Ancient water found beneath the ground in the Earth’s crust. Geologists have discovered the Earth’s most ancient pocket of water, estimated to be 2.7 billion years old, buried deep beneath the ground. The researchers followed a scientific treasure map of places to investigate the ancient bodies of water on Earth. The investigation then led to the water discovery deep within the oldest rocks... 

A cemetery with a million mummified bodies has been found in Egypt, a research team director says. The director of a US research team says it has found a cemetery in Egypt containing around a million naturally mummified bodies. “We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It’s large and it’s dense,” Project manager, Kerry Muhlestein, an associate... 

Production of crude oil in western Canada emits more harmful carcinogens into the environment than official estimates let on, according to a new study. The Keystone XL pipeline would, if approved, move tar sands oil from Alberta through the US to Texas. A new study by the University of Toronto-Scarborough published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that Canadian... 

As temperatures around Toronto and across Ontario drop to -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit), residents are reporting frost quakes that are powerful enough to shake houses and rattle nerves. Usually found in extreme polar regions, the recent outbreak of frost quakes, known to meteorologists as cryoseisms, are now affecting many residents of Toronto, Canada’s most populous city. The weather-related phenomenon,... 

A new study shows nine out of 10 families occupying aging high-rises in Toronto’s low-income neighborhoods are living in inadequate housing and risk homelessness. The University of Toronto study, released on Friday, showed half of those families live in overcrowded places and one third spend more than half their income on rent. The results of the study were published on the same day that people... 

Severe thunderstorms hammered Toronto Monday, leaving cars stranded throughout the city and over 300,000 residents without power. The Canadian city was hit with a month’s worth of rain in just one day, with approximately 3.5 inches of rainfall beginning at 4:00 pm EST. Commuters were soon stranded in traffic, with public transit enduring long delays. Environment Canada, the national weather service,... 

Students protest tuition fee increases on May 30, 2012 in Montreal. Growing protests across Canada against tuition hikes have now spilled over from Montreal to Toronto as talks between student leaders and officials continue in Quebec aimed at ending the 16-week dispute. Protesters on Wednesday gathered in downtown of Toronto in solidarity with their counterparts in Quebec, protesting the high cost... 

Breaking the rules: Kathy Witterick, right, with two-year-old son Kio. Behind her is husband David Stocker, holding Storm as Jazz looks on. Meet Storm. With those big blue eyes, fair hair and chubby cheeks, the four-month-old is certainly adorable. But whether this baby is a bruising boy or a blushing girl is, the parents say, a secret. In fact, they’re leaving the decision up to him – or her. The... 

Thanks for Freedom of Speech, gay pride parades are a cherished form of free speech but not when it comes to the Israeli apartheid. Gays are bashing Christianity all the time and yet they are not banned from their Gay Pride Parades. We’ll believe it, and pay for it, when we see it. Mayor Rob Ford along with some Toronto city councillors was skeptical about a promise by Queers Against Israeli Apartheid... 

Canada, traditionally known for its liberal immigration policy and openness to immigrants, is witnessing a shift in public opinion and government policies. Under the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper since 2006, there has been a tightening of immigration rules, including tougher citizenship tests, increased investment requirements for quick access, and a focus on skilled immigrants over... 

A police car burns after G20 summit protesters set fire to it in downtown Toronto on Saturday. More than 400 people were arrested as violence broke out after thousands of anti-G20 protesters marched through downtown Toronto on Saturday, prompting police to use tear gas in the city for the first time. “I am profoundly disappointed in the criminal acts which have taken place,” Toronto police Chief... 

The European Union should push world powers to bring in a global levy on banks to “make those who caused the crisis pay,”Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. EU leaders are keen not to repeat the experience of the last two years, when they had to bail out banks with public funds to prevent the financial crisis from worsening. The intervention left them with huge deficits,... 

Some Islamic activists take things too far and hate Jewish people more than anything. The Jewish Defence League held a demonstration today in Toronto at Palestine House, one of the many jihadist front organizations without which no sophisticated multicultural western city is complete. Tomorrow night, for example, they’re hosting the editor of the London newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Abd al-Bari... 

Daniel Katsnelson, the Jewish rapist A York University graduate admitted yesterday he raped two first-year students during a two-hour sex rampage where he and a pal broke into several girls’ rooms in the university’s dormitory. Daniel Katsnelson pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault for the Sept. 6, 2007 invasion of the Vanier Residence dormitory during “Frosh Week” when widespread... 

The self-proclaimed “Chinese Warren Buffett,” arrested in Toronto Wednesday for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme, has no money and will need to seek legal aid very quickly, his lawyer says. Weizhen Tang, the alleged mastermind behind the multimillion-dollar scheme, made a brief court appearance on Thursday, but his bail hearing was put over until Friday morning. “I expect that the bond issue,...