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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...

St. John Vianney All of our religion is but a false religion and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God if we have not that universal charity for everyone, for the good and for the bad, for the poor people as well as for the rich, for all...

During the 1970s, one of the most dominating forces within the field of popular music was a group from Sweden called "ABBA", a musical entity consisting of two couples, who became by far the most successful act of that decade, even one of the biggest phenomenons of the whole century. As far as...

By David Friend TORONTO (CP) - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Monday he expects some of Canada's biggest banks will respond to the concerns he has raised about automated banking machine fees, hinting that changes could be on the way without committing the federal government to take action...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - British actor Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to play Harry Potter in big-screen versions of the final two installments of J.K. Rowling's books about the boy wizard, studio Warner Bros said Monday. A spokeswoman for Warner Bros confirmed 17-year-old Radcliffe would reprise...

Team Canada's Stacie Devereaux split two games Monday at the world junior curling championships in Eveleth, Minn. Devereaux, who is battling a flu bug, had to replaced by alternate Stephanie Jackson midway through a 10-5 loss to Russia. Canada trailed 7-1 when Devereaux withdrew as the...

By Camille Bains VANCOUVER (CP) - An elderly environmentalist who has already spent more than two years in jail for anti-logging protests was handed a 10-month sentence for criminal contempt of court Monday. Betty Krawczyk was involved in protests last May against highway construction...

By GILLIAN FLACCUS BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) -- The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California. Now, the violent gang that deals in drugs, guns and identity theft is...

(WATAUGA, TX) - A 17-year-old faces a felony charge of injury to a child after police found a videotape that appears to show him and another man teaching his 2- and 5-year-old nephews to smoke marijuana, police said. The video shows two children being taught to smoke marijuana and the men...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A group linked to Al-Qaeda in Iraq released a video on Sunday showing masked militants gunning down a group of kidnapped police officers in cold blood. The video opened with the men, all blindfolded, sitting in rows and an on-screen message which blames the executions on the...

On the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq - March 17th 2007 : We demand the end of the wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan ! On 10 January 2007, George W. Bush made the announcement that the US would send 21,500 more troops to...

Fr. C. G. Vaillancourt We are invited to live a life in the Spirit of God, this calls for renunciation of the earthly life, detachment from our material world, possessions and the ego. We must die to the old self to experience the new self which is empowered by the Holy Spirit to live...

By Andy Blatchford MONTREAL (CP) - The mother of an 11-year-old girl is unhappy with the way the rules division of international soccer's governing body handled the issue of Muslim girls wearing traditional headgear during organized matches. The International Football Association Board was...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) — Two packages containing human body parts — including a liver and a partial head — that were intended for a lab were delivered to a home instead, and officials say more than two dozen similar packages could be dispersed across the United States. The body parts...

Pontiac's War was the most successful First Nations resistance to the European invasion in our history. Though it failed to oust the British from native lands, the conflict forced British authorities to a recognition of native rights that has had had far-reaching consequences down to our own...

In late October of 1929, terror seized the stock exchanges of North America. Capitalism's speculative party, with its galloping share prices and its celebrity millionaires, came to an abrupt stop. The Great Crash, it was called, and it was followed by the Great Depression. October 24th was...

Born in Toronto in 1867 and raised in Woodstock, Ont., Joe Boyle was an extraordinarily restless young man. At age 17 he went to New York with his father and hopped an outbound ship, spending three years at sea. On his return he started a freighting business, got married and left it all to go on...