
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadians shunned the polls during Tuesday's general election with the lowest voter turnout on record, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said.

OTTAWA - Members of the Opposition are sending mixed signals about their willingness to co-operate with Stephen Harper's beefed-up Conservative minority.

The son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau will follow his father's footsteps to Parliament Hill.

LONDON (Reuters) - A man discovered making kebabs near a corpse has been banned from managing food businesses and fined 3,800 pounds, Wolverhampton City Council said Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES - Kevin Smith made a movie with such a bothersome title he cannot even place ads for it in some places.

Consuming even small amounts of alcohol seems to shrink the brain, researchers have found.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A re-elected Canadian prime minister found himself back at square one on Wednesday, facing a potentially fractious Parliament as he tries to steer the economy through the global financial crisis.
ANKARA (AFP) - Passengers overpowered an apparently drunken man who on Wednesday tried to hijack a Turkish Airlines flight en route to Russia, claiming to have a bomb, officials and media reports said.
VICTORIA - B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says Quebec separatists are to blame for another minority Conservative government in Ottawa.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Justin Trudeau, following in the footsteps of his father, the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, secured a place in Canada's parliament in Tuesday's general election.