Stampeders receive warm reception in Calgary
The Calgary Stampeders kicked off their Grey Cup celebration party with about 400 people turning up at McMahon Stadium for the team's arrival Monday.
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Bomb blast kills Canadian soldier, wounds three others
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was killed and three others wounded Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their armoured vehicle in southern Afghanistan.
- Economists predict more financial troubles for Canada in 2009, slow recovery
- Military judge releases captain pending murder trial
- First U.S. female soldier to flee Iraq war for Canada ordered to leave by Jan. 27
- Former boxing champ Dave Hilton Jr. acquitted of new charges
- Jewish women protesting at Israeli Consulate in Toronto removed by police
- Canada donates $4m to humanitarian relief in Gaza
- Lottery officials meet with man who claims $135,000 win with misprinted ticket
- Beware of fake pollsters, StatsCan warns
- No solid leads in dipliomats' disappearance
Bomb blast kills Canadian soldier, wounds three others
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was killed and three others wounded Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their armoured vehicle in southern Afghanistan.
- Burris says he expects to be seated soon in U.S. Senate
- 12 deaths blamed on snow, cold across Europe; travellers face delays
- Israel eyes ceasefire proposal, halts attacks briefly for civilian aid
- U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects $1.2 trillion deficit in 2009
- AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble, watches home destroyed on YouTube
- Obama hails 'extraordinary gathering' of U.S. presidents past and present
- Mumbai gunmen ordered by phone to kill foreigners: transcript from India
- Obama explains low profile on Gaza, says U.S. must speak with single voice
- Obama refuses to take stand on seating Burris in U.S. Senate
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Serbia bids farewell to the Yugo
The last Yugo, once the pride of communist Yugoslavia's automobile industry, will roll off its Serbian production line Thursday in the central town of Kragujevac. It will be missed here in Serbia - but probably not in America.
Life & Tech
YouTube queen rules
Jordan's Queen Rania has received YouTube's first Visionary Award for a daily video webcast and blog in which she sought to challenge stereotypes of the Arab and Muslim world.Full story »
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Arts & Celebrities
A new 'accolade'
Novelist John Updike, who has a long and graphic history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award Tuesday from judges of Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize.Full story »
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