OTTAWA — Canada wants to expand its mission against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria because they pose a continuing threat that will grow if it's not checked, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson said Thursday.
HALIFAX — People in storm-battered Atlantic Canada might be fixated on winter, but a psychology professor says tweeting about it isn't the best way to blow off steam.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A provincial court judge has denied a Kamloops, B.C., man's application to be reunited with 10 medical marijuana plants that were seized by RCMP last summer.
A post from the prime minister's official Twitter account showed a picture of him with Canadian basketball stars Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, both members of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Harper government's stubborn push to eliminate the deficit in its election-year budget has opened a debate: should it even bother scrambling to balance the books at all, particularly with the financial sting of the oil slump?
TORONTO — A Toronto jury has decided the fate of one of two men accused in an alleged terror plot to derail a passenger train, but will continue deliberating today on some of the charges against his co-accused.