M.S. Swaminathan, one of the pioneers of the Green Revolution in India, will receive an honorary doctorate from Canada's University of Alberta for his contribution to food security in the...

Despite reports from the US Thursday that initial jobless claims fell to 472,000 last week and pending home resales were up 5.2 per cent in July, Canada's top Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank said the economic recovery in North America is slipping after positive hints four months...

A fuel tanker is aground on a sandbar in Canada’s far...

The Bleeding Disorders Program in Winnipeg, Canada and the Haemophilia Society (Delhi) are jointly organising an International Symposium on haemophilia on September 4 and 5 at the LPS Auditorium, PHD House, August Kranti Marg, Hauz Khas, New...

Nine members of Canada's Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad from September 4 to...

A man arrested in connection with a terror probe, but never charged, has been granted bail on unrelated assault allegations.While the RCMP arrested the 20-year-old Ottawa man last week in connection...

Mayoral Candidate Supports Merger, but Says Smitherman's Plan to Combine the Two Waterfront Attractions Now Would Delay Current Ontario Place...

Toronto: Eminent agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan will be bestowed with an honorary doctorate by a premier Canadian university, recognising the “power of one person to uplift an entire...

Former prime minister Kim Campbell describes the great honour she felt after becoming a companion of the order, its highest grade, in Ottawa on...

MONTREAL — David Arquette took a break from filming the latest instalment of the "Scream" horror franchise to make a rocket-fast trip to Montreal to plug his new film "The Land of the...

The first athlete to positive test for human growth hormone in North America is a Canadian college football player whose team was suspended for the 2010 season because of a steroid...

A smiling Awso Peshdary leaves the Ottawa Courthouse after being granted bail on Friday. Peshdary was one of four men arrested last month as part of a police investigation of a homegrown terrorism...

An Ottawa man has won a prestigious bagpiping competition in Scotland. Andrew Hayes won the gold medal at the Northern Meeting of the Highland Society of London's solo piping competition in...

Eleven of the 35 people arrested in a series of raids on compassion clubs in Montreal have had their bail conditions eased. Twelve of the 35 made an appearance at the Montreal courthouse Friday...

Border officials say they have intercepted a package of 402 bundles of the drug khat. Canada Border Services Agency officers made the discovery of the air cargo package on Tuesday. The package was...

Ilya Kovalchuk's contract ordeal appears to be over. The NHL and NHLPA have reached an agreement to revise the rules that regulate long-term contracts as part of a global settlement on Friday,...

Curtis Granderson drove in three runs with a pair of doubles, Brett Gardner sparked the offence from his leadoff spot and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-3 on Friday to match a...

While World Cup holder Spain was among the traditional powers to open qualifying for the 2012 European Championship with victories Friday, France was further humiliated by a 1-0 home defeat against...

A group of Muslims in Sydney, N.S., has bought a church hall to convert into a mosque. The Antigonish Roman Catholic diocese sold the parish hall affiliated with Sydney's Holy Redeemer Parish Church...

Premier Ed Stelmach is scheduled to meet with the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, this Wednesday in Ottawa. The meeting was initiated by Pelosi's office. The powerful...

A fire in an abandoned warehouse on Notre-Dame Street in east-end Montreal created traffic headaches for drivers Friday afternoon. The fire in the former Paramount Décor building near the corner of...

A police officer responding to a call about agitated dog in northeast Calgary shot and killed the animal as it charged at the officer. Before police arrived, the dog had bitten a woman on the hand...

Police issued a warning Friday after thousands of OxyContin tablets were taken from a west Edmonton business a week ago. About 5,400 80-milligram pills were taken and detectives are concerned about...

A striking worker in Saint John, N.B., is facing a charge of public mischief after she told police she was struck by a vehicle on the picket line. Sgt. Pat Bonner said the woman, 45, said she was...

Drinkers of Alberta's biggest independent beer brand say they are not happy about a shortage of their favourite brew. Over the past several weeks, the province's biggest liquor store chain has cut...

A case of hepatitis A has been confirmed in a food handler at a McDonald's restaurant in Lethbridge, Alta. Alberta Health Services issued a warning Friday that anyone who ate or drank at the Scenic...

Sex assault charges have been laid against a 24-year-old man who police allege had illicit sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl in Castlegar, B.C., and posted photos of her on her Facebook site. ...

The B.C. government is using a new piece of legislation that allows it to recover medical expenses to sue the pilot and others involved in a fiery balloon crash that killed two people and injured...

Photo of Canadian soldier Allan MacMaster (kneeling) c. 1930, who confessed to killing British policeman Station Sergeant Thomas Green during the Epsom Riot, a drunken uprising by frustrated,...

Police have identified Janet M. Barrie as the owner of a trunk in which two mummified babies were found last month in the basement of a Los Angeles apartment building. Barrie was a Scottish-born...

Alan Simpson is president and CEO of Regina-based StorageVault Inc., a mini-storage business that has brought the PUPS product to the Canadian...

A young boy who is a flood victim looks on while standing at a relief camp in Nowshera in northwestern Pakistan September 3, 2010. Pakistan's northwest, the first region to be hit by the floods and...

CALGARY – An agressive dog that bit the hand of at least one person was killed by a police officer this afternoon.According to Calgary police, residents of the 1000 block of Coventry Drive near...

VANCOUVER -- We’re guessing that only the most dedicated Twihards are aware that Bella Swan’s birthday falls on Sept. 13, but eOne entertainment is making sure everyone celebrates the momentous...

A highly-reputed private Calgary school did not defame a 16-year-old girl when it expelled her for allegedly having sex with her boyfriend in a washroom at an off-site function, a judge ruled on...

Just a small snippet of hair may hold the key to predicting a person's risk of heart attack months in advance, according to a new Canadian...

More than 50 years after the controversial relocation of 22 Inuit families to some of the world's most unforgiving terrain in Canada's Far North, two monuments paying tribute to the country's...

Police have identified Janet M. Barrie as the owner of a trunk in which two mummified babies were found last month in the basement of a Los Angeles apartment building. Barrie was a Scottish-born...

VANCOUVER -- Three people were arrested by Vancouver police after officers were called to the luxurious Shangri-La condominium complex to rescue a man said to have been held there against his will in...

MONTREAL — A man in Repentigny, Que., just north of Montreal, was injured Friday by what municipal police called "an explosive device" wrapped "like a gift package" that went...

OTTAWA — A glittering array of Canada’s finest sports heroes, musicians, politicians, actors and business leaders filled Rideau Hall on Friday for the Order of Canada ceremony in one of Gov....

VANCOUVER — Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. has agreed to buy Andean Resources Limited for $3.6 billion netting itself Andean’s Cerro Negro gold and silver project in Argentina.The deal trumps the...

Heaven? Yes.Hell — no.That’s one of the messages sent by more than 400 Canadians who responded to a detailed, nationwide survey this year probing people’s personal spirituality, attitudes...

A Calgary Jewish group is welcoming the hate-crime conviction of a teenager after many Jewish sites in the city — including this synagogue and a Holocaust...