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News 19 Nov 2009
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A total of 4.8 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine will be delivered to the provinces by Sunday, CBC News has learned.
The Canadian government is dismissing calls for a public inquiry into the alleged torture of prisoners handed over by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
The father of an RCMP officer slain in Hay River, N.W.T., in 2007 says he is pleased a jury has found his son's killer guilty of first-degree murder.
A man who suffered a stroke after being released from a Winnipeg hospital last month encountered more troubles when he tried to get back in again, CBC News has learned.
Canadians have mixed views on what to do about the long-gun registry, with slightly more preferring to abolish the program than keep it, but nearly a third having no opinion on the subject, a new EKOS poll suggests.
Charges are imminent in the death of 16-year-old Hilary Bonnell, the RCMP say, as hundreds of people attend the teen's funeral in Esgenoopetitj First Nation.
The B.C. government is raising the maximum value for new homes that will get a rebate on the provincial portion of the coming HST.
A 16-year-old girl was in a St. John's hospital Thursday night in serious condition after trying to take her own life after she was released from a psychiatric facility despite opposition from her parents.
Toronto's taxpayers will have to foot the bill for cleaning up a crystal methamphetamine lab in a prosperous neighbourhood, police say.
Calgary Transit is standing by the actions of its peace officers in an arrest captured in a video and posted on YouTube.
A Nova Scotia court has ruled that a former university student does not have to pay back tens of thousands of dollars he borrowed from a bank.
The contractor blamed for the closure of a large section of the Yonge subway line on Wednesday could be getting a bill from the city.
The Ontario government wants to impose new rules before the end of the year to restrict how the highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin is prescribed and dispensed.
A Calgary school bus driver crossed the centre line trying to pass a minivan, causing a collision that sent dozens of children to hospital, police allege.
Liberals are demanding an apology from the Conservative government for distributing taxpayer-funded pamphlets that suggest the Grits are anti-Semitic.
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Business:
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says Canada is paying the price for China's intransigence in moving to a flexible currency exchange.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has proposed a voluntary code of conduct for credit and debit card providers that he says will "level the playing field" for consumers and small businesses.
The Thomson family continues to dominate the Canadian Business magazine list of the 100 richest Canadians.
The economic rebound in developed economies is still timid and not enough to make a dent in unemployment, the OECD says.
The Mexican government has revoked a permit granted to gold miner New Gold Inc. to operate at the Cerro San Pedro site in central Mexico.
A Nova Scotia court has ruled that a former university student does not have to pay back tens of thousands of dollars he borrowed from a bank.
The Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories is on the verge of hiring 150 new employees as it starts moving its operations underground in the new year.
Toronto-based Priszm Income Fund's unit price fell almost 30 per cent Thursday.
Calgary-based Agrium Inc. isn't giving up on its bid to become the world's No. 2 publicly-traded maker of nitrogen fertilizers.
Foreign demand for Canadian securities was up strongly in September, as non-residents added $13.6 billion to their portfolios largely through significant acquisitions of Canadian stocks.
The national composite leading index rose by 0.7 per cent in October, the fourth straight monthly increase, Statistics Canada revealed Thursday.
Wholesale sales edged up 0.2 per cent in September after a 1.5 per cent decline in August, Statistics Canada revealed Thursday.
Talks are continuing between officials and workers at an automotive production plant in Tecumseh, Ont., though under pressure of a looming strike deadline.
Montreal-headquartered Bombardier is in exclusive talks with French railway agency SNCF for a contract worth $12.6 billion to build up to 860 trains, the company said Wednesday.
Telus is urging Industry Minister Tony Clement not to overturn a CRTC decision barring Globalive from launching a new cellphone service.
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Arts & Entertainment:
China's terracotta warriors are coming to Montreal in 2011. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal will receive a rare visit of 14 of the warriors - life-sized replicas of soldiers of the Qin dynasty - it announced on Thursday.
Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation The Gates and other large "wrapping" projects with her husband, Christo, has died at 74.
A New York stamp collector auctioned parts of his collection in New York on Thursday, including a Canadian-issued stamp that is one of the world's rarest.
Land of the Lost was one of those epic Hollywood disasters that makes outsiders question why anyone is in the movie business. Its dismal box office helped land star Will Ferrell at the top of the annual Forbes list of Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actors.
Oprah Winfrey's production company says Winfrey will announce Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air.
South Pacific will play in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in downtown Toronto for three and a half weeks in the summer of 2010.
Lee Daniels's harrowing coming-of-age drama Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire has picked up another accolade as it expands into theatres across North America.
Acclaimed German director Werner Herzog will head the Berlin Film Festival jury in February 2010.
The world premiere of a play by a Yukon playwright opens Thursday in Whitehorse.
The National Gallery of Canada is looking for an outside company to operate its bookstore.
A warning about the conventional U.S. food system, a surreptitiously filmed exposé of the Japanese dolphin hunt and a portrait of courageous Burmese video journalists are among the documentaries that are one step closer to the Academy Awards.
A French-language theatre company in Ottawa is making its plays accessible to anglophone theatre-goers.
Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth has earned a nomination for the Bad Sex in Fiction award for a scene in The Humbling involving the seduction of a lesbian by an aging stage actor.
Ladies' man Ricardo Bomba is bringing his charms to The Simpsons, and it's all the doing of a hospital operations manager with a vivid imagination.
Colum McCann's novel Let the Great World Spin, a portait of interconnected relationships on one summer day in 1970s New York, has won the prestigious fiction prize at the 60th annual U.S. National Book Awards gala.
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Sports:
The Carolina Hurricanes looked like the cardiac 'Canes of old as they rallied in Raleigh to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 on Thursday.
Chris Phillips scored twice and Mike Fisher had three assists as the Ottawa Senators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 on Thursday night.
San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second straight year, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honour to become the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson.
Preki was presented as the new coach of Toronto FC on Thursday, becoming the fourth bench boss in four years for the Major League Soccer club.
Disgruntled point guard Allen Iverson cleared waivers Thursday amid rumours he will try to sign a free-agent contract with the New York Knicks.
Frederic Niemeyer, Canada's tennis player of the year in 2002, retired as an active player Thursday to join Tennis Canada's development team as a coach.
Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress signed a contract extension Thursday, reportedly through the 2013 season.
Los Angeles Galaxy forward Landon Donovan was named the 2009 most valuable player by Major League Soccer on Thursday.
Mark Dacey of Nova Scotia remained in the hunt for first place with an 8-7 win over Ontario's Mark Bice at the Canadian mixed curling championship in Burlington, Ont., on Thursday night.
A sprained ankle forced Michelle Wie to withdraw from the LPGA Tour Championship, which Lorena Ochoa leads by one stroke after Thursday's opening round.
Olin Browne and John Cook shot 6-under 66s Thursday and share the first-round lead in the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational.
The Buffalo Bills plucked quarterback Brian Brohm off the Green Packers' practice squad Thursday and signed him to a two-year contract.
Reliever Aaron Heilman was acquired Thursday by the Arizona Diamondbacks from the Chicago Cubs for two minor-league prospects.
Complete results from Skate Canada International in Kitchener, Ont.
Erik Johnson scored 17 seconds into overtime as the St. Louis Blues beat the Phoenix Coyotes 3-2 on Thursday night.
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