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Canada opposes 15 Palestinian attempts to join United Nations treaties

OTTAWA — Canada has formally opposed Palestinian attempts to join 15 different United Nations treaties and conventions — a position …

Thousands without power after savage winter storm pounds Maritimes

HALIFAX — Thousands of people in the Maritimes are in the dark today after a savage winter storm pounded the …

Victoria’s Chinatown, a walk through history and even the bricks mean long life

VICTORIA — With its huge lion-and-dragon sculptured welcome gate, its hidden alleyway — once home to secret gambling and drug …

Raisins or nuts, runny or firm fillings: Purists debate virtues of butter tarts

LONDON, Ontario — Ruth Currie and Shirley March drive almost an hour to buy their favourite homemade butter tarts, although …

Tattoo removal cream being developed by Dalhousie University PhD student

HALIFAX — When Alec Falkenham was getting his first tattoo, he was already thinking of ways to remove it. Not …

CP Rail hit by strike by Teamsters, but reaches tentative agreement with Unifor

MONTREAL — More than 3,000 Teamsters members have gone on strike at the Canadian Pacific Railway after contract talks failed …

Muslim group says PM is making veil issue ‘unnecessarily’ important

CALGARY — A Muslim group based in Calgary is urging the prime minister to reverse his plans for the government …

Demolition ceremony set for ‘haunting’ Vancouver Island residential school

VICTORIA — A crumbling, omnipresent red brick building has been a haunting presence for thousands of British Columbia aboriginal people …

MacKay says Halifax plot would have been “devastating,” but no terror link

HALIFAX — Arrests by police that foiled an alleged plot to attack a public place in Halifax have averted a …

Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy leaves Cairo prison on bail

CAIRO — Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy has left a prison in Cairo hours after an Egyptian court ordered him released …

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