Why would any community, let alone 21, sign up to for the right to become Canada's nuclear dump? The repository will eventually house highly radioactive used fuel bundles (more than 2 million) currently stored at nuclear power plants.
The waste site will cost anywhere from 16 to 24 billion dollars, once a host community is chosen. Susan Lunn went to one town that's on the list -- the Northern Ontario community of Hornepayne -- to try to answer why folks there would consider taking this waste.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the Conservative caucus this morning that he's "upset" about the recent conduct of some senators and members of his own office, and he wants Senate spending rules tightened quickly.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads today to South America for four days of bilateral talks and trade meetings, after addressing his caucus over the growing Senate expense controversy.
A jobless Canadian IT professional who is collecting employment insurance is upset because he now suspects several recent jobs he applied for went to temporary foreign workers.
The NDP has asked the RCMP to launch an investigation into the $90,000 payment from the prime minister's former top aide, Nigel Wright, to Senator Mike Duffy in relation to the Senate expense scandal.
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