Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Chuck Strahl said First Nations University missed many deadlines and failed to make needed reforms.

Housing starts beat estimates in January, rising to the highest level since October 2008, and prompting some to warn that the new supply and future higher lending rates could trip price gains in the second half of the year.

as 5 killed in Conn. power plant blast are identified

Authorities in USA have released the names of the five men killed in an explosion at a power plant that was under construction in a Connecticut town.

Stephen Harper has instructed his ministers to explore the prospect of buying the Windsor-Detroit bridge -- the busiest international border crossing in North America -- from its American owner.

Critics pounce on Dalton McGuinty's $15M man & the other responsible runs for Mayor of Toronto

former Winnepeg Mayor Glen Murray is Premier Dalton McGuinty's $15 million man. The newly elected Toronto Centre MPP, who is considered a cinch for McGuinty's cabinet, was able to convince the cash-strapped Liberal government to commit as much as $15 million to save the Toronto Grace Health Centre.

Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders Monday, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years.

CFB Trenton commander charged in two deaths Murder victims Jessica Lloyd and Cpl.

Canadians have donated "an astounding" $113 million to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, a sum that will be matched by the federal government, International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda said Monday.

Nortel pensioners rally on Parliament Hill in October to highlight the impact of Nortel's financial woes on their severance packages, pensions and disability payments.

The Canadian high commissioner to London flatly objected to barring British MP George Galloway from Canada, saying it would simply provide "a greater platform" for a vocal politician who's "not taken seriously" in his homeland.

IQALUIT, Canada: Finance ministers from leading industrialized nations on Saturday vowed to continue epic deficit spending to bolster a fragile global recovery at the end of G7 talks in Canada's far north.

Mexican authorities have arrested a second suspect in last week's massacre of 15 people including teens gathered to watch a televised boxing match at a home in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Decapitated bodies dumped on the streets, drug-war shootings and regular attacks on police have obscured a significant fact: A falling homicide rate means people in Mexico are less likely to die violently now than they were more than a decade ago.

Two people were confirmed dead and dozens injured Sunday when a gas power plant exploded in Middletown, Connecticut, CNN reported.

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. government "will never" lose its sterling credit rating despite big budget deficits and a newly increased debt limit that now tops $14 trillion.

Johnny X is Canada's spy who came in from the cold. An enigmatic secret agent, he spent a lifetime covertly battling Nazis and Communists on several continents while living under a death sentence.

There were 43,000 more Canadians working in January, Statistics Canada said Friday, about three times more than what economists were expecting.

Gunmen killed six people at a bar Saturday in the northern state of Sinaloa, a drug-violence hotspot, state prosecutors said.

Gordon Brown has welcomed the G7's commitment to write off Haiti's debt in the wake of last month's crippling earthquake.

The world's top financial leaders begin arriving Friday in this Arctic city in the dead of winter, and amid some chilling forecasts that this could be the beginning of the end for the Group of Seven as a relevant global body.