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Cheese produced by Ontario company added to Listeria recall list

TORONTO - The list of foods feared to be tainted with the Listeria bacterium has grown to include cheese produced at Ontario's Ivanhoe Cheese Inc. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the manuf...

Bologna sold in Newfoundland supermarket added to Maple Leaf recall

OTTAWA - Another recall has been issued involving meat from the Maple Leaf Foods packing plant in Toronto linked to a listeriosis outbreak that has killed at least 13 people. The Canadian Food Insp...

Prime minister to call general election Sunday: sources

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's quest for a majority government begins Sunday when the prime minister heads to Rideau Hall to seek the dissolution of Parliament and a federal election, sources say. He wi...

Monte Solberg joining Emerson, Hearn, won't seek re-election

OTTAWA - Three cabinet ministers are retiring from politics, the Conservative party said Thursday just days before an expected election call. Human Resources Minister Monte Solberg, Fisheries Minis...

Judge bars top official from post-trial review for Khadr

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A U.S. military judge has ruled that a Pentagon official who oversees the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals will be barred from providing counsel during a post-trial review for a...

Fallen Canadian soldiers were eager combatants who died doing what they loved

WINNIPEG - The latest young Canadian casualties in Afghanistan were remembered by family, friends and colleagues Thursday as eager warriors who were proud of their mission and who died doing what they...

Green Party pulls candidate for making 'anti-Semitic' remarks

OTTAWA - The Green Party has turfed one of its candidates just days before an expected federal election call over allegations he made remarks deemed anti-Semitic. John Shavluk was ejected as the pa...

Auditor says Saskatchewan government lags behind in clear financial reporting

REGINA - Saskatchewan's auditor says people are only getting part of the picture when it comes to the province's finances and that needs to change. In the second volume of his 2008 report, Fred Wen...

Coroner says tougher laws could have kept guns out of Dawson killer's hands

MONTREAL - If not for a delay in the delivery of his third gun, Kimveer Gill's deadly assault on Dawson College may have come months earlier as a commemoration of the anniversary of the Columbine mass...

Ramp ceremony held for three fallen Cdn. soldiers killed in explosion

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - As thousands of soldiers began shuffling off the tarmac at Kandahar Airfield following an evening ramp ceremony for three fallen Canadians, Pte. Glen Kirkland slowly rolled up ...