LONDON - Maggie Jones, the British actress who played the sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt on Coronation Street, has died at the age of 75.
WASHINGTON - How much does the U.S. government really trust Canada? Maybe less than you think.
LONDON (AFP) - Actress Maggie Jones, best known as Coronation Street's razor-tongued Blanche Hunt, has died at the age of 75.
TORONTO - A miserable mixture of snow, rain and sleet led to cancelled flights in Ontario and havoc on highways as people in the province experienced a long-overdue dose of winter-like weather.
SOUTH BAR, N.S. - A seven-year-old autistic boy who went missing Saturday in Cape Breton, hours before a snowstorm hit, has been found, police said Monday.
HALIFAX, N.S. - An elderly woman with a cane and a heart condition was told to bring her husband into a Nova Scotia hospital on her own or call 911 after he suffered a heart attack 10 metres from the facility's front door, the couple's son said Friday.
OTTAWA - Health Canada is warning Canadians not to use certain Acai berry products after shipments stopped at the border were found to contain an undeclared drug called sildenafil.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Richard Branson unveiled his Virgin Galactic spaceliner for tourists willing to pay 200,000 dollars a ticket Monday for a trip into the weightlessness of space in a craft designed to make the perilous return home "like a giant shuttle cock."
BEIJING - In a surprisingly undiplomatic rebuke, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was publicly chided at a traditional Chinese welcoming ceremony Thursday for taking too long to visit the country.
OTTAWA (AFP) - The ubiquitous coin toss is not so random after all, and can easily be manipulated to turn up heads, or tails, a Canadian study has found.
OTTAWA - As his autumn of Asian travel ended Tuesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper faced stern warnings to never again shortchange Canada's economic relations with China or its neighbours.
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Police searching a home in northern Ontario have literally uncovered a whopping $1.2 million in cash buried outside.
TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says there have been 48 cases of a severe allergic reaction reported in people who have had H1N1 shots.
MONTREAL (AFP) - All men watch pornographic videos but it does not impact on their sexual habits or their relationships with women, a Canadian researcher has maintained after a two-year study.
The environmental activism group Greenpeace, no stranger to controversy, is at it again. In conjunction with the start of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark, the group has teamed up with TckTckTck to plaster the Copenhagen airport with advertisements featuring drastically altered images of famous world leaders participating in the summit. Though some industry observers have labeled the campaign "lame" and "dour," the group says the reaction to the ads thus far has been "phenomenal."
SALT LAKE CITY - A dog missing for three weeks was found skinny but alive after getting stuck in a storm drain in a Salt Lake City suburb.
HALIFAX, N.S. - James Delorey, the Cape Breton boy who died in hospital after miraculously surviving two nights lost in the frozen wilderness, was remembered Tuesday as a calm and quiet child whose big brown eyes did most of the talking.
TORONTO - Consumers are being warned to avoid some Slim-Fast ready-to-drink meal replacements because they may contain a bacteria.