A Canadian man who spent 10 years under the supervision of mental health authorities after fatally shooting a television sportscaster in 1995 has been sentenced to two years in prison for assaulting a U.S. border agent in Buffalo, N.Y., last November.
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Family members of a wheelchair-bound man who died in a Winnipeg emergency room say they are shocked and angered he was ignored by hospital staff for more than a day.
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Two phrases borrowed from Canada’s national anthem have been chosen as the mottoes for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and organizers have already moved to protect the commercial rights to the lines.
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Republican candidate John McCain still will not participate in a presidential debate set for Friday unless a consensus is reached between Congress and the U.S. administration on a $700-billion US bailout of the financial industry, a spokesman said.
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Canadian and U.S. researchers say they have found the oldest rocks in the world, along the Northern Quebec coast of Hudson’s Bay.
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The Middle East Quartet is “losing its grip” and is making inadequate progress toward improving the lives of Palestinians or improving the prospects for Mideast peace, a group of prominent aid agencies said Thursday.
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O.J. Simpson chatted and shook hands Thursday with one of the memorabilia dealers he’s acccused of robbing when the two met in a courthouse hallway in Las Vegas.
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Stephen Harper and Jack Layton used the battleground of British Columbia to announce their rival consumer protection plans ahead of the Oct. 14 federal election.
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Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion on Thursday compared Stephen Harper’s plan for the Canadian economy to the approach of U.S. President George W. Bush, saying the Conservative leader has “no vision” to deal with increasing global economic uncertainty.
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The rate of close calls on airport runways in the United States is up over last year and the risk of a collision is high, a U.S. government investigator said Thursday.
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