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OTTAWA — Some provincial ministers who helped the federal Liberals forge the beginnings of a national child-care system say the Conservative plan to scrap the program will hurt working parents who need quality care for their children. Joanne Crofford, Saskatchewan's Minister of Community...

Now i think that it seems to be left-leaning, or socialist people who truly believe in true human rights for all people and all classes and minorities and women, and etc, etc. While other people are more interested in making money and not interested in their fellow man. For example;

The U.S. military issued a statement saying that American troops in a convoy shot a vehicle carrying the Canadian chargé d'affaires to Iraq and three other diplomats in Baghdad on Tuesday. The U.S. military said that, as the Canadian vehicle approached the convoy on the road, American troops...

Two teenage friends were each released on $50,000 bail Tuesday following an alleged street race between luxury cars that ended in the death of a city taxi driver. Their release is subject to a half-dozen conditions, including that they turn over all travel documents and that neither take the...

OTTAWA (CP) - NDP Leader Jack Layton emerged from his first caucus meeting with the party's new MPs today, promising to act as a "balance" to Conservative policy. Layton said he won't automatically endorse the Tory government's plan to cut the GST, explaining that he wants to see the proposal...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush set energy self-sufficiency goals Tuesday night that would still leave the country vulnerable to unstable oil sources. He also declared he is helping more people get health care, despite a rising number of uninsured. Whether promoting a plan to "save...

MONTREAL (CP) - Support for sovereignty dropped in Quebec in the immediate aftermath of the Conservative election victory that included a breakthrough in the province, according to a new poll. ADVERTISEMENT The poll by the Montreal-based CROP firm for Montreal La Presse...

Now, I got sworn in to the military just last week and now tomorrow I get to go to pick up my uniform tomorrow. I have to get up at 7 a.m. to drive down to pick up all this gear and such. :D And then I will be in the military. The military has already started talking about me joining...

LONDON (AFP) - The militant Palestinian group Hamas won time from a wary European Union, Russia and the United States to wipe the blood off its hands, renounce violence and recognise Israel's right to exist before it forms the next Palestinian government. ADVERTISEMENT Meeting in...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - From the burning of its flag to a boycott of its brands of butter and cookies, Denmark is feeling Islamic outrage over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. ADVERTISEMENT Angered by the drawings, masked Palestinian gunmen briefly took over a European Union office...

LONDON - The United States and its European allies have similar views about aid for a Hamas-led Palestinian government, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday as she tried to persuade other nations to cut off assistance to a government led by the hard-line group. ADVERTISEMENT...

Primary care -- the basic medical care that people get when they visit their doctors for routine physicals and minor problems -- could fall apart in the United States without immediate reforms, the American College of Physicians said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT "Primary care is on the verge of...

TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's health minister says government lawyers are examining what legal tools there are to restrict the activities of a Vancouver-based private health-care company. George Smitherman says Copeman Healthcare Inc. could break federal and provincial law when it opens three...

ESTERHAZY, Sask. (CP) - After spending more than 24 hours trapped by fire deep below the earth's surface, all 72 miners have surfaced from a Saskatchewan potash mine safe and sound. The last 5 came to the surface moments ago. They were holed up in the farthest reaches of the mine and the only...

Now, for a way to reform the system of government I have been thinking of an idea. It seems kind of cool and it is kind of different from the parlimentary system that we have now. Now, what should take place is a general election with each leader of the political parties and such running for...

OTTAWA (CP) - The head of Canada's police chiefs says he will impress upon the new government the merits of the national gun registry, a much-maligned system the Conservatives have promised to scrap. ADVERTISEMENT Jack Ewatski, president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iraqi money gambled away in the Philippines. Thousands spent on a swimming pool that was never used. An elevator repaired so poorly that it crashed, killing people. ADVERTISEMENT A U.S. government audit found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens...

Well, for the past week or so, i have been working on the Canadian Peoples Party Platform and this is what I have come up with. If this goes against any Canadian Content Rules, I have written Cosmo and #juan to see if I can post it here, and if I can't you can contact me at...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060129/wl_nm/guatemala_congo_dc;_ylt=Amtzk8IpeRL3LhnjvuK96vhvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA-- Whoever the soldiers were, they were still U.N soldiers and I hope they rest in peace.

The Apollo 1 Command Module was a "Block I" design, built for spaceflight but never intended for a trip to the moon, as it lacked the necessary docking equipment. Immediately prior to the accident, the crew members were reclining in their horizontal couches, running through a checklist of...