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• Kraft cancels Hockeyville program due to NHL...
  TORONTO — Kraft Canada is cancelling its Hockeyville program this year due to the NHL lockout. The company is going to instead give $1 million to ...
• Mortgage brokers call for new look at impact of new...
  TORONTO — Canada’s mortgage brokers say recent changes to federal rules have taken too big a bite out of an already cooling housing market and ...
• Ottawa rejects plea for OxyContin ban, tells...
  OTTAWA — The federal government has rejected provincial pleas to delay or deny approval of the generic form of OxyContin, a highly addictive ...
• Sudden death in young adults not caused by exercise,...
  The stories are always shocking: A young, often super fit teenager or young adult drops like a stone during an athletic event, dead before they ...
• Bruce Cockburn to receive SOCAN lifetime achievement...
  For Bruce Cockburn, the best thing about winning SOCAN’s lifetime achievement award is that no one else has to lose.“The thing I like about it ...
• Families angry over care at veterans hospital
  Articles about complaints of substandard care at Canada’s largest facility for war veterans have prompted several more people to come forward ...
• BP and Shell Canada granted deepwater exploration...
  HALIFAX - Oil giants BP and Shell Canada (TSX:SHC) have been granted deepwater exploration rights off Nova Scotia.The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore ...
• New E. coli case linked to XL Foods beef plant in...
  EDMONTON — A new case of E. coli has been linked to the XL Foods beef plant at the centre of an extensive product recall.The Public Health Agency ...
• Garth Vaughan solidified Windsor’s case for being...
  WINDSOR, N.S. — The man who wrote the national bestseller “The Puck Starts Here,” which made the case for Windsor, N.S., as the birthplace of ...
• Canada prepared to offer costly drug patent...
  OTTAWA — Free trade talks with the European Union have arrived at the endgame, and Ottawa is signalling that it is prepared to give the Europeans ...
• Falling revenues to push deficit up $5B to $26...
  OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada will miss its deficit targets in each of the next four years, because global economic weakness has carved into commodity ...
• Staff for Labrador MP unaware of planned update on...
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — If embattled federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Peter Penashue planned to update constituents Tuesday about his ...
• Rona denies newspaper report it has received...
  Rona has denied a newspaper report that it has received a takeover offer from Lowe’s Companies or has held discussions with its U.S.-based ...
• Provinces complain to feds about justice funding...
  OTTAWA — A summary of a recent national meeting in Regina says federal ministers got an earful from the provinces over lack of money for justice ...
• Flaherty says U.S. fiscal cliff likely to push...
  OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says U.S. politicians need to get to work quickly on putting together a fiscal compromise that will avoid ...
• Barack Obama wins second term following victory over...
  WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama wins second term, looking to make good on his election-night pledge to move the country forward and ...
• ‘Over the Rainbow’ winner realizes she’s not...
  Between meeting the wizard, donning ruby slippers and hugging Andrew Lloyd Webber, Danielle Wade is starting to realize she’s not in Kansas ...
• Canada Post plans to charge developers to install...
  OTTAWA —Buyers of new homes may have an additional fee to contend with next year and they’ll have Canada Post, in part, to thank for it. The ...
• PBO won’t issue analysis on Ottawa’s finances,...
  OTTAWA — Canada’s budget watchdog will not issue a mid-year report on the Harper government’s finances, citing lack of co-operation from the vast ...
• Trend to part-time, short-lived work making it...
  OTTAWA — A trend towards more short-lived and part-time jobs has made it harder than ever for many Canadians to qualify for employment insurance ...
• Paper for plastic: Bank of Canada to release new...
  OTTAWA — On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada will begin circulating a new $20 bill made of polymer instead of paper. The new bill pays tribute to ...
• Medical podcasts cover wide range of topics
  Medicine can be a pretty serious business, but one would never know that listening to the banter — much of it self-deprecating — between B.C. ...
• A look back
  The members of Great Big Sea haven’t spent much time looking back over the years — and they’ve spent even less time patting each other on the ...
• Canadians want to do holiday shopping online, but...
  This holiday season, about 20 per cent of gift purchases in Canada are expected to be made online.One in five presents bought via the web sounds ...
• With lockout dragging on, NHL cancels Jan. 1 Winter...
  NEW YORK — The NHL lockout has claimed one of the league’s marquee events.The Jan. 1 Winter Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit ...
• Supreme Court fine-tunes drunk-driving law on...
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has fine-tuned the drunk driving laws by defining a defence in a breathalyzer case.In a 5-2 split decision, ...
• Banff Springs Hotel is website’s No. 1 top haunted...
  BANFF, Alta. — For the second year in a row, the Banff Springs Hotel has topped the list of Canada’s most haunted tourist attractions.An online ...
• Red Wings duo tearing apart Swiss league for Zug
  The experiment is off to a rousing start. When the Detroit Red Wings signed free-agent forward Damien Brunner over the summer, ...
• Hydro worker killed in Ontario while repairing...
  SARNIA, Ont. — A hydro worker was killed Wednesday in southwestern Ontario while working on a power line damaged by superstorm Sandy.The worker, ...
• Gen. Tom Lawson formally takes over as chief of the...
  OTTAWA — As the military swears in its new leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning Gen. Tom Lawson that he’ll have to find a way to ...