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Stephen Harper's Conservatives are selling their new budget as a big win for British Columbia in a bid to shore up their support in the only region where it has fallen, but almost all of the money is a rehash of Liberal budget commitments. After a rocky start in B.C. when the appointment of...

VICTORIA -- Lindsay Sullivan clutched a folded Canadian flag to her chest as she accepted hugs of condolence on the steps of Christ Church Cathedral. Only moments earlier, a white hearse bearing the casket of her fiancé, Bombardier Myles Mansell, had left under escort by eight police...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Taina Moraes cut sisal to make rope, a tough job for a 7-year-old. But U.N.-backed programs helped her family plant crops and buy goats — and in doing so got Taina out of the factory and into school. ADVERTISEMENT "In the beginning I didn't know how to read. But my...

RABAT, Morocco - Fifty women have graduated as Muslim preachers, part of a concerted effort by authorities in Morocco to promote moderate Islam in a country grappling with extremism. ADVERTISEMENT Another 150 men graduated Wednesday as imams, or prayer leaders. The 50 female religious...

Movie Criticism: Some critics view the film as blatant propaganda on behalf of US military intervention, even though the US military was there at UN request to protect food shipments to civilians from Somali warlords. Unlike Scott's earlier film G.I. Jane, Black Hawk Down received the full...

OTTAWA (CP) - It has been almost 12 years since Brian and Carol Isfeld lost their middle son Mark in the service of the Canadian military, and they remember well the lead item on newscasts that June day: O.J. Simpson's white Bronco being chased down a Los Angeles freeway. "Our son's death was...

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar hit its highest level in 28 years against the U.S. currency on Friday, helped by firm domestic economic growth data and expectations that U.S. interest rates are close to topping out. ADVERTISEMENT The Canadian currency pushed past C$1.1193 to the U.S...

I personally feel sorry for all civilians, Jewish or Palestinian who have been killed in the violence, even if it is directly or indirectly because both sides have done it indiscriminately at times and civilians have sadly also been killed as they target each other. Do I feel sorry for IDF...

So what is your opinion on rap. Is it as violent as people say and cause people to pick up guns and go kill each other like video games. I personally like Rap, especially from Tupac, Eminem and Notorious BIG, two out of the three now dead because of gun violence. So what is your opinion??

Now important issue here. So who is your most favorite Liberal, Socialist or conservative member. For me: Conservative: John Diefenbaker Liberal: Lester Pearson Bill Graham Socialist/NDP: Tommy Douglas The CCF candidate after him for Premier of Sask, Llyod I believe was his name Jack...

So my cousin from Quebec has just completed or is in the state of completing his journalist school and from what I am told he wants to be one of the journalists that cover wars and such. So because we are buddies, even though I haven't seen him in 10 years, I said to him in an e-mail, if I see...

I have been watching CPAC for the last week or so and I am so damn frustrated with the politicians especially the Liberals and the Conservatives because it is only a game for so it appears. They make these comments on issues like it really matters to them, but then in the next incident they are...

So I believe last year I told you guys about the story of the woman or young girl I liked when I was in Air Cadets for five years. Well when I finally told her how i felt, she said she was going to Brazil for a trip and didn't want relationships, until she got back. Funny thing is, when she got...

Somaliland (Somali: Soomaaliland) is an unrecognized de facto state located in northwest Somalia in the Horn of Africa. In May 1991, Somaliland people declared an independent Republic of Somaliland that now includes five of the eighteen administrative regions of Somalia, roughly the region...

OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative government is suggesting that provinces blend their sales tax with Ottawa's GST as a way to help boost provincial revenues, sources say. The federal government is raising the possibility as a part of its promise to deal with the fiscal imbalance, which some say...

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...