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OTTAWA (CP) - A new poll, released as two more left-leaning candidates prepare to enter the Liberal leadership race, suggests a merger of the Liberal and New Democratic parties could be an electoral winner. The Decima Research poll found that 25 per cent of Canadians believed the two parties...

OTTAWA (CP) - A final deal has been reached that will offer about $2 billion in compensation and healing programs for former students of native residential schools. "The government will now immediately consider the settlement agreement and the interim payments and the timing of those...

OTTAWA (CP) - Human Resources Minister Diane Finley shows no sign of flinching under mounting criticism that the Tory child-care plan will help richer, single-earner families more than low-income parents. Conservatives were elected on a key promise to provide support that's "universally...

VANCOUVER -- The solidarity of the Canadian lumber industry, fragile at the best of times, cracked Tuesday as talks in Washington to resolve the softwood dispute with the United States pushed towards a Thursday deadline. The Montreal-based Free Trade Lumber Council attacked talks aimed at...

OTTAWA (CP) - Parliament is being asked to approve $199.7 billion in federal spending for the current fiscal year, an increase of $12.2 billion over the previous year. ADVERTISEMENT The numbers, contained in estimates tabled Tuesday by Treasury Board President John Baird, sparked fear in...

Just two weeks ago, Lincoln Dinning wrote Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking that federal flags be flown at half-mast in the event of future combat deaths. That bit of civic lobbying became cruelly prescient - and emotional grist for a growing debate - when the Wingham, Ont., policeman's...

OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative government has taken steps to keep the public from seeing images of flag-draped coffins when fallen soldiers are returned home from Afghanistan. For the first time since the Afghan mission began, the government will shut down an Ontario airfield when the remains...

TEHRAN (AP) - Iranian women will be allowed to attend soccer matches for first time since the country's 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's president said in a decree posted on his website Monday. Women would sit in separate section of the stands, away from the usually raucous male fans. "The...

BAGHDAD (AP) - Prosecutors in the trial of Saddam Hussein played an audiotape Monday said to be a phone call between the former Iraqi leader and one of his co-defendants discussing the destruction of farmland during a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s. In the tape, a voice purported to be...

Conservatives and Liberals say if Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets three of his five priorities through Parliament he could win a majority. Political foes say the five priorities are a packaging PR exercise, but Conservatives and even Liberals say if Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets three of...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Five people were killed and 10 injured when a plane leased to US anti-drugs agents crashed while landing and hit a nomad camp in southern Afghanistan. ADVERTISEMENT Another five people were missing after the accident, which happened when the pilot...

KHARTOUM (AFP) - A Sudanese Islamist leader who once protected Al-Qaeda supremo Osama bin Laden was branded an apostate by the country's Muslim scholars for taking a liberal stand on women's rights. ADVERTISEMENT The clerics proposed trying Hassan al-Turabi for apostasy following recent...

ANKARA, Turkey - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview broadcast Monday that he has the authority to remove the newly elected Hamas government from power, and he warned the government it had little choice but to negotiate with Israel. "The constitution gives me clear...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's army recruits can look forward to a better night's sleep thanks to a new regulation banning chronic snorers from joining up. ADVERTISEMENT One of a raft of physical and mental traits banned from the army, the new standards governing recruitment into China's...

The deaths of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan - two of them reservists - have painted a grim picture for soldiers preparing for duty in the dangerous, war-torn country. The four were killed Saturday when a roadside bomb ripped apart their G-Wagon north of Kandahar, bringing to 15 the...

Castlegar, BC – NDP Agriculture Critic Alex Atamanenko (BC Southern Interior) says Canadian farmers need emergency aid money released immediately: "Minister Strahl has been unable to get his government to release the emergency funding from the next budget in time to help farmers get their seed...

CALGARY (CP) - Partisan remarks by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's nominee for chairman of the new Public Appointments Commission have raised questions about Gwyn Morgan's ability to carry out his duties with the confidence of Parliament. Morgan was president and chief executive officer of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - President Jalal Talabani expressed his concern Sunday over reported Iranian and Turkish troop concentrations on those countries' borders with Iraq. ADVERTISEMENT Turkey has moved thousands of troops to the border region in what its military said was an offensive against...

OTTAWA (CP) - Conservatives will quietly admit that the insurgents lurking in dusty ditches, desert shrubs and craggy hills of southern Afghanistan represent the most unpredictable threat to their young minority government. Polls suggest Stephen Harper is solidifying his support while facing a...

EDMONTON (CP) - A carpenter and a postal worker were among the four Canadian troops killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan on Saturday - grim reminders of the growing role of part-time soldiers in Canada's military operations around the world. One of the victims, Bombardier Myles...