OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he wants Canada to take part in airstrikes against militants in the Middle East and maintain its special-forces operations in Iraq for a period of up to six months.
At least 32 people, including women and children, died in a stampede Friday evening after the burning of the Ravana effigy at the Gandhi Maidan here, officials said.
The launch of a Canadian satellite, postponed amid tensions in the Ukraine, is finally scheduled for liftoff — one year behind schedule. The M3M communications satellite was originally to be launched aboard a Russian rocket
TORONTO - The hardest part of battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer has been explaining it to his school-age children, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said Thursday, admitting he sometimes cries himself to sleep.
VANCOUVER - A man Vancouver police believe to be a gang associate is recovering from multiple stab wounds after a targeted home invasion.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Abbotsford, B.C. police say a young man was found dead in a residential neighbourhood Thursday evening.