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Forest industry, green groups strike deal
A major agreement between Canada's forestry companies and environmental groups will see logging in 29 million hectares of boreal forest suspended so a plan to preserve the woodland caribou can be developed.
RCMP gun confiscations prompt legal fight
The recent confiscation of a formerly legal firearm has raised questions about how the RCMP inspects imported firearms and has forced a change of national firearms policy.
U.S. woman charged in hunting death in N.L. court
One of the two charges against an American woman accused of killing her husband while on a hunting trip in central Newfoundland was withdrawn on Tuesday morning during a brief court appearance in Grand Falls-Windsor.
Online travel site sells unavailable flights
A Vancouver couple who booked flights through a discount online travel site had to pay $2,300 extra to get home from vacation, because some of their "confirmed" tickets had actually not been issued.
Man tries to trade baby for beer: police
A Massachusetts man offered to give his three-month-old daughter to a maintenance man outside a gas station convenience store in exchange for two beers, authorities say.
Mesoamerica's oldest pyramid tomb found in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica.
Future of Mount St. Helens debated
CASTLE ROCK, Wash. — Thirty years after the eruption of Mount St. Helens levelled a forest and rained volcanic ash for miles around, the devastated mountain remains an important centre for volcano research and science.
CAE wins $90M contract for new Hercules fleet
MONTREAL — CAE said Monday that Lockheed Martin has awarded the flight simulator and training company a $90-million contract to provide aircraft maintenance training for Canada's new fleet of 17 CC-130J Hercules transport aircraft.
Baffin Island jump kills Australian man
An Australian man died during a parachute jump on Baffin Island earlier this month, Nunavut RCMP have confirmed. James Michael Mitchell, 34, was killed on May 8 on a BASE jump in the Sam Ford Fiord area, about 100 kilometres northwest of Clyde River, Nuna
Cheonan Investigators Find Pieces of Torpedo Propeller
"In a search using fishing trawlers, we recently discovered pieces of debris that are believed to have come from the propeller of the torpedo that attacked the Cheonan," a high-ranking government source said Monday. "Analysis of the debris shows it may ha
CN performs upgrades at deadly crossing
Nearly two weeks after a collision between a train and a pick-up truck killed a father and his two daughters at a train crossing on Winterburn Road, CN is performing upgrades to the system that controls the crossing arms.
A winged tsunami
It is a migration of such complexity, scale, and marvel that even the great herds of wildebeest in Africa and caribou in Canada's Arctic pale by comparison.
AZ Governor's Latest Boycott Solution: Rebranding
Facing an increasing number of boycotts and an avalanche of bad publicity over the passage of its new immigration law, Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer announced what she believes will solve the problem.
Sovereignists are like the Habs, PQ leader says
DRUMMONDVILLE – In her closing speech to a Parti Québécois meeting Sunday, PQ leader Pauline Marois drew a parallel between her party’s goal of making Quebec a sovereign country and the Montreal Canadiens’ quest for the Stanley Cup.
Mandatory evacuation issued for Opal-area residents
A massive brush fire in Thorhild County has broken past the fire line and is spreading rapidly as powerful winds pick up; and now a mandatory evacuation notice has been issued asking residents in the area to leave immediately.
Afghan plane crashes with 44 people on board
A plane carrying 44 people, including six foreigners, on a domestic flight in Afghanistan crashed about 100 kilometres outside Kabul Monday morning. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Thai PM defends crackdown as death toll rises
What began as a day of hope here Sunday — sparked by an offer of renewed negotiations — ended with the sound of gunfire and explosions rumbling across this city’s humid, night air.
Some in Arizona canceling trips to S.D.San Diego tourism leaders and hoteliers fear they could lose a sizable chunk of business this summer from valued “Zonies” who are so angered by elected leaders’ recent censure of Arizona for its illegal-immigration law that they’re mounting an informal b
Alleged torturer's winding journey
From petty crime, to imprisoning and torturing another human being.
It’s a huge leap from credit card fraud to sadistically abusing a prisoner unto the verge of death — and it’s a path relatives of the man blamed are praying he didn’t take.
Heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio dead at 67
Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy metal, died Sunday, according to a statement from his wife and manager. He was 67.
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