should cover it off, even in the event of a catastrophic, however improbable, accident at a nuclear plant such as the aging Pickering generating ...

The cover of Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald. The novel is one of five finalists in this year Canada Reads contest.

Comedian Bill Cosby has settled a lawsuit filed against him by a Canadian woman.

Kathy Hogeveen remembers the sugar cubes most. They were there, along with the free coffee, at the visitor's centre at Pickering nuclear station.

Heather Moyse carried the Olympic flame through her hometown last weekend, and now she's setting her sights on following the flame to Vancouver.

While still well below the government's allowable limits, releases of tritium from the Point Lepreau nuclear plant into the Bay of Fundy were more than six times higher in 2008 than the previous year.

A fire investigator examines the charred remains of a Pickering home that was gutted in a spectacular blaze.

Martin Mittelstaedt Published on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 9:16PM EST I f something goes terribly wrong at a nuclear power plant, how much liability should the operator bear? The federal government is introducing a new limit of $650-million for damages that can be claimed from nuclear companies after an accident at one of their stations.

CFL.ca Staff OTTAWA --- Quarterbacks Erik Glavic of Calgary and Michael Faulds of Western Ontario, along with Mount Allison receiver and kick returner Gary Ross were announced as CIS football player of the year nominees, on Thursday.

By Alison Brownlee, National Post A 28-year-old Pickering man has been caught selling fake Taylor Swift concert tickets, police say.

It winds across the uppermost edge of our city. A ragged ribbon of asphalt, cracked and dented from years of traffic and the wear and tear created by our colder months.

"The award recipients have often worked almost full-time hours as volunteers to protect local health services and our public health care system," said Dora Jeffries , coalition chairperson.

At more than $1,000 apiece, transplanting trees isna t an inexpensive proposition.

Editor's Note: Tillsonburg News reporter/photographer Jeff Tribe recently volunteered with the Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Rainforest Conservation at its Cano Palma Biological Station along Costa Rica's north-east coast.

Ontario's environment ministry has given its blessing to a massive, controversial $550 million sewage line -- known as the "Big Pipe" -- that will open the door to billions of dollars worth of new development in the eastern GTA.