Pro-CBC zealot wanted

"LazyWeb request: Anybody got a video camera who wants to help support the CBC?"

Toronto photography festival highlights effects of globalization (Canadian Pr...

"TORONTO (CP) - Toronto-born freelance photojournalist Rita Leistner was covering the siege of Najaf, Iraq, in the summer of 2004 when she and three other independent photographers in the region, one of them a defector from Saddam Hussein's army, realized their work wasn't...

China denies human rights abuses in search for oil

"Reuters - A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman angrily denied on Thursday that the country turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in places like Sudan in its search for oil to help power a booming economy."

Medicine Hat police say more charges possible in triple murder investigation

"Canadian Press - MEDICINE HAT, Alberta (CP) - Police say more charges could be laid in a triple homicide in which a 12-year-old girl and her boyfriend are accused of killing a couple and their son."

Progress being made at talks to end aboriginal standoff; chief

"Canadian Press - CALEDONIA, Ont. (CP) - Progress is being reported in talks aimed at resolving an aboriginal standoff in Caledonia, Ont."

Supreme Court upholds acquittal of woman who killed husband in trance state

"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A Quebec woman who shot and killed her abusive husband while in a trance-like state and was then acquitted of murder will not face a new trial."

Groups call on Ottawa to reconsider "scandalous" security certificate process

"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Human rights groups are calling on the federal government to reconsider its practice of holding terrorist suspects indefinitely without charge."

Strong demand driving economic growth, could mean higher interest rates

"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A global hunger for Canadian resources, coupled with strong domestic demand, is fuelling robust growth that may require higher interest rates to cool down the economy, says the Bank of Canada."

Chief asks Conservatives for help as TB outbreak threatens remote reserve

"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A Manitoba chief says tuberculosis is threatening his reserve for the second time in two years."

Harper works the phones while government says there's still no softwood deal

"Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper was working the phones in an effort to reach a softwood lumber agreement Thursday while his opponents accused him of selling out to the Americans."

Alberta will replace controversial 2004 deal for Metis hunting rights

"Canadian Press - EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta will negotiate a new agreement for Metis hunting and fishing rights to replace a highly controversial interim deal reached two years ago."

Agent to get $350K for infiltrating Hells Angels

"A career criminal instrumental in last month's arrest of several alleged gang members will be paid $350,000 and given a new identity for his role in infiltrating Manitoba's Hells Angels, according to court documents."A defence lawyer representing some of the accused says the...

B.C. man arrested for deserting U.S. Marines in 1968 released

"Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - A 56-year-old B.C. man has been freed from a California military jail after being arrested for deserting the U.S. Marines in 1968."