WINNIPEG - When Canada's newest national museum opens next weekend, it will mark the end of a 14-year journey sparked by one family's desire to have Canadians learn about the struggle for — and the fragility of — freedom.
VANCOUVER - From Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., to Cape Breton, N.S., two words — Quebec sovereignty — hover like a spectre over the debate on Scottish independence.
OTTAWA - A former Canadian soldier who received one of the country's highest decorations for bravery faces a two-day bail hearing in Cornwall, Ont., in an unfolding legal nightmare that has ensnared his parents.
TORONTO - Ukraine's new president, Petro Poroshenko, will visit Canada next week and address Parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday night.
Canada is to host its final meeting as head of the circumpolar world next spring after a term in which some say this country's greatest achievement has been simply holding the Arctic Council together.
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A former Quebec doctor who is awaiting a new trial on charges he killed his two children has been granted bail.