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Stephen Harper's Conservatives reclaimed a former stronghold in Nova Scotia and stormed a Bloc Quebecois bastion in Quebec, defying polls and a perilous economic climate to win two of four federal byelections Monday.

Evan Tordorf, 4, cries as he gets his flu shot as his mother, Karen Joly, looks on at an H1N1 vaccination centre on Nov.

The McGill University Health Centre and McGill University congratulate Dr. Balfour M. Mount, Founding Director of the Royal Victoria Hospital Palliative Care Service of the MUHC and Emeritus Professor of Palliative Medicine at McGill University, on his induction into the Academy of Great Montrealers.

Heavy metal rockers METALLICA have turned their Canadian tour into a charity mission - the band has donated over USD 28,000 to good causes across the country.

Imperial Metals LLC is pleased to announce the company's participation in the Montreal Investment Conference taking place November 6-7, 2009 at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, Quebec.

Montreal police say they have have made an arrest in the murder of corrections employee Natasha Cournoyer.

The Derek Trucks Band After 16 years of relentless touring, and a fantastic 2009 that featured the release of Already Free , and a World Tour that brought the band to more than a dozen countries on four continents, The Derek Trucks Band is taking a hiatus in 2010.

Tomorrow evening the citizens of Montreal will be treated to a spectacle of Islamist double-talk that will leave them dazzled.

Berlin Wall to Wall, an event being staged next month in Montreal and Quebec City, is described by organizers as "an excursion into the heart of Berlin's avant-garde art and culture." Works to be showcased include films and videos dating from before, during and after the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, on Nov.

It's alleged that a man with close ties to the Rizzuto organized crime family sat in on a meeting that decided which companies would take part in the restoration of the roof on Montreal's city hall.

The trial of eight men charged with helping the Mafia smuggle cocaine into Canada began in Montreal Monday morning.

Some West Island voters opted for change in Sunday's municipal election, ousting incumbent mayors in the demerged cities of Beaconsfield and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. Bob Benedetti lost his mayor's seat in Beaconsfield in a landslide loss to former city councillor David Pollock, who earned 2,000 more votes.

High turnout as Montrealers vote in tight mayoral race A man arrives at a polling station to cast his ballot in the Montreal municipal elections in Montreal, Sunday, Nov.

A majority of French- and English-speaking Canadians back government efforts to commemorate historic events such as the 400th anniversary of Quebec's founding, a government survey found.

Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay's Union Montreal party is promising big plans for the city's 375th birthday in 2017, which will also coincide with the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 and the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, are set to visit Canada.

Gerald Tremblay on Oct. 25, 2005. Photograph by: Tyrel Featherstone, Gazette file photo This editorial was published Oct.

A most memorable slogan for Montreal's miserable mayoral race was splashed across the cover of this week's Maclean's magazine: "Montreal is a corrupt, crumbling, Mob-ridden disgrace." That headline brutally summed up one of the most bizarre municipal elections in memory, which featured a disheartening drip of tales about Mafia influence in ...

Desire Munyaneza, shown in a court sketch, stands to hear the Federal Court decision in May that he is guilty on seven charges.

Today is Thursday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2009. There are 63 days left in the year.