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• Canada's leader gambles for majority gov't
TORONTO - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is gambling that an opposition pushing an unpopular carbon tax will steer Canadian voters to the right in Tuesday's election and bolster his hold on power. If the polls are any indication, though, Canada's ...
• Obama-supporting nun, 106, shocked by fame
The order, whose main work is education, runs schools in 26 countries, including the United States, Canada, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, Pakistan and India. It was founded by St Claudine Thevenet in Lyon, France in 1818. It now has some 1,400 members around ...
• Thunderous storm-chasing vacations
You can also head to Canada and even Australia, where storm-chasing vacations are also on the rise. But there’s no guarantee—after all, unpredictability is one of the things that makes the tours exciting in the first place. What you can count on ...
• Canada government faces suit over killer whales
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Environmentalists are taking the Canadian government to court, demanding it use the country's Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia. Ecojustice, on behalf of eight environmental organizations ...
• American Airlines plans a la carte pricing
Starting next year, American, which led a stampede by U.S. carriers to charge customers for checking even a single suitcase, plans to imitate the a la carte pricing structure pioneered by Air Canada, airline officials say. There are likely to be a ...