A federal-Ontario funding program to stimulate the economy and help non-profit organizations repair and expand their buildings is practically inaccessible, critics say.

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration minister is apparently denying any role in the removal of references to gay rights from a citizenship study guide released last fall.

Asked Wednesday why he blocked any information about same-sex marriage and charter rights protecting sexual orientation, Jason Kenney said: “I did not do such a thing. No, no, you are wrong.”

Winning a medal at the Vancouver Olympic Games doesn't normally make you a target of derision from your fellow countrymen.
Then again, most Olympic athletes don't have the colorful background of Dale Begg-Smith, the former world-champion mogul skier who is almost as well known for reports about his involvement with adware, browser pop-ups, and other detritus of the seamier side of the Internet.

MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country's most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a "culture of suppression" that undermined government assurances about its conduct.

Harper's move called affront to democracy.Yesterday's rally to protest against the prime minister's year-end move to shut down Parliament until March went peacefully, even as it gave Stephen Harper a sound hammering.

LISBON, Portugal – Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.

The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door for journalists to use the defence of "responsible communication" against libel suits.
Journalists across Canada, as well as bloggers, can now use the defence of "responsible communication on matters of public interest" as a defence against libel.

Benamar Benatta was mysteriously handed over by Canada to U.S. authorities the day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and spent nearly five years in American jails without ever being convicted of a crime.

Struthers has created a feature-length film called Americanface that is broken up into 64 YouTube clips of 90 seconds, each of them designed to work on their own as a discrete episode.

"Bridge funding" from the province -- which allowed the Phil Bouvier daycare in Vancouver's Strathcona neighborhood (Canada's poorest postal code) to employ three extra staff members for a short time this year -- ran out this summer.