Canada Day News

The following story first appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on July 8, 2006: Three young men who found themselves at the centre of a national controversy after being photographed urinating on the National War Memorial on Canada Day have apologized to "veterans and all Canadians" for their actions that night.

Golden Spike Days organizers are soldiering ahead - with a little help from the navy - as they plan the 2010 Canada Day festivities.

Norma Jean Mooswa is led into a Battleford courthouse in this 2004 file photo. Photograph by: Greg Pender, StarPhoenix files A Saskatchewan woman whose drunk driving cost six people their lives in a Canada Day highway crash more than five years ago was turned down Monday by the National Parole Board when she applied for unescorted temporary ...

Canadian Blood Services needs to stock up its reserves of blood, and summer is a notoriously tough time to attract donors.

While world attention will be drawn to British Columbia in 2010 for the Winter Olympics, the eyes of Canada are already on the province due to a carbon tax that came into effect on July 1. Whether other provinces go ahead with a similar tax and how the public perceives the federal Liberals' green shift plan -- or green shaft as critics have dubbed ...

While Canada Day is always on July 1, for those in the Cheongju area this special day in every Canadian's heart falls on Oct.

Highlights include a downtown parade, activities at the Abbotsford Exhibition Park, and evening entertainment and fireworks.

In spite of complaints about funding cuts, Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod spent Sept.

Liberals blast 'shocking indifference' in Mohamud case Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae, left, speaks to reporters as he sits with MP's Joe Volpe and Dan McTeague at an Ottawa news conference on Oct.

The Issue: Estimated $200 extra a year in heating costs Our View: Essential services shouldna TMt be taxed Next July 1 , the provincial government will roll out its new harmonized sales tax.

Since July 2006, it has travelled thousands ofA kilometres andA visited festivals, community halls, concerts and events from sea to sea to sea.

A Sackville man convicted in the shooting death of a Moncton cab driver five years ago will be released from prison this fall.

REGINAa 'Ontarians wary of the looming harmonization of provincial sales tax with the federal Goods and Services Tax may want to head for the Prairies.

REGINAOntarians wary of the looming harmonization of provincial sales tax with the federal Goods and Services Tax may want to head for the Prairies.

The striking similarity of Monday night's downpour to the one that caused hundreds of basements to flood last year on Canada Day was likely not lost on many, maybe least of all Kevin Theodore.

B.C. has made plans to harmonize its provincial sales tax with the federal GST next Canada Day.

B.C.'s transport regulator has acknowledged provincial truckers' concerns with its much-hyped 2010 10-Year Transportation Plan.

British Columbia is harmonizing its seven per cent provincial sales tax with the federal GST to create a single 12 per cent tax starting in mid-2010. The move will increase the cost of services of everything from haircuts to carpet cleaning that today include only the five per cent GST.

Police have charged a 42-year-old man with second-degree murder in connection with the Canada Day slaying of Shane Howarth.

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