<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/northamerica/canada/post?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Says Inquiry Names Ousted Official]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9086-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9086-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal grand jury in Arkansas is investigating allegations that the former head of U.S. operations at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. misused up to $500,000 in corporate funds, the giant retailer said yesterday.]]></description><author> Michael Barbaro</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's Martin Promises New Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8003-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8003-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  TORONTO, April 21  --  Prime Minister Paul Martin on Thursday promised to call a new federal election late this year or early next year, 30 days after a federal judge finishes an inquiry into a political scandal that Martin said was "an unjustified mess."]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muslims Detained at Border Sue U.S. Homeland Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6225-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6225-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[American Muslims detained at the border as they returned from a religious conference in Toronto sued the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday  alleging they were targets of ethnic and religious profiling.]]></description><author> Michelle Garcia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Envoy To N. Korea Steps Aside For Probe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6233-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6233-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United Nations' special envoy to North Korea, Maurice F. Strong, decided Wednesday to step aside until U.N.-appointed investigators and federal prosecutors finish examining his financial ties to a South Korean lobbyist accused of trying to bribe U.N. officials.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Spars Over Drug Import Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2434-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2434-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Party divisions over whether to allow Americans to import lower-priced  medications from such countries  as Canada exploded in an unusually public and personal exchange between two New England lawmakers.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Plans to Reverse Slide in Status]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2431-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2431-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Government says it will beef up its military, bolster its diplomatic corps and overhaul its foreign aid in a bid to reverse the country's diminishing influence in global affairs.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merck to Discount Drugs for Uninsured]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3119-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3119-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Drug manufacturer Merck &#38; Co. will provide uninsured Americans steep discounts for many of its prescription medicines, joining other pharmaceutical firms in slashing some prices during debate over importing drugs from Canada.]]></description><author> Michael S. Rosenwald</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Envoy Says Park Invested in His Firm, Advised Him on N. Korea]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64601-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64601-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, April  18 --  A senior  U.N. official said Monday that he "was associated" with a company that received investments from a South Korean businessman who was charged last week with lobbying U.N. officials as an unregistered agent for Saddam Hussein's government.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Papal Prospects Who Aren't on the Short List]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57776-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57776-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Experts are mentioning dozens of cardinals  --  some little-known outside their regions, others from predominantly non-Catholic nations  --  as long-shot possibilities to become the next pope.]]></description><author> David Crary</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boston Globe Admits to Fabrications]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57908-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57908-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The newspaper acknowledges publishing a partially fabricated story by a freelance reporter about a Canadian seal hunt that had not taken place.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Flu Strain Samples Are Destroyed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57529-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57529-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Most of the samples of a dangerous flu virus sent to laboratories around the world have been destroyed, easing concerns that the specimens might trigger a deadly pandemic, health officials said Friday.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Questions New Passport Rules]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54690-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54690-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush said Thursday that he was surprised by his administration's plans to require U.S. citizens to show a passport when reentering the country from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's Liberals Reeling As Quebec Scandal Grows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55156-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55156-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TORONTO  --  Ads for Quebec's celebration of the 125th anniversary of the famed Canadian Mounties in 1999 featured a prominent "Canada" logo, as one would expect. 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Shortly before Sept. 11, 2001, several of the terrorists who would carry out the attacks that day slipped into the United States from Canada.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Canada, Secretive Ritual Prompts Very Public Uproar]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38817-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38817-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BRENTWOOD BAY, B.C.  --  Marianne Edwards had received her song from the other world, and now, up on Mount Newton, she stripped and backed into the black, frigid pond to purify her body and cleanse the human odors that would offend the spirits.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Will Tighten Passport Rules]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28188-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28188-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Under a proposed anti-terrorism strategy, millions of Americans would be required to show passports when returning from Canada, Mexico.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automakers Agree to Cut Emissions In Canada]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28515-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28515-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Major automakers signed an agreement yesterday with the government of Canada to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and trucks, a move hailed by environmentalists as a breakthrough that could force the industry to sell cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles in the United States as well.]]></description><author> Greg Schneider</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow Delivery Frustrates]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21740-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21740-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/americas/northamerica/canada/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 7:40:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Poor customer service has been the comment from many Nationals ticket holders who are still waiting the arrival of their season allotments.]]></description><author> David A. 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