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• Canada’s top attractions
“We’ve been told that Canada has had a kind of vanilla pudding image,” says Canadian Tourism Commission spokesperson Carol Horne. “Safe and nice, like the girl next door—not the hot chick you’d want to go on vacation with.” Any ...
• Report: Canada should ban semiautomatic rifle
MONTREAL - The Canadian government should ban the type of semiautomatic rifle used by a gunman who killed a student and wounded 16 others at a Montreal college nearly two years ago, a coroner said in his report on the shooting released Thursday ...
• Hanna roars ashore but Hurricane Ike looms
Ike, packing Category 3 hurricane winds of near 115 mph, could approach southern Florida by Monday as Hanna spins away from Canada over the North Atlantic.
• Strange new comet explains old mystery
The big mystery's been, how do you get comets like Halley's comet ?" said astronomer JJ Kavelaars of the National Research Council of Canada, who worked on the team that discovered KV42.
• Palin’s pipeline exists — but only on paper
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A long-delayed natural gas pipeline championed by Gov. Sarah Palin that would carry supplies from Alaska to Canada and then to the lower 48 states exists in concept only and is years away from fruition. The vice presidential ...