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Canada's once mighty Liberals in serious trouble OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's once mighty Liberal Party is in serious trouble in the final run-up to the January 23 election, beset by a stumbling campaign, internal divisions and a series of embarrassing gaffes. The party, in power since 1993...

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Liberals quietly consider the possibility of defeat OTTAWA -- Some Liberal staffers are beginning to put out feelers for new jobs amid slumping public opinion polls, while other Liberals have resigned themselves to the fact that they need to lose this election to rebuild the party. And then...

Tape Reveals Conservative Justice Critic Advocates Use of Notwithstanding Clause January 09, 2006 Ottawa – Conservative Justice Critic Vic Toews has called for the use of the notwithstanding clause to revoke the right to equal marriage in Canada, which is an equality right as defined by the...

By Charlie Zhu and Wendy Lim SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - CNOOC Ltd. is to pay $2.3 billion for a stake in a Nigerian oil and gas field, marking the latest overseas acquisition by a state-run Chinese major oil company keen to meet surging domestic demand. CNOOC, China's dominant offshore...

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Web giant pours cash into race for discerning search technology What does the truth look like? Google, the company last week confirmed as the biggest media firm on the planet, rather hopes that it reads something like this: WO 2005/029368. That's the number of one of several patents filed in...

Russia's goalie Anton Khudobin (right) skates away as Team Canada players celebrate teammate Blake Comeau's goal. (CP PHOTO/Richard Lam) VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada won the world junior hockey championship for the 12th time Thursday night, and this one was one of the most impressive of them all...

Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border. Books are removed from the shelves in Canadian libraries, schools and bookstores every day. Free speech on the Internet is under attack. Few of these...

Outrageous, out of the question? Of course. Then again, here's what happened in the summer of 1998 when the president was named Clinton. Dozens of editorial pages clamored for him to quit (see this list). "He should resign," the Philadelphia Inquirer declared, "because his repeated, reckless...

Ian Plimer: Global warming a damp squib January 05, 2006 HEAT, bushfires. Just another Australian summer, some hotter, some wetter, some cooler, some drier. As per usual, the northern hemisphere freezes and the blame game is in overdrive. At the 2005 UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal...

Canada's Liberals Blame America January 4th, 2006 A too-close-to-call federal election campaign in Canada has spurred the nation’s beleaguered Liberal leader to try and cling to power by attacking the nation’s oldest ally and largest trading partner. That Canada sells 83% of its world exports...

Harry Truman stands on trial for crimes against humanity for his decision to drop the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. The United States Air Force dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the mornings of August...

Nasa scientists have witnessed a rare explosion on the Moon, caused by a "meteoroid" slamming into it. The blast was equal in energy to about 70kg of TNT and was seen near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains). The object that hit the Moon was probably part of a shower of "taurids"...

Our story begins in the depth of the Opaku canyon, legend has it that the canyon is haunted by the spirits of the miners who once worked in the caverns picking away at the earth relentlessly searching for gold seams. Accidents were common occurrence claiming the lives of many of the miners who...

A joint project of the CBC TV network and the Raido-Canada service, this ambitious documentary series traced the History of Canada literally from the beginning--15,000 BC, to be exact. The subsquent episodes were nothing if not ambitious, covering the progress of the Dominion right up to 1850...

Support for the U.S. is surging in some parts of the Muslim world. BY HUSAIN HAQQANI AND KENNETH BALLEN Monday, December 19, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST So much for the popularly peddled view that anti-Americanism in the Muslim world is so pervasive and deep-rooted it might take generations to...

Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- China's economy is growing so fast that estimates of its long-term prowess are bordering on the absurd. After Chinese statisticians recently sharply revised up their estimate of economic output in 2004 to $1.93 trillion, some analysts said that in 35 years it would...

The wartime Prime Minister wanted Germany's leaders to be executed without 'the farce' of facing prosecution Jamie Doward, home affairs editor Sunday January 1, 2006 The Observer Winston Churchill believed Adolf Hitler should be executed without trial if he fell into British hands at the end...