Eric Sinclair Jensen, 55, is wanted on Canada-wide warrants for extortion, arson and mischief after he failed to appear in court in January 2012....

As Saanich struggles over its money-losing Cedar Hill municipal golf course, the thing to remember is that it's not alone.Golf courses across Canada are trying to play out of the rough. That...

CHAMONIX, France (AP) -- In a great day for Canadian skiing, Jan Hudec won a World Cup downhill for a surprising victory while teammate Erik Guay finished third in piercing cold over an icy slope. ...

Mexican officials said in December they had uncovered an elaborate plan, at the height of pro-democracy protests in Libya, to bring 38-year-old Saadi Gadhafi and other relatives into Mexico on false...

Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury stops Brad Marchand on Saturday afternoon. Fleury and the Pens won a key 2-1 victory. (Winslow Townson/Associated...

Russia and China joined forces in a double veto on Saturday to knock down a Western-Arab U.N. Security Council resolution backing an Arab League plan for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step...

Tankers would use Douglas Channel to gain access to the terminus of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline at Kitimat, British Columbia. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian...

A large grassfire in Calgary's northwest is under control after creeping towards homes and a city storage facility. The blaze was located near the Calgary West Soccer Centre on Bearspaw Dam...

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says Canada 'will stand with the people of Syria in their efforts to achieve for themselves a brighter future for all Syrians.' (Adrian Wyld/Canadian...

Vancouver police say two men have been charged after 34 bank robberies in and around the city over a three-month period last year. Duane Robert Burd, 39, is accused of 20 counts of robbery and six...

York Region's promised two months of free transit begins Saturday. Anyone using the YRT or Viva routes in the region can ride for free until the end of March. It's to show appreciation...

Calgary police are looking for the driver of a crane after his machine crashed into an overhead walkway Saturday morning. Witnesses reported seeing the flatbed crane hit the Plus-15 pedway and come...

Students at the University of Alberta won the Guinness World Record for the most players in a dodgeball game. They had 4,979 people partcipate. (University of Alberta/HO) That's a lot of balls. ...

The remains of Fribjon Bjornson in found in a vacant home on the Nak'azdli reserve in B.C. Friday. (RCMP/HO) Police in B.C. have identified the human remains found in a vacant home on the...

Six knee operations refused to derail Jan Hudec from his dream of hitting the World Cup downhill podium once again on behalf of his country.The same holds true for lack of cash. Due in part to his...

OTTAWA-- The Syrian Embassy in Ottawa has been splashed with what appears to be red paint. Protesters held a demonstration in front of the embassy, located in midtown Ottawa, about 10 blocks from...

Not so long ago, Myles Murphy popped "E" caps like they were candy.He and his two buddies would pool their money to buy 21 ecstasy pills during the week from a dealer in school or on the...

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to China on Monday for one of his most important foreign missions this year, hoping to sow stronger economic ties with Canada's second-largest...

India is big on the Canadian Tourism Commission's radar. According to media reports, Indian leisure travellers added C$82 million to the Canadian economy in 2009. But Canada is opening its doors...

Three journalists with Canada's state-owned CBC TV, who set off from Toronto today to cover a dispute between indigenous groups and Canadian and other international mining companies in Panama,...

NAPANEE, Ont. -- Alberta, Quebec and New Brunswick got off to good starts Saturday in Draw 1 on the men's side of the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors curling championship. Bryce...

From Whistler, B.C., to Chamonix, France, from Deer Valley, Utah, to Rybinsk, Russia, Canadians are dominating on snow and ice like never before, winning medals, hogging the podium.It’s...

The Canadian rugby team's surprising run at the New Zealand Sevens ended Saturday with a 15-12 overtime loss to Samoa in the quarter-finals.Nathan Hirayama forced the extra period for Canada...

Canada's Valerie Maltais (L) and South Korea's Dam Min Kim compete during the ladies' 1500 m Semifinals at the ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating in Moscow February 4,...

has broken the record for most No. 1 songs on Billboard’s Rap Songs with his latest chart topper "Make Me Proud." According to an article posted yesterday (2/3/12)...

CHAMONIX, France -; Through six knee surgeries and debilitating back problems, Jan Hudec never lost faith. In a great day for Canadian skiing, the 30-year-old from Calgary won a World Cup downhill...

MONTREAL -- A Muslim businessman in Canada became a terror suspect for telling his sales staff in a text message to "blow away" the competition at a New York City trade show, a religious...

Daniel Sedin, centre, and Sami Salo, right, hope their Vancouver Canucks can hold Jay McClement, left, and the Colorado Avalanche at bay on Saturday afternoon. (Rich Lam/Getty...

Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, speeds down the course on her way to win the women's World Cup downhill, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany on Saturday. (Marco Trovati/Associated...

Valerie Maltais, of Canada, shown here competing at the short-track World Cup event in Utah last October, took home a bronze medal on Saturday. (Jim Urquhart/Associated...

Hundreds of Canadians lost their jobs on Friday, as Caterpillar announced the closure of its Electro-Motive Diesel locomotive plant in London, Ont.Despite the...

Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman John-Michael Liles, left, and Ottawa's Zack Smith, right, battle for the puck during a tilt on Oct. 8, 2011. (Chris Young/Canadian...

(CBC) Former British Columbia premier Bill Vander Zalm wrote his 2008 book to slam the reputation of a man whose inquiry findings forced him to resign in disgrace years earlier, says a lawyer. Irwin...

CAW workers picket outside at the Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., on Friday. American-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. announced Friday it was closing the plant, a month after it...

Henrik Zetterberg and his Detroit teammates will be trying to keep Sam Gagner and his Oilers down when they meet on Saturday afternoon. Gagner is coming off a rare eight-point game. (John...

(CBC) A Fredericton couple took the drastic step of pulling their son out of high school Friday after what they say has been months of degrading harassment by another student. They said they...

MONTREAL - Two Quebec men face fraud charges following an investigation by the RCMP into a mortgage scam that cost victims more than $4 million.Kinh Ho Quan, 56, and Hermel Bosse, 58, were arrested...

(File Photo) Canadian police departments should collect race-based crime data, two Ontario criminologists say. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre...

VANCOUVER - Tom Campbell, whose reign as one of Vancouver most controversial mayors heralded a complete change in the direction of the city's growth, has died at the age of 84.Campbell, who...

Jan Hudec took first place and Canadian teammate Erik Guay placed third in Saturday's World Cup men's downhill in Chamonix, France. Roman Baumann of Austria was second, and another...

Barack Obama rejected the building of a route from Alberta to Texas by TransCanada’s Keystone XL, largely on environmental and safety concerns. A spokesman for Harper told the Associated Press...