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More warnings issued ahead of hurricane Earl as storm churns toward Maritimes

More warnings issued ahead of hurricane Earl as storm churns toward Maritimes

HALIFAX - Tropical storm watches have been extended to Cape Breton and Iles-de-la-Madeleine as hurricane Earl churns toward Atlantic Canada. The Category 2 storm — which is tracking east of Cape ...

Judge says inmate can have thesaurus, compares prison to Humpty Dumpty

Judge says inmate can have thesaurus, compares prison to Humpty Dumpty

VANCOUVER - What's another word for unreasonable? A Federal Court judge has ruled a British Columbia prison was wrong to deny an inmate's request to buy a thesaurus, rejecting the Mountain Institut...

Expanded weather warnings issued ahead of hurricane Earl

Expanded weather warnings issued ahead of hurricane Earl

HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre has extended tropical storm watches to Cape Breton and Iles de Madelaine as hurricane Earl approaches. The centre's latest tracking places the Category 2 sto...

Hurricane Earl wobbles westward but continues its march towards the Maritimes

Hurricane Earl wobbles westward but continues its march towards the Maritimes

HALIFAX - Fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia secured their boats as best they could Thursday as hurricane Earl continued its march towards Atlantic Canada. Despite a slight shuffle to the west, ...

Harper swing through SW Ontario foreshadows themes of next election

Harper swing through SW Ontario foreshadows themes of next election

LONDON, Ont. - Stephen Harper was drenched with rain and later showered with affection during a campaign-style swing through southwestern Ontario in which he sprinkled money, buttered up the troops, b...

Free Parks Canada passes for Grade 8 students 'no federalist plot,' Harper says

Free Parks Canada passes for Grade 8 students 'no federalist plot,' Harper says

KITCHENER, Ont. - Accusations that free student passes for Canada's national parks are part of a federalist plot aimed at separatists were dismissed as "bizarre" Thursday by Prime Minister Stephen Har...

Man at centre of judge's sex scandal ordered to return photos, emails

Man at centre of judge's sex scandal ordered to return photos, emails

WINNIPEG - Two days after shocking Manitoba's legal world with claims that he was pressured to have kinky sex with a lawyer-turned-judge, Alexander Chapman was hit with a court order forcing him to re...

Ex-justice minister Bellemare files lawsuit against former boss: Jean Charest

Ex-justice minister Bellemare files lawsuit against former boss: Jean Charest

QUEBEC - Ex-Quebec justice minister Marc Bellemare has launched a $900,000 countersuit against his former boss: Premier Jean Charest. Bellemare is also calling for Charest's lawsuit to be rejected ...

Rain and snow aren't a problem, but posties won't put up with nasty hawk

Rain and snow aren't a problem, but posties won't put up with nasty hawk

CALGARY - Rain, snow, sleet and hail may not stop the mail from getting through, but dive-bombing birds sure will. Canada Post has suspended mail service in part of the southwest Calgary community ...

First Nations deliver ultimatum to Ottawa over B.C. mine poised to destroy lake

First Nations deliver ultimatum to Ottawa over B.C. mine poised to destroy lake

OTTAWA - First Nations in British Columbia are warning the federal government that they will stop at nothing to prevent a mining company from destroying a fishing lake to process copper and gold. "...