Canadian ePassports arrive July 1

Come Canada Day, Canadian travellers will have a more high-tech and high-priced passport. Starting July 1, Canadians will receive a redesigned ePassport featuring several new security and anti-counterfeiting measures, including an electronic chip that...

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Half of voters don't see Conservatives as an option

Half of Canadians would not consider voting for the Conservatives in the next federal election, a new Nanos Research poll suggests. In an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio's The House, Nik Nanos of Nanos Research tells host Evan Solomon "the Conservatives...

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Budget watchdog data shows bureaucracy grew under Harper

The Conservative government has made it clear that curbing public service costs is a key part of its agenda as it heads into the second half of Stephen Harper's majority mandate. But budget measures and ministerial musings about everything from public...

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Obama to visit Mandela's former jail

U.S. President Barack Obama planned to tour an important historic site in South Africa on Sunday, the prison that once held the country's former president Nelson Mandela, who remains in hospital. Obama is to visit the bleak former detention facility...

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Germany compares reported U.S. bugging to 'Cold War'

A top German official accused the United States on Sunday of using "Cold War" methods against its allies, after a German magazine cited secret intelligence documents to claim that U.S. spies bugged European Union offices. Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger...

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Chris Hall: Cancelled convention gives Harper time to wade through flood of problems

Stephen Harper already stood knee-deep in trouble before floodwaters inundated downtown Calgary, washing out the Conservatives' policy convention in the prime minister's home base. Harper expected to be standing before frustrated party delegates last...

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Michael Sona could face prison time in Guelph robocalls case

The Crown prosecutor is going after serious prison time in the Guelph, Ont., robocalls case, choosing to pursue Michael Sona for an indictable offence over misleading phone calls in the last federal election. Sona, 24, is the only person charged so...

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Helena Guergis loses bid to sue Harper, Tories

A former Conservative cabinet minister who claimed Prime Minister Stephen Harper unfairly fired her as part of a conspiracy that ousted her from caucus has no grounds to sue, Ontario's top court ruled Friday. Helena Guergis had been seeking general...

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Give back flood victims' guns, Harper's office tells RCMP

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office is urging the RCMP in High River, Alta., to focus on "more important" tasks and to return the guns officers took from homes while searching for victims in the evacuated flood zone. Harper's office issued a statement...

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Half of voters don't see Conservatives as an option

Half of Canadians would not consider voting for the Conservatives in the next federal election, a new Nanos Research poll suggests. In an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio's The House, Nik Nanos of Nanos Research tells host Evan Solomon "the Conservatives...

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MP Dean Del Mastro donor records seized in election probe

Records obtained from Elections Canada suggest the agency has deepened its investigation into donations to Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro. Lists of contributors to Del Mastro's 2008 federal campaign have been seized by the commissioner of Canada Elections,...

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Chris Hall: Cancelled convention gives Harper time to wade through flood of problems

Stephen Harper already stood knee-deep in trouble before floodwaters inundated downtown Calgary, washing out the Conservatives' policy convention in the prime minister's home base. Harper expected to be standing before frustrated party delegates last...

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Dissatisfied chiefs could form new First Nations group

Tensions between the Assembly of First Nations and some chiefs who are feeling excluded could boil over next month at a meeting where a new breakaway organization could be born. The National Treaty Gathering at Onion Lake, Sask., is taking place July...

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Conservatives remain behind Liberals in June Nanos poll

A new poll suggests that federally the Conservatives aren't closing the gap on the Liberals as summer begins. The Nanos survey conducted in mid-June, after the House of Commons had wrapped for the summer, suggests the Liberals had support of 34.2 per...

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Senator Brazeau unlikely to repay expenses by deadline

Friday is the deadline for Senator Patrick Brazeau to repay $48,745 the Senate says he owes in inappropriately claimed housing and travel expenses. If he doesn't pay up, according to a terse statement issued May 14 by the government leader in the Senate,...

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Glover's staff repaid some salary amid election questions

Two staffers from Conservative MP Shelly Glover's office returned part of their campaign salaries after Elections Canada asked for changes that would have put the campaign over its spending limit, documents show. Records released from Elections Canada...

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Conservative MPs seek $355K in legal costs in election robocalls case

Seven Conservative MPs have submitted a combined bill of $355,907 for costs they want paid by a handful of voters who received misleading robocalls during the last general election, and had challenged them in court. The amount to fight the challenge...

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Calgary flood victims looking to government for help

As thousands of Albertans begin cleaning up their flooded homes, questions are being raised about whose pockets the money is going to come out of to help repair the damage. Insurance companies aren't going to be the ones picking up the tabs since "overland...

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How Canada's banks help money move in and out of tax havens

The murky world of offshore finance physically resides mainly in tropical islands, but it is not a world unto itself. As the recent leak of secret tax-haven files attests, offshore havens rely for their existence on the financial infrastructure of the...

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Alberta floods: Spending a day with Calgary Mayor Nenshi

A roar of applause greets Mayor Naheed Nenshi as he ambles up upon a riser above thousands of Calgarians gathered in a stadium parking lot to volunteer with flood relief efforts. With a microphone clutched in his hand and some much-needed sun shining...

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Feds call for vigilance, 28 years after Air India bombing

It has been 28 years since Canadians experienced the most horrific act of terrorism, and the somber anniversary has become known as the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism. On June 23, 1985, a bomb on Air India Flight 182 killed all...

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Troops deployed in second rotation return from Afghanistan

A Canadian Army soldier, mentoring the Afghan National Army, watches a training session of Afghan National Army soldiers at the Kabul Military Training Center in Afghanistan last year. Canadian trainers are scheduled to complete their mission early next...

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