1.   Almost half a century later, Joni Mitchell has come home to this city in the Canadian prairies where she grew up and where her parents still live.

2.   Despite abundant sunshine, the northern Plains will be cold as chilly air filters south from the Canadian prairie.

3.   Joining them are the grain gendarmes swooping down on wheat farms on the wide Canadian prairies.

4.   Light snow will cross the northern Plains as a fast-moving area of low pressure drifts through the Canadian prairie.

5.   Soybeans pared losses amid forecasts for the coldest temperatures of the season for early next week in the Canadian prairies.

6.   The Canadian government offered to pay him to remain in exile but Metis friends persuaded him to return to the Canadian prairie.

7.   This is the Canadian prairie, not the Alberta you see on the Jasper postcards.

8.   While the market remains nervous about the possibility of frost in the Canadian prairie in the next few weeks, concern about serious damage has lessened.

9.   Aime Gauthier knows the odds against keeping French alive on the Canadian prairie.

10.   But a battle raging among farmers across the Canadian prairies over wheat.