Finally. Some great news. It's been pretty hard being a Canadian of late. Not only do we have a right-wing buffoon for a prime minister, but the progressive majority here has been left with no attractive, electable alternative.
Now that MPs have voted 164-137 to repeal the registry of long guns and shotguns, several realities stand out in the whole emotional question of the gun registry.
A new citizenship guide for potential immigrants to Canada flatly declares that new Canadians may not engage in "barbaric" cultural practices such as genital mutilation and "honour killings."
I am a politician & writer and I rarely see a letter, which is as smart, intelligent and which encompasses a good case, on every level, as this one has!
Canada may be behind other countries in rolling out its swine flu vaccine, but the population should be immunized by Christmas before the virus peaks, the country's chief public health officer said Wednesday.
It's embarrassing that the Governor General doesn't seem to know that she's not Canada's head of state. It's even more embarrassing that she and the prime minister are now engaged in a very public spat about it.
Imagine a group of terrorists gaining access to North America by way of an increasingly ice-free and largely unpoliced Canadian Arctic. Imagine them infiltrating the Northwest Passage with ship-launched cruise missiles or weapons of mass destruction.
A deal may be imminent that will exempt Canada from the controversial Buy American provision included in the U.S. stimulus package, CBC News has learned.
As of last week, American war refugees in Canada have reason to be a bit more hopeful.
They asked for help and got body bags. Aboriginal leaders said they were outraged and confused when dozens of body bags were delivered to remote Manitoba reserves after native communities demanded federal resources to fight a second wave of the H1N1 flu outbreak.
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