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University revolutionizes Winnipeg's food scene
Commitment to fresh, local ingredients changes city's eating habits
Pay packages for prison guards reveal lack of restraint
Some pocketed up to 9.75 per cent more in salary and bonuses after 2009 deal, according to evidence before the Ontario Labour Relations Board
Keeping Quebec voters’ loyalty will be tall order for NDP
Despite the collapse of the Bloc, a resurgence in federalist strength is far from assured
Why are Toronto's finest protecting potholes?
Off-duty paid policing in Toronto has become a lucrative business, one that a free-market observer might even call a racket.
B.C. Premier set to ‘fix’ HST this week
With referendum approaching, Clark has few options to placate foes and also avoid hit to treasury
Ontario to loosen liquor laws by summer: Attorney General
Attorney General Chris Bentley says there is ‘overwhelming’ public support for relaxing alcohol laws
Canada leaves behind a ‘dramatically improved’ Panjwaii for U.S.: Petraeus
“This has been Canada’s area,” U.S. Gen. David Petraeus said. “What Canada hands off now to the U.S. elements that take over is dramatically improved.
Canadian helicopters sent to Haiti had mechanical problems, lack of parts
Situation reports show that at times, up to three of the six Griffons were unserviceable because of breakdowns, a lack of parts and inspections.
Americans justified in gunning down bin Laden: survey
A staggering number of Canadians feel Osama bin Laden got his just reward when U.S. Navy SEALs shot the world's most-wanted terrorist in the head and chest and dumped his body into the Arabian Sea,...
Intelligence data used to screen new Canadians
Top-secret police intelligence reports and information on investigations are being shared with citizenship court judges so they can make informed decisions on immigrants trying to become Canadians,...
QMI Agency to see F-35 production
Lockheed Martin will open its doors to QMI Agency this week to showcase its latest aviation technology.
Workers, Canada Post negotiating through weekend
OTTAWA — The union representing urban-based workers at Canada Post was to present a new offer Sunday that it hoped would address the remaining outstanding issues as a strike deadline loomed.
$36M Lotto Max ticket sold in B.C.
The winning ticket of Friday's $36-million Lotto Max jackpot was sold in B.C. Trevor Miller with the B.C. Lottery Corporation said the winning ticket was purchased in Campbell River, a Vancouver...
Military help is needed again: Charest
With threatening weather again on the horizon, Quebec Premier Jean Charest called for more Canadian soldiers to help residents in the flood-ravaged region south of Montreal.
High gas prices keep inflation rate at 3.3 per cent
Canada's annual inflation rate held steady at 3.3 per cent in March, as lower prices in most sectors were offset by painfully high prices at the pumps.
Tim Hortons goodie ban part of hospital strategy
A regional health authority in Nova Scotia that barred the sale of some doughnuts and muffins at on-site Tim Hortons franchises says the decision is part of a sweeping strategy to promote a healthy...
MAIONI: The NDP in Quebec: ‘What do we do now?’
On the night of May 2, the most surprised politician in Canada wasn’t Gilles Duceppe or Michael Ignatieff, even as they saw their parties melt before their eyes and their own seats vanish from...
MANNING: Political shifts mustn’t threaten Canada’s unity, vision
By now, most Canadians are familiar with the immediate consequences of the 2011 federal election; a majority government for the Conservatives with 167 seats in the next Parliament, Official...
GUNTER: Saying goodbye to 'Indian' Affairs
The federal government's move to change the name of the Department of Indian Affairs to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is a good idea. The new name is more accurate, more modern and more...
IVISON: Liberal crown losing suitors
Sometimes the prize just isn't worth the struggle, as King Pyrrhus of Epiras found out in his struggles with the Romans that yielded the immortal response: "Another such victory and I am undone."
GARDNER: The trouble with 'decisive' leadership
During the election campaign of 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a speech and took questions while standing before a backdrop emblazoned with two words over and over: "Leadership. Certainty....
RILEY: Getting from scandal to substance
In his gracious election night speech, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised to lead a predictable, stable government -the mantra he campaigned on -adding that "surprises are not generally well...
GORMLEY: Senate shenanigans: get over it
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's latest Senate appointments are being greeted with great indignation. And some of it is phony.
MCINNES: B.C.'s access to power shrinks in Harper's big new cabinet
Prime Minister Stephen Harper might have picked a different day to add three defeated Conservative candidates to the Senate.
IBBITSON: A cautious set of picks that's unlikely to embarrass Harper
Stephen Harper has crafted a cabinet that reflects a mature prime minister skillfully balancing talent, experience, potential and political reality with only a soupçon of stiff-backed willfulness to...
DE SOUZA: The Tories' dynamic duo
It was mostly old, a few bits new, rather boring and Tory blue. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had his new cabinet sworn in, and continuity was the theme.
CORCORAN: The government is too big, not the Cabinet
Prime Minister Harper's new Cabinet is much the same as the old one, a big fat target for critics who dislike its bloated size - 39 ministers, just short of Brian Mulroney's record of 40.
MAHER: Lucky losers: They get a soft landing
Spare a bit of sympathy, won’t you, for the five unlucky Atlantic Tories who were appointed to Stephen Harper’s cabinet on Wednesday.
HEARTFIELD: Will the real Jason Kenney please stand up?
David Frum, on Twitter, recently described Jason Kenney, who retained his position as immigration minister Wednesday, as the "hardest-working man in show business." It was just an offhand expression,...
HEBERT: Ontario gets paid back at the cabinet table
Ontario gave Stephen Harper the first Conservative majority in almost a quarter of a century and, in exchange, it will be making itself at home in the driver’s seat of the revamped cabinet for the...
Two and a Half Men Star Ashton Kutcher Thinks He "Won the Lottery" With New Gig
MPs lap up free trips courtesy of groups, governments
OTTAWA — The only thing better than going to the happiest place on Earth is going there for free.
Slave Lake evacuees complain of little warning
Residents of Slave Lake, Alta., raised questions Tuesday about how little warning they had of the rapidly approaching wildfire that destroyed 40 per cent of their town.
Canadians secretly added to U.S. security list: WikiLeaks
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's principal intelligence agency, routinely transmits to U.S. authorities the names and personal details of Canadian citizens who are suspected of,...
Battle over exemption from religious course reaches Supreme Court
MONTREAL - Ever since the compulsory ethics and religious culture course was introduced in Quebec schools in 2008, Sylvain Lamontagne's daughters have boycotted it.
Harper to reward trusted lieutenants, Toronto rookies and steady B.C. hands
Jason Kenney has invited friends and family to join him for lunch Wednesday – a likely sign he is moving up in Stephen Harper’s cabinet. And rookie MP Mark Adler mentioned to friends that he is...
HEBERT: Welcome to a strange new world
MPs, media, bureaucrats may need time to adjust to majority
PALMER: New Democrats get set to tackle Liberal strongholds
Fresh from the New Democratic Party's strong showing in the Point Grey byelection, new leader Adrian Dix addressed the NDP governing council on the weekend with his version of the meaning of it all.
MACDONALD: Bloc's ouster is very good news for Charest's Liberals
Among the winners in the federal election were Jean Charest and the Quebec Liberals, whose names weren't on the ballot.
STEPHENSON: Elections bill spells open season on voters
So what was the great big fuss over changes to the Nova Scotia Elections Act?
GUNTER: Open the campaign-funding doors
The new Tory majority in Ottawa seems almost certain to end subsidies to political parties.
RADWANSKI: PC Leader Hudak bringing in some big names
It is something of a motley crew, the one that Tim Hudak is assembling. A veteran newspaper columnist, Randall Denley, who on several occasions criticized the Ontario Progressive Conservative...
AKIN: MPs must vote on Libya mission
On March 18, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood before reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons and announced Canada would be dispatching CF-18 fighter jets to the Mediterranean as part of a...
GARDNER: If a drug policy works, Harper wants nothing to do with it
A scene that said much about Prime Minister Stephen Harper unfolded last week at the Supreme Court of Canada.
MALLICK: A mordant but inspiring view of politics
Chris Mullin is the real thing. The former British MP, whose two volumes of diaries of life in Tony Blair’s New Labour government have become classics of political writing, is out of politics now....
HARPER: PM favours men for senior portfolios in cabinet
Kellie Leitch was surely waiting by the phone. So were Candice Hoeppner, Shelly Glover, Kelly Block, Stella Ambler, Eve Adams and Michelle Rempel.
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