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5 hrs ago | Canoe

Ignatieff proposes 'cap-and-trade' with or without U.S.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has unveiled a climate-change plan that doesn't include any targets for greenhouse-gas emissions but instead seeks to keep the temperature of Planet Earth in check.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Stephen Harper

9 hrs ago | Regina Leader Post

Remembering Canadians killed in Mumbai massacre

A mourner holds a candle during a memorial ceremony in Mumbai on Nov. 26, 2009. Photograph by: Pal Pillai, AFP/Getty Images MONTREAL a ' Montreal's Michael Moss feared he would die while on vacation in India a ' and he did.

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Related Topix: Canada,

17 hrs ago | ABC News

St. Bart's: Tiny Caribbean Jewel for Food, Fashion

The island is a haven for the chic and the hip. Cutoffs rarely meet the dress code, unless they're designed as such and topped off by a fabulously sexy top - for men or women.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Guadeloupe, Travel

Yesterday | Science Daily

Early relationships influence teen pain and depression

Researchers from the Universit de Montral, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and McGill University have discovered that insecure adolescents experience more intense pain in the form of frequent headaches, abdominal pain and joint pain.

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Canada

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Squamish Chief

AbitibiBowater to save $2.3 million a year with sale of Quebec mill

Cash-strapped AbitibiBowater, one of the world's largest newsprint producers, will save nearly $2.3 million annually after a judge approved the sale of a former Quebec pulp and paper mill.

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Related Topix: Canada, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Recycling Today

Facility to Handle Aseptic Containers Being Built in Quebec

Cost of the facility will be around $3.5 million. Group RCM is expected to break ground shortly on a new processing line at its plant in Yamachiche Quebec.

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Related Topix: Canada

CBC

2 fires overnight in Montreal

Authorities say Tuesday night's first fire started when someone left food on the stove unattended.

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Related Topix: Canada, Fire

National Post

Stable apartments lure investors

Low vacancy rates in Toronto and elsewhere across Canada have helped make apartment buildings desirable investments.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance,

Montreal Gazette

Mayor names two borough councillors

MONTREAL a ' Mayor GA©rald Tremblay has named Jocelyne-Ann Campbell, city councillor for the St.

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Related Topix: Canada

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

Police name man killed in Highway 50 collision

A 35-year-old man from Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Que., was killed in a collision on Highway 50 near Buckingham, early Tuesday morning.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Telegraph.co.uk

Baby P stepfather launches legal challenge over rape of twoyearold girl

Baby P's abusive stepfather has launched a legal challenge against his conviction for raping a four-year-old girl who gave evidence against him, claiming she was not "competent" witness.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Montreal Gazette

Teen stabbed in Laval fight

A 15-year-old boy sustained a 2.5-centimetre-deep knife wound to his abdomen - " along with a superficial cut to his neck - " during an altercation with a 14-year-old boy involving a knife near a Laval high school in the Auteuil district, Laval police said.

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Related Topix: Canada

Mon Nov 23, 2009

The Chronicle-Journal

Quebec Premier Jean Charest promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Quebec Premier Jean Charest is introduced to an international relations group Monday, November 23, 2009 in Montreal before his speech about his upcoming trip to the environmental summit in Copenhagen.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

The Chronicle-Journal

Saputo, Kraft appeal court ruling upholding federal cheese regulations

Chairman of the Board of Saputo Lino Saputo addresses the company's AGM in Laval, Que., Wednesday July 6, 2008.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Cheese, Canada

The Mirror

Midland potential port for historic steamship

The S.S. Norisle, a 215-foot-long steamship owned by the Township of Assiginack on Manitoulin Island, has not cruised the Great Lakes in almost 35 years.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News,

EurekAlert!

Research calls for better assessment of tests for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria

A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Malaria, Canada,

Sun Nov 22, 2009

CBC

Derailment affects Quebec Via routes

Passenger rail service has been suspended between Montreal and Senneterre as well as JonquiA re and Montreal because of an 11-car CN freight train derailment near Saint-Tite. The accident late Saturday caused extensive damage to a railway bridge 50 kilometres north of Trois-RiviA res.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Canada,

Earth Times

Canadian Warship to Begin Counter-Piracy Operation

The deployment of the Halifax-based frigate is called Operation SAIPH. "The Government of Canada is proud of the significant contributions to global maritime security being made by our men and women in uniform.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, North America, Canada,

Star Phoenix

VC became too much for storied Van Doo

Paul Triquet was 33 and a captain in Canada's Royal 22nd Regiment when, on Dec. 14, 1943 in Italy, he and the tattered remains of his C Company - 81 men strong when the day began but reduced to just 14 by dusk - successfully held their foothold throughout the night at a farmhouse called Casa Berardi as overwhelming numbers of German snipers, ...

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

WSBT

Latinos React to New Bishop Announcement

A new Roman Catholic bishop will officially take over the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese in January - and Hispanic parishioners at St.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Canada, St Joseph County, IN