Sovereign Quebec 'weak'

"Quebec would be weaker without Canada," Karin Schubert, deputy mayor and justice minister of the Berlin city-state, told The Canadian Press at a reception at the Quebec's trade office.

WIARTON, Ont. -- About 200 people braved the sweltering early afternoon heat to attend a memorial service for the albino groundhog, Wiarton Willie, whose ashes are to be scattered on Colpoy's Bay not far from the much-larger-than-life stone likeness that dominates this Ontario town's main waterfront park.