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TORONTO - Liberal leadership contender Justin Trudeau told an Islamic conference Saturday that groups who attacked his decision to attend the gathering only work to divide Canadians.

OTTAWA - A decades-old cat sanctuary nestled behind sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s Parliament buildings is heading towards a quiet end as its feline population slowly shrinks.

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Utility and Review Board has approved a plan that will see electricity rates rise by three per cent in 2013 and another three per cent the following year. The rate increases take effect on Jan.

TORONTO - Children's Aid Societies should be forced to list all of the children in their care who need parents on the Adopt Ontario website, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said Friday.

OTTAWA - Federal Liberals long ago abandoned the cardinal rule of success handed down by late Grit rainmaker Keith Davey: "Revere the leader.

TORONTO - The coming year could bring some clarity to the murky legal waters of the federal Conservatives' law-and-order agenda, particularly mandatory minimum sentences, even as new complications are added to the mix.

OTTAWA — The Canadian military has decided it will rely on the U.S.

TORONTO - School support workers are joining teachers in threatening to stage a one-day protest if the governing Liberals force a collective agreement on them in the new year.

TORONTO - Premier Dalton McGuinty announced Thursday there would be a "locked door" policy at all 4,000 elementary schools in Ontario by next September in reaction to last week's shooting rampage that left 26 dead at a school in Newtown, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½icut.

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ will not hear the appeal of two Ontario municipalities found liable for a crash that left two teenaged sisters in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives.