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Hundreds of women in Quebec with breast cancer may have been prescribed the wrong treatment because of faulty pathology tests, a CBC News investigation has found. In Newfoundland and Labrador, the issue surfaced recently, as Eastern Health's pathology lab turned over inaccurate hormone receptor tests to almost 400 patients over an eight-year period. More than 100 women died

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there are legitimate security concerns along the Canadian border that require tough new measures, and Canadians should realize that both sides will benefit. But she would not comment on specific groups or individuals who may pose a concern, or whether suspected terrorists have been apprehended along the border without the public's knowledge.

OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Jack Layton is headed to Washington to try lending Barack Obama a hand in his fight for health-care reform. Layton has gone to considerable lengths in the past to imitate Obama's cheerful campaign speeches and copy his outfits and photo-op backdrops, and now will urge Americans to imitate Canada.

Some time ago, somebody posted a list of names of people that were granted citizenship thru private member’s bills in Congress. I have searched Free Republic and cannot find the posting. Does anybody remember this posting or have the list, or know where I can find it? I understand that the people on the list could raise quite a few eyebrows. This is more than for curiosity’ sake. Your help would be appreciated

WASHINGTON -- John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States through Canada. Just days after Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, sparked a diplomatic kerfuffle by suggesting the terrorists took a Canadian route to the U.S. eight years ago, McCain defended her by saying that, in fact, the former Arizona governor was correct. "Well, some of the 9-11 hijackers did come through Canada, as you know," McCain, last year's Republican presidential candidate, said on Fox News on Friday.

My wife has been trying to sign into her Hotmail account and it takes her to a "Windows Live Mail signup page. I tried to get into mine with the same result. Anybody know what MSN is up to?

BOSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's aunt will remain in this country....

WASHINGTON — Janet Napolitano has a message for Canadians: It's a border. Get used to it. The new Homeland Security Secretary had only stern comments yesterday about the state and future of the Canada-U.S. border, at a symposium hosted by the Brookings Institution. Her goal seemed to be to throw a bucket of reality on anyone who hoped that the arrival of Barack Obama's new administration would herald a loosening of new restrictions on cross-border traffic. The days when Canadians and Americans moved back and forth across the border—“it's as though there's not a border at all,” as she put...

A B.C. sales representative who markets equestrian products in Canada was barred from crossing the U.S. border to attend a trade show last month by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who accused him of trying to steal American jobs. "He looked at me, and in a yelling voice he said, 'You're friggin' stealing jobs away from American citizens,' and I tried telling him that I wasn't," Joel Borsteinas told CBC News. Borsteinas, a Canadian citizen, said he's been in business for 15 years, acting as a middleman between U.S. and Canadian suppliers of western wear and equestrian products...

As people around the world get ready to celebrate U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, one of the most respected and familiar faces in the White House press room isn't falling blindly in line. Helen Thomas has seen a dozen presidents come and go as a reporter, and her nearly seven decades as a Washington journalist have taught her a few lessons. She wants proof before she jumps to any conclusions about the incoming president. So far, he hasn't impressed her. "I am hoping my first observation about his lack of courage is wrong," she told CTV.ca from her office in...

By Bill Lawson \ Staff Writer \ blawson@maumellemonitor.com Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:04 PM CST Virginia Goeldner of Maumelle said when her nephew was elected to the U.S. Senate, she knew he would someday run for president — she just didn’t expect it this soon. But on Jan. 20, 2009, Virginia or “Ginny” and her husband of 51 years, Cecil, will be in Washington D.C. for the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. Both Goeldners said the reaction has been mixed when they tell people the next president is their nephew — her great-nephew to...

Obama attends memorial for his grandmother By Associated Press POSTED: 04:50 p.m. HST, Dec 23, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama attended a memorial service this afternoon for his grandmother, who helped raise him.

Before her death, Barack Obama's grandmother in Hawaii gave his campaign $2,300, which is precisely $2,300 more than Obama himself donated to his $639 million, record-breaking war chest. And in this practice, Obama is in good company. Buried in federal election records is a curious fact: Candidates often don't financially support their own campaigns. Records show that John McCain, he of the seven houses, did not donate to his presidential campaign. Neither did Sarah Palin. Joe Biden didn't chip in for his own national run either. Mayor Richard Daley also has a closed wallet when it comes to funding his...

...She's gone home," Obama said as tens of thousands of rowdy supporters at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte grew silent in an evening drizzle. "And she died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. And so there is great joy as well as tears. I'm not going to talk about it too long because it is hard for me to talk about." But he said he wanted people to know a little about her -- that she lived through the Great Depression and two World Wars, working the second on a bomber assembly line with a baby...

We broke the unbelievable story last night of a 10-year old girl in St. Anthony who gave birth to a baby. She's now one of the youngest kids in the country to become a mother. Residents both on and off camera were shocked and in dismay over the situation, today this is what they had to say about our story. Jim Ker, shocked resident: "I think there's a lot of sick people out there." Holly Theisen, upset resident: "Somebody would end up getting hurt by me if that was my kid and I'd probably go to jail." Kaity Dolezal, shocked...

Dear Globe and Mail and Toronto Star: For 15 months, I've been saving your respective front pages from the glorious weekend of January 27-28, 2007, when you simultaneously declared your mutual jihads against man-made global warming. I knew they'd come in handy some day and now, they have. Indeed, it seems like only yesterday I awoke to my Saturday, January 27, 2007 Globe to be greeted by the hysterical, front-page headline "Welcome to the new climate," under a politically correct green masthead, declaring at the bottom: "We want action. We're ready for sacrifices." Not to be outdone, the Star a...

BOUNTIFUL, B.C. - B.C. Morman polygamist leader Winston Blackmore says the people of Bountiful are praying for the children in Texas being held in custody by U.S. authorities. The spiritual leader of Bountiful called the Texas children family, but says he doesn't know if any are from his commune, located near Creston in B.C.'s Kootenay region. "It's been six years since I have had any contact those people," Blackmore told The Canadian Press on Sunday. More than 400 children apprehended April 3 at the Morman sect's Texas enclave may be subject to genetic testing to sort out family relationships that...

C.'s Attorney General Wally Oppal has confirmed that some of the 416 children taken by authorities from a polygamist compound in Texas, are Canadian. Oppal said officials in Ottawa gave him the news. His statement came after Angie Voss, of Texas child protection services, said during a custody hearing in Texas on Friday that some of the children we from Canada, though she gave no details about how many were there, or how old they were. The large group of children were seized from the compound after allegations of sexual and physical abuse were made, including forcing underage girls to...

Both Obama and Hillary Clinton have been critical of the long-standing North American Free Trade Agreement over the course of the Democratic primaries, saying that the deal has cost U.S. workers' jobs. Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama's campaign telephoned Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to the United States, and warned him that Obama would speak out against NAFTA, according to Canadian sources.

Our mission today, should you choose to accept, is to vigorously launch the Free Bob campaign -- to set loose what's left of a moose that is being held in captivity by enforcement officials within the ministry of natural resources. It may seem frivolous, but it is not. Frivolous is to concern ourselves with today's speech from the throne, with Iraq and Afghanistan, with the price of gas at the pumps, and with whether Pamela Anderson's near-baring of her puppies at the Junos will save a single seal. Those scenarios are out of our control. We are here today to...