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By Dean Bennett EDMONTON (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to the beating heart of Canada's petroleum industry Thursday to announce almost $156 million for projects to bleed away greenhouse gases and other pollutants. "The era of empty rhetoric on the environment is over. We're taking...

Perhaps no other rock-and-roll trailblazer has been as original or as influential in such a short span of time as Jimi Hendrix. Widely acknowledged as one of the most daring and inventive virtuosos in rock history, Hendrix pioneered the electric guitar (he played a right-handed Fender...

By Cassandra Szklarski TORONTO (CP) - Avril Lavigne's preppy and poppy new single will be incomprehensible to some, but not because of her surprising cheerleader turn. The chorus to her boppy anthem "Girlfriend" has been recorded in eight different languages, including Mandarin and Japanese...

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese people risk becoming foreigners in their own country because of an obsession with using English-only public signs in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games, state media reported Friday, quoting a lawmaker. "Too many signs in public places carry only English information...

MONTREAL (CP) - Thousands of Montreal homes and apartments are served by city water pipes made of lead but the public health department said Wednesday the water is safe to drink. Dr. John Carsley said he doesn't expect to see any ill effects as a result of the lead pipes, but recommended that...

TORONTO (CP) - When it comes to stroke, doctors have a saying: "Time is brain." In other words, the sooner a person gets treatment after the onset of symptoms, the less damage may be done to this all-important organ. But a Canadian study has found that patients admitted to hospital for ischemic...

Associated Press STEVENS POINT, Wis. - If only all criminals were this helpful. A 24-year-old man called police to tell them he was trying to break into a church, but he wasn't having much luck. Police said the would-be thief's call prompted them to show up at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, where...

Fr. C. G. Vaillancourt "I myself am the living bread come down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread he shall live forever; the bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." (Jn. 6:51) The Catechism tells us all about the Holy Mass as we read on the Holy Eucharist. The Bible...

CROSS RIVER, N.Y. -- A public high school has suspended three 16-year-old girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word "vagina" during a reading from "The Vagina Monologues." Their defiant stand is being applauded by the author of the well-known feminist play, who said Tuesday that the...

Catholic Online ORADEA, Romania (Catholic Online) – Differences in religion and ethnicity and the continual threat of secularization are challenging the sacramental understanding and underpinnings of marriages by Catholics in Europe, bishops from seven European nations said. In a March 6...

Be always mindful of the God Who is present everywhere, and Who dwells in the hearts of the just No spiritual practice is more to be recommended than that of the presence of God; none is more useful, none more profitable for advancement in virtue. It is indispensable. How is it possible to...

At 'Medical Spas,' Botched Treatments Are on the Rise, but Spa-Goers Can Take Steps to Protect Themselves March 7, 2007 — - It used to be that salons were just for hair and nails. Now, Americans are undergoing all sorts of procedures at so-called "medical spas," from laser hair removal to Botox...

By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or...

Eight people were arrested after police busted what they believe is the largest indoor marijuana grow operation ever found in eastern Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police seized 3,100 marijuana plants from the Imperial Mushroom Farm in North Stormont, Ont., on Tuesday, said a news release issued...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has testified he launched last year's war against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon in line with a contingency plan he approved four months before, the Haaretz daily said on Thursday. Olmert, under fire for his handling of the inconclusive...

By Melanie Patten HALIFAX (CP) - A controversial debate on racial diversity went without incident in a small radio studio Tuesday after Saint Mary's University scrubbed the public event over security concerns. Self-described "race realist" Jared Taylor and philosophy professor Peter March...

By John Ward OTTAWA (CP) - The Bank of Canada left its key overnight interest rate unchanged at 4.25 per cent Tuesday and said the economy is developing as predicted. The stand-pat decision was widely expected, but it may have helped prod investors as the Toronto stock market was up 100...

The rosary, a meditation on the life of Our Lord and His Blessed Mother, has been a powerful instrument of prayer down through the centuries. The meditation series used in this pamphlet focuses on the need to pray to end abortion at the abortion clinics in our state, our country and...

CBC News Two teenaged boys were suspended from an Ottawa high school for a fight that was seen on the internet by more than 1,000 people, including their vice-principal. Barry Armstrong...

MARCH 5--This year's Super Bowl telecast generated about 150 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, with the bulk of the beefs centering on Prince's halftime performance and a Snickers commercial. As seen in the letters on the following pages, many correspondents were upset because...