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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Economists predict more financial troubles for Canada in 2009, slow recovery
TORONTO - Canadians should brace themselves for another year of economic woe that could even top the misery that unfolded in the latter half of 2008, according to some of the country's leading bank economists.
- Father of girls who froze to death will face sentencing circle, says judge
- Canada donates $4m to humanitarian relief in Gaza
- 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
- Disgraced former boxer Dave Hilton facing new sexual assault charges
- Two Canadians from Winnipeg plead guilty in Ecstasy case in Montana
- First U.S. female soldier to flee Iraq war for Canada ordered to leave by Jan. 27
- When compared with other wrecks, sunken barge off N.S. poses minor threat: expert
U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects $1.2 trillion deficit in 2009
WASHINGTON - The U.S. federal budget deficit will hit an unprecedented $1.2 trillion for the 2009 budget year, according to grim new Congressional Budget Office figures.
- 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
- Israel conditionally welcomes cease-fire proposal
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News Feature
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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