TORONTO – The McMaster Marauders and Laval Rouge et Or have one tough act to follow.
Tories target Trudeau as poll suggests his popularity keeps growing
and a new poll may explain why.
Ottawa to introduce new bill to keep more mentally ill offenders behind bars
MONTREAL – The federal government is making it more difficult for mentally ill offenders found not criminally responsible for their crimes to be released from custody.
Wife 'wasn't really making sense' after $45.6M lotto win: husband
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – A southern Alberta woman “wasn’t really making sense” when she called her husband to tell him they’d won more than $45.6 million in a Lotto 6-49 draw.
Canada needs accommodation on foreign investment: finance minister
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada needs to accommodate foreign investment in its resource sector, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Thursday as the government reviews a $15.1 billion takeover bid by China’s CNOOC for oil and gas producer Nexen Inc . “We know we don’t have enough capital in this country to develop our resources that we want to develop over the next generation, so we have to have some accommodation with respect to foreign direct investment,” Flaherty told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), according to a clip shown in advance of the full interview later on Thursday. …
France's Sarkozy placed under investigation
He faces the possibility of charges on allegations he took advantage of an aging heiress to get envelopes stuffed with illegal cash for his presidential campaign. His party is mired in an internal feud. And still France's conservatives see Nicolas Sarkozy as their best hope to return to power. Flaherty rooting for Argos in Grey Cup, pitting him against Harper's Stampeders
TORONTO – Jim Flaherty and Stephen Harper might have their eyes on the same fiscal ball, but when it comes to the pigskin the finance minister is Argos all the way.
Israel says it arrests Tel Aviv bus bomber
Israeli authorities arrested an Arab Israeli on Thursday on accusations he planted a bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv that wounded 27 people and threatened to sabotage efforts to broker a cease-fire to end the fighting in Gaza, police said. Canadian bobsled driver Humphries puts win streak on the line in Whistler
VANCOUVER – The tattoo on Kaillie Humphries’ hand is just one word but it says plenty.
EU leaders enter bitter fight over budget
The leaders of Britain and France staked out starkly different visions of Europe's future Thursday as talks began in Brussels on how much the European Union should be allowed to spend, setting the stage for a long, divisive and possibly inconclusive summit. Pakistan ID cards remove ghost voters, target poor for aid
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Elderly men wait patiently, carefully combing their hennaed beards, while a guitar-playing student entertains the long queue of Pakistanis lined-up to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned inside a crowded office in the capital Islamabad. This is the unlikely setting for possibly one of Pakistan’s few success stories – a massive increase in citizens signing up for government identity cards. Such things rarely top the agenda of a deeply unpopular government, crippled by daily power cuts, a Taliban insurgency and massive corruption. …
South Korea says IEA wants its nuclear sector to be more transparent
SEOUL (Reuters) – The International Energy Agency (IEA) wants South Korea to bring more transparency to its nuclear power sector and strengthen the independence of regulators to increase trust in the safety of its plants, the economy ministry said on Friday. The agency, which advises industrialized nations and represents 28 oil importing countries, was due later on Friday to unveil a report on South Korea’s energy policies for the first time since 2006. …
Colombia considers leaving treaty over border spat with Nicaragua
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia is considering withdrawing from a treaty that forces the country to comply with an international court ruling that grants Nicaragua jurisdiction over Caribbean waters near a Colombian archipelago, the government said on Thursday. The International Court of Justice this week ruled that a cluster of disputed small islands in the western Caribbean belonged to Colombia and not to Nicaragua, but drew a demarcation line in favor of Nicaragua in the nearby waters. …
Hamas emerges with gains from Israeli offensive
Hamas has emerged from battle with the triumphal sense of a hard-won game change: By stopping its offensive when it did, Israel's hard-line government seems to have grudgingly accepted that the Islamic militant group cannot soon be dislodged from power in Gaza. 
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