Canada, home to the biggest Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, Thursday urged Sri Lanka to lift the state of emergency imposed during the onslaught on the Tamil...

Canada's SNC-Lavalin company, that was at the centre of a headline-grabbing bribery scandal in Kerala, is now under scanner at home for allegedly overcharging in government building...

WHISTLER, British Columbia — Brian McKeever is turning his focus to another Paralympic Games less than two weeks after having his Olympic dreams dashed. It's the only way for McKeever to...

I t's the foreign policy that dare not speak its name. The Canadian government's desire to bolster fledgling free-market democracies in Latin America in an ideological competition with left-leaning,...

T eachers, students and other advocates for the First Nations University in Saskatchewan were in Ottawa Thursday to plead for the restoration of $7.2-million in federal funding that was cut after...

Vancouver Canucks' Daniel Sedin (L) celebrates his goal with his twin brother Henrik Sedin behind Toronto Maple Leafs' Carl Gunnarsson during the third period of their NHL hockey game in Toronto...

Toronto: Canada, home to the biggest Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to lift the state of emergency imposed during the onslaught on the Tamil Tigers. Urging Colombo to ease...

A study reviewing policing policy in Moncton has recommended the city stay with a regional RCMP force. Creating a separate Moncton RCMP detachment or a municipal force would cost too much money to...

Miikka Kiprusoff may be the only one who officially gets the shutout on Thursday, but you can be sure he would unofficially share the honour with his Calgary Flames teammates. The Flames stifled the...

Two Vancouver police officers are recovering from head injuries after a violent struggle on Commercial Drive with a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. Police received several 911 calls on...

Whistler is on the hook for nearly $1 million for not paying enough during the expropriation of prime real estate on Alta Lake formerly owned by the family of Andrew Saxton, the Conservative MP for...

Larry M. Benke P.Eng, Managing Director, WorleyParsons Canada Ltd., and its' wholly owned subsidiary INTECSEA Canada, is pleased to announce the expansion of services...

OTTAWA — Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Thursday defended the pace at which the government is alerting consumers to recalls of food products that could be contaminated with salmonella. A batch...

HELENA, Mont. — Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that he is seeking federal permission to import cheaper drugs from Canada for use in state insurance programs. Schweitzer said he thinks the...

Dr. Philip Berger, second from left, and Sister Christa Mary Jones, part of the Ontario Hospital Association team working at Leribe Hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa, flank their colleague Dr....

T he B.C. government is seeking to break a stalemate with its ambulance drivers' union, proposing changes that could roll the 3,500 paramedics into a new union – effectively ending a...

A quarter century after aboriginal women won the right to remain status Indians when they marry non-aboriginal men, new legislation proposes that their grandchildren also be entitled to the...

A fter two weeks of disrupting traffic, the Halalt First Nation on Vancouver Island removed a roadblock on Chemainus Road, south of Nanaimo Thursday. The roadblock had been set up to protest a...

WINTHROP, Ont. - A provincial police officer was shot and killed Monday when pulling over a vehicle in rural southwestern Ontario, an incident witnesses said set off a close-range gunfight between...

By Gurmukh Singh, Toronto, March 12 : Canada's SNC-Lavalin company, that was at the centre of a headline-grabbing bribery scandal in Kerala, is now under scanner at home for allegedly overcharging in...

City staff overseeing the plan to redevelop Ottawa's Lansdowne Park are floating a new idea for getting people to and from the site: water taxis on the Rideau Canal. Some critics have argued that...

Andrei Kostitsyn scored in the fifth round of a shootout to give the Montreal Canadiens a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. Kostitsyn was the only Canadien to score on Devan...

The east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ramat is seen from a distance on Wednesday. Canada voiced muted criticism Thursday over the planned expansion of 1,600 new Israeli settlements in...

Download ( 'http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" ) Flash Player to view this content. Phil Kessel took a brilliant pass from Tyler Bozak and scored at 3:33 of overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs put...

For the second straight night, the Carolina Hurricanes pushed one of the NHL's best teams to overtime. This time they got the win. Brian Pothier scored 23 seconds into overtime to give the Carolina...

The Atlanta Thrashers needed a break. Instead, they got more bad news. Kristian Huselius had a goal and an assist and the Columbus Blue Jackets weathered a late rally to hang on for a 2-1 victory...

Tuukka Rask made 31 saves and Mark Recchi, Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci scored second-period goals to help the Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 on Thursday night. The banged-up...

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that he is seeking U.S. government permission to import cheaper drugs from Canada for use in state insurance programs. Schweitzer said he thinks the move...

The Canadian Museum of Nature has unveiled the star attraction of its new Water Gallery — a blue whale skeleton that is 20 metres long. The museum acquired the remains of the massive female whale...

This was one point the St. Louis Blues couldn't let slip away. Fighting to get back into the Western Conference playoff race, the surging Blues found themselves in a shootout with the slumping New...

A cardiac surgeon at the Montreal Heart Institute says his hospital has adopted measures to get its wait list under control within six months. Dr. Michel Carrier made his comments Thursday amid...

The confrontation killed Const. Vu Pham, a 15-year OPP veteran, who was shot and killed Monday after pulling over a pickup truck on a rural southwestern Ontario road. Preston was then wounded in an...

The federal government tabled legislation Thursday that could see more than 45,000 Canadians recognized as status Indians under changes to the Indian Act. The changes come after Ottawa lost a court...

A relaxed Andy Sonnanstine gave the Tampa Bay Rays a glimpse of the pitcher that helped them get to the World Series. The right-hander, who lost his spot in the starting rotation last season after...

The provincial government may be fuelling the black market with a tax increase on private sales of cars, boats and airplanes that comes into effect July 1, the B.C. NDP says. The B.C. government...

B.C.'s Liberal government has backed away from plans to turf a branch of the Royal Canadian Legion from its home in a government building near the provincial legislature in Victoria. Citizen's...

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has identified the man involved in a confrontation that saw an Ontario police officer shot and killed as Fred Preston, 70, of Sundridge, Ont. THE CANADIAN...

Little Isaiah May, a brain-injured baby whose parents dropped a court battle to keep him on life support, has died in their arms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO EDMONTON - A brain-injured Alberta baby at the...

PRESCOTT, Ont. — What began as a 911 call to help a starving disabled man suffering from bedsores in May 2008 ended Thursday with a first-degree murder charge against his younger brother.Police in...

OTTAWA -- Sesquicentennial -- it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Of course, it's a word rarely used, not just because it only happens every 150 years, but also because it is something of a...