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So it came as no comfort to the Edmonton Oilers, as they did everything right on Saturday night to smother the red-hot Calgary Flames offence, but could barely find the net themselves in a 4-1 loss at the Saddledome. Dwayne Roloson was sharp in net for the Oilers (3-5), who kept the majority of...

By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - Liberals are taking solace from the old maxim that he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. Stephane Dion's decision last week to run away from an election over the Harper government's throne speech, has bought the demoralized Grits...

(AP) MONTGOMERY, Ala A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears. "Tears just...

On July 22, 1963, Prime Minister L. B. Pearson announced the establishment of a Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism under the direction of André Laurendeau and A. Davidson Dunton. All three saw it as a grand inquest, to use Pearson's term, into the relationships between Canada's...

Hardly has the fervent flag-waving and home-team paranoia of the Olympic Games faded when Canadians are expected to bare their souls and expose their insecurities yet again, as the World Cup of Hockey begins. That hockey is “our game” is incontestable. We invented it. We dominated it for so long...

Brief History of the Winter Olympic Games The first time that a winter sport was included in the Olympic games was during the 1900 summer Olympics. Figure skating was included in the original program, but the competition never took place. In 1908, figure skating events were held at the London...

Lisa Wright Richard Brennan Staff Reporters...

THE WORLD’S BEST (AND MOST POLITICALLY INCORRECT) STEAK Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler I love the full page ads in the New York Times with a full-size picture of a very large steak knife and the caption: Terrifying Vegetarians Since 1886. Smith & Wollensky's Steak House. The ad is...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling has outed one of the main characters of her best-selling Harry Potter series, telling fans in New York that the wizard Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts school, is gay. Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Friday night in her first U.S. tour in seven years, Rowling...

HONG KONG (AFP) - A new Hong Kong apartment has sold for a record 14.1 million US dollars, a report said Friday, as the city's booming market for luxury homes continues to strengthen. The 3,205 square foot (298 square metre) duplex apartment on Hong Kong island fetched 109 million Hong Kong...

NEW YORK (AFP) - A US Nobel Prize-winning scientist who triggered a storm with reportedly racist comments canceled his British book tour Friday to return home, where his lab has suspended him from duty. "The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Board of Trustees decided to suspend the administrative...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran is capable of firing 11,000 rockets into enemy bases within the first minute after any possible attack, state-run television quoted a top Revolutionary Guards Corps commander as saying Saturday. Gen. Mahmoud Chaharbaghi, the missile commander of the Guards, said Iran has...

From Allan Chernoff and Brian Vitagliano CNN PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A woman bought guns and bomb-making material to indulge her socially outcast 14-year-old son, a prosecutor said Friday. Michele Cossey, 46, faces charges in connection with her son's alleged plan for a...

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By Chuck Baldwin "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” (II Thess. 2:3) This passage of Scripture has been one of the most subjectively interpreted verses of the...

"The mosquitoes," grumbled a suffering homesteader, "suck more Ukrainian blood than the landlords ever did in the old country." The speaker, one of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian peasants who immigrated to the prairies before the Great War, was not alone in this indictment of the new land...

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Wine sales have grown rapidly in the last 20 years and vintages from many different countries are available in Canadian stores. Few of us are connoisseurs, so how do we decide which bottle to select from the crowded shelves...

Governor Schwarzenegger has signed into the law the highly controversial SB 777 (Kuehl) that will permit transgender students to enter the locker rooms and restrooms of the gender with which they identify. Under the guise of preventing discrimination and bias against homosexuals, transgenders...

The pupil bloodied and battered beyond recognition by teenage girls By PATRICK SAWER - Her face bloodied and battered, this is Bethany James, the latest victim of the pupil-on-pupil violence blighting Britain's schools. The appalling injuries inflicted on the 15-year-old are shocking...