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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson has been barred from making "The Hobbit," in the latest twist to a bitter public feud between Hollywood studio New Line and the New Zealand film-maker. Bob Shaye, the co-chairman of studio New Line, which oversaw production of...

Toronto long remained the conservative British community that John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, founded in 1792. Protestant, puritanical, and loyal to Britain, the ruling group he helped to establish shaped the town for generations. By the time it officially became a city...

hen the French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founded Quebec City in 1608 atop the strategic cliffs where the St. Lawrence suddenly narrows towards the west, his only intention was to defend the area from rival fur traders. Quebec's role changed dramatically, however, when the French government...

Pierre Trudeau was the top pick as the greatest Canadian of the 20th Century, a new national public opinion survey suggests. In second place was Terry Fox, the inspirational hero who tried to walk across Canada after losing a leg to cancer, while hockey great Wayne Gretzky was the top choice of...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An art teacher whose off-hours work as a so-called "butt-printing artist" became widely circulated among high school students has been fired. Stephen Murmer, a teacher at Monacan High School, was suspended in December after objections were raised about his private abstract...

MONTREAL (CP) - Montreal city workers are being accused of sloppy work after they destroyed a playground while cutting down parts of a tree. Municipal workers were asked to remove diseased branches of a tree in a park near a residential downtown neighbourhood. As workers cut down the branches...

By Mike Oliveira TORONTO (CP) - Newly minted Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is welcome to call for free advice any time he likes, but former prime minister Jean Chretien said Wednesday he has no plans to butt in and try to run the party behind the scenes. Chretien refused to confirm reports that...

Despite protests, woman paints messages on her roof - Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer (01-08) 18:54 PST SAN MATEO -- A San Mateo woman is getting messages from God and painting them in five-foot-tall letters on the roof of her house. The city wants her to stop doing it. Her neighbors...

By Lee Carter BBC News, Toronto Little Mosque on the Prairie has a colourful cast of characters I'm with a group of surprised camels, a 300lb chicken shwarma and a bemused comedy writer in a wintry, wet Toronto square. We're here for the launch of CBC's new sitcom Little Mosque on the...

By Allan Urry BBC World Service in Goa For many years now, certain parts of the world - such as Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - have had an unsavoury connection with sex tourism: foreigners arriving to sexually abuse children. Now, a BBC investigation finds that the Indian state of Goa may...

Yuki Muto leaves a police station on Friday before being sent to prosecutors.A man under arrest for dismembering the body of his sister sliced off her hair and breasts in an apparent attempt to hide his victim's gender, said police. Yuki Muto, 21, from Tokyo's Shibuya-ku, told officers that he...

Richard St. Pierre It's always fun and interesting to see how styles, trends and fads change over the years of our lives and sometimes how they even try to make a comeback in our society. Everyone remembers a favourite toy, article of clothing or certain event that they grew up with. All the...

PM told British 'no conspiracy' behind October Crisis: newly declassified files Bruce Wallace The Ottawa Citizen LONDON -- Canada's federal government confided to the British government during the 1970 October Crisis it had "no evidence of an extensive and co-ordinated FLQ conspiracy," despite...

BY PETER STOCKLAND -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are spread wide, then brought to a tiny place,” Michael Murphy writes in his classic work, Golf and the Kingdom. The observation occurs as the writer, under the tutelage of the legendary...

A Midlothian-based au pair who was caught with more than 330 paedophile computer images has been jailed for nine months. Graeme Brown, 24, admitted possession and sending pictures to a police officer in the USA, who was pretending to be a teenager on the internet. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard...

By JOHN MARKOFF In their persistent quest to breach the Internet’s defenses, the bad guys are honing their weapons and increasing their firepower. With growing sophistication, they are taking advantage of programs that secretly install themselves on thousands or even millions of personal...

By Pamela Perkins Blood had been on the wall at 520 Carpenter. But resident Mark Skolburg told police he learned a thing or two from watching a TV crime drama. The evidence was painted over by the time Memphis police showed up Wednesday to investigate a human skull found in his backyard...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A Bangkok municipal office has launched a new program to increase productivity: Lights go out just past noon and civil servants are invited to take an afternoon nap. Seeking to infuse city workers with a bit more pep, the Pathumwan district office in central Bangkok...

DUBLIN, N.H. (AP) - Police had hopes of literally capturing a burglar with his pants down after the man came off second best in a confrontation with a local homeowner. It didn't work out that way, and the would-be thief was still at large two weeks after the unusual incident, officials said on...

By Joe Milicia CLEVELAND (AP) - Van Halen made a "jump" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - the first rap act to be inducted into the hall - and R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith. A panel of 600 industry figures selected the...