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A reporter uses a digital camera to record Industry Minister Jim Prentice as he announces amendments to the Copyright Act regarding copyrighted material, at a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Thursday. (Photo: Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press)

Ottawa gets tough with illegal downloaders

Amendments to copyright law that slap fines on music and movie pirates are met with criticism from artists, industry and consumers


Mounting sense of urgency was apology's catalyst

Pleas by two cabinet ministers, a senator and NDP Leader persuaded Harper that statement should precede work of commission


Couillard pushed Quebec City project to Tories

Liberals accuse minister's former girlfriend of trying to 'infiltrate the Conservative government' after Montreal bid failed


Gas price-fixing charges laid in Quebec

Three companies and one person plead guilty; Competition Bureau says other investigations under way elsewhere in Canada

GlobeSalon

Fontaine and Harper

When is an apology not enough? or too much?

Prominent Canadians debate the issue in a new online feature


Voices

Betty Campbell of the North Vancouver Squamish Nation pauses as she watches Prime Minister Stephen Harper via satellite on the Squamish nation reserve in North Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Hundreds of natives attended a gathering in North Vancouver to watch the Prime Minister and other party leaders deliver an apology for the residential schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

A personal history

First-hand accounts of life in the residential schools


Adam Radwanski

Adam Radwanski

Damned if he does...

John McCain's Ottawa visit won't make life easy for Stephen Harper

 

National news 

Manitoba judge to chair Mulroney-Schreiber public inquiry

Jeffrey Oliphant will spend the next year working on the case, Ottawa announces

McCain speech a hot ticket in Ottawa

Republican presidential nominee has invited himself to Canada to make a speech on free trade

Tory MP apologizes for 'hurtful' remarks

Pierre Poilievre questioned value of residential schools compensation package on radio show hours before government's historic apology in House of Commons

CIDA more focused, outgoing chief says

Robert Greenhill dismisses speculation that he was never comfortable working under current Conservative government

High-school course on genocide draws protests

One ethnic group protests against being included, another for being excluded from core curriculum

RCMP won't explain silence on Couillard

Privy Council Office wasn't told of Bernier's girlfriend's past ties to criminals, Mounties acknowledge as real-estate deals come to light

Taser report's release delayed

Public safety Minister seeks meeting next week, preventing publication of likely contentious report

Labour group slams governments on child care

CLC report gives feds, most provinces poor marks on efforts to provide good, affordable day care

Plastic shower curtains may leak PVCs

U.S. study cites potential health hazards from 108 toxic chemicals that may escape into air


Politics 

Senators forecast military deployment past 2011

Building Afghanistan's capacity to be self-sufficient is 'longer project,' parliamentary committee chairman says

B.C. Premier warns party against complacency

'If our government loses seven seats – just seven – in 2009, we won't be government,' Campbell tells backers


Regional news 

TTC report recommends employee drug testing

Blames lack of safety procedures, not drug use, for fatal accident last year; tests conclude driver was under influence when he died

Board green-lights assessment of Gardiner plan

Proposal would rip down eastern end of expressway

Rights group questions how RCMP got their man

B.C. Civil Liberties Association demands investigation after officer used unmarked cruiser to run into man accused in high-speed chase

School near Owen Sound closed after E. coli detected

Water tested came back positive, officials say things should be normal by Friday

Upper Canada College reverses boarding decision

Elite all-boys school calls on donors to support revamped residential program

Impaired driver won't be labelled dangerous offender

Despite fatal accident, judge rules Alberta man's chronic impulse to drink and drive doesn't mean he should be jailed indefinitely

Man, 33, shot on doorstep of home

Victim under police protection in hospital as search continues for two gunmen

Flood of response to shootings a good sign for neighbourhood, police say

Two teenagers in a playground in Regent Park, one of Toronto's toughest public-housing complexes

Leslieville resident begs board not to 'throw away' neighbourhood

Ontario Municipal Board hearing considering whether to allow 750,000-square-foot shopping mall

Alberta in dire need of new transmission lines

Upgrades needed to avoid ‘catastrophic failure,' Epcor CEO says

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