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The students' union at Cape Breton University is endorsing an internet site that offers Canadian students the chance to win free tuition by playing poker.

An Ottawa mother wants an OC Transpo bus driver fired after she got into an argument with him and he drove away with her two-year-old daughter while she screamed and chased the vehicle.

Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay is defending the actions of police officers who shot and injured a teenaged suspect on the weekend.

At least two of three Northwest Territories MLAs who are eligible to vie for a cabinet spot say they plan to run for the job.

A former police officer jailed for refusing to testify at a public inquiry into child sex abuse allegations in eastern Ontario has been released from an Ottawa cell.

The students at the University of Windsor are returning to class on Monday following an 18-day strike by the school's faculty.

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President George W. Bush and Karl Rove, the former White House political adviser, both appear to have helped orchestrate the firing of former New Mexico U.S.

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Police are searching the Headingley area, west of Winnipeg, for a prisoner who escaped Sunday from a local jail.

The jury selection in the trial of an HIV-positive man charged with first-degree murder in the death of two of his sex partners is scheduled to begin in Hamilton on Monday.

A group of Algonquin demonstrators has barricaded a major highway in western Quebec that connects the Laurentian and Abitibi regions.

A 45-year-old Charlottetown woman has been arrested after her car slammed into the front doors of the P.E.I. Supreme Court building on Water Street early Monday morning.

Five senior Canadian economists were expected to speak in Toronto about the state of the worldwide economy on Monday at a meeting hosted by the Economic Club of Canada.

A man accused of beheading a passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba was expected to appear in court in Portage la Prairie, Man. on Monday.

Inspectors with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency say their hands-on role at meat plants changed with a CFIA policy introduced three months before the listeriosis outbreak.

NDP Leader Jack Layton touched down on P.E.I. Saturday, giving a 10-minute pep talk to supporters at Charlottetown Airport before lifting off again.

Conservative heavyweight Peter MacKay warned Newfoundland and Labrador voters to mind the risks of following Danny Williams's advice to boycott the federal Tories.

RCMP are investigating the death of a mariner whose body was recovered from a Labrador harbour this weekend.

A centre-left government is doable. See Europe.

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Big real estate projects threaten Mission habitat.

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Vancouver Centre's Grit incumbent faces strong foes -- and the Dion factor.

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