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Two threatened Opel automotive plants in Germany have been reprieved from the threat of closure, General Motors' European Chief Executive Nick Reilly said Tuesday.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice is to brief his provincial counterparts Wednesday evening on the Harper government's position going into the Copenhagen climate-change summit.

Two foreign journalists freed after more than a year in captivity in Somalia flew out to neighbouring Kenya today.

Premier Ed Stelmach speaks at an announcement of the carbon capture pipeline project Tuesday in Edmonton.

A FORMER Labor MP who allegedly responded to lobbying by Brian Burke and his business partner Julian Grill appears unlikely to face disciplinary action.

This week at Queen's Park reminds me of the old Quasimodo joke. The Hunchback of Notre Dame walks into a bar and orders a Scotch.

By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday extended an invitation to the angry political leadership of Balochistan, from within and from abroad, to join the national mainstream and initiate a dialogue.

Premier Ed Stelmach is firing back at former U.S. vice-president Al Gore over his latest remarks disparaging Alberta's massive oilsands projects.

The Progressive Conservatives are intentionally distorting the facts about the harmonized sales tax in order to scare Ontario voters, Premier Dalton McGuinty charged Tuesday after days of being called a liar by the official Opposition.

Ontario is taking a hard line ahead of a meeting on climate change Wednesday involving Canada's environment ministers, warning that a national cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases cannot "discriminate" against the country's most populous province.

FORMER BELGIAN prime minister Yves Leterme was emerging as favourite last night to return to office as head of government in succession to Herman Van Rompuy, the incoming president of the European Council.

Say hello to the new Ed Stelmach, much like the old Ed Stelmach. In fact, the new Ed Stelmach is the old Ed Stelmach.

Savings Canadians sock cash away in TFSAs Tiana Mah and her husband Mark Patterson used the money in their TFSA for bathroom, flooring and other renos in their home in Vancouver.

LONDON: Margaret Thatcher returned to London's Downing Street for good Monday a ' in the form of a portrait installed at the official residence of Britain's prime minister.

New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham is defending the proposed deal to sell NB Power to Hydro-Quebec against another broadside by Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams, this time delivered to an elite audience of business and political leaders in New York.

Home : Politics : Quebec promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions Quebec promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions Date: Monday Nov.

Hudak cites 'contempt for taxpayers' 6:21 PM ET The Canadian Press Progressive Conservative MPPs leave their seats in the Ontario legislature on Monday.

With his assets seizure trial nearing its end, Thaksin Shinawatra may find himself a drowning man clutching desperately at every last straw.

SOUTH Australian Premier Mike Rann will be taking legal action against Channel Seven and New Idea following allegations that he had sex with a former waitress at Parliament House.

BANGKOK: Thailand's opposition party leader said Saturday he did not believe there was a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva as media reported, but the premier should not be indiscretion while visiting north province of Chiang Mai.