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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian senator faced charges of assault and sexual assault on Friday after spending the night in jail, a new stain on the reputation of the upper house of Parliament, which the government wants to reform. Police arrested Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau, 38, on Thursday for alleged domestic violence, …

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - A Canadian naval officer who handed over secrets to Russia for more than four years, damaging Canada's relations with the United States and other key allies, was jailed for 20 years on Friday. Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Delisle, dressed in a blue hooded sweatshirt and jeans, showed no reaction when …

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian housing starts plunged in January as both single and multiple starts fell, particularly in Ontario, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp said on Friday in a report that showed the housing market was weakening even faster than expected. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts was …

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, an avid hockey fan, has juggled running the Canadian government with 15-minute daily writing sessions to finish a book on the history of ice hockey. His publisher said Thursday that the book, still untitled, about Canada's most popular sport will appear in bookstores in …

(Reuters) - An Ottawa man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the killing of two women in Canada's capital, where police have warned they have discovered a pattern in the slaying of local sex workers. Marc Leduc, 56, has been charged in connection with the murder of a woman in 2008 …

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Tighter Canadian mortgage rules appear to have put a serious damper on the housing market, especially on the heated condominium sector, judging by Statistics Canada data released on Thursday. The value of Canadian building permits fell 11.2 percent in December after a 14.5 percent decline in November. …

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government is eyeing legislation that would let it revoke the citizenship of dual nationals involved in acts of terrorism following news that a Canadian-Lebanese man participated in an attack that killed Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year. The Conservative government said on Tuesday that …

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government has not yet decided whether to boost spending on infrastructure to help the economy, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday. Officials have said next month's budget could include measures to boost infrastructure, possibly by extending the life of the C$33 billion ($33 …

TORONTO (Reuters) - Purchasing activity in Canada rose more than expected in January, according to Ivey Purchasing Managers Index data released on Wednesday, an early upbeat signal for the economy this year. The seasonally adjusted index rose to 58.9 in January from 52.8 in December. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected …

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - IOC leaders are meeting this week to decide which sport to drop from the Olympic program and how to deal with the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

GATINEAU, Que. - Lengthy, iron-clad contracts, locked handsets and high roaming fees should be things of the past as the national telecom regulator drafts a new wireless code, the CRTC heard Monday.

VINA DEL MAR, Chile - After seven months away treating a torn and inflamed tendon in his left knee, Rafael Nadal left many questions unanswered in his comeback tournament.

(Reuters) - The chief executive of Canadian fertilizer company Hanfeng Evergreen Inc plans to take it private, agreeing to buy the nearly 80 percent of shares he does not already own. Hanfeng said in a statement on Monday that Agrium Inc , a much larger Canadian fertilizer company and holder of about 20 percent of Hanfeng's …

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index opened slightly lower on Monday, tracking Wall Street, as weaker materials and energy shares offset stronger financials. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P;/TSX composite index fell 9.21 points, or 0.07 percent, at 12,792.02, at the open, before modestly extending losses. (Reporting …

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc , owner of fast-food brand KFC, plans to open between 60 and 70 restaurants this year in Russia and other former Soviet countries and is looking for new franchise partners to help drive growth. Yum and its franchisees already have 216 restaurants in the Commonwealth of Independent States …

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. - Stranded for hours on a snow-covered road, Priscilla Arena prayed, took out a sheet of loose-leaf paper and wrote what she thought might be her last words to her husband and children.

WASKADA, Man. - A man and three boys are dead after a small private plane crashed near Waskada in southwestern Manitoba.

TOPEKA, Kan. - A new World War II exhibit starting this summer at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum will pay tribute to the millions who fought, but organizers also have another purpose for the ambitious three-year project: getting young people engaged in the war's relevance.

SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA, Spain - A lifeboat being used on a safety drill aboard a cruise ship in Spain's Canary Islands fell about 65 feet (20 metres) into a port on Sunday when a cable snapped, trapping crew members beneath it and killing five of them, officials said.

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Mexican authorities announced Sunday that several people had been detained for investigation in connection with last week's rape of six Spanish tourists in Acapulco, a crime that further blemished the reputation of this troubled Pacific resort.

DALLAS - The boards of American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and US Airways have pushed back meetings to consider final plans for their merger, Associated Press sources said Sunday.

NEW ORLEANS - Carnival Cruise Lines said Sunday an engine room fire had disabled the cruise ship Triumph about 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula with 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew members on board.

RIO DE JANEIRO - There's nothing glamorous about the industrial warehouse reverberating with the zap of soldering metal, the clatter of hammers and an earsplitting whine of a circular saw, or in the sweat-drenched workers toiling in the midafternoon summer heat among huge bolts of cloth and heavy-duty sewing machines.