Canada News Headlines: Reuters

QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Ales Kotalik scored the tying goal in regulation time and the winner in a shootout as the Czech Republic edged Belarus 3-2 at the world championships on Saturday.

TORONTO/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian health officials said on Friday that a death and reported outbreak of flu-like symptoms aboard a cross-Canada train were not due to an infectious disease and in fact were likely not related at all.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada's last known surviving veteran of World War One is becoming a Canadian citizen, the government said on Friday.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Rick Nash scored a third-period powerplay goal to lift defending champions Canada to a 2-1 win over Norway at the ice hockey world championships on Thursday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian shoppers still pay more for many retail goods than U.S. shoppers do, but the wide price gap has narrowed considerably since the Canadian dollar rose to match the U.S. one last year.

COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Just as Canada is set to launch a domestic carbon emissions trading scheme in a bid to curb its rising greenhouse gas emissions, a number of issues have surfaced, casting doubt on the country's plans.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The foreign minister faced pressure to quit on Thursday, as the opposition questioned his judgment and charged he had had a relationship with a woman who once had ties to organized crime.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd, a unit of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co said on Thursday it plans to expand its Canadian oil sands operation to produce up to an additional 35,000 barrels a day by 2014.

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A Guantanamo war court judge threatened on Thursday to halt the case of a Canadian terrorism suspect captured at age 15 if the U.S. government fails to turn over records of his detention.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has confirmed a rare case of bovine tuberculosis in a five-year-old beef cow from a herd in Manitoba, the country's food safety agency said on Thursday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Three Canadian men who blame Ottawa for their alleged torture in Syria protested outside Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office on Thursday to demand that a secret probe into their case be opened to the public.

TORONTO (Reuters) - An attendant at a Canadian restaurant who was sacked for giving a bite-sized doughnut, worth 16 cents, to an agitated toddler was given her job back on Thursday after the case received wide media attention.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Switzerland held on to shock Olympic champions Sweden 4-2 on Wednesday as the preliminary round of the ice hockey world championships ended with drama on and off the ice.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A regulatory panel has explained its environmental approval of Imperial Oil Ltd's Kearl oil sands project, casting uncertainty on a court hearing that began on Wednesday into a suspended permit for the C$8 billion ($7.9 billion) proposal.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's minority Conservative government will face a confidence test in coming days but will not be toppled, the leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Stephane Dion, said on Wednesday.

OSLO (Reuters) - Canada will be investigated on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of a U.N.-led fight against global warming, official documents show.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Dalton McGuinty, the premier of Ontario, will make a trip to Italy on May 21 to pitch auto giant Fiat SpA on setting up shop in the Canadian province, his office confirmed on Wednesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Maple Leafs fired head coach Paul Maurice on Wednesday after he failed to lead the National Hockey League team into the playoffs during his two seasons behind the bench.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Chinese and Indian cars will soon hit the North American market and will have a price advantage, partly because security-related costs add to the price of North American vehicles, Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Dany Heatley scored twice, including the winner with 47 seconds left, to lift Canada to a riveting 5-4 victory over the U.S. at the world championships on Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian soldier was shot dead in a clash with militants while on foot patrol outside Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. quoted military officials as saying.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian authorities cannot find 41,000 people who were classified as security risks or illegal immigrants and ordered to leave the country, an official watchdog reported on Tuesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada has banned all smoking in federal prisons because a partial ban was largely ignored, the government said on Tuesday.

BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - An experiment that went wrong may provide a new way to treat multiple sclerosis, a Canadian researcher said on Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The official residence used by Canadian prime ministers is in such a terrible state that incumbent Stephen Harper should move out for a year to allow the building to be renovated, a watchdog said on Tuesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Canadian students broke out in song at the same time across the country on Monday during the fourth annual Music Monday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is "very close" to concluding free trade negotiations with Colombia, Trade Minister David Emerson said on Monday, calling those opposed to the deal on human rights grounds as simply "dogmatic."

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A top Canadian official sought to calm an international uproar over hundreds of ducks killed at Canada's biggest oil sands plant by promising, at a U.S. oil industry event on Monday, that the incident will not go unpunished.

TORONTO (Reuters) - While Ford Canada's new collective bargaining agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers union avoids a two-tier wage system - like that agreed with a U.S. union - savings in other areas of the pact will make up the gap, the company said on Monday.