Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.

The permanent Arctic sea ice that is home to the world's polar bears and usually survives the summer has all but disappeared, a Canadian researcher said Friday.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will visit Canada for a weeklong visit starting in late June.

The number of people on Canadian payrolls edged up in September as companies added staff across a wide range of sectors, Statistics Canada said Thursday.

Anniversary of economic update fiasco sees Harper riding high

If six months is a lifetime in politics, then the past year was that and reincarnation rolled into one for Stephen Harper.

Number of doctors in Canada rises, physician-to-population ratio improves

The Ontario Hospitals Association has killed a plan to solve nursing shortages and save the province money because of competition between rival hospital CEOs, according to a union representing 46,000 healthcare workers in the province.

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The number of doctors in Canada has risen over the last five years, and the rate of increase is greater than the rate of population growth, says a new report that was greeted Thursday with cautious optimism.

A father's struggle to come to terms with his son's disability and a biography of media baron William Randolph Hearst are among the nominees for Canada's richest non-fiction literary prize.

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

There have been 24 confirmed cases of a type of severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis in Canadians who have received an H1N1 flu shot, including one person who died after getting vaccinated, the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday.

Class-action lawsuits have been filed across Canada on behalf of consumers who bought drop-side cribs now subject to a massive North American recall.

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, seen reporting in Iraq, was kidnapped in August 2008 in Somalia.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended the actions of Canadian soldiers and diplomats in Afghanistan on Tuesday and said his government would provide "all legally available information" to a House of Commons committee studying allegations that suspected insurgents captured by Canadians were tortured after being turned over to Afghan authorities.

Owning a home in Canada is starting to get more expensive as mortgage rates edge higher and house prices rebound, according to a report by RBC Economics Research.

The recession as experienced by individual Canadians has been significantly longer and worse than the official record indicates, says a new report.

The number of people receiving regular employment insurance benefits rose by 54,300 or 7.1 per cent in September after two months of declines.

Opposition party candidates practised "in-and-out" transactions during the 2006 election campaign similar to those at the centre of a Conservative party legal action against Elections Canada, the Tories' lawyers argued in court Tuesday.

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"The northeast field was the resident deer herd's primary grazing area. It is now totally gone. This means the deer will have to forage further afield and in all probability leave the safety and security of the fenced Dunlap lands - they are now at extreme risk of starvation over the winter months," Ms Cilevitz said.

"In all probability, deer will venture out onto the surrounding roads, which means they are now also at extreme risk of accidental death by travelling vehicles," she added, resulting in higher risks for drivers, as well.

An Afghan agency, at one time entrusted to monitor Canadian-captured insurgents in Kandahar, says it has documented nearly 400 cases of torture across the war-ravaged country.

Amnesty International Canada added its voice Tuesday to calls for a public inquiry into Afghan detainees who were surrendered by Canadian forces.