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The National Blog
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Susan Ormiston Answers Your Questions on Syria
Dear Susan,If Assad is so confident that the uprising is of foreign insurgents trying to topple his government, why doesn't he hold open and free elections to determine the will of the people who he insists support him......
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School's Out
So, it snowed in Attawapiskat. A lot. And apparently enough to cancel school today. Good opportunity, we thought, to wander by a house of a youth leader and chat with her about everything swirling around her here.
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From Attawapiskat to a Mexican Jail Cell
Some conversations are just so surreal. On a minus thirty-something afternoon in Attawapiskat this week, as we tried to update, untangle, deconstruct, make-any-sense-whatsoever of the housing and political crisis that is now under a national microscope, the subject suddenly veered...
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Syria's Chargé d'Affaires responds to Terence McKenna's documentary
Statement from Bashar Akbik, Syrian Chargé d'Affaires to Canada about a UN report that 5000 Syrians have been killed in his country since March.
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The Good Doctor
Every year in a job like this, when you look back and consider those whose faces you've stared into, whose stories you've told and worlds you entered, there is often a dizzying array of standouts. But for all his complexities...
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Clarification
In a story that aired on The National on November 9, 2011 we reported on an allegation in a Statement of Claim that then RCMP Superintendent Peter German improperly disclosed statements to Robert Blundell. We are not aware of any...
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Making an Award-Winning Story
It began as a wisp of an idea, while riding home on the London tube one night. I caught a small story about the Middletons having drawn their line in the sand years ago; suing a photographer and his agency...
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The Silver Cross Story
This Remembrance Day, as another National Silver Cross Mother lays a wreath in Ottawa, you might want to take note -- to remember not just Canada's sons and daughters who fell in war, but also the women who many believe...
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Saša Petricic speaks to a Canadian-Israeli Soldier
Saša talks to a Canadian-Israeli soldier about the prisoner exchange for Gilad Shalit...
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Meet our new At Issue panelist
Bruce Anderson grew up with a curiosity about what exactly makes people do what they do, and eventually found himself in the market and opinion research business....
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9/11: A chance to go back
I'm not exactly sure what I expected when Ioanna and I retraced the path we took ten years ago to Ground Zero. What we found was powerful, though....
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Lloyd Robertson: A Great Captain of the Ship
Lloyd Robertson and I go back a long way. He was the top news specials anchor at both CBC Radio and CBC Television in 1970 when I was just starting at the CBC Northern Service radio station in Fort Churchill,...
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Arsenault wins twice at Geminis
It was a big night for our Adrienne Arsenault on Tuesday at the 26th Annual Gemini Awards. Adrienne took home two trophies for her reporting on The National. ...
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Remembering Marty Bergmann
"This has been a tough few days -- lost a good friend in Marty Bergmann in that Resolute air crash. A great guy and a great Canadian." That's how Peter Mansbridge broke the sad news today....
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Gemini Nominations for The National
The nominations for the 26th annual Gemini Awards have been announced and we are pleased and proud that CBC News The National has received nominations in several different categories....
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