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The Mace is removed from the House of Commons in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. The Mace represents royal authority and is a sign that the Queen has given the House of Commons the authority to meet and decide on the law. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

GG approves PM's request to suspend Parliament

Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean has approved Prime Minister Stephen Harper's request to suspend Parliament. The government is on hold until the end of January.   comments(728)


A Railway Special Forces personnel keeps guard at Mumbai's main train station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008.  (AP / Saurabh Das)

India's airports on high alert after new warnings

Airports in India went on high alert Thursday following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks.
Police tape blocks off a Shell gas station at the busy South Vancouver intersection of 41st Avenue and Knight Street on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007.

Two boys held up gas clerk with tomahawk: RCMP

Police say a 14-year-old boy and his 16-year-old accomplice held up a Penticton, B.C. gas station clerk with a knife and tomahawk, before making off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
An official at the National Seismic Monitoring Center in Peshawar, Pakistan, monitors an aftershock recorded on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. (AP / Shabbir Hussain Imam)

$1.5 billion not enough to earthquake-proof schools

A review of school seismic safety by B.C.'s auditor general calls for a shake up on government cost assessments of the program -- and more money.   comments(1)
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Patients sue B.C. doctors for alleged double billing

The B.C. government has failed to enforce its own laws that ban doctors from billing both patients and the public health-care system, say five patients who are launching a lawsuit against the province.   comments()
Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond said even in prison, mothers and babies benefit enormously from contact.

B.C. children's watchdog in budget row

B.C.'s children's watchdog says she needs more funding to keep an eye out for the province's kids, but a budget meeting with a government committee turned testy Wednesday.
Striking postal workers carry signs as they walk the picket line in Montreal, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008.

Escalating postal picket action means slower mail

Striking members of the Union of Postal Communications Employees are escalating picket action by targeting several Canada Post outlets in Metro Vancouver, today.

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