Striking workers at Engineered Coating Products got the place of honour this year -the front of the pack -in the annual Brantford and District Labour Council Labour Day parade.[...]

The first letters have been sent out. The rest will arrive by Christmas. In the coming months, around 5.7 million people will discover that they have been caught up in the great income tax blunder of 2010.

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The number of Americans who planned to travel more than 50 miles from home this Labor Day weekend increased nearly 10 percent over last year. Statistics provided by AAA said an estimated 34.4 million travelers packed their bags this weekend, and 90 percent of those planned a getaway by car, covering an average distance of 635 miles.

CLEVELAND -- Reliever Jensen Lewis is one of the few Indians who calls Cleveland his home year-round. And as a member of the community, Lewis has made sure to lend his hand to the club's community-outreach efforts.

MILWAUKEE - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program yesterday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.

MONTERREY, Mexico - Soldiers opened fire on a family's car at a military checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and his father, authorities and relatives said Monday.

Despite news headlines about the city spending for a high-speed rail station and parking, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz gave his capital budget press conference on Tuesday well outside the downtown at the Meadowood Neighborhood Center.

James Barfield drives every day. But his job isn't just any road trip.