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George Osborne will shed light on plans for the state-owned banks and David Cameron faces MPs questions on G8 agreements on Syria and tax dodging George Osborne will shed light on his plans for the state-owned banks today amid fresh pressure to split up Royal Bank of Scotland .

One of the co-owners of Red Deer's Drummond Brewing Company says the province's beer tax system is driving brewers out of Alberta.

Hundreds of friends, family and former colleagues turned out to a celebration of the remarkable life of Bill Reid, past alderman, MLA, tourism minister and executive director of the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce.

There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, as per the singer/songwriter Paul Simon and his 1975 song of the same name, but there are apparently at least 99 ways to leave your government job - and all of them have you merrily deleting and shredding as you go.

For the second time in less than a year, a Montreal mayor has stepped down amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada's second-largest city.

For the second time in less than a year, a Montreal mayor has stepped down amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada's second-largest city.

A Roman Catholic religious order based in the Midwest is releasing an unusually candid report admitting it failed victims of clergy sex abuse.

Premier Darrell Dexter, left, and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver arrive at a news conference at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

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Leaders from eight of the world's wealthiest countries spent the final hours of their summit Tuesday focusing how to make sure that multinational companies can no longer rely on shelters and loopholes to avoid paying the tax they owe.

Lebanon's public debt swelled by nearly $5 billion during the term of former premier Najib Mikati's Cabinet, the secretary-general of the Association of Banks in Lebanon said.

British Columbia's New Democrats have tapped a social worker turned politician as their new critic for agriculture, ahead of the legislature reconvening next week.

Proponents and those opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline have started making their final arguments before the federal review panel in Terrace, B.C. Canada will be vulnerable to economic disaster should the Northern Gateway pipeline be rejected, the proponent told a federal review panel Monday as the final phase of public hearings got underway.

The sounds of hammering, drilling and digging at Quebec's bustling construction sites were replaced by chants and waving picket signs as workers walked off the job Monday in a general strike.

Canada's western premiers say bullying is a serious issue and all provinces and territories need to find ways to tackle the new dimension that the Internet brings to the torment.

Outgoing U.S. ambassador to Canada David Jacobson said Monday the Obama administration knows how important the contentious Keystone XL pipeline is to Canada but he won't speculate about how much it would damage the relationship should it not be approved.

The Ontario legislature may have adjourned for the summer holidays, but the Progressive Conservatives aren't taking any breaks from hammering the Liberals, rolling out a new attack ad this week.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas resigned on Monday over a bribery and spying scandal involving his top aide that has plunged the recession-hit EU state into a fresh political crisis.

Amid speculation of a snap poll triggered by the political fallout from the controversial shutdown of ERT state broadcaster, Greece's leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras was set to deliver a speech in Syntagma square in Athens on Monday at 8 p.m. SYRIZA deputies on Monday said the decision last Tuesday by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras - which ... (more)

MOSCOW, June 17 National oil giant Rosneft may remain under state control under a new privatization plan prepared by the Russian government which would roll back its program to sell off some of the state's holdings in major companies, business daily Vedomosti reported on Monday.