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Samsung unveils new 3D TV technology, says Canadian launch coming March 26
TORONTO - Early adopters can buy a new 3D TV by the end of the month, Samsung said Wednesday, although it remains to be seen how many consumers will be willing to pay a premium for a technology in its...
Decades-old file on Tommy Douglas not old enough for safe release: CSIS
OTTAWA - If Louis Riel had been hanged in 1885 because of an informer among his Metis rebels, Canada's spy agency might still be blocking release of that history-changing revelation 125 years later. ...
Experts say Crown had to withdraw drug, driving charges against ex-MP Jaffer
TORONTO - Police defended their investigation that led to drug and drunk driving charges against former Conservative politician Rahim Jaffer while legal experts said Wednesday the Crown had no choice ...
Let them eat seal: Parliament puts seal meat on the menu
OTTAWA - Forget the Winter Olympics, nothing unites Canada's parliamentarians like some bacon-wrapped seal loin. MPs and senators from across the partisan spectrum enjoyed a special luncheon Wednes...
Sask premier sorry if people offended by use of 9-11 image in fundraiser poster
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he's sorry if anyone was offended by a fundraising poster that shows the World Trade Center on fire during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The image...
Mother can't understand beating of son in wheelchair in Australia
WINNIPEG - Shellan Proden couldn't bring herself to watch the grainy surveillance video of two young men who brutally attacked her son, forced him out of his wheelchair and pummelled him. "I haven'...
Labour minister tweets away the time in House of Commons
OTTAWA - Lisa Raitt seems to have found a cure for ministerial boredom in the House of Commons. The labour minister announced on Twitter Wednesday that she would live tweet during question period, ...
Suspect in cop's killing wouldn't have realized he knew him as a child: friend
A 70-year-old man and the provincial police officer he is suspected of fatally shooting are both from a small northern Ontario village hundreds of kilometres from the scene of the shootout, but the su...
Ontario natives rally against HST, demand meeting with Flaherty
OTTAWA - Aboriginals from Ontario rallied on Parliament Hill Wednesday against the Harmonized Sales Tax, saying it violates their treaty and constitutional rights. Dozens of protesters gathered in ...
Alberta Chamber of Resources says Alberta to change wetlands plan
EDMONTON - A group representing oilsands and other resource companies says it has convinced the Alberta government to change a plan that would force corporations to spend big money to restore wetlands...
