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Bus filled with people rolls over on Alberta highway
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:16 -0500
Three people are in critical condition and more than two dozen others injured after a bus filled with passengers rolled over on an Alberta highway Friday.

Canadian killed in Florida campground shooting
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:20:41 -0500
A young boy, the boy's father, and a man from Quebec are dead in a bizarre, hostage standoff at a campground in Deerfield Beach, Fla.

Family appeal 'instrumental' in arrest of shooting suspect
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:11:11 -0500
The RCMP have arrested a suspect in connection with an incident in rural Alberta that left two Mounties wounded and another man dead.

Cuts to elderly benefits years away, says Flaherty
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:17 -0500
Canadians won't have to worry about cuts to elderly benefits for years, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday, hinting that changes won't happen until at least 2020.

CAW boss accuses Caterpillar of breaking the rules
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:35:10 -0500
The head of the Canadian Auto Workers union is accusing Caterpillar Inc. of not following the rules in its 2010 takeover of a London, Ont. locomotive plant it has decided to shut down.

Environmental group lashes out at glacier walk project
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:48:32 -0500
An environmental activist is slamming a plan to allow a private tour company to build an interpretive glacier boardwalk in Jasper National Park, saying Parks Canada is failing to fulfill its conservation and protection mandate.

Ultimate Tazer Ball set to shock Toronto
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:43:40 -0500
Part lacrosse, part rugby and part The Running Man - the Ultimate Tazer Ball League may be stunning audiences near you, if league organizers have their way.

Protests planned to oppose Canadian copyright law
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:41:38 -0500
Canadians are protesting proposed copyright laws online and offline Friday they say infringe on basic free-speech rights, threaten to "lock-down" the Internet and play into the hands of the entertainment industry.

Dad shoots up daughter's laptop over Facebook rant
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:05:45 -0500
A North Carolina father is being hailed as a parenting hero and derided as a bully, after trying to teach his daughter a lesson by shooting up her laptop.

Mexico tourism minister defends troubled country
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:48:20 -0500
Still stinging from reaction to the latest violent attack on a Canadian tourist in Mexico, officials there are launching a campaign to convince potential visitors their worries are unfounded.

NDP leadership hopefuls reveal different styles, strategies
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:52:48 -0500
There's an old joke about federal politics that goes something like this: Conservatives go to party conventions to get drunk, Liberals to get lucky and New Democrats to debate the minutiae of dust-dry policy resolutions.

Harper mixes oil and human rights in China speech
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:46:13 -0500
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to press China on human rights as Canada moves ahead with plans to develop stronger trade links with Beijing.

SNC-Lavalin fires 2 execs allegedly linked to Gadhafi
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:15:38 -0500
Quebec-based SNC-Lavalin Group has dismissed two employees with ties to al-Saadi Gadhafi, the son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who is wanted on an international arrest warrant.

Family killed in fiery B.C. crash heading to tennis match
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:51:09 -0500
A British Columbia family travelling to Vancouver to realize a dream of watching an international tennis match died when their SUV crossed the centre line, collided with a tractor trailer and burst into flames.

Boy, 9, recalls harrowing rescue from stormy Pacific
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:40:52 -0500
The youngest of three Canadian sailors plucked from the stormy Pacific Ocean this week says he'd sail again, but not necessarily on another attempt to reach Hawaii from Mexico.

Facing dissent, Greece vows to push through austerity
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:20:13 -0500
Greece's future in the eurozone came under renewed threat as popular protests again turned violent and dissent grew among its lawmakers after European leaders demanded deeper spending cuts.

Spanish photographer wins award with Arab protest photo
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:57:26 -0500
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative.

Toronto's mild winter weather to take the weekend off
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:26:22 -0500
Toronto's unseasonably mild winter is taking a weekend off as temperatures dipped and the snow started to fly.

Revamped birth control policy respects religion: Obama
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:35:28 -0500
President Barack Obama declared Friday he has found a solution that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free birth control, as he rushed to defuse an election-year political uproar that threatened to overtake his administration.
