OTTAWA — Stephen Harper’s discussions with global economists, world leaders and thinkers at Davos, Switzerland this week will be partly intended for domestic ears. The prime minister will address the need for Europe to take control of its financial crisis and for Canada to diversify its international trade. But sources…
Surveillance video may have captured the brutal beating of a Calgary woman in a Mexico hotel, according to the local state governor. Sinaloa Gov. Jesús Aguilar Padilla made the remarks, the same day he visited Sheila Nabb in hospital. Meanwhile, Nabb was brought out of a medically-induced coma and began…
The grieving sister of homicide victim Anthony Spencer stood in front of a mass of cameras and reporters, issuing a powerful command for witnesses to step forward. Susan Spencer stood before a microphone, shaking slightly as her parents gathered nearby, and told her brother’s friends that their family was disappointed…
TORONTO — The estranged wife of convicted sex killer Russell Williams plans to fight a decision by Ontario’s top court that would open up her divorce proceedings to public scrutiny. Mary Jane Binks, the Ottawa lawyer representing Williams’ wife, said her client will ask to take the matter to the…
MONTREAL — The Canadian government has confirmed the deportation of a man long accused of crimes linked to Rwanda’s genocide. After waiting nearly 24 hours, the government announced that Leon Mugesera had been sent back to his native Rwanda the previous day. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney made the announcement in…
Two of the country’s largest labour unions announced they are engaging in talks that could potentially end in a merger as early as the middle of next year. The Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions said in a statement the talks are in response to “the…
OTTAWA — Paul Martin does nothing to mask his frustration on the other end of a telephone line. The former prime minister and architect of the scuttled Kelowna Accord tried to find something to salvage in the historic talks between First Nations chiefs and Stephen Harper. Instead, what he saw…
SAMRALA (LUDHIANA )/ GURDASPUR: If inclement weather played spoilsport during her earlier visit to Punjab last week, Sonia Gandhi made up with thunderous speeches at two rallies in the state – tearing apart the Akalis for wasting Central funds and attacked the Badals for “promoting personal interests” . Across states,…
NEW DELHI: The BJP alleged that Mayawati and her brothers had amassed wealth worth thousands of crores of rupees in the past five years and demanded a CBI inquiry. A quoting BSP said it had already rubbished the charges. The party said the allegations had been levelled by BJP out…
NEW DELHI: Former (Indian Space Research Organisation) Isro chief G Madhavan Nair and three other eminent space scientists have been barred from holding any government jobs in an unprecedented disciplinary action by the government for their role in the controversial Antrix-Devas deal. An angry Nair blamed his successor and the…
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