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• Jackson seen active in video clip of rehearsal
  SEE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Michael Jackson appeared healthy in a video clip -- obtained by CNN -- of his rehearsal two nights before he died.

• Jackson's Ex-Wife Debbie Rowe Says 'I Want My Children'
• Drugs Hell And Secret Love Of Michael Jackson
• $25 Charge To Attend Michael Jackson Memorial
• DEA to help LAPD investigate Michael Jackson's death
• Jackson's children were banned from looking in mirrors and had their toys thrown away each night
• Michael Jackson exclusive: O2 concert promoter demands release of medical examinations
• Salinger spin-off book blocked
• U2 back on a world stage
• Kim Kardashian gets 'drunk' for first time
• Kevin Jonas, of Jonas Brothers, engaged

Hepburn: Back in March 2005, when Michael Ignatieff was being courted to return to Canada and lead the Liberals, he delivered the keynote address to the party's policy convention. The Liberal party is "more than a machine for winning.. MORE...

Ed.Journal: Conjure up the following scenario: You are a thoughtful, lifelong Conservative voter who believes in small government, lower taxes, and less junk mail. You come home from a hard day's work, and discover in your mailbox a.. MORE...

L. IAN MACDONALD: There must be something about being a governor of an American state that confers a sense of entitlement, invulnerability and simply an idea that you won't get caught. First there was Eliot Spitzer, the scourge of white.. MORE...

Cockburn:  It only took eight years for some truly good news to come out of the mess that is Afghanistan. Last week, in Deh-e-Bagh, a small village of about 900 people south of Kandahar City, Canada threw a coming-out party to celebrate.. MORE...

• Tory attack ad suggests Bloc soft on pedophiles
  A pervert in a plaid shirt is luring a child in a park, but the Bloc Québécois will not do anything to stop him, the Conservative Party says in a new round of attack ads.

• Mourners gather for LeBlanc
  It seems everyone in the tiny parish of Memramcook, N.B., has a personal memory of Romeo LeBlanc.

• Doucet: Our greatest fisheries minister

• MP admits approving newsletter painting Ignatieff as anti-Ukrainian
  Manitoba Conservative MP Vic Toews has confirmed he authorized a newsletter last month that slammed Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for comments he made about Ukrainians more than a decade ago.

• Ignatieff says personal attacks divide Canadians

• Recession's legacy to be long-lasting: report
  A new report says Canadians will be fighting to recoup what they lost during the recession for several years.

• Liberals regain slim lead, poll finds
  The Liberal Party has regained its slender lead in public support, thanks largely to a sharp dip in backing for the Conservatives, according to a poll released on Thursday.

• RCMP confirm latest gas pipeline blast 'criminally motivated'
  Investigators have now confirmed that another natural gas pipeline in northeastern British Columbia has been the target of an explosive attack.

• Hudak urges local solution to Toronto strike
  Even though a strike by Toronto workers is in its 11th day, newly crowned Opposition Leader Tim Hudak says it isn't time yet to force them back to work.

• U.S. Marshals seize Madoff penthouse property
  The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday took possession of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse, an action that forced his wife to move elsewhere.

• Air France plane plunged at high speed into Atlantic
  The pilot of a doomed Air France flight was flying with neither the help of the autopilot nor information about the plane's speed and direction when it slammed into the Atlantic Ocean a month ago, French officials said Thursday.

• Arab group exec quits after online tirade
  The Canadian Arab Federation moved to distance itself from one of its own executives who resigned yesterday after he apparently posted "F--- Canada Day" on his Facebook page, called Canada a "genocidal state," and said he "couldn't be more ashamed to be Canadian."

• Canada wipes Haiti's $2.3 million debt off the books
  One of the world's poorest countries is getting a break on its debt payments. Canada has forgiven Haiti's $2.3-million debt.

• Swine flu hits young, healthy adults hardest
  Don't be complacent, say public health experts; new strain likely to afffect one third of Canadians

• India decriminalizes homosexual sex
  The New Delhi High Court struck down the law that criminalized consensual homosexual sex today, in a move that will radically change life for millions of gay, lesbian and transgender Indians..

• Sarah McLachlan uses Canada Day celebration stage to blast seal hunt
  Clad in a powder blue 'PETA' T-shirt with an image of a seal pup drawn on it, Sarah McLachlan condemned Canada's commercial sealing industry, calling it "perverse and sick."  VIEW CTV Interview

• NNW Insider: GG Jean wearing ulu knife earrings?
  Did Canada's Governor General Michaelle Jean wear ulu knife earrings during yesterday's Canada Day celebrations to show support for the seal hunt?

• From sea to sea, the party was quite a sight to see
  Canada swapped its economic blues for a rocking national birthday party that dressed up cities and towns across the country in red and white.

• 7 nastiest insults hurled in the House of Commons
  "Sleazebag" - Former MP John Reynolds, to Liberal MP Joe Volpe. (2005). "F--ing bastard." - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney, to former Liberal MP David Walker (1991).

• Nuclear liability limit called too low
  The Conservative government is putting the nuclear industry ahead of the lives of Canadians with a proposed law limiting damages in the event of an accident, a New Democrat MP says.

• Canada and Japan blocking climate-change deal, Sir David King warns
  London Canada and Japan were blocking a possible deal on climate change at the Copenhagen summit, Sir David King, the former Chief Scientific Adviser, warned yesterday.

• Oilsands earns Canada bottom ranking
  Canada is doing the least of any of the world's wealthiest countries to fight climate change--and Alberta's oilsands is largely to blame, says a report card released Wednesday by the World Wildlife Foundation.

• Farmers start to write off year as drought parches Prairie land
  When the claims adjuster finished tabulating how much of Greg Becker's sun-scorched crop was salvageable this week, the final tally didn't surprise the veteran farmer: zero.

• Air Canada workers target Olympics
  The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics have become a bargaining chip at Air Canada as the country's largest airline tries to overcome labour strife and avoid filing for bankruptcy protection.

• Air Canada now allowing pets in cabin

• Magna may face Chinese rival over Opel
  Opel frontunner Magna's consortium partner Sberbank said the race to acquire the carmaker was all but over, though Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co (BAIC) may still lodge a bid in the coming days.

• Family's death plunge a mystery
  Montreal police are assisting Kingston investigators in piecing together how three teenage sisters and a female relative died after a car containing their bodies was pulled from a lock northeast of Kingston.

• PC beef recalled from stores due to E. coli
  Consumers should avoid eating certain President's Choice brand steaks, roasts and ground beef products that are being pulled from store shelves due to possible contamination with E. coli, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.

• Canadian caught in U.S. prison limbo
  The Harper government has denied an Alberta man's bid for a transfer from a U.S. jail to a Canadian prison on the grounds that he may one day commit a crime.

• Al Jazeera gaining favour in Canada
  They are professional journalists. They give voice to terrorists. They are vital to democracy. They suppress it. They are Al Jazeera English and they are hoping to come to a television near you.

• Stampede kicks up a fury among animal-rights groups
  The Calgary Stampede is being called a "brutal violent spectacle" of animal cruelty by the Humane Society of Canada, which has filed a complaint with Canada's broadcasting regulator over the airing of the world's largest outdoor rodeo.

• Obama defends Canada's medicare
  U. S. President Barack Obama yesterday blasted health-care reform opponents for citing faults in Canada's medicare system as a tactic to "scare" Americans away from embracing his plan to create a publicly run health insurance program in the United States.

• French PM supports Quebec in green talks
  French Prime Minister Francois Fillon lent his support yesterday to Quebec Premier Jean Charest's call for greater provincial government influence on Canada's climate-change policy.

• Amid the slump, signs of stability
  U.S. car and truck sales showed signs of stabilizing in June after a year of sharp declines.

• Great One to get Canada's top honour
  Wayne Gretzky, arguably Canada's favourite hockey great, is getting Canada's highest honour -- he's being made a companion to the Order of Canada.

• Iranian Government Says Neda Soltan's Murder Was 'Staged'
  The murder of 26-year-old protester Neda Soltan was staged, Iran's chief of police said Wednesday —a statement that rights groups and Iran watchers are calling a propagandistic lie.

• Liberal-Era Diplomatic Language Killed Off
  It was once considered a hallmark achievement of modern Canadian foreign policy, but few breathe the words "human security" in Stephen Harper's Ottawa. And this is no accident.