Canada

If we were cynical marketers, we might suggest this as a tag line for the upcoming smartphone app called SpotSquad: "Rat out your friends and neighbours for a few lousy bucks!" That's right, belying the stereotype of the unfailingly polite Canadian, Winnipeg-based SpotSquad is creating an app ...

Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment, has announced our country will officially adopt the United States Tier 3 emissions standards for passenger vehicles. Kent says doing so will reduce air pollution from new vehicles by around 80 per cent compared to the old Tier 2 standards currently in ...

The motorsports community lost a member over the weekend when a track worker was killed just after the checkered flag waved at Formula One's Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. When the F1 race ended, track officials were working to remove the crashed racecar of Formula 1 driver Esteban Gutierrez ...

Our own Associate Editor, Mark Pereira put together a new car gallery at the end of last year, highlighting which new cars are cheapest in the Canadian market. But cheapest to purchase only tells half the story; running costs can quickly undo any savings you managed when negotiating the purchase ...

DaSilva Racing has always been synonymous with fast Ford's especially when it comes to Mustangs in particular. Joe DaSilva was the former 2009 crown holder in the venerable, yet, now extinct NMRA Pro 5.0 series and is considered the authority in Mustang performance, building and tuning. So with ...

No, a Ford Expedition did not drive from Russia to Canada via the North Pole, but that's exactly what a team of intrepid explorers accomplished recently. Using specially-modified buses with massive tires, the group slowly drove 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) in 70 days over drifting ice, ...

A shocking car crash pileup was the result of a huge snow storm which struck a busy stretch of Alberta highway between Edmonton and Calgary near Leduc, injuring over 100 drivers and causing what Alberta Health Services are treating as "a mass casualty event." Reports on social media indicate ...

We recently published a post about BMW's 328d making its highly anticipated diesel debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show. Well, it seems that the vehicle has just appeared at the Calgary Auto Show, thus beating the New York debut by a couple of weeks. It isn't often that a Canadian auto show will ...

General Motors has announced the 2014 Chevrolet SS will not be available in Canada. The Globe and Mail reports the automaker has confirmed the high-performance sedan won't hit Canadian dealers, though GM hasn't offered up any reasoning as to why that is. Buyers in the US of A, meanwhile, can ...

You've likely heard the parable of the fly who landed in the vinegar, and thought it was the sweetest taste in the world. He hadn't tasted honey yet - that was the next jar on the shelf. There's a bit of a parallel here: Canadian consumers tend to think the local shopping is sweet - unless ...