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Canada is getting out of medical isotope production, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday as the world struggles with the shutdown of an aging Canadian reactor that makes a big chunk of the global supply.

Lisa Raitt finally said sorry Wednesday for her controversial comments, but the tearful regrets did little to silence critics who accused her of presiding over an escalating crisis affecting thousands of cancer patients.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to present a rosy picture of his Conservative government’s handling of the recession Thursday in a slick made-for-TV presentation designed to forestall a quick summer election.

CTV News say it has received a phone call from a woman claiming to be Amanda Lindhout, a freelance Canadian journalist held hostage in Somalia for nearly ten months.

Lisa Raitt is finally saying sorry.

Maintenance crew were examining an American Airlines plane that made an emergency landing in Halifax late Tuesday to find out what caused an apparent electrical fire in a cabin washroom.

New Democratic Party Leader Darrell Dexter, Nova Scotia's premier-designate, fields questions at a news conference in Halifax on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Dexter has appointed a five-member transition team to prepare the way for the NDP to assume power after the party's historic election victory on Tuesday as he led the New Democrats to their first government in Atlantic Canada.

The body of Canada’s latest victim of Afghanistan’s insurgency began its journey home Tuesday after soldiers gathered for a grim ceremony at Kandahar Airfield.

Smaller hospitals across the country will run out of medical isotopes this week, leaving cancer and heart patients to find alternatives.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood unapologetic Tuesday, defended his embattled natural resources minister and dismissed the storm of opposition and public criticism of Lisa Raitt as “cheap politics.”