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Three new deaths from swine flu were reported Monday — one in each Prairie province — increasing the known number of people who have succumbed to the virus in Canada to 36.

A major international report says the increasingly rapid loss of Arctic sea ice is already taking a toll on polar bears and Canada should reconsider its decision not to include the predators on its list of endangered species.

It’s been nine months since the first explosion targeting EnCana’s (TSX:ECA) natural gas operations in northeastern B.C. — the start of six attacks the RCMP are now labelling “domestic terrorism.”

DAWSON CREEK, B.C. — It’s been nine months since the first explosion targeting EnCana’s (TSX:ECA) natural gas operations in northeastern B.C. — the start of six attacks the RCMP are now labelling “domestic terrorism.”

MONTREAL — A deadly improvised explosive device of the type that has slashed into the ranks of Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan has claimed another victim, bringing the Canadian military death toll in the war-weary country to 122.

REGINA — Relatives of a young Saskatchewan girl who disappeared from her home five years ago say they thought they’d have answers to her whereabouts by now.

TORONTO — As the stench of rotting garbage wafts over a downtown Toronto neighbourhood on a balmy summer day, residents scrawl a message in multi-coloured chalk on the adjacent street: “Parks are not dumps.”

A Canadian soldier travelling behind the senior commander in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was killed today when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.

The girls’ father, Mohammed Shafee, says the family was returning from a five-day vacation in Niagara Falls, Ont., and had stopped for the night in a Kingston hotel to break up the long drive back to Montreal.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Governor General Michaelle Jean shook hands Wednesday with the crowd as tens of thousands of Canadians — many dressed in red and white — celebrated Canada Day on Parliament Hill,