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.

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.

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

BEIJING (AFP) - Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said.
VANCOUVER - There are reports that B.C. Liberal MLA Lorne Mayencourt will seek the federal Conservative nomination in Vancouver-Centre, taking on Liberal Hedy Fry.
REGINA - RCMP and Regina police arrested two men in an investigation into the theft and illegal selling of satellite television signals.

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.
PARIS (AFP) - A 59-year-old Frenchwoman is due to give birth to triplets after receiving an egg donation in Vietnam, the Paris hospital treating her said on Thursday.
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.
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