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CAW reaches tentative contract agreement with General Motors

TORONTO - A tentative contract deal has been reached between the Canadian Auto Workers union and General Motors of Canada. A spokeswoman for the union did not release details this morning, but CAW ...

Sharp downturn in vehicle production as manufacturing sales slow in March

OTTAWA - Manufacturers gave back some of their recent gains in March as factory sales retreated 1.6 per cent to $49 billion, their first decline of 2008. The scope of March's slowdown was extensive...

'Cracks are appearing' in Canadian housing market: Scotia Economics

TORONTO - There is now convincing evidence that Canada's housing market has come off the boil, Bank of Nova Scotia economists say. Home resales have fallen for four consecutive months, and the infl...

Family in Kenya planning big homecoming party when told son died in helicopter crash

CRANBROOK, B.C. - The family of a Kenyan student killed this week in a helicopter crash in Cranbrook, B.C., were planning a big homecoming party for him when they received news of the tragedy. Twen...

Canadian-trained Afghan army units ready for bigger security role: commander

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's painfully patient strategy of letting the fledgling Afghan army take the lead in the field is paying dividends and could soon expand to include more troops and territo...

Kenyan student killed when chopper fell from sky remembered as 'friendly giant

CRANBROOK, B.C. - Isaiah Otieno stood out from the crowd. The 6'9" Kenyan was a very visible minority in Cranbrook, B.C., where he'd been living for the past two years, studying at the local colleg...

Nine-year-old case of alleged stolen toonie by Tim Hortons worker delayed again

TORONTO - The case of a Tim Hortons worker in Toronto fired almost nine years ago for allegedly stealing a toonie was put over again Wednesday as lawyers for the defendant lamented that the former emp...

Prime minister asked to reconsider removal of coast guard vessel from Cape Breton

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald wants the prime minister to reconsider the move of a coast guard training vessel from Cape Breton to Quebec. MacDonald wrote a letter to Stephen Harpe...

Quebec premier tells Ottawa audience time ripe for free trade with EU

OTTAWA - Quebec Premier Jean Charest said Wednesday the time is right for Canada to strike a free-trade deal with the European Union. Charest, who was addressing a conference on transatlantic trade...

Killer's alleged MySpace profile goes private as Corrections Canada launches probe

VANCOUVER - Corrections Canada has launched an internal investigation to find out how prison pictures of notorious child killer Clifford Olson made their way onto the social networking website MySpace...