MONTREAL - The cost of flying is increasing for millions of Canadian passengers after WestJet Airlines announced it will start charging some economy fare customers a fee to check their first bag on flights within Canada and to the United States.
TORONTO - Arguments are set to be heard in Ontario's appeal court today for five men challenging their convictions in what's believed to be the province's largest mass slaying.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper won't back away from tough talk over Ukraine and the terrorist activities of the so-called Islamic State.
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man who lured teenage girls into prostitution has been convicted of 30 charges including human trafficking, believed to be the first such conviction in the province.
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, likely by a fellow countryman-turned-terrorist, is a horrific atrocity by Islamic State militants.
A mining company that filed two applications for judicial review of the federal government's rejection of a $1.5-billion gold and copper mine in B.C. will fight for the project in Federal Court next month.