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• What’s behind the spate of suicides in Canada’s military?
• Silent Santa programs cater to children with autism
• Harper breaks into song after announcing first official trip to Israel
• Canadian man charged for allegedly trying to pass classified information to China
• The real danger for women on campus
• Liberal lead solidifies as pollsters predict significant voter shift underway
• Court freezes out killer professor's demand for second winter parka
• Will Ferrell, aka Ron Burgundy, is in the house and at Canada's curling trials
• Federal govt seeks leave to appeal 60s scoop lawsuit that was greenlit this year
• Canadian torture policy irks European security alliance, records reveal
• Splitting up the North; Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week
• What Mike Tyson thinks of Mayor Rob Ford
• New Champlain Bridge will be built by 2018, Lebel says
• Funeral to be held Tuesday for young victims of New Brunswick highway crash
• St. Lawrence belugas threatened by pipeline plans
• Ex-PMO counsel Ben Perrin's emails not deleted, Privy Council Office tells RCMP
• Canadian police arrest Toronto man on suspicion of spying for China

What’s behind the spate of suicides in Canada’s military? Posted: 01 Dec 2013 12:59 PM PST To call the apparent suicides of three soldiers this week "very troubling," as Defence Minister Rob Nicholson did, is an understatement. Nicholson offered his condolences on behalf of the government in the Commons on Thursday. "Our thoughts and prayers are … Continue reading →

Silent Santa programs cater to children with autism Posted: 01 Dec 2013 09:18 PM PST Silent Santa times offer families with special needs children the chance to snap a traditional holiday photo in a calmer environment.

Harper breaks into song after announcing first official trip to Israel Posted: 01 Dec 2013 09:00 PM PST TORONTO - Prime Minister Stephen Harper basked in the glow of support from members of Canada's Jewish community on Sunday, announcing a first-ever trip to Israel next year and then breaking into song at a gala fundraising dinner. Hundreds of kilometres away from the battle-like atmosphere of Parliament Hill where the Senate scandal rages on, Harper was clearly relaxed and comfortable enough at the Jewish National Association dinner to belt out his own rendition of the Who's "The Seeker" and a string of other classic songs. But first, he announced an official visit to Israel, as well as Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. Harper called Israel a "light of freedom and democracy in what is otherwise a region of darkness," and reiterated that Canada will continue to back it in the United Nations and elsewhere abroad.

Canadian man charged for allegedly trying to pass classified information to China Posted: 01 Dec 2013 12:22 PM PST The RCMP say they've snared a man they allege was preparing to pass along classified information about Ottawa's massive shipbuilding program to China. Continue reading →

The real danger for women on campus Posted: 30 Nov 2013 02:14 PM PST Focusing on women and drinking ignores a serious reality: The student perpetrator who is a sexual offender

Liberal lead solidifies as pollsters predict significant voter shift underway Posted: 01 Dec 2013 12:11 PM PST OTTAWA - The battle lines for the next election could very well be taking shape as a new poll suggests Justin Trudeau's Liberals have solidified their lead over the governing Conservatives. The Conservatives are hovering at a consist 26 per cent, while New Democrats putter along at 24 per cent. Pollster Allan Gregg says the latest numbers not only reinforce the split byelection results last Monday, but demonstrate a significant shift is underway in terms of both the Conservatives and Liberals. "You have the Liberal core constituency is coming back to where they always were and over the last year you've seen a fairly significant erosion of the Conservatives' core constituency."

Court freezes out killer professor's demand for second winter parka Posted: 01 Dec 2013 01:47 PM PST TORONTO - A former Montreal professor who gunned down four academics at his university has lost his court bid to force prison authorities to give him a second winter parka. Valery Fabrikant, 72, serving a life sentence for murder, argued he needed the extra clothing because of his age. "He claims that elderly people need more clothes in the winter than younger and healthier individuals," according to Federal Court Judge Andre Scott. Fabrikant was an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University known for his disruptive behaviour against students, staff members and other academics.

Will Ferrell, aka Ron Burgundy, is in the house and at Canada's curling trials Posted: 01 Dec 2013 02:05 PM PST WINNIPEG - Will Ferrell, wearing his trademark Ron Burgundy moustache and "Anchorman" outfit, helped open the Canadian Curling trials Sunday. As for curling jargon, Ferrell said he knows what "hurry hard" means, but uses it mostly when he's stuck in traffic to get the driver in front to start moving.

Federal govt seeks leave to appeal 60s scoop lawsuit that was greenlit this year Posted: 01 Dec 2013 06:29 AM PST TORONTO - Marcia Brown Martel feels like she grew up alone. The now-50-year-old says she wants to make sure no other child in Canada shares her experience, which is why she became the representative plaintiff in a class action lawsuit that claims a devastating loss of cultural identity was suffered by Ontario victims of the so-called "60s scoop." Her hopes of having the lawsuit set a precedent, however, now lie with a judge who will hear arguments this week on whether the federal government should be allowed to appeal a court decision that gave the case the green light to proceed. The lawsuit against the Canadian government refers to a period of time between the 1960s and the 1980s when thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their homes and placed with non-native families by child welfare services.

Canadian torture policy irks European security alliance, records reveal Posted: 01 Dec 2013 12:03 PM PST OTTAWA - A major alliance that promotes European security has criticized Canada for opening the door to the use of information that may have been extracted through torture. Newly disclosed briefing notes and correspondence show the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe wrote to Canada's representative to the organization to express concerns about the policy. Canada belongs to the 57-member alliance, which bills itself as the world's largest regional security organization, working for peace, democracy and stability for more than a billion people. The Canadian government responded to the February 2012 letter with a staunch defence of its information-sharing policy as a principled response to terrorism and other security threats.

Splitting up the North; Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week Posted: 01 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST Some time this week, Canada is expected to make its case to the world to dramatically expand its boundaries by an area equivalent to the size of all three Prairie provinces. Canada's deadline is Friday to apply to a United Nations commission for exclusive rights to what is likely to be another 1.7 million square kilometres of Arctic seafloor. The lines on the map will have been drawn by scores of scientists working everywhere from Ottawa labs to ice camps off the northern shores of Ellesmere Island, peering under the stormy black waters to discern the shape and composition of sea floor thousands of metres below. With the co-operation of three Arctic neighbours — Denmark, Russia and the United States — more than 18,000 kilometres of sea-floor data was collected from a part of the globe less familiar than the surface of the moon.

What Mike Tyson thinks of Mayor Rob Ford Posted: 30 Nov 2013 02:20 PM PST In conversation with Brian Bethune

New Champlain Bridge will be built by 2018, Lebel says Posted: 01 Dec 2013 11:41 AM PST Federal Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel has announced that Montrealers will get a new Champlain Bridge three years earlier than previously indicated.

Funeral to be held Tuesday for young victims of New Brunswick highway crash Posted: 01 Dec 2013 11:55 AM PST CAP-PELE, N.B. - Four teenagers who were killed in a highway crash in southeast New Brunswick were being fondly remembered Sunday while people in their home community of Cap-Pelé grieved their loss. The four victims, all from Cap-Pelé, died when their car crashed into a culvert and rolled several times on Route 115 in Notre-Dame early Saturday morning. Boudreau said Justin Léger, Sébastien Léger and Justin Brown — all 18 years old — had graduated high school, while 17-year-old Luc Arsenault was to graduate at the end of this school year. Justin Léger and Sébastien Léger are not related.

St. Lawrence belugas threatened by pipeline plans Posted: 01 Dec 2013 04:30 AM PST A beluga whale habitat near Rivière-du-Loup may be in jeopardy if plans for the Energy East pipeline go ahead.

Ex-PMO counsel Ben Perrin's emails not deleted, Privy Council Office tells RCMP Posted: 01 Dec 2013 08:31 PM PST OTTAWA - The federal government says it is handing over to police a recently discovered cache of emails belonging to Benjamin Perrin, former counsel for the Prime Minister's Office and a central figure in the Senate spending scandal. The Privy Council Office released a letter to the RCMP on Sunday saying it had been mistaken when it originally told investigators that Perrin's emails were deleted, in keeping with standard procedure, when he left the job in March. In fact, Perrin's emails were already being preserved in connection with an unrelated matter, says the letter, which is signed by Isabelle Mondou, assistant secretary to the cabinet in the office of the counsel to the Clerk of the Privy Council. "Upon Mr. Perrin's departure at the end of his employment in late March 2013, the PMO was provided a notice that his emails had been deleted from the computer server," Mondou writes.

Canadian police arrest Toronto man on suspicion of spying for China Posted: 01 Dec 2013 10:26 AM PST By Janet Guttsman TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police have arrested a Toronto man suspected of seeking to give China classified information about Canadian shipbuilding procurement policies, security officials said on Sunday. Jennifer Strachan, a chief superintendent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told a news conference that Canadian citizen Qing Quentin Huang, 53, faced two charges of attempting to communicate with a foreign entity. "On Thursday the RCMP was informed that the accused was taking steps to pass on information of a classified nature to China," she told a rare weekend news conference. "In these types of cases, sharing of information may give a foreign entity a tactical, military or competitive advantage by knowing the specifications of vessels responsible for defending Canadian waters and Canadian sovereignty." Strachan said Huang, who was arrested on Saturday, had worked for a subcontractor involved in ship design.

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