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Four dead after Canadian-owned chopper ditches off coast of Scotland 25 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
Four British passengers have been killed after a Canadian-owned oil-rig transport helicopter ditched Friday in the North Sea off the north coast of Scotland. The crash prompted a massive emergency-res...
Former senator Raymond Lavigne denied early release from jail 24 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
OTTAWA — Former senator Raymond Lavigne was denied early parole Friday by an Ontario Parole Board panel and is expected to remain behind bars until October. Lavigne hoped to be paroled after serving...
A little inflation has a way of becoming a lot 24 Aug 2013 | 06:17 am
Shake and shake the ketchup bottle None’ll come, and then a lot’ll — Richard Armour The latest figures show inflation remains well under control: in both Canada and the United States, consumer prices ...
Delay wireless auction and help consumers, Day urges PM 24 Aug 2013 | 06:03 am
OTTAWA – A former senior Conservative cabinet minister is urging the Harper government to push the pause button on a wireless spectrum auction that is expected to herald the arrival of U.S. telecommun...
Mountie who first raised issue of systemic harassment moves step closer to being dismissed from force 24 Aug 2013 | 06:01 am
The RCMP is moving to dismiss Cpl. Catherine Galliford, the high-profile Mountie whose claims of systemic harassment within the force prompted a flood of similar complaints. Galliford, who suffers fro...
Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak presses Prime Minister Stephen Harper to move on devolution talks 24 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am
OTTAWA — Nunavut’s premier is pressing the federal government to get on with negotiations intended to give Canada’s youngest territory province-like powers over its own land and natural resources. It’...
Veteran of battle for Okinawa in World War II beaten to death in random Spokane attack 24 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
SPOKANE, Wash. - Police in Spokane, Wash., have arrested one of two teens suspected of fatally beating an 88-year-old veteran of World War II who had survived the battle for Okinawa.
Army psychiatrist convicted of murder for Fort Hood shooting, now eligible for death penalty 24 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
FORT HOOD, Texas - Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted Friday for the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a shocking assault against American troops at home by one of their own who said he opened fi...
The problem with accountability: Does excess oversight risk paralyzing politicians? 24 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
OTTAWA — Is there such a thing as too much accountability? An exhaustive audit of Sen. Pamela Wallin’s travel expenses, released last week, has sent journalists and critics poring through her taxpayer...
Sweeping Senate audit expected to doom ‘old boys’ network’ 17 Aug 2013 | 06:25 am
OTTAWA — A long tradition of the Senate as an “old boys’ network” will soon come to an end thanks to an unprecedented probe by Auditor General Michael Ferguson in the coming months, says a prominent g...
