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Gore: Bush engaged in 'excessive power grab' WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore called on Congress and the public to resist what he called "a gross and excessive power grab" by the Bush administration amid the war on terrorism, declaring that "our Constitution is at risk." Gore...

'Brokeback Mountain' to dominate Golden Globes Updated Mon. Jan. 16 2006 10:43 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff Cowboy romance 'Brokeback Mountain' is set to dominate the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles tonight. 'Brokeback', which has already won three Critics' Choice Awards, is shortlisted for...

Says Toronto Star 8O SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is calling it an agenda of hope versus a campaign of fear. As the federal election campaign entered the final week before Monday's vote, Harper appealed to voters to consider the Tories as the party that truly...

Layton: voters should try NDP 'just this once' Updated Mon. Jan. 16 2006 1:16 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Jack Layton is asking frustrated Liberal supporters to vote for his party "just this once." In a bid to win voters discouraged with the "incoherence and drift and dithering" in Paul Martin's...

OK Canucks, one week to go, what's your prediction, here's mine from afar: CPC 142 seats Libs 75 seats Bloc 63 seats NDP 28 seats

OTTAWA (CP) - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in the middle of a Canadian military convoy in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing the region's senior Foreign Affairs officer and wounding three Canadian soldiers. Defence Department officials identified the dead man as Glyn Berry, 59, a...

Canada has been well served by 12-plus years of Liberal rule. Despite what the opposition parties would have us believe, it has not been all scandal and nest-feathering. Ask yourself a simple multiple of Ronald Reagan's famous electoral question: Are you better off today than you were 12 years...

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10 (OneWorld) - As diplomats from around the world gather this week to lay the groundwork for a major June summit on arms control, leading rights advocacy groups are demanding that governments agree on a proposed treaty that would ban the illegal trade in guns. "No one but...

So do you have a pet? I've had pets pretty much all my life, except for the time I was touring Europe for a couple of years. I used to have a rooster! by the name of Pecker :D I kept him out in the backyard when I lived in Greece, he was cool, until he started "pecking" everything and had to...

A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in many superstitions around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece and Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. The fear of Friday the 13th is called...

Taxpayer-funded study recommends repealing law that bans polygamy in Canada By DEAN BEEBY OTTAWA (CP) - A new study for the federal Justice Department says Canada should get rid of its law banning polygamy, and change other legislation to help women and children living in such multiple-spouse...

B.C. Conservative candidate to go on trial Kathy Tomlinson, CTV News The Conservative Party was not aware that their candidate in the B.C. riding of British Columbia Southern Interior is due to go on trial next month on smuggling charges, and if convicted, he could end up in jail. Derek...

New Democrat Leader Jack Layton had hernia surgery at private clinic PORT HARDY, B.C. (CP) - NDP Leader Jack Layton, who's campaigning as the defender of public health care, had surgery at a private clinic in the 1990s, The Canadian Press has learned. Layton had hernia surgery at the...

Canada's once mighty Liberals in serious trouble OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's once mighty Liberal Party is in serious trouble in the final run-up to the January 23 election, beset by a stumbling campaign, internal divisions and a series of embarrassing gaffes. The party, in power since 1993...

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Liberals quietly consider the possibility of defeat OTTAWA -- Some Liberal staffers are beginning to put out feelers for new jobs amid slumping public opinion polls, while other Liberals have resigned themselves to the fact that they need to lose this election to rebuild the party. And then...

Tape Reveals Conservative Justice Critic Advocates Use of Notwithstanding Clause January 09, 2006 Ottawa – Conservative Justice Critic Vic Toews has called for the use of the notwithstanding clause to revoke the right to equal marriage in Canada, which is an equality right as defined by the...

By Charlie Zhu and Wendy Lim SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - CNOOC Ltd. is to pay $2.3 billion for a stake in a Nigerian oil and gas field, marking the latest overseas acquisition by a state-run Chinese major oil company keen to meet surging domestic demand. CNOOC, China's dominant offshore...

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Web giant pours cash into race for discerning search technology What does the truth look like? Google, the company last week confirmed as the biggest media firm on the planet, rather hopes that it reads something like this: WO 2005/029368. That's the number of one of several patents filed in...