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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.