KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay arrived Sunday in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau for resettlement, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON — Canada has been named one of the most peaceful nations in the world for its support of UN peacekeeping missions, low levels of violent crime and political stability.
What a difference a president makes.
TOFINO, B.C. — When most Canadians envision the Olympic torch making its way through their community leading up to the 2010 Winter Games, it’s safe to suggest they don’t usually think “surf’s up!”
MONTREAL — Insurance experts say climate change is resulting in skyrocketing claims because of severe weather.
OTTAWA — Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says “comprehensive reform” to federally regulated pension plans is on its way.
MONTREAL — A blind Algerian man who was made to feel like a “loser” when he was rejected from Canada because he had no family or job says he’s a “winner” and he’ll prove it now that he’s been allowed to stay in the country.
MONTREAL — The Conservative government is moving to end automatic early parole for non-violent offenders in a move aimed at financial fraudsters following a spate of highly publicized scams.
Canadians living in homeless shelters and rooming houses have a much shorter life expectancy than the general population — and poverty is not the only factor contributing to their premature deaths, researchers conclude.
Authorities in Quebec began vaccinations against the H1NI virus two days ahead of schedule Saturday after a school was hit by a second wave of swine flu this week.
day after the start of the historic torch relay that counts down to the 2010 Winter Games, the man who got Vancouver’s Olympic clock ticking has died.
The murder trial of a B.C. father who has admitted to killing his three children has been adjourned.
Kyle Unger scarcely believes his 19-year fight to clear his name in the grisly murder of a teenage girl is over.
Despite the shaky job market for university grads during the recession, or because of it, new enrolment figures show about 38,000 more students enrolled in Canadian universities this fall over last.
The federal Conservatives are fighting back with some stimulus number-crunching of their own, after enduring a week of Liberal accusations of pork-barrelling.
Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s public life was influenced by the many women in his private life, a new biography suggests.
Ontario physicians are asking employers to reconsider asking employees for a doctor’s sick note if they are absent from work due to influenza.
One person has been killed in a police-involved shooting in Nanaimo.
RCMP in the Vancouver Island city confirm the shooting occurred this morning near the Nanaimo courthouse in the downtown core.
Canadians and the justice system need clarity on whether or not polygamy is a crime, British Columbia’s attorney general said Thursday in announcing that he will ask the B.C. Supreme Court for an opinion on the federal law barring multiple marriage.
Kyle Unger, who served 14 years in prison after being convicted in a teenage girl’s grisly slaying, is expected to walk out of a Winnipeg courtroom Friday with his freedom and name fully restored.
