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Budget offers small measures for wide range of issues

The Conservatives unveiled a budget Tuesday that offered small measures for a variety of causes, including $2.3 billion in new spending as the government seeks to cut down a $40.5 billion deficit.

Budget disappoints Manitoba chiefs

There was no money in Tuesday's federal budget to supply northern Manitoba aboriginal communities with safe drinking water. Nor was there substantial new spending to address a chronic housing...

Bob Barker offers Edmonton $100,000 in Lucy the elephant dispute

Former U.S. game show host and animal rights activist Bob Barker has offered the City of Edmonton $100,000 to use as it sees fit if the city agrees to an outside assessment of the living conditions...

Canada barrelling toward spring election campaign

The federal political parties are barrelling toward a spring election campaign that could begin within days after the opposition rejected the Harper government's budget Tuesday and the Conservatives...

Liberals say conditions have never been better to head to polls

The federal Liberals are trailing in the polls and their leader is unpopular.

Public Service Commission cautions bureaucrats on social media

Partisan comments by government employees on social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, risk tainting Canadians' perceptions of the impartiality of the federal public service, the president of...

Greenpeace protest delays nuclear hearings in Ontario

Hearings into Ontario's plans to build new nuclear reactors were delayed Tuesday following a protest by Greenpeace demonstrators.

Supreme Court reserves judgment in Conrad Black libel case

Conrad Black must wait to learn the outcome of a libel case against some former associates after the Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment Tuesday on whether the case can go ahead.

The election hinges on one guy - Michael Ignatieff

The coming campaign will pivot on the performance of the first-time campaigner

Poll adds to controversy over rights museum's Holocaust program

Survey commissioned by Ukrainian and genocide-awareness groups adds pressure on museum not to single out the Holocaust

For Canadian companies overseas, a corporate heart of darkness

No laws regulate the conduct of Canadian companies in foreign countries, leaving them to police themselves when dealing with dictatorships and corrupt regimes

Ottawa grabs the attention, but the provinces face the heavy lifting

The danger is that by the time we get to the elections that matter the most, voters will be too politicked out to give them the attention they deserve

One adroit budget, one more Conservative government

It won’t survive the Commons, but it’ll carry the Harperites through an election they will almost certainly win

This budget wasn’t sweet enough

The opposition shot down the Tories' offering, but there were a lot of goodies that Canadians would have snapped up

Why a defeated budget helps Harper’s hunt for a majority

Harper has a strong budget to run on, a sizable war chest and a solid base to grow support

CRA gives tax break for Christchurch quake relief

Decision to help donations for New Zealand victims, but not those in Japan, perplexing

For Layton, Conservative concessions didn’t add up

Tories adamant that there will be no negotiations on Tuesday’s budget

Mayor Ford still tied to family firm, documents show

Deco Labels and Tags has done more than $100,000 in business with the city over the years

Teachers’ strike looms over salary demands

Abbott adamant government will not budge off its mandate of zero and zero over two years

After Japan, Canada's nuclear industry girds for change

Calls for better safety precautions and questions about new plants are already surfacing

Chrétien’s call to Canada: Don’t be afraid of water-exporting debate

Attending a conference on global water conflicts in Toronto, former prime minister says new national discussion needed

How the Tory government could fall

Conservatives may prefer to be brought down on a budget issue rather than on being found in contempt of Parliament

Suspect escapes after armed jewellery store robbery

Group home attack builds fear

Man who robbed johns faces preliminary hearing

All-day police standoff ends in shooting

Williams done until playoffs

NHL: Ward upgrades Hurricanes' chances

CURLING: Canada back in contention with pair of wins

Halifax off ice as skating worlds host

BMO wants to boost U.S. earnings to $1 billion

Budget 2011: Bloc balks at budget — and the HST

Alberta retail sales grow 5.5% from a year ago

Budget 2011: What it means for you

Mozilla Firefox 4 download release date: Now!

Adobe plans give Creative Suite 5 mid-cycle mobile juice

Apple sues Amazon over term 'Appstore'

Wi-Fi body wants hotspots to override 3G

NeNe Leakes Dishes on Her 'Bossy' 'Apprentice' Co-Star

Royal wedding ceremony to be made available on iTunes

Chris Brown 'trashes room' over Rihanna questions

‘GMA’ Extends Invitation To Have Chris Brown On For Second Interview!

Cheryl Cole is in the running to be X Factor judge

Yes, sex can kill you, U.S. study shows

China Creates Fake Rice, No One Really Shocked

Arizona man back to prison for robbing same bank third time

Police: Handcuffed woman steals cruiser, crashes

Woman finds frog in can of beans

YAFFE: Public support means Tories can afford to be bullish on budget

Canada moved closer to a spring election Tuesday as the Conservative government tabled its budget to the sound of hissing from all three opposition parties.

MACDONALD: A budget for the Conservatives to run on

Jim Flaherty's sixth budget isn't about economic policy or fiscal frameworks. It's a political statement, one to run on in an election in the event the government is defeated on it.

SIMPSON: One adroit budget, one more Conservative government

With the NDP’s immediate thumbs down on the Harper government’s budget, Canada will face yet another election. The only questions are when the government will fall, and when the election will be...

IBBITSON: Why a defeated budget helps Harper’s hunt for a majority

Although Canada is entering its fourth general election in seven years because all three national parties believe they will gain from it, in truth, Stephen Harper is the political leader who won the...

WATSON: It these guys are the Conservatives, what happened to fi scal prudence?

My favourite passage rom the Income Tax egulations - no, really, you should read them some time, they can be fascinating -is where it says, "Horseback riding is deemed to be an activity that...

OLIVE: A budget worth defeating

Studying a budget is an exercise in Sherlock Holmes’ adage about “listening for the dog that didn’t bark.” That often is how one determines where a government intends to take the people. To a...

WALKOM: Tory blueprint looks a shade Liberal red

Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has managed an artful trick. It has produced a Liberal budget.

Wide-ranging budget gives nod to NDP, but is it enough?

The Conservatives have unveiled a budget that offers small measures for a variety of causes, including a few gestures towards NDP Leader Jack Layton.

Canadian drowns in Mexico while family watches

A 49-year-old Canadian man drowned in Cancun, Mexico, while vacationing with his family.

BMO aims for fivefold profit jump from U.S.

Chief executive Bill Downe tells shareholders Tuesday he wants $1-billion annually from U.S. operations, following the US$4.1 billion acquisition of U.S. lender Marshall & Ilsley

Ottawa aims for rail dispute law by year end

The federal government aims to have new legislation in place by the end of the year that would see the Canadian Transportation Agency act as an arbitrator in disputes between the country’s largest...

Montreal drug developer lays off nearly one third of its staff

Laval drug developer Labopharm Inc. said Tuesday it is laying off 38 employees as part of a complete review of the business, bringing the total payroll down to 94

Health Canada 'silent' on drug safety decisions

Health Canada is too secretive about how it evaluates new medications and devices compared with the U.S., a medical journal editorial says.

Truant Quebec MNA frustrates constituents

Some voters in Tony Tomassi's riding are dismayed that the Montreal MNA is drawing a full salary even though he hasn't sat in the national assembly in almost a year.

Commons approves Libyan mission by UN

The House of Commons has voted in favour of Canada participating in the United Nations mission in Libya.

N.B. government slashes spending in new budget

The New Brunswick government unveiled its latest budget Tuesday, in which it slashes spending while hiking taxes on cigarettes and gas in an effort to correct the province's dire financial picture.

Activists arrested at Ontario nuclear hearings

Police forcibly removed four Greenpeace activists from public consultations into Ontario's nuclear future near Toronto on Tuesday, after they stormed the meeting and derailed hearings.

CF-18s find 'collateral' risk too great, call off attack

Two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets took part in a mission over Libya on Tuesday morning, but returned to base without attacking their target, having determined the risk of collateral damage was too...

Afghan forces to take lead in securing 7 areas

An emboldened Afghan president said Tuesday that his nation's security forces will take over from the U.S.-led coalition in seven parts of the country, a first step toward his goal of having Afghan...

Bob Barker offers $100K for Alta. elephant's checkup

Former television game show host Bob Barker says he's willing to put up $100,000 to make sure the Edmonton zoo's lone elephant gets another checkup.

Conservatives call 11th hour budget meeting with NDP

The Conservative government is pulling out the stops to try and make a deal to pass the federal budget, organizing a last-minute meeting this afternoon with the NDP.

Air security bill flies through Senate

An air-travel security bill that critics initially slammed as an infringement on passenger privacy and a surrender of Canadian authority to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has passed third...

We are draining the Great Lakes dry, Council of Canadians warns

Great Lakes water is being overused and abused, according to a new report that urges the federal government to make the lakes a legally protected bio-region. In its World Water Day report, the...

Canadian website offers TB info from 180 countries

Ahead of World TB Day, a team of Canadian researchers is launching a website that provides free information about tuberculosis vaccination policies for more than 180 countries

Markets down marginally at midday

North American markets were showing marginal losses at midday on Tuesday as continuing geopolitical tensions weighed on investor sentiment.

Ethics, arrogance and the end of the Teflon Tories

Conservatives gambling that Canadians don’t care

B.C. court rejects appeal to stiffen sentence for Tamil Tiger financier

Judges uphold ruling that gave Prapaharan Thambithurai six months for raising funds for terrorist group

Public watchdog urges non-partisan bureaucratic appointments

Public Service Commission advises government to hire bureaucrats through proper, transparent process

Stephen Harper retrofits his government

The home energy efficiency program is a perfect metaphor for the PM’s time in office

Restraint the watchword in Flaherty budget

Tories expected to sprinkle in some goodies amid election fever

Jack Layton won’t show his hand on budget for at least 24 hours

NDP Leader needs a good night’s rest and a talk with his caucus before he decides

Canadian cracks NYT paywall

Only a few days after the New York Times launched a paywall on its website for Canadian visitors, a Canadian programmer has come up with a free workaround to keep the site open to all, and it only...

Baby Joseph case turns U.S. political issue

Some American right-to-lifers are distorting Ontario's Baby Joseph saga to raise funds for their own cause, sweeping facts that don't fit their political agenda into the dustpan in an all-out effort...

Political storm swirls over D-Jet loan

Political turbulence intensified Monday over Diamond Aircraft's do-or-die bid for a federal loan, while the company president underlined why it can't afford to launch a new jet on its own.

Undercover Quebec cop violates code of conduct

An undercover Quebec cop who shoved and swore at demonstrators while armed with a rock at an infamous 2007 protest in Montebello, Que., was convicted of violating the province's police code of...

Groups voice concerns at Ontario nuke plant hearings

A nuclear war is underway in Ontario's Durham Region.

Mother wants answers after pardoned sex offender becomes cadet instructor

A London, Ont. mother has appealed directly to defence minister Peter MacKay, asking him to investigate how a pardoned sex offender became cadet instructor at the 27 Air Squadron.

January retail numbers fall short

Canadian retail sales unexpectedly declined for a second month in January, led by automobiles and fuel and a drop in purchases in Quebec as that province raised its sales tax, while the country’s...

AT&T deal may spur Canadian telco mergers

AT&T Inc.’s unexpected takeover bid for T-Mobile USA may soon see reverberations across the border, several industry sources suggested Monday, with the possibility of mergers growing among Canadian...

Supreme Court to hear Black libel case

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments on Tuesday from the people Conrad Black has accused of libelling him.

Iqaluit siblings start Northwest Passage ski trek

Two adventurous siblings from Iqaluit have begun a 3,000-kilometre trek in the Northwest Passage, in the hopes of being the first to kite-ski through the fabled Arctic route.

Budget renews eco retrofits, but no HST deal

The Conservative government's budget will include student loan forgiveness for rural doctors and nurses, $400 million to renew a home energy retrofit program and a new program to link veterans with...

Many Canadians use toilet as garbage disposal

A study on Canadian attitudes to water finds that nearly three quarters of Canadians use their toilets to flush away garbage and are not making the connection between personal water use and the true...

MacKay: NATO role in Libya 'will evolve'

With Canadian military involvement in the UN-sanctioned mission to support the opponents of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi officially underway, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said it's too soon to...

Tuesday's federal budget hinges on NDP support

The federal government is set to deliver its 2011-2012 budget today -- a document that could determine whether Canadians go to the polls for a spring election.

BlackBerry PlayBook to hit North America in April

Research in Motion says the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be available April 19 in more than 20,000 retail outlets in the U.S. and Canada.

Most Canadians see health care as top issue: poll

A growing number of Canadians see health care, ahead of the economy, as the top issue facing the country, according to a new poll.

Health Canada detects 'minuscule' increase in radiation

Health Canada monitoring stations have detected a "minuscule" increase in radiation levels along the B.C. coast in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan but some residents weren't taking...

Bryan Adams gets star in Hollywood Walk of Fame

Bryan Adams is now enshrined in concrete. The Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and producer got his Hollywood Walk of Fame star Monday in front of the Musicians Institute.

Bruce Carson met with cabinet minister last month

A former top adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper whose lobbying activities are being investigated by the RCMP met with Environment Minister Peter Kent last month.

Budget to include $400M for home eco renos

The federal government appears to be offering a few olive branches to the NDP in Tuesday's budget, with money to revive the home energy retrofit program as well as a boost to payments for senior...

Flaherty to table budget amid threat of defeat

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will rise in the House of Commons on Tuesday and unveil a play-it-safe budget short on big new spending or tax initiatives, but long on implications for the life span of...