Despite an apparent appetite for change, voters in Alberta stuck with tried-and-true blue, giving the Progressive Conservative party an unprecedented 11th consecutive majority government in Monday night's provincial election. - The Tories, who began their political dynasty in 1971, captured 72 of 83 seats, gaining 11 seats and increasing their share of the popular vote by about six per cent from the last vote in 2004. - "Welcome to Alberta's century!" a grinning Conservative Leader Ed Stelmach announced to a jubilant crowd in Edmonton, minutes after arriving on a plane from Calgary where he made an earlier acceptance speech. - "Ladies and gentlemen, it's not how long you govern, it's how well you govern." - Political analyst Bruce Cameron called Stelmach's victory "spectacular," saying the rookie leader's accomplishment rivalled the heady triumphs of former premiers Ralph Klein and Peter Lougheed. - Driven by the booming oilsands,...
RCMP in British Columbia say they have cut the top off a major international drug- smuggling ring based in the Lower Mainland. Thirty-six people were arrested in Canada, the United States,...
Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged her children for the first time in six years Thursday at a teary reunion in Colombia's capital, Bogota. - Betancourt, a dual French-Colombian citizen,...
The political posturing has already started in advance of Thursday night's Alberta leaders' debate on the CBC. The leaders of the Progressive Conservatives, Alberta Liberals, NDP and Wildrose...
Dozens of teenage boy scouts caught in a deadly tornado in Iowa immediately put their life-saving skills to use Wednesday night, pulling their friends and leaders out from heaps of rubble,...
The polls have opened in Alberta, where voters will make history by ending a political dynasty or giving the Progressive Conservatives an 11th consecutive government under a rookie leader.
Barack Obama racked up two more wins on his path toward the Democratic presidential nomination, scoring victories over his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii...
With big wins in Vermont, Ohio and Texas, and Rhode Island, Senator John McCain picked up enough delegates to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. SOUNDBITE: John McCain,...
Top Zimbabwean opposition official Tendai Biti is brought by prison van to his second court hearing. He was arrested last week facing possible treason charges that could carry a death sentence....
North Korea handed over a long-delayed account of its nuclear activities on Thursday (June 26), the White House said, a step that will bring the North relief from U.S. sanctions but still leave...
President Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, won Russia's parliamentary election on Sunday, official results indicated after most of the votes were counted. - Putin's party won 63.3 per...
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