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HARTFORD, Conn. – Mary Doyle Keefe, the model for Norman Rockwell's iconic 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to work on the home front during World War II, has died. She was 92.

OTTAWA – The federal government's controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won the approval of the House of Commons.

TOKYO – A Japanese zoo has apologized after receiving complaints over naming a baby monkey Charlotte for the newborn British princess.

OTTAWA – The federal information commissioner says the Conservative government is setting a "perilous precedent" by retroactively rewriting Canada's access-to-information law to absolve the RCMP of wrongdoing.

TORONTO – An Australian police force is knocking Nickelback in a cheeky social media post as the Alberta rockers tour the country.

OTTAWA – The Tories walk away from the election debate negotiations, the Liberals make a set of demands to suit their leader, and the smaller parties balk at being shut out.

The commission that has spent five years examining one of the darkest chapters in Canada's history is winding up its work with a key question left unanswered — exactly how many aboriginal children died in residential schools?

OTTAWA – At the Ottawa courthouse, a suspended senator's criminal trial continues.

MONTREAL – In a ruling described as "historic" by one lawyer, a Quebec judge has ordered three major cigarette companies to pay $15 billion to smokers in what is believed to be the biggest class-action lawsuit ever seen in Canada.

CALGARY – Tim Hortons has brewed up controversy for its decision to yank ads by pipeline giant Enbridge from its in-store screens.

BURNABY, B.C. – Kinder Morgan is pledging to safeguard against any possibility of oil spills caused by its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.