TORONTO - Ontario's cash-strapped Liberal government moved Thursday to hold the line on salaries for senior public sector executives as a "symbolic" s...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - A published report says Bank of America is accelerating a cost-cutting plan and aims to eliminate 16,000 jobs by the end of the year....
GLASGOW, Scotland - Forget about the cuddly animals. The mascot for the next Commonwealth Games is a prickly plant with a cheeky face and daring chara...
The Wilfrid Laurier baseball team will make a final pitch Sunday to save its season after being suspended by the school following a hazing incident.Th...
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says 508,000 people were getting regular employment insurance benefits in July, virtually unchanged from the previous month...
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar ended lower on Thursday as key commodities dipped alongside further discouraging figures on the global economy, in parti...
Exxon Mobil Corp. will spend $1.6 billion to boost its holdings in the massive Bakken oil field in North Dakota and Montana by 50 per cent.Exxon said ...
TORONTO - Almost a third of Canadian children are either overweight or obese, says a report from Statistics Canada that bases its figures on the World...
GENEVA - International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel says the flow of star players to European teams during the NHL lockout could distort...
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell only slightly last week to a seasonally adjusted 382,000. The level suggests h...
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market ended another losing session on Thursday as weaker commodities weighed heavy on the industrial and metals sectors.T...
MILAN - Whether in leopard prints or safari wear, the Max Mara woman is the hunter not the hunted.The Max Mara collection presented during Milan Fashi...
LONDON - Her ride's here.Bruce Springsteen's daughter has bought a gold medal-winning horse from the London Olympics with hopes of competing for the U...
UPDATE: A vast majority of Canadians oppose the takeover of energy firm Nexen by the Chinese state oil company, CNOOC, according to a new Abacus Data ...
LONDON - Europe appears headed for a deepening economic recession despite a recent easing in market concerns over the three-year debt crisis, a closel...
VANCOUVER - A campaign to replace the board of directors at Western Wind Energy Corp. (TSXV:WND) entered a new phase Thursday, as the two sides of a p...
PARIS - A Paris-based think tank says government support to agriculture fell to a record low of 19 per cent of total farm receipts in 2011.The Organiz...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding that a "remorseless" Taiwanese company pay a $1 billion fine and two former top executives...
EDMONTON - Health officials in Alberta say they are investigating five cases of E. coli infections in people, but they are not linking them to an exte...
TORONTO - An American soldier who sought refuge in Canada after becoming disillusioned with the Iraq war has been arrested after turning herself over ...
NEW DELHI - Angry opposition supporters disrupted trains in India on Thursday but had only limited success in enforcing a national strike to protest a...
CHIBA, Japan - It's not quite game over at the annual Tokyo Game Show opening Thursday, but with smartphones, tablets and other computer-like devices ...
RUSTENBURG, South Africa - Days after soldiers were deployed, South African President Jacob Zuma's office announced Thursday that he has ordered milit...
SEATTLE - Adam Jones hit a two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning and Baltimore won its 15th straight extra-innings game with a 3-1 victory over ...
WASHINGTON - Matt Kemp scored a phantom run early, then hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth inning — right after Washington rallied with a six-run eig...
