Deadly Quebec train crash to be fertile ground for lawsuits
OTTAWA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - As investigators try to piece together how a parked oil freight train broke free and demolished the heart of a small Quebec town last weekend, a...
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New rule lets Canadians cancel wireless contracts after two years
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians will be able to cancel their cellphone contracts after two years without penalty, instead of the three years that is the industry standard now, under a...
Canada GDP jumps to 2.5 percent growth in first quarter on exports
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Rising exports helped rouse the Canadian economy from a sluggish second half of 2012 to grow at an annualized rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter...
Canada’s Liberals win Newfoundland seat in early test for Trudeau
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals regained a seat in the House of Commons on Monday in a race viewed as an early test of the popularity of the party's new...
One in five Canadians are born abroad, survey shows
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is more than ever a nation of immigrants, with one in five Canadians born outside the country, according to a 2011 survey released by Statistics Canada...
Canada train plot suspects in court; to fight charges
TORONTO/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Two men charged with an alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to derail a Canadian passenger train made their first court appearances on Tuesday, and the lawyer for one...
Canada to fund non-nuclear sources for medical isotopes
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada expects to be able to make enough medical isotopes through non-nuclear methods by 2016 to replace those now produced by an aging reactor and better assure...
G20 steps back from currency brink, heat off Japan
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Group of 20 nations declared on Saturday there would be no currency war and deferred plans to set new debt-cutting targets, underlining broad concern about the...
Carney dismisses concern about inflation expectations
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The future head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, dismissed concern on Saturday about the danger of inflation expectations spiraling in Britain and elsewhere. Carney, governor...
Canada eyes revoking citizenship of dual nationals tied to terror
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government is eyeing legislation that would let it revoke the citizenship of dual nationals involved in acts of terrorism following news that a Canadian-Lebanese man...