Canada News Headlines - Reuters

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Reuters) - Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games on Friday by beating the South American capitals Bogota and Lima on the first ballot.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended higher for a fourth straight session on Friday as gold miners rallied around record high bullion prices, offsetting the index's fall at the outset on weak jobs data that fueled worry about economic recovery.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Marijuana grow-ops are a huge industry in parts of Canada, creating health and safety risks and leaving both unknowing home buyers and mortgage lenders vulnerable to fraud, a conference heard on Friday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will host a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in March 2010 in the French-speaking province of Quebec, laying the groundwork for a leaders' summit in June of next year.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government, facing public impatience over the pace of vaccinations for the H1N1 flu, signaled on Tuesday that it might no longer sole-source vaccines for future pandemics.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The opposition New Democratic Party will most likely back a new bill on employment insurance, but is making no promises about long it will keep the minority Conservative government in power.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Competition watchdog wants "anti-competitive" realtors to change the way they work, and wants new rules that could help new players to enter the market and allow for consumers to pay less.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's parliamentary budget officer said on Tuesday he may have to shut down his operations due to lack of funding, less than two years after the government created his job to improve transparency.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Metanor Resources Inc said on Tuesday the bodies of all three missing miners have been found following an accident at its Bachelor Lake gold mine in northwestern Quebec.

ST JOHN'S, Newfoundland (Reuters) - Prince Charles arrived in Canada on Monday for a 11-day cross-country visit that comes at a time when many Canadians say the royal family is no longer relevant to them.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - China, Canada's top export market for canola seed last year, has refused a Canadian delegation's request to delay for six months a plan to reject Canadian canola with blackleg disease as of November 15, the Canola Council of Canada said on Monday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has taken action at the World Trade Organization to overturn a European Union ban on imports of seal products on concerns by animal rights groups of brutality in the seal hunt, the government said on Monday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Canada requested on Monday consultations with Brussels over the European Union's restrictions on seal product imports, effectively launching a World Trade Organization dispute in the matter.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday Canadians should not expect the employment market to recover as quickly as the general economy.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Hollywood is dominating the Canadian box office at the expense of homegrown films, according to a government report.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Metanor Resources Inc has suspended operations at its Bachelor Lake gold mine in the Canadian province of Quebec after an accident that left three miners missing.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Two men sought by the FBI and linked to a Detroit Muslim leader killed by U.S. authorities were arrested in Windsor, Ontario on Saturday, Canadian police said.

VICTORIA, British Columbia (Reuters) - The Olympic flame arrived in Canada on Friday, beginning a 45,000-km (28,000-mile) trek that will see it crisscross the country before it arrives at next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada and Greenland agreed on Friday to create a joint commission to recommend how many of the polar bears shared between the two countries can be hunted each year.

TORONTO (Reuters) - An Ontario judge on Friday approved the transfer of Canwest Global's flagship National Post newspaper into a new holding company, a move that will allow the money-losing daily to keep operating.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's gross domestic product shrank by 0.1 percent in August, casting doubt on whether Canada climbed out of recession in the third quarter and making official growth projections all but impossible to reach.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Companies backing a C$16.2 billion ($15 billion) Canadian Arctic gas pipeline continue to pursue the long-delayed project despite a report that a federal cabinet committee has balked at providing a financial support package, company executives said on Friday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's new spy chief accused journalists and human rights advocates on Thursday of often glorifying terror suspects as "quasi folk heroes" and downplaying the risks posed to society by terrorism.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Paul Jenkins will step down when his current seven-year term ends in April 2010, the central bank said on Thursday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Hydro-Quebec said on Thursday it will buy most of the assets of debt-laden New Brunswick Power in a C$4.75 billion ($4.4 billion) deal that will give it better access to power-hungry markets in the U.S. Northeast.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian court Thursday sentenced a Rwandan man to life in prison after he was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Philip Morris International joined with U.S. tobacco industry groups on Thursday to ask President Barack Obama's administration to challenge Canada's new law banning flavored cigarettes and small cigars.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece handed the Olympic flame to Canada, hosts of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, on Thursday for the longest domestic torch relay ever ahead of the February 12 opening ceremony.