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LONDON (AP) - She is already considered the Royal Rebel, with a pierced navel and colorful past. Now Zara Phillips - granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth and world-champion equestrian - is raising eyebrows by appearing in an advertisement. Phillips, the 25-year-old daughter of Princess Anne, posed...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bolden, recognized as the world's oldest person, died Monday in a nursing home, the home's administrator said. She was 116. Bolden was born Aug. 15, 1890, according to the Gerontology Research Group, a Los Angeles organization that tracks the ages of...

Fr. C.G. Vaillancourt We have been created to know God, to love Him and to serve Him; so that we can merit to enjoy Him in eternal life. Everything has a purpose in life. God created the Heavens and the earth to show us His Magnificence, His Power and Majesty and to draw our attention to Him...

Fr. C. G. Vaillancourt Have Mercy on me a sinner [Luke 18:10-14] There were two men who came to the temple, one was justifying himself saying Lord thank you for making me a good man, I pay my taxes to the Church, I give alms, I study the Law of the prophets, I am really good, but that man on the...

TORONTO (CP) - Speedskater Cindy Klassen, who captured five medals at the Turin Olympics, won the 2006 Lou Marsh Award on Monday. The award, decided by a panel of sports editors and broadcasters, is given annually to Canada's outstanding athlete by the Toronto Star. In Turin, Klassen won gold...

by Romeo St. Martin OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent his first months in power with a certain swagger, but a surging Liberal party coupled with dissent from within are threatening the PM's hold on power and will change the dynamics in Parliament. The Liberals left their...

1. The Dominion of Canada was formed July 1, 1867, by Ontario, Quebec (Upper and Lower Canada), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Other provinces joined Confederation over the years, the last being Newfoundland in 1949. 2. Dominion Day was officially renamed Canada Day on Oct. 27, 1982. 3. Canada...

Nobel laureate: Poverty fight essential By KARL RITTER and DOUG MELLGREN Economist Muhammad Yunus accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday for his breakthrough program to lift the poor through tiny loans, saying he hoped the award would inspire "bold initiatives" to eradicate a problem at the...

Pope John Paul II General Audience, Wednesday, 17 July, 1985. The Holy Father's catechesis was based on Sirach 43:30-33. 1. There exists a rather widespread notion that men of science are generally agnostics and that science leads one away from God. Is there any truth to this opinion? The...

The Fathers of Confederation at the Quebec Conference, October 10-27, 1864, drafted the basic plan for the federal union of Canada. The original of this famous painting by Robert Harris was destroyed in the 1916 Parliament buildings fire. Compilation painting of the Fathers of Confederation who...

Anglophone: the population with English as mother tongue. Francophone: the population with French as mother tongue. Allophone: the population with a non-official language as mother tongue. English and French are official languages in Canada. Nine out of 10 people speak English or French...

Did you know that.... There are some two million lakes in Canada, covering about 7.6 percent of the Canadian landmass. The main lakes, in order of the surface area located in Canada (many large lakes are traversed by the Canada-U.S. border), are Huron, Great Bear, Superior, Great Slave...

Iran opens conference questioning the Holocaust By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran opened a conference on Monday to examine the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers to kill Jews, drawing condemnation in the West and criticism from Iran's Jewish community...

Few Canadian black bears have achieved the literary renown of "Winnipeg," Captain Harry Colebourn's pet black bear. Lasting fame came to Winnipeg after a boy - Christopher Robin - and his father - A.A. Milne - saw Winnipeg at the London Zoo. Captivated by Winnipeg, who gave zoo patrons...

In 1953, entrepreneur Tom Patterson and artistic director Tyrone Guthrie transformed Stratford, Ontario, from a small railroad town into the Canadian home of Shakespearean drama. The Stratford Festival attracted international recognition and served as the prototype for dozens of other Canadian...

Canada's greatest aeronautical achievement was the CF-105 jet fighter, and the subsequent cancellation of the project in 1959 still remains a story of political intrigue and controversy. The CF-105, or Avro Arrow as it was known, was a supersonic jet interceptor developed by A.V. Roe of...

Canada’s role in World War II stretched beyond the battlefields of Europe. Canadian troops fought on land, in the air and on the seas in France, the Netherlands, Italy, North Africa and Hong Kong. It was in Hong Kong that Warrant Officer John Osborn, the Company Sergeant-Major, sacrificed his...

Mona Louise Parsons was born in 1901 in Nova Scotia. Although Parsons never wore a uniform, she was willing to lay her life on the line for her country and for freedom. And she very nearly lost her life when she was arrested by the Gestapo near Amsterdam in September 1941, for assisting downed...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The property manager at The Blairs, an apartment complex near Washington, recently sent tenants a letter that has many up in arms: Stop smoking at home come January or move out, the note essentially said. The letter came as a rude awakening to residents of the 1,400-unit...

By Rukmin Callimachi NEW YORK (AP) - When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting his country's supreme leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal web blog. Nearly one-third of...