North America News

Senators should disclose their expenses just as cabinet ministers do, the top Conservative in the Senate says, meaning the details of every trip and every receipt could be made public.

Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car May 13 in a village near an Australian national park.

The leaders of Canada and the Pacific Alliance will be sizing each other up today to see if Canada might be a good fit with the nascent Latin American trade bloc.

Homeowners in low lying areas over a wide section of B.C.'s southern and southeastern Interior are being urged to brace for flooding.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he was not consulted by his chief of staff before Nigel Wright paid $90,000 to Sen.

Should Alberta's Wildrose party ever choose to launch a federal wing, Tuesday's tragi-comedy on Parliament Hill will serve as a helpful point of germination.

David Steinberg arrives at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan.

Canadian Blood Services says men who have not had sex with other men within the last five years will be allowed to donate blood when the new policy comes into effect this summer.

Canada's housing market is slowing dramatically in terms of both sales and construction, dragging down economic growth and putting some 150,000 jobs at risk in coming years, a mortgage industry association warns in its spring report.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's woes over crack cocaine allegations are providing plenty of late-night television fodder for Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and other comedians south of the border.

The chief justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court is demanding to know why 95 people, or 40 per cent of prospective jurors, were not in court Tuesday for the start of a five-day trial.

The Senate is debating reports about the living and travel claims of three senators who have all been ordered to repay inappropriately claimed money.

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson is poised to join one of Canada's largest banks when he steps down from his diplomatic role in July.

HD Mining International says it hired workers from China because the Canadians who applied for the jobs weren't qualified.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was to leave Tuesday afternoon for a trade mission to South America, still under a cloud of questions swirling about his office's involvement in the Senate expenses affair.

Yifan Wang died two days after being pulled from the pool unresponsive. A coroner's inquest is starting into his death.

Dozens of people appointed to plum patronage jobs have been donating to the Conservative party, despite government rules that forbid it.

Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday.

Aboriginal leader Elijah Harper, a former Manitoba MLA and MP who played a key role in defeating the Meech Lake accord, died on Friday at the age of 64.

The NDP is calling on the RCMP to investigate the actions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, who resigned recently after news emerged of a secret $90,000 payment he made to Senator Mike Duffy in relation to the Senate expense scandal.