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Free Parks Canada passes for Grade 8 students 'no federalist plot,' Harper says
KITCHENER, Ont. - Stephen Harper is dismissing accusations that free student passes for Canada's national parks are part of a federalist plot aimed at separatists. A Bloc Quebecois MP is attacking ...
Forecasters say hurricane Earl's track on course for Atlantic Canada by Saturday
HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre has issued a tropical storm watch for areas of southern Nova Scotia. The centre says conditions associated with a tropical storm are expected to affect Queen...
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to blast off into space in 2012
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Veteran astronaut Chris Hadfield is going to become the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station when he blasts off in December 2012. "To have this opportunity ...
Blowing up F-35 deal would cause diplomatic-economic collateral damage: Tories
OTTAWA - The economic and diplomatic strings attached to Ottawa's multi-billion dollar deal to buy the F-35 stealth fighters would make it extremely painful — if not impossible — for a future gove...
Hockey coach turned senator says he faces third operation after brush with death
MONTREAL - Senator Jacques Demers, a former NHL coach who almost died this summer after what should have a routine operation, says he will have to face another operation. The frail-looking Conserva...
Ottawa to take 'wait-and-see' approach on controversial MS treatment
OTTAWA - It will take more than anecdotes from some multiple sclerosis patients to sway the federal government into funding clinical trials of a controversial new treatment for the nerve-wasting disea...
Revival of exceptional anti-terror provisions needed, PM suggests
OTTAWA - Lapsed anti-terror provisions — extraordinary measures the Conservative government has been trying to revive — might have been useful in the current effort to round up suspects in an alle...
Harper brushes off Liberal claims he abandoned Quebec in last 110 days
MIRABEL, Que. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dismissing Liberal claims he's given up on Quebec with his infrequent appearances in the province. Harper made his first public foray into Quebec in...
Internal documents warned HST would hurt B.C.'s economy for years
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government sold its switch to the harmonized sales tax as one of the best moves it could make to improve the province's economy, despite being told about potential long...
NDP to Tories: Is that a long gun in your pocket, or are you trying to steal my riding?
OTTAWA - New Democrat MPs want no shotgun wedding with the Tories on the long-gun registry issue. Members from rural ridings who oppose the registry are working to distance themselves from the Cons...
