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Public Opinion

Retirees wary of Conservative census move

Poll by seniors organization shows Harper's support dropping in wake of decision to scrap mandatory long form

Munir Sheikh, who resigned as Canada's chief statistician in July of 2010, is shown outside of his office in Ottawa on Dec. 23, 2004.
Megan Harris

Why did top statistician take so long to resign over census?

Decision to scrap mandatory long form came months before Munir Sheikh called it quits

Quebecor Media Inc. vice-president of development Kory Teneycke address a news conference in Toronto on June 15, 2010.
Robert Silver

Another Sun masterpiece

Editorialists ignore the chain's own reporting in declaring Ignatieff's bus tour a failure

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff flips a burger at barbecue in Quebec City on July 21, 2010.
Morning Buzz

Grits awake to 'racist' fallout and prescription drug advice

Tories rip into Ignatieff's refusal to dump Calgary candidate over cop quip and Liberal president tells doubters to 'take a Valium'

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Interactive
House of Commons seat map

Who sits where in Parliament

The House of Commons lies empty on Sept. 10, 2009, a few days before Parliament resumes amid threat of an election.
Canada's isotope crisis

Follow the trouble at Chalk River's reactor and its impact on politics and medicine

Tracking Afghan detainee transfers

Key dates in the controversy around captives turned over by Canada to likely torture

A man Afghan authorities suspect of insurgency-related activities is interrogated during a joint Canadian-Afghan army patrol in the Panjwaii District of Kandahar province on July 2, 2009.
In pictures
Setting politics aside
for quake relief

Cabinet ministers, MPs and political staffers of all stripes fill a Parliament Hill ballroom to raise nearly $32,500 for Haiti

NDP MP John Rafferty (Thunder Bay-Rainy River) shares a laugh with Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq.
Images of Remembrance

Canadians from coast to coast pay tribute to those who fought and died in conflicts from the First World War to Afghanistan

A young girl places her poppy on the cenotaph after a Remembrance Day ceremony at a military cemetery in Calgary