“Don’t go to work” reads a poem written by a Japanese boy for his father who killed himself after suffering from depression caused by working too much. “Dad, I am no good,” wrote a young Japanese engineer who committed suicide because he could no longer cope with work. The letters are part of an exhibition in Tokyo put on by a mental health organization to highlight the risk of “karoshi,” or ...

Canada's economy gained a better-than-expected 15,000 jobs in August, rebounding from a huge drop in employment the previous month, Statistics Canada said Friday.

Maple Leaf Food's tainted meat recall has expanded to bologna sold in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement.

Calgary police shot a man dead Thursday evening after a confrontation near an apartment building where officers later found the body of a woman, police said.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice in a plea agreement that forces him from office and caps a scandal that had threatened to spill over into the U.S. presidential campaign in a key battleground state.

Two Vancouver police officers who moonlight as wedding videographers recently worked a reception attended by several known gangsters.

Residents of an east-side retirement home were displaced following a fire in which a 73-year-old man died yesterday morning.

Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean retreated by nearly 2.5 million square kilometres last month - the single biggest August melt observed by scientists, according to the latest satellite measurements released late Thursday by the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The CRTC — the same agency that recently gave two thumbs-up to a homegrown Canadian porn TV network — has nixed two applications for Christian radio stations in the Ottawa area, and that has left some supporters of the religious proposals very unhappy.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is sitting on a stockpile of orphaned bomb-grade uranium it doesn’t want to talk about.

With only days to go before an election call, the Liberal party has appointed former defence minister David Pratt as its candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean, setting the stage for a battle royal with Environment Minister John Baird.

With only days to go before an expected election call, the Liberal party has appointed former defence minister David Pratt as its candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean, setting the stage for a battle with Environment Minister John Baird.

Police officials have tabled a budget for next year that includes a 6.5-per-cent spending increase. They have the support of Mayor Larry O’Brien, but one councillor who sits on the police services board says the budget will have to be “scrutinized thoroughly” before it gets her vote.

Kettle Island has been picked as the route for a new bridge linking Quebec and Ontario. Whether it has a chance of being built is the $500-million question.

Ottawa police Chief Vern White’s determination to raise millions of dollars for Ottawa’s youth drug treatment centre was on display Thursday night as he worked the floor at a special fundraiser.

A 19-year-old man involved in an alleged home takeover case has been found guilty of four counts of sexual assault and one count of unlawfully being in a dwelling.

A 55-year-old Bourget man died Wednesday after his pickup truck hit and severed a tree in an accident near Riceville.

The City of Gatineau has hired a Montreal firm to generate electricity from methane gas at its former Cook Road landfill site in the Aylmer sector.

The discovery of a strange comet in the outer solar system may hold the secrets to the origins of Halley's Comet, scientists say.