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By Alexander Panetta OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is accusing the Bloc Quebecois of using the country's soldiers as political pawns in the debate over Canada's role in Afghanistan. Harper said the Bloc's threat to introduce a non-confidence motion sometime in the new year over...

GAGETOWN, N.B. (CP) - Five soldiers at a New Brunswick army base have been charged with drug trafficking. Corporals Brian Stevens, William Venator, Garry Kettle, Harold Robinson and Pte. Allan Hogan are all serving at CFB Gagetown, near Fredericton. They are accused of trafficking in...

Fr. C. Vaillancourt Be still and know that I am God. (Ps 46:10) Besides all our normal devotions, the practice of charity and the reception of the sacraments, we must spend some daily time in quiet meditation. We are bodies with a mind, soul and spirit, God is Spirit. In order to become like...

Pierre E. Trudeau Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Fellow Canadians, Today, at long last, Canada is acquiring full and complete national sovereignty. The Constitution of Canada has come home. The most fundamental law of the land will now be capable of being amended in Canada...

Statement on the introduction of the Official Languages Bill, October 17, 1968 Hon. Mr. TRUDEAU (Prime Minister): Mr. Speaker: Many of the bills which are placed before members of this House are concerned with a specific problem, or a single occupation, or one region of the country. The...

Biography 1841 - 1919 "Canada has been modest in its history, although its history, in my estimation, is only commencing. It is commencing in this century. The nineteenth century was the century of the United States. I think we can claim that Canada will fill the twentieth century." -- Sir...

The government's Clean Air Act must be beefed up if the Tories hope to win over crucial middle class voters, former prime minister Brian Mulroney says. In an interview with CBC News, Mulroney, who was recently awarded the title of the greenest prime minister in history, described the act as the...

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - Rushing home so his parents wouldn't be angry, a teenager managed to get them even angrier: He was clocked going almost 230 kilometres an hour along a four-lane highway. Brandon Raap, 16, faces speeding and misdemeanour reckless driving charges and could have his...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - About 200 clowns paraded through the streets of Mexico City on Wednesday in a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an annual rite to offer thanks for the Virgin's help and protection throughout the year. More than 600 other pilgrimage marches crowded the...

OTTAWA (CP) - The prime minister's tumultuous relationship with the national media is taking on a comic twist this holiday season. Stephen Harper is inviting members of the parliamentary press gallery to a yuletide reception at his official residence on Monday, Dec. 19. One problem: there is...

By: Author Unknown And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn? Luke 2:7. The reality of this familiar verse is much too big to get our minds around. The people of the earth, whom He conceived...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Police shut down a highway briefly to remove and destroy a Civil War-era artillery shell found at a construction site, authorities said. Construction workers digging in the Main Street Plaza beneath an Interstate 95 overpass discovered the shell around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday...

By John Ward OTTAWA (CP) - Everyone has heard stories of overworked, stressed-out nurses, but a new Statistics Canada study has put flesh on the anecdotal bones, confirming many of the complaints. In fact, the study suggests that the job is making nurses sick. The study surveyed nearly 19,000...

'I Was in Absolute Shock,' Woman Tells ABC News, 'Especially After My Daughter Repeated It' By MIRI MARSHALL Dec. 10, 2006 — - It's supposed to say sweet things to little girls like, "You're a wonderful friend," but push its button the wrong way and the Little Mermaid Shimmering Lights...

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada needs better oversight of its anti-terror force to avoid the errors that led to the wrongful detention and torture of a Canadian man in Syria in 2002, an official report said. "The existing accountability and review mechanism for the Royal Canadian National Police's...

Fr. C. Vaillancourt [Genesis 2:7] And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul. The greatest expression of God is life, God calls Himself " I am who I am " in other words God claims by His holy name that...

By Elianna Lev VANCOUVER (CP) - There was once a time when all that was needed to create a virtual world for a child was an active imagination. Now, it takes a click of a mouse. Hundreds of thousands of Canadian children are signing up to online social networking communities where they can...

Mary Crane Eight years ago, Texas resident Cynthia Ivie, a 43-year-old sales rep for Newsweek, struck out for Chicago with no more than a business idea and a 1989 Toyota Corolla packed with clothes, books, a vacuum cleaner, a stereo and a cocker spaniel named Buckley. Ivie's big moneymaking...

Note: This article originally appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 1992, page A60. The Hollow Curriculum: The place of religion and spirituality in society is too often missing THE PAST DECADE IN ACADEME has seen widespread controversy over curricular reform. We have...

By Lisa Arrowsmith EDMONTON (CP) - A toxic stew of chemicals from birth control pills, shampoo and even compounds used to make foam seating pours out of sewers and pipes across Canada every day, and hundreds of scientists say Ottawa must do more to stop it. More than 700 scientists signed an...