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Almost 5,000 pages later and Parliament's budget watchdog still can't tell how effectively the federal stimulus program is creating jobs and underwriting a recovery.

City officials in Iqaluit are struggling with an outbreak of canine parvovirus, with council enacting an emergency measure so animal officers can destroy stray dogs that are unclaimed after 12 hours.

A chartered bus transporting a boys' hockey team slid off a highway and fell on its side in north-central B.C. on Friday afternoon but none of the 23 passengers suffered serious injuries.

The Toronto Transit Commission has decided it won't allow advertising from an online dating agency that helps people cheat on their spouses.

Shipping companies that operate in the Arctic may be required to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions they produce, depending on how climate-change talks go in Copenhagen, Denmark.

A cold snap in Calgary hasn't kept a former United Church of Canada moderator concerned about climate change from fasting outside several politicians' offices.

The man who murdered an 82-year-old woman in Biggar, Sask., offers a tearful apology to her family.

The Saskatchewan man convicted of killing his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend is waiting to see if he can win a new trial after making his case Friday to the provincial court of appeal.

A Calgary Zoo staffer has been suspended for two days without pay after causing the death of an exotic rodent.

The B.C. Coroner's Service is investigating Wednesday's sudden death of a one-year-old child in a Kamloops daycare.

B.C.'s Queen Charlotte Islands have officially been renamed Haida Gwaii as part of a historic reconciliation agreement between the province and the Haida Nation, Premier Gordon Campbell announced Friday in Vancouver.

A jury has found an Edmonton taekwondo instructor guilty of 13 of 17 sex-related charges.

A rare first-edition, first-impression edition of Anne of Green Gables sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York for $30,000 US on Friday afternoon.

Trade Minister Stockwell Day defends his government's actions in not releasing documents related to the Afghan detainee controversy, saying certain information has to be kept secret to protect lives.

A Quebec woman who says her disability pay for depression was cancelled because of her Facebook profile has lost her first bid to have her benefits restored while she battles her insurance company.

An Anglican priest from Newfoundland and Labrador who's been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography was released from custody Friday after his parents posted bail.

Well known Ottawa politician and a champion of francophone rights Jean-Robert Gauthier has died at the age of 80 after a long illness.

A community activist closely involved with public security in Montreal North in the wake of a deadly police shooting there last year says there should be more women in uniform because they react differently in crisis situations.

A new award in the name of Terry Fox has been created to honour the Olympic athlete from any country who displays the most courage, humility and extraordinary athletic ability at the 2010 Winter Games.

The latest quarterly review in Afghanistan shows the most deaths among coalition forces in one three-month period since fighting began in 2001.