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The Honourable Sinclair Stevens, Leader of the grassrots Red Tory inspired Progressive Canadian Party is pleased to announce that Party President, the Rev.

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.

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.

The U.S. State Department has issued an updated travel warning for tourists planning to visit Mexico, adding information on drug violence on a state-by-state and city-by-city basis.

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.

Under the desert sun at the Paso del Norte bridge between Ciudad Juarez in Mexico and El Paso, Texas, hundreds of pedestrians stand in line for up to two hours to reach the immigration booths.

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.

leaves Canadian & young boy dead : Quebecer near Fort Lauderdale & Hollywood Florida a favorite Cdn Winter Holiday place to visit

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 ...

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks while visiting the Panda House at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China Saturday Saturday Feb.

USA drug agents have evidence that cartel leaders paid millions to a Mexican border state governor and other figures in Mexico's former ruling party in exchange for political influence, according to a court filing in Texas ...

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JACKSON, Miss. -- A state lawmaker who introduced a measure renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America

for "official purposes within the state of Mississippi" says he did it to make a point ...

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 ...

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Canada has So Many Resources for Sale yet even more Years of Working ahead for workers Not Less as Pension reform targeted for 2020, 2025 : Republican Tory Flaherty

Federal 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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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)

Radio Station Wolf FM supplied this photo of the aftermath of an accident between a tractor trailer and an SUV collided on Highway 97 near McLeese Lake, which is located between Quesnel, B.C., and Williams Lake, B.C., on Thursday, Feb.

A forensic technician ties a used police line together to seal off a crime scene in Monterrey February 8, 2012.

Ontario Provincial Police and emergency crews investigate a multiple fatal motor vehicle accident near Hampstead, Ontario, Monday, February 6, 2012.

clearing the way for Canadian producers to compete with China's current suppliers in Kazakhstan, Australia and Russia

CALGARY, Alberta - Canada said it will allow the sale to China of uranium for use in nuclear-energy generation ...

hikes spending : pict Alberta Finance Minister Ron Liepert speaks in Edmonton on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 at the Alberta Legislature ...

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as Veteran game designer savours challenge of building studio in Victoria

as a Chris Robertson of Victoria is shown in this Microsoft handout photo. Robertson is helping build Microsoft's new video game studio in Victoria from the ground up ...

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in Jasper Park Alberta gets green light – a UNESCO natural world heritage site !

Parks Canada is giving the green light to a private company to construct a 300-metre walkway and massive glass-floored “skywalk” at the side of the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park

This announcement represents a worrying trend towards inappropriate commercial development that could compromise the ecological values of our national parks.

In fact, just weeks ago Parks Canada announced that it will be considering proposals for more commercial development in another of Canada’s national parks!

More than ever before, this growing threat : this trend of inappropriate development in your national parks head on. ...

An interpretive trail and viewing platform overlooking glaciers along the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park, shown in this artist's rendition.

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With increasing Gas prices Tourism by Canadians in Their Own Countrry is Becoming a Less Possible Choice for Many there already

as a Prime Minister Stephen Harper has kicked off his tour of China by promoting Canadian tourism at an event in Beijing ...