• James Brown's body has 'gone missing'
  The body of legendary singer James Brown has gone missing from its crypt, one of his daughters claims.

• Authorities: No illegal drugs found in Haim case
• Posh 'shocked' by ex-boyfriend Corey Haim's death
• Corey Haim had heart problems: mom
• Chris Brown begs fans for help
• Billy Corgan blasts John Mayer over Jessica Simpson comments
• Rick Mercer to receive honorary degrees from UBC

Radwanski: Confidential rebates let province reap large savings on brand-name pharmaceuticals, but that secrecy is under siege. arely have so many people had such vested interests in keeping bargains secret. For the past four years, Ontario.. MORE...

Hebert: The early public opinion verdict on Stephen Harper's winter-long attempt to recalibrate his government is in and the popular consensus is that it was a non-event. According to the latest EKOS-CBC poll, neither the throne speech nor the.. MORE...

L. IAN MACDONALD: And now for the question on the minds of all Canadians: Where did Jim Flaherty get that pompadour hairstyle for last week’s budget? Sitting in the boardroom of his Parliament Hill office the other day for a budget Q&A.. MORE...

Riley: Remember when the economy was the most pressing issue facing the nation -- at least, according to Michael Ignatieff? So last week. What has Liberals excited now is Rahim Jaffer's supposed sweetheart deal on drug charges and.. MORE...

Ray: Michael Ignatieff isn’t the leader Canadians need, he’s a political letdown. Michael Ignatieff, leader of the Liberal Party, doesn’t impress me. And I get the feeling the rest of Canada feels the same way. When he ran for Liberal Party.. MORE...

Cit: The arrest last fall of 38-year-old Rahim Jaffer on charges of cocaine possession, drunk driving and speeding was most certainly politically awkward for Stephen Harper's government. Jaffer, a former Conservative MP, is married to a.. MORE...

• Torstar among final bidders for CanWest papers
  The owners of the Toronto Star have emerged as the latest bidder for the newspaper chain being sold off in the financial restructuring of CanWest Global Communications Corp.

• Can MPs keep their snouts out of postal trough?
  Taber: Michael Ignatieff and his Liberals didn’t want to take on the Harper government over their budget – the budget passed “in principle” through the House this week and the government is still standing. The last thing the Liberals want right now is an election.

• Kory's Tories media-not-so-friendlies list: Yup, we made it...
  Susan Lunn: Former PMO communications director Kory Teneycke gave a breakdown of media friendly to the conservative movement on Friday's opening day of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy's annual conference in Ottawa.

• Senator Brazeau’s wife on Dragons’ Den
  During the Olympics, Conservative Sen. Patrick Brazeau stayed home with his kids so that his wife, Sunshine Tenasco-Brazeau, could go to Vancouver to sell baby moccasins.... and she got a $20,000 loan!

• Canadian values shifting to the right, poll suggests
  Conservatives now ‘own the centre,’ while the left ‘is a very lonely place to be’ in Canada, pollster says

• Where would Dimitri Soudas have worn a Team USA jersey if he lost?
  Upon learning White House press secretary Robert Gibbs had made good on their bet and worn a Team Canada jersey to a press briefing, Dimitri Soudas issued the following "on the record comment":

• Crosby stick sent to Russian collector
  Another mystery solved: Sidney Crosby's golden goal-scoring hockey stick was bound for St. Petersburg, Russia to become the private property of Sergei Afanasiev, a hockey memorabilia collector.

• Two dead, one wounded in eastern Ontario shooting
  Two women are dead following a shooting at a home in the small eastern Ontario community of Mountain View, south of Belleville.

• 2 dead, one hurt in Edmonton car dealership shooting

• Just want answers Mr. Toews
  Rutherford: This week he’s upset at some of the media coverage of a controversial plea bargain handed to a former Tory MP. What in the name of God got into Toews’head when he chastised reporters after Rahim Jaffer made a court appearance in Ontario?

• Cosh: Jaffer & Guergis: a power couple, unplugged

• Niqab Gazette cartoon steps up debate
  An editorial cartoon in Friday's Montreal Gazette is highlighting a controversial incident in which a Muslim woman was asked to leave a French language school for refusing to remove her niqab.

• Female cop charged with sex assault
  Police in Burlington, Ont., have laid several charges against one of their female officers in a domestic violence case.

• Jobless rate dips, full-time work up
  The Canadian economy created a better-than-expected 20,900 jobs last month amid large gains in full-time work.

• Timing of food recall raises criticism
  Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Thursday defended the pace at which the government is alerting consumers to recalls of food products that could be contaminated with salmonella.

• New allegations roil Quebec construction industry
  Allegations of extortion, violence and intimidation are being levelled at the construction trades affiliated with the Quebec Federation of Labour, which this week became the subject of a police investigation.

• Lil Wayne trounces PM on YouTube
  As Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke to Canadians "unfiltered" in his first YouTube appearance, viewers talked back, weighing in online with hundreds of questions ranging from the legalization of marijuana to his inability to get a majority.

• Canada denounces Israeli settlement
  Canada is sounding a rare criticism of Israel after news of plans to build a housing project in disputed East Jerusalem.

• Building expenses 'going market price,'
  A Montreal firm says details of invoices for a $1,000 light switch removal and other federal building maintenance services show taxpayers were charged rates that are "absolutely consistent with the going market price."

• Independent auditor to probe controversial contract

• Strahl turns down students' plea to restore First Nations University funding
  Delegation makes trek to Ottawa to defend beleaguered aboriginal-run institution, leaves empty-handed

• Indian Act amendment comes with cost
  Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl says he has no idea how much it will cost to end gender discrimination in the Indian Act.

• N.L. chopper's flaw known in 2008
  CBC's The Fifth Estate has found that the maker of a helicopter that crashed near Newfoundland a year ago, killing 17 people, knew more than six months earlier about the gearbox problem that downed the chopper.

• Torture in Afghanistan common, U.S. report says
  Torture and other serious abuses remain commonplace in Afghanistan prisons, says the U.S. State Department's 2009 report on Afghan human rights.

• Opposition: Harper’s Haiti claim mistaken
  When HMCS Athabaskan and HMCS Halifax were ordered to sail on a humanitarian mission to Haiti on Jan. 13, they worked through the night, passing boxes hand to hand, loading stores aboard the ships — everything they would need for the humanitarian mission.

• Monsanto curls up with Brier organizers
  The Canadian Curling Association won’t say how much Monsanto has forked over as a corporate sponsor for the Brier in Halifax and other curling events.

• Canadian financial giants bid for Canwest newspapers
  The sale of Canwest Global Communications Corp.'s publishing division, which includes Canada's largest English-language daily newspaper chain, has attracted the interest of some of the country's biggest financial players..

• Chalk River reactor restart delayed another month
  The troubled reactor at Chalk River that supports much of Canadian nuclear medicine won't return to service until late May at the earliest, about a month behind schedule.

• Polish isotopes to help cover Chalk River gap
  Medical isotopes from Poland will help relieve the shortage caused by the prolonged shutdown of the troubled Chalk River reactor, which is expected to remain out of service for at least two more months.

• Safety board interviews Concordia captain, officers
  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has finished its first round of questioning in the wake of the sinking of the sail training vessel SV Concordia last month.

• Charkaoui suing for $24.5 million
  Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan-born Montrealer detained for almost two years under a security certificate without charge or trial, is suing the federal government for $24.5 million.