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Headline inflation rate eases to 2.6 per cent as gasoline prices recede

OTTAWA - Sharply falling energy prices took the steam out of inflation last month, cutting the overall rise in Canadians' cost of living to 2.6 per cent, down from 3.4 per cent in September. On a m...

Inflation eases to 2.6 per cent as gasoline prices recede; lower prices ahead

OTTAWA - Falling energy prices took the steam out of inflation last month, cutting the overall rate of increase in Canadians' cost of living to 2.6 per cent, down from 3.4 per cent in September. On...

Consumer price index down one per cent in October; headline inflation 2.6 per cent

OTTAWA - Canada's headline inflation rate tumbled to 2.6 per cent last month from 3.4 per cent in September. On a month-to-month basis, consumer prices fell one per cent in October from September -...

PQ Leader Pauline Marois proves mettle with early AM walk with reporters

MONTREAL - Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois was planning to give the reporters covering her campaign a head start Friday morning with pre-dawn walk on picturesque Mount Royal. Marois, 59, has ...

As U.S. Congress deals with economic crisis, Clement shows up to talk bailout

WASHINGTON - As U.S. legislators ordered the chief executives of North America's biggest automakers back to Detroit to come up with a business plan to justify a US$25 billion bailout, Canada's industr...

Quebec police say cross-Canada cocaine-smuggling network smashed

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say they and other authorities across the country have smashed a cocaine-smuggling network that transported the drug from Vancouver to Quebec. Police were hoping...

Tories mum on successor to Kyoto

OTTAWA - The Conservative government's staunchest ally in opposing the Kyoto Protocol now appears more willing to broker a new global climate-change pact. U.S. president-elect Barack Obama vowed th...

Possible meteor lights up the skies in northern Alberta

EDMONTON - A possible meteor lit up both the sky and the telephone lines in Western Canada on Thursday evening. Around 5:30 p.m., a huge flash of light briefly turned the dark skies into daylight. ...

Vietnamese orphan undergoes successful first surgery to reduce facial growth

HALIFAX, N.S. - A Vietnamese orphan who's been living in Halifax has undergone the first of many surgeries to help reduce a large facial abnormality. Olwyn Walter, who's been taking care of 11-year...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission's first national event postponed

TORONTO - The first in a series of nationally scheduled meetings between aboriginal residential school survivors and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been postponed. The meeting was to h...