
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.

OTTAWA - Many senior Grits are privately predicting Liberal Leader Stephane Dion will be forced to quit within the next few weeks if he doesn't voluntarily resign first.
LOS ANGELES - Kevin Smith made a movie with such a bothersome title he cannot even place ads for it in some places.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper's top priority will be to bolster Canada's slowing economy and its banks in particular, he said Wednesday in his first address since winning re-election overnight.

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.

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.
VICTORIA - B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says Quebec separatists are to blame for another minority Conservative government in Ottawa.

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.