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No U.S.-style pat-downs here: Strahl
Travellers coming through Canadian airports won't have to worry that they will face public pat-downs like those happening in the U.S., Transport Minister Chuck Strahl promised Wednesday. Pierre Trudeau's daughter, Sarah, lives under the radar
PHILADELPHIA—Her name is Sarah Coyne. Not Sarah Trudeau. To passersby she's just another sophomore at one of the world's most prestigious business schools. To those who know her on campus, she's not Canadian royalty but the sporty outgoing sorority girl w Canada considers arming airport customs officers
The Canadian Border Services Agency is weighing arming its airport staff – who question returning travellers on taxes and duties owed – and has launched a study to assess their chances of “bodily harm or death” on the job. Mint pushed to reconsider Highway of Heroes coinMisc CDN | 206844 hits | 7:49 PM on Wednesday | posted by wildrosegirl
A movement is underway to convince the Royal Canadian Mint to reconsider a decision not to issue a commemorative coin depicting the Highway of Heroes. Explosion starts fire at Vancouver Christmas marketMisc CDN | 206722 hits | 7:44 PM on Wednesday | posted by wildrosegirl
Just 12 minutes before it was slated to open for the holiday season, a propane tank explosion sparked a large fire at a Christmas market in downtown Vancouver Wednesday morning. Tories mum over lease of Russian choppers
Questions are being raised about the Conservative government's quiet procurement of Russian helicopters that Canadian pilots have been secretly using to fly troops into combat in Afghanistan. Oil platform east of St. John's partly evacuated
An oil production platform hundreds of kilometres southeast of St. John's was partially evacuated over the weekend because of a potentially dangerous buildup of sour gas. Deep freeze in West signals tough winter: climatologist
The cold snap that's holding Western Canada in its icy grip could be a sign that last year's mild winter won't return, according to Dave Phillips, senior climatologist for Environment Canada. Teen subjected to public airport pat-down
Christine McCann feels she allowed her shy 15-year-old daughter to be violated when she was forced to publicly have a full body pat-down at a Sudbury, Ont., airport. 
Fifteen years after an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) E-3 Sentry aircraft, call sign “Yukla 27”, crashed shortly after take off at Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB) in Alaska in 1995, a monument dedicated in memory of its Canadian and American c Deep freeze envelops B.C.
Cold weather temperature records came close to breaking Tuesday morning in Vancouver as a deep freeze enveloped many parts of B.C.'s Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. Coast guard ship used by oil companies
Questions are being raised over the use of a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker by two oil companies for research that could help them make a case for drilling in the Arctic. Grey Nuns leave N.W.T. after 143 years
The Grey Nuns of Montreal are leaving the Northwest Territories after serving in churches, hospitals and schools across the territory for 143 years. 2 Sask. highway crashes kill 9
It was a deadly Sunday on Saskatchewan highways, with nine people losing their lives in two separate accidents. The town polygamy built: B.C. says Bountiful shows need to ban multiple wives
The child brides, trafficked girls, teenage pregnancies and oppressed women in a breakaway fundamentalist Mormon sect in southeastern British Columbia are all the result of polygamy, a B.C. government lawyer said Monday as he urged a judge to uphold Canad Former B.C. lieutenant-governor David Lam diesMisc CDN | 206870 hits | 7:10 PM on Monday | posted by wildrosegirl
Canada's first Asian-Canadian lieutenant-governor, David C. Lam, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 87.Famous fugitive 'Bambi' Bembenek dies
Former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee police officer Laurie (Bambi) Bembenek, whose prison escape to Canada 20 years ago popularized the phrase "Run Bambi Run," has died.
Misc CDN | 207091 hits | 9:16 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
Former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee police officer Laurie (Bambi) Bembenek, whose prison escape to Canada 20 years ago popularized the phrase "Run Bambi Run," has died. Large leaf could be Guinness record breakerMisc CDN | 206945 hits | 9:02 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
They're not out to beat a nine-year-old, but Ken Donais couldn't help but remember a massive maple leaf he found while walking with his wife Cheryl. Man. village pins hopes on icebreaker
An icebreaking machine has begun punching holes in an ice jam that threatens dozens of homes and a bridge near a northern Manitoba aboriginal community. Snow warning prompts Man. travel advisory
A snowfall warning is in effect Sunday for the southern Red River Valley and the far southeastern part of Manitoba, which received about eight centimetres of snow overnight. Wintry weather causes 17 car accidents in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX — Early winter weather caused more than a dozen accidents in Nova Scotia on Saturday following heavy snowfall and a drop in temperatures. Healthcare cookie vid goes viral
The infamous online video of Alberta's healthcare head honcho ignoring media questions about crowded hospitals because he was “eating a cookie” has become an Internet sensation in just a few days, attracting more than 25,000 views. 'Lost Canadians' push Ottawa to make them true Canucks
TORONTO - Jackie Scott considers herself a true Canuck. The 65-year-old grew up in Ontario, paid taxes and even voted in federal elections. But in Ottawa's eyes, she isn't Canadian. Brothers in Arms exhibit opens at Military Museums
An almost forgotten story of two brothers from southern Alberta is now featured at The Military Museums in Calgary. Christmas card for troops defaced in N.B.
A Saint John artist has had to swap his paintbrushes for rags and cleaning spray after someone vandalized a large Christmas card that is destined for Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Rare swans make Quebec mine home
AMOS, Que. – An abandoned gold mine in central Quebec has become the unlikely hangout for something even rarer than the precious metal — the endangered trumpeter swan. My maple leaf is bigger, B.C. girl says
A Vancouver girl is challenging an Ontario boy's claim to the world's biggest maple leaf with an oversized discovery of her own. Innu won't allow $6B hydro project yet
Labrador Innu are applauding the new plan to develop a hydroelectric power project at Muskrat Falls, but they say it can't go ahead until they are offered adequate compensation. N.S. fireball likely a meteor
A fireball spotted in the sky above Nova Scotia's South Shore that triggered fears of a plane crash was probably just a meteor, officials say. Bruyea settles with Veterans Affairs
Sean Bruyea, a Canadian Gulf War veteran and Veterans Affairs critic whose personal and medical information was illegally shared by officials, has settled his claim against the department, it was revealed Thursday. Group says axing tax cut worsens HST
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says B.C.'s decision to reverse a promised 15-per-cent tax cut means more families will be financially disadvantaged by the harmonized sales tax. Boy's giant maple leaf makes Guinness World Record
TORONTO — Joseph Donato's giant maple leaf might not last forever, but the nine-year-old from Pickering, Ont., will probably remember it forever. Olympic Village goes into receivership
The financially-troubled Olympic Village in Vancouver has been put into receivership. Abducted Canadian oil worker released, sources sayMisc CDN | 206724 hits | 5:50 PM on Wednesday | posted by wildrosegirl
Sources say a Canadian oil worker abducted by gunmen during an attack on an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria's southern delta is among 19 people released today after a military operation. Tories confirm Afghan mission details
At least 950 military personnel will remain in Afghanistan after 2011 to help with training, development and aid, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Tuesday in detailing the country's post-combat role. N.B. aboriginal leader Noah Augustine dies in crashMisc CDN | 206859 hits | 4:34 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
Noah Augustine, a former New Brunswick aboriginal chief who led a legal fight for native logging rights in the province, is dead after a weekend highway crash. Will controversial Galloway draw Canadian crowds?Misc CDN | 206705 hits | 9:33 AM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
If all publicity is good publicity, then George Galloway should have ample promotion for his upcoming Canadian speaking tour. Reward offered for stolen ceremonial mace
A former reservist is offering a reward for the return of a century-old ceremonial mace that was taken from an SUV in New Westminster late last month. Canadian soldiers won't let amputations slow them down
My alarm went off at 5:30 a.m., Newfoundland Time. I add that it was Newfoundland time because I live in Toronto and that means my internal clock was telling me (irritatedly), that it was just 4 a.m. and I had only gotten about four hours of sleep after a Poppy can stolen in Charlottetown
Charlottetown police continue to investigate the theft of a can containing Remembrance Day poppy donations — the third such incident in Atlantic Canada this month. Bed bugs enjoy biting popularity on travel websiteMisc CDN | 206677 hits | 8:33 AM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
The most popular new website for people booking hotels doesn't focus on the quality of room service, but fellow guests that may check in any time, with no intentions to leave. Fur poppies give remembrance Inuit flair
An Inuit seamstress from Iqaluit has crafted a distinctly northern version of the Remembrance Day poppy — one that is made of fur. Widow's stipend cut by Veteran's Affairs
The 90-year-old widow of a Second World War veteran says a drastic cut in her benefits by Veterans Affairs Canada has left her baffled and depressed. Windsor street signs remember veterans
One Windsor neighbourhood marks Remembrance Day everyday as 12 streets in the community are named after battles in the First World War. Cave explorers rescued in Prince George area
Two people have been rescued from a cave on a snowy mountainside east of Prince George, B.C., after more than 60 search and rescue personnel worked through the night to save them. Our troops will not see combat past 2011: Gov't
OTTAWA — The government's decision to send up to 1,000 troops to train the still infant Afghan army will not involve any combat, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in Korea on Friday. B.C. bear attack story falseMisc CDN | 206871 hits | 8:44 PM on Thursday | posted by wildrosegirl
Police now say a story about a Vancouver Island teenager who survived a bear attack was just that — a story. Disabled B.C. girl left with dead mom for daysMisc CDN | 206736 hits | 6:56 PM on Thursday | posted by wildrosegirl
The brother of a 15-year-old disabled B.C. girl says he is shocked to learn she spent up to nine days in a mobile home with the body of her dead mother before being found.Back to Canada News
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