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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama asked Congress on Friday to approve a $60.4 billion aid package to help East Coast states rebuild after Superstorm Sandy, well short of their initial requests.

MP Randall Garrison is calling on Immigration Minster Jason Kenney to allow an elderly Sikh woman living with family in Langford to remain in the country. Surjit Bhandal, 83, raised her nephews in India.

The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the gay marriage debate for the first time on Friday by agreeing to review two challenges to federal and state laws that define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama asked Congress on Friday to approve a $60.4 billion aid package to help East Coast states rebuild after Superstorm Sandy, well short of their initial requests.

A police officer has testified that an Alberta MP locked himself in his truck and refused to co-operate the night he was pulled over for suspected drunk driving. Sgt.

The accused Quebec election-night shooter is being sent for a psychiatric evaluation after delivering a lengthy rant in court Friday about how he was sent on a mission by Jesus Christ to rid Quebec of its "separatist problem.

ANDERSON, Mary Viola Mildred April 16, 1919 - December 1, 2012 It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt and friend.

A 16-year-old girl whose body was found along an undeveloped residential area in Kamloops was slain, police said. The victim was identified as Summer Star Elizabeth Krista-Lee Fowler, a member of the Gitan-maax First Nation in Hazelton.

Changes needed to address privacy issues, Victoria's Dean Fortin says