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U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.
A lesbian who deserted the U.S. military and fled to Canada must be given another chance to plead her case for refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday.
Air Canada said Thursday it has begun trial offers of Internet service onboard some flights between Los Angeles and the cities of Toronto and Montreal.
Canada's defense minister on Thursday attacked the credibility of a senior Canadian diplomat who alleged that government officials ignored evidence that prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service a few years ago were tortured.
Black Eyed Peas manager Liborio Molina apologized to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton as part of an agreement allowing assault charges against him to be dropped, lawyers said Wednesday.
Seismologists say a earthquake struck off Canada's pacific coast province of British Columbia.
News blackouts unjustifiably prevented the public from learning why charges were dropped or suspended for some terror suspects, media lawyers told Canada's Supreme Court on Monday.
Nortel Networks Corp. says it has completed the $1.13 billion sale of its wireless network business to LM Ericsson of Sweden but is allowing more time for bids in an auction for its optical networking and carrier ethernet units.
Canada's federal government is urging the country's top court to overturn a judicial order that obligates the government to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay.
Canadian military officials in Afghanistan said detainees are being offered swine flu vaccinations — a decision the federal health minister on Tuesday denounced as "outrageous" at a time there is a shortage of the vaccine in Canada.
Battling hypothermia, a 17-year-old hunter stranded on a floating chunk of ice shot and killed a polar bear while trapped for more than a day before being rescued Monday in the Canadian Arctic.
Bombardier's CEO says employees should expect additional aircraft production cuts that may lead to more layoffs as the plane and train maker adjusts to dwindling demand.
Canada has begun preparations to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2011.
Canada's unemployment rate rose to 8.6 percent in October from 8.4 percent a month earlier as the economy shed a net total of 43,200 jobs, the government said Friday.
Canada's largest circulation daily has launched what its publisher said will likely be the biggest restructuring in the newspaper's history by offering voluntary buyouts to employees in all divisions of the company.
A judge on Friday granted bail for two Canadian men who face extradition to the U.S. on charges linked to the slain leader of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group.
A Canadian engineer cannot sue the United States after being mistaken for a terrorist when he was changing planes in New York a year after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Tobacco advocates are seething over a new Canadian law they claim will snuff out sales of cigarettes packed with U.S. burley, and they are fighting back to protect their export sales.
The Canadian Auto Workers union reached a deal with Ford Canada that will lower the company's operating costs and guarantee two new vehicles for the automaker's major Canadian assembly plant, the head of the union said Friday.
A fugitive former adviser to a Thai bank whose failure caused a crisis of confidence that helped spark the 1997 Asian financial meltdown arrived Friday night in Bangkok after his extradition from Canada.
Thai television reports say a financial expert wanted by authorities for more than a decade for alleged involvement in a massive bank failure has arrived in Thailand after his extradition from Canada.
Canada's telecom regulator said Thursday that startup wireless carrier Globalive does not comply with Canada's ownership standards because it is majority funded and controlled by Orascom, an Egyptian telecom company.
North America's largest utility company Hydro-Quebec has announced it will pay 4.7 billion Canadian dollars ($4.4 billion) for transmission lines of New Brunswick Power, a deal that would help the company secure greater access to electricity markets in the U.S.
A judge Friday allowed Canada's insolvent media giant Canwest Global Communications to transfer the National Post into one of its divisions that is not under bankruptcy protection to stave off folding the unprofitable daily newspaper.
Canadian parents win legal battle against homeworkLawyer-Parents fight for their Children. The basic story is that these parents saw no correlation between grades and homework, so they pressed charges against the school to stop the school from assigning and grading "useless" homework.
British NHS Promotes pharma to children Britain's National Health Service is losing a fight against the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research — a web site that publicizes the underbelly of psychiatric medicine — over brochures for children that tell them how to take antipsychotic medicines such as Johnson …
Canadian officials discussed torture in 2006 - thestar.comOTTAWA – Top Canadian officials discussed in 2006 whether the then-governor of Kandahar was involved in the torture of prisoners and dismissed the concern, The Canadian Press has learned.
'Liberation was just a big lie' - thestar.comShe sleeps in safe houses, with a rotating squad of bodyguards securing the doors. She goes out only in a billowing burqa. Even her wedding was held in secret.
'Dumb blonde' emails not insulting: U.K. boss - thestar.comThe former boss of a Canadian financier said on Tuesday that emails he forwarded to Jordan Wimmer, referring to locking women in the trunk of his car and calling her a "dumb blonde," were meant in jest and weren't demeaning.
PM's Jewish pitch hits a new low, critics say - thestar.comOTTAWA–Angry Liberals Wednesday accused the Conservative government of reaching a new political low by circulating flyers characterizing the Liberals as anti-Semitic.
Green police target the flat-screen TV - thestar.comThey've targeted gas-guzzling clunkers. They've blacklisted power-wasting light bulbs. Now the efficiency police are going after our big-screen TVs as a way to tame our household energy demons.
Many Terrorism Suspects Linked to the Radical Cleric Awlaki - NYTimes.comIn nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist indoctrinatio …
Bombardier chosen by SNCFWhy is this important? Because it is the French national railway company buying new rolling stock from a Canadian company, instead of from a French company.
Lurking Taliban watch Canadian troops - thestar.comI KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – The Taliban kept to the shadows of Haji Baba on Wednesday as Canadian soldiers trying to seize control of the insurgent stronghold continued to pick up apart its defences.
Hébert: New citizenship guide: Good, bad and ugly - thestar.comMONTREAL Reading the 1995 edition of the federal Citizenship guide, an immigrant to Canada might have been forgiven for thinking he or she was signing up to join the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides.
Canada ignored torture warnings: Diplomat - thestar.comOTTAWA – A former senior Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan has levelled bombshell allegations suggesting the military knowingly handed detainees to Afghan authorities who allowed them to be tortured.
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Metro - Canadian tree saplings go aloft with shuttle Atlantis to space stationCanadian Trees go zero G - NASA sends of Canadian Trees to test the formation of wood without gravity.
NOW Magazine // Daily // Raptors and Leafs, a tale of two citiesWhat do fans of Toronto's sports teams say about the city? By Enzo Di Matteo Tripped over this stencil spray-painted on the sidewalk at the corner of Jarvis and Queen the other day – Leafs nation: spirit is everything; Raptors nation: we prefer winning.
Children on Anti-Psychotics 3 times more likely to develop DiabetesThe study suggests youth taking certain types of anti-psychotic medications have three times the risk of developing abnormally high blood sugars or Type 2 diabetes and two times the risk of being overweight or obese.
Legislative Debate Speeches Ghostwritten by Pharma lobbyStatements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's largest biotechnology companies.
Moose the first victim of new, armed border guard policy - The Globe and MailCanada's newly armed border guards have claimed their first victim: a hapless moose. The creature was felled by the duty sidearm of a border officer in late August, newly disclosed documents show.
New citizenship guide says no to 'barbaric' practicesCanada's revamped citizenship guide warns newcomers that "barbaric cultural practices" such as honour killings will not be tolerated, marking a stronger tone against importing beliefs that clash with Canadian values.
Canadian Health Care: surgeon fixes patients with glueA cardiac surgeon at the University of Calgary has developed a new surgical technique that speeds up recovery time, using glue to repair breastbones intentionally broken during open-heart surgery. According to Dr.
UK child migrants apology plannedGordon Brown is to apologise for the UK's role in sending thousands of its children to former colonies in the 20th century, the BBC has learned.
Cat's demise leads Canada to contact Buckingham Palace about Margaret ThatcherWhen Canada's transport minister decided to name his cat Thatcher, he likely never thought it would cause quite the stir it did during a gala dinner earlier this week.
A path to healing: The rise of aboriginal physicians in CanadaThe efforts of many people have led to a dramatic increase in the number of aboriginal doctors practising in Canada. That's just a start.
Good riddance to long gun registryNow that MPs have voted 164-137 to repeal the registry of long guns and shotguns, several realities stand out in the whole emotional question of the gun registry.
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