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Byline: KIM MACKRAEL ONTARIO / POLITICS OTTAWA -- A Conservative senator has thrown her support behind Ontario Liberal leadership hopeful Kathleen Wynne, calling her a tough politician who is the [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL LABOUR OTTAWA -- Labour unions say they are prepared to challenge the constitutionality of a private member's bill that - if passed into law - would force [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OTTAWA -- Canada's foreign aid agency should play an active role in promoting the country's economic interests abroad rather than limiting its scope to poverty [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL SECURITY OTTAWA -- Canada's Border Services Agency wants to expand its 'most wanted' list to include individuals who may face deportation, but have not yet been issued [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL INTERNATIONAL OTTAWA -- An agreement on a decades-old maritime boundary dispute with Denmark could be a sign that Canada is serious about its plan to resolve competing [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL QUEBEC OTTAWA -- The Quebec Bar Association is challenging the constitutionality of the mandatory minimum sentences contained in the Conservative government's omnibus anti-crime legislation. Bill C-10, which [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL MANDATORY MINIMUM TERMS OTTAWA -- Canada's public prosecutors are bracing for an onslaught of new trials as mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences come into effect - [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY, KIM MACKRAEL OMNIBUS BILL / BREAKING DOWN THE BILL OTTAWA -- The Conservative government is promising big savings from reforming pensions for public servants and MPs: $2.6-billion [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL ESPIONAGE OTTAWA -- During the more than four years that Jeffrey Delisle sold military intelligence to Russia, the 41-year-old naval officer's relationship with his wife fell apart, [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL and TU THANH HA THEFT Police have seized hundreds of barrels of maple syrup from a New Brunswick export business, telling the company some of its stock [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL and OLIVER MOORE CRIME Two Canadian-Somali men were shot to death overnight in a notorious part of west-end Toronto. Suleiman Ali and Warsame Ali, both 26, were [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL POLLUTION Canada and the United States have updated a decades-old agreement to protect the Great Lakes, adding new commitments to protect aquatic habitats, curb invasive species and [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL ENVIRONMENT Canada and the United States will sign an amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement on Friday, the first time the landmark bi-national accord will be altered [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL AND ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY QUEBEC ELECTION / SHOOTING One person is dead after a gunman opened fire at the concert hall where Quebec Premier-elect Pauline Marois was [...]

Byline: Kim Mackrael A MOMENT IN TIME / SEPT. 3, 2004 They were supposed to be celebrating the first day of a new school year. But as students and relatives [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL NATURE WAUBAUSHENE, ONT. -- Jim Thomas has given up on using the 15-foot sailboats he keeps propped against the dock behind his cottage. In the 12 years [...]

Byline: Kim Mackrael A MOMENT IN TIME / AUG. 16, 1977 It was 35 years ago that the King of Rock 'n' Roll fell off his throne. Elvis Presley's rhythm-and-blues-inspired [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF and KIM MACKRAEL ENVIRONMENT Auto makers and recyclers are pushing provincial governments to adopt tough new recycling rules for vehicles that they say will lead to improved [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL, ADRIAN MORROW and CARYS MILLS MASS SHOOTING TORONTO -- As police laid a first charge in connection with a brazen block party shooting in Toronto's east end, [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL CULTURE Canada must give young Somali Canadians more opportunities to succeed or they will remain at high risk of being recruited into extremist organizations and gangs, two [...]

Byline: TIMOTHY APPLEBY, CARYS MILLS and KIM MACKRAEL FOLIO: VIOLENCE IN TORONTO / SCARBOROUGH / BLOCK PARTY VIOLENCE / A STRICKEN COMMUNITY BLAMES POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT A network of police [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL CULTURE Members of Toronto's Somali community are holding a series of meetings this month to discuss the challenges their youth are facing in the city and how [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL URBAN AFFAIRS ESTEVAN, SASK. -- When Jimi Akinsete first visited Estevan, Sask. last January, he wondered if someone had made a mistake. The 48-year-old physician was being [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL; With a report from The Canadian Press SOCIAL MEDIA Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau issued a reluctant apology to a parliamentary reporter on Tuesday after he was widely [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL WAR OF 1812 ANNIVERSARY A distant relative of Major-General Isaac Brock says he plans to commission identical statues of the famed British military commander in Toronto and [...]

Byline: TIMOTHY APPLEBY, JOSH WINGROVE and KIM MACKRAEL HOMICIDE TORONTO, EDMONTON and TORONTO -- A 28-year-old Somali-Canadian found fatally shot in an expensive Toronto apartment building Saturday night was killed [...]

Byline: OLIVER MOORE and KIM MACKRAEL SEXUAL ABUSE Scouts Canada has referred more than 100 allegations of historic sexual abuse to police after a forensic audit raised troubling questions about [...]

Byline: JOSH WINGROVE and KIM MACKRAEL CRIME They are called the ciyaal baraf, or the children of the snow. The kids of a generation who fled blood-stained Somalia two decades [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL FOLIO: EATON CENTRE SHOOTING When gunshots rang out in the food court of Toronto's Eaton Centre, the crowd inside scattered almost instantly. Some shoppers crouched behind displays [...]

Byline: Kim Mackrael A MOMENT IN TIME / MAY 31, 1578 Plucked from the tundra of Baffin Island in 1576, the heavy black rock set British investors into a flurry. [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL; With files from The Canadian Press ROYAL VISIT REGINA -- Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, left a down-to-earth impression with many of their admirers in Regina [...]

Byline: JANE TABER and KIM MACKRAEL ROYAL TOUR / DIAMOND JUBILEE SAINT JOHN and TORONTO -- She wowed them in Saint John, tickling and cooing over babies, shaking hands, and [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL FOLIO: ROYAL PHILANTHROPY When Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrive in New Brunswick on Sunday, they'll be greeted by all the pomp and ceremony that typically [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL TRAGEDY Friends, co-workers and skateboarders gathered Wednesday evening to hold a vigil for Ralph Bissonnette, the man from Quebec who was on a long board when he [...]

Byline: Kim Mackrael DEMOGRAPHICS About 16 per cent of Canada's population belongs to a visible-minority group, according to Statistics Canada's 2006 census, but that proportion could nearly double by 2031 [...]

Byline: Kim Mackrael A MOMENT IN TIME As official news came of Germany's surrender, Canadians poured into the streets, waving flags and dancing beneath ticker tape. The war with Japan [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL FOLIO: HIGH CONSTRUCTION This week, cousins Steve and Adam Cross helped make One World Trade Center the tallest and most symbolic building in the New York skyline. [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL CRIME PREVENTION A Toronto city councillor will bring forward a motion next week that, if passed, will call on Ontario to join forces with Quebec in fighting [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL RISING FROM THE ASHES Steve Cross knew he was making history on Monday afternoon when he wriggled a bolt into place in the steel column that turned [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL THE CORSAGE PROJECT TORONTO -- It's early afternoon, and dozens of girls are crammed into a makeshift dressing room on the second floor of the Toronto Reference [...]

Byline: Kim Mackrael A MOMENT IN TIME / APRIL 20, 2010 It was the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed [...]

Byline: Kim Mackrael and Tu Thanh Ha FOLIO: CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS R. v Sparrow (1990) In 1984, Ronald Sparrow, a 36-year-old fisherman from the Musqueam band, was charged [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL INNOVATION Their research examines the most complex organ in the human body, yet neuroscientists often work in silos, building a detailed understanding of a single disease affecting [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY, KIM MACKRAEL and SUNNY DHILLON HEALTH CARE OTTAWA, TORONTO and VANCOUVER -- The government signalled its support for a national drug strategy as hospital officials across the [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL STEWARDSHIP ONTARIO The companies responsible for hauling and recycling hazardous waste in Ontario say they still haven't received instructions on how to bill Stewardship Ontario for their [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL; With a report from Associated Press AIR TRAVEL Charter airline Direct Air has abruptly suspended all of its flights for the next two months, leaving some Canadians [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE, KIM MACKRAEL and OLIVER MOORE CRIME A police officer has been charged with committing an act of murder while on duty in Toronto - an explosive allegation [...]

Byline: TU THANH HA and KIM MACKRAEL; With reports from Marina Jimenez and the Associated Press INTERNATIONAL CRIME Cynthia Vanier, a Canadian being held in Mexico since last fall over [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL FUNDRAISING While many of his fellow students were enjoying the last of their winter holidays, Curtis Matlock was about 5,000 metres above sea level in East Africa, [...]

Byline: KIM MACKRAEL and GLORIA GALLOWAY POLITICS TORONTO and OTTAWA -- NDP members in the late Jack Layton's riding of Toronto-Danforth have chosen Craig Scott to represent them in the [...]