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  1. Actress Maggie Jones, seen here in an indated ITV image, who was best known as Coronation Street's razor-tongued Blanche Hunt, has died at the age of 75. Photo:/AFP
    Longtime Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones dead at 75 The Canadian Press - Thu Dec 3, 9:23 AM Sent 438 times

    LONDON - Maggie Jones, the British actress who played the sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt on Coronation Street, has died at the age of 75.

  2. A 2004 silver-colored 25-cent piece, known as the poppy quarter. The unusual Canadian coin features the red image of a poppy, Canada's flower of remembrance, inlaid over a maple leaf. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Royal Canadian Mint)
    Canadian 'spy coins' prompted questions in U.S. about northern neighbour The Canadian Press - Thu Dec 3, 1:29 AM Sent 183 times

    WASHINGTON - How much does the U.S. government really trust Canada? Maybe less than you think.

  3. Coronation Street's Maggie Jones dies AFP - Thu Dec 3, 7:17 AM Sent 103 times

    LONDON (AFP) - Actress Maggie Jones, best known as Coronation Street's razor-tongued Blanche Hunt, has died at the age of 75.

  4. A woman makes her way through a park during a snowstorm expected to dump some 25 centimetres of snow in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
    Travel nightmares and traffic headaches as winter weather finally hits S.Ontario The Canadian Press - Wed Dec 9, 1:50 PM Sent 74 times

    TORONTO - A miserable mixture of snow, rain and sleet led to cancelled flights in Ontario and havoc on highways as people in the province experienced a long-overdue dose of winter-like weather.

  5. Seven-year-old James Delorey wandered away while following the family dog on Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
    Police say Nova Scotia autistic boy who went missing has been found The Canadian Press - Mon Dec 7, 1:13 PM Sent 64 times

    SOUTH BAR, N.S. - A seven-year-old autistic boy who went missing Saturday in Cape Breton, hours before a snowstorm hit, has been found, police said Monday.

  6. N.S. man angry hospital wouldn't help father having heart attack in parking lot The Canadian Press - Fri Dec 4, 5:21 PM Sent 50 times

    HALIFAX, N.S. - An elderly woman with a cane and a heart condition was told to bring her husband into a Nova Scotia hospital on her own or call 911 after he suffered a heart attack 10 metres from the facility's front door, the couple's son said Friday.

  7. Health Canada warns against using certain unauthorized Acai berry products The Canadian Press - Tue Dec 8, 5:46 PM Sent 50 times

    OTTAWA - Health Canada is warning Canadians not to use certain Acai berry products after shipments stopped at the border were found to contain an undeclared drug called sildenafil.

  8. Sir Richard Branson before the official unveiling of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial manned spacecraft, at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. Branson unveiled his spaceliner for tourists willing to pay 200,000 dollars a ticket Monday for a trip into the weightlessness of space in a craft designed to make the perilous return home. Photo:Robyn Beck/AFP
    Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spaceliner AFP - Mon Dec 7, 1:32 PM Sent 47 times

    LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Richard Branson unveiled his Virgin Galactic spaceliner for tourists willing to pay 200,000 dollars a ticket Monday for a trip into the weightlessness of space in a craft designed to make the perilous return home "like a giant shuttle cock."

  9. Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a speech at the Canada-China Business Council and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
    Harper rebuked by Chinese leader for taking too long to visit The Canadian Press - Thu Dec 3, 4:26 PM Sent 40 times

    BEIJING - In a surprisingly undiplomatic rebuke, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was publicly chided at a traditional Chinese welcoming ceremony Thursday for taking too long to visit the country.

  10. A FIFA referee gets ready to toss a coin at the beginning of a game. The ubiquitous coin toss is not so random after all, and can easily be manipulated to turn up heads, or tails, a Canadian study has found. Photo:/AFP
    Coin tosses can be easily rigged: study AFP - Mon Dec 7, 3:55 PM Sent 36 times

    OTTAWA (AFP) - The ubiquitous coin toss is not so random after all, and can easily be manipulated to turn up heads, or tails, a Canadian study has found.

  11. Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with Lee Myung-bak, President of The Republic of Korea,during a meeting at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea on Monday, December 7, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
    Experts urge Harper not to lose focus on Asian opportunity The Canadian Press - Mon Dec 7, 6:09 PM Sent 35 times

    OTTAWA - As his autumn of Asian travel ended Tuesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper faced stern warnings to never again shortchange Canada's economic relations with China or its neighbours.

  12. Police 'flabbergasted' by find of $1.2M buried in container outside Ont. home The Canadian Press - Fri Dec 4, 12:35 PM Sent 33 times

    THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Police searching a home in northern Ontario have literally uncovered a whopping $1.2 million in cash buried outside.

  13. A person receives the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. The Public Health Agency of Canada says there have been 48 cases of a severe allergic reaction reported in people who have had H1N1 shots. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Lionel Cironneau)
    Public Health Agency says 48 cases of anaphylaxis reported after H1N1 shots The Canadian Press - Fri Dec 4, 9:23 AM Sent 31 times

    TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says there have been 48 cases of a severe allergic reaction reported in people who have had H1N1 shots.

  14. All men watch pornographic videos but it does not impact on their sexual habits or their relationships with women, a Canadian researcher has maintained after a two-year study. Photo:/AFP
    All men watch porn, and it is not bad for them: study AFP - Thu Dec 3, 4:54 PM Sent 26 times

    MONTREAL (AFP) - All men watch pornographic videos but it does not impact on their sexual habits or their relationships with women, a Canadian researcher has maintained after a two-year study.

  15. Greenpeace ages world leaders in head-turning ad campaign Yahoo! Canada - Tue Dec 8, 2:03 PM Sent 21 times

    The environmental activism group Greenpeace, no stranger to controversy, is at it again. In conjunction with the start of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark, the group has teamed up with TckTckTck to plaster the Copenhagen airport with advertisements featuring drastically altered images of famous world leaders participating in the summit. Though some industry observers have labeled the campaign "lame" and "dour," the group says the reaction to the ads thus far has been "phenomenal."

  16. US woman's missing dog found in storm drain more than 3 weeks after disappearing The Canadian Press - Tue Dec 8, 7:46 PM Sent 17 times

    SALT LAKE CITY - A dog missing for three weeks was found skinny but alive after getting stuck in a storm drain in a Salt Lake City suburb.

  17. Seven-year-old James Delorey, who went missing from his Cape Breton home, has died. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
    James Delorey, 7, remembered as 'nice, little boy' after dying of hypothermia The Canadian Press - Tue Dec 8, 5:19 PM Sent 16 times

    HALIFAX, N.S. - James Delorey, the Cape Breton boy who died in hospital after miraculously surviving two nights lost in the frozen wilderness, was remembered Tuesday as a calm and quiet child whose big brown eyes did most of the talking.

  18. Some Slim-Fast ready-to-drink products being recalled over bacteria fears The Canadian Press - Fri Dec 4, 6:17 AM Sent 16 times

    TORONTO - Consumers are being warned to avoid some Slim-Fast ready-to-drink meal replacements because they may contain a bacteria.