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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has been campaigning on having largely restored security and normality to the country.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:18 PM Dion's wife goes rogue? Stephen Wicary A scathing message attacking Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff appeared today on the Facebook site belonging to Janine Krieber - the wife of Mr.

It's been a year and a week since I've written in my blog. Ah! The president's been lazy.

It's the cover-up that kills In which Canadians yet again prove their infinite capacity to be amazed that Afghanistan is a really horrible place.

Globe editorial The torture and the paper trail A suspected Taliban prisoner has his hands strapped by a Canadian soldier after a raid on a compound in northern Kandahar in May 2006.

When Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Golden Temple in Punjab on Wednesday, the long arm of political influence that extends from Sikhdom's holiest shrine was surely on his mind.

A fleet of Challenger jets, operated by the Department of National Defence, have made more than 1,900 flights with the prime minister, the governor general, cabinet ministers or other senior officials aboard since the Conservatives formed government.

TORONTO and OTTAWA - From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Nov.

According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join his predecessor Jean Chretien as only the second prime minister in history to enrol Canada in the half-trillion-dollar national debt club this weekend.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has a new group of senior advisers surrounding him, following a shuffling of the deck by his new chief-of-staff. On his first official day on the job as Ignatieff's new chief of staff, Peter Donolo announced a new senior staff lineup that came into effect on Tuesday.

A four-fold increase in Taliban fighters in Afghanistan over four years has been reported to the White House.

Lacking a majority in Canada's House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits India from Monday with a delegation of eight prominent Indo-Canadians, fuelling speculation that he is eyeing valuable Punjabi and Gujarati votes.

Possession of illegal handguns should lead to automatic jail terms, says a top Vancouver cop.

Rolling up the Pacific rim to win Foreign buyers examine energy-saving lightbulbs at a booth in Chinai 1 2s Canton Fair in Guangzhou October 15, 2009.

Rob Huebert Arctic sovereignty: Let's join the Texan and St. Nick Anthony Jenkins/The Globe and Mail A new U.S. attack sub has surfaced at the North Pole and so will a Russian rival.

In an emotional outpouring, Canadians answered the call on Tuesday night, filling a hall at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and raising more than $2 million to help mend shattered military lives.

True Patriot Love helmets. On November 10, a newly founded organization, True Patriot Love, will be hosting their very first gala in celebration and support of military families.

General Rick Hillier greets a well-wisher at a signing in Ottawa for his new bookw, A Soldier Fi5t, OCcober 26, 2009.

In the event that the federal long-gun registry is finally wiped out, after Wednesday's startlingly strong House of Commons vote in favour of doing so, are there any lessons we can take away in exchange for the $2-billion we expended on the Liberals' cosmetic ChrA©tien-era absurdity? The gun registry was a move designed to placate urbanites ...

A Harp seal pup lays on an ice floe in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near Charlottetown, Canada, just one of many animals whose habitat is threatened by global warming.