ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's new Progressive Conservative leader has been sworn in as the province's 12th premier.
Paul Davis became the leader of the governing Tories at a convention two weeks ago.
Davis served in cabinet before stepping down to seek the leadership.
The 53-year-old former police officer defeated two other former cabinet ministers, Steve Kent and John Ottenheimer, for the job.
He must call an election within 12 months of taking office.
The latest mayoral candidate in Kamloops, B.C., has announced his bid for the job by strapping a model of an open-pit mine to his stomach.
One of Canada's most prominent forecasters says weather watchers need only look back at the summer to see what Mother Nature has in store for the fall.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says one of the two lost ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition has been found.
OTTAWA - Tom Mulcair intends to start this fall nailing down some key planks in the NDP's election platform — a full year before the next scheduled federal vote.
There may be a new action hero moonlighting as a tow-truck driver in a community west of Calgary.
A Canadian frigate taking part in a NATO exercise in the Black Sea was buzzed by Russian military jets off the southern coast of Ukraine on Sunday.