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TORONTO (CP) - The union representing 21,000 of Canada's film, television and radio workers went on strike Monday in a dispute that centres on how actors should be paid for performances shown on cellphones and the Internet. An ACTRA spokeswoman said Monday there would be no picket lines in...

By Bill Graveland KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Afghanistan is not sliding back into chaos despite an ongoing insurgency and escalating drug trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said Sunday at the start of his two-day visit to the war-torn country. "We're here to talk about a lot of...

THREE penguins were stabbed and bashed before being killed with a single blow at a Melbourne beach colony. The remains of two male and one female bird were discovered at the St Kilda breakwater Little Penguin colony just before Christmas. One of the male penguins also had its left flipper...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa police said a stun gun was used to subdue a 69-year-old man who tried to hit two officers with a metal cane. Authorities said Nathaniel Youman swung the silver cane at another person before two officers came to his home Wednesday. Reports say Youman was warned to drop the...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - No child became sick, but the thought of finding mouse remains in cooked green beans at a preschool lunch has officials feeling ill. About half of the Oak Ridge Preschool's 206 students had been served Wednesday when a teacher distributing the meals spotted suspected...

By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year's Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between islands, the pilot reported heavy winds. Then, the plane disappeared, seemingly into thin air. Thousands of soldiers...

Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent HE is an alumnus of one of the subcontinent's most prestigious and expensive schools, Bishop Cotton at Bangalore, which dates back more than 100 years to the days of the British Raj and has as its motto the noble injunction "Overcome Evil with Good"...

[1] I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me. Do I give God time every day in prayer? Do I seek to love Him with my whole heart? Have I been involved with superstitious practices or have I been involved with the occult? Do I seek to surrender myself to God's Word as...

Our Lady Who is more qualified than the mother to help her child? As a child of God, we are not orphans [John 14:18], we have our Heavenly Father in Heaven and we have the assistance of our Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary to help us to become holy . Our Lady is the most perfect creation of God...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Snowzilla may be a smash hit with many city residents, but the towering 6.6-metre snowman has detractors closer to its Anchorage home. Some neighbours of the two-storey high snowman say they are fed up with the hordes of gawkers clogging up Columbine Street. "When...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty. The letters were sent a few days after Christmas to more than 5,100 army officers who had...

By James Gordon Meek New York Daily News WASHINGTON — President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant. Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after signing legislation that overhauls some postal regulations. He then issued a "signing...

By MP Chuck Strahl (Member of Parliament for Chilliwack - Fraser Canyon) Separating what really matters from what’s merely interesting is something that comes with, ideally, maturity. I saw an example of that just recently when my 3 year old grandson told me that he had been to ‘importance’. I...

Forty year old Joyce Vincent had been lying dead in her London apartment for two straight years before the badly decomposed body was discovered by her landlord in April 2006. The story, quietly tucked away in British newspapers, profoundly upset readers around the world who saw her isolation as...

No one knows my country, neither the stranger nor its own sons. --Bruce Hutchison, 1942. For academics, journalists and fiction writers alike, Canada is a subject of constant fascination and study. Bruce Hutchison, a prominent newspaper editor and author, once described Canada as "The Unknown...

Morality speaks of a system of behaviour in regards to standards of right or wrong behaviour. The word carries the concepts of: (1) moral standards, with regard to behaviour; (2) moral responsibility, referring to our conscience; and (3) a moral identity, or one who is capable of right or wrong...

If someone were to ask you the question, “Why believe in God?” what would you say? Would you be able to answer his or her question or would you just answer by saying, “Because He is here”? Consider the following points. Why believe in God? We can feel Him calling us. Every culture throughout...

Is There a God? - The Question "Is there a God?" This question is answered by asking another, "how did we get here?" 20th century science has demonstrated, with certainty, that the universe is not eternal; the universe had a beginning. Actually, mankind has contemplated this issue for millennia...

Why am I here on earth? Where did I come from? What am I worth? Do I have any intrinsic value? Do I serve a purpose? These are all fundamental questions. They are life's "big questions." How you answer these questions determines how you see the world and how you treat the world. Because you are...

It is said that ultimate reality is the absolute nature of all things. Some people define ultimate reality as A personal being (personal and loving God), An impersonal being (as origin and target of all personal beings), or An eternal truth or principal that governs the universe. Some people...