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 Russian-Canadian energy deals possibly at risk
Prime Minister Stephen Harper allowed Tuesday for the possibility of commercial natural gas deals with Russia being put at risk by Russia’s military actions in neighboring Georgia. 8/19/2008 1:55:24 PM
 Saskatchewan boy, 8, dies in shooting incident
A family has lost their eight-year-old son after he was fatally injured while gopher hunting. The St. Victor boy -- whose name isn’t being released by the RCMP at the request of his family -- was out on Monday evening with friends and family. 8/19/2008 1:52:16 PM
 Harper, Dion turn up volume on election talk
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said he disagrees with the prime minister's suggestion that Parliament is broken, but he is nevertheless considering forcing a fall federal election. 8/19/2008 1:41:04 PM
 Mutated fish alarms delegates at northern Alta. water gathering
Days before a conference on water quality began in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., last week, residents say a strange fish with two mouths was found at the nearby lake. The lake is downstream from oilsands development in Fort McMurray. 8/19/2008 6:53:41 AM
 Canada's Burnett wins silver in men's trampoline
Canada's Jason Burnett has won silver in men's trampoline at the Beijing Games. Burnett's silver in his first appearance at the Olympic Games is the second trampoline medal in as many days for Canada. 8/19/2008 6:49:36 AM
 Suicide bomber's attack wounds Canadian soldier
A suicide bomber's attack in a busy Afghan market has left a Canadian soldier wounded and his interpreter dead. A local boy was also wounded in the attack west of Kandahar city. 8/19/2008 6:47:18 AM
 Canada's Whitfield takes silver in triathlon
Canada's Simon Whitfield captured the silver medal in the men's triathlon Tuesday in Beijing. Whitfield mounted a furious rally to briefly take the lead late in the closing sprint before being overtaken over the final metres by Germany's Jan Frodeno. 8/18/2008 9:07:08 PM
 Russia's invasion of Georgia criminal says Jim Hart
The world should hold Russia criminally accountable for its invasion of Georgia, says a former B.C. member of Parliament. Jim Hart, the former MP for Okanagan-Coquihalla, and his family returned on the weekend after fleeing from Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. 8/18/2008 7:29:41 PM
 Clement questions ethics of doctors
The association representing Canada's doctors rapped Health Minister Tony Clement on Monday after he questioned the ethics of physicians who support the use of supervised injection sites for drug addicts. 8/18/2008 5:31:31 PM
 Views of mental illness form of 'discrimination'
Nearly one in two Canadians believes mental illness isn't always "real" but a cop-out for bad behaviour and personal weakness, a new national survey shows. 8/18/2008 9:47:53 AM
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Household debt climbing faster than wealth The debt of Canadian households is now rising faster than their wealth in the wake of the stock market correction and a housing market slowdown. And with the slowdown in the economy, personal bankruptcies and mortgage arrears are starting to rise. 8/19/2008 5:45:10 AM
3 Green groups quit oil sands forum Three groups have quit a government-sponsored forum for assessing environmental costs in the oil sands, a move that undercuts government efforts to burnish the image of the massive developments in U.S. markets. 8/18/2008 7:51:55 PM
Canada faces challenge as keeper of the Passage At an unknown place in northern Canada, somewhere just beyond mainland Nunavut and west of King William Island, the mythic roots of Canada's identity as an Arctic nation and its dreams as an aspiring circumpolar power intersect in the frigid waters of Victoria Strait. 8/18/2008 6:36:47 PM
Arctic pipeline could threaten wildlife: Report The Harper government has been warned that the ecological "footprint" of the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline on an Arctic bird sanctuary that protects migratory birds and at-risk species such as polar bears could exceed the threshold deemed acceptable by Environment Canada. 8/18/2008 5:45:35 PM
Three injured after woman attacks Toronto bus driver Three people were injured Monday after a woman brandishing a hammer allegedly attacked the driver of a Toronto public transit bus. Police say the woman boarded the bus at about 11 a.m. and accused the driver of not stopping for her earlier on the route. 8/18/2008 5:29:38 PM
Lawyers tear into federal justice minister Justice Minister Rob Nicholson appeared to be on a collision course with members of the legal establishment Monday as he tried to promote the Conservative government's aggressive law-and-order agenda. 8/18/2008 5:17:54 PM
For a dysfunctional place, Parliament's been busy For a place that Prime Minister Stephen Harper claims is on the brink of anarchy, Parliament has been a busy little beehive since the current session began a year ago this fall. 8/18/2008 10:19:31 AM
MacKay dismisses Taliban threat as 'propaganda' The latest Taliban threats against Canada are nothing more than propaganda designed to turn the Canadian population against the war in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says. 8/18/2008 9:45:05 AM
Federal government flyers are really campaign ads: critics Flyers published by the federal Conservative government and distributed at taxpayer expense are thinly disguised election campaign ads, outraged critics say. 8/18/2008 9:15:11 AM
Canadians dump foreign stocks and bonds Canadians dumped a record value of foreign stocks and bonds in June. Statistics Canada said domestic investors sold $9.5 billion more in stocks and bonds from other countries than they purchased in June. 8/18/2008 9:11:29 AM
Military drone supplier handed critical wartime duties Employees of a British Columbia firm supplying surveillance drones for the military in Afghanistan will be playing a greater role than first thought in the operations of the system as they pilot the aircraft during takeoffs and landings from Kandahar. 8/18/2008 8:59:54 AM
Chretien blasts Harper for skipping Beijing PM Stephen Harper made an irreconcilable political blunder by refusing to attend the Olympic opening ceremonies in China, Jean Chretien charged Monday. He said the Conservative government has burned its bridges with the emerging superpower. 8/18/2008 8:46:56 AM
Harper calls a 4th federal byelection Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called a fourth federal byelection for Sept. 22 in the Toronto riding of Don Valley West, setting the stage for a possible general election later this fall. 8/18/2008 6:07:59 AM
E-mails show RCMP scrambling over Taser incident While RCMP brass and its media relations division scrambled to keep from being "crucified" over Taser use and the death of a man at Vancouver's airport, they also had to deal with an increasing barrage of complaints accusing officers of being everything from clowns to killers. 8/18/2008 6:03:34 AM
Gang shooting kills innocent woman in Alberta A 20-year-old Hobbema, Alta., woman has been killed in a gang-related shooting after a bullet was fired from outside her home Saturday, flying through a wall and striking her — a day after a man in the same home was grazed by a bullet. 8/17/2008 6:38:06 PM
Former minister defends Dion as an 'idea person' A former Liberal defence minister eyeing a potential election run in an Ottawa-area riding admits Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has been battered by negative Tory ads, but defended his leadership. 8/17/2008 6:30:10 PM
Record number of cruise ships in Canadian Arctic this summer Polar bears and glaciers may be icons of northern climate change but they are also swelling the sails of Nunavut's tourism industry. Wildlife and majestic scenery are probably the main draws. 8/17/2008 10:07:32 AM
Class-action lawsuit claims Loto-Quebec downplayed dangers of VLTs Quebec's gaming commission faces a potentially crippling payout as gambling addicts try to hold it responsible for downplaying the dangers of video lottery terminals. 8/17/2008 10:01:47 AM
Canada enjoys second straight multi-medal day Coming on the heels of a gold, silver and bronze effort Saturday, Canada is now up to seven medals overall and is rapidly climbing up the standings after spending the opening week of the Games looking up at sporting minnows like Kyrgyzstan and Togo. 8/17/2008 9:10:08 AM
Arsonist at work in Calgary A neighbourhood in southwest Calgary is on edge this weekend after a series of fires that authorities say were deliberately set. Emergency crews rushed to six different blazes that erupted within a four-block area early Friday. 8/17/2008 8:40:00 AM
Tory mailing targeting 'junkies' in east Vancouver East Vancouver residents have been blitzed this week with a Conservative government flyer turning up in their mailboxes that says “junkies” don’t belong “near children and families.” Vancouver East MP Libby Davies says, “What they attempt to do is play on peoples’ fear."
8/17/2008 8:26:11 AM
Grizzly mauls man in Alberta A grizzly bear mauled and seriously injured a man in northern Alberta on Saturday. RCMP said the man was hiking northeast of Cadomin early in the morning when he was attacked. They said he had not spotted the bear and didn't realize it was nearby.
8/17/2008 6:02:20 AM
Men's eight strike gold The men's eight boat has won Canada's second gold medal of the Beijing Olympics. The defending world champions and gold-medal favourites led from the get-go and held off Great Britain to erase their fifth-place disappointment from the Athens Olympics four years ago. 8/17/2008 5:29:05 AM
Ottawa Widower reunited with beloved dog An 83-year-old Ottawa man has been reunited with his beloved canine companion after police discovered the vehicle he thought had been stolen in the parking lot of the St. Laurent Shopping Centre Saturday night. 8/16/2008 11:48:06 PM
High Arctic surveillance study hampered by strong winds A 10-person team with National Defence is on Devon Island, trying to install land-based sensors there and underwater listening devices stretching out into Barrow Strait, as part of its four-year Northern Watch pilot research project. 8/16/2008 3:52:03 PM
Williams lambastes PM over 'laughable' carbon tax comments Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams on Friday chuckled off warnings that Prime Minister Stephen Harper made on how the federal Liberal environmental platform could wreck the province's offshore oil industry. 8/15/2008 1:43:31 PM
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