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And he wasn’t a businessman with an MBA degree, as he had told reporters, he was a Toronto gang member]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lur1KYFS1lk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203775.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203768</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2206063</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:51:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[White House denies Afghan reinforcement rumours]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reports suggest President Barack Obama is leaning towards deploying between 30-40,000 troopsto Afghanistan]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/dq--6YjJUnk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2206068.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=2206063</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2202764</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:39:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Rescued Nunavut teen shot polar bear in self-defence]]></title><description><![CDATA[A teenage boy who was stranded on a floating ice sheet in Nunavut had to shoot a menacing polar bear in order to stay alive, says a spokesman with the Nunavut government]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/xM2PPLb2Zgk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203788.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2202764</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2205973</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:31:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[North, South Korea have brief naval skirmish, vessels hit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Navies from the rival Koreas exchanged gunfire for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, damaging vessels on both sides and raising tension just days before U.S. President Barack Obama travels to Asia]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/JL4adDB362w/north-south-korea-have-naval-skirmish-report.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/09/north-south-korea-have-naval-skirmish-report.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203408</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:02:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Alberta opposes plan to bring bison back to Banff]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parks Canada wants a home where buffalo can roam. They’ve got their eyes on scenic Banff, Alta., but the Alberta government is cool to the idea]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/RD1QFKVdleE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203406.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203408</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203926</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:06:37 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Royals arrive in Ottawa in final leg of cross-Canada tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrived in Ottawa from Victoria on Monday evening, touching down at Ottawa International Airport just after 8 p.m. before being taken to Government House, where they were to spend the night.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cUsxUXjg21o/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203901.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203926</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203177</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:45:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Taliban prisoners stage hunger strike over conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike in a main Kandahar City prison over lack of food, water and medical care]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8uHxr9Z4PpE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203432.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203177</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203872</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:03:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[U.K.'s Brown apologizes for error-ridden condolence letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown has telephoned the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan to apologize for a letter of condolence he sent her that was littered with errors]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/rzJKWPK7iUE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203866.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203872</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203874</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:02:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[14 recent suspected terror incidents disrupted: RCMP]]></title><description><![CDATA[The RCMP disrupted 14 suspected terrorist incidents in recent months, including several in which the alleged activities were interrupted without charges or publicity]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/wDne5hVnJVk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1416387.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203874</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2202844</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:08:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Sea Shepherd buys world record-holding speedboat]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, known for getting between whalers' harpoons and their prey, has purchased some serious speed]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/EiM71qrBO08/anti-whalers-sea-shepherd-buy-record-holding-powerboat.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2202848.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/09/anti-whalers-sea-shepherd-buy-record-holding-powerboat.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2200751</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:27:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Taking a look inside a Canadian POW's secret diary]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the early morning of July 29, 1944, during six hours of Allied bombing, Royal Canadian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Anton Novak's Lancaster was shot down over Germany. Badly injured, he was quickly captured and experienced the chaotic close of the Second World War from the discomfort of a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/QIAjtPczQsQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2201620.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2200751</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203038</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:43:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[World leaders mark Berlin Wall fall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders hailed the human courage that toppled the Berlin Wall, saying the historic events of 20 years ago showed the world could tackle new challenges, from poverty to climate change]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/FmEnRdnPOfA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203042.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203038</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203322</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:02:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Royals honour Canada’s navy in last B.C. stop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, paid respects to Canada’s navy Monday during the last engagement of their visit to British Columbia]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/I-Fr_vR7vDg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203316.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2203322</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203232</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:13:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA['Beltway sniper' loses bid to halt execution]]></title><description><![CDATA[A court has denied a bid to stay Tuesday’s execution of John Allen Muhammad whose deadly 'Beltway sniper' attacks, terrorized Washington, D.C. in 2002]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/3p7_9cZocTY/beltway-sniper-john-allen-muhammad-loses-bid-to-halt-execution.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203251.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/09/beltway-sniper-john-allen-muhammad-loses-bid-to-halt-execution.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2200744</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadians could face eye scans at border]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposes to spend billions collecting fingerprints, eye scans from all foreign travellers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-wS60ECgc8s/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2201601.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2200744</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2202195</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:13 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[David Frum: U.S. health-care plan may ban abortion]]></title><description><![CDATA[As part of the deal-making to pass healthcare, conservative Democrats joined House Republicans in passing the anti-abortion Stupak amendment]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/96KGZM9ja10/david-frum-u-s-health-care-plan-may-ban-abortion.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2202519.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/09/david-frum-u-s-health-care-plan-may-ban-abortion.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2203112</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson talks Vancouver, New Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[The girls are screaming, and they will continue to scream. It’s a constant uproar in the background, but after a few minutes in the company of Robert Pattinson, you don’t notice it anymore. It’s the soundtrack of his public life]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/nQmjhicY1B8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203114.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2203112</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2202075</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:24:25 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Quebec City could bid for Winter Olympics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quebec Premier Jean Charest on Monday unveiled plans to create a working group that could eventually bid for future Winter Olympics Games]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ABhiDWKVCw8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2202100.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2202075</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199864</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:44:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Shape up or we'll leave, general says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patience with Afghanistan’s politicians is wearing so thin that coalition forces might leave if governance and corruption does not change soon for the better]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/IP5oNV-A9o4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199861.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=2199864</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2202531</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:23:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Aerosmith in turmoil, Steven Tyler has quit band: reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[The future of supergroup Aerosmith was shrouded in uncertainty Monday after unconfirmed reports that flamboyant frontman Steven Tyler had quit the band]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zD4qvO83kuM/aerosmith-in-turmoil-amid-reports-steven-tyler-has-quit-the-band.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2202533.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/11/09/aerosmith-in-turmoil-amid-reports-steven-tyler-has-quit-the-band.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2202465</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:17:15 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Social networking site Tagged fined, must overhaul practices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tagged.com fined $500,000, told to overhaul its practices following charges it tricked members into providing personal details to lure new members]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/GbUfYW0wVtk/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2202465</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2201580</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Deputy premier to run for Toronto mayor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toronto is in 'desperate need' of strong leadership, George Smitherman told reporters this morning as he stepped down as deputy premier to run for mayor]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Lzugo5s_fBU/george-smitherman-steps-down-to-run-for-toronto-mayor-says-city-needs-strong-leadership.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2201581.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/09/george-smitherman-steps-down-to-run-for-toronto-mayor-says-city-needs-strong-leadership.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2201715</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:02:15 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[China executes nine over Uighur unrest]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has executed nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said Monday, the first executions since the violence in July]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/EzGWZhaT6aA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1770562.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2201715</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2201710</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:14:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Hurricane Ida weakens, heads to U.S. Gulf Coast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hurricane Ida weakened further as it headed toward oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and was forecast to make landfall overnight on the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Monday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/W5L-h7MXmNU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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even if they account for only a small fraction of pandemic patients, say critical-care physicians who complain their key field has been chronically starved of research funds]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cdx8s98BgXM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2200769.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/swine-flu/story.html?id=2200768</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2201731</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:31:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Loonie rises against greenback Monday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s currency rose against a broadly weaker U.S. dollar on Monday after a the Group of 20 promised to keep stimulus policies in place until the global economic recovery was assured]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/WpBKr-2fCPI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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holy places, is the heart of three of the world's great religions,
but for decades it has languished as an economic backwater, trapped
in the epicentre of conflict in the Middle East.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/forfSG3oNSw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2201746.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2200775</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2201840</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:02:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Three dead in Ontario plane crash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three people are dead after a plane crash in northwestern Ontario. A pilot and two passengers of a Lockhart Air Service charter plane were en route to Cat Lake First Nation from Sioux Lookout Friday when they were reported missing that night.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/GnEvAvhOhFc/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2201840</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199748</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:27:01 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Should Prince Charles ever be our king?]]></title><description><![CDATA[His public image has gone through an exhaustive rehabilitation since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, but it remains a work in progress]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cwOUYWEFFdA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199747.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199748</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199519</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada should have focused on H1N1 shot sooner: critics]]></title><description><![CDATA[With H1N1 now accounting for virtually all the flu being diagnosed here, critics say Canada was wrong not to have switched production to H1N1 vaccine sooner]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/4fEKR9NmsKM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199518.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199519</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199765</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:03:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Obama’s bio a state secret in Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian officials say a biography of Barack Obama provided to Stephen Harper shortly after Obama’s inauguration qualifies as a state secret]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/gi0EAOoTVYE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199753.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199765</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199890</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:08:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Remembrance Day silence should be mandatory: poll]]></title><description><![CDATA[A majority of Canadians believe observing two minutes of silence on Remembrance Day should be mandatory rather than voluntary, a new poll suggests]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/H_1n5fEmqA8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199889.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199890</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199605</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:14:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[George Jonas: Gorbachev didn't tear down that wall]]></title><description><![CDATA[George Jonas: Mikhail Gorbachev and his Bolsheviks didn’t drive the changes that led to the fall of the Berlin wall -- they resisted them]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/UUMxoVW78UQ/george-jonas-gorbachev-didn-t-tear-down-that-wall.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199779.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/07/george-jonas-gorbachev-didn-t-tear-down-that-wall.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199958</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:05:08 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Buzz Hargrove resigns from NHLPA]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Hockey League Players' Association is officially starting from scratch]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/4XHLcu3U4q4/buzz-hargrove-resigns-from-nhlpa.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199974.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2009/11/08/buzz-hargrove-resigns-from-nhlpa.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199200</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:32:54 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Hurricane Ida strengthens, heads toward Gulf of Mexico]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hurricane Ida roared toward the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after killing 91 people and leaving at least another 60 missing in floods and mudslides in El Salvador]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/vXN0tSFtQiY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199558.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199200</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199640</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:02:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Michael J. Fox named most influential expat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael J. Fox, who used the fame he gained as an actor to take a starring role in the fight against Parkinson's disease, has been named the most influential Canadian expatriate]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/JZCxv6iZmUc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2032453.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2199640</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2198115</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:25:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Army says Fort Hood shooting suspect off ventilator]]></title><description><![CDATA[A spokesman for the U.S. Army said the suspected shooter behind the rampage at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/aaassoATVtQ/names-of-fort-hood-victims-released.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199377.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/07/names-of-fort-hood-victims-released.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199879</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:50:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Low Native transplant rates blamed on 'bias and racism']]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest study says aboriginals are one-third as likely to get a kidney transplant as Caucasian Canadians, even though they have over twice the rate of kidney failure]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/BoJi9BEIZis/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199878.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199879</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199547</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:02:17 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Torch relay can’t compete with Churchill's polar bears]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Olympic torch finishes second place to the bears in Churchill, Manitoba, the 'polar bear capital of the world']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/6q7GMnHgJcg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199546.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199547</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199214</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:39:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Afghan Taliban deny they have missing troops' bodies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taliban denied Sunday they were holding the bodies of two U.S. soldiers who had gone missing, after claims they had recovered the two dead]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Uoir60Tth2k/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199221.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199214</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197690</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:48:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[U.S. Health bill faces tough Senate path to passage]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a landmark win in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform faces a difficult path in the Senate amid divisions in his own Democratic Party on how to proceed]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/JdLm6KWASUM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199393.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197690</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197600</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:46:53 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Alberta premier easily passes leadership review]]></title><description><![CDATA[Premier Ed Stelmach pulled out a win Saturday, collecting 77.4% support from his own party members]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/0XXQ65pBHhg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2198051.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197600</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199487</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:26:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Iraqi lawmakers pass election law]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iraq's parliament on Sunday passed a long-delayed election law paving the way for a national election in January after overcoming disagreements over the disputed city of Kirkuk, a lawmaker said]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/o-hqRF8Hp_4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199446.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2199487</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2199479</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:02:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[IMF exploring insurance levy on banks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The IMF is exploring the idea of making banks pay insurance fees to fund any future rescues in the sector, managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Sunday. But Strauss-Kahn said his organisation was not pursuing a global tax on financial transactions -- a so-called 'Tobin tax']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ft0TJURnCqU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199478.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2199479</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197824</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:59:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Royal couple visits Olympic village]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, toured the Vancouver Olympic Games athletes village on Saturday after touching down in rain and cold at the Vancouver International Airport]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/78m2TFvPOX4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2198346.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197824</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2198287</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:02:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[RCMP charges Ont. man with Rwandan war crimes]]></title><description><![CDATA[RCMP officers from Ottawa arrested a 37-year-old man in Windsor, Ont., on Friday for allegedly committing an act of genocide in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide in the African country]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9VScXRGkkk4/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2198287</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197627</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:53:02 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Remembrance Day: A Nova Scotia town's heavy burden]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bumper sticker on Robin and Paulette Tedford's red Ford pickup truck is as direct as they come: 'If you don't stand behind our troops feel free to stand in front of them']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lX5z7EEFwvI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2197658.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197627</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2198309</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:31:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Kessel gets first goal as Leafs rout Red Wings]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Jonas Gustavsson, the Toronto Maple Leafs finally have a goaltender whom they trust will stop the puck. In Phil Kessel, they finally have a legitimate top-six forward who is capable of scoring. And after picking up points in each of their last seven games, the team is finally confident that it can compete with anyone in the league]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/u-840BgNDjE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2198311.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2198309</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197100</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:19:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Yann Martel's primer for PM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yann Martel, one of Canada's top authors, thinks the Prime
Minister would benefit from reading a Harlequin romance novel]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/IEjOaaH3Puo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2197568.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197100</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197521</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:07:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Bailout fund, climate deal divides G20]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain threw its weight on Saturday behind proposals to impose a global levy on banks to fund future bailouts]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/S2ZbLIO9PsU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2197532.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2197521</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197693</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:02:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadians overwhelmingly support high-speed rail: poll]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadians overwhelmingly support high-speed rail and believe the federal government should provide the startup funding as well as investments]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/FZA8kXlI33U/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197693</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197761</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:02:25 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Mourners say goodbye to soldier killed in Afghanistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The flag-draped coffin holding the body of a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan arrived at a funeral service in Saskatoon on Saturday, carried by his fellow soldiers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/bvo6IBjTVuk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2155689.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197761</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2194543</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:01:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Muslims fight to control Fort Hood attack fallout]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hours after Major Nidal Malik Hasan was identified as the shooter in Thursday’s attack at Fort Hood and with his motive still unknown, moderate and extremist Muslims began vying for control over the dark narrative that has already sparked heightened tensions across the United States]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TmzY9xTsrV4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2194578.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2194543</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197694</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:02:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[B.C. legislates striking paramedics back to work]]></title><description><![CDATA[British Columbia has legislated its striking paramedics back to work]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Tt43ifZVb3Y/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197694</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197566</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:13:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[The Royal Visit: An up-close and personal tour of Hamilton’s Dundurn Castle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video: Steve Murray takes you on a tour of Prince Charles and Camilla’s visit to Hamilton’s Dundurn Castle]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Idbg6ObSWqs/2009-royal-visit-steve-murray-a-fair-to-remember-if-you-re-into-that-sort-of-thing.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/07/2009-royal-visit-steve-murray-a-fair-to-remember-if-you-re-into-that-sort-of-thing.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2197519</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:02:21 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Winning lotto ticket worth $50M sold in the Prairies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s newest national lottery game finally has a grand-prize winner]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/jqsXPqIur1I/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2197519</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2194137</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:58:12 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto wins 2015 Pan Am games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toronto has won the 2015 Pan Am Games, on the first ballot. Premier Dalton McGuinty, Mayor David Miller, federal sports minister Gary Lunn and bid committee chair David Peterson were part of a 20-member delegation in Guadalajara, Mexico, where delegates from the Pan American Sports Organization cast their votes this afternoon]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/q9ZsMEqhfqs/toronto-wins-2105-pan-am-games.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2194149.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/06/toronto-wins-2105-pan-am-games.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2194588</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:23:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Pro-Israeli Canadian lawyer ejected from UN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guards ejected an accredited Canadian commentator from the United Nations after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/mYK735io69I/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2194607.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2194588</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2194013</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Don Martin: Mike Duffy jumps the shark]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don Martin: With his wild rant on a CBC politics show this week, Senator Mike Duffy has become a complete embarrassment]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/S7GFSLpNVdY/don-martin-mike-duffy-jumps-the-shark.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2194016.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/06/don-martin-mike-duffy-jumps-the-shark.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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43,000 jobs in October while U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TlJq9gIgmGg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2192604.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2192113</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2193634</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:02:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[B.C. judge to head probe into salmon stock collapse]]></title><description><![CDATA[British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen will chair a federal commission of inquiry into the collapse of Fraser River sockeye salmon runs, Trade Minister Stockwell Day announced on Friday in Vancouver]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/tKezjQiKCNw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2193648.bin" 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lead reporter on the H1N1 vaccination campaign]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Hh7eRBPOwpU/h1n1-live-chat-is-there-a-vaccine-for-when-politics-and-science-mix.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2193028.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/06/h1n1-live-chat-is-there-a-vaccine-for-when-politics-and-science-mix.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2192603</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Top court rejects malicious prosecution charge in child abuse case]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that a Crown prosecutor was not acting maliciously when he prosecuted 12 members of a Saskatchewan family in the early 1990s after three foster children accused them of sexual 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Games]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/FY0Bw_c72v0/toronto-to-learn-tonight-if-it-will-host-2015-pan-am-games.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/06/toronto-to-learn-tonight-if-it-will-host-2015-pan-am-games.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2192828</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:02:28 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Second coyote involved in fatal mauling of Toronto folk singer killed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parks Canada says it has killed two adult male coyotes in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, following the mauling death of a hiker more than a week ago]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/YaCO44loudE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2192826.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2192828</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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Ian MacDonald: High-stakes byelections]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are four byelections coming up on Monday and the Liberals could come in third in all four of them]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1bw05-TfWp8/l-ian-macdonald-high-stakes-byelections.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/06/l-ian-macdonald-high-stakes-byelections.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2189352</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:53:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[U.S. conservative activists take health care protest to Capitol]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of conservative activists converged Thursday on Capitol Hill to protest the Democrats’ plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XjXdFQd7UBE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2189340.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2189352</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2190003</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:02:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Military planning afoot for drawdown of Afghan deployment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk’s order for a “drawdown” of forces in Afghanistan lays the groundwork for what will be a lengthy process of transporting tons of equipment and supplies back home.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/tD_bv42zPoE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1573801.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2190003</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2189680</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:02:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Judicial inquiry to explain decline of B.C. salmon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday the federal government will convene a judicial inquiry to investigate the disappearance of millions of sockeye salmon from B.C.’s Fraser River fishery.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/EDPUyDr4siE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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treated to a spectacle of Islamist double-talk that will leave them dazzled]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lDTe1VNzKTQ/tarek-fatah-banned-in-canada.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2188986.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/05/tarek-fatah-banned-in-canada.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2187436</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:39:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Survivor clung to a seat as chopper crashed into the sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[The lone survivor of a helicopter crash off Newfoundland has taken the stand at a public inquiry into an accident that claimed 17 lives]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/5OfGhCrRERM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2187824.bin" 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Google Dashboard, a new site where any user with a Google account can log in and see what information and personal data is stored about their web habits.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/29b9AEg4zPg/google-opens-up-about-what-it-knows-about-you-with-Dashboard.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2187866.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpposted/archive/2009/11/05/google-opens-up-about-what-it-knows-about-you-with-Dashboard.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2189071</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadians develop test strips to reveal food toxins]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian scientists have discovered a quick method to test for toxic pesticides in food which, in the future, could be adapted to detect potentially deadly bacteria such as E. coli, listeria or salmonella]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/fCYmd_DSIyo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1709932.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2189071</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2187833</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Opposition may keep gun registry on life support]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don Martin: A private member's bill killing the billion-dollar registry is heading off to committee for, in theory, a rubber stamping. Not so fast]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/vzRmY0ZNdd4/don-martin-opposition-may-keep-registry-on-life-support.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/05/don-martin-opposition-may-keep-registry-on-life-support.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2188576</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:02:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[PLO's Abbas won't seek re-election]]></title><description><![CDATA[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that he had no wish to seek re-election at a presidential poll he has called for January and that he was not ready to debate the issue.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/a9Wuw1B9nG8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2188581.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2188576</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2187286</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:22:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto budget chief eyes city sales tax]]></title><description><![CDATA['We will soon be the only city of its size in North America that doesn’t have a sales tax. We are missing an opportunity to build it into the HST']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/S4pxV8T7DOQ/toronto-needs-to-levy-its-own-sales-tax-city-budget-chief-says.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2187288.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/05/toronto-needs-to-levy-its-own-sales-tax-city-budget-chief-says.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2188466</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:40:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[McGill, Simon Fraser grab top spots in Maclean's rankings]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the fifth-year running, McGill University has nabbed the top spot in this year's Maclean's magazine university rankings.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/782YnJ09YvQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1992168.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2188466</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2187263</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:33:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[UN pulls foreign staff from Afghanistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Nations will evacuate hundreds of its staff from Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilize the country]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/4Ptg77Oqxoc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2187267.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=2187263</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2187062</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:51:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Don Martin: Liberal torch paranoia flames up]]></title><description><![CDATA[If MPs strutting at torch relay celebrations was a Winter Olympics sport, the federal Conservatives would be turning in a solid gold performance]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-l2OCT8qrYI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2187314.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/politics/story.html?id=2187062</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2187900</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Tom Gross: Holocaust denier appointed as Iran's media boss]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ramin hasn’t just repeatedly said that Jews invented the Holocaust, he has also said (sounding quite like Hitler) that “everyone knows Jews are filthy people who have spread lethal disease throughout history.”]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PiWdlkSeGl4/tom-gross-holocaust-denier-appointed-as-iran-s-media-boss.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/05/tom-gross-holocaust-denier-appointed-as-iran-s-media-boss.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184143</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:01:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Provinces claim to be out of H1N1 vaccine loop]]></title><description><![CDATA[The provinces and territories will have 1.8 million doses of H1N1 vaccine delivered to them for next week, a federal health ministry spokesman says]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zUTTI8azPVs/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184141.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2184143</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2187076</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:02:18 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Accused radicals crossed border 47 times: report]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two Canadians facing extradition to the U.S. for their alleged involvement in a radical Islamic group have been stopped by U.S. officials at the border in the past, according to a newly released federal document obtained by the National Post]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/T6iOgT6TBGM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2173002.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2187076</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2185407</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:53:40 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Matsui masterful as Yankees take World Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[They call it the House That Jeter Built. Pettitte and Rivera were master architects as well. To the idol-worshiping fans of New York, Hideki Matsui was a bit player in the season-long baptismal ceremony for the new Yankee Stadium. But years from now, when they reminisce about the first World Series championship in the new palace, they will speak his name in reverential tones]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/rzPV9K-Oq1c/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2185406.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2185407</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184989</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:29:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Royal visit: A smile from a prince]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bitter autumn winds chilled my hands to the bone yesterday afternoon, as I stood waiting on a lonely airport tarmac for Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, to arrive from Newfoundland]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1Tf4u_jCL8U/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184988.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2184989</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184904</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:17:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Vote seals fate of gun registry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don Martin: The federal gun registry is on its way to extinction with all gunowner records destroyed. Backed by 21 MPs from the three opposition parties and a solid block of support from the Conservatives, the House of Commons voted 164 to 137 to endorse a bill abolishing the gun registry for final consideration at committee and ultimately the Senate]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-_bxAUfuAo8/don-martin-vote-seals-fate-of-gun-registry.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2185308.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/04/don-martin-vote-seals-fate-of-gun-registry.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2185025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:02:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Election wins signal 'renaissance,' GOP says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh from winning two U.S. gubernatorial elections, Republican leaders said on Wednesday the results signalled a “renaissance” for the embattled party before midterm balloting in 2010]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/u0KRjD_GOFQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2185029.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2185025</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2185241</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:02:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Bachman brother sues over BTO band name]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian guitarist Randy Bachman is at the centre of a legal battle over the rights to the name of the world-famous rock band he founded in the 1970s, Bachman-Turner Overdrive]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XTPFCxZgO9c/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2185246.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2185241</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2185218</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:01:31 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Terence Corcoran: Ottawa must fix wireless mess]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terence Corcoran: Having taken Globalive’s money, Canada is now telling the company the deal is off. Under a CRTC ruling last week, Globalive was deemed to be foreign controlled by Egyptian telecom magnate Naquib Sawiris. Mr. Sawiris’s company, Orascom Telecom Holdings, is today left holding spectrum he just bought but now cannot use]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/5FKs3QW9Zsc/terence-corcoran-ottawa-must-fix-wireless-mess.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2173838.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/04/terence-corcoran-ottawa-must-fix-wireless-mess.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184494</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:40:01 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Israel seizes ship carrying huge cache of weapons bound for Hezbollah]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israeli naval commandos seized a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian-supplied arms, including rockets that can hit Israeli cities, to Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, Israeli officials said on Wednesday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/dqi0Lj2UNuw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184580.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2184494</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184624</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:47:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Telus, Bell kick off iWar with Rogers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Telus Corp. and Bell Canada are no longer playing catch-up to Rogers, as they flip the switch on an advanced network this week and begin selling iphones -- at cheaper rates.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/AAQEnIGgQFg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184926.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2184624</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184971</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:54:42 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[TTC proposes ¢25 fare hike, $126 passes by 2010]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Toronto Transit Commission announced late today that it plans to hike fares by 25-cents a ride to $3 by the new year to generate $62 million in new revenue]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/d8mAPyqOfVE/ttc-proposing-25-cent-fare-hike.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/04/ttc-proposing-25-cent-fare-hike.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184562</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:14:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Raphael Alexander: Olympic officials bungle Dutch beer garden plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Come on people, it’s a beer garden. You drink beer, eat food, engage in revelry and then fall down. It isn’t complicated]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zdNzeomMFVw/raphael-alexander-no-beer-please-we-re-canadian.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184585.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/04/raphael-alexander-no-beer-please-we-re-canadian.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184074</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:23:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA['Profit is not satanic,' London bankers tell churchgoers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of Britain's top bankers are speaking at London churches in support of the big paycheques that have brought them under attack]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/pZjSeq6kvjU/bankers-say-jesus-would-have-approved-of-fat-paycheques.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184057.bin" 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Nov 2009 17:24:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Slayings by Afghan cop underlines dangers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deaths of five British soldiers gunned down by an Afghan policeman have highlighted the dangers faced by Canadian troops as they try to train an Afghan security force]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ldhZhC2EEwg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184018.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2184020</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184551</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:19:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Strong loonie cuts iPhone costs, Bell says]]></title><description><![CDATA[BCE Inc., the Canadian phone company that began selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone Wednesday, said the Canadian dollar’s gains are cutting its cost for the handsets]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Hqaz_vOOgPw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184560.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2184551</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2183696</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:14:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada to unveil Olympic hockey roster on Dec. 31]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty-three Canadian hockey players will be breaking open the bubbly for more than just ringing in the New Year]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/7QITThHTE_M/canada-to-unveil-olympic-hockey-roster-on-dec-31.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2051525.bin" 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Author Jon Ronson wrote the book the film is based on]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/oKrTVnYY3-k/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2180028.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2179984</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2182688</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:45:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[N.B. schools seek O Canada exemption]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dozens of francophone schools have applied for an anthem exemption after a policy mandated that schools that did not want to play the national anthem each day develop other activities to promote patriotism]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8uRB1eS_-GE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2183053.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2182688</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2178116</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Three missing softball players found dead in submerged Jeep]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. authorities said Wednesday they believe three young softball players, including one Canadian woman, likely didn’t see the pond before they drove their vehicle into it, killing all three on Sunday in southwestern North Dakota]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zhlHH15lF6w/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2183347.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2178116</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2183097</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toyota pulls out of Formula 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor withdrew from Formula One on Wednesday, leaving Japan without a team in motorsport's premier series]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/FEubjEMLQF0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2182885.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2183097</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180758</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:32:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Mountie who used Taser on Dziekanski sues CBC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Const. Kwesi Millington claims that CBC’s coverage of the incident has caused him to suffer 'serious embarrassment and distress' and 'public ridicule']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/dhRQCMTKKXQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2180775.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2180758</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180750</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:41:03 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Republicans score pair of victories in 'off-year' races]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. Republicans scored a pair of morale-boosting victories on Tuesday night in "off year" elections that could signal early disenchantment with Democrats and President Barack Obama only a year after the electoral landslide of 2008]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zi77faPmztI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2180924.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2180750</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2184296</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:02:31 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ambassador Doer talks trade with Obama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ambassador Gary Doer took Canada’s frustrations over the Buy American trade dispute directly to President Barack Obama on Wednesday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/HntLwgLyKfg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2184293.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2184296</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180282</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:23:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[GM nixes sale of Opel]]></title><description><![CDATA[The board of General Motors Co has opted to keep Opel, sources briefed on the deliberations said on Tuesday, undoing months of painstaking negotiations to sell the European unit to a Russian-backed group led by Canada's Magna]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/897aIl_1MlA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2180295.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2180282</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180456</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:23:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Immigration changes have little effect: Auditor General]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is no evidence that changes the Conservative government made to Canada’s immigration system in 2008 have reduced the backlog of applications or addressed the needs of Canada’s labour market, the auditor general said on Tuesday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/OLUQ_IJFGS0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2180458.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2180456</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180444</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:02:12 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Getting vaccines to Canadians a stumbling block]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite dire talk about vaccine shortages and supply problems, a large portion of the H1N1 vaccine shipped out by the federal government in the last three weeks has yet to be injected in to Canadians arms]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/HSju6g6rfO0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2178702.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2180444</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180904</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:02:12 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Alberta man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting teenager]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Red Deer man has pleaded guilty to six charges related to the kidnapping and sexual assault of an Alberta teenager earlier this year.
Gerard John Baumgarte, 57, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, unlawful confinement, sexual assault, impersonating a police officer, using an imitation firearm to kidnap and assault with a weapon on Tuesday morning]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zsF5d9-5W0M/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2180904</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2178119</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:05:00 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Budget watchdog says funding too low to do job]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s parliamentary budget officer said on Tuesday he may have to shut down his operations due to lack of funding]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/C5nAMMa6uGg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2179730.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2178119</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180723</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to co-host Oscars]]></title><description><![CDATA[co-host Oscars]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/7Cjh69MJFZs/steve-martin-alec-baldwin-to-co-host-oscars.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/11/03/steve-martin-alec-baldwin-to-co-host-oscars.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2174053</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:08:09 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Post Driving: Hot Wheels '10]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Post Driving team looks at the new wheels that will turn heads in 2010]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lChUPHizv2M/hot-wheels-10.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2174074.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posteddriving/archive/2009/11/03/hot-wheels-10.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2178500</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:51:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Italy vows to fight court ruling against crucifixes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politicians decry European Court of Human Rights ruling as 'absurd' and 'spineless'; Vatican also disappointed]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/BpzqMHR-Rec/italy-vows-to-fight-court-ruling-against-crucifix.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2178360.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/11/03/italy-vows-to-fight-court-ruling-against-crucifix.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2179790</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:02:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Flames skipped queue for H1N1 shot: probe underway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alberta’s health agency is investigating how most players on the Calgary Flames managed to receive their H1N1 vaccine shots in private last week, while thousands of Calgarians stood in the cold for hours to be inoculated. A spokesman for the NHL organization said “most” of the team received the vaccine on Friday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/U7QTCAA3ymc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2179788.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2179790</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2176698</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Tories propose self-employed parental benefits]]></title><description><![CDATA[The legislation would allow access to maternity and parental benefits for those who take time off to care for their own newborns or for adopted children]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XrMBJRB2Hx0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2178139.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2176698</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2180440</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:58:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[John Tory holds edge in early Toronto mayorality polls]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Tory holds edge in early Toronto mayorality polls]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/rdIGlULfYqo/mayoralty-poll-suggests-many-undecided-but-john-tory-has-advantage.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/03/mayoralty-poll-suggests-many-undecided-but-john-tory-has-advantage.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2176850</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:12:57 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Two charges dropped against Toronto shopkeeper]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Crown dropped two charges against Chinatown merchant David Chen today, as he returned to court to face accusations stemming from his confrontation with a shoplifter.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/WcbMPVs2Ojw/crown-drops-kidnapping-charge-against-chinatown-shopkeeper.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2178562.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/03/crown-drops-kidnapping-charge-against-chinatown-shopkeeper.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2178122</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:51:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Quebec physicians favour euthanasia in certain cases]]></title><description><![CDATA[College calls for changes to the Criminal Code of Canada that would permit euthanasia in cases of 'imminent or inevitable death']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/EVSr7pWArGU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2143554.bin" 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sleep like a baby during the day, a new Canadian study says]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ssTosx6UPcA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1724374.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2179975</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2179882</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:58:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[10 arrested in Quebec construction industry probe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Surete du Quebec has arrested 10 people in connection with Project Diligence, its investigation into Quebec's construction industry and alleged links to organized crime]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zFzTNTcCq20/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2179882</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2178359</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:54:04 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dead at 100]]></title><description><![CDATA[French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at the age of 100, according to his Paris-based publisher, Plon]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/FMWSIXaSGMg/french-anthropologist-claude-l-233-vi-strauss-dead-at-the-age-of-100.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/11/03/french-anthropologist-claude-l-233-vi-strauss-dead-at-the-age-of-100.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2172316</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:56:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Outstanding CEO: The builders' builder]]></title><description><![CDATA[FP Magazine: Ross Grieve has done more than grow a company as CEO at PCL Constructors. He’s also been the custodian of a great Canadian legacy]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TSNOM0zS_CI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2172341.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/ceo/story.html?id=2172316</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2176775</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:55:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Royal couple visits Canada’s oldest English settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, joined federal and provincial representatives in rural Newfoundland Tuesday at the site of Canada’s oldest English settlement to mark its 400th anniversary]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/b86MVLroelQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2176779.bin" 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soldier killed in Afghanistan returns to Canada Tuesday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XGQFzXgHB8U/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2182915.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2176466</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2176458</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:32:54 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Body of third miner found in flooded Quebec gold mine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bodies of all three miners who went missing in a flooded mine in northern Quebec have been found]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/N_cPu8p0B0I/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2176458</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2174402</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:53:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Utley powers Phillies to Game 5 win over Yankees]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Phillies kept their bid for back-to-back World Series titles alive with an 8-6 win over the New York Yankees on Monday night.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/VI8GSqxAW7s/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2174403.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2174396</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2173545</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:47:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Charles and Camilla kick off Canadian visit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A large crowd, including Canadian dignitaries, waited to greet Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as they arrived in St. John’s on Monday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/N8AIHQQqwqY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2173937.bin" 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cuts will end deficit: watchdog]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada is digging itself into a deeply entrenched national deficit that will be impossible to balance unless the federal government takes further action, Parliament’s budget watchdog has warned.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/rlxTi6JSvyU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2173866.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2173856</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2174299</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Police fed up with Ottawa teens’ naked shenanigans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police here are dealing with teens engaged in “car rallies” where participants win points for running naked, kidnapping younger students, stealing and vandalizing.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PoFibJdaxgE/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2174299</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2173949</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:01:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Competition Bureau seeks real estate shake-up]]></title><description><![CDATA[A landmark investigation by the federal Competition Bureau may dramatically change the way homes are bought and sold in Canada.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/SPNVc6eQAiE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2174016.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2173949</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2174257</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Stakes high for Obama, Democrats in trio of off-year 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Just take a look at the league's most recent injury list. Then add Alex Ovechkin to it. 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with the World Trade Organization]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9CLt7s-OAJI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1632900.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2172889</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2172062</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:36:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Karzai declared Afghan president as run-off cancelled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Afghanistan’s election commission declared Hamid Karzai elected as president on Monday after it called off a runoff following the withdrawal of his only rival]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ImgdHY3M3w4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2172927.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=2172062</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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custody]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9HJSJKO3w1s/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2173002.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2172987</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2172972</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:58:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[One of three missing Quebec miners found dead: reports]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the three men missing in a northern Quebec mine shaft has been found dead, according to media reports.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Muz7UhBClyY/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2172972</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2173067</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:02:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Teenaged Medicine Hat killer granted open custody]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s youngest 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