Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:01 AM EST
The latest chapter in Canada's quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast.
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:05 PM EST
The new chief executive of Research in Motion said Monday that drastic change is not needed, even as the once iconic maker of the BlackBerry smartphone confronts the most difficult period in its history.
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:57 PM EST
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday he told Barack Obama he was profoundly disappointed after the U.S. president called to tell him the administration rejected a plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.
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Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:52 PM EST
The chief of an aboriginal community that stands to be most affected by a proposed pipeline to Canada's Pacific coast is questioning whether Canada's Conservative government already plans to approve the pipeline just as the review gets under way.
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Tue Jan 3, 2012 5:11 PM EST
A Canadian man who realized he forgot his passport as he approached the U.S. border found a new way to gain entry — his iPad.
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:36 PM EST
Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, reports its latest financial results after the market closes Thursday as the company needs a formidable challenger to popular smartphones from Apple and other companies.
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Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:15 PM EST
Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won't help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.
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Fri Dec 9, 2011 10:34 AM EST
Canada's largest telecommunication companies announced Friday they have agreed to buy the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and NBA's Toronto Raptors in a deal worth about $1.3 billion.
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Wed Dec 7, 2011 11:02 AM EST
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has been forced to change the name of its new operating system from BBX after the company lost a trademark ruling.
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Fri Dec 2, 2011 6:10 PM EST
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper strongly suggested Friday that politics was behind the Obama administration's decision to delay a proposed oil pipeline from Canada — days before his planned visit to the White House.
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Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:43 AM EST
More than two dozen websites belonging to the government of Syria are being hosted by servers in the United States, Canada and Germany, according to a report by Canadian researchers.
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Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:51 PM EST
Enbridge Inc. said Wednesday it will provide access to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries with a new pipeline that will help unclog a bottleneck of oil in the Midwest, an announcement that helped oil prices hit $100 per barrel in North America for the first time in nearly four months
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Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:20 PM EST
Canada has stepped up its lobbying after the Obama administration delayed a decision on an oil pipeline critical to the country's economic future.
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Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:22 PM EDT
Research In Motion said it is delaying the launch of an upgraded operating system for its struggling PlayBook computer tablet until February 2012, yet another setback for a tarnished company struggling to compete with Apple.
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Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:26 PM EDT
Canada's Conservative government announced Tuesday that it plans a permanent memorial in the nation's capital to commemorate next year's bicentennial of the War of 1812, which it calls a defining event in Canada's history.
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Sun Sep 4, 2011 11:39 AM EDT
To hear something nice about 9/11, talk to "the plane people," the passengers who wound up on the island of Newfoundland that day because U.S. airspace was shut.
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:29 PM EDT
Canadians were thrilled when Prince William and Kate traveled across the country on their first official trip as a married couple. They barely noticed when their pro-monarchy Conservative prime minister appointed Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, an honorary admiral on his 90th birthday.
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Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:15 PM EDT
Canada's prime minister unveiled Wednesday a personal flag for Prince William for use during his upcoming visit.
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Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:36 PM EDT
Decades have passed since Canadians abandoned the Union Jack and replaced "God Save the Queen" with "O Canada," but the royalty-lovers among them are in for a thrill when Britain's newest royal couple come visiting on Thursday.
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Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:00 AM EDT
In the northern reaches of Alberta lies a vast reserve of oil that the U.S. views as a pillar of its future energy needs.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:46 PM EDT
Canada released declassified documents Wednesday that it said cleared military officials of charges that they ignored evidence that Taliban prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service were being tortured.
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Sat May 28, 2011 10:18 AM EDT
For all the stereotypes of Canada as a ho-hum, steady-as-she-goes sort of place, politics here can be a wild ride.
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Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:17 PM EDT
Back in the days when he was an out-of-office lawmaker with uncertain prospects, Stephen Harper did not need to pull his punches. His caustic verdict on Canada still is remembered 14 years later: "a welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it."
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Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:39 AM EDT
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is unlikely to attend the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in London next month because of a looming election in Canada.
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Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:33 PM EST
The Canadian prime minister's office confirms Prince William and Kate Middleton will be traveling to Canada this summer on their first official trip as a married couple.
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