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Amare Stoudemire returned to the New York Knicks on Monday after missing the past week following the death of his brother, getting his first taste of NBA "Lin-sanity" in a team workout.
The political jockeying in the NDP leadership race intensified Monday, as internal polls emerged which suggested Thomas Mulcair has a strong lead and as rival Brian Topp received the endorsement of Jack Layton’s mother.
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Harper ends 'very successful' China trade mission
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he's interested in exploring the feasibility of a full free-trade agreement with China, but recognizes it would be difficult to obtain and is nowhere on the horizon.
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Greece warns bailout rebels of disaster
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos told lawmakers to back a deeply unpopular EU/IMF rescue in a vote on Sunday or condemn the country to a "vortex" of recession.
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Ottawa firefighter examines highrise blaze safety
OTTAWA - On May 19, 1983, a woman fell asleep while smoking in her bed on the seventh floor of a 20-storey highrise in midtown Ottawa.
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Paleontologists reveal ancient Arctic ecosystem teeming with life
Two Canadian scientists have completed a comprehensive portrait of the lush, rainforest-like ecosystem — populated by prehistoric creatures akin to alligators, hippos and flying lemurs — that prevailed some 40 million years ago in what is now Canada's northernmost landmass: Ellesmere Island.
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Mounties, editor of B.C. weekly, tangle over breathalyzer test
VANCOUVER - The editor of the weekly Osoyoos Times and a B.C. RCMP superintendent launched an online flame war following an irate editorial the editor posted condemning a Mountie for pulling him over for a sobriety test.
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Addicted in the OR: Anesthesiologists high on drugs pose a danger
They can't wear long sleeves in the operating room, which would hide the track marks on their arms, so they inject the drugs into less visible veins in their legs, thighs or the folds between their toes.
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Daughter drops $20K to keep Tommy Douglas's medals in family
REGINA - As the seconds ticked by, the asking price of Tommy Douglas's war medals kept rising.
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Canadian researcher hails discovery as new 'way to approach paleontology'
Hailed as a "first ever" discovery in dinosaur science, a Canadian paleontologist has used fossilized skin rather than bone to differentiate between two species of hadrosaurs — also known as duck-billed dinosaurs — from Alberta and Mongolia.
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Decriminalize drug use, new coalition urges
Canada needs to give up the war on drugs and start treating drug use as a health and social issue rather than something for the criminal justice system to deal with, according to a policy group that was formally launched Thursday.
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Alberta will `reign supreme' in economic growth
OTTAWA - Geographically, the continental divide roughly follows the spine of the Rockies, separating British Columbia from Alberta. Economically, that line will move over a few provinces during the next decade, to mark the division between the prosperous West and the struggling East.
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Canadians worry about money, jobs in 2012: RBC confidence index
Canadians have taken a big bite out of their personal debt in the past year but they're still grinding their teeth over what they see as a stalled national economy that has left them standing still instead of getting ahead.
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Chronic workplace stress driving increasing short- and long-term disability claims
It used to be that if someone was off sick for a short time, chances were good that he had put his back out, or that she had had an accident.
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Jury in Stobbe murder trial down one member
WINNIPEG - Like a phantom, her image flashes several times across a movie screen.
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Top female Mountie says harassment allegations raise `legitimate' questions
The RCMP needs to foster a culture that encourages members to admit and learn from their mistakes rather than keep them hidden where they can ``fester and grow,'' says the highest-ranking female Mountie.
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Alberta budget expected to hike income support for severely handicapped
EDMONTON - Alberta's most vulnerable residents are waiting in hopeful anticipation for a hike in their income in Thursday's budget while smokers and drinkers are bracing for possible hikes in liquor and tobacco taxes.
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`Magic mud' on tidal flats key to shorebird populations
The ``magic'' in the mud was first uncovered just south of Vancouver where up to half the world's western sandpipers touch down to refuel as they migrate north.
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Fat chance: no new regulations for trans fats, says Aglukkaq
OTTAWA - Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq confirmed Wednesday the federal government won't fulfil a promise to regulate trans fats in foods if voluntary measures failed.
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Canadians come to their census on Wednesday
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to reveal the initial results of the 2011 census, the first complete national head count in five years.
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Green groups slam big oil on 'lobby-busting' tour
A powerful Canadian oil and gas industry group has been systematically lobbying European embassies in recent months against proposed climate change legislation that discourages high-polluting transportation fuels such as crude oil from the oilsands sector, environmental groups said Tuesday.
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Fisher: Australia has a few lessons for Canada about dealing with China
As good as trade with China has been for Australia, its relationship with the emerging superpower is complicated and there are lessons in it for Ottawa which hopes to sign a deal for Canadian natural gas to be shipped to China through a marine export terminal under construction in Kitimat, B.C.
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Event that wiped out much of Earth's biology happened slowly: study
Fresh evidence gathered from ancient rocks on an Ellesmere Island fiord has led a 14-member international scientific team - including a University of Calgary researcher - to conclude that the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history unfolded slowly, possibly over a period of hundreds of thousands of years.
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Man says brain of Diefenbaker could prove paternity
The man who says he could be John Diefenbaker's son says he has some new leads that might prove his case, including a tip that the former prime minister's brain is preserved somewhere.
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B.C. looks abroad to grow agri-food sector
Feeding the Pacific Rim with B.C.-grown blueberries, cherries, beef and seafood is the key to growing the province's agri-food sector, according to Agriculture Minister Don McRae.
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“Fair” system would slash Quebec’s equalization transfers
The federal equalization program would be less expensive annually for taxpayers, and far less lucrative for Quebec, if it was based on a fairer formula, a new study by a former senior federal official says.
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Rescue volunteers move into new berth
Station 36 of the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary has a new boathouse to call home.
