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19:27:01 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Amnesty International calls for detainee inquiry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amnesty International Canada added its voice Tuesday to calls for a public inquiry into Afghan detainees who were surrendered by Canadian forces]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zicclZHO6tI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/261180.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2260356</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2260374</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:47:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Deer dashing through downtown Toronto tasered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toronto police including, yes, emergency task force members have surrounded a deer that had wandered downtown. 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It is settled, they say]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hQNzSGNVCxY/terence-corcoran-after-copenhagen-the-end-of-the-science.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2260129.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/23/terence-corcoran-after-copenhagen-the-end-of-the-science.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2260465</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:02:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Saskatchewan set to pass Ontario on wealth meter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s largest provinces have taken the biggest hits to standards of living in the recession – so much that Saskatchewan will surpass Ontario as the second-wealthiest province, an independent analysis showed Tuesday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/yCIRlEnwoM0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2260500.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2260465</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2260635</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:02:37 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Saab faces extinction after buyer backs out]]></title><description><![CDATA[A deal by General Motors Co. to sell its Saab brand collapsed on Tuesday when the buyer pulled out in a move that threatens the Swedish luxury brand with closure.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-Gf19Rb7qZk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2260672.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2260635</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2260204</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:58:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Scott Gavura: Naturopathy a prescription for quackery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scott Gavura: Many 'naturopaths' reject basic scientific principles of medicine. So why does Ontario want to give them the legal right to prescribe real drugs?]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/0-wJcMnrAeA/scott-gavura-naturopathy-a-prescription-for-quackery.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2260224.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/24/scott-gavura-naturopathy-a-prescription-for-quackery.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2260683</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:24:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Lou Dobbs considering run for president]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lou Dobbs, who ended a 30 year stint with CNN earlier this month, has confirmed that he may run for president in 2012.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/jWWfvrPcCks/former-cnn-anchor-lou-dobbs-confirms-he-is-considering-a-run-for-president.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/24/former-cnn-anchor-lou-dobbs-confirms-he-is-considering-a-run-for-president.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2260102</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:02:21 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadians on jobless benefits leaps 7.1%]]></title><description><![CDATA[The number of people in Canada receiving Employment Insurance benefits rose by 54,300 or 7.1% in September, following two months of declines, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/SkL5EaOL7Ew/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2260110.bin" 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2009 11:58:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Airport mourns toddler's tragic death]]></title><description><![CDATA[A part-time janitor, was cleaning escalators in busy Terminal 1 at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Sunday night when he saw crowds running toward the crumpled body of a baby boy who fell off a balcony at the departures level and plunged 15 metres onto the arrivals level below.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/O1OfP3ppsA8/tragic-airport-death-i-feel-sad-because-it-is-like-my-baby.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2258151.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/24/tragic-airport-death-i-feel-sad-because-it-is-like-my-baby.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2257403</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:32:37 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Kelly McParland: Dion's wife isn't the only aghast Liberal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Krieber’s words carry particular danger in that they appear to reflect a conviction held by others in the Liberal party]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zXn3oR_PTNU/kelly-mcparland-janine-krieber-s-dangerous-cry.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2259954.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/23/kelly-mcparland-janine-krieber-s-dangerous-cry.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2257946</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:10:53 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Don Martin: Credibility gap grows on PM's dodge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper was posing for pictures in his Ottawa office with the Canadian Men's Field Lacrosse team when he should have been in the House of Commons answering difficult questions for the first time in two weeks]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8eXRx2tBPAg/don-martin-liberals-flail-as-harper-dodges-debate-on-detainees.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2257952.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/23/don-martin-liberals-flail-as-harper-dodges-debate-on-detainees.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2259965</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:02:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Philippines massacre toll reaches 46]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Philippines placed two southern provinces and a city under emergency rule on Tuesday after gunmen killed 46 people in a brutal election-related massacre that has shocked the country]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/gIVcWZd5mLM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2259967.bin" 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HST]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/EkVkFSvHono/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2257867</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2257609</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:01:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Preparations underway for elaborate Obama state dinner]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama on Tuesday hosts his first state dinner and -- like the US$1.4-trillion deficit -- the darn thing just keeps getting bigger and bigger]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-c-vswmoYYU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2257594.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2257609</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2257339</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Billions in Canadian assets at risk from global warming]]></title><description><![CDATA[An international report released Monday ranked Canada as 12th in the world in terms of assets in jeopardy because of rising sea levels]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/WwYcLO8hQOo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2257446.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2257427</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2256561</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:00:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Charges dropped against four in Jane Creba trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ontario justice threw out charges against four of seven accused in Boxing Day 2005 shooting of Jane Creba]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9xci6A7afKY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2256778.bin" 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GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[12 honoured with Canada's Medal of Bravery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twelve Canadians were proclaimed on Monday as recipients of one of the nation’s highest honours of courage -- the Medal of Bravery]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/qIF0oAQXv-U/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2257117</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2257115</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:02:25 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Loonie gains more than a cent on oil, gold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s dollar gained the most in two weeks against its U.S. counterpart as gold and crude oil climbed, burnishing the appeal of currencies tied to commodity prices]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/7bgXgY4yIh0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2257127.bin" 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talks with Microsoft]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/imEEmgU012Y/fp-tech-desk-will-microsoft-pay-ruper-murdoch-to-pull-news-corp-sites-from-google-in-favour-of-bing.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2256191.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpposted/archive/2009/11/23/fp-tech-desk-will-microsoft-pay-ruper-murdoch-to-pull-news-corp-sites-from-google-in-favour-of-bing.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2256978</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:02:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA['Jail broken' iPhones vulnerable to new virus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hackers have built a virus that attacks the iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/nZfmonB4puI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ontario Tories walk out of legislature to protest HST]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ontario Conservatives walked out of question period en masse Monday to protest a lack of public consultation over the government’s new harmonized sales tax legislation]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-urLdsBTC4Y/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2256794</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2255247</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:46:15 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Harper to loosen telecom rules?]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ivison: The prospect of bringing Fox News to Canada maybe be tempting enough to persuade the Prime Minister that the risk of igniting a culture war is worth 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Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of university-educated recent immigrants to Canada are underemployed; takes 10 years to match Canadian-born counterparts]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/BowNeOoj-cc/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2256280</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2255947</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:59:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Tories to toughen child porn laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[The federal government plans to introduce new legislation Tuesday forcing Internet providers to alert police if they encounter any host sites linked to child pornography]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/pBLHHNb5td0/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2255947</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2253587</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:02:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Commonwealth leaders weigh Rwanda membership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper joins other Commonwealth leaders here later this week faced with the thorny question of whether to admit Rwanda into the 53-nation club]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/DSkgbj9Ss00/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2255829.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2253587</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2255927</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:15:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Cadbury looking sweeter as others mull bids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Speculation of a bid battle for Cadbury PLC between Kraft Foods Inc. and other rivals who are considering making takeover offers lifted shares in the British confectioner to a new high, analysts said on Monday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Cci0pnfjngE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1969342.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2255927</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2255933</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:11:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Anger builds as China mine toll hits 104]]></title><description><![CDATA[Relatives of victims angrily demanded answers Monday as the death toll from China’s worst mining disaster in two years climbed to 104 and hopes of finding more survivors faded]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/UxJe7pHUISI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253328.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2255933</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2253395</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:43:04 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Dion’s wife rips Liberals on Facebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephane Dion's wife has created a stir in the blogosphere with a short-lived Facebook entry critical of the current Liberal party]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ca2SRreuA78/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253393.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2253395</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2254078</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:54:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Riders to meet Alouettes in Grey Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the second time in three years, Saskatchewan Roughriders are headed to Canada's greatest party]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Xc6NMcAAR-Y/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2254086.bin" 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late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning five awards including artist of the year]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/GwnkGbD3vY8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2254447.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2254446</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2253649</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:58:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Clean-up underway in Britain after floods, record rainfall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday in flood-hit towns following the heaviest downpours ever recorded in England, as fears mounted for a woman thought swept into a swollen river in Wales]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1X5qZWIuoRg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253648.bin" 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H1N1, some experts worry the drugs could become over-prescribed]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/yi_KBMidETE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253408.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2253409</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2253911</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:02:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Family grieves after crash kills 4, spares baby, in Alberta]]></title><description><![CDATA[A child strapped into a car seat is the lone survivor of a head-on crash that killed four adults near Nanton, Alta.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/EzPvgmKIAgg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253912.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2253911</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2253586</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:02:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Mint went into damage control over missing gold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Faced with what may be a huge gold heist, the Canadian Mint consulted with a public relations firm as it worked on damage control]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/UGKofOqoolg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253585.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2253586</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2253536</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:02:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Wall unearthed from Canada’s oldest British settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archeologists in Newfoundland have found the remnants of a stone wall apparently built to defend Canada’s earliest English settlement]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Wr6wdgeNfFU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank was a 'marginal' issue blocking resumption of peace talks]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8UUCd6eyCpk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253403.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2253404</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251805</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:17:27 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[B.C. residents return to flood-damaged homes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The water was still ankle-deep in Tina Baker’s backyard Saturday. And inside her rented bungalow, the carpets were soggy]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/2NT_zlei-J8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2251807.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2251805</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2252029</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:48:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[U.S. health care bill clears first Senate hurdle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Democrats casted 60 party-line votes in the U.S. Senate to open debate on the biggest healthcare changes in decades]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/U6eLXJPrack/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2251529.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2252029</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251503</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:27:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[New bishop appointed to replace Lahey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict has appointed a new bishop to replace Raymond Lahey, who was charged with possession of child pornography]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/eG9kA7QPr1s/new-bishop-appointed-to-replace-raymond-lahey.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2086164.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/11/21/new-bishop-appointed-to-replace-raymond-lahey.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251567</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:51:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[China mine explosion death toll reaches 92]]></title><description><![CDATA[The death toll from China’s latest coal mine disaster reached 92 on Sunday, state television said, and hopes dimmed that more survivors would emerge]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/LmPdT1tUB2M/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2253328.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2251567</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251823</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:02:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ireland gives up on replay over Henry’s handball]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ireland has given up hope of a World Cup playoff replay against France because of Thierry Henry’s handball. Henry’s deliberate handling send France to next year's tournament and knocked out Ireland]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/wA-M4UQtrrU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2251825.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2251823</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2247658</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Can farmed salmon overcome its bad rap?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just when you thought we were all finished with farmed Atlantic salmon, now comes news that the New Brunswick-based Cooke Aquaculture has officially become the first company in North America to offer eco-certified farmed Atlantic salmon]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/FtD_auwfEZE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2251702.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2247658</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251368</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:02:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Taliban debating whether to end Afghan war: expert]]></title><description><![CDATA[A debate is underway among the Taliban’s senior leadership about finding ways to end the war in Afghanistan]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/24TBRDlBdSI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2251373.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2251368</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248654</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:34:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Palin fever: 'It was like Christmas for us']]></title><description><![CDATA[Allen Abel: The real Americans were waiting in their Audis and Outbacks in the Hoosier rain. Already, the parking lot had been barricaded]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/kUuoMCIVBF4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2251293.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248654</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251640</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:15:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Calgary man narrowly misses bomb blast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police were at a Calgary apartment complex on Saturday after someone detonated two explosives in the parking lot — an act investigators were calling a targeted attack]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ySfbYOWaWaw/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2251640</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251750</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:02:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Delayed spacewalk ends successfully]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk on Saturday at the International Space Station that had been delayed after a false alarm woke the crews of the station and the visiting space shuttle Atlantis]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/51RzLNP2uBc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2251754.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2251750</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248669</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:02:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Taser death raises claims of a ‘cowboy Mountie’]]></title><description><![CDATA[A B.C.-based RCMP officer who figures in a controversial in-custody death involving Tasers had a prior assault conviction from an incident that left his victim with broken facial bones and missing teeth, the National Post has learned.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/AsyeDnbdXXg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2248688.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248669</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2251349</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:31:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Robert Fulford: Canada's angriest Muslim 'moderate']]></title><description><![CDATA[Professor and writer Salim Mansur sees Islamist violence as a mark of shame]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/6P8hvoKBPGg/robert-fulford-canada-s-angriest-quot-moderate-quot.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/21/robert-fulford-canada-s-angriest-quot-moderate-quot.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248748</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:09 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson's doctor waited to call for help: warrant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson’s deathbed doctor waited over an hour to call for help when he realized the pop star wasn’t breathing, and could not be found for hours afterward, according to a search warrant unsealed on Friday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ij7v6Mvxrfg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1840594.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248748</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248163</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:02:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Worst of H1N1 pandemic may have passed]]></title><description><![CDATA[At times in recent weeks, the number of suspected flu patients showing up at the B.C. Children’s Hospital’s emergency department soared to 50 or 60 a day above usual, prompting it to set up a separate influenza clinic]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/i_zCHob9yH8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2248168.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248163</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248613</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:42:08 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[A new guard takes over in the B.C. Sikh community]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Youth Slate, running on a promise of a return to traditional customs, has decisively beaten the moderate slate of long-time community leaders at North America's second largest Sikh temple]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/LH8eFskaJTw/a-new-guard-takes-over-in-the-b-c-sikh-community.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2248571.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/11/21/a-new-guard-takes-over-in-the-b-c-sikh-community.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248078</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:42:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[PQ set to take language fight to daycares]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois has seen the enemy, and he is crawling on all fours, babbling out his first words in a language other than French]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/vSDpMax2bMc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2248103.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248078</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2246572</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:07:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[No new spending in next budget: Flaherty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday there will be no room for “major new” spending programs in next year’s budget outside of what is to be spent as part of the two-year, $46.6-billion stimulus plan.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/zFJaQVFDU54/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2246977.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2246572</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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before the last federal election]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/K_srbVLdh-8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2248056.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248049</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248621</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:02:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Records of 1,400 residents found in government employee’s home]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British Columbia government is investigating a major security breach after police discovered the personal records of 1,400 income-assistance clients in the home of a government employee, the Victoria Times Colonist has learned]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/GiDy46GC454/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248621</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2248490</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:02:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Lesbian U.S. soldier wins key court victory in asylum bid]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lesbian soldier who deserted the U.S. Army won a key court victory yesterday when a judge ordered the refugee board to reconsider her failed asylum claim and take into account evidence that she was persecuted and her sexual orientation could mean stiffer punishment for going AWOL.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/nGoqaS9KIJc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2248502.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2248490</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2247659</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:06:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[New home sales in Toronto spike in October]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is seen as an early indication that construction may soon pick up for a housing market that is short on supply, not only in Canada’s largest market, but most of the country]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ta6M-4CA7GI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2247717.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2247659</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2247190</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:27 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[NBA power rankings: The red hot Hawks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Celtics, the Suns and the Lakers have another fast-rising team to contend with, the 10-2 Atlanta Hawks]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/_ETpuNwe4JA/nba-power-rankings-tweet-this-sizzling-hawks-take-over-at-no-1.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2247195.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2009/11/20/nba-power-rankings-tweet-this-sizzling-hawks-take-over-at-no-1.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245584</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Personal bankruptcies jump 43%]]></title><description><![CDATA[The number of Canadian bankruptcies jumped by an annual rate of 43.3% in September, as consumers continued to take the brunt of the economic downturn.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Q-Ps4l8GfhU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2245594.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2245584</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2246936</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:02:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey says ending TV show  'feels right']]></title><description><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey said on Friday that she will end her popular TV show in 2011 because it “feels right in her bones” after 25 years, and urged viewers not to believe rumors of why she’s quitting]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/J3z6nO6SW34/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2013952.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2246936</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2246272</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13:17 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[French captain Henry requests World Cup replay]]></title><description><![CDATA[France captain Thierry Henry said Friday “the fairest solution” to the row over his handball in the World Cup playoff against Ireland would be a replay, but FIFA rejected an Irish call for a re-match]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/4smH7vrT8A4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2246303.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2246272</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2246452</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:02:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Iran claims victory despite Canadian win in UN vote]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran claimed effective victory over Canada at the United Nations on Friday as a majority of world countries refused to support a Canadian-led bid to censure the Islamic republic over its human rights record]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/AbWQ00ynHqQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2246497.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2246452</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2246336</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:13:00 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Politics chat transcript: Afghan detainees, HST and H1N1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scott Stinson, national and politics editor at the National Post, will host a chat with columnist John Ivison on political headlines]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TwWG17_W6uw/politics-live-chat-afghan-detainees-hst-and-h1n1.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2246523.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/20/politics-live-chat-afghan-detainees-hst-and-h1n1.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2246042</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Kevin Libin: Caledonia a sign of more land claim troubles?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kevin Libin: We should thank our lucky stars that the vast majority of native bands have so far refrained from such tactics]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/skyJOsaMkvQ/kevin-libin-caledonia-coming-soon-to-a-land-claim-near-you.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2243138.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/20/kevin-libin-caledonia-coming-soon-to-a-land-claim-near-you.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245952</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:01:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Chris Selley: Why I love the Olympics]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Olympics are a big, bloated, money-sucking spectacle -- one of few humankind bothers to mount these days. That’s part of what I love about them]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/RbUohVLXYpE/chris-selley-in-defence-of-the-olympics.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2245951.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/20/chris-selley-in-defence-of-the-olympics.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2246396</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:35:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto's 'crystal' named one of the world's ugliest buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tourism Web site has named the Royal Ontario Museum's Crystal one of the world's 10 ugliest buildings]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/dO1g8PWj420/rom-crystal-named-one-of-world-s-ugliest-buildings.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2248489.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/20/rom-crystal-named-one-of-world-s-ugliest-buildings.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245068</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:25:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Editorial: Don't go to Cuba]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadians should not be subsidizing Cuban tyranny. If you want sun, try Miami, the Dominican Republic or St. Lucia]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/pXcnxCYA3fo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2245470.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245068</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245448</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:31:40 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Harassment could see Jean Guy Tremblay get dangerous offender status]]></title><description><![CDATA[His record is full or acts of violence and threats but there are no convictions for crimes that normally lead to the dangerous-offender status for Jean Guy Tremblay]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/fsRUDp59J68/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2245449.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245448</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2242944</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:53:04 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Don Martin: Tories shoot the messenger over torture claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don Martin: The government has turned on a new enemy in its Afghanistan conflict -- Washington embassy intelligence officer Richard Colvin]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/KKmX0hY6Ry8/don-martin-tory-attacks-only-boost-diplomat-s-credibility.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2242949.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/19/don-martin-tory-attacks-only-boost-diplomat-s-credibility.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245571</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:58:00 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[A remedy for the wrongfully convicted]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Morton: In Canada, there is no existing remedy for the harm caused by a wrongful conviction. It is time to consider changing that]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/13WRNuvQJ8s/james-morton-a-remedy-for-the-wrongfully-convicted.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2032660.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/20/james-morton-a-remedy-for-the-wrongfully-convicted.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2243116</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Barbara Kay: Sticking it out in marriage is a good thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[I would tie both the divorce peak and its diminution to the rise and decline of militant feminism’s influence]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/DrhL1JhUSPc/barbara-kay-sticking-it-out-in-marriage-is-a-good-thing.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2241607.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/19/barbara-kay-sticking-it-out-in-marriage-is-a-good-thing.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245479</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:02:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Peru accuses gang of killing to sell human fat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XRtLnSVlNb4/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245479</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2243108</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Blurring gender lines in sports a challenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Caster Semenya case illuminates abnormalities in human sexual development, and challenges the male-female binary on which sporting competition is based. It also has experts questioning the notion of an even playing field, since biology -- Tiger Woods’ long arms, Michael Phelps’ long torso -- and technological advancements in equipment, give athletes an edge all the time]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/QfDbVI4aS0Q/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1980873.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2243108</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245045</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:47:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[B.C. native bands step off the reserve]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two northwestern British Columbia native groups have made
unprecedented moves to break free from decades of economic
dependency.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ujDZ3KdHFDA/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245045</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245035</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:38:13 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Irish up in arms over French star's handball]]></title><description><![CDATA[As with all things controversial in soccer, the tabloids tell
it best in the headlines. "Hand of the Frog" was one. "Hand of the
Gaul" another.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/z5fDODcRgNk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2238198.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245035</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245087</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:08:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Lorne Gunter: Undermining the rule of law]]></title><description><![CDATA['Testimony has shed light on just how cack-handed and cowardly the handling of the Caledonia siege has been']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/rjms5gX8qjQ/lorne-gunter-undermining-the-rule-of-law-in-caledonia.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2243138.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/20/lorne-gunter-undermining-the-rule-of-law-in-caledonia.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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million.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/YdCFtmIC0HU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237621.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245615</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245401</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:02:31 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Radioactive waste contaminating Canadian water]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released on Friday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/vVPaX-Ar_iA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2245387.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245401</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2243131</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:29:12 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Protesters actions criminal 'in normal circumstances': OPP]]></title><description><![CDATA[Threats, kidnapping, intimidation, harassment, vandalism, mischief and theft by native protesters in Caledonia against a family whose house is almost surrounded by the contested site are not valid expressions of a land claims dispute said Julian Fantino, commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/jemahi1Pqjk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2243138.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2243131</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2245483</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:09:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Britain hit by floods after record rainfall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Torrential rain of 'biblical proportions' caused serious flooding in northerwestern areas on Friday as rescuers hunting for a policeman who vanished when a bridge collapsed found a body]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/WFHKIZCTyN0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2245407.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2245483</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2242868</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:46:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Oprah to end show in 2011]]></title><description><![CDATA[Popular talk show host expected to make announcement on Friday, media mogul expected to take show to own cable channel]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/MqwNAcXh_AA/oprah-to-end-show-in-2011-reports.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2242909.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/11/19/oprah-to-end-show-in-2011-reports.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2241676</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:14:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Drug dealer found guilty in 2007 slaying of Mountie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emrah Bulatci, an Alberta drug dealer who admitted to fatally shooting RCMP Const. Christopher Worden in the Northwest Territories on Oct. 6, 2007, has been found guilty of first-degree murder by a Yellowknife jury]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9cBsaseDmq8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2241693.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2241676</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2242927</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:34:13 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[We had permit to dig, company says after TTC meltdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[The road construction that spurred yesterday’s TTC meltdown was done at the request of the City of Toronto and after city hall issued a permit to do it, Enbridge said today.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/T9ykya1lpSE/city-gave-us-permit-to-dig-enbridge-says-after-ttc-subway-meltdown.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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voluntary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finance Minister Jim Flaherty pleaded Thursday with Canada’s big banks and credit card companies to respect a newly released ...]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/el5KBgzrjT4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2242744.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2241444</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2242486</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:47:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ireland calls on FIFA to replay France playoff]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) called on FIFA on Thursday to order a replay of the controversial World Cup playoff against France]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Z7CIQtT04t8/irish-fa-calls-on-fifa-to-replay-france-playoff.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2009/11/19/irish-fa-calls-on-fifa-to-replay-france-playoff.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2240827</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:51:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[A&W guys are the new Apple guys]]></title><description><![CDATA['Hi, I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC, and we’re the most annoying guys on television,' is how the new round of Apple’s 'Get a Mac' television commercials is being perceived by some]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Dig0-Ds6Gas/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2238452.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2238453</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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hit bottom and is set to recover in the months ahead, says a report Thursday from the Conference Board of Canada.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/LM9sYqzYKEU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2241914.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2241627</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2241788</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:02:54 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Health-care spending expected to top $183-billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Health-care spending is expected to reach $183.1-billion in 2009 or $5,452 per Canadian, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/f-aUhxVnwUE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2241787.bin" 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Mumbai terror attacks have now turned their sights to Bollywood]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9vv21JF0yA0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2241502.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2241503</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2241048</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:02:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[B.C. First Nation approves private property rights]]></title><description><![CDATA[A northwestern B.C. First Nation has passed a historic law allowing Nisga’a citizens to own their own property, in New Aiyansh, north of Terrace, B.C.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/z8bXP7_JzFM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2241050.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2241048</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2241132</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:39:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[First look — Twilight: New Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twilight fans have waited, like, forever for the latest installment of the Stephanie Meyers' vampire series, but is it enough to keep their bloodlust sated?]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9VF6mGcAM1E/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2241188.bin" 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delayed, Federal Aviation Administration says data failure poses no safety issues]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9TsT0TAz7FU/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2241262</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2241008</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:16:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Caster Semenya to keep gold medal despite gender probe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Caster Semenya will be allowed to keep her controversial medal, which was in doubt after questions about the teenaged runner's gender made headlines worldwide]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8P6NTUzTcOM/caster-semenya-a-champion-once-again.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1980873.bin" 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is hardening its tone against Israel, but analysts are warning the tough talk is hiding the lack of a viable plan to revive the Middle East peace process]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/_yAG6UWokp8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2240810.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2239807</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2239945</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:24:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Joe O'Connor: Leafs GM has yet to reach breaking point]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Toronto Maple Leafs were in North Carolina yesterday licking their wounds after yet another loss and preparing for tonight's game with the Hurricanes]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/sWz5-K2C1QU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2139339.bin" 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shrinks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shrinking size of Canadian families is taking an unexpected toll on health care]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/HRv_DOtyOvE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2238610.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238599</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2238613</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:02:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Terence Corcoran: Can't we all just drink from the same cow?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terence Corcoran: Free trade is great — except to farm marketers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/IZ3rAetVz8Q/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1885166.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238613</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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longer than a month-and-a-half to assemble the list]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/aByxo9mKNUQ/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238581</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237560</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:29:04 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Iqaluit to host G7 in February: 'They might fly in, but may not get home']]></title><description><![CDATA[Top finance officials from the G7 countries will meet in the remote Arctic town of Iqaluit on Feb. 5-6 but may not issue a communique, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/a72tf71E_bE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237590.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2237560</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2238547</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:02:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Crown tries to cast doubt on Caledonia man's story]]></title><description><![CDATA[The government’s cross-examination of David Brown, the Caledonia man suing the province of Ontario after his house was caught in a no-man’s land when native protesters took control of a large construction site in a fiery land claims dispute, started with a suggestion he made up portions of his dramatic evidence to draw attention to his lawsuit]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/p6-tmVxbk7U/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2234248.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238547</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2238725</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:02:26 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Obama to send U.S. envoy to North Korea]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he wanted to break a pattern of past dealings with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme and wouldn’t be distracted by “side items.”]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/sI2Wk_F-WwM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2238604.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238725</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2238669</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:02:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Separated Bangladeshi twins to make full recovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Long-term, after seeing the scans I think they will be fine. It’s all looking really good,” neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner told reporters.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/gr-8Y6jpMvI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237165.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238669</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2238254</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:02:53 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Tories, Liberals spar over ‘shocking’ mailouts on Israel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservative and Liberal MPs traded barbs over mailouts that argue over which party is the strongest supporter of Canada’s Jewish community]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/iy35I8EUO-E/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2238253.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238254</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237556</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:47:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Comment: Harper toys with ethnic politics with Golden Temple visit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tarek Fatah: It seems Canadian politicians will go to any lengths to curry favour with ethno-religious communities, who they treat as vote banks. First it was Jack Layton with his now famous call to Muslims “to renew the spirit and faith in Islam,” and now it is Prime Minister Stephen Harper]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/g64cWEOKG9E/tarek-fatah.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237557.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/18/tarek-fatah.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237935</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:03:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Bill tabled to repeal Ontario’s pit bull ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[A private member’s bill calling on Ontario to reverse its pit-bull ban was introduced Wednesday in the Ontario legislature]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/wADBauhJUjM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237932.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2237935</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237821</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:02:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Senator vows probe of Fort Hood ‘terrorist attack’]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. senator Joe Lieberman on Wednesday called the Fort Hood shooting spree 'the most destructive terrorist attack on America' since 9/11]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/MzqXTK7q0a0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237798.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2237821</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2238091</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:02:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Missouri family accused of rape, incest and murder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigators in Bates City, Missouri spent last week searching for glass Mason jars buried on a family farm, jars that purportedly hold the childhood secrets of six siblings allegedly raped by their uncles and grandfather decades ago]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/vl2w1hDQD8Y/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2238091</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2238016</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:34:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Telus sues Rogers over 'fastest' network claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Telus Corp., Canada’s No. 2 phone company, has sued Rogers Communications Inc. for allegedly misleading Canadians with advertising that claims Rogers’ wireless network is the fastest and most reliable in the country.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1SglsSAi5Do/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2238025.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2238016</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237352</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:51:40 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Doctor skewed report in London sex scandal: barrister]]></title><description><![CDATA[A London sex discrimination case heard suggestions Wednesday a psychiatrist changed his medical assessment of a Canadian woman to help her case]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/umDXRA5FusI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2233035.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2237352</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237199</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:59:09 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ottawa told to review decision on former Nazi]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Federal Court of Appeal has ordered the government to reconsider its decision to revoke the citizenship of a former Nazi collaborator]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8sZcKFyGZGM/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2237199</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237226</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:52:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Alouettes take 10 spots on CFL All-Star team]]></title><description><![CDATA[As reward for tearing through their Canadian Football League schedule like it was a wet paper towel, the Montreal Alouettes have claimed an eye-popping 10 spots on the CFL’s All-Star team, the highest total of any franchise in the last decade. QB Anthony Calvillo was selected for the fourth time in his career]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Sloc5Zin8tE/montreal-alouettes-dominate-cfl-all-star-team.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1870539.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2009/11/18/montreal-alouettes-dominate-cfl-all-star-team.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234418</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:07:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Court lets sponsors off hook for immigrants]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Ontario court has ruled in favour of a group of residents who said they should not automatically be made to pay for relatives they sponsored to immigrate to Canada, despite having pledged to do so]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-Ra7qwp2sAM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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moment']]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Afghanistan faced a critical moment on the eve of President Hamid Karzai’s inauguration for a second five-year term]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/nVaWA15HHL4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2236780.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=2236771</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2237078</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:42:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Fighting for the right to hang laundry]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are a growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ffz3wwzvEk8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237087.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2237078</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2236468</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:56 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Lorne Gunter: The police aren't always right]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most frequently heard arguments from supporters of the gun registry is: If police chiefs and police associations support the registry, why don’t law-and-order conservatives?]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/JvM0SwuQEgE/lorne-gunter-the-police-aren-t-always-right.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2236484.bin" 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grow nuclear co-operation with India]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he hopes his trip -- which was a whirlwind of commercial, cultural, and spiritual events -- is the beginning of a new relationship with the world’s largest democracy]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/56W0f_B1XG4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2236418.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2236346</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2236916</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:03:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Israel rebuffs criticism on settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel defended its decision today to build hundreds of new Jewish homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/DXJfTMl7iw0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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October]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada's annual rate of inflation rose in October, after four straight months of year-on-year declines, due to less downward pressure from gasoline prices, Statistics Canada said]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/z-aGHOKm-gQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2237419.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2236256</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2236280</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:51:06 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Hope but few breakthroughs on Obama’s China debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama made few breakthroughs but left Beijing on Wednesday hoping he had nurtured a bond with China vital to tackling the gravest global threats]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/kdATVDhAflM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2236281.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2236280</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234587</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:27:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[PhD reveals secret life as famed prostitute]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years she titillated Britons with her witty and erotic despatches from the front lines of the sex trade -- but the upmarket call girl has been unmasked as Dr. Brooke Magnanti, 34, a research scientist in a hospital in Bristol, western England, where she specializes in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/5dXtGerKZjo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2236254.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2234587</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234246</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:58 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Crates may have held AK-47s: Caledonia man's testimony]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Brown, the Caledonia resident whose house was trapped on the native side of the blockades during the fiery aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, found himself crawling through the swampy tree line at the edge of the contentious site to investigate noises that had frightened his elderly neighbours, court heard on Tuesday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/dT7ohgsTtD8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2234248.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2234246</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234427</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:02:26 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Iranian charity a government front: U.S.]]></title><description><![CDATA[An organization the United States alleges is a front for the Iranian government has been bankrolling programs in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, charity records show]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/RTgn5E78zq8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2234431.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2234427</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234132</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:02:25 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Seal soon on the menu at Parliamentary Restaurant]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Parliamentary Restaurant will soon serve seal meat to anyone with a taste for game — and controversy]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9rZ765fBGQI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2234174.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2234132</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234371</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:50:18 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Don Martin: Clock tallies IOU to next generation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don Martin: Stephen Harper will join Jean Chretien as only the second prime minister in history to enroll Canada in the half-trillion-dollar national debt club]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/xwqhLEta5Ss/don-martin-jean-chretien-s-half-trillion-dollar-debt-club-gets-a-new-member.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2065643.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/17/don-martin-jean-chretien-s-half-trillion-dollar-debt-club-gets-a-new-member.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234227</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:20:21 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Families concerned about missing Somali-Canadians]]></title><description><![CDATA[Several Somali-Canadian families are asking what happened to their sons after a group of young men apparently disappeared from Toronto two weeks ago.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/F2MYp5ue9Tk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2234611.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2234227</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234056</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:33:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[John Ivison: Is McGuinty's teflon wearing off?]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ivison: With new leaders and a scandal-ridden foe Ontario's opposition are landing blows on the Liberals]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-N3x9fo7NK0/john-ivison-weary-of-teflon-man-ontario-voters-eye-little-mike.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229589.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/17/john-ivison-weary-of-teflon-man-ontario-voters-eye-little-mike.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2233745</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:02:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[South key to fate of Afghanistan: Canadian general]]></title><description><![CDATA[NATO’s International Security Assistance Force is pouring resources into Kandahar because “if the enemy has the South, they have a strong hold on Afghanistan,” according to the Canadian general who runs the alliance’s war planning for the six southern provinces]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Vg-1Qbxcn0c/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2233758.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2233745</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234058</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:22:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[We need a new 'Quebec.com': Péladeau]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pierre Karl Péladeau says “Quebec Inc.” must evolve into a new economic movement called “Quebec.com” if the province’s distinct society is to move forward]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1qOJFXWa_FY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2234196.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2234058</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234392</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:24:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Aircraft operators grounded by Olympic restrictions seek damages]]></title><description><![CDATA[2010 Olympics airspace security restrictions have put many of B.C.’s small aircraft operators in a holding pattern and the industry is demanding at least $3 million in compensation]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/yh7vMWIeOlQ/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2234392</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2232114</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:42:58 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[TSX closes at highest level this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada's top benchmark exchange rose for the third straight day to close at its highest level this year as commodity prices continue to climb]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/KmdZaY3U_BQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203324.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2232114</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2233353</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:58 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Emissions per capita at ‘all-time high’: report]]></title><description><![CDATA[A record 1.3 tonnes of carbon was pumped into the atmosphere for every person on the planet last year, according to a new report]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TBA6ncggDVA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2233314.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2233353</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2234060</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:36:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[TTC raises fares, lessens blow]]></title><description><![CDATA[TTC raises fares, lessens blow]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/M1ds7e9mUJg/ttc-raises-fares-lessens-blow.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/17/ttc-raises-fares-lessens-blow.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2233079</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadian at the centre of London financier's sexual harassment scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The headlines scream of a lurid sex scandal with London papers salivating at tales of prostitutes, hitmen, strip clubs and inappropriate sexual advances]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8ZxfQP9DejI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2233077.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2232704</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2233672</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Obama's bow to Japanese Emperor shows 'weakness': Cheney]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former vice-president Dick Cheney is attacking Barack Obama again, this time for the U.S. President’s bow to the Japanese Emperor]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/J0RI713GXTA/dick-cheney-calls-barack-obama-s-bow-to-japanese-emperor-a-sign-of-weakness.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2233498.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/17/dick-cheney-calls-barack-obama-s-bow-to-japanese-emperor-a-sign-of-weakness.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2230011</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:05:26 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Police worried youths joined Islamic radicals in Somalia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Counterterrorism officials are investigating a group of youths who allegedly left Canada for East Africa two weeks ago, amid concerns they may have gone to join the Somali militant group Al-Shabab.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cOwxNQDUjyg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2231899.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2230011</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2233260</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:57:18 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Banking probes may violate privacy, watchdog warns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada's financial institutions sometimes report suspicious transactions to a government agency based on little more than a person's ethnic background]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/eFA8MvmX2PM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1935813.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2233106</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2232324</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:14:28 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Comment: An injection of H1N1 reason]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joe Schwarcz: No rational person with a plumbing or electrical problem would seek help from a former Playboy centrefold or a comedian who specializes in facial contortions]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/HJdW08oynik/joe-schwarcz-an-injection-of-h1n1-reason.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2232341.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/17/joe-schwarcz-an-injection-of-h1n1-reason.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2233595</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:02:27 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Strong earthquake strikes off coast of British Columbia]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurred early Tuesday in the Queen Charlotte Islands region off of B.C.’s central west coast, according to Earthquakes Canada]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/G9RklzUPcA8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2232463.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2233595</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2232741</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:21 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Governor General's Literary Awards winners announced]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kate Pullinger, M.G. Vassanji are among the winners announced Tuesday morning at a ceremony in Montreal]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/VVQViWAGOkk/winners-of-the-2009-governor-general-s-literary-awards-announced.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2232740.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/11/17/winners-of-the-2009-governor-general-s-literary-awards-announced.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2231895</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Terror threat puts Indian nuclear facilities on alert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nuclear power facilities in India have been put on high alert here after security forces determined that terrorists may target one of them]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lNO9hlrTJTg/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2231895</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2232811</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:02:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada least corrupt in the Americas: report]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada is viewed as one of the least corrupt countries in the world and is an 'inspiration' for the U.S. and other nations, a new report says]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/xFw9ZE4NMc8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2232871.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2232811</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2231967</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:14:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[NATO chief confident of Afghan troop increase]]></title><description><![CDATA[NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday he was confident the alliance would substantially increase its forces battling Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/aD77Exz0gRc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2231968.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2231967</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2231941</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:36:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Obama raises rights with China's Hu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama stressed America’s belief in fundamental human rights to his host Hu Jintao on Tuesday, but the two sides acknowledged differences over the thorny issue]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/RBSYc2z2el8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2231947.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2231941</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2232595</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:02:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada’s no-fly list lacks information: privacy watchdog]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bureaucrat in charge of Canada’s 'no-fly list' may not have the information needed to make informed decisions about who should be banned, says Canada’s privacy watchdog]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/MxJySUCD0e8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2232638.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2232595</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229824</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:27:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[George Johnson: The NHL's one Great travesty]]></title><description><![CDATA[George Johnson: The NHL needs to set aside its rift and reconcile with Wayne Gretzky, who did so much good for the game]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cUUU8Xip0-Y/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229823.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2229824</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2232086</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:05:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[OPP commissioner can continue pricey appeals]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ontario government will not stand in the way if Julian Fantino decides to continue a costly legal fight to try to remove a judge from presiding over a disciplinary hearing]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/z6jeEXdyQh0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1004962.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2232086</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2231892</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:38:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Battle of the Blades won by Salé and Simpson]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Olympic gold medallist and a two-time Stanley Cup champion from Edmonton captured the hearts — and votes — of Canadians Monday night, winning the Battle of the Blades]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PO3CPsVJk-w/battle-of-the-blades-won-by-sal-233-and-simpson.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2009/11/16/battle-of-the-blades-won-by-sal-233-and-simpson.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229938</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:02:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Caledonian man slept with shotgun during occupation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The corrosive strain of living through the lawless native occupation around David Brown’s house in Caledonia betrayed itself in dramatic fashion: sitting in his underwear at his kitchen table with a shotgun held between his knees, keeping watch in the dark during another fearful, sleepless night, he dozed off, his hand slipping down the gun’s barrel and hitting the trigger, court heard yesterday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/BwyO_RBikME/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2219082.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2229938</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2230025</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:37 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Don Martin: Liberals need to find new H1N1 message]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don Martin: The H1N1 germs are still spreading, but the pandemic’s potential to cause political damage seems to have peaked.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/KaEKEVUGpqo/don-martin-liberals-need-to-find-new-h1n1-message.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/16/don-martin-liberals-need-to-find-new-h1n1-message.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229751</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:02:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Presidency not on the radar, Palin tells Oprah]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey’s much-hyped interview with Sarah Palin on Monday provided fodder for book sales -- and for rumours about her White House ambitions]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/KE8-k_CpBYI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229288.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2229751</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229825</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:15:37 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[McGuinty offers Ontario a drink of HST Kool-Aid]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ivison: It's too bad for Dalton McGuinty that one of the promises he didn't break after the 2003 election was the pledge to ban taxpayer-funded propaganda advertising]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/VHQI-lMUDso/john-ivison-mcguinty-offers-ontario-a-drink-of-hst-kool-aid.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229581.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/16/john-ivison-mcguinty-offers-ontario-a-drink-of-hst-kool-aid.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229584</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:35:03 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Transport minister tried to kill passenger rights bill despite publicly supporting it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The federal transport minister’s office privately pleaded with Canada’s big airlines to step up their lobby campaign to kill a proposed passenger bill of rights]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/In1l1Jv45Ok/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229578.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2229584</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229643</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:02:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ottawa targets taxpayer-financed lobbyists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Conservatives say they will no longer tolerate Crown corporations and other public agencies hiring lobbyists to influence the federal government]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/k3Ot8SacN8o/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229627.bin" 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content in their food in front of a skeptical committee of MPs]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/dnf4iPlGz6g/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229883.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2229875</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229916</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:02:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[First Nation sues government over 1851 promise]]></title><description><![CDATA[An allegedly broken promise from 160 years ago will be tested by a lawsuit filed against the federal and provincial governments]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/UVPHLQxib1I/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2229916</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229673</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:02:25 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court asked to allow more bail information]]></title><description><![CDATA[Media organizations on Monday asked the Supreme Court of Canada to loosen restrictions on what the public has the right to know from bail hearing evidence]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/iYeEX61o3No/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229716.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2229673</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2229105</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:38:54 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Atlantis lifts off to International Space Station]]></title><description><![CDATA[The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Florida Monday on a mission to deliver spare parts to the International Space Station]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/npCqVSsWZ-A/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229140.bin" 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uranium enrichment site may mean it is hiding further nuclear activity, an agency report said on Monday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/b7jaBf5U8JA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2229368.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2229366</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2228062</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:11:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Obama chides China on Web censorship]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama told Chinese university students Monday that he was 'a big believer' in openness and 'non-censorship' on the Internet]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/7bK1UFcSAjw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2228072.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2228344</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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Oxford University Press has picked 'unfriend' as its word of the year]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hpFNE83i6vs/unfriend-selected-as-oxford-dictionary-s-word-of-the-year.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/11/16/unfriend-selected-as-oxford-dictionary-s-word-of-the-year.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2228304</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:02:27 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Homes sales hit record high; prices up 21%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Resale home activity was up 41.5% in the month, reaching a total of 42,288 units. On a seasonally adjusted basis, homes sold on the Multiple Listing Service totalled 45,818 units in October]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/jdrl1mHDtNQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2228455.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2228304</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2227943</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:14:31 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Harper aims to 'reinvigorate Canada-India relations']]></title><description><![CDATA[On the first of three days in India, Prime Minister Stephen Harper reached out to 1.2 billion people in what seemed like a million ways]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/SMtnEPXgyUE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2227944.bin" 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Canada and were often abused and forced into labour]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/4r_Y4rX6-B4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2228538.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2228492</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2228545</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:02:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Afghanistan to form anti-graft unit as pressure grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Afghanistan will form a new anti-corruption unit to investigate high-level graft after widespread criticism and demands from Washington for it to do more amid a wider regional strategy review]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/iThk02S4g04/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2228583.bin" 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what it means to be Jewish]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/5MBn6jpyhww/who-is-a-jews.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2227658.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/11/16/who-is-a-jews.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2227656</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:58:09 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Custody battles in the online age: 'Skype is not enough']]></title><description><![CDATA[Daily contact by video conference over the Internet is not sufficient access between a father and his children, a B.C. judge in has ruled in turning down a mother's request to move to Australia]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/tKVP67wCGWQ/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2227656</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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flu deaths this season]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/k8_U4EL_548/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226093.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/swine-flu/story.html?id=2226094</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2227684</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:39:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Vacant Illinois prison may house Guantanamo inmates]]></title><description><![CDATA[A near-empty Illinois prison is among the U.S. locations being considered to house transferred Guantanamo detainees, officials announced yesterday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/mKlJwvxhWvc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2227927.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2227684</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2225991</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Stimulus projects escaping environmental-impact studies]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 90 % of the thousands of new infrastructure projects across the country are slated to get funding from the Harper government without being required to undergo a federal assessment of their environmental impact]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/YCtm6gAO_Iw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2225993.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2225991</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226289</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:02:25 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Small unmanned aircraft can’t fly through red tape]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small Ontario Provincial Police unmanned aircraft is making history as one of the first aerial drones regularly used by North American law enforcement officials]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/omrWLqfp4S4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226315.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2226289</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2228309</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:08 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Live chat: The National Post watches Sarah Palin on Oprah]]></title><description><![CDATA[Join us at 4 p.m. ET today as our National Post panel glues itself to the TV to watch Oprah Winfrey's exclusive interview with failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/z8zEtvQCknY/live-panel-sarah-palin-on-oprah.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2228317.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/16/live-panel-sarah-palin-on-oprah.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2225935</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:59:21 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Who will light Vancouver’s Olympic flame?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vancouver Olympic organizers are looking for a final torchbearer who will make a lasting impression on the country]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Nh7DP2lpvRQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2225934.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2225935</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226165</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:39:56 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadian landmine initiative saved thousands of lives: report]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Canadian-led treaty to rid the world of landmines has saved thousands of lives and significantly reduced production and use of the devastating, anti-personnel weapons, according to a new international report]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/K-Y9iA_92EQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226174.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2226165</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226179</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:02:12 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Mars-bound astronauts face rapidly-aging bone marrow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty-four women stayed in bed for two months to give insight into health challenges that could face astronauts travelling to Mars]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/r1hQ9pjHALk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226184.bin" 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state]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Palestinians plan to take their quest for independence to the UN Security Council, aiming to secure international support for a state]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/6bj9H9imvGo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2225979.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2225980</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226451</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:49:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Defence sends Stampeders to West Final]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Calgary Stampeders got a playoff-tough defensive performance en route to a 24-21 win over the Edmonton Eskimos in the CFL’s West Division semifinal]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/pxIw5auKGms/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226450.bin" 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The greatest movie villain the city of Hamilton has ever seen waved to the fans and trotted back to the visiting bench. He returned to the field a few minutes later to finish the job, to ruin the script]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/--m6H2MWXgQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226154.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2226155</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226051</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:59:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[PM hoping to show off his India savvy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper hopes that meeting with one of India’s biggest stars and some TV dance contestants will translate into votes in Canada]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Nkl-fc7L13g/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226050.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2226051</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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senator]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lLQP4MlFk7Q/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2225958.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2225963</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226107</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:02:15 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[How to win hearts in Afghanistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[A warrant officer is trying to convince young, combat-craving soldiers that there's a better way to succeed: not just partnering with Afghan security forces, but bonding with villagers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/360DEb5K458/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226115.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2226107</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226092</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:02:13 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Britain to apologize over children forced to migrate to Canada, Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British government will apologize to the families of thousands of poor children who were shipped to Canada and Australia -- where many were used as forced labourers and abused]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Wh8h6lKwyWg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2226091.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2226092</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2226002</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:02:13 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadian disaster sparked ice age in Europe: scientist]]></title><description><![CDATA[About 12,800 years ago, Canada violently sneezed and Europe caught a killer cold almost instantly, a University of Saskatchewan geologist has discovered]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/d-3ua3JXUpI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2225998.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2226002</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2224110</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:48:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Editorial: NHL common sense vs. 'pansy-phobia']]></title><description><![CDATA[Stricter rules against brutal checks will give players a better chance to survive their careers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XUYd07552qU/national-post-editorial-board-commons-sense-vs-pansy-phobia.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2225895.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/14/national-post-editorial-board-commons-sense-vs-pansy-phobia.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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start]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/MpeZ8zRSzGI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2221142.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2221122</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2221225</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:30:26 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Salish Sea creeps onto maps, into controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coined twenty years ago by a marine biologist, the Salish Sea is a new geographic identity for the Georgia Strait, Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/09TOvsjloeo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2220584.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2221225</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2221747</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:54:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[David Frum: 'Why be Evita when you can be Madonna']]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hoped Palin's book would reveal a more thoughtful side is in for disappointment]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/5NeunTq19MI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2137480.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2221747</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2221713</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:29:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Black: The 'unexpected reward' of teaching fellow inmates]]></title><description><![CDATA['It pains me to verge on platitudes, but life's rewards do sometimes come in strange ways and unexpected places']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/t7zb73CcpS4/conrad-black-the-transformative-effect-of-teaching-my-fellow-inmates.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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up!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our wine, beer and spirits issue will help you and yours tipple in style this holiday season]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Xyqki7kUB5U/holiday-drinks-quarterly-bottoms-up.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2220993.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theappetizer/archive/2009/11/14/holiday-drinks-quarterly-bottoms-up.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2224357</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:39:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Flight forced to return to Halifax as pilot passes out]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Porter Airlines flight that left Halifax Saturday morning was forced to turn around and come back to the airport because its pilot briefly lost consciousness]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/dEIQJIz1OsY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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coexist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prosperity gospel: 'The earning of enormous sums does not conflict with the teachings of Jesus']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/8aM8NzFFi4o/prosperity-gospel-when-christianity-and-capitalism-go-together.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2221424.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/11/13/prosperity-gospel-when-christianity-and-capitalism-go-together.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2223917</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:17:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Obama: Fort Hood shooter failings to be held to account]]></title><description><![CDATA[Must be accountability for those who missed warning signs that could have prevented deadly shooting rampage, president warns]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/23AjaGpICzk/story.html</link><enclosure 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Court of Appeal dismissed on Friday an appeal by 14 female ski jumpers who had hoped to overturn a lower-court ruling that said the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee (VANOC) did not have to host women’s ski jumping at 2010 Winter Games.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ODs1BA_Ffak/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2221266</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2221292</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:42:26 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Faith lost in OPP's ability to protect Caledonia: officer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The OPP is handcuffed by the “policy implications” of negotiation and reconciliation with aboriginal peoples when it comes to policing the fiery native occupation of land in Caledonia, forcing officers not to intervene in a startling litany of crimes, court heard on 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carrier in Canada, is interested in acquiring spectrum from Globalive Wireless Management Corp., if the startup is unable to launch]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/OX_5Lf5LUBo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2220919.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2220644</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2221084</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:55:57 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Khadr will still face military trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian-born terror suspect Omar Khadr still faces prosecution through military tribunal, says U.S. Attorney General]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XBkjWc2Wrbw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1248761.bin" 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area near an old military training area in the community of Tracadie, N.B. are those of missing teenager Hilary Bonnell, who went missing from a First Nations reserve two months ago, RCMP said Friday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Z-8YxUfutiU/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2220550</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2220727</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:51:04 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Palin reopens old campaign wounds on eve of book release]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is stirring controversy with her new book even before it is on shelves, complaining she was “all bottled up” by advisers to Republican presidential candidate John McCain last year]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/mp1k402koHA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2220743.bin" 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made a “mess”of the H1N1 vaccination campaign and proceeding with it should be up for debate, according to one of the country’s most vocal chief medical officers.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/7x4ZH7tWD6w/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2220999.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2221003</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2149072</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:30:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Highway of Tears inquiry possible: B.C. attorney general]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigation is possible says Mike de Jong, who says the first priority is solving those 18 cases of missing and possibly murdered women]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Cg65-wHZ8oE/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2149072</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be sent for prosecution to criminal court]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/2wz5tLDtUH8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2218611.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2218604</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2220082</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:33:15 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Police return to dump site in Mariam search]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toronto police have turned their attention back to the Ingram transfer station Friday morning, hoping to unearth new evidence in the disappearance of Mariam Makhniashvili]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Qm1cZQEhttM/police-return-to-garbage-dump-in-search-for-mariam-makhniashvili.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2220072.bin" 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TV from prison bed]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of B.C.’s notorious Bacon brothers has a new complaint about life behind bars -- he can’t see his television from his bed]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PsroWXB_9C8/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2220620</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2220008</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:02:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[OPP commissioner fails again in bid to remove judge from hearing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police has again been unsuccessful in his lengthy and costly attempt to remove a retired judge from presiding over the disciplinary hearing of two senior officers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/xDmXQidLPrE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1004962.bin" 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Caledonia: lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unfortunate couple's home lies between police barricade and site occupied by masked aboriginal protestors, court heard yesterday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/rfHQ-l-pljE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2219082.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2216425</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2220233</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:02:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Nuclear deal would boost Canada-India relationship]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Prime Minister Stephen Harper lands in Mumbai, India, on Sunday night, he and his officials hope it will mark the warming of a relationship that has been decidedly frosty for more than 30 years, ever since India angered Ottawa by developing a nuclear bomb with unknowing Canadian help]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/s4kc_f7t12s/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1639221.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2220233</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2219527</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:03:08 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Parents in 'balloon boy' hoax plead guilty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard and Mayumi Heene, who fabricated the stunt in a bid to land their own reality television show, will be sentenced next month]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/iO-QE6l5L-c/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2219523.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2219527</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2218740</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:12:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Colby Cosh: Some things about Canada are worth spelling out]]></title><description><![CDATA[The moment we turn visitors into new Canadians is our only practical chance to enforce the social contract they are signing]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TxhmvgHCDok/colby-cosh-some-things-about-canada-are-worth-spelling-out.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2216258.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/13/colby-cosh-some-things-about-canada-are-worth-spelling-out.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2217586</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:08:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Realtors edge toward MLS alternative]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Financial Post has learned that Canada's four largest real estate companies are close to an agreement to share their listings]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/jr3i_A40V1k/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1789828.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2217586</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2219215</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:43:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[National Post editorial board: The madness of Major Nidal]]></title><description><![CDATA[If ever a crime was preventable by psychiatric intervention, this was the one]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hmFu0kZLPRQ/national-post-editorial-board-the-madness-of-major-nidal.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2199377.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/13/national-post-editorial-board-the-madness-of-major-nidal.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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China.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/DO_de7ed7IE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2218561.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2218559</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2218949</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:34:57 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[France will oppose but not ban burqas: Deputy]]></title><description><![CDATA[France will issue recommendations against full face veils but not pass a law barring Muslim women from wearing them, a leading backer of a legal ban said on Friday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ZgVOatz9JKU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/643378.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2218949</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2216294</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:15:31 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Veteran and friend foil Legion robbery]]></title><description><![CDATA['I would have punched his head in', vet says after attacker flees empty-handed]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/XVvrJTN80fI/veteran-84-foils-legion-robbery.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2216289.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/12/veteran-84-foils-legion-robbery.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2216416</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Bomb destroys Pakistani security building: witnesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bomb destroyed a Pakistani security agency office in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least two people, witnesses said]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PVdRwEdcIsA/story.html</link><enclosure 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Hall]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ywZs4yqF24Q/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2214928.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2214930</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2215740</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:04:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[John Ivison: Citizenship guide gives Liberals branding lesson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who could have imagined that the Conservatives would be so successful in hi-jacking the maple leaf as a Conservative symbol]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/tv9pGzUb9N4/john-ivison-liberals-get-a-lesson-on-branding.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2215721.bin" 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CBC paints a bulls-eye on its forehead by having Suzuki host]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Suzuki steps in as guest host of The Current at a time when his involvment could not be more contentious and polarizing]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/D-LGEiuUQZQ/don-martin-cbc-s-the-current-paints-a-bulls-eye-on-its-forehead.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2216399.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/12/don-martin-cbc-s-the-current-paints-a-bulls-eye-on-its-forehead.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2215490</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:57:31 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Infantry full up: General]]></title><description><![CDATA[So many Canadians want to become trigger pullers in Afghanistan that the army is now not accepting any new infantry recruits, the army’s top general says]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/JHp0rv61cRk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2215430.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2215490</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2215890</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Torture can make even the innocent appear guilty: study]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty, according to new research that concludes witnesses justify feelings of complicity by convincing themselves that victims deserved what they got]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/B0jpNc7yJ1U/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2215872.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2215890</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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issue of sexual politics and gender inequity]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/WTQ30DxlvPo/kids-hocky.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2214202.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/12/kids-hocky.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2216271</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:02:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Most kids won't need second H1N1 flu shot: officials]]></title><description><![CDATA[All but the youngest children need only a single half-dose of H1N1 vaccine, federal health officials will announce Thursday. The decision means many parents of healthy children who have already endured long waits to have them vaccinated will not have to line up again for a second shot]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/fi1jRvh23wQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2216270.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2216271</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2216585</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:54:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Suicide bombing near US base in Kabul: officials]]></title><description><![CDATA[A suicide bomb blast struck near a US military base in the Afghan capital on Friday, officials said. “It was a suicide attack near Camp Phoenix,” said Zemaray Bashari, spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/60BFFxy56wk/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2216585</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2215146</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Most job losses came early in recession: StatsCan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Job losses were felt more in the earlier stages of this recent recession compared with previous economic downturns in recent decades, according to report from Statistics Canada.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1FAT_Mj3Gqw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2215158.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2215146</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2214917</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:26:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Windsor police apologize to Muslims for FBI arrests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Windsor police chief Gary Smith has apologized to members of Windsor’s Islamic community for offending their beliefs after officers arresting two FBI suspects at gunpoint patted down one of their wives]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/D-ZGN5kUtKg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2173002.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2214917</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2215231</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:10:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Food under $4 to be exempt from Ontario HST]]></title><description><![CDATA[Food and beverages sold for under $4 in Ontario will be exempt from the 8% provincial component of the new harmonized sales tax, a government source said 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GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Father de Souza: The Fort Hood double standard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Father Raymond J. de Souza: Add Fort Hood to the lengthening list of places where, we are told, it is important to be vigilant about anti-Muslim activity]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lT6hl12hwpc/father-raymond-j-de-souza-the-fort-hood-double-standard.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2215279.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/12/father-raymond-j-de-souza-the-fort-hood-double-standard.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2214430</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:53 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Early H1N1 treatment can save lives: WHO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Early medical treatment for H1N1 can mean the difference between life and death for people with underlying conditions]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Fm_pKnSPGGc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2214435.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2214430</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2214648</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:48:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Major fire engulfs Vancouver businesses, forces evacuations]]></title><description><![CDATA[An early morning fire in Vancouver has destroyed several businesses and about 20 residents in a neighbouring apartment building have been evacuated as a precaution]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/qLd3xh0WC5U/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2215154.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2214648</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212191</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:44:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Fine line between clever and obscure in Ad World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rob Tarry, partner and associate creative director at Vancouver’s award-winning ad agency Rethink Communications, talks about the state of the industry.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1JmRtVAFBeE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2212203.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2212191</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2215027</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Marketing Week Live Blog, Day 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marketing Week Live Blog, Day 2]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ya1qBNt2JYY/marketing-week-live-blog-day-2.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpposted/archive/2009/11/12/marketing-week-live-blog-day-2.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212321</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:26:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Don Martin: Ignatieff lacks vaccine to halt Liberal pandemic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watching Ignatieff's reaction to the byelections was far more instructive than the actual results. He had expected to lose big in all four, and the voters didn't disappoint, but he clearly doesn't have a clue what to do next]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ci5k7v-JyQM/don-martin-ignatieff-lacks-vaccine-to-halt-liberal-pandemic.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2214222.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/11/don-martin-ignatieff-lacks-vaccine-to-halt-liberal-pandemic.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212438</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:31:58 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Schizophrenic man allegedly beaten to death over chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jeff Munro, a 32-year-old who 'lived and breathed' dancing from the age of two, was found dead in Toronto’s notorious Don Jail just days after landing in jail]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/1bd7HhPLmXY/schizophrenic-man-allegedly-beaten-to-death-over-bag-of-chips-in-don-jail.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2212442.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/12/schizophrenic-man-allegedly-beaten-to-death-over-bag-of-chips-in-don-jail.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2214254</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:02:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadian corporate taxes among highest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada has the fifth-highest corporate tax rate among 30 of the world’s most developed countries, although its so-called indirect taxes, like the GST and PST, are lower than its peers, according to a new study.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/sLFF1V4zfP0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2214272.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2214254</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212232</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:28:54 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Pentagon denies being alerted to accused shooter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fingerpointing begins in Fort Hood investigation as worries about botched warnings surface]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/f1eN9sLMD5k/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2212234.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2212232</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2211360</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:32:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[China hints ready to let yuan appreciate]]></title><description><![CDATA[China sent its clearest signal yet that it was ready to allow yuan appreciation after an 18-month hiatus, saying on Wednesday it would consider major currencies, not just the dollar, in guiding the exchange rate.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/sAzgML4FjG0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2211380.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=2211360</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212398</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:14:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Fur flies over death of 'Thatcher']]></title><description><![CDATA[With lightning speed, it spread from BlackBerry to BlackBerry among the 2,000 or so Conservatives in black-tie on Tuesday evening at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the first ever True Patriot Love Tribute Dinner. 'Thatcher has died.']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/CDFeCNkxHq8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2212406.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2212398</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212137</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:46:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Obama tops Forbes' list of world's most powerful people]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/S0GWsm54bJA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2212152.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2212137</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2213068</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:06 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Health-care staff embrace H1N1 shots]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, administrators have struggled to motivate reluctant health-care workers to get a flu shot. This season, it seems, the message finally got through]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/eHYnOC1q8yQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2213069.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2213068</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2211578</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:02:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court warned about Khadr ruling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ottawa is warning the Supreme Court against declaring that a government has a legal duty to protect its citizens detained abroad]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/pa46X9rOLxg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2211577.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2211578</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2211997</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:06:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[What's next for Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntyre?]]></title><description><![CDATA[So what does a busy author do after winning the biggest prize in Canadian literature?]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/KzP8v-IXjfg/what-s-next-for-giller-prize-winner-linden-macintyre.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2208499.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/11/11/what-s-next-for-giller-prize-winner-linden-macintyre.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212170</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:05:58 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Full Comment podcast: Talking H1N1]]></title><description><![CDATA[The editorial board chats about the H1N1 flu: the skeptics, the line-ups and more]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/juE3jfgU0oo/full-comment-podcast-the-politics-of-the-h1n1-flu.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2212184.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/11/full-comment-podcast-the-politics-of-the-h1n1-flu.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2210741</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:52:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadians observe Remembrance Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s war veterans and soldiers serving in Afghanistan were honoured from coast to coast Wednesday on Remembrance Day]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/tacOqXC98uQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2211994.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2210741</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2208253</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:22:31 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[A POW's diary: 'I am so full of horror and terrible sights']]></title><description><![CDATA[The third part of Flt. Lieut. Novak's POW diary reveals the harrowing days at the end of the Second World War]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/gjY64ODKTHc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2208262.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2208253</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2212238</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:23:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Controversial host Lou Dobbs leaves CNN]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNN host Lou Dobbs announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the network]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ARSOUSvXsiE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2212239.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2212238</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2211702</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:48:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Kelly McParland: Detroit, the new American Frontier]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kelly McParland: From the I'm-going-to-find-a-rainbow-in-this-dark-cloud-if-it-kills-me school of journalism comes this celebration of the disaster that is Detroit]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/LYiXBUvT1fw/detroit-revisited.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/11/detroit-revisited.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2210833</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:08:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[David Frum: The Palin Fantasy lives on]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Frum: Sarah Palin supporters have constructed an alternative reality in which their heroine is wildly cheered by the American public]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/O2HeohAoBkc/david-frum-the-palin-fantasy.aspx</link><enclosure 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to oil sands activists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Report debunking doctor's claims of an epidemic of cancer downstream from major oil-sands operations called persecution]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lQ4SnE5tOIc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2209963.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2209962</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2211013</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:42 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Dan Arnold: Byelections are over, but spin goes on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dan Arnold: There is no positive spin to put on Monday's byelections for the Liberals but it was no NDP victory either]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/KayuJyv9PFM/dan-arnold-byelections-are-over-but-spinning-goes-on.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2211047.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/11/dan-arnold-byelections-are-over-but-spinning-goes-on.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2210402</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:12:51 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Gunter: Political correctness and Fort Hood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lorne Gunter: Many 'experts' have assiduously avoided the obvious cause of the Fort Hood shootings: fundamentalist, radicalized Muslim views]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/0ehf0v3M8F8/lorne-gunter-fort-hood-and-cultural-suicide.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2210406.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/11/lorne-gunter-fort-hood-and-cultural-suicide.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2211144</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:02:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Alleged B.C. gang boss denied taxpayer cash for trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A judge has rejected a plea of poverty by the accused patriarch of the Sanghera gang, who wanted taxpayers to pick up the tab for legal representation on gun charges at his upcoming preliminary hearing]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/NIYMDbd1hcA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2211143.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2211144</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2210397</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:02:25 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Health minister 'disturbed' Afghan detainees in line for H1N1 vaccine]]></title><description><![CDATA[No Afghan detainees have been vaccinated to date but Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq has ordered an investigation]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Ln0466-CPrM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2210398.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/swine-flu/story.html?id=2210397</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2210579</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:08:26 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Bed bugs may soon spread to transit, theatres]]></title><description><![CDATA[The city’s bed bug infestation has grown so quickly and drastically that the blood-sucking crawlers have spread outside homes and are latching on to Torontonians at work]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/IBdjU_KdoPk/bed-bugs-so-bad-in-toronto-they-ll-soon-spread-on-transit-in-theatres-experts-warn.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2210580.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/10/bed-bugs-so-bad-in-toronto-they-ll-soon-spread-on-transit-in-theatres-experts-warn.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2208498</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:54:32 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Linden MacIntyre wins Giller Prize for The Bishop's Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[Linden MacIntyre, a veteran broadcast journalist best known for his investigative reporting, has won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop's Man]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/JKUYfmEgvYQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2208496.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2208473</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2208246</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:52:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Marketers must adapt: Google Canada's Jonathan Lister]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Marketing Week in Toronto kicks off on Wednesday Mr. Lister talks to the Financial Post’s Matt Hartley about the state of the online advertising industry in Canada, Google’s recent purchase of mobile advertising firm AdMob and how the Web is changing the very nature of social interaction]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/EeuyZc8H3Qo/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2208295.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2208246</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2210382</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:03:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Massive blackout leaves Brazil on edge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A massive blackout plunged tens of millions in Brazil’s largest cities into darkness, sparking major disruptions, fears of crime and energy supply concerns Wednesday for the newly named Olympic hosts]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/LR8tEjRQ8_U/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2210379.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2210382</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2206901</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:14:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Protestors arrested as Royal tour rolls through Montreal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Montreal police dressed in riot gear faced demonstrators protesting the royal visit Tuesday of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arresting at least two people. TV images of the protest showed more protesters being carried away by officers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/oMxCwioxUAE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2208395.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2206901</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2208400</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:02:15 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Washington sniper executed by lethal injection: prison]]></title><description><![CDATA[Washington sniper John Muhammad was executed on Tuesday by lethal injection over a series of 2002 shootings that left 10 people dead, a prison spokesman said. “I did not hear him utter a word,” spokesman Larry Traylor told reporters after confirming that Muhammad was dead.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Stq6xR5KmmQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2203251.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2208400</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2209964</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:25:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Hand sanitizer costs Toronto $645,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[The city paid nearly double the normal rate for hand
sanitizer when it bought multiple bottles for all staff in a rush
purchase during the first wave of the H1N1 epidemic, outraged
councillors said yesterday.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/l3cfPMIw14M/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2209965.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2209964</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2207627</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:22:04 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada’s youth crime laws hailed as success by British researchers]]></title><description><![CDATA[British researchers hold up our youth crime laws as symbols of success. So why is the Harper government pushing for changes?]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/L6otJjglyDg/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2207623.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2207627</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2206410</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:25:12 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada's lacklustre productivity a threat: TD]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bank's analysis serves as a wake-up call for governments to cut program spending aggressively, as increased demand for services from an aging population, coupled with less-robust tax revenue growth, will make it that much tougher to restore fiscal balance]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/q31PZ_Anre0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2207102.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2206410</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2207465</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:28:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[iPhone's first worm: half prank, half warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[The novel viral iPhone attack is a mere "rickroll." But researchers warn that more serious exploits could follow]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cRUtFedgJ3k/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2207480.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2207465</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2206977</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:58 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Abortion amendment could spark Democratic revolt]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is facing a potential mutiny among liberal Democrats in Congress over a US$1.1-trillion health care bill that includes new restrictions on abortion in the United States]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TOfVkjGgy7o/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2206986.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2206977</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2207750</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:02:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Convicted Bandidos massacre bikers file appeals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five of the six defendants convicted in the massacre of eight of their fellow Bandido bikers have moved quickly to file appeals of the verdicts at their trial]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hlFu1UVQLxM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2160479.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2207750</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2207508</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:47:02 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Video: Woman college soccer player banned for violent play]]></title><description><![CDATA[A female U.S. soccer player has been banned from college athletics after an outrageous display of aggression]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ckIr75Ttx6I/u-s-women-s-soccer-player-banned-for-punching-hair-pulling.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/postedsports/archive/2009/11/10/u-s-women-s-soccer-player-banned-for-punching-hair-pulling.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2206243</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:28:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Medical marijuana vs. liquor licence feud continues]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Federal Court has declined to throw out the case of an Ontario restaurant owner who wants one of his former patrons stripped of his right to smoke medical marijuana]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/qXyXEyvQ3N4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2170318.bin" 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to buy a seat or two that doesn’t mean very much in the greater scheme, escapes my fragile memory]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/jW0OtmqlYJ8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2202540.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/politics/story.html?id=2204012</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2206605</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:02:42 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Dalai Lama visit to India too close for comfort for China]]></title><description><![CDATA[China lashed out Tuesday at India’s decision to allow the Dalai Lama to visit the disputed region of Arunachal Pradesh that borders on Tibet]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-qDfL6Cnxak/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2206601.bin" 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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">2205844</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto mayoral race goes live on the radio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Kuitenbrouwer: It's George Smitherman versus John Tory, already as an interview slid from nice to nasty in just a few seconds]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hCgqIX48oqo/it-s-george-smitherman-versus-john-tory-already.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2205847.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/10/it-s-george-smitherman-versus-john-tory-already.aspx</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>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:58:53 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" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/2201711.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2201710</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2200746</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:13:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ontario moves to sharply limit jury pool]]></title><description><![CDATA[People convicted of relatively minor offences such as shoplifting, assault or mischief would no longer be eligible for jury duty]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/V3zv6nwOut8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/1269479.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2200746</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">2200768</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:09:51 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Study worst cases of flu, group urges]]></title><description><![CDATA[More money is urgently needed to study people made dangerously ill by the H1N1 flu -- 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>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:43:13 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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