The Punjab government will set up a dedicated fund for the welfare of litterateurs, dramatists, folk singers, artistes and other personalities from the fields of language, art and culture, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal announced here Friday.
Shadowed much of the way by two U.S. fighter jets, a small plane with an unresponsive pilot flew a ghostly 1,700-mile journey down the East Coast and through Cuban airspace on Friday before finally crashing in the waters off Jamaica. The fate of the pilot and anyone else aboard was not immediately known.
EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer says 100 people in the province have gotten ill from E. coli linked to raw pork products, including 19 people who have been hospitalized.
VANCOUVER - Federal Industry Minister James Moore says trade barriers between provinces are "the perfect storm of dumb."
VANCOUVER - B.C.'s education minister has swept aside a proposal by the teachers' union to immediately enter into binding arbitration and end a strike that's delayed the start of the school year.
TORONTO - A photo of horse manure on a bike lane in Toronto posted on Twitter has prompted the city's police force to explain the poop-and-scoop policy of its mounted unit.