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• Doctor banned from Windsor hospital while police investigate sex allegations
  WINDSOR, Ont. -An emergency room doctor is banned from a hospital in Windsor while officials investigate a claim he went into the ER intoxicated and made sexual advances toward nurses. Kim Spirou, vice-president of communications and development at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital, said on Sunday police are invest
  
  
• Man gets 20 more years' jail for assault
  A former United States army ranger, who used to live in British Columbia, was sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison for assault and trying to hire a hitman to kill an assistant U.S. attorney. Luke Elliott Sommer, 23, who has dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship, is currently serving a 24-year jail sen
  
  
• Pastor gets more jail time in new case
  MONTREAL -A self-proclaimed pastor already serving a five-year sentence for molesting a 10-year-old girl he claimed to have married had an additional nine months tacked on to his prison term yesterday for sexually exploiting a 16-year-old girl several years earlier. In both cases Daniel Cormier used his sta
  
  
• Federal minister marks Women's Day
  OTTAWA -Helena Guergis, the federal minister responsible for women, marked International Women's Day yesterday by celebrating a narrowing of the gender gap on some fronts in Canada and endorsing the Harper government's about-face on the national anthem. Ms. Guergis provided her take on the status of women d
  
  
• Canada, U.S. flip positions in boundary dispute
  OTTAWA - Just days after the Conservative government's Throne Speech pledged to resolve several outstanding Arctic territorial disputes, polar experts have revealed an unexpected twist in the long-running disagreement over the Canada-U. S. border in the southern Beaufort Sea.
  
  
• Bid to bar reporters, elders rejected
  WINNIPEG -A federal court judge yesterday rejected a request by the federal government to bar journalists and aboriginal elders from a hearing into whether documents related to the construction of a dam in the 1960s ought to remain secret. Canada is claiming that more than 200 documents, such as briefing no
  
  
• University education focus of McGuinty Throne Speech
  TORONTO - Ontario's Liberal government will create an online university, 20,000 new post-secondary spots and try to recruit 50% more international students into those schools, the government announced in its Throne Speech yesterday.
  
  
• Haiti destruction 'unbelievable': Jean
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -Governor-General Michaelle Jean called the destruction in her native country "unbelievable," but expressed optimism that the Haitian people can rebuild their quake-shattered country. "It's as if the city has been bombarded. The magnitude of destruction is unbelievable," Ms. Jean, pict
  
  
• Ontario police officer killed in roadside stop
  The Ontario Provincial Police are mourning the loss of one of their own after the calm in this rural community was shattered by a shootout that killed Constable Vu Pham, a 15-year veteran of the force and father of three.
  
  
• Top U.S. court to rule on protests at funerals
  The U.S. Supreme Court is to decide whether constitutional free-speech rights protect anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church at funerals for U.S. military members killed in Iraq.
  
  
• Creative spat fuelled Oscars' 'Kanye' moment
  Film director Roger Ross Williams was on stage, proudly holding the Oscar for Best Documentary Short, and had just started his acceptance speech when he was suddenly cut off mid-sentence.
  
  
• Scientist branded a spy for Iran wins appeal
  A former National Research Council scientist has been battling the Canadian government over allegations he participated in Iran's controversial weapons program.
  
  
• Ottawa may sell offshore oil stake
  When a politician says: "that's a good question," it's a rule of thumb that he or she is about to blurt out something they didn't intend to.
  
  
• VETERAN OFFICER KILLED IN GUNFIGHT
  he Ontario Provincial Police are mourning the loss of one of their own after the calm in this rural community was shattered by a shootout that killed Constable Vu Pham, a 15-year veteran of the force and father of three.
  
  
• Mcguinty To Add 20,000 University, College Spots
  Ontario's Liberal government will create a new online university, 20,000 new post-secondary spots and will recruit 50% more international students into those same schools, according to a plan laid out in yesterday's Throne Speech.
  
  
• National Post photographer recaptures top honour
  National Post photographer Tyler Anderson beat out competitors from other major Canadian news organizations to win the President's Cup in 2009's Eastern Canadian Monthly Clip Contest, awarded by the News Photographers Association of Canada.
  
  
• Palin draws big guns in West
  Ninety minutes before Sarah Palin took the stage, a girl with facial piercings bounded into the lobby of the BMO Centre at Calgary's Stampede Park. Her name was Stephanie. She just turned 18. She was wearing a Sarah Palin button she had purchased on eBay for $4.50. She works at Wal-Mart.
  
  
• Republican Senators slam portrayal of Obama as cartoon villain
  Two GOP senators condemned a presentation, pictured, at a Republican National Committee fund-raiser that depicted U.S. President Barack Obama as the Joker, the clown villain from the Batman movies. "There's no excuse for that type of stuff," Orrin Hatch of Utah said on NBC's Meet the Press program. "It shou
  
  
• Third of Quebecers want separate Games' team: survey
  Nearly one-third of Quebec residents say the province should have its own Olympic team separate from Canada's, according to a survey conducted in the days following the Vancouver Games.
  
  
• Nationalism on rise, poll finds
  The fervent flag-waving, raucous singing of O Canada and thrilling success of the country's athletes during the Vancouver 2010 Games appear to have influenced more Canadians -- especially Quebecers -- to view themselves as "Canadian nationalists," according to a survey conducted in the days following last w