#1 -- CBC | GG-designate visits Queen
David Johnston, Canada's governor general-designate, paid a visit to Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Sunday for his first official audience with Queen Elizabeth.
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#2 -- CBC | Last chance to catch Fraser River sockeye
The banner-year ...
#1 -- BBC | El Salvador police find barrel stuffed with $9m
Police in El Salvador have found a plastic barrel stuffed with $9m (£5.8m) of suspected drug money on a farm in the centre of the country.
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I've never understood the claim that American politics are more interesting than ours. My guess is it only seems that way. The outcomes of U.S. political battles don't immediately or directly impact Canadians' daily lives, so the stakes for Canadians ... 
Many conservatives look at their first chance to defeat the left in six years when nervous Democrats try to explain away Obama's disastrous leftward lurch. The left is not only looking at a big defeat in America in two ... 
OTTAWA – A disabled federal cabinet minister who supports euthanasia says he will abstain from voting on a contentious right-to-die bill, even though he calls it “a provocative starting point” on the issue of assisted suicide. Conservative MP Steven Fletcher, a quadriplegic, says that despite his belief that terminally ill or physically disabled people should [...]
From no homework to starting kindergarten later, the Post’s Megan O’Toole looks at how schools are changing: No Homework Even as students as young as four are being asked to complete homework — only to have their parents bear the brunt of the task — there is a growing revolt, and an educational movement, away [...]
The rate of aftershocks following Saturday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake appears to be lower than usual for a quake of that size, but people around damaged buildings in Canterbury should still be taking extreme care, says an expert. The aftershocks could be big – within one order of magnitude of the original quake – so there [...]
(CBS) With many polls indicating the Republicans may win back control of the House of Representatives (and possibly the Senate as well) in the upcoming mid-term elections, Jim VandeHei, the executive editor of Politico, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the Obama administration is in a horrible position. “Does the White House understand this?” asked [...]
For those who still dream of seeing Jean Charest come back as national leader in Ottawa, the time has come to start mourning. The Quebec premier’s political career is coming to a very sad end and it could happen much sooner than expected. Repeated charges of corruption and collusion in Quebec’s construction industry and allegations [...]
The unexpectedly deep plunge in home sales this summer is likely to force the Obama administration to choose between future homeowners and current ones, a predicament officials had been eager to avoid. Over the last 18 months, the administration has rolled out just about every program it could think of to prop up the ailing [...]
Many conservatives look at their first chance to defeat the left in six years when nervous Democrats try to explain away Obama’s disastrous leftward lurch. The left is not only looking at a big defeat in America in two months, it has been getting slobber-knocked all over the modern industrialized world. Five months ago, in [...]
I’ve never understood the claim that American politics are more interesting than ours. My guess is it only seems that way. The outcomes of U.S. political battles don’t immediately or directly impact Canadians’ daily lives, so the stakes for Canadians are not as high. That makes it easier for some Canadians to find the enjoyment [...]
#1 — BBC | El Salvador police find barrel stuffed with $9m Police in El Salvador have found a plastic barrel stuffed with $9m (£5.8m) of suspected drug money on a farm in the centre of the country. [...] #2 — BBC | Germany agrees to extend nuclear plant life span Germany’s coalition government has [...]
#1 — CBC | GG-designate visits Queen David Johnston, Canada’s governor general-designate, paid a visit to Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Sunday for his first official audience with Queen Elizabeth. [...] #2 — CBC | Last chance to catch Fraser River sockeye The banner-year West Coast salmon run isn’t done yet, but the race is [...]
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