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Ottawa urged to create jobs with $33 billion stimulus spending, avoid tax cuts
OTTAWA - The federal government is being urged to adopt a massive $33-billion spending package to stimulate the creation of more than 400,000 new jobs, but to avoid what it is already planning - tax c...
Judge shortage, glut of cases clogging Kandahar's courts: diplomat
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's top diplomat in Kandahar says a glut of cases and a shortage of judges has brought the province's justice system to a standstill. Elissa Golberg says there are only...
Tiny science makes socks that don't smell and windows that clean themselves
They're tinier than ants in your pants, smaller than specks of dirt on your living-room window. And with amazing powers once thought possible only in the space-age world of the Jetsons, particles c...
Man claiming wrongful conviction on pathologist's evidence gets chance to appeal
TORONTO - An Ontario judge has given a man the chance to appeal a conviction in his infant son's death that his lawyers say was the result of evidence from a now disgraced pathologist. Dr. Charles ...
Members of Canadian junior hockey team return to cheers from fans
TORONTO - Members of Canada's junior hockey team arriving at Toronto's Pearson International Airport today were greeted by cheers from supporters. The team won its fifth straight gold medal at the ...
Former Saskatchewan Tory cabinet minister convicted in fraud scheme dead at 80
REGINA - A former Saskatchewan cabinet minister who was convicted of defrauding taxpayers of almost $1 million has died. An obituary says Lorne McLaren, 80, died Sunday at the Regina General Hospit...
Two dead, two critically injured after Cessna plane crashes near Quebec City
MONTREAL - Two people have died and two others have been transported to hospital with critical injuries after a small Cessna type plane crashed 65 kilometres southeast of Quebec City early Tuesday. ...
Ontario man irate after learning scratch-ticket winnings invalid due to misprint
TORONTO - Ontario's lottery corporation is apologizing to players who thought they won big on a scratch ticket due to a printing error. Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., spokesman Don Pister says t...
New Brunswick base to hold memorial for three soldiers killed in Afghanistan
CFB GAGETOWN, N.B. - A memorial service for three fallen soldiers from Canadian Forces Base Gagetown will be held at the New Brunswick base on Friday. Cpl. Thomas James Hamilton of Truro, N.S.; Pte...
Two passengers of downed Cessna near Quebec City have no vital signs
MONTREAL - Military search and rescue technicians discovered two people with no vital signs and two others with critical injuries after a small Cessna plane crashed 65 kilometres southeast of Quebec C...
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