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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Canada donates $4m to humanitarian relief in Gaza
OTTAWA - Canada donated $4 million for humanitarian aid in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip on Wednesday, while repeating its call for an "immediate and durable" ceasefire.
- 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
- Followers say B.C. polygamist leader Winston Blackmore arrested
- Economists predict more financial troubles for Canada in 2009, slow recovery
- Father of girls who froze to death will face sentencing circle, says judge
- Tiny particles lead medicine from science fiction to nanorobots fighting cancer
- Family of Cdn woman found dead awaits probe decision from Philippines
- Commissioner sets ground rules in Schreiber inquiry
Israel eyes ceasefire proposal, halts attacks briefly for civilian aid
GAZA CITY, Gaza - Israel tentatively welcomed a proposal Wednesday for a Gaza ceasefire and briefly halted its offensive to allow aid to reach Palestinian civilians, but also instructed the military to press ahead with its assault on Hamas.
- 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
- Senator majority leader says Burris might ultimately get seat
- Europe copes with cold and snow, misery for travellers across Continent
- 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
- Russia stops all gas supply to Europe via Ukraine
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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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