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The short-staffed Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is wooing job-seekers in Toronto and Halifax with the promise of making a difference in a young, fast-growing frontier community.

With nary a 90-degree angle anywhere, a stone feature wall and other accessories she built herself, plus ceiling to floor windows overlooking Edmonton's river valley, Maegan Lukian's Edmonton condo is one of a kind.

This twist comes courtesy of Sen. Patrick Brazeau , who has produced what he says is evidence that the Senate administration approved his living expenses - the same expenses a Senate committee said were improper and needed to be paid back.

A passenger is seen waiting at Heathrow airport, near London, southern England in this file photograph dated August 10, 2006.

Senator Pamela Wallin is pictured at a meeting on Feb. 11, 2013, in Ottawa. Ms. Wallin is one of four senators who are subject to an external audit of their expenses.

Two Toronto Star reporters and the editor of the U.S. website Gawker claim to have viewed a video that allegedly shows Mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine.

Visual essays by Franke James reveal how the 'troublesome artist' was targeted because her views on climate change clashed with the push to develop Alberta's tar sands a Franke James' art - in pictures What is Harper afraid of? is one of the works of Canadian artist Franke James, who creates visual essays about social and environmental issues.

Daniel Caron has resigned from his post as the head of Canada's National Library and Archives.

A U.S. media blog caused a frenzy Thursday after alleging Toronto mayor Rob Ford was caught on video smoking crack cocaine.

Lights flash and bounce around the crowded room; bodies move and sway with the pumping bass, synth lines and melodies.

In space, Chris Hadfield had the superpower of weightlessness. Back on Earth, he's like an old man-shuffling his feet, feeling dizzy, and suffering aches and pains, he told reporters gathered at the Canadian Space Agency 's headquarters in Montreal today, his first press conference since landing in Kazakhstan after a five-month mission to the ... (more)

Senator Mike Duffy arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for a meeting of the Senate Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration committee, May 9, 2013.

Alexandre Handa is managing partner of Handa Travel Student Trip Ltd. , which sells spring break, adventure and other trips to young people.

From now until June 9, a 28-foot replica of the world-famous Peggy's Cove lighthouse is on display at Bay and Wellington in the heart of downtown Toronto; part of a big push by Nova Scotia tourism that also included a series of stories in Star Travel a few weeks ago.

Health inspector, community volunteer, father, true Cape Bretoner. Born Sept. 27, 1941, in Sydney, N.S., died Oct.

New jazz bands always seem to be germinating new jazz music in Edmonton thanks to the city's busy student population.

Race fans endure the rain during an Edmonton Motorcycle Roadracing event in summer 2012.

B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark waves to the crowd as she arrives on stage after winning the British Columbia provincial election, in Vancouver, May 14, 2013.

Within days of being sworn into office as a Conservative senator on Jan. 26, 2009, former broadcaster Mike Duffy began making waves with a series of ribald partisan barbs aimed at various detractors of his patron, Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Greece's Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras touches his head before a news conference on the liberalization of closed professions and markets at the Finance Ministry in Athens on May 9, 2013.