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Five veteran convocation speakers and one rookie share memories from their own graduations and what to expect as they prepare to don academic robes this spring to impart advice on the next generation

Today an estimated 13,000 Telus employees across the country have given up their day off to help those hard-pressed community volunteer services that always have more work than hands to do it. Among the hundreds of projects being undertaken by Telus volunteers in the company's eighth annual Day of Giving is the Kid Power Conference at Strathcona Community Centre where 75 Grade 5-to-7 students from Strathcona and Mount Pleasant elementary schools will be teamed up with 15 Grade 11s from St. George's school.

Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau continued his swing through the Maritimes, drawing a large crowd of cheering fans to a Halifax mall Friday. But two federal cabinet ministers marked the visit with attacks on the Liberals.

Pamela Wallin, the Senator from Saskatchewan, was back in the news this week, refusing to tell CBC News if she had repaid any travel expense money.

RCMP say a fire that killed two people at the Creekside Village in Iqaluit in 2012 was arson.

Some Ottawa residents received letters from Canada Post asking them to consider accepting flyers and coupons.

Liberal leader accuses Prime Minister of making Canadians even more cynical about politics

An NDP MP has been suspended from the party's shadow cabinet after it was revealed that he owes more than $58,000 in back taxes.

The Royal Bank of Canada, which faced fierce backlash earlier this year over an outsourcing arrangement with a supplier that used temporary foreign workers, said Friday it won't send work offshore just to save on salaries.

The Senate committee examining Pamela Wallin's travel expenses has asked independent auditors to widen the scope of their review to include another year's worth of the Saskatchewan senator's expense claims

The start of summer can be an especially dangerous time on Manitoba roads, according to RCMP and at least one driving instructor.

The Nova Scotia Tourism Agency has released a five-year strategy aimed at attracting more first-time visitors.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns.

Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. is in the process of lining up potential producers who would use the proposed pipeline, which would run from Alberta to New Brunswick.

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Thanks to Stephen Mandel, Mark Carney and others who deserve gratitude even during these depressing days for Canadian public life

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The Wildrose Party has been fined $90,000 by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission for violating automated phone call regulations.

EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition Wildrose Party says it has paid a $90,000 penalty imposed by federal regulators for violating automated phone call rules.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says Wildrose broke the rules in 2011 and before, during and after the April 2012 provincial election.

Wildrose party president David Yager says the company that made the automated calls assured the party that it was following the rules.

He declined to name the company, but says the firm had made similar calls for other political parties.

Saadi Gadhafi was being touted as a potential 'Vice-President Maghreb' who would eventually come to montreal for his 'precious services'

A 21-year-old man has been charged in a case of sexual assault reported six months ago in Pond Inlet, Nunavut.

After the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and began to sink into the freezing North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, doomed band members on the ship's deck are rumored to have played "Nearer, My God, to Thee" until their last moments. As Fox News' Steve Turner points out, the group was led by the ship's bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, and his belief in music's ability to calm people and maintain order.