Hurricane Earl stalks the Maritimes
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:35:00 CST
HALIFAX - Fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia secured their boats as best they could Thursday as hurricane Earl continued its march towards Atlantic Canada.
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Commandos also come home in July 2011
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:05:00 CST
OTTAWA - The shadow war fought in Afghanistan by Canada's ultra-secret, special forces will also end next year when the army ceases combat operations in Kandahar, says the general in charge of the country's overseas command.
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Rain, snow no problem, but hawk stops mail
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 18:37:00 CST
CALGARY - Rain, snow, sleet and hail may not stop the mail from getting through, but dive-bombing birds sure will.
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Ex-justice minister Bellemare suing Charest
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:46:00 CST
QUEBEC - Ex-Quebec justice minister Marc Bellemare has launched a $900,000 countersuit against his former boss: Premier Jean Charest.
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Harper practises election themes in SW Ont.
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:45:00 CST
LONDON, Ont. - Stephen Harper was drenched with rain and later showered with affection during a campaign-style swing through southwestern Ontario in which he sprinkled money, buttered up the troops, bragged of Conservative achievements and took a predictable run at the opposition.
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PM: Parks Canada passes no 'federalist plot'
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:26:00 CST
KITCHENER, Ont. - Accusations that free student passes for Canada's national parks are part of a federalist plot aimed at separatists were dismissed as "bizarre" Thursday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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Bear video sets bad example: minister
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:57:00 CST
VANCOUVER - The grinning man with greying hair quickly darts backwards as a British Columbia black bear playfully paws at a green pail the man is hoisting before slopping out food for two of the hungry beasts.
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Court orders return of judge sex photos
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:55:00 CST
WINNIPEG - Two days after shocking Manitoba's legal world with claims that he was pressured to have kinky sex with a lawyer-turned-judge, Alexander Chapman was hit with a court order forcing him to return explicit photographs of the jurist.
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First Nations warn feds to reject B.C. mine
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:15:00 CST
OTTAWA - First Nations in British Columbia are warning the federal government that they will stop at nothing to prevent a mining company from destroying a fishing lake to process copper and gold.
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G20 detainees launch class-action suit
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:34:00 CST
TORONTO - Two residents of Toronto are spearheading a proposed class-action suit arising out of the mass detentions at the G20 summit in June.
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Terry Fox fundraising drive goes Olympian
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:34:00 CST
TORONTO - Betty Fox says the spirit of her son lives on in so many people who are the unsung heroes of the Terry Fox Run.
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Arrival of coastal storms revives dike worries
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:34:00 CST
HALIFAX - The hurricane season is reviving fears about deteriorating dikes and seawalls that some East Coast residents rely on to shield them from the Bay of Fundy's immense tides.
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Strumming Hadfield to command space station
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:31:00 CST
LONGUEUIL, Que. - There will be a lot of guitar-strumming at the International Space Station once veteran Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and two fellow travellers arrive there in late 2012 for a six-month stay.
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Abducted British girl, 6, may be in Toronto
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:52:00 CST
TORONTO - Police say a six-year-old girl reported abducted from her home in Manchester, England, in 2008 may be in Toronto.
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Soldier Pinksen's body returns to Canada
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:28:00 CST
CFB TRENTON, Ont. - A military plane carrying the body of the latest Canadian soldier to die during the Afghan mission arrived this afternoon at CFB Trenton, in eastern Ontario.
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Tories-Liberals strafe each other over jets
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:40:00 CST
OTTAWA - The economic and diplomatic strings attached to Ottawa's multi-billion dollar deal to buy the F-35 stealth fighters would make it extremely painful — if not impossible — for a future government to unravel or cut, senior Conservatives insisted Wednesday.
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Ottawa to 'wait and see' on MS treatment
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:05:00 CST
OTTAWA - It will take more than anecdotes from some multiple sclerosis patients to sway the federal government into funding clinical trials of a controversial new treatment for the nerve-wasting disease.
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Jacques Demers says he faces third operation
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:03:00 CST
MONTREAL - Senator Jacques Demers, a former NHL coach who almost died this summer after what should have a routine operation, says he will have to face another operation.
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Harper hints at extraordinary terror measures
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:20:00 CST
OTTAWA - Lapsed anti-terror provisions — extraordinary measures the Conservative government has been trying to revive — might have been useful in the current effort to round up suspects in an alleged bomb plot, the prime minister hinted Wednesday.
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Harper denies claims he was avoiding Quebec
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:00:00 CST
MIRABEL, Que. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dismissing Liberal claims he's given up on Quebec with his infrequent appearances in the province.
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