| Last updated 9:43pm EDT 05/11/2008 |
| Governor General dubbed oelegant mix" of Lady Di and Nelson Mandela |
PARIS - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean charmed French media and even had President Nicolas Sarkozy swooning during a visit to France that also saw a significant shift in relations between the two countries.
Jean was officially in France to take part in celebrations marking Quebec City's 400th anniversary.
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| Details of Dziekanski airport Tasering stripped from RCMP report |
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OTTAWA - The RCMP call it Occurrence No. 2007-34748.
Millions of people around the world know it as the infamous Taser zapping at the Vancouver International Airport last October that sparked so many questions about Robert Dziekanski's death.
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| Harper under fire for delaying Mulroney-Schreiber probe |
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OTTAWA - Six months after Prime Minister Stephen Harper first promised a public inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber affair, he has yet to name anyone to head the probe or even set an official mandate for it.
That has opposition critics growing increasingly impatient.
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| Ontario man wins $1 million at poker tournament in Barcelona |
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TORONTO - An Ontario man who captured the million-dollar first prize at a poker tournament in Barcelona on the weekend says his only goal was to win enough cash to put his granddaughter through university.
Jack Hinchey of Oshawa says his 10-year-old granddaughter Victoria was on his mind throughout the competition, where he faced off against some of the best poker players in the world.
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| EnCana announces dividing into two companies: one oil, one gas |
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CALGARY - Canada's energy capital will have to make room for another huge player, as EnCana Corp. (TSX:ECA), one of the country's most prominent oil and gas producers, splits itself off into two separate Calgary-based companies.
The proposed corporate overhaul would create a publicly traded integrated oil company - with a working name of IntegratedOilCo (IOCo) - that would focus on developing EnCana's oilsands assets and linking production to U.S. refineries.
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| 900 First Nation's residents airlifted out of James Bay community due to flooding |
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TORONTO - Some 900 people are being evacuated Sunday from a First Nation's community along the coast of James Bay due to fears of flooding.
The continued threat of flooding has prompted the leaders of Attawapiskat to broaden the evacuation of their community, located about 500 kilometres north of Timmins.
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| Alberta's Peace River area split over bid to build nuclear power plant |
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PEACE RIVER, Alta. - Dan and Huguette Ropchan stand on the grainy edge of ice-crusted Lac Cardinal in northwest Alberta and worry that in a decade they'll have to raise their wheat and canola in the shadow of monster nuclear cooling towers.
In Peace River, a 15-minute drive down the road, contractors for Bruce Power put the finishing touches on a storefront office.
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| Sunday services continue at three-breakaway Anglican churches |
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TORONTO - Two of three breakaway Anglican parishes in the Diocese of Niagara spurned an Ontario court ruling issued last week requiring them to share their church buildings with the diocese, opting instead to conduct Sunday services at new locations.
The third parish honoured the Ontario Superior Court ruling and shared its facilities, but not without problems, said Rev. Gerry Brodie, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in St. Catharines.
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| Police identify dead Via Rail passenger who sparked biohazard scare |
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TORONTO - Ontario police say the woman who died aboard a Via Rail Train on Friday, setting off a massive biohazard response, was a 43-year-old from South Africa.
While a post-mortem examination determined Brenda Buckley's death was the result of natural causes as earlier reports have suggested, there's been much speculation as to her age and country of origin.
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| Private security firms say no way to meet demand of 2010 Winter Games |
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VANCOUVER - There's no way the private security industry can meet the demands from either Olympic organizers or the RCMP for help during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, industry professionals say.
Both Vancouver's Olympic Organizing committee and the Integrated Security Unit in charge of policing the Games are seeking private security firms, as well as existing institutions that want to beef up their own security.
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