No answers forthcoming for families of Williams' victims
Colonel Russell Williams left court under the scrutiny of an Ontario Provincial Police tactical squad on Thursday afternoon for the 82-kilometre drive to Kingston Penitentiary, where he will take his...
View ArticleActor Randy Quaid, wife arrested in Vancouver
Oscar-nominated actor Randy Quaid and his wife have been arrested in Vancouver after allegedly skipping a court date in California
View ArticleCanadian soldiers prepared to escort Taliban to peace talks
If asked, Canadian troops stand ready to assist Afghanistan’s fledgling peace process by providing safe passage for Taliban leaders who wish to meet with Afghan officials, says the leader of Task Force...
View ArticleB.C. man given 55 years in U.S. court for stepdaughter’s murder
A B.C. man was sentenced to more than 55 years in a U.S. prison Friday for slashing the throat of his five-year-old stepdaughter while vacationing in Washington State over the summer
View ArticleTories reject allegations of 'fly-by-night' operation
The Harper government rejected allegations raised Friday in Parliament that a short-lived Conservative riding association in Montreal was a “fly-by-night” operation set up to collect donations from...
View ArticleNational Post editorial board: Ford is the best choice for Toronto
National Post editorial board: The municipal government simply spends too much money, a fact that becomes evident every time budget day approaches. In our opinion, Rob Ford is the best candidate to...
View ArticleWikiLeaks papers detail Iraq torture, U.S. killings
Al-Jazeera on Friday released what it called 'startling new information' from U.S. documents obtained by WikiLeaks, alleging state-sanctioned Iraqi torture and the killing of hundreds of civilians at...
View ArticleCanada can scrap Khadr plea deal: source
In a bid to persuade Canada to repatriate Omar Khadr, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reached out Friday to Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon — as he continued to visit China
View ArticleQuebec anti-big government movement is challenging province’s status quo
Mere rumours of a new provincial political party that would preach fiscal conservatism and leave aside the constitutional debate were enough to propel the non-existent party to first place in two...
View ArticleActor Randy Quaid and wife seek refugee status in Canada
In a bizarre hearing in Vancouver on Friday, the pair told an Immigration and Refugee Board that the actor has had eight close friends murdered in recent years and they fear they could be next
View ArticleLeft or right, Americans angry a week before elections
How raw are emotions across America, a week before Election Day? Try this for starters: Jay Benton and his wife, Karen Sanders, live in two states in the same town and hate the politicians in both of them
View Article'Soul-destroying': Detective one of few trained to interrogate the likes of...
He called the former colonel 'bud' and 'Russ,' and he offered the killer a cup of coffee and an 'option.' Detective Sergeant Jim Smyth had artfully performed this verbal dance with criminals before,...
View ArticleNo UN casualties in attack on Afghan compound
Four Taliban suicide bombers dressed as women and police attacked the main United Nations compound in western Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, but there were no casualties among UN staff
View ArticleOttawa withdraws from clash of interests over hate speech law
The government is out and the Jewish groups are in. Still seeking a place in the coming battle over the hate-speech section of Canada's Human Rights Act in federal court are the African Canadians and...
View ArticleConrad Black: An icon of Quebec's misunderstood past
Conrad Black: The canonization this week of Quebec’s Brother André (Bessette) reopened a window on Quebec’s largely forgotten, yet recent, past. In the times before the Quiet Revolution, French Quebec...
View ArticlePot ballot's surprising backers
Fourteen years after California became the first jurisdiction in North America to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, the state is weighing a history-making ballot measure to legalize the...
View ArticleTwo dead in Winnipeg shooting spree
Two people were killed and one was in critical condition in an apparent rash of random shootings in a Winnipeg neighbourhood Saturday night
View ArticleKhadr to announce plea Monday
Omar Khadr is scheduled to return to the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal on Monday to reveal whether he will plead guilty or continue with his trial on charges that include conspiring with al-Qaeda and...
View ArticleThree federal byelections called for November 29
Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Sunday confirmed that three federal byelections will be held next month, two in Manitoba and one in Ontario
View ArticleMan arrested in severe beating of B.C. Catholic bishop
A 30-year-old man is in custody following the severe beating of a Kamloops Roman Catholic bishop Friday night. Msgr. Jerry Desmond, vicar general of the Kamloops Roman Catholic Diocese, confirmed that...
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