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Crews armed with chainsaws and fire are fanning out across Alberta this winter, facing the almost impossible task of stemming the eastward spread of the voracious mountain pine beetle.

A Canadian journalist and four Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan on Wednesday in the blast of an improvised explosive device.

The Harper government has suspended Parliament until March. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has decided to suspend Parliament for two months, his office announced Wednesday.

Top envoy told officials report of walkout at Bangkok climate talks "certainly happened," : email

Canada's lead climate-change negotiator told senior officials that a walkout by some countries at global-warming talks in Thailand "certainly happened," even as their boss was on TV denying the account, a newly released document shows.

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Public safety minister says Canada has limitations in sharing terror info

Minister of Public Safety Peter Van Loan speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., Wednesday November 4, 2009.

The moral equivalent of slavery

Like John Brown at Harpers Ferry, it's time for climate activists to rise up and take a stand.

No more negotiating on an issue that's unjust, immoral, and leading us to ruin,

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a History of Slavery in North America -

There are many revisionists who have claimed that Blacks residing in North America should be grateful that our families were enslaved.

Tax cuts for few in store & Program Cut Back for Many to Come

For many Canadians, 2010 will go down as the year that ended the era of tax relief, modest and brief as it has been.

OTTAWA a ' The Ottawa police officer fatally stabbed early Tuesday morning was following in the footsteps of his father, who worked as an officer for 30 years in Poland.

Ottawa's move to call in the RCMP to help with passenger searches at Canada's main airports may get travellers to the United States through security sooner, but a new rule against carry-on luggage is causing havoc and holdups for many before they even get to the security areas.

After McNally Robinson booksellers abruptly shut its doors yesterday, Elizabeth Shields declared she no longer has a reason to return to the Shops at Don Mills, the U.S.-style "lifestyle centre" that landed in her neighbourhood last spring.

Inventor Le Trung spent Christmas Day with the most important woman in his life - his robot Aiko.

a pict of her is available scrolling down the page @ the Link provided as the pict here is Harry Mudd from Star Trek & his fem Bot

A new year, a new batch of TV shows to savour. There may be a chill in the air, but things are heating up on the tube as several new Canadian series prepare to launch in early 2010.

Bev Reuteman is among a growing number of Albertans facing hard times. And the controller at an oil services company in Drayton Valley, 100 kilometres southwest of Edmonton, is pointing a finger of blame at Premier Ed Stelmach.

A year that opened on Parliament Hill with the kind of political instability rarely seen in Canada's history closes with a ghostly remarkable degree of stability absent in the last four years, that come back to Haunt You & Yours

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A spokesman for Foreign Affairs did not respond directly to a question about Mr. Ibrahimi's proposal, but noted that Canada already supports a legal-aid group, the International Legal Foundation – Afghanistan (ILF-A) with $2.9-million over four years.

The foundation has offices in Kandahar, but Mr. Ibrahimi says it has only two lawyers on staff and they don't represent any of the Sarpoza detainees.

2 lawyers and we are paying $2.9 million over 4 years. Sounds like a pretty good job and you don't even have to represent any prisoners.

Anyone know who they represent?

The Harper government is distancing itself from U.S. President Barack Obama's clean-energy agenda, warn some of those involved in one of Canada fastest-growing clean-energy sectors.

First it was the weather now travellers again delayed by new security measures

Massive lines, flight delays and cancellations greeted Canadian passengers travelling to the United States on Sunday

as new security measures moved into a second day

all because of another suspicious incident reported on board the same problem USA flight from Europe, increasing tensions...

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Home : Canada : Up to 50 Tamil migrants to be released, lawyer says Up to 50 Tamil migrants to be released, lawyer says View Larger Image The Canadian Press Date: Saturday Dec.

2009 is another bumper crop year for health scandals,

an unfortunate trend that shows no signs of improvement.

To the contrary, consumers should do everything in their power to stay healthy as the Big Pharma-

sponsored medical profession continues to induce millions of serious injuries and hundreds of thousands of deaths per year......

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As it's estimated 40 to 45 % of Canadians have gotten the H1N1 vaccine.

777 The H1N1 virus was the top Canadian news story of 2009, according to 70 per cent of the country's editors and news directors in The Canadian Press's annual survey of newsrooms.

Announcements were made Saturday over the loudspeaker at Pearson International Airport in Toronto to let passengers know about the expected delays.

Competing visions of how to wean Atlantic Canada from fossil fuels and hook it into a greener hydroelectric grid have caused premiers to clash and old hopes of regional unity to falter.

A sign at the EnCana Central Receiving Terminal located outside of Weyburn, Sask.