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The nation’s largest oil industry trade group today called on the Obama administration to give the green light to the Keystone XL pipeline that would deliver tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to southeast Texas refineries. Cindy Schild, the refining issues manager for the American Petroleum Institute, called the imminent decision “a matter of critical national interest.” “Not only is this a chance for the White House to strengthen U.S. energy security and help plan for the nation’s energy future, but it is also an opportunity to take a specific, public and dramatic action in support of creating new U.S....

A member of a homegrown terrorist group pleaded guilty Friday to participating in a plot to set off truck bombs in front of Canada's main stock exchange and two government buildings.

HARBOUR MILLE, Newfoundland, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Some people in the Canadian community of Harbour Mille say they are puzzling over the unidentified flying object they saw over Newfoundland's south coast. Darlene Stewart told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. she saw the mysterious object zoom missile-like overhead, trailing flames or heavy smoke.

Audit fails to rule out gold heist at Mint Security probe called as sloppy bookkeeping rejected as cause of missing riches June 30, 2009 Bruce Campion-Smith OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF OTTAWA – The federal government has ordered an immediate review of security at the Royal Canadian Mint after an external audit suggested criminal activity could be behind the disappearance of $15.3 million worth of gold and other precious metals. The months-long external review ruled out sloppy bookkeeping or accounting errors for the fact that 17,500 troy ounces of gold (about 544 kilograms) has gone missing, raising the possibility that thieves took...

Canadian police wrongly identified an Ottawa software engineer as an Islamic extremist, prompting U.S. agents to deport him to Syria, where he was tortured, an official inquiry concluded on Monday. Maher Arar, who holds Canadian and Syrian nationality, was arrested in New York in September 2002 and accused of being an al-Qaeda member. In fact, said the judge who led the probe, all the signs point to the fact Arar was innocent. Arar, 36, says he was repeatedly tortured in the year he spent in Damascus jails, and the inquiry agreed that he had been tortured. He was freed in...

Embassy, March 23rd, 2005FEATUREBy Peter Schneider What's Going On Here? Sally Armstrong on the fight against the use of Sharia law in OntarioJournalist and human-rights advocate Sally Armstrong was in Ottawa on March 16 to receive UNIFEM Canada's honour as its woman of the year for 2005. UNIFEM Canada, the Canadian committee for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, has as its mission the promotion of gender equality and progress for women in developing societies. Hours before receiving her award, Ms. Armstrong discussed her concerns with the recent development in Ontario to allow the use of traditional religious...

It might not have been a "broken arrow" nuclear missile accident, but a mishap that damaged a Bangor Trident submarine ballistic missile and was kept under wraps by the Navy until this week threatens broken trust on an international scale.Libby Davies, a member of Canada's national parliament from Vancouver East, yesterday said she intends to seek the same kind of answers for Canadians that her U.S. congressional counterparts are seeking for Americans."If something happens in Bangor, we're the ones upwind. Nuclear fallout knows no border," Davies said."The whole issue of transparency in government is fundamental to our democratic system. I...

Raptors stand on guard for Canadian anthem By LORI EWING -- Canadian Press TORONTO -- Childish. Stupid. Lacking in class. The Toronto Raptors, every one an American, had nothing good to say about fans who booed O Canada in Detroit on Sunday night. Game 1 of the opening playoff round between the Raptors and the Detroit Pistons took a nasty turn before the game had even begun on Sunday, when the capacity crowd at the The Palace of Auburn Hills booed O Canada. "That was pretty sad," Raptor forward Jerome Williams said after practice Monday. "That was something I wouldn't...