North America News

The federal government has paid nearly $700,000 at an auction in England to acquire what's know as the Sherbrooke Collection.

First Nations Idle No More protesters hold hands and dance in a circle during a demonstration at the Douglas-Peace Arch crossing on the Canada-U.S. border near Surrey, B.C., on Jan. 5, 2013.

Fred Wah, this country's parliamentary poet laureate, seems to be the equivalent of TV's never-needed Maytag repairman.

Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall in that country's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to return from his European trip but he won't have to endure another grilling in the House of Commons for a while.

Chef Christian Pritchard is shown in this undated handout photo. When Toronto chef Christian Pritchard visited Yukon Territory last year, he was enraptured by the plethora of delicious and unusual ingredients and proposed the idea of a culinary festival to feature the bounty amid spectacular scenery.

A Postmedia News and Ottawa Citizen investigation exposing the use of "robocalls" to mislead and harass voters during the 2011 federal election campaign has won the 2012 Michener Award.

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.

After 34 NDP MLAs were sworn in to continue a stretch of opposition that will reach at least 16 years, leader Adrian Dix took a few questions about his future.

A witness in an Elections Canada investigation has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer complaining that Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro's attacks on him appear to be designed to interfere with the investigation.

G8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta ... (more)

The federal government says a man allowed into Canada 17 years ago should be kicked out of the country because there is ample evidence that he was part of an Asian crime gang.

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.

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.

Jacobson, who leaves July 4 after a four-year stint, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the Obama administration knows how important the pipeline is to Canada but he won't speculate about how much it would damage the relationship should it not be approved.

The Harper government is condemning "corruption" after one of its former staffers was arrested Monday in connection with an ongoing investigation by a special police squad in Montreal.

Jano Kascjak, 33, left, and Britt Kascjak, 27, hold an 'Exhibition of Hope' banner on Sunday, June 16, 2013, that they plan to display at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in September.

A storm capable of creating a tornado may be headed toward Greater Sudbury, Environment Canada is warning people in Greater Sudbury.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada is not at the "present time" considering arming the Syrian opposition - but does not rule it out - as he assailed Russian President Vladimir Putin for making the G8 a "G7 plus one" by continuing to support the "thugs" in the Assad regime.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper adjusts his jacket as he steps off the plane Saturday June 15, 2013 after arriving in Dublin, Ireland.