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Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday on 18 July 2008, by urging the wealthy to share their prosperity with the less fortunate and by saying he wished he had been able to spend more time with his family ...

The City of Lindsay, of the Kawartha Lakes district, has become the 23rd Ontario municipality to call for a moratorium on uranium mining and an overhaul of the Ontario Mining Act.

Much has been made of the power contained in a single uranium fuel bundle used in Ontario's CanDU reactors to produce electricity.

Bedford Mining Alert public meeting on Saturday, July 26 at 10:00 am, " Hear from Provincial Political Representatives and from the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve on topics which include property rights, the ...

According to UINICEF, a child soldier is defined as any person under the age of 18 who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group.

Imagine waking up on a beautiful, warm and sunny summer day. You rise out of bed, open the curtains, walk to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee and decide to go for a long walk with your dog before taking your ...

The Alberta Government, along with their friends in the oil industry, have recently embarked on a major campaign to educate Canadians and Americans about the fact that extraction of oil from Northern Alberta's ...

War, and the lack of ameliorative governmental action, are huge barriers to a cleaner, more healthy environment which extends beyond flora and fauna, animals all the way to humans.

Officials say Ryan Wagemans, 24, began acting erratically while on a public bus in the Newton area of Surrey, B.C., on another Friday.

Canada-B.C. Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (MRIF) grants.

Each level of government bears one third of the cost of projects applied for under the MRIF.

in Gibsons & the Sunshine Coast Regional District were announced in April

at a ceremony at Gibsons municipal hall.

Climate Action Network Canada - A coalition of Canada's leading environmental groups declared the federal government's weak, intensity-based plan for tackling climate change dead today after Ontario announced ...

Dead ducks could cost Syncrude $1-million

Friday Jul 4 | Globe and Mail

... criticism, including suggestions by some in the United States that the oil sands are a "dirty" source of energy. Greenpeace spokesman Mike Hudema said pictures of the dead and dying ducks were circulated around the world through the media and on the ...

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paul shykora said in the Canada Forum:

SAD!!!I's once WORKED here many years ago...GOD Bless...eh...

as “The beetle infestation has hit us hard, just like everywhere else in B.C., and there's way more frequent forest fires occurring … but the final straw was the regional district decided to increase property taxes by 35 per cent.”

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The former police chief of the Mohawk Tyendinaga First Nation is taking the Ontario Provincial Police to court after being fired by OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino for speaking out against racism in policing.

Canadian author Lawrence Hill will have an audience with the Queen on Thursday as part of his award for winning the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for overall best book, and says it's ironic given that his novel's ...

A not-yet-released Health Canada report urges the federal government to brace Canadians for health problems arising from more droughts, violent storms, heat waves and cold snaps.

The Peruvian government has declared a state of emergency at the site of a mine owned by a Vancouver company, saying its toxic chemicals are putting the capital's water supply at risk.

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Sounding Like a Kids TV Commercial for Toys

subway extension not included TORONTO, --

Ottawa to announce spending today as province signs framework agreement;

The federal government will announce today that it is inking a deal with Ontario to ...

As the province's Metrolinx agency contemplates road tolls and

up to $80-Billion in new public transit construction across the GTA ...

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Third person charged is shop owner's wife, an accomplished concert pianist and a 'lovely, lovely person' July 24, 2008 at 3:46 AM EDT Toronto's stolen-bicycle saga led police into three more secluded garages ...

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,

alleging misrepresentations about the bank's exposure to the ( North ) American subprime mortgage market.

The claim alleges that the bank misrepresented its total exposure to USA subprime loans by

saying it "was 'not a major issue' when,

in fact, the bank had exposure to Billions of dollars of losses." It was ...

Two cyclone-shaped waterspouts formed off the island of Montreal Wednesday, giving residents a rare look at a weather phenomenon more common to the tropics.