Ottawa hails Haiti aid after Cherry outburst, but defends review

Canada defended its decision to review long-term aid for Haiti saying funding ‘will not be a blank cheque’ shortly after Don Cherry called $50M in aid 'nuts'

• Disappointed by lack of progress in Haiti, Canada freezes aid funding for new projects: Fantino
• Haiti's economic minister lashes out after Ottawa freezes payments to disaster-struck nation

Ottawa dentist, wife face financial ruin for ‘preposterous’ income-tax dodge based on ‘The Matrix’

The couple believed taxes were unconstitutional and that Ottawa created a parallel legal system based on ‘The Matrix’ that let them opt out of paying taxes

'Total surrender': GOP angrier and more divided than ever after bitter fiscal cliff fight

Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House Republican leadership and enraged Tea Party leaders are threatening to vote out dozens of GOP candidates

'They can't ram bills down our throats': First Nations groups launch fresh lawsuits against Tories

The Chief in charge of one of the suits, however, says the action is distinct and separate from the Idle No More movement and Theresa Spence’s protest

Idle No More isn't about Harper — it's a fight between modernizers and aboriginal fundamentalists

Andrew Coyne: It has become clear Idle No More is not so much a dispute with the Tories, but between rival factions in the aboriginal community

Accused Colorado movie theatre shooter booby-trapped his home with napalm, FBI says

An elaborate system allegedly set up to pull police away from the shooting included improvised napalm and thermite, which burns so hot water can't put it out

Despite rise of violent Islamists, Canada won't pursue 'direct military mission' to Mali: Harper

Canada is looking at other ways to bring peace and stability to the West African state, where the presence of Islamic terrorists has become a concern

Man charged with murder after allegedly dismembering victim, hurling severed arms at witnesses

Police officers arrived at a public housing development and saw Potter 'throw two objects, later identified as human arms, towards the witnesses'

• Landmark federal court victory for 600,000 off-reserve aboriginals in Canada

• Condo development, housing market headed for 'soft landing,' Canada's top bankers say

• ‘I don’t believe you should say no to a casino just because you yourself are opposed to gambling,’ OLG President Paul Godfrey says

• Ninety-year-old suing girl's family after child bride, 15, escapes on wedding night

• Two men who spent year behind bars for 'looking gay' after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream finally acquitted

• Ontario Liberals might ask wealthy seniors to help pay for their own home care

• Iran lauds Idle No More movement for struggle against 'imperial order' in Canada

• New debt ceiling report warns U.S. may actually run out of money half a month early

• Lottery winner's body will likely be exhumed now that police have opened probe into cyanide-poisoning

• Canada stuck with an undeportable criminal after Tehran refuses to take back Iranian repeat offender

• Caught at the Canadian border with $7M in Iraqi currency and two handguns, three California men under investigation

• Oil tanker crashes into San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Whatever Canada cedes to Spence, it will never be enough

IDLE NO MORE

• Whatever Canada cedes to Spence, it will never be enough

• Timing of Attawapiskat audit leak a ploy to ‘discredit’ me: Spence

• Judge slams Ontario police for not breaking up Idle No More protests

• Lessons from a scathing CBC report on Attawapiskat mismanagement

• Damning Attawapiskat audit reveals ‘inaccurate’ bookkeeping

A peek inside the paranoid, hyperactive, gun-loving mind of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

Jonathan Kay: Alex Jones put on quite a show Monday with Piers Morgan, but anyone who's followed him over the years knows he lost his marbles long before then

Threat level raised to 'catastrophic' as wildfires scorch 124,000 acres in Australia

'You don't get conditions worse than this. We are at the catastrophic level and clearly in those areas leaving early is your safest option'

'Notoriety goes way beyond the offence': Miss Congeniality beauty queen pleads guilty for role in Stanley Cup riot

Sophie Laboissonniere, who was 20 at the time of the June 2011 riot, was not in court Monday, when her lawyer entered the plea on her behalf

Hope that box is bear-proof! Gleeful cameraman films terrifying encounter with thousand-kilogram beast

In the video, a female bear bites and pushes the cameraman’s Perspex box but can’t get to Gordon Buchanan, who gives a running commentary

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