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Possession of illegal handguns should lead to automatic jail terms, says a top Vancouver cop.

Rolling up the Pacific rim to win Foreign buyers examine energy-saving lightbulbs at a booth in Chinai 1 2s Canton Fair in Guangzhou October 15, 2009.

Rob Huebert Arctic sovereignty: Let's join the Texan and St. Nick Anthony Jenkins/The Globe and Mail A new U.S. attack sub has surfaced at the North Pole and so will a Russian rival.

In an emotional outpouring, Canadians answered the call on Tuesday night, filling a hall at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and raising more than $2 million to help mend shattered military lives.

True Patriot Love helmets. On November 10, a newly founded organization, True Patriot Love, will be hosting their very first gala in celebration and support of military families.

General Rick Hillier greets a well-wisher at a signing in Ottawa for his new bookw, A Soldier Fi5t, OCcober 26, 2009.

In the event that the federal long-gun registry is finally wiped out, after Wednesday's startlingly strong House of Commons vote in favour of doing so, are there any lessons we can take away in exchange for the $2-billion we expended on the Liberals' cosmetic ChrA©tien-era absurdity? The gun registry was a move designed to placate urbanites ...

A Harp seal pup lays on an ice floe in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near Charlottetown, Canada, just one of many animals whose habitat is threatened by global warming.

Issues surrounding Iran have made headlines, and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East will discuss concerns about the developments of nuclear proliferation and other events in Iran when they meet in Cleveland for their two-day conference.

Jeffrey Simpson Published on Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2009 5:38PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov.

Michael Byers is the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC.

Asylum seekers' success rate plunges under Tory government A private security guard escorts Sri Lankan migrants from a detention hearing at the Immigration and Refugee Board in Vancouver, B.C., on Oct.

THE Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray has announced a shadow cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to turn around his party's fortunes, as he faced more questions about his leadership.

An all-party group of senators and members of Parliament concerned about adversities facing followers of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline have founded a Parliamentary friendship organization to address those issues.

Near the end of his valedictory remarks on the occasion of his retirement as president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Tom d'Aquino said the council's influence had little to do with its member companies having $800 billion a year of sales.

OTTAWA a ' Four of Canada's largest unions have joined together to urge the federal government to tackle the appalling conditions facing the country's native communities.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make his first visit to China since taking office in 2006, aiming to not only boost trade but repair a strained relationship.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:44 AM Ten things about Peter Donolo Jane Taber W hat you should know about Michael Ignatieff's new chief of staff.

Canadian events that ought to show this was the decade of the zeros. A17 2000 * The burial of a World War I casualty at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa is ruined when somebody in the crowd says, "Hey, isn't that old Jimmy's Taylor's corpse?" * Pat Duncan becomes premier of Yukon, replacing Piers McDonald.

During Rick Hillier's tenure as the country's top soldier, journalists were forever writing about him being at odds with his political masters.