Wheelchair Olympian Adams suspended for positive cocaine test

Wheelchair Olympian Adams suspended for positive cocaine test: "Canadian wheelchair athlete and Olympic champion Jeff Adams has been banned from competition for two years after testing positive for cocaine at the 2006 wheelchair marathon championships in Ottawa"

"The 36-year-old Paralympian said the positive test was the result of a contaminated catheter, used after an incident at a Toronto nightclub on May 21, 2006, seven days before the Ottawa race"

Wheelchair Bound Man Gets Stuck To Truck, Pushed For Miles

Wheelchair Bound Man Gets Stuck To Truck, Pushed For Miles: "A 21-year-old Michigan man was taken on a wild ride after his wheelchair got lodged in the grille of a semi-truck. The man was pushed at 50 mph for at least 4 miles before the motorists deluged the police's emergency service with calls"

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton ordered back to jail

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton ordered back to jail: "Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was ordered back to jail Friday afternoon, as the bizarre saga continued over her punishment for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered Hilton to serve out the entire 45-day sentence that he had originally imposed on her."

Recalls: Costco Recalls Dirty Underwear Punching Bag - Consumerist

Recalls: Costco Recalls Dirty Underwear Punching Bag - Consumerist: "Who did they hire to pack the bags? Where did they get the underwear? These are the unanswerable questions. Or rather, we'd just prefer that they were not answered.—MEGHANN MARCO"

CBC News Indepth: Language

CBC News Indepth: Language: "Canada has 5,000 new official words. They have been added to the recently released Second Edition of the Canadian Oxford dictionary. Here’s a random sampling of some of the terms: "

Facebook 'ideal' for phishing attacks: researcher

Facebook 'ideal' for phishing attacks: researcher: "Privacy settings on social networking websites such as Facebook give people a false sense of security that could expose them to phishing attacks, a computer security researcher says."

Google says it loses $1 billion a year to false ad clicks

Google says it loses $1 billion a year to false ad clicks: "Google Inc. loses about $1 billion US a year to 'click fraud' or other invalid click-throughs on its ad service, the company says.

Advertisers have been asking Google for a clearer picture of the reach and effectiveness of their ads"

Microsoft blasts Google for book-scanning plan

Microsoft blasts Google for book-scanning plan: "Software giant Microsoft Corp. lashed out at Google Inc.'s rival book-scanning project, saying the internet company's plan 'systematically violates copyright.'

In prepared remarks he is scheduled to deliver Tuesday to a publishing industry group, a Microsoft lawyer said Google is cutting into the profits of authors and publishers in its rush to grab content.

'Companies that create no content of their own, and make money solely on the backs of other people's content, are raking in billions through advertising revenue,' wrote Thomas C. Rubin, an associate general counsel at Microsoft, in the speech he was scheduled to give at the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers in New York."

Rocket blasts off on mission to study northern lights

Rocket blasts off on mission to study northern lights: "A rocket launched from Florida on Saturday, carrying five satellites that Canadian and U.S. scientists hope will help them unveil the science behind the substorms that cause the northern lights.

The rocket — part of the THEMIS project, a joint venture of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency"

Watches lose ground to cellphones

Watches lose ground to cellphones: "The way we track time is changing with the times.

Market researchers say wristwatches are no longer a must-have accessory, as more people are carrying electronic devices that also tell time, whether a cellphone, an iPod or a BlackBerry.

In a late 2006 survey, for example, investment bank Piper Jaffray & Co. found that nearly two-thirds of teens never wear a watch — and only about one in 10 wears one every day."

$13B U.S. deal aims for satellite radio monopoly

$13B U.S. deal aims for satellite radio monopoly: "Betting that regulators will let it go ahead, the two players in satellite radio have signed an all-stock merger valued at $13 billion US.

The combination of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio would create a monopoly in the business of beaming commercial-free music and other programming from earth orbit to people willing to buy a special radio and pay fees of about $15 Cdn a month."

Flaw in Firefox browser evades security fix

Flaw in Firefox browser evades security fix: "A flaw in the Firefox web browser could let an attacker open a window and display a fake site, bypassing a vulnerability fix thought to be repaired, security researchers say.

The new vulnerability lets an attacker open a blank window or tab in the browser and add code or content to it if the user opens a specially crafted web page or is led there from a link in an e-mail or document."

Pause to remember the man behind the remote, Robert Adler, dead at 93

Pause to remember the man behind the remote, Robert Adler, dead at 93: "Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died.

Robert Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made couch potatoship possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday."

CBC News: Three convicted in Oslo for theft of Munch's 'The Scream'

CBC News: Three convicted in Oslo for theft of Munch's 'The Scream': "A Norwegian court has convicted three men for the theft of Edvard Munch's masterpiece The Scream and another work, Madonna.

The court found Bjorn Hoen, 37, guilty of planning the bold daytime theft from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004."

CBC News: Half of Canadians practise religion monthly: StatsCan

CBC News: Half of Canadians practise religion monthly: StatsCan: "Less than a third of adults attend a religious service every month, but about half do something religious, says a study that suggests Canadians are more devout than is often assumed.

About 32 per cent of adults attend a service at least once a month, according to the Statistics Canada study Who's Religious?, released Tuesday"

CBC.CA - Torino 2006 Paralympics - Broadcast Schedule

CBC.CA - Torino 2006 Paralympics - Broadcast Schedule: "Broadcast Schedule

CBC Television | Paralympic Schedule

Daily highlight packages on CBC Television, March 11 - 19

4:52 p.m. local (Quebec - West) / encore following CBC News: The National at 11:25 local (Full Net)

CBC News will also air daily reports and regional-specific stories for the 6 p.m. (local) news programs across the country.
Regional Specials

In B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Quebec
March 28 at 7 p.m. Local
On CBC Sports Saturday

April 1 at 5 p.m. ET
April 8 at 4:30 p.m. ET
April 15 at 3:30 p.m. ET"

CBC News: Vancouver mayor to wave Olympic flag from his wheelchair

CBC News: Vancouver mayor to wave Olympic flag from his wheelchair: "The mayor of Vancouver, host of the 2010 Winter Games, hasn't let being a quadriplegic interfere with his goal to accept the Olympic flag during the closing ceremonies of the Torino Olympics.

Sam Sullivan, who broke his neck in a skiing accident at age 19, was at a preview of the customized flag-holder he will attach to his wheelchair for the Sunday afternoon ceremony."

CBC News: Son hopes elderly mom's separation death wasn't 'in vain'

CBC News: Son hopes elderly mom's separation death wasn't 'in vain': "The son of a 91-year-old woman in British Columbia who died alone after being forcibly separated from her husband is optimistic some good may come from his mother's death."

Fanny Albo died earlier this month, two days after she was moved out of the Kootenay regional hospital in Trail that was also caring for her husband of seven decades, Al. She was sent to a long-term-care facility in Grand Forks, more than 100 kilometres away.

CBC News: TSX closes above 12000 for first time

CBC News: TSX closes above 12000 for first time: "The Toronto stock market rose on strength in energy and gold stocks to a triple-digit gain Monday that took the benchmark index of the TSX into new territory – closing above the 12000 level for the first time in its history.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 142.91 points to close at 12080.53. The oil and gas sector climbed 2.6 per cent even though the prices of the underlying commodities fell."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Man sues over iPod 'hearing risk'

BBC NEWS | Technology | Man sues over iPod 'hearing risk': "Computer giant Apple is being sued in the US by a man who says its iPod music player can cause loss of hearing.

The lawsuit, filed in California, claims iPods are 'inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings"