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Get Skiing & Snowboarding Packages. - Sponsored LinkAd - View Package Specials & Book Now!Facing a crisis, Harper instructs MPs to be less confrontationalOTTAWA - After three years of leading one of the most combative federal governments in recent memory, Stephen Harper is telling his MPs that it's time they take the high road. MPs and officials across government were given marching orders by the PrimeCharity funding terror: Sri LankaCanadian investigators accuse the group of working with Tamil Tigers Stewart Bell, National Post Published:Wednesday, November 19, 2008 More On This Story Related Topics Story Tools -+ Change font size Share This Story Story tools presented by AaronT.O. murders 'a case of familial violence'TORONTO - A suburban home decorated for the holidays became the scene of a homicide investigation Wednesday after four bodies were discovered inside with a handwritten note on the front door reading 'call police.' A man was taken into custody andRae to formally launch campaign ThursdayBob Rae formally launches his campaign to head the national Liberal Party Thursday, arguing the economy needs his leadership in difficult days to come, a bold move given the baggage he's been tagged with since his days as Ontario premier. He'll presentRae not trusted on economy: PollOTTAWA Bob Rae's tempestuous term as premier of recession-ravaged Ontario during the early 1990s could be a big liability if he's chosen to lead the federal Liberals, a new poll suggests. According to the survey by Innovative Research Group, Rae wasJustin Trudeau feels `something special' as he takes seatOTTAWA ' For some politicians, the opening of a new session of Parliament is like back-to-school ' reuniting with old friends, meeting new seat mates, feeling excitement about the possibilities at hand. For Justin Trudeau, it was all those things andFear of debt made Cauchon to pass on Liberal raceOTTAWA-The prospect of heavy debt made a former cabinet minister finally decide to keep himself out of the Liberal leadership race. 'The biggest challenge is really the question of fundraising,' Martin Cauchon, 46, said in an interview today. 'The bestOfficer took life with own gun: PoliceBELLEVILLE - A 20-year veteran of the Belleville Police Service is dead from what appears to be a self-inflicted gun shot wound. During a press conference held Wednesday afternoon at police headquarters, Acting Police Chief Brian Harder said the body ofLawyers want quick pick on truth commissionerOTTAWA Lawyers trying to salvage the truth-telling forum on native residential schools hope to nail down a fast-tracked plan to choose its new leader tomorrow. The Toronto meeting will focus on structural details to be approved by the Assembly of FirstThrone Speech pledges help for auto industry and joblessFacts about the throne speech: -The Canadian Press OTTAWA'Prime Minister Stephen Harper is promising more help for the auto industry, a clampdown on government spending and efforts to ensure that Canadians who lose their jobs are able to tap intoScientists map genome of woolly mammothTORONTO ' Scientists have sequenced much of the genome of the woolly mammoth, raising the possibility that the long-extinct ice-age mammal could one day be resurrected. The researchers at Penn State University extracted DNA from mammoth hair found frozenB.C. airline involved in fatal crash re-opensVANCOUVER, B.C. - The airline that lost its pilot and six passengers in a crash on a remote B.C. island is resuming its float plane operations along the B.C. coast. Pacific Coastal Airlines voluntarily grounded its seaplane fleet following Sunday's crashSurvivor emotional, but recoveringVANCOUVER, B.C. - The lone survivor of a plane crash that killed seven people in British Columbia is not deeply religious but he must have received help from above to survive against staggering odds, his brother said Tuesday. 'There's no way he couldThrone speech likely to be short on specificsOTTAWA'Federal Liberals say a worried public deserves to hear specific plans and specific reassurances from the Conservative government in the throne speech that opens Parliament. Ontario MP John McCallum says the country is facing its biggest economicFour found dead in GTA houseTORONTO - Toronto police are investigating what may be a quadruple homicide in the city's east end. Police say they responded to a call at 12 Welwyn Ave. around 8:20 a.m., in the Brimorton Dr. and Scarborough Golf Club Rd. area. Homicide detectives areFirm files class-action over scratch and win ticketsREGINA - A Regina law firm is betting it can change the way scratch-and-win tickets are sold in Canada with a class-action lawsuit that seeks 'not less than' $100 million from the Western Canada Lottery Corp. The Merchant Law Group says the suit would beAlgonquin protesters blockade Quebec highwayGRAND-REMOUS, Que. Algonquin activists say they have set up a new blockade on a western Quebec highway near their Barriere Lake reserve. The blockade on Highway 117 is designed to pressure the federal government to appoint an observer to oversee theKilling 'act of love'Love drove Jeremy Steinke to agree to kill his 12-year-old girlfriend's parents, court heard yesterday. Steinke told an undercover cop posing as a fellow inmate he fatally stabbed the girl's parents, but insisted it was she who murdered her baby brother.Crown grills accused foster momA city mother charged with killing a three-year-old foster child was yesterday accused of battering the boy in the garage while teaching him a 'sick and perverse' lesson. The 34-year-old former foster mom, who was being grilled during cross-examinationZoo mourns world's oldest polar bearWINNIPEG'She came to Canada as a Russian orphan in the midst of the Cold War and quickly became a beloved icon for generations of Manitobans. After earning worldwide recognition as the oldest of her kind, Debby the polar bear died peacefully on Monday at'Green stimulus' promotedSaving the economy and saving the planet at the same time were once considered two mutually incompatible goals. But not any longer. A chorus of proposals from liberal-leaning think tanks and conservation organizations is suggesting that the best way toCrackdown 'just stupid,' young drivers complainTHE CHANGES Boost minimum time to get a licence from 20 months to 30 with driver education, and from 24 to 36 months without such a course. Allow zero blood alcohol in drivers 21 and younger. Ban teens with G2 licences from carrying more than oneAppointment puts new life in Memorial's presidential searchThe Newfoundland government has picked Robert Simmonds, a prominent Saint John's defence lawyer, as the new chairman of the board of Memorial University, a post that will make him a key figure in the school's controversial search for a new leader.Manitoba mourns death of world's oldest polar bearWINNIPEG -- She came to Canada as a Russian orphan in the midst of the Cold War and quickly became a beloved icon for generations of Manitobans. After earning worldwide recognition as the oldest of her kind, Debby the polar bear died peacefully on Monday'I watched my girlfriend cut her brother's throat,' accused says on tapeCALGARY -- Laughing at times, Jeremy Steinke casually recounted to an undercover police officer posing as a fellow prisoner how he and his 12-year-old girlfriend butchered her parents and little brother in their Medicine Hat home, an Alberta court heardCauchon won't seek Liberal leadershipOTTAWA - Former justice minister Martin Cauchon will announce Wednesday that he will not enter the Liberal leadership race, which is now set as a battle of three. In a statement obtained by The Globe and Mail, Mr. Cauchon says he wanted to run but it wasSickness prompts plane lock-in at YVRHealth authorities say they had to err on the side of caution after 145 Air Canada passengers, some suffering from an unknown sickness, were trapped in their plane for two hours. Around 10:45 p.m. Monday night, Air Canada Flight 129 - from Montreal toRegina law firm files class action suit over scratch and win lottery ticketsREGINA - A Regina law firm is betting it can change the way scratch-and-win tickets are sold in Canada with a class-action lawsuit that seeks 'not less than' $100 million from the Western Canada Lottery Corp. The Merchant Law Group says the suit would bePlane crash survivor amazes brother, doctorsVANCOUVER'The lone survivor of a plane crash that killed seven people in British Columbia is not deeply religious but he must have received help from above to survive against staggering odds, his brother said Tuesday. 'There's no way he could have wentCauchon takes a pass at Liberal leadershipOTTAWA Former cabinet minister Martin Cauchon has joined the long list of potential contenders who've decided to take a pass on the federal Liberal leadership race. Cauchon's decision means that for the first time in 40 years, there will be no Quebec
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