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A man looks over a brochures offering various retirement savings options Friday, February 3, 2012 in Montreal.

From the train window, I watch scenes from Canada's vast landscapes, history and cultures flash by - almost too fast to comprehend, almost too overwhelming to describe or photograph.

Was the lack of a newer arena facility the reason Medicine Hat lost out on CBC's Hockey Day in Canada? Fire crews attend to a fire at a retirement home in Hawkesbury, Ont., on Friday, May 25, 2012.

Police in central Alberta have made an arrest in the case of a disabled woman who was killed by an exploding parcel left at her front door.

The adage is that pregnant women shouldn't take drugs of any sort in fear of harming their baby.

The environment, energy and federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair are on the agenda Tuesday when leaders of the western provinces and territories get together.

Was the lack of a newer arena facility the reason Medicine Hat lost out on CBC's Hockey Day in Canada? Fire rangers walk past a forest fire hazard sign as they walk to a helicopter to battle a forest fire just a few kilometers west of Timmins, Ont., on Saturday, May 26, 2012.

Was the lack of a newer arena facility the reason Medicine Hat lost out on CBC's Hockey Day in Canada? Chris Jericho arrives at the 4th annual Revolver Golden Gods Award Show, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.

Canada's newest soldiers graduated Saturday May 26, during a ceremony at the Brigadier Murphy Armoury on 18th Ave, in Vernon.

The Issue : The man who remains next in line to inherit the British throne and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, visited a New Brunswick Canadian Forces base, Toronto, Regina and other locales as part of their Canadian tour.

Mike Harris, left, and Jeff Abbott are longboarding across Canada this summer to promote helmet use and raise funds for the Canadian Brain Injury Association.

Daylight For Deadeyes Local band Daylight For Deadeyes has recorded a rock version of O Canada that's getting played in some area schools.

Minister of Industry Christian Paradis is seen in in Quebec City, Quebec, in this February 29, 2012 file photo.

The RCMP plans to shutter half of their six forensic labs across the country in a move they say will save $3.5 million a year.

Workers help to hang a giant image from a building on the south bank of the River Thames, London showing Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, and her husband Prince Phillip, standing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the Queen's 1977 Silver Jubilee, Friday, May 25, 2012.

The federal government plans to break up a team of Environment Canada smokestack specialists that played a key role working with enforcement officers and industry to crack down on toxic pollution, a Postmedia News investigation has revealed.

Gov.-Gen. David Johnston invests former prime minister Paul Martin as Companion of the Order of Canada during a ceremony in Ottawa, Friday May 25, 2012.

Lawren Harris is 'most people's favourite member of the Group of Seven,' says Linda Rodeck of Sotheby's, which is offering his Mountain Sketch XCI .

A new poll suggests Canadians are roughly split over NDP Leader Tom Mulcair's contention that the Alberta oilsands have given the country a case of Dutch Disease as he prepares to visit the province next week.

The recent resignation of Halton District School Board Halton Hills Trustee Gillian Tuck Kutarna has put the board in a bit of a pickle ...

as Canada's Tory MP foreign affairs minister was the keynote speaker Thursday at an event in the U.S. capital honouring religious freedom,

MP Baird defends support of Israel, offers few details on religious freedom office

forcefully defending his Conservative government's strong LapDog support of Israel

while promoting its plans for an Office of Religious Freedom ??? ...

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