Canadians who get salaries can expect an average increase of 3.5 per cent in 2009, a survey from compensation and benefit consultants Morneau Sobeco suggests.

TORONTO - How high could the price of gasoline go?

LOS ANGELES - David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction.

A drinking contest went horribly wrong when a young man died of what police believe was alcohol poisoning on the weekend, RCMP in Burnaby, B.C., said Wednesday.

INUVIK, N.W.T. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper summoned up the jowly ghost of one of his Conservative predecessors Thursday, announcing that John Diefenbaker would be both the name of Canada's new anywhere, anytime icebreaker and the inspiration for his vision of Arctic development.

MONTREAL - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says the Liberals are ready if the Tories call a general election next week.
SYDNEY, Australia - China isn't the only country to fake a musical performance during an Olympic opening ceremony. Turns out Australia knows a thing about miming music, too.

OTTAWA - Bloc Quebecois Gilles Duceppe emerged from a meeting with Stephen Harper on Friday to say the prime minister is intent on calling a fall election.

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - A charity in the West Bank offered shelter on Wednesday to a mentally handicapped Palestinian woman whose father had made her live for most of the past 20 years in a room under his house.

DENVER - John McCain has introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, as his vice-presidential running mate in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.
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