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said Thursday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hwaPsWkSIkc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1774294.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1775723</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1775869</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:01:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Anti-paparazzi purse ‘weapon’ in privacy war]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New York University student — and part-time photographer — has made a school project that he says will allow celebrities to fend off paparazzi with a simple flick of the wrist]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hbtG-St0HU0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1775870.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1775869</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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communion service last week]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/qURBa7-v_Aw/wafergate-the-sequel.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1772184.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/07/09/wafergate-the-sequel.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1775302</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:09:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Japanese Empress serenades children at Toronto hospital]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patients at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children received a royal serenade on Thursday from the Empress of Japan as the royal tour continued]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/TkHeXb9G4sY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1775303.bin" 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sought was usurped by men who wrapped their piety in bandoliers and announced their faith with explosives']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/qVKG44DeXMo/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1775142</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774962</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:20:06 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto mayor assures CNN everything is OK]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Miller took to the airwaves today to counter fears that a civic worker strike has turned Toronto into a stinking dump]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/AvLPflz45t0/toronto-on-strike-mayor-on-cnn.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1774963.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/07/09/toronto-on-strike-mayor-on-cnn.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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city]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ZxwGFEq0W3c/kelly-mcparland-the-tory-need-to-offend.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1742154.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/09/kelly-mcparland-the-tory-need-to-offend.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774843</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:23:37 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Warren Buffett says economy may need more 'Viagra']]></title><description><![CDATA[Legendary investor Warren Buffett said on Thursday a second stimulus package might be needed as the U.S. struggles to recover from recession]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ILtJxFCuDz0/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1774972.bin" 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guns]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/NfmFBo8nwrc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1774294.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1774284</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774362</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:54:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Home construction 'regaining its footing']]></title><description><![CDATA[Home construction rose more than expected in June as Canada’s housing market showed signs of recovery]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/4fxx3VPcchc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1369795.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1774362</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1772358</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:53:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Forced to fight for Tamil Tigers, Canadian says]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Canadian government has asked Sri Lanka to confirm the number of Canadian citizens detained at camps where ethnic Tamils displaced by the country’s civil war are being held. Meanwhile, a Brampton couple said on Wednesday their son, George Julius, was among the Canadians held in the camps.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PSb_BgbQdbc/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1772358</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774667</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:01:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Police probe claims Murdoch tabloid hacked stars' phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[London police chief said a senior officer will investigate allegations in the Guardian newspaper that News of the World reporters worked with private investigators to access “two or three thousand” private mobile phones]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/iC3WZoDm69Y/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1774667</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774741</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:52:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Second teen charged in multi-million dollar blaze]]></title><description><![CDATA[William Zuk, 19, of Toronto has been charged with arson in a Feb. 22 fire, the first of two blazes at Mississauga townhouse development. He was to appear in a Brampton court for a bail hearing Thursday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/i7SS5sMa4qo/second-teen-arrested-in-mississauga-townhouse-fires.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/07/09/second-teen-arrested-in-mississauga-townhouse-fires.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774460</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:20:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[China to 'unite and educate' Uighurs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese President Hu Jintao, forced to abandon a G8 summit in Italy by ethnic violence in restive Xinjiang, said that maintaining social stability in the energy-rich region was the 'most urgent task']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/0IBIhnde0tk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1770641.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1774460</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1772116</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:01:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada to lose 100,000 jobs this summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another 100,000 jobs are forecast to vanish, adding to the 360,000 decline in employment since the job market peaked in October 2008]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/QR5YPPT1WtE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1772119.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1772116</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1771983</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:26:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto strike: Strengthening city, weakening union]]></title><description><![CDATA[City Hall and 30,000 striking city workers are playing a high-stakes game of chicken. Who is going to crack first?]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ct8JsKhmwGs/toronto-on-strike-a-strengthening-city-a-weakening-union.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1771981.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/07/08/toronto-on-strike-a-strengthening-city-a-weakening-union.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774389</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:07:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Halifax musician takes United to task, on YouTube]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Halifax musician Dave Carroll had his $3,500 Taylor guitar smashed during a flight by United Airlines, he didn't get mad - OK, he did get mad, but he also got 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guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify about attempts to cash in on the governor’s power to fill a vacant U.S. Senate post]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/qAs-2iSQ3q8/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1233588.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1772121</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1772079</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:01:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Easter Island compound vastly boosts lifespan in mice]]></title><description><![CDATA[A compound found in the soil of remote Easter Island stunningly boosts the lifespan of mice, enabling some to live more than 100 years in human terms, researchers reported Wednesday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/rEcwuIDWkJA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1772099.bin" 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furious state of mind over the very existence of the Obama administration]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/CJz4HnxaZCs/david-frum-obama-rage-is-driving-the-right-to-extremes.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1771820.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/08/david-frum-obama-rage-is-driving-the-right-to-extremes.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1771950</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:01:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Snowbird pilot’s dad blames ‘negligence’ for son’s death]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Shawn McCaughey joined the Snowbirds, he said he’d “made it to the top.”  But two years later, he was the victim of what his father is calling “negligence”]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Y7oUsy-Sqls/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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ex-NFL star Steve McNair’s 20-year-old girlfriend killed him before turning the gun on herself]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/lnLmGWJpt7A/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1771728.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1771729</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1771072</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:29:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[AECL confirms Chalk River down until late 2009]]></title><description><![CDATA[Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. said the nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont., will be offline at least until late 2009 while the Crown corporation makes complex repairs to fix a leak of radioactive water.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/IfiLeU8GZkE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1701926.bin" 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Wednesday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/5xhETNcuqWA/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1771778</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1770655</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:15:01 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Pope vs. Pundit: Beware the economy encyclical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terence Corcoran: Beware Free Markets is what Pope Benedict should call his sweeping condemnation of globalization, big business, etc.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/tzIi60EaI_Q/terence-corcoran-caveat-venalicium-libertas.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/07/07/terence-corcoran-caveat-venalicium-libertas.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1771213</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:28:08 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto councillor: No overtime for post-strike cleanup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Labour committee to meet after mayor's critics complained they were being 'kept in the dark' on bargaining]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-JFJ8AtQFG0/toronto-on-strike-update-on-bargaining-today.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/07/08/toronto-on-strike-update-on-bargaining-today.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1771304</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:34:51 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Doctors 'pressured’ by Tigers to inflate Sri Lanka death toll]]></title><description><![CDATA[Group, now in military detention, says only 350 and 400 civilians killed in final months of LTTE enclave]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/X6a6AGJ2Ihk/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1771377.bin" 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taking on the software giant's globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/kfiz_9Dx-Zc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1770580.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1770571</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1771011</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:26:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ex-baseball star Lenny Dykstra files bankruptcy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former star center fielder for the New York Mets has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, claims no more than $50,000 of assets and between $10-million and $50-million of liabilities]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PSASFZ3VS5M/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1771050.bin" 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Kevin Page is no basic bland public servant. He is the Darth Vader of Canadian fiscal forecasting and, damn it all, he’s right more than any other of his kind]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/RnsQQkWd7hk/don-martin-save-kevin-page.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764521.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/07/don-martin-save-kevin-page.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768364</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:04:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Exiled Canadian back in Montreal courtroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abousfian Abdelrazik appeared briefly Tuesday before the Federal judge who ordered his return to Canada from involuntary exile in Sudan]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/LRx-_aJoN3c/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1740537.bin" 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trying to force his way back into power, saying it wants a diplomatic solution to the question of the leftist politician’s reinstatement]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/3Wx-i9RTeiA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1768624.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1768610</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768816</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:01:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Serious flu symptoms can quickly turn into H1N1: experts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone who develops serious flu-like symptoms should seek immediate medical attention, because no one can predict when swine flu will turn life-threatening in otherwise healthy people, infectious disease experts are warning]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cTAh2ggtdlQ/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1768816</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768473</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:10:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[North American consumer finances feel the strain]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. consumer loan and credit-card delinquencies -- accounts that have fallen more than 30 days behind on repayments -- hit a fresh record in the first quarter of this year, while stressed finances in Canada caused consumer bankruptcies to continue to trend higher in May]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/noTm27oiFFM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1770895.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=1768473</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid 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B.C.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/twfamNxX124/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1768807</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768742</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:14:05 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Scent of excess at Jackson memorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Cushman: One of the callers whose comments appeared at the bottom of Much Music’s screen during the Michael Jackson memorial was speculating on who would be the first on-stage mourner to break down in tears.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/soUqa9aNucY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1768743.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1768742</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767379</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:19:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Crown skeptical about 'lecture tour' for Livent duo]]></title><description><![CDATA[The prosecution is asking for a term of eight to 10 years in prison for each defendant, when Ontario Superior Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto hands down her sentence on Aug. 5]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/vn0OeZ6pA1E/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1768385.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=1767379</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768148</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Military considers creating own social network]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Canadian military is considering developing its own version of social-networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter to help soldiers communicate and improve teamwork]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Gm7IZz1iymc/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1768147.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1768148</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768033</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:06:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito saddened Canada, Japan fought during WWII]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japanese Emperor Akihito says he is saddened by the fact Japan and Canada fought each other during the Second World War]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/K6YghiDkWjE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1768059.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1768033</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768238</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:01:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Joe Sakic to retire: source]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joe Sakic, the longtime Colorado Avalanche captain who led the team to two Stanley Cups, will retire Thursday and end his 20-year NHL career, a source says]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ZJnx-nd_5JQ/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1768237.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=1768238</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767970</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:45:15 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad says Iran election was world’s 'freest']]></title><description><![CDATA[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday the disputed presidential election was the world’s “freest” vote]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/ss5fikufSC4/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" 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Sarah Palin opened the door to seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. president in 2012, saying 'all options are on the table' for her political future]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/j21aGQAxK7U/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1757695.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1767806</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767742</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:03:40 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Honduran president says to meet coup leaders Thursday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday accepted an effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to mediate an end to the political crisis in Honduras]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Ue1WfQplvlA/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1761911.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1767742</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767924</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:01:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Attention-grabbing Berlusconi could hijack G8 summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper may need more than a missed photo-opportunity to garner international attention at a G8 Summit where the economic crisis, hunger, war and climate change could take a back seat to the antics of host Silvio Berlusconi]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/Q60vVgFvRuE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1767923.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1767924</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1766976</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:04:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Horse dies at Calgary Stampede]]></title><description><![CDATA[A horse died of a heart attack following a chuckwagon race at the Calgary Stampede Sunday night. 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A third NATO soldier was also killed]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/CrImoZOVqhw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1765348.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=1765330</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1766844</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:42:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Curfew halts Chinese seeking revenge on Uighurs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tensions erupted onto the streets of Urumqi again Tuesday as thousands of Han Chinese protesters demanded revenge for the Uighur rampage on Sunday that left 156 dead and more than 800 injured]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/3KoISS0mRJs/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1766845.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1766844</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1766968</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:26:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Bankruptcies soar in Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Consumer bankruptcies jumped more than 34% in May from a year earlier as household finances continued to take the brunt of the economic downturn]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/cqK1TA67aSM/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1766985.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1766968</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1766851</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:16:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka captured Canadian, MP told]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Canadian 'combatant' captured during the final days of Sri Lanka's civil war is being held at a detention camp on the island, says Canada's Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Secretary]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/uHm9q_Tqrcs/story.html</link><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1766851</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767644</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:44:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Toronto DJ Martin Streek, of CFNY fame, found dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime DJ on 102.1 The Edge radio station, has been found dead in his apartment. Hours before his death, Mr. Streek had apparently posted the following on Facebook: 'I'm sorry to those I should be sorry to, I love you to those that I love, and I will see you all again soon (not too soon though)']]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/7WTib1Fa1yU/martin-streek-of-cfny-fame-found-dead.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/07/07/martin-streek-of-cfny-fame-found-dead.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767167</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:03:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Feds OK $10B armoured vehicle, helicopter purchase]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Harper government has approved a plan to purchase new armoured vehicles for the Canadian Forces, and is set to announce it has finally reached a deal on the purchase of additional Chinook helicopters]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/9FIqF3Ge4PU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1767171.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1767167</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767296</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:01:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[iPhone offers prompt U.S. telecom antitrust case]]></title><description><![CDATA[The U.S. Justice Department has begun looking at big telecom companies such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications to try to determine if they have abused their market power, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/YE6OQHoeyNs/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/969790.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/technology/story.html?id=1767296</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1766955</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:59:33 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Papal encyclical demands global economic regulator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Called 'Charity in Truth,' Pope's message appeared bound to upset conservatives because of its underlying rejection of unbridled capitalism and unregulated market forces, which he said had led to “thoroughly destructive” abuse of the system.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/IrBUt_n6DU4/papal-encyclical-seeks-global-authority-for-economy-unregulated-markets-thoroughly-destructive.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1766956.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/07/07/papal-encyclical-seeks-global-authority-for-economy-unregulated-markets-thoroughly-destructive.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1766901</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[On eve of summit, G8's relevance in question]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some analysts say the annual G8 meeting, to be hosted next year by Canada, is being supplanted by the emerging G20 group of countries]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/90U2EwSXKBw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1766918.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1766901</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1767325</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:29:57 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Polaris Music Prize: Meet the shortlist!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shortlist for Canada's top critic-selected music prize was announced this morning at The Drake Hotel in Toronto]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/bAhHbfeqzHs/polaris-music-prize-meet-the-shortlist.aspx</link><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/07/07/polaris-music-prize-meet-the-shortlist.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1766870</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Iran's religious elite calls election 'illegitimate']]></title><description><![CDATA[Although large-scale street protests against Iran's
presidential election results have been crushed, defiance continues.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/CvNgMdFqnMs/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1766917.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1766870</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1764958</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:01:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Privacy a concern as CRTC hears Web control debate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Consumer groups and technology firms squared off in front of federal regulators Monday on the issue of how Canada’s largest cable and telecommunications companies manage the flow of Web traffic on their networks, offering competing views on online privacy and how congested the Canadian Internet really is.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/gBfoDCDkq7E/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764981.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=1764958</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1765148</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:01:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA['Dismal' crop outlook as drought lingers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even if the rain comes now, it will be too late for the “dismal” canola and wheat crops on Moses Farms, located east of Edmonton near the Saskatchewan border.The situation is bleak for farmers and ranchers across much of Central Alberta and east toward Saskatoon, where a cold spring — and what Environment Canada is calling the worst drought in 50 years — has left soil dry and crops stunted.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/C--R9ebNrxw/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1765164.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1765148</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1764824</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:25:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Housing sales soar in Ontario’s biggest cities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite all the talk of a housing downturn and economic crisis in Ontario, the province’s two biggest cities both saw record housing resales last month for the month of June.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/JktSs1Gd9vE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764836.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1764824</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1765065</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:01:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[RCMP optimistic about new leads in pipeline bombings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigators probing a series of bombings that have hit EnCana Corp. gas pipelines in northeastern British Columbia -- which RCMP have called acts of “domestic terrorism” -- say they’re encouraged by several new leads]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/KoS_t-PSDno/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1761794.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1765065</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1764018</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:41:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Budget office urges GST hike to curb $156B deficit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The independent Parliamentary Budget Office says the federal government is now running a permanent deficit that can only be eliminated by raising taxes or cutting spending. That contradicts the view of the federal government, which believes the deficit will naturally disappear once the economy improves]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-ZY2rDb0r_Q/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764521.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=1764018</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1765098</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:03:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[First Nations pandemic teams bracing for fall flu carnage]]></title><description><![CDATA[A day after Manitoba marked its fifth death from the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, First Nations emergency planners in the province gathered on Monday to talk about how to prevent carnage in their communities this fall, when the flu is expected to surge]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/UcV4VAS65CU/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1702771.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1765098</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1765253</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:01:34 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Many benefits to Alberta bullet train: report]]></title><description><![CDATA[Albertans could travel between Calgary and Edmonton in as little as an hour on a high-speed train linking the province’s two largest cities, according to a provincial government-commissioned report released Monday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/jjnsBPnyVKY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1765257.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1765253</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1764675</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:21:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Robert McNamara: Smartest man in every room]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Fulford: Nobody could organize numbers and facts into a more coherent argument than the former U.S. Defense Secretary, who died today at 93]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/6hKlKVQu-AE/robert-fulford-on-robert-mcnamara-a-great-blessing-to-all-those-people-who-love-saying-that-brains-aren-t-everything.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764669.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/06/robert-fulford-on-robert-mcnamara-a-great-blessing-to-all-those-people-who-love-saying-that-brains-aren-t-everything.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1763688</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:51:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[China arrests more than 1,400 in Uighur crackdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heavy police presence ensured all was quiet in Urumqi following ethnic riots that left 156 people dead, at least 800 wounded in the Xinjiang region]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/hU1nZJnAYnI/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1765029.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1763688</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1763742</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:36:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[TSX plunges as commodity prices fall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stocks around the world fell Monday largely on skepticism over prospects for an economic recovery any time soon, and the Toronto Stock Exchange fell exceptionally hard as commodity stocks were down in line with resource prices]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/-H6Mnd1GvTY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1763744.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1763742</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1765058</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:01:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Top coroner investigates after girl’s brain taken without consent]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario is trying to find out why the decision to retain a brain of a 10-year-old girl was not revealed to her parents until almost a year after the autopsy]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/mxiohwztW50/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1765057.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1765058</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1764645</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:24:28 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Kovalev signs two-year deal with Senators]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alex Kovalev isn’t going too far to continue his NHL career. The free-agent forward has signed a two-year contract with the Ottawa Senators, the same day that the Montreal Canadiens confirmed they wouldn’t re-sign the flamboyant Russian. Kovalev, 36, scored 26 goals and 39 assists this past season]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/0m4sGhtQzzY/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764321.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1764645</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1764396</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:34:40 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[David Frum: Still waiting for that surge of recession radicalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Frum: We have not seen the kind of upsurge of anti-system political radicalism that might have been expected to follow the current downtown's miserable status as the worst recession since the Great Depression]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/I6uBtiAM2FQ/david-frum-the-mystery-absence-of-recession-radicalism.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764411.bin" 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health issues merit a light sentence despite his convictions for fraud, the lawyer for the co-founder of Livent Inc. argued Monday]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/SsH4_EOBQ8A/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1757115.bin" /><feedburner:origLink>http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1763832</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1764337</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:01:40 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Ontario invests $263M in Ubisoft game studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ontario's provincial government plans to invest more than a quarter of a billion dollars in a new video game studio run by international publisher Ubisoft SA in Toronto's downtown core.]]></description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NP_Top_Stories/~3/PKP6yBwTUaE/story.html</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/1764357.bin" 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