OTTAWA — The Senate has passed a private member's bill on Lyme disease, the first Green party bill to ever pass both houses of Parliament.
RICHMOND, B.C. — Fourteen people who were rescued from a boat that hit a rock wall in the Fraser River in Richmond, B.C., were in training to save others in a similar situation.
OTTAWA — Booze will not be as cheap or flow as freely aboard Canadian warships in the wake of a review of an incident last summer which saw a coastal defence vessel ordered home from a U.S. exercise because of the conduct of sailors.
TORONTO — The $12-billion merger between Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) and Burger King has been finalized.
BRISTOL, Vt. — Police in a Vermont town are thanking a college student in Canada for alerting them via Facebook about a local woman who posted a message about taking an overdose of prescription medication.
Toronto's newly elected mayor says he had a private meeting with Stephen Harper on Thursday, the same day the premier of Ontario publicly complained she hasn't had a chance to meet with the prime minister in over a year.