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Prime minister to make an announcement at Halifax Armoury with defence minister
HALIFAX - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in Halifax on Monday to make an announcement concerning the Defence Department. The Prime Minister's Office confirms Harper will be at the Halifax Ar...
Ontario man wins $1 million at poker tournament in Barcelona
TORONTO - An Ontario man who captured the million-dollar first prize at a poker tournament in Barcelona on the weekend says his only goal was to win enough cash to put his granddaughter through univer...
EnCana announces dividing into two companies: one oil, one gas
CALGARY - Canada's energy capital will have to make room for another huge player, as EnCana Corp. (TSX:ECA), one of the country's most prominent oil and gas producers, splits itself off into two separ...
Harper under fire for delaying Mulroney-Schreiber probe
OTTAWA - Six months after Prime Minister Stephen Harper first promised a public inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber affair, he has yet to name anyone to head the probe or even set an official mandate ...
Sunday services continue at three-breakaway Anglican churches
TORONTO - Two of three breakaway Anglican parishes in the Diocese of Niagara spurned an Ontario court ruling issued last week requiring them to share their church buildings with the diocese, opting in...
Details of Dziekanski airport Tasering stripped from RCMP report
OTTAWA - The RCMP call it Occurrence No. 2007-34748. Millions of people around the world know it as the infamous Taser zapping at the Vancouver International Airport last October that sparked so ma...
900 First Nation's residents airlifted out of James Bay community due to flooding
TORONTO - Some 900 people are being evacuated Sunday from a First Nation's community along the coast of James Bay due to fears of flooding. The continued threat of flooding has prompted the leaders...
Governor General dubbed oelegant mix" of Lady Di and Nelson Mandela
PARIS - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean charmed French media and even had President Nicolas Sarkozy swooning during a visit to France that also saw a significant shift in relations between the two countries....
Environmentalists, energy companies look to U.S. for decision on polar bears
Canadian environmentalists and energy companies will be looking to the American government this week for a decision that will affect everything from the economy of remote northern communities to how t...
Man allegedly holds ex-wife hostage with hunting rifle for three hours
QUEBEC - A 34-year-old man allegedly held his ex-wife hostage for three hours on Sunday. Police say the man barged into his ex-wife's home in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, northeast of Quebec City, with a h...
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