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Comments anger Palestinians while Poland's Solidarity is cool

Statistics Canada says gasoline sales continued to rise for the third year in a row in 2011, even as the price at the pump shot up. The agency says gross sales of gasoline rose to 42.1 billion litres last year - a 1.5 per cent increase from 2010.

Operations have returned to normal at Cameco's Rabbit Lake uranium operation in northern Saskatchewan after workers were forced to leave because of a forest fire. Cameco says the fire burned its way to within one kilometre of the site.

Many high-tech employees get call to serve as potential jury members

The federal government is putting together a task force to figure out how to get more people with disabilities employed in meaningful work.

As the temperature keeps rising, so does the price of natural gas. Natural-gas futures in New York have surged 69 per cent since hitting a 10-year low this spring.

Most British Columbians want public liquor stores open on Sundays to generate more revenue for the province, says the B.C. Government and Service Employees Union.

A federal arbitrator has sided with Air Canada in its labour dispute with the union representing its pilots.

Supervalu Inc. fired its CEO and tapped chairman Wayne Sales to lead its turnaround, just weeks after the grocer reported dismal quarterly results and suggested it might put itself up for sale.

The economic clouds gathering beyond Canada's borders are so ominous that at least two bank economists recommend Canadian governments, and particularly Ottawa, start thinking about a contingency plan should the world be plunged into a second crisis -