Canada News Headlines: AFP

HALIFAX, Canada (AFP) - Niko Kapanen scored the winner halfway through the final period as Finland survived a scare by beating Latvia 2-1 in the qualification round of the World Ice Hockey Championships Friday.

BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - Canadian Governor General Michaelle Jean visited the French wine capital of Bordeaux on Friday, a city with longtime ties to Quebec, which is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its founding this year.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's last known surviving veteran of World War I will soon reclaim his Canadian citizenship after living for more than half a century in the United States, officials said Friday.

CALGARY, Canada (AFP) - Alpine Canada named new coaches for their men's and women's World Cup ski program here Friday with an ambitious goal of producing three podium finishers at next year's world championships in France.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Soaring oil prices drove Canada's trade surplus to 5.5 billion US dollars in March, its highest level since May 2007, Statistics Canada said Friday.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - A Canadian advisor to a US general helping revamp Palestinian security forces has made several trips to Gaza, even though Washington considers the Hamas rulers of the territory terrorists, Palestinian officials said on Friday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Following large gains at the start of the year, employment in Canada edged up only slightly last month, adding 19,000 new jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's industry minister confirmed Friday he is blocking the sale of leading space firm MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates to a US defense contractor, saying it provided no net benefit to Canada.

HALIFAX, Canada (AFP) - Rick Nash scored the winner with just under four minutes left as Canada edged Norway 2-1 in the qualification round of the World Ice Hockey Championships on Thursday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A five-year-old beef cow from a herd in Canada's western Manitoba province has been diagnosed with bovine tuberculosis (TB), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Thursday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's opposition parties on Thursday assailed Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier over his ex-girlfriend's former romantic ties to bikers, alleging possible security breaches.

OTTAWA (AFP) - The United States and Canada are planning to build a second bridge connecting the US city of Detroit with Ontario's Windsor, to ease congestion at North America's busiest border crossing, news reports said Thursday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - US retail behemoth Wal-Mart said Thursday it will add or expand 25 to 27 stores in Canada in the coming months, and hire 6,000 new employees -- soon topping 300 stores in this country.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A Canadian high school student has won a national science competition for her new molecule that binds to flu viruses, which may eventually be used to diagnose or prevent flu infections.

HALIFAX, Canada (AFP) - Thibault Monnet has scored the winner early in the third as Switzerland upset reigning Olympic gold medallist Sweden 4-2 in the preliminary round of the World Hockey Championships.

HALIFAX, Canada (AFP) - Defenceman Jason Holland was tossed out of the World Ice Hockey Championships on Wednesday after the Germany national team failed to disclose all of his past international competitions.

TORONTO (AFP) - The Toronto Maple Leafs sacked coach Paul Maurice on Wednesday in the wake of a second straight season without reaching the National Hockey League Season.

HALIFAX, Canada (AFP) - Germany forward Florian Busch has been ruled eligible to continue playing in the World Ice Hockey Championships, the International Ice Hockey Federation announced on Wednesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's opposition on Wednesday accused the government of sabotaging its participation in the Kyoto Protocol, following a UN compliance committee's probing of its implementation in this country.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Nervous Canadians are sitting on a record 45 billion dollars in cash instead of investing it, fearing volatility in stock markets, a Canadian bank said Wednesday.

HALIFAX, Canada (AFP) - Dany Heatley scored the game winner with only 47 seconds remaining as Canada dodged a bullet at the World Ice Hockey Championships by edging the United States 5-4 on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Rocker Neil Young said Tuesday he is teaming up with Sun Microsystems Inc. to release a music video archive on Blu-ray DVDs.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Authorities have lost track of 41,000 people ordered to leave Canada, and in most cases have stopped looking for them, said a federal watchdog Tuesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - An American soldier has died in Canada's western Alberta province during a joint Canada-US military exercise, a US Army spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his family should move out of their crumbling official residence for more than a year to allow it to be fixed, the nation's auditor general urged Tuesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A Canadian soldier was killed and another was wounded Tuesday in a gun battle with insurgents that erupted while they were on a foot patrol near Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan, an official said.

QUEBEC CITY, Canada (AFP) - All-star goaltender Evgeni Nabokov has been cleared to join Team Russia for the 2008 World Ice Hockey Championships.

OTTAWA (AFP) - About 100 students protested on the steps of the Canadian parliament Tuesday urging the government to repatriate a young Canadian held at the US Guantanamo Bay military prison since he was 15.

LONDON (AFP) - Britain-based reporters at the Thomson Financial News wire service will vote on whether to strike following the creation of parent group Thomson Reuters, the main journalists' trade union said Tuesday.