OTTAWA — It appears families with older children or those who don't pay for daycare stand to get a bigger share of the benefits from the Conservative government's proposed family tax-and-benefit package than families with young kids who pay for child care.
REGINA — Saskatchewan is planning to ban young people under 18 from using indoor tanning beds in an effort to help protect youth from skin cancer.
CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — Police in New Brunswick have charged a man with criminal negligence causing death after two young brothers were asphyxiated by a python.
VICTORIA — The B.C. government has spent seven years and $182 million trying to modernize aging computer systems in the social services ministries, but the province's auditor general says only one-third of that goal has been achieved.
GALIANO ISLAND, B.C. — Researchers say yet another baby has been born to an endangered population of orcas off British Columbia's coast.
TORONTO — A published report says personal details of world leaders attending last November's G20 summit in Australia were accidentally disclosed to the organizers of an Asian Cup soccer tournament.