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• Olivia Chow, Layton children attend special...
  Olivia Chow says she hopes an upcoming CBC biopic about late New Democratic leader Jack Layton inspires viewers to “live in a hopeful and loving ...
• Familiar faces everywhere he looks
  When Brad Gushue looks across Rexall Place, the Newfoundland and Labrador skip sees familiar faces playing for opposing teams at the Canadian ...
• Sound means of healing
  Carolyn Williams sits by five-year-old Katherine Vitorino’s hospital bed, strumming her guitar and singing a medley of songs. “This Old ...
• ‘Rebelle’ triumphant at Canadian Screen Awards
  “Rebelle” ruled while “Flashpoint” continued to burn bright at the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday, as the best in homegrown film and ...
• Android? BlackBerry? iPhone?
  Spring Gillard is an avid blogger and active on social media, but don’t expect to see any emails or tweets sent from her Android device, ...
• Mary Walsh tours one-woman play ‘Dancing with...
  Like her comical warrior princess TV character Marg Delahunty, Mary Walsh has felt like she’s been in battle in recent months — but of the ...
• Help-wanted ads point to strong job creation in...
  OTTAWA — Canada’s labour market may be more structurally sound than many may believe, according to two new reports that paint a relatively stable ...
• Finley says Conservatives have set dollar...
  OTTAWA — The federal government denies it has given civil servants quotas for catching employment insurance fraud — but now says there are ...
• Attacks on women fell between 2009 and 2011, but...
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says police reports show that just over 173,600 women aged 15 and older were victims of violent crime in 2011, a rate ...
• Apps to ID melanoma from photos often inaccurate,...
  Smartphone apps that analyze photos of moles to assess whether they might be potentially deadly melanoma or benign lesions vary widely in ...
• Selling a new process
  The folks of Ooka Island Inc. have faced the dragons and are thrilled to tell the tale. After appearing on a recent airing of popular television ...
• Public servants making EI house calls to root out...
  SASKATOON — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says hundreds of millions of dollars are lost through false or inappropriate employment insurance ...
• UPDATE: Mounties reach out to the military as...
  WOODS HARBOUR, N.S. — The RCMP have asked the Defence Department for help as the Mounties face mounting pressure from a Nova Scotia community ...
• Fathers of missing fishermen demand military...
  WOODS HARBOUR, N.S. — The fathers of two young Nova Scotia fishermen who disappeared when their boat capsized are demanding the Canadian ...
• Canadian Ranger dies on Arctic military exercise
  GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut — A member of Canada’s Arctic reserve force has died during a military exercise in Nunavut.Donald Anguyoak died Sunday in a ...
• UPDATE: Search expanded eastward for fishermen...
  By Michael MacDonaldThe Canadian Press — HalifaxThe search for five Nova Scotia fishermen whose boat capsized in heavy seas late Sunday has been ...
• Search on for missing halibut fishermen off Nova...
  By Michael MacDonaldTHE CANADIAN PRESS—HALIFAX Two coast guard vessels and a rescue helicopter searched late Monday for the crew of a fishing ...
• New research finds at least 3,000 confirmed Indian...
  TORONTO — New research has found at least 3,000 children are now known to have died during attendance at Canada’s disgraced Indian residential ...
• Squeezing out the truth
  Nicole Wilson began the new year resolving to live a healthier life. The slim 29-year-old with a self-confessed penchant for junk food wasn’t ...
• Computer criminals
  Digital dissenters known as hacktivists have developed a track record for disruption and attracting attention and are now considered one ...
• Fewer homes sold last month than January 2012 but...
  OTTAWA — The number of homes sold in Canada last month was down 5.2 per cent from January 2012, although about half of the country’s local ...
• Bad hair day? Ottawa wants to know if wind turbines...
  OTTAWA — Having a bad hair day? Wind turbines could be to blame.The amount of the stress hormone cortisol found in people’s hair could help ...
• Manitoba Appeal Court increases sentence for sex...
  WINNIPEG — The Manitoba Court of Appeal has increased the prison sentence of child-abusing hockey coach Graham James to five years from two. ...
• Don’t worry earthlings: fly-by asteroid won’t be...
  MONTREAL — An asteroid about half the size of a football field will make a very close visit to Earth on Friday and will even be affected by the ...
• Feds apologize for losing personal info on half a...
  OTTAWA — We’re sorry — and we’re trying to make sure it never happens again.That’s the message from senior federal bureaucrats responsible for ...
• Transportation Safety Board launches investigation...
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is formally investigating the tugboat failure that sent a Russian cruise ship adrift ...
• Leader of B.C. Tories urges Harper to keep busy...
  VANCOUVER — The leader of the B.C. Conservative Party is urging the prime minister to keep what’s considered to be the country’s busiest coast ...
• Cellphones, tablets spur creation of new area codes...
  TORONTO — Canadians in several provinces will soon see unfamiliar numbers on their call display as the country introduces a handful of new area ...
• Tens of thousands of comments come into U.S. FDA on...
  Almost 30,000 comments have poured into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about Canadian genetically modified salmon since the agency ...
• Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton top website’s list of...
  EDMONTON — The founder and CEO of AshleyMadison.com, a matchmaking site that caters to cheaters, says Ottawa is the most adulterous city in ...