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Williams denies he's threatened Tories who do election work for Harper

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Premier Danny Williams denies he's threatened Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador who work for Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a federal election campaign. Williams s...

Defence Ministers of the Americas seek co-operation to fight crime

BANFF, Alta. - Canada and the United States may be focusing their military efforts primarily on the other side of the world, but smaller countries in the Americas want attention to shift closer to hom...

B.C. Appeal Court orders fourth trial for Kelly Ellard in murder of 14-year-old

VANCOUVER - A B.C. Appeal Court has overturned the conviction of Kelly Ellard and ordered a fourth trial for her role in the murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk. Ellard was convicted in the beating an...

Economy cranks out 15,200 jobs in August, but shakiness persists

OTTAWA - Canada's economy exhibited signs of coming back to life in August with the first job gains in three months, but mounting bankruptcies and further slippage in the stock market suggest the coun...

Gagliano loses court bid to overturn sponsorship inquiry findings

OTTAWA - Alfonso Gagliano has lost a legal bid to overturn the findings of the sponsorship commission. In a ruling today, a Federal Court judge rejected the former public works minister's claims of...

Montreal private school teacher faces 230 new child porn charges in U.S.

MONTREAL - A Montreal teacher charged in the U.S. for allegedly soliciting sex from a 13-year-old boy is facing more than 200 new counts related to child pornography. Richard Doucet, an elementary ...

Canadians still view troops as peacekeepers, leaked DND poll.

OTTAWA - A majority of Canadians still view their soldiers as peacekeepers and would rather see them helping disaster victims than fighting, an internal poll prepared for National Defence suggests. ...

Harper nominates Cromwell for Supreme Court post

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Nova Scotia judge Thomas Cromwell to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. The move - which bypasses an all-party selection committee just two day...

Tories lay out specifics of Afghan exit strategy on election eve

OTTAWA - The Tory government has laid out a few more details of its Afghanistan exit strategy just days before an expected federal election call. But the so-called benchmarks for success in Kandaha...

MacKay says Taliban will not intimidate Canada from Afghan mission

HALIFAX - Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he hopes the Taliban doesn't use a federal election campaign to step up attacks on Canadian Forces in southern Afghanistan. During a stop at a military ...