Canada's major airports will soon have new X-ray scanning gear for carry-on baggage that officials say could speed up the trip through security and make it easier to spot potential threats.
The number of bike couriers zipping around Ottawa has plummeted in the past two decades, and those hanging on to their two-wheeling careers are blaming technology for the demise of their kind.
Two and a half weeks after she was brutally attacked and stabbed by her former boyfriend, 47-year-old Brenda Van Leyen says she's on the road to recovery.
Canada's child poverty rate has improved but the gap between rich and poor keeps widening, a new report says.
A group of students at the University of Ottawa has started the first Bloc Québécois student club outside the province of Quebec.
Ottawa is equipping its snow-removal vehicles with global position system technology in order to reduce salt use on the city's roads during the winter months.
Premier Dalton McGuinty is firing back at opposition critics over the HST, accusing them of distorting the truth about the single sales tax to scare people.
The Tamil organization that fought a bloody decades-long war with the Sri Lankan government is planning a December referendum in Canada and around the world on the question of a separate Tamil state.
Quebec's association of Crown prosecutors added its voice to calls for a full public inquiry into the province's bruised construction industry.
Dozens of parents and students turned out to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board meeting Monday night in an attempt to convince school board trustees not to close three area schools.
A sixth person has died from swine flu-related illness in Ottawa since September.
New electronic fare boxes aboard Ottawa's OC Transpo buses are jamming up, giving passengers a free ride and costing the city potential revenue, CBC News has learned.
A 15-month-old Winnipeg-born boy died Sunday night after wriggling out of his mother's arms and falling about 15 metres at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
Facing a two-goal deficit heading into the third period, the Senators rallied and gave Mike Fisher the chance to play overtime hero as Ottawa beat the Washington Capitals 4-3.
An Ontario woman convicted of killing her four-month-old son after a now-disgraced pathologist concluded the child's death was suspicious should be acquitted of infanticide, both the Crown and defence say in new court filings.
At least 1,000 Nortel employees in Ottawa alone are expected to receive job offers from the company that successfully bid for Nortel's optical networking and carrier ethernet businesses.
Ottawa transit riders should pick up new timetables, as OC Transpo is making changes to its routes and schedules starting Saturday. It is also adding new park-and-ride lots in Orleans East and Riverside South.
Four Toronto-area men have been charged with kidnapping in relation to the robbery of a tractor-trailer full of alcohol in Ottawa in July.
The Ministry of the Attorney General says it still views Ontario's street racing law as constitutional, despite a provincial court ruling in Newmarket last week.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest is painting himself as a world leader on climate change issues, announcing the province will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from its 1990 levels by 2020.