OTTAWA — The country's annual inflation rate picked up the pace last month to 1.4 per cent as the influence of last year's oil-price plunge faded in the economic data.
TORONTO — A controversial program that uses hair analysis to test for drug and alcohol use in thousands of child protection and criminal cases was deemed "inadequate and unreliable" in a government-commissioned report released Thursday.
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's health minister says he will seek a second opinion about the province's decision not to pay for an expensive drug that could help a 10-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder.
MONTREAL — Quebec government lawyers will be in court today to appeal an injunction that was aimed at blocking a provincial law on assisted dying.
In a feat caught on surveillance cameras, the 59-year-old Amrik Singh fought off a shotgun-wielding masked robber using only his slipper in the store at his petrol station in Staatsburg, about 150 km from New York City.
RCMP in Creston said the cheetah was spotted along Highway 3A on Thursday at about 4:30 p.m. in the Crawford Bay and Kootenay Bay areas.