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A decidedly military agenda was set on the eve of Thursday’s international conference on Somalia.

A Mississauga home under construction belonging to a window and door installation company fell to the ground Wednesday morning for unknown reasons.

A former stripper who claims Toronto drug squad officers robbed and beat her denies she is a suspect in a brutal Montreal axe murder.

An agreement to set up research chairs in international law would have given the BlackBerry co-founder’s think tank a veto over hires.

Canadian military investigators are trying to determine whether an RCAF Hercules aircraft damaged extensively by fire and forced to land in Florida Tuesday will ever fly again.

After 22 years and 20,000 missions in Alberta and B.C., the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society is set to begin saving lives in Manitoba and Saskatchewan

Holland says she planned her whole year around defence of the championship

Tight end confirms he’s agreed to return to Green Bay

Former Olympic champion targets July 22 event as final warm-up in preparation for London GamesFormer Olympic champion targets July 22 event as final warm-up in preparation for London Games

Inaugural event to be held downtown, with cycling portion along Don Valley Parkway

One homeless man has been ticketed 132 times for sleeping or lying on the bench, seats and floor of the métro, and 110 times for smoking a lit cigarette in a station.

Birchwood Elementary, the new English school in St. Lazare, finally opened its doors in December after the completion date was delayed several times.

Coalition Avenir Québec members have been read the riot act by their party leader to preserve a semblance of unity in public.

As he lay in the bathtub, bleeding from shallow, self-inflicted knife wounds and crying, Jean-François Nadreau was expecting ambulance technicians to arrive at his girlfriend’s...

Two Montreal researchers have been awarded prestigious Killam Research Fellowships to help them advance their research projects.

A female Mountie should not be dismissed for having sex in a police car with her boss, the officer's lawyer said today at a discipline hearing.

Langley and Surrey RCMP are hunting for the man who stabbed a stranger in Aldergrove and is also thought to have choked a bus driver in Surrey.

An American fugitive convicted in absentia of sexually assaulting boys in Arizona has been arrested in Canada more than 10 years after he fled the United States.

NASHVILLE — Injured Vancouver Canucks forward Byron Bitz practised fully today with the team and said his sore hip flexor is unrelated to groin and hip problems that jeopardized his...

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Maybe McGuinty is trying to do to the racehorse what he did to the pit bull?

Hornblower Canada Company will replace Maid of the Mist as the the boat tour operator at the base of the falls.

It was the bloody massacre of a helpless child allegedly foretold in a short story by one of two former lovebirds now on trial for first-degree murder.

Taxpayers will be paying Gary Webster severance until February 2014.

After a lengthy year-long trial, former Maple Leafs captain Rick Vaive will finally know in April whether he’s guilty of two impaired driving charges.

New life and hope have emerged for a Surrey family after a devastating fire wrecked their fitness centre three weeks ago. Vincent Jauncey, owner of World Kickboxing Xtreme Fitness, said W...

A teen girl who says she was sexually assaulted at a rave party on a rural Pitt Meadows property spoke for the first time to media on Wednesday afternoon, a day after charges against her ...

The Sea to Sky highway has been reopened after it was closed for three hours in both directions near Porteau Cove following an accident in which one person died.

The City of Vancouver is launching an $800,000 pilot program to expand electric charging stations across the city in an effort to encourage the use of the zero-emission vehicles.

Sexual abuse by disgraced hockey coach Graham James pushed him into a downward spiral of drug addiction and alcoholism and even to the brink of suicide, said Theoren Fleury in Vancouver T...

Elections Canada has traced fraudulent calls made in an apparent effort to discourage Liberal supporters from voting during the federal election to a company that worked for the Conservat...

Andrew Coyne: Even if you did credit a surge in growth in late 2011 to an increase in spending two years before, that’s an awfully long lag

Western powers condemned Syria Wednesday for the killing of French photographer Remi Ochlik and American Marie Colvin of Britain’s Sunday Times

Letters sent to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert threatened biological attacks on U.S. senators, while three Congress members received threatening mail containing a powder later found to b...

Health Canada shut down Marc-Boris St. Maurice's medical marijuana facility and charged him with trafficking. This week they asked him and other black market growers for help on how to do...

A Manitoba judge has reserved her decision on the sentencing of Graham James until March 20. Justice officials are seeking a six-year prison sentence for James, who has pleaded guilty to ...

DAWSON CREEK, B.C. - A former Manitoba man has been identified as the person was suffered a fatal beating at a music concert in Dawson Creek, B.C., on Valentines Day. The RCMP say 28-year...

A man is under arrest for the slaying of his roommate, after a shocking find in a downtown trash bin revealed the city’s fifth homicide of the year. Darren Robert Monias, 42, was sl...

RED DEER, Alta. - Kelly Scott hasnt had time to lift her head up to see where her team stands at the Canadian womens curling championship. She says that may be a good thing. The B.C. skip...

PITT MEADOWS, B.C. - A teen who police had said was drugged and repeatedly raped at a rave party two years ago says shes devastated sex assault charges have been stayed. The teen cannot b...

City accountants still calculating the full expenses of last year’s Occupy Calgary protests have nearly doubled earlier cost estimates. According to Bill Bruce, the director of anim...

Manitoba justice officials are seeking a six-year prison sentence for Graham James, one of the country's most prominent junior hockey coaches who was previously convicted of sexually abus...

Alberta has no plans to limit funding for OxyContin or its reincarnation, OxyNeo, a move other provinces say they’re taking to curb addictions to the narcotic painkiller. Saskatchew...

The immediate outpouring of grief for Calgary musician Christopher Reimer upon news of his sudden death Tuesday was as overwhelming as it was telling. From social media sites to music blo...

The chicken wings, banana peels and leftover pasta dishes from households in four Calgary communities will soon be turned into fertilizer. In March, the city is launching its much-adverti...

Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for the Conservative Party across the country.

Canada's international reputation came under fire in Geneva on Wednesday as a UN expert panel delivered scathing criticisms over the government's treatment of First Nations and recent cha...

Canada looks set to legislate a watered-down ratification of a major international arms agreement in an effort to appease the United States military, says a former lead arms negotiator.

Alain Mercier is no longer the general manager of OC Transpo, city manager Kent Kirkpatrick announced in a council meeting Wednesday afternoon.

An Orléans father and son and a Sharbot Lake-area woman were killed early Wednesday in a two-vehicle collision near Silver Lake on Highway 7, west of Perth.

Alberta has no plans to limit funding for OxyContin or its reincarnation, OxyNeo, a move other provinces say they’re taking to curb addictions to the narcotic painkiller. Saskatchew...

Ahead of a provincial election expected this spring, The Edmonton Journal is inviting readers to take part in a health care town hall meeting next month featuring members of all five poli...

A woman previously convicted in the 2005 killing of Nina Courtepatte told her version of the teen’s death at the trial of Michael Erin Briscoe on Wednesday. Briscoe, 41, is charged ...

One day it’s DreamWorks Studios and Lucas Animation, the next day Pixar; Edmonton-based film producer Bonnie Thompson now knows first-hand what it means to be a kid in a candy store...

The Alberta government and oil industry will be looking across the Atlantic Thursday as a European Commission committee votes on a new fuel measurement some believe unfairly discriminates...

Jamie Graham admitted Wednesday that he left his service pistol holstered under the seat of his unmarked car, parked in the department’s secure underground parkade, while he spoke t...

The Johnson Street bridge, a fixture of Victoria’s Inner Harbour for 87 years, began its slow and methodical disassembly on Wednesday with the assistance of the largest ocean-going ...

Finance minister aims to return to surplus in two years; spending increase limited to two per cent

Westerly winds of 70 gusting to 90 km/h are expected to develop in Greater Victoria early Wednesday afternoon and will continue into the early evening.

Rising sea levels could change the look and function of vulnerable coastal communities, a University of B.C. researcher says.

Ah, the sights and sounds of the first day of spring training. The smell of the grass, the explosion of bat against ball, the pop of the catcher’s mitt, the merry tinkle of athletes...

Three crime-scene DNA samples have been linked to the man accused of killing and sexually assaulting a retired hairdresser 28 years ago in Petrolia.

As Alex Kravic’s three-pointer clanged off the rim with a second left on the clock, it resulted in an improbable win for the Montcalm Cougars as well as the end of a legendary coach...

The National Basketball League of Canada managed to complete its most vital goal in its first year.

The graph of Ricky Romero’s career to date has been one of steady improvement each year and he’s already making plans for a way to continue that in 2012.

WINDSOR, Ont. -- A Chinese green company is within a couple of weeks of deciding whether to locate its primary manufacturing plant for electric buses in Windsor, the Star has learned.

An OPP drug bust in Lakeshore has led to the arrest of three Toronto-area men and netted about 4,000 marijuana plants.

WINDSOR, Ont. -- The taxman is preparing what could become one of Windsor’s biggest forced property tax sales ever after a sudden surge in the number of properties with liens regist...

WINDSOR, Ont. -- The evening before Jan Scott Webster died in Windsor Jail, the severe diabetic received his regular insulin shot while shaking and dumping packets of sugar into his mouth...

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The chilling, brutal tale of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte’s 2005 sex-slaying was retold yet again Wednesday at the double murder trial of Michael Briscoe.

There seemed to be only one certainty when this Scotties began.

Reports of badly damaged physician trust - fear, intimidation, even muzzling - came down Wednesday in a much-awaited report from the Health Quality Council.

It's hard for Claude Giroux not to glance at the top of the NHL scoring race once in a while.

A second Saskatchewan-based Lingerie Football League Canada franchise will be announced soon, according to the league’s commissioner, and Saskatoon could be the destination.

Something as simple as a screen to prevent a child witness from having to see a defendant in court can relieve anxiety during testimony, says a victim’s advocate.

If the experts’ calculations are correct, the tiny settlement of Rockhaven could be the most aptly named in the province.

A new focus on safety in the Saskatoon Health Region (SHR) was behind a decision to evict 10 independent seniors on short notice to make way for 32 higher needs residents now living in a ...

A Saskatoon woman who killed the girlfriend of one of her tenants at a west side rooming house almost two years ago received a penitentiary sentence of 7 1/2 years in Court of Queen's Bench.

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Last Friday, CBC ombudsman Pierre Tourangeau severely reprimanded the Crown corporation and Ginette Lamarche, Radio-Canada’s Middle East correspondent, for their biased reports on Israel.

Anyone who’s read a book on climate change — which excludes most of our media — isn’t surprised two top Canadian climate scientists have concluded the oilsands are insignificant to global...

While the smell of burned midnight oil still lingers, we suspect the ink is nonetheless dry on Canada's legal work should the European Union vote today to attach the pejorative dirty tag ...

Victims must wait weeks before learning if disgraced former hockey coach and pedophile Graham James is headed to prison for repeatedly sexually abusing them.

You like the blues, you just might not know it yet. This was the message from Dan Silljer, artistic director for the Regina Mid-Winter Blues Festival, an annual event put on by the Regina...

Pilot Butte’s Reuben Ross and Laval’s Alexandre Despatie ensured that Canada will have two entries in the men’s three-metre diving event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in L...

It’s when Morgan Reiter’s tenure with the Regina Cyclones ended that his baseball career flourished. As a 24-year-old pitcher from Kelowna, B.C., Reiter was almost certain he ...

The University of Regina Cougars wrestler has finished second at 61 kilograms at both of the past two CIS championships. The 21-yearold Reginan will try to break the string this weekend, ...

It’s a “three-peat”. For the third consecutive year, General Motors of Canada has given its “Retailer of the Year” award to northwest Regina’s Capital ...

Iran has threatened to launch a preemptive strike if its enemies endanger its national interests. This is nonsense and one more example of Iranian deceit because Iran has always attacked ...

“In the end, companies like Solydra won’t only be getting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded loans, they’ll be getting an entire tax structure designed to boost their prof...

I once took a class taught by a sly French-Canadian lecturer with a propensity to chuckle at his own jokes, as though they were intended primarily for his own amusement. One of my classma...

Is the media really trying to convince us that someone other than Satan himself has taken over America? It didn’t start with Obama, but we could at least begin to take our country back b...

“In negotiation, ‘yes’ is the worst word. It just betrays a fear of failure and a fear of losing this deal, and it primes you to please the other side, to rush ahead, to compromise early ...

Angelina Jolie has revealed that she doesn’t want her directorial debut, In The Land Of Blood And Honey, to be ‘just a history lesson’. The Salt actress stepped behind the camera for the...

Gary Barlow has reportedly flown his family out to Antigua for some much-needed down time. The Take That star – who has had a jam-packed year, having completed a record-breaking tour wit...

X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has warned her cousin Dappy to stay away from Little Mix. The four girls, Leigh-Anne, Jesy, Jade and Perrie became the first group in the history of Th...

Steve Jones's rep has rubbished reports that the presenter is set to be axed from The X-Factor. Rumours circulated yesterday that the Welsh star would not be asked back for a second seas...

Arctic Monkeys star Alex Turner has admitted he's forgotten how to write hit songs. The band scored five top five hits in the UK between 2005 and 2007 - but none of the three singles fro...

Graham James, the former junior hockey coach and convicted sexual abuser whose victims included ex-NHLers Theoren Fleury and Sheldon Kennedy, has told a courtroom: "For my behaviour, I a...

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum swapped accusations about spending and taxes Wednesday night in the 20th and possibly final debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidentia...

It's going to cost at least $80 million to implement the government's lawful access bill to force internet and telecommunications service providers to collect customer information in cas...

Air Canada's baggage handlers, ground crews and maintenance workers rejected a tentative deal signed earlier this month with Canada's biggest airline, shortly after its dispatchers ratif...

A young woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted at a notorious Pitt Meadows, B.C., rave is urging witnesses to come forward.

Convicted sex offender and former junior hockey coach Graham James apologized to his victims and the entire Canadian hockey community in a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday.

Initial cost estimates to implement the federal government's online surveillance bill run into the tens of millions of dollars, and experts say those costs will be passed on to Canadians ...

Conflict has made for a costly year for journalism, CTV's South Asia Bureau Chief Janis Mackey Frayer writes for The Desk.

Argentine commuters watched in horror as a train overshot platform after platform before slamming into a metal barrier at Buenos Aires' Once station, killing at least 49 people and injuri...

A teen who police had said was drugged and repeatedly raped at a rave party two years ago says she's devastated sex assault charges have been stayed.

World stocks racked up more losses on Monday on deep-rooted jitters about the U.S. ratings cut, but signs the European Central Bank was buying Italian and Spanish debt gave some respite t...

Finance chiefs from the world's industrial powers pledged on Sunday to take whatever actions were needed to steady financial markets, spooked by the political wrangling in Europe and the ...

The U.S. housing crash has lured some marijuana growers to move their operations south of the border, according to an internal RCMP report obtained by the Vancouver Sun.

British police arrested more than 100 people overnight in London after shops were looted and officers attacked in a second night of violence that followed some of the worst disorder seen ...

Saudi Arabia recalled its envoy to Damascus and the Arab League condemned violence in Syria, leaving President Bashar al-Assad further isolated.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more t...

Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for the Conservative Party across the country.

At least 49 people were killed and 600 more injured after a commuter train was derailed at a station during the morning rush-hour in Buenos Aires.

More than a decade after first dabbling in what is termed "segregation lite," the federal prison service has yet to develop an official policy for the units, opening itself up to potentia...

Alberta Premier Alison Redford has scheduled two trips south of the border as part of an effort to sell Americans on the importance of the province's energy to the U.S. economy.

Rick Santorum finally got his chance at centre stage in a debate of Republican U.S. presidential candidates on Wednesday that represented the best chance to address large numbers of voter...

Virginia lawmakers on Wednesday passed a revised ultrasound requirement for women seeking abortions that dropped a mandatory internal scan, after Republican Governor Bob McDonnell shifted...

A U.S. judge on Wednesday ruled that part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and said a federal government worker should be allowed to enroll her same-sex spouse i...

European diplomats have shrugged off a possible Canadian complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the E.U. classifies oilsands-derived fuel as "dirty."

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says the government is considering citizenship law changes to prevent so-called anchor babies from automatically becoming citizens.

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American International Group Inc. plans to list its Asian life insurance unit, AIA Group Ltd., on Oct. 29, aiming to raise about $15 billion US in Hong Kong, sources familiar with the de...

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The HOCKEY CENTRAL panel discuss whether the Philadelphia Flyers are looking to move former No. 2 overall pick James van Riemsdyk.

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Jays' Brett Cecil talks about his frustrating 2011, the family support that helped him with his struggles and his goal to bounce back 2012.

With so many questions still up in the air, this year's NHL Trade Deadline has the potential to be as intriguing as any before it.

These are desperate times for Inter Milan, who are winless in their last seven matches and facing elimination from the Champions League.

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The New York Police Department carried out covert surveillance of Muslims in nearby Newark, New Jersey, police records reveal.

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