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No sign, no cash: feds made stimulus cash contingent on erecting a sign

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:45:57 +0000

OTTAWA - Millions of dollars in taxpayer stimulus cash doled out by the Harper government was conditional upon project managers putting up federal promotional signs, The Canadian Press has learned. ...

New Democrats insist divide over gun registry won't bring them down

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:21:48 +0000

OTTAWA - Conservatives and Liberals may huff and puff, but the gun registry controversy won't blow down the NDP, party MPs insist. Even with a glaring divide among New Democrats over the registry, ...

'My Christ is a tolerant God': Prime Minister Harper on Qur'an burning

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:21:45 +0000

NANAIMO, B.C. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has used his Christian faith to "unequivocally condemn" a Florida church that plans to burn 200 copies of the Muslim holy book. "I don't speak very oft...

Prison watchdog wants end to prolonged isolation for mentally ill

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:12:29 +0000

OTTAWA - The federal prison ombudsman says the practice of locking up mentally ill offenders alone for long periods must end to help cut the risk of death behind bars. Howard Sapers, the correction...

No ptarmigan stomach? New Arctic diet program offers healthy modern choices

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:16:43 +0000

EDMONTON - Northern aboriginals aren't eating as much ptarmigan stomach as their grandparents did. Caribou guts and bear liver aren't for Sunday dinner so much anymore, either. But those kinds of t...

Two Saskatchewan men get West Nile; first human cases reported this year

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:14:45 +0000

REGINA - Two men in southeastern Saskatchewan are believed to be the first humans to be infected with West Nile virus in Canada this summer. Provincial West Nile co-ordinator Phil Curry said Wednes...

McGill rated 1st in Canada and 19th globally in World University Rankings

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:13:07 +0000

MONTREAL - McGill tops all other Canadian Universities in the quality of education it provides, and is listed 19th in the latest QS World University Rankings. It's the Montreal school's seventh str...

B.C. legislative committee delays decision on anti-HST petition

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:17:32 +0000

VICTORIA - A decision by a B.C. legislative committee on the anti-HST petition has been put off. The Liberal majority in the 10-member committee voted to adjourn debate on the issue until the next ...

Former Liberal leader Dion hospitalized with severe food poisoning in Mexico

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:34 +0000

MEXICO CITY - Former federal Liberal leader Stephane Dion is in a Mexican hospital with a severe case of food poisoning. Local media in Mexico report that Dion was attending a climate conference at...

Calgary Zoo puts surprise tiger cub's survival chances at 50 per cent or less

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:15:45 +0000

CALGARY - A tiny Siberian tiger cub was in the zoo equivalent of neonatal intensive care Wednesday after its surprise birth 24 hours earlier. Staff at the Calgary Zoo were unaware that the cub's mo...

U.S. House Speaker Pelosi to get an earful on oilsands during meetings in Ottawa

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:13:28 +0000

OTTAWA - One of the most powerful lawmakers in the United States is going to hear about the Alberta oilsands from both supporters and detractors. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and o...

Judge orders Montreal, blue-collar staff to compensate icy sidewalk victims

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:18:35 +0000

MONTREAL - A Quebec judge has ordered the City of Montreal and its blue-collar workers to pay at least $2 million to citizens who tumbled on icy sidewalks. The unionized workers, locked in a labour...

Police lay charges in 1999 suitcase killing of Canadian woman

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:11:40 +0000

LONDON - London's Metropolitan Police say they have charged a Lebanese man with murder in the case of a Canadian singer whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase at London’s Heathrow Airport in 199...

Afghan intelligence officer boasts of 'torture'and ability to 'beat' prisoners

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:16:00 +0000

OTTAWA - A member of Afghanistan's notorious intelligence service boasted to Canadian military officers in the spring of last year that his organization was able to "torture" or "beat" prisoners durin...

Remove fallopian tubes during hysterectomy to cut ovarian cancer cases: study

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:14:12 +0000

B.C. researchers are urging gynecologists to remove a woman's fallopian tubes during a hysterectomy or tubal ligation as a means of preventing ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest malignancies affecti...