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On July 24, 1967, during a state visit to Expo ’67, General Charles De Gaulle, President of France, and a hero of the twentieth century, proclaimed from the balcony of Montreal’s City Hall, a sentence that would change the history of Canada – “Vive le Quebec Libre.” By repeating the slogan of a...

C. G. Vaillancourt Poetry as an art form is possibly the most demanding, requiring sustained effort, a varied apprenticeship and unusual gifts. Rewards are pleasure the work affords to a wide readership, a deeper understanding of literature generally, and a kinship with past writers...

Paul Anka was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on July 30th, 1941. As a lad, he was small, with a stocky build and drove himself to excel in sports, but his real love was music. By age 11, he was a regular act in the nightclubs in Gatineau and Hull in the province of Quebec, performing cover versions of...

By Ivan Moreno, Rocky Mountain News CASTLE ROCK - Jose Luis Rubi-Nava put a rope around his girlfriend's neck and told her, "If you want death, here it is," moments before he dragged her behind his car for more than a mile. That version of events is part of Rubi-Nava's statement to...

PEQUANNOCK, N.J. (AP) -- High school kids who illegally go drinking over the weekend could still find themselves in trouble at school a few days later. A New Jersey school district is adopting a new policy that allows officials to randomly test students. The test they'll use can detect alcohol...

By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY Tyreol Gardner first smoked marijuana when he was 13. "The main reason I tried it was curiosity," Gardner recalls. "I wanted to see what it felt like." He liked what it felt like, and by age 15, he was smoking pot every week. He supported his habit with the money his...

By Michael Hayes MANAMA, Bahrain — A local lawmaker has introduced legislation that would impose a 1-year prison sentence for anyone found guilty of downloading Internet pornography, according to a report in the Gulf News. Council of Representatives member Abdullah Al Dossari introduced the...

Ian Sample, science correspondent The Guardian Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute...

Provided by: Canadian Press Written by: LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Bypassing the Legislature, Republican Gov. Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical...

People between 18 and 24 are more open to faith-based dialogues than any other age group in Britain, a recent survey by Premier Media Group revealed. Christians came top of the poll; with 74% of 18-24 year olds willing to listen to them talk about their own faith. Results also revealed 63% of...

Speaking and listening are essential conditions for building the civilisation of love, Pope Benedict said during ecumenical Vespers at the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls on the last day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Speaking in the presence of representatives of other...

Washington DC, (CNA).- A former high-ranking officer with the KGB claims that the Kremlin and the Russian intelligence agency in the 1960s were set on executing a smear campaign against the Catholic Church, and the main target was Pope Pius XII. In a recent issue of the National Review Online...

Man who tried to pawn goods stolen from church posted photo with crosses Priest Bob Young at the church in Eagle River (Photo by BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News) In a photo posted on his MySpace Web page, Martushev poses with two crosses that the Rev. Bob Young of Holy Spirit...

From correspondents in Bangkok A SENIOR Thai Buddhist monk has been charged with raping a Vietnamese Australian teenager during a ritual he claimed would protect her from bad luck, police said today. "The victim did not know at first she had been raped because she thought it was part of...

By Raphael Satter LONDON (AP) - A resurgent El Nino and persistently high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the world's hottest year ever recorded, British climatologists said Thursday. "This new information represents another warning that climate change is happening around...

By Lisa Leff SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It takes a lot to make San Franciscans blush but a video porn company has managed to do it. A studio that makes S&M movies recently took over an historic building that once housed the National Guard, unleashing a rare public debate about decency in a city...