Canadians fail to make Booker cut
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LONDON -- The short list for the 2004 Booker Prize was announced yesterday, but two Canadian authors who had been in the running failed to make the latest cut.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Stephen Harper is flexing his new political muscles, warning that the Conservatives could vote against next week's throne speech if it doesn't serve Canadians well.
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Canada's main opposition party says it will not force an early poll over the prime minister's policy address.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - An NHL lockout appears almost unavoidable after the league swiftly rejected the NHL Players&#39; Association&#39;s latest offer on Thursday.
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There is no sugar-coating the fact that the decision by Ontario doctors to reject a deal that would forever change the way they practise medicine is a major blow to the province&#39;s plan to transform the health-care system.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada has rejected the results of Ukraine's bitterly disputed presidential election, joining the United States and other countries in refusing to recognize the declared winner.
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OAKVILLE, Ont. -- This was death by butter knife, or perhaps more accurately, from a thousand paper cuts. Defeat didn&#39;t swing its broadsword at Mike Weir in one mighty coup de gras; rather, it wore him down
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Canada's Supreme Court rejects a law allowing the detention and deportation of foreign-born terror suspects.
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The 2005 World Swimming Championships might be moved from Montreal after Canada's federal government rejected a request Tuesday to put more money into the event.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - The premiers of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador broke off offshore revenue talks with Ottawa Wednesday after failing to reach a longer-term deal to keep more money in provincial coffers.
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The NHL rejected last week's proposal by the players' association and then had its own counteroffer turned down Tuesday during a 3 1/2-hour negotiating session.
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Corrects second and third paragraphs to make clear that  Canadian envoy not in country; deletes reference to Daniel Boon
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WINNIPEG (CP) - The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador broke off talks with Ottawa on Wednesday after failing to reach a longer-term deal to keep more offshore resource revenue in provincial coffers.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Canada will buy at least six patrol ships to assert its sovereignty claim in the Arctic, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday backed away from an election pledge for navy icebreakers that would ply the waters of the Northwest Passage all year round.
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The Canadian government called on the food industry on Wednesday to tightly limit artery-clogging trans fats, and threatened mandatory cuts if enough is not done in the next two years.
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A Canadian court postponed making a ruling on Monday on a Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) refinancing deal for Canada&#39;s No.
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Hopes for an NHL season were left  hanging by a thread Thursday as players presented a proposal  that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did  not address owners' main demand for cost certainty.