Alberta is boosting its revenue estimates by $3 billion at the midpoint of the fiscal year, but the province continues to bleed red ink.

Haiti's electoral council has banned the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from running in next year's legislative elections.

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize.

Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse by priests in order to protect the church's reputation, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year investigation.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done an about-face and will attend the Copenhagen climate-change meeting next month.

Al Jazeera's English-language news network will be coming soon to the cable and satellite dial, after winning the approval of Canada's broadcast regulator.

Canadians are becoming more pessimistic over the strength of the economic recovery and what it will mean for their finances and job security, a new consumer confidence survey shows.

Canada must create a cap-and-trade system that's compatible with the U.S. plan to reduce greenhouse gases - even if no U.S. system actually exists.

An international team headed by an Edmonton physician has used stem cells to heal and protect the lungs of newborn rats - research that could help premature babies with chronic lung disease.

The Harper government introduced legislation Thursday to make it tougher for Canadians imprisoned abroad to serve out their sentences in Canada.

Canada's three largest gold miners are criticizing a private member's bill that, if passed, would govern the activities of Canadian companies operating in developing countries.

Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to thousands of revelers Thursday eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie.

The Supreme Court of Canada will allow serial killer Robert Pickton to broaden his grounds for appeal on six murder convictions.

A gunman opened fire in a Hungarian university classroom Thursday, killing one student and leaving three people seriously injured, the state-run news agency said.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife is seeking 43 million euros, or about $65 million US, a year in alimony in a divorce case she launched after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday.

The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year probe into previously secret church records.

A man stuck upside-down in a cave for more than a day died early Thursday, despite the efforts of dozens of rescuers, authorities said.

Two clusters of Tamiflu resistance in H1N1 patients probably don't signal a change in the virus's susceptibility to this key drug, the World Health Organization's top flu expert said Thursday.

Two of the Canadian navy's warships are getting into the spirit of the Grey Cup by exchanging a challenge on behalf of their namesake cities.

A 50-year-old Dartmouth, N.S., man is in hospital with non life-threatening injuries after he was shot in the chest Wednesday night.