
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will launch a federal election campaign Sunday with a visit to the Governor General.

WASHINGTON - At the National Governors Association conference where she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.
Canada's food watchdog and Ivanhoe Cheese Inc. on Wednesday issued a recall of certain cheese products distributed in Ontario because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran on Thursday it was taking a dangerous gamble in seeking to develop nuclear weapons because one day its arch-foe Israel could strike.
The majority of British Columbians think Stephen Harper is the best choice for prime minister, according to a poll conducted by the Environics Research Group for CBC News.
Green party Leader Elizabeth May has removed one of the party's candidates after he made what the party viewed as anti-Semitic comments in an online forum.

ST PAUL, Minnesota (AFP) - Barack Obama said the US troop surge in Iraq had succeeded beyond anybody's "wildest dreams" prompting Republicans to say he showed poor judgment by at first opposing the operation.
LONDON - The author of the best-selling novel "The Horse Whisperer" is recovering in a hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms during a holiday in Scotland, his agent said Tuesday.

ST PAUL, Minnesota (AFP) - Democrats Thursday set about the delicate task of hitting back at Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin after she muscled into the political bullring in a combative convention debut.
TORONTO - Ontario's bike helmet law for children under age 18 helps save one life every two months, an analysis of cycling deaths that occurred before and since the bill was enacted suggests.
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