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The House of Commons on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation enabling the provinces to harmonize their sales taxes with the federal GST, clearing the way for Ontario and British Columbia to implement the HST this summer.

A sit-in by two maverick Progressive Conservative MPPs fighting the HST ended Wednesday morning after almost 44 hours of theatrical desk pounding and histrionic delays at the Ontario Legislature.

A Mississauga tractor-trailer driver escaped uninjured Friday night after a fatal accident near Owen Sound.

The Canadian government has launched a national animal health awareness campaign focusing specifically on livestock biosecurity practices.

A Canadian startup has developed a small prototype wind turbine that uses friction instead of a gearbox to convert wind energy into electricity.

Among the values he purports to cherish are "respect for the rule of law." When he talks about his immigrant grandparents, he extols those who "play by the rules." This week, as Hudak led his caucus in a disgraceful show of contempt for the Legislature and its rules, those words were revealed for empty rhetorical boiler-plate. Heir, as he is, to ...

The Ontario legislature was in an uproar yesterday as Tory MPP Bill Murdoch defied the orders of the speaker to stage a sit-in over the controversial 13% harmonized sales tax.

Ontario's Legislature ground to a halt Monday afternoon because of a protest over Premier Dalton McGuinty's controversial 13 per cent harmonized sales tax.

Auctioneers say the recession has lowered the realized prices for mid-and low-range items, though true rarities are holding their value.

MARY GOODERHAM Last updated on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 11:45AM EST T hey are vast tracts of vacant land spread across waterfronts and former railway yards or dotted throughout cities.

Do the TTC shuffle: gain riders, lose money; gain money, lose riders. Kathryn Gaitens Let's speak no more of seeking provincial and federal "funding" for public transit.

The federal Tories pushed, prodded and ultimately paid Ontario to adopt the harmonized sales tax and any effort to disown those actions smells like a rodent, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said yesterday.

Larry Miller, MP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound and Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, invites media to attend the launch of a new animal health awareness campaign aimed at protecting animal health and safeguarding the Canadian food supply.

Choices were limited on the ballot to elect a new leader of the Green Party of Ontario.

The Government of Canada launched a national awareness campaign focused on key farm management practices that will help keep animals healthy and safeguard the Canadian food supply.

The federal government's controversial long-gun registry took a step towards the grave last Wednesday evening when government and opposition MPs combined to pass a private member's bill that will scrap the costly program.

An adult bed bug and her offspring, in a 2008 photo provided by Virginia Tech Department of Entomology.

Ontario brownfield reclamation projects - followed by B.C. and Quebec projects - came away with the most Canadian Urban Institute Brownie Awards at the 9th annual Canadian Brownfields Conference in Vancouver.

Ella and Charlie Garrad, Charles Cooper, railway enthusiast and passenger on the last train from Collingwood to Toronto, Peter Coates and Depot curator Suzanne Purdy pose after Cooper's lecture on the railways' influence on The Blue Mountains and Meaford.

Tuesday 03 Nov 2009 Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:18PM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com -The Owen Sound Attack is pleased to announce that Russian Import player Roman Berdnikov is expected to make his Owen Sound Attack debut tomorrow night, Wednesday, November 4th vs.