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WORLD / NEWS Fri Dec 7, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

BBC News -- Thousands of cancer patients around the world face long delays in tests because a nuclear reactor in Canada supplying radioisotopes has been shut down. Doctors have described the shortage of medical nuclear material as "potentially catastrophic". Th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 23, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

Washington Post -- Canada's government yesterday set aside 25 million acres of wilderness -- 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park -- for conservation, a move that environmentalists called one of North America's most important acts of nature preservation. The la.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 15, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- Video footage has been released in Canada showing the last moments of an immigrant who died after being stunned with a Taser by police. Robert Dziekanski, 40, of Pieszyce, Poland, was restrained by police after becoming agitated at Vancouver Internatio.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Canada's prime minister has begun a three-day trip to the Arctic in an effort to assert sovereignty over the region a week after Russia symbolically staked a claim to the North Pole by sending submarines. Although Stephen Harper's visit has been planned f.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 2:36pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Prosecutors say they plan to launch a speedy appeal of a Toronto judge's ruling that Canada's marijuana possession laws are unconstitutional. CBC News reports the judge made the ruling in dismissing charges against a 29-year-old Toronto man charged wit.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 9:35am neoform

CBC -- Well, we can officially call ourselves Toker Nation now. According to the 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Canada has the dubious honour of leading the industrialized world in marijuana use, at least when calculated as a percent.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

BBC News -- Canada has announced plans for six naval patrol vessels and a deep-water port in the north to assert its claim to territorial waters in the Arctic. Other countries, including the US, say the waters are international territory. The $3bn announcement.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 12:27pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Standing beside two parked cars, two men in dark baseball hats wait for the signal. It's broad daylight and nearly rush hour on Bloor. A woman in paint-stained jeans sprints ahead of the men, scanning the street. Another stations herself across the roa.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 8:40am neoform

Globe and Mail -- Immigration is fuelling two-thirds of Canada's population growth and will likely become the only source of gains by 2030, according to a national census snapshot released yesterday. Statistics Canada also found the country's population increase was the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 12:41am neoform

Globe and Mail -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an 11th-hour compromise Monday to salvage two controversial weapons in the government's anti-terrorism arsenal. And his justice minister, Rob Nicholson, said he's open to other possible compromises. But the Liberal.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 23, 2007 @ 5:25pm mrmdc

BBC News -- Canada's Supreme Court has struck down a controversial system that allowed the government to detain and deport foreign-born terror suspects. The nine judges ruled that the security certificate system - in place since 1978 - violated Canada's Charter of.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 7:55pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Bank customers would have more money in their wallets if Parliament acts on an NDP proposal and legislates automated teller fees out of existence... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 10:11am neoform

Yahoo News -- Hundreds of people are suddenly discovering that they are not Canadians as new laws requiring travellers to have a passport to fly to the U.S. go into effect Tuesday, CBC's investigative unit has learned... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jan 14, 2007 @ 8:41pm neoform

CBC -- Ever recorded a television show or a movie so you can watch it later? Or ripped a CD so you can listen to it on your MP3 player?.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 14, 2006 @ 10:18pm neoform

Breitbart -- Canada commits up to $500 million to the development of CF-18 replacement MURRAY BREWSTER OTTAWA (CP) - Despite the misgivings of some allies, the federal government is spending an additional half-billion dollars for the final development of the Joint Str.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 24, 2006 @ 9:57am mrmdc

MSNBC -- Canada's Conservative government has outlined a plan to eliminate the net federal debt within the next 15 years, steadily cut corporate and personal taxes, and expand private-sector involvement in infrastructure financing... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 24, 2006 @ 12:29am neoform

Canada.com -- Canada should repeal the law that allows parents to spank and physically discipline their children, United Nations special envoy Stephen Lewis told a world forum on child welfare yesterday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 8, 2006 @ 11:33am mrmdc

Reuters -- Canadian troops have broken the back of an insurgency by Taliban militants near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the scene of fierce recent fighting, Defense Minister Gordon O'Connor said on Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 11:32am mrmdc

CBC -- A Canadian commander transferred control of NATO troops in southern Afghanistan to a Dutch general on Wednesday as part of a rotational change of command... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 9:36am neoform

Time -- At the end of August, a wisp of flame suddenly appeared in the Arctic twilight over the Barents Sea, bathing the low clouds over the Norwegian port of Hammerfest in a spectral orange glow. With a tremendous roar, the flame bloomed over the windswept ocean.. Read More