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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...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — The widow of Challenger's commander laid a wreath of roses and carnations at a memorial honoring fallen astronauts Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the day the space shuttle lifted off from a launch pad a few miles away and blew apart 73 seconds later. June Scobee...

When Toronto chef Susur Lee arrived home late one night last month, he watched television with his middle son, Kai, and ended up falling asleep in the same bed with him. Kai is 14. At other times, Mr. Lee might sleep in the bed of his eldest son, Levi, who is 16. "We have four beds to choose...

Baghdad — After seven weeks of silence and no word on their condition, a 55-second tape emerged Saturday and provided a glimmer of hope for the families and friends of four kidnapped Christian peace activists, including two Canadians. Al-Jazeera TV aired the tape, dated Jan. 21, showing...

Jack Layton meets with his 28 other New Democrat members this week to see whether they can work with the Conservatives, who were vilified by the NDP leader in the election campaign as completely out of step with basic Canadian values. ADVERTISEMENT And despite Layton's initial...

Truthful, U.S. overseas propoganda that educate the overseas peoples to the goodness of the American military intentions has somehow slipped back home to the growing U.S population that feels the Iraq war is unpopular. However, the U.S Propoganda is not truthful at all and is just a way to...

Now as i was sitting in the Lounge of my local DND unit, waiting to do some paperwork I read the Globe and Mail and about Conservative federalism. Now, they are prepared to give some power to the provinces. However, with regards to Quebec they are nt even planning to run a defence against the...

LA PAZ, Bolivia - New President Evo Morales cut his salary by more than half and ordered that no Cabinet minister collect a higher wage than his own, with the savings earmarked for hiring more public school teachers. ADVERTISEMENT In one of the first decrees of his five-day-old...

The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show. ADVERTISEMENT In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The city of New Orleans could lose up to 80 percent of its black population if people displaced by Hurricane Katrina are not able to return to damaged neighborhoods, according to an analysis by a Brown University sociologist. ADVERTISEMENT Professor John R. Logan, in...

Now I am planning on making a new political party in the Canadian system. But while most Canadian parties are either on the left or right of the 'Canadian political spectrum', you would hardly find a centralist party, unless you take the Liberals. Link to party...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer said Thursday that the deposed Iraqi president wants U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried on allegations of committing war crimes. Khalil al-Dulaimi said Saddam wants to sue both leaders, along with U.S...

Ramallah, West Bank — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas asked Hamas on Friday to form a new government after his vanquished Fatah Party rejected a role in the cabinet. Israel ruled out peace talks in what could be the first steps to isolate the extremist group after its election victory...