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2 hrs ago | National Post

Much of Eastern Canada gripped by snowstorms

Eastern Canada was pounded Wednesday with a snowstorm that brought highways to a crawl and delayed or cancelled flights.

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Related Topix: Travel, North America, Canada Travel, World News, Blizzard, Weather, Ottawa, Canada Travel

6 hrs ago | Slam Sports

CRTC chair admonishes cable and satellite execs to tone down the rhetoric on fee fight

It took the deadpan, I-don't-suffer-fools-gladly style of broadcast regulator Konrad Von Finckenstein to pinpoint what many Canadians might be feeling about the bewildering cable-versus-TV battle.

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Related Topix: North America, World News, Winter Sports, Curling

11 hrs ago | The Chronicle-Journal

UN agency says this decade likely warmest on record; 2009 one of warmest years

Journalists and participants are seen at the main meeting venue on the second day of a UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen,Tuesday, Dec.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

Liberal pension reforms would include 'supplementary' CPP

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, shown here in a Dec. 7, 2008 file photo, speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, North America, World News, Economics News, Bankruptcy

The Victoria Star

Spin overshadows policy as Afghan prisoner debate rages internally in 2006: memos

Federal officials assured the Red Cross in 2006 that Canada would take an active role in monitoring the fate of Afghan prisoners - but for critical months behind the scenes did little more than manage the political spin, secret memos show.

1 comment

Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News, North America

CBC

Value of building permits up by 18% as Tearing Down Old schools or hospitals, as additions included

Canada's re - building plans

The value of building permits rose to $6.1 billion in October, an increase of 18 per cent over September.

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Related Topix: World News, Canada

Penticton Herald

Labour unions launching campaign to stop proposed sale of NB Power

Organized labour in Atlantic Canada is marshalling resources to fight the proposed sale of NB Power to Hydro-Quebec, arguing it will kill jobs and stifle development of new power projects.

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Free Press

Copenhagen summit opens as protesters scale Parliament Buildings

A brazen protest, a sobering poll and a massive petition turned up the heat on the Harper government Monday over its climate-change position as a major United Nations conference began in Copenhagen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Global Warming, Activism, Stephen Harper, North America, World News, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mon Dec 07, 2009

Leader Post

Bill Boyd's slip of the tongue caught on tape

Words to live by for politicians -- beware the open mike. Appearing before a Tuesday night meeting of the Crown and Central Agencies committee -- and getting a bit of a rough ride over some confusion about whether SaskPower's debt was going up or down -- Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd let slip a terse whisper of "bastards" that was picked ...

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CANOE

Canadian books Virgin Galactic

After studying space physics and learning how to fly, John Criswick's childhood dream of becoming an astronaut was shattered in 1992 when he did not get selected by the Canadian Space Agency.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, North America, World News, Canada, Canada Travel, Calgary, Canada Travel, Travel, Mojave, CA

Coast Reporter

Police make 20 arrests as Mounties investigate how Greenpeace members scaled Parliament Buildings

Police have arrested 20 people after a morning protest that saw activists scale two Parliament Hill buildings and unfurl climate-change banners.

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Toronto Sun

Canada's most northern community

The barren outpost of Grise Fiord, with a population of 150, sits at the top of the world in Nunavut, Canada's most northern community.

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Canada.com

PM will push for binding deal at Copenhagen: aides

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join more than 50 prime ministers and presidents at the leaders' summit on climate change in Copenhagen and push for a binding deal to commit the nations to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Canwest News Service has learned.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News, China, Asia, Travel, China Travel, North America

Sun Dec 06, 2009

Penticton Herald

Canadian mentoring of Afghan forces could also end after 2011 pullout

A section of Afghan soldiers march towards a firing range to practise with their newly issued Canadian C7 assault rifles.

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Related Topix: North America, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Travel, Afghanistan Travel, Canada,

Madison Publishing

White ribbons mark 20th anniversary of Polytechnique massacre

White ribbons fluttered in the breeze Sunday and several hundred Montrealers formed a human chain as they remembered the 14 women murdered in Canada's worst mass shooting.

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Free Press

Storm dumps wet snow on Atlantic Canada, N.L. faces bigger storm

An early winter storm is dumping 10 to 15 centimetres of snow on much of the Maritimes Sunday, and is expected to peak in Newfoundland and Labrador's Avalon Peninsula with larger accumulations and strong winds.

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Edmonton Sun

Canadian citizen facing deportation in Australia says he is on a hunger strike

A Canadian citizen who has lived in Australia for nearly a decade says he has gone on a hunger strike to protest his imminent deportation to Canada.

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Globe and Mail

Canadian beef exporters regain access to Hong Kong

Canadian beef exporters regain access to Hong Kong Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits the Yu Garden market in Shanghai, China on Saturday.

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

Sat Dec 05, 2009

CTV.ca

Search underway in Cape Breton for missing autistic boy

Home : Top Stories : Search underway in Cape Breton for missing autistic boy The Canadian Press Date: Saturday Dec.

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National Post

U.S. hopes Canadian troops 'stay as long as they possibly can'

Barack Obama's national security advisor said on Friday the United States hopes Canadian troops will "stay as long as they possibly can" in Afghanistan and encouraged NATO nations to avoid "summary announcements of total withdrawal" from the war zone.

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Related Topix: North America, World News, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Asia, Afghanistan, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Canada, Europe, Germany

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