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A giant mechanical digger gouges out a chunk of topsoil, grass and tree stumps, extending a neat furrow that stretches into the distance. Dozens of similar furrows run parallel with the regularity of a ploughed field.
Yet no crop could grow in the...
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A young Canadian folk singer who had just set off on a solo tour to boost a promising musical career died Wednesday after being mauled by two coyotes in what is believed to be one of the country’s first fatal attacks by the animals.
Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world’s dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political...
If Communist Cuba is open for business - as its seems like never before to be under new president Raul Castro - then Canadian companies should be the first through the door, right?
After all, Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to...
As Farc guerrillas drag Latin America to the brink of war, ratings for Colombia’s ultra-right Álvaro Uribe soar. Now the left is determined to divorce itself from the group
Orlando Ordoñez no longer looks like a guerrillero. He is clean-shaven,...
Young teenage girls at a polygamist compound in West Texas were required to have sex in a soaring white temple after they were married in sect-recognized unions, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
The temple “contains an area where...
Canada’s currency declined to its lowest against the U.S. dollar in almost two months as commodity prices plunged for a second day, clouding prospects for the nation’s economy.
The Canadian dollar registered its biggest weekly drop since...
t’s been 50 years since the almost mythical Avro Arrow supersonic jet fighter was scrubbed and scrapped, a sacrificed $400-million government investment that lingers still as a defining blow to Canada’s patriotic pride. We never learn.
In a...
As much as we like to grumble about the Canadian justice system, it sure looks good compared to the judiciary in much of the rest of the world.
Brenda Martin, the suicidal woman who’s been stuck in a Mexican jail without trial for more than two...
The Canadian dollar fell on Monday, dropping briefly below parity with the U.S. dollar for the first time since February 25, dragged down by credit market woes, along with lower oil and base metal prices.
Canadian bond prices rose across the curve as...
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