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In the very early morning of October 13, 1812, Major General Isaac Brock was fast asleep in his bunk at Fort George, on the Niagara Frontier. About 4:00 am he was awakened by the distant thud of cannon fire. He rose in a flash, dressed, mounted his horse Alfred and dashed through the fort...

Now that Harper is enjoying the spoils of his tenuous minority, both he and his supporters (on both sides of the border) understand the need to maintain a continued distance between Ottawa and Washington. >by Scott Piatkowski Mention the phrase “Stephen Harper's hidden...

Income splitting would cost the federal government about $5 billion per year, greatly reducing the resources available to finance public services that benefit all Canadians. It would provide extra money to some couples in high tax-brackets at the expense of single parents, unattached...

READ: Proverbs 30:7-9 The Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. —Psalm 84:11 Young people in Singapore at one time aspired to have the five Cs. Cash in the bank. Career for the future. Car to drive. Condominium to live in. Credit...

>by Jerry West Over the past couple of weeks there have been rallies across the nation about the war in Afghanistan. In some instances, people rallied in support of the troops and against the mission that has been forced upon them. In other instances, people rallied in support of the...

>by Duncan Cameron Stephen Harper was right when he called the Kyoto protocol a socialist scheme. After all it is an intergovernmental agreement to make corporations reduce greenhouse gas emissions, where tardy rich countries have the option of funding emission reductions in poor countries...

By Sarah Fortney News-Post Staff Photo by Bill Green Gianna Talone-Sullivan listens for messages from the Virgin Mary that she then recites to the hundreds of kneeling worshippers attending Sunday's service at the Lynfield Complex. At right is her husband, Dr. Michael Sullivan...

A nation is a group of people who share the same illusions about themselves. Academics call it imagining a community. Vancouver cyberpunk novelist William Gibson calls it "consensual hallucination." Whatever you call it, April Fool's Day seems like a good opportunity to think about some of the...

BBC News A 38-year-old man has been convicted of knowingly infecting a former partner with HIV. David Johnson, director of Waverley Care, which supports people in Scotland living with HIV, says we must all learn lessons following the case of Giovanni Mola and Miss X...

Jeffrey A. Mirus, Ph.D. There is one overwhelmingly powerful event in history, which makes everything that can be said or argued about religion pale into insignificance. That event is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; and there is a sense in which it even makes some of the preceding...

Jeffrey A. Mirus, Ph.D. I haven't taken a poll, but I would guess that many Catholic Church members have children living at home. Given that our members also have Internet connections, the danger of their children encountering morally offensive material is real. If you have both an...

By Blaise Robinson TORONTO (Reuters) - Tim Hortons Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit more than tripled, helped by hearty sales of a new breakfast sandwich, restaurant growth and a writedown in its year-earlier results, the coffee and doughnut chain said on Wednesday. Tim Hortons, spun off last year...

By Veronika Oleksyn VIENNA, Austria (CP) - Austrian authorities have uncovered a major child-pornography ring involving at least 2,360 suspects from 77 countries who viewed videos of young children being sexually abused. They say users of up to 103 computers in Canada are among those...

By Natalia Parra ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - Brazen daylight killings by presumed drug smugglers just up the hill from Acapulco Bay are worrying business leaders that increasingly bloody drug wars will cripple Mexico's critical tourism industry. Hotel owners and other business leaders in...

LONDON (AFP) - Cigarette maker Imperial Tobacco has announced the purchase of US group Commonwealth Brands for 960 million pounds. "Imperial Tobacco Group PLC today announced that it has agreed to acquire 100 percent of CBHC Inc, which trades as Commonwealth Brands, from Houchens Industries Inc...

Made public today was the Message of the Holy Father for the 22nd World Youth Day, which will be celebrated in all dioceses on Palm Sunday, April 1, and has as its theme this year Jesus' words from the Gospel of John: "Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another." The Message...

KING5.com Staff and Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. - An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance...

By W. Zachary Malinowski Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE — A former inmate at the Adult Correctional Institutions who accused a guard of forcing him to taste his own feces and of striking him with a telephone book has accepted a $120,000 settlement from the state. Jim Lee, chief of...

CBC News An American fighter pilot wept and another said he was going to be sick after learning they had mistakenly fired on a British military convoy in Iraq, according to a cockpit videotape released by a London newspaper. The Sun on Tuesday released what it says is the cockpit video of two...

Peacekeeping has long been Canada’s special metier. The modern concept of “peacekeeping” was impelled by the 1956 Suez Crisis when the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was created. Lester B. Pearson, Minister of External Affairs, won the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing the force and...