OTTAWA - Canada lacks an overall vision for dealing with an expected growth in marine traffic in the Arctic, with outdated maps and surveys, inadequate navigational aids and icebreaking services that are stretched to the limit, the federal environment commissioner warned Tuesday.
TORONTO - Canada has sent a Hercules aircraft to West Africa to deliver protective medical equipment the World Health Organization badly needs there.
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are poised to pass a motion today that will see Canada's military join an aerial combat mission in northern Iraq — and possibly Syria — over the next six months.
The European Union is considering a proposal that could ease restrictions on importing crude derived from the oilsands.
MONTREAL - The jury in Luka Rocco Magnotta's first-degree murder trial is continuing to hear from a Montreal police homicide detective on Day 6 of evidence being presented.
CARDSTON, Alta. - A ban on alcohol sales that has been in place since Alberta first became a province will remain in effect after residents voted overwhelmingly against the proposal in a plebiscite in the town of Cardston on Monday.