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Ottawa — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is choosing which Conservative MPs will become chairs of Commons committees, reversing a parliamentary reform that he championed while leader of the Official Opposition. Opposition members are concerned that the role of MPs will be significantly weakened...

Harper dares opposition to block child care plan CTV.ca News Staff If opposition parties don't like his government's proposed child care allowance, they can vote against the government's forthcoming budget, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "We were elected on this, we ran on this, we know...

Now I was watching Mike Duffy Live and a journalist and an NDP strategist have said that they are making ground upon the Liberals and are hoping now that they have shown the Liberals are a right-wing or central party, they are the only true leftist choice in Canada. This is a good sign to...

Now I would like to have a record on which force is socialist-leftist against conservative and which side is actually beginning to falture in the world. So it will be ranked Socialist-Leftist: Fascist-Conservative: Other (unknown what direction party is in, or no party country)...

Now, maybe in America the United Nations is not well liked. However, it is extremely popular in other nations especially in African and Asia. And even though the U.N needs alot of improvement. With the lose of the U.N I am sure America wouldn't want to tax its people and send over its soldiers...

CHICAGO - Former Gov. George Ryan, who drew international praise when he commuted the sentences of everyone on Illinois' death row, was convicted of racketeering and fraud Monday in a corruption scandal that ended his political career in 2003. ADVERTISEMENT Ryan, 72, sat stone-faced as the...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged U.S.-led coalition forces on Monday to show restraint when attacking militants in residential areas after more than a dozen civilians and police died in two possible "friendly fire" incidents. ADVERTISEMENT As commanders began...

OTTAWA - Canadians are becoming increasingly uneasy about mixing religion and politics and they'd be more likely to vote for a party lead by an atheist or a Muslim than an evangelical Christian, suggests a new poll. The survey was conducted for CanWest News Service late last week, less than...

New lobbying rules to change little in the world of lobbying: critics Under the FAA, lobbyists will have to keep a list of meetings with public servants which could create a chill in the government-relations industry, says one critic. The federal government's sweeping new lobbying rules will...

KIGALI (Reuters) - Three films in two years about Rwanda's genocide have shocked Western audiences with the scale and savagery of the slaughter, but many survivors in the tiny central African nation are unimpressed. ADVERTISEMENT The Forex market is the largest market in the world...

MOSCOW - Call it cold war II, the sequel. ADVERTISEMENT An intensifying shouting match between the US and Russia has stirred fears that the two former adversaries could be drifting back to a familiar ideologically charged rivalry. Most experts play down the new mood as a worrisome "chill,"...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets are already looking ahead after beating the Milwaukee Brewers 9-3 Sunday to set two franchise records for best starts to a season. Atlanta is coming to town, and the Mets are looking for a fast start against their NL East rivals. "They're the division...

Frisia (570) Portland (787): Three lost viking ships land at Portland Bill. The king's reeve tries to collect taxes from them. They kill him and sail on. Isle of Lindisfarne (793) Isle of Skye (795) Ionia (795) Rathün (795) Aquitaine (799) St. Philibergt (799) Ionia (802, again) Lyminge...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060416/ap_on_re_eu/ireland1916_rebellion;_ylt=AnYAdQgr6yWESeWBtV76dG5vaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA-- DUBLIN, Ireland - More than 2,500 Irish military personnel, some saluting atop tanks and others marching with fixed bayonets, paraded Sunday past the...

DAMASCUS, Syria - Iran's former president accused the United States Sunday of waging "a psychological war" against Tehran and said an American strike against the Islamic republic would not be in Washington's interests. ADVERTISEMENT Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, who heads...

JERUSALEM - Israel has proposed freeing a leader of the Palestinian uprising if the United States releases Jonathan Pollard, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of spying for the Jewish state, Army Radio reported Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT What do you think will help the market most in...

Our knowledge about arms and armour of the Viking age (8th to 11th centuries Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Icelandic sagas, recorded in the 13th century. The main weapons were the spear and the...

Trelleborg is a collective name for six Viking ring castles, located in Denmark and the southern part of modern Sweden. Five of them have been dated to the reign of the Harold Bluetooth of Denmark (d. 986). The fort in Borgeby has been dated to the vicinity of 1000 AD, so it is possible that it...

VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada's military mission in Afghanistan will be a testing ground for future leaders of the armed forces, entrenching a change that began at the end of the Cold War, says one of Canada's most celebrated soldiers. Retired major-general Lewis MacKenzie says despite public...

So with the last article about the JomsVikings. Does that mean that Vikings in general, the ones that pillaged and such and went on campaigns were they just what you consider mercenaries of today and would fight for other Viking forces or for Christian or Muslim forces if desired. Evidence of...