TORONTO _ The loonie was back above the U.S. dollar early Tuesday as commodity prices moved higher and optimism lingered from a positive U.S. jobs report last week.
The Canadian dollar was at 100.27 cents US, up 0.46 of a cent from Friday's close before a long holiday weekend.
Data on U.S. e ....
EDMONTON _ Dinosaur expert Philip Currie was on a dig in the Alberta badlands a few weeks back, camping in a tent, when he learned that yet another fossil site had been vandalized.
The heartbreaking news was in an email which his wife received when she climbed high enough on a hill to get recepti ....
OTTAWA _ Few are noting the occasion, but about now Canada and the rest of the world should be celebrating the third anniversary marking the end of the Great Recession.
It was in the third quarter of 2009 _ the July-September months _ that Canada and many other major advanced nations began to bre ....
MONTREAL _ Quebecers are waking up to a mess this morning far beyond the smashed windows and shards of glass being swept off the streets of their largest city.
The intensity of student unrest in the province was illustrated by riotous scenes that unfolded Wednesday night in Montreal.
Banks and o ....
OTTAWA _ The mother of a Canadian soldier who killed himself in 2008 is expected to testify today at an inquiry into how the military handled his death.
Cpl. Stuart Langridge had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after tours in Bosnia and Afghanistan when he died at a base in Edm ....
TORONTO _ A member of Ornge's new board of directors says Ontario's troubled air ambulance service is still suffering from a lack of qualified pilots and acute care paramedics.
Barry McLellan says Ornge is also still looking for a permanent fix for the interiors of its new helicopters, wh ....
MONTREAL _ Hundreds of protesters, many of them aerospace workers who just recently lost their jobs, are blocking a downtown Montreal street to vent their frustration.
The workers, together with a number of students, gathered outside a building where shareholders of Air Canada's former parent ....
EDMONTON _ The Alberta Liberals are not what they used to be.
The party suffered a serious blow in Monday's provincial election, losing four of the eight seats it held when the vote was called and the title as official Opposition.
Leader Raj Sherman had to wait until the end of the night t ....
EDMONTON _ Alberta's Progressive Conservatives defied the pollsters Monday, winning a 12th consecutive majority government that will see them enter the record books as the unconquerable colossus of Canadian politics.
``Oh my! Oh my!'' Redford told supporters at a rally in Calgary afte ....
CALGARY _ The mayors of Alberta's two largest cities injected themselves into the fevered provincial election battle Wednesday, blasting the race-based ramblings of one Wildrose candidate and the biblical, anti-gay writings of another.
It was a two-pronged front by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi ....
