Harper accepted host, ate it

OTTAWA — The Prime Minister's Office moved swiftly Wednesday to refute allegations that Stephen Harper pocketed a sacramental communion wafer at the funeral mass of Romeo LeBlanc instead of consuming it.

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Harper apology to Ignatieff raises questions about staff, judgment 1 year 8 weeks ago

Stephen Harper just couldn't hold it in any longer.

The prime minister had kept his Wolverine-style, dagger-like claws retracted for a spell, calling a smiling truce with the Liberals late last month for the greater good.

Canadians going prorogue 32 weeks 4 days ago

Harper's move called affront to democracy.Yesterday's rally to protest against the prime minister's year-end move to shut down Parliament until March went peacefully, even as it gave Stephen Harper a sound hammering.

Harper praises Benedict at Vatican meeting 1 year 8 weeks ago

VATICAN CITY–Prime Minister Stephen Harper praised Pope Benedict XVI as a moral and humanitarian leader after a private audience at the Vatican today.

Kenney denies removing gay references 27 weeks 15 hours ago

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration minister is apparently denying any role in the removal of references to gay rights from a citizenship study guide released last fall.

Asked Wednesday why he blocked any information about same-sex marriage and charter rights protecting sexual orientation, Jason Kenney said: “I did not do such a thing. No, no, you are wrong.”

Top 10 films in Canada from Feb. 20-22 1 year 28 weeks ago

Top 10 films in Canada for the weekend of Feb. 20-22 ranked by box office receipts:
1. "Slumdog Millionaire"

2. "He's Just Not That Into You"

3. "Confessions of a Shopaholic"

4. "Taken" - $796,944

5. "Coraline"

6. "Friday the 13th"

7. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop"

8. "Fired Up"

9. "The International"

10. "The Pink Panther 2"

Canadian Mining Firm Financed Violence in Ecuador: Lawsuit 1 year 27 weeks ago

TMX Group denies claim. Win could affect thousands of other projects by Canadian companies."Financing being raised in Canada is traveling across borders to do harm," said lawyer Murray Klippenstein by phone from his office in Toronto. "We want to find out if our legal system can respond to this."

British economy on track for worst since 1931 1 year 26 weeks ago

The Office for National Statistics reported yesterday that manufacturing output fell by 6.4 per cent in the three months to January – an even faster rate of decline than the 4.9 per cent contraction seen in the quarter to December. Overall, the annual rate of decline in output has reached an alarming 12 per cent.

Ottawa traps man in 'Kafkaesque nightmare' in Sudan, MPs say 1 year 22 weeks ago

Once a terror suspect, Montrealer has a ticket home home but no passport.Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler and other opposition MPs joined forces on Tuesday to plead the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montrealer who has a ticket to fly home on Friday but remains in limbo at Canada's embassy in Sudan.

Court orders Ottawa to let Abdelrazik return to Canada 1 year 13 weeks ago

The Federal Court of Canada on Thursday ordered the federal government to allow the return of a Montreal man stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect, ruling his charter rights have been breached.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, 47, was arrested and detained while visiting his mother in Sudan in 2003 and for the last year has been living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum.

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