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Almost 100 soldiers will depart Canadian Forces Base Gagetown on Monday night for Afghanistan, the start of a wave of troops that will relieve the first rotation of military personnel who have been training the country's security forces since last summer.

Kingston, Ontario , is the most romantic city in Canada-or, at least, it's home to the most Harlequin romance novel fans-according to data compiled by Amazon.ca naming the 20 most romantic cities across the country.

Two men - both husbands, both described as caring men devoted to their families, and both among the 11 dead from last Monday's deadly Ontario highway crash - were laid to rest over the weekend.

Keith Haynes and his daughter Jessie pose for a photo on Thursday February 9, 2012 at their home in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.

PeET used to be know as Pierre Elliott Trudeau

as a Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper pets a young giant panda held by his wife, Laureen, Saturday in Chongqing, China ...

After months of playing soft ball with the federal government

in the hopes of improving conditions on reserves, First Nations are now switching to a hard-ball approach ...

Whitney Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room, ABC news reported Sunday citing paramedics who had rushed to the singer's aid but found her "lifeless." Otto Von Bismarck, who listed smoking 100,000 cigars and drinking 5,000 bottles of champagne among his lifetime goals, must be spinning in his grave.

For almost 20 years, Olivia Chow and Jack Layton celebrated Chinese New Year's at a party for a few hundred of their closest friends.

Now Canada, too, has had its senior moment.

When Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested that Canada would soon join most other Western countries

but not like Europe with Many MORE Benefits that North America has Never Seen, in raising its pension age to 67, he triggered an angry round of debate ...

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Free markets were the future and any "barriers" inefficient relics. Government itself was best dismantled as far as possible.

By Edward Hill - Goldstream News Gazette Published: February 11, 2012 7:00 AM Updated: February 11, 2012 9:05 AM Hiring a few horses and armed with a large glass-plate camera and sketch pad, in 1897 a visiting U.S. military officer quietly made his way to the outskirts of Victoria.

China has loaned two rare giant pandas to Canada for a research program. The Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens Saturday signed an agreement with two Canadian zoos in this regard in Chongqing municipality in southwest China.

Canadian consumers get to mark "Food Freedom Day" on the same day in 2012 as in the previous three years, having earned enough on average to pay the total bill for groceries for the year.

Here's a look at the warmer, wetter world of Ellesmere Island, 53 million years ago, as a hippo-like mammal, called a Coryphodon, enjoys mild temperatures, year-round. (COURTESY OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Two Canadian scientists have completed a comprehensive portrait of the lush, rainforest-like ecosystem - populated by prehistoric ... (more)

To clip a dog's ears, a vet must put the pet under anesthesia, and then use splints and tape the ears back in the upright position for six weeks.

There's an old joke about federal politics that goes something like this: Conservatives go to party conventions to get drunk, Liberals to get lucky and New Democrats to debate the minutiae of dust-dry policy resolutions.

Standoff Broward Sherriff's Office detective John Berrena, left, talks on the phone as a family member of one of the victims brings clothing out of the recreational vehicle on Friday.

Notwithstanding the Untold Infrastruture Debt Needs & ShortFalls & other New Debt Mechanisms

What Gravy Train of Energy in Canada ? LeftStreamed : Austerity, Finance, and the Polarization of Wealth Part 1 : Occupy Talks

Tory Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday his government's plans to delay the age of eligibility for Old Age Security could begin to take effect around 2020 ...

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen sit down for lunch at a restaurant in Beijing as he continues his four-day China trade mission.

Sawyer Clarke Robison, 27, is shown in an RCMP handout photo. The man wanted in the shooting of two Alberta RCMP officers has been arrested without incident.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Alberta RCMP Robison had been on the run since Tuesday afternoon when the officers were shot while executing a search warrant for a gun on his family farm near Killam, ... (more)