The Vancouver Winter Olympics drew to a spectacular close on Sunday after 17 days of intense competition. Canada topped the medal table, with 14 golds, seven silvers and five bronze medals, while the United States won the most medals with 37...

Fears for the future of the world’s biggest tropical rainforest grew yesterday, after the sudden resignation of Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva. Environmentalists had seen Silva, 50, who was born in the Brazilian Amazon, as an...

A court in Yemen has granted a divorce to a wife aged only 8 years old, citing that the marriage was forced on the child. The court ruled that the 8 year old was forced into marrying a 28 year old by her father, even though in the huge majority of...

The majority of Canadians is very opposed to our army fighting in Afghanistan causing Prime Minister Harper to resort to orchestrating that John Manley avail him a report recommending what he wanted to hear. Former cabinet minister Sinclair Stevens...

Canada’s established wireless companies should ready themselves for the possibility of at least one new national competitor following the spectrum auction that kicks off next month, but the arrival of several smaller and nimbler regional players...

Increasing U.S. criticism of NAFTA is somewhat irrational, since the free trade deal is not responsible for job losses that so worry American policy makers, a Canadian government minister said on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the two...

Some things are a matter of rocket science. The federal government’s own science panel has reportedly challenged Ottawa to act if it’s serious about sovereignty and security for the North and Canada’s coasts. The Defence Science...