OTTAWA — The head of a new international commission wants Canada's tough-talking foreign affairs minister to help him reform the United Nations World Health Organization because it responded too slowly to the Ebola crisis.
VANCOUVER — Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean by wind power alone is an impressive achievement by any standard. But contending with the unpredictable weather, busy freight traffic, meddlesome fishing nets and treacherous icebergs without anyone in the pilot's seat is another feat entirely.
CALGARY — Decades of boom-and-bust commodity prices, worker shortages and being at the mercy of the weather has virtually removed the word optimism from the vocabulary of many Canadian farmers.
CAIRO — Al-Jazeera English reporter Peter Greste left Egypt on Sunday after the president approved his deportation, but there's no official word on jailed colleagues Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed.
WHISTLER, B.C. — A woman in her late 30s has been airlifted to hospital in critical condition after a serious crash in Whistler, B.C.
Violent crimes include murders, sexual assaults and robberies, and there were 52 per cent more of such crimes in last year's fourth quarter compared to the same quarter in 2013.