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Navy is planning a massive push into the Arctic to defend national security, potential undersea riches and other maritime interests. An "Arctic roadmap" released by the Department of the Navy details a five-year strategic plan to expand fleet operations into...

Focusing only on a single, quasi-public approach could have the effect of inhibiting the development of a new private sector savings and retirement products targeted to different phases of an individual's lifecycle," the report said. Some provinces, led by British...

The leaders of Commonwealth countries meeting in Trinidad and Tobago were facing a scandal last night after it emerged that the organisation has withdrawn most of its funding for preventing HIV and Aids. The Commonwealth of Nations is home to...

A country that gave the world Lester Pearson's peacekeeping and Brian Mulroney's stand against apartheid is now struggling with Stephen Harper's apparent blindness to compelling evidence of Afghanistan prisoner abuse. For all its sound and fury, the counter-attack that politicians,...

Cirque du Soleil says it will not be affected by the massive debt problem of Dubai company Nakheel and Istithmar World Capital, a shareholder in the Montreal entertainment firm. A new device launched Thursday in London's West End translates theatre...

The cost-effectiveness of Public Works projects can't be directly compared with the private sector partly because construction firms jack up their prices when dealing with the federal government, says a new report. "Private sector companies, who build our projects, are...

Canada Post has delivered a forthright apology and a compensation cheque to an Ottawa book collector one year after it lost his prized volume of 18th-century poetry. Daniel Bentley, a psychologist with the Public Service Commission, had been in search...

A 44-year-old man has died after a hit-and-run collision between his motorcycle and a car in Ottawa's west end. Witnesses, or anyone with information, are asked to call the Ottawa Ottawa Police Collision Unit, Const.