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Robert Fowler can work a room at a diplomatic cocktail party like no other but he's also plunged into hot spots including Darfur, Angola and Rwanda.

by TONDA MACCHARLES, JOANNA SMITH

A website claiming to speak for a Niger rebel group claims Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler and three other people are being held as a warning to the Canadian government and others against supporting ...

CIA World Factbook: Niger

Fowler no stranger to conflict zones

Envoy feared kidnapped

News|GTA|Crime Woman charged in girl's murder in court

by Bob Mitchell

A 19-year-old Mississauga woman charged in last week's slaying of a 13-year-old schoolgirl made a brief court appearance today.

Map: GTA homicides

Crime Stoppers

Business Stimulus of up to $13B needed, board says

The Conference Board says Ottawa should be prepared to spend between $10 billion and $13 billion in fiscal stimulus in the January budget to help out ...

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News|GTA Hydro fire cuts East York power

by Sunny Freeman Staff reporter

Power has been restored to 3,000 homes after a fire at a hydro substation left the surrounding East York community without electricity this morning.

Business Economist scales back dread meter

by James Daw

(10)

A seemingly endless stream of sobering news has many of us wondering about our jobs, our home equity, our savings and our country.

News|GTA 1,900 guns surrendered

by Michele Henry

(44)

Shootings in the city are likely to go way up in the wake of a gun amnesty program just completed by the Toronto police.

MAP SERIES: GUNS IN THE GTA

News|GTA Defiant Vaughan mayor staying

by Phinjo Gombu

(18)

Vaughan councillors stood together in the lobby of city hall yesterday for an extraordinary news conference at which they collectively asked Mayor ...

Guide to politics in Vaughan (.pdf)

James: Residents should reject bunch

Business Ontario employers get pension relief

Ontario is following a federal government move designed to give pension plan sponsors some relief by extending payment plan deadlines.

News|World Shoe thrower in Iraqi custody

by QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA

(8)

The journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush was handed over to the Iraqi judiciary, an Iraqi official said Tuesday, a move ...

Video: Watch shoe toss

Video: Iraqis rally for shoe tosser's release

News|Ontario 517,000 Ontario jobs at risk

by Robert Benzie, Rob Ferguson

Ontario would lose 517,000 jobs within five years if the Big Three automakers went out of business, according to a new provincial report obtained by ...

Ottawa pledges billions

U.S. carmakers turn to Bush

News|Ontario Ontario orders testing of Tasers

by Tanya Talaga

(13)

The Ontario government has quietly ordered a new review of some Tasers to make sure they are functioning properly.

News|GTA Teenage girl sought after stabbing at subway

by Christina Commisso

Police are looking for a teenage girl suspected of slashing another girl, aged 16, on the neck and forehead at Kennedy subway station yesterday ...

HealthZone|News & Features In London, a drunk tent for boozing bankers

by Caroline Mallan

(12)

In London, you know it's really Christmas when the ambulance service erects the drunk tent at the rear of a platform in one of the British capital's...

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