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Divers search for owner of Que. junior hockey team missing after boat accident
LAC ST-JEAN, Que. - Police divers in Quebec are continuing their search for the co-owner of a major junior hockey team after he went missing Saturday. Gervais Munger, 52, was thrown from the Zodiac...
All of God's gadgets _ iPods, BlackBerrys, GPS units _ blessed at N.S. church
HALIFAX - Blessed are the BlackBerrys. The glow of gizmos cut through the darkness of a modest Halifax-area church Sunday as parishioners raised their cellphones, laptops and GPS units toward the h...
B.C.'s sockeye salmon fisheries to shut this week to protect endangered coho
VANCOUVER - The banner year West Coast salmon run isn't done yet, but the race is just about over for British Columbia fishermen to haul in as many wild sockeye as they can muster from the biggest ret...
Labour focus shifts from private to public sector as governments slash deficits
TORONTO - While the private sector bore the brunt of the economic downturn, union leaders are turning their attention to the public sector this Labour Day as deficit-obsessed governments put the squee...
B.C.'s sockeye salmon fisheries to shut come Tuesday to protect endangered coho
VANCOUVER - It's last call for West Coast fishermen who enjoyed a banner year of sockeye salmon harvesting. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is shutting down the B.C. Fraser River fis...
Governance, not gunshots, will end Afghan war, says Cdn commander
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The commander of Canada's Task Force Kandahar is greeted with back-slapping hugs at a meeting with local officials, in the way Afghan men welcome one another. Inside the mee...
Ottawa prevents student-loan shortfall with last-minute fix to financing limits
OTTAWA - The federal government rushed through a last-minute change in its student loan funding in order to make sure 50,000 post-secondary students would have enough money to go to school this fall. ...
New campaign tells people to ignore the door when salespeople come to call
TORONTO - Hedi Greenwood doesn't even bother to answer the door anymore. The Toronto homeowner said she's become so fed up with door-to-door salespeople she just ignores the bell. "I just look o...
Human remains found north of Toronto, unclear if they're linked to missing woman
CALEDON, Ont. - A week after an Ontario nurse went missing, human remains were discovered east of Orangeville, Ont., but police have not confirmed if they are those of Sonia Varaschin. "The coroner...
An NDP government likely wouldn't spell a quick death for B.C.'s HST
VANCOUVER - British Columbians could be forgiven for thinking an NDP victory in the next provincial election would spell a quick death for the province's wildly unpopular harmonized sales tax. The ...
OTTAWA - Millions of dollars in taxpayer stimulus cash doled out by the Harper government was
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