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Mayor Rob Ford has broken his silence. “I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine,” Ford said in a statement to media Friday afternoon. Following seve...

MOUNT VERNON, WASH.—The Interstate 5 bridge collapse into the Skagit River was caused by an oversize truck hitting the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. “For re...

OTTAWA—The Senate asked external auditors examining the travel expenses of Sen. Pamela Wallin to broaden their investigation over concerns she was claiming refunds for activity un...

The Royal Bank of Canada has pledged not to send work offshore when salary savings is the primary reason. The bank’s new Supplier Code of Conduct , unveiled Friday, comes about fi...

The teenage girl holds a ring in her palm, and asks the old man if it’s been appraised. “It’s not about money,” Al Gladstone replies. “This is my life....

A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major route between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the interstate into the river bel...

After remaining tight-lipped for a week as controversy swelled, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has denied all allegations that he uses crack cocaine. Ford says he has been judged by the media &#0...

A entire street is crushed by shelling as forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pound rebel stronghold of Qusair.A entire street is crushed by shelling as forces loyal to Syria...

For film-makers, Cannes is all about winning the coveted Palme d'Or. But for corporations, the red carpet provides a glamorous backdrop for promoting luxury products. Hayley Platt re...

Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a New York criminal court on charges she tossed a bong out the window of her Manhattan apartment building...

Like a fever that flares up sporadically, the history wars have erupted once again in Canada.

A bill to create the Banque de développement économique du Québec, proposed by the Parti Québécois government to foster economic development, will not be adopted ...

MONTREAL - Six years after a Quebec teenager affected with the chromosomal disorder trisomy was refused permission to enrol in a vocational program offered by the Commission scolaire des ...

Montrealers can once again turn on the taps. Late Thursday night, Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum announced that the city's water supply for some 1.3 million residents had been deemed sa...

Federal officials have cancelled planned weekend roadwork on the Champlain Bridge due to rainy weather. The work has been postponed to the June 29-30 weekend, the Jacques Cartier and Cham...

In the cold of the early morning light, the enormity of the problem facing commuters after the collapse of the Skagit River bridge on the busy Interstate 5 corridor is just beginning to s...

A shy and reclusive heiress who lived alone for 20 years in a rambling mansion on Southwest Marine Drive left the bulk of an estate worth $40 million to the Vancouver Foundation, it was r...

Close to half of the homes in the rugged hamlet of Johnsons Landing are at a moderate to very high hazard for landslides similar to the one that killed four people last July, according to...

Fired Vancouver Canucks assistant coach Newell Brown was far from the unhappiest person on the planet Thursday, a day after the axe fell upon him, fellow assistant Rick Bowness and head m...

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Nine hundred million dollars.

Mayor Rob Ford came out Friday to deny he uses crack cocaine.

UFC middleweight champion Georges St. Pierre is keeping his promise and will return to the octagon this fall.

The commercial van market becomes more interesting by the day. Now that Ford, Chrysler and General Motors have shown their (seemingly unanimously European) colours, it's Mercedes-Benz's t...

Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid...

TORONTO — Mayor Rob Ford broke his week-long silence Friday to deny he smokes crack cocaine and to lambaste the media for judging him without evidence.

Burnaby-Lougheed's recently elected MLA has broken her silence to set the record straight on her background.

Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of ...

Vancouver’s parks board will decide Monday whether to allow more parties — and more drinking — in parks this summer. The biggest bash is Stanley’s Park’s 125...

Health Canada and drug maker GlaxoSmithKline have issued a warning that an experimental drug abandoned because it caused cancers in animal studies is being marketed to athletes as a perfo...

The Gawker editor who first reported to have seen Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine in a video says the mayor's statement Friday does nothing to address the issue, since he didn't directly d...

In January 2002, 20 shackled prisoners became the first inmates of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. A total of 779 men have been held at the naval facility since it was opened. Eleven...

Lynn Earle, 60, was a generous and loving woman who spent several years working with animal rescue agencies in Mexico, a friend said

Jefferson Davis Shatford continues to make good for Hubbards, 57 years after his death, thanks to the pile of money he bequeathed to the idyllic, seaside village

The pictures and the words of his former friends show a boy who was always taller than his peers and unabashedly begging for attention through odd behaviour

TORONTO - Mayor Rob Ford broke his week-long silence Friday to deny he smokes crack cocaine and to lambaste the media for judging him, but his assertions seemed unlikely to douse the ragi...

Winnipeg police are searching for a man who broke into a Fort Rouge home and tried to sexually assault a sleeping 14-year-old girl early Friday. Officers were called around 2 a.m. after t...

OTTAWA - As the federal ethics commissioner readies for a third look at Stephen Harper's former right-hand man, Mary Dawson is reminding Canadians her office can only look so far. The com...

The evidence portion of the Wanda Bruce murder trial ended this morning. Closing arguments will be presented to the eight-woman, four-man jury Monday morning. Bruce, 34, is charged with s...

The ongoing living and travel-expense scandals surrounding a trio of Canadian Senators has made it increasingly difficult for the upper chamber to do its job, according to a pair of their...

Mayor Rob Ford broke his week-long silence Friday to deny he smokes crack cocaine and to lambaste the media for judging him without evidence.

The spirits of Canadian politicians were soaring Friday with news that the country's only UN agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization, will not be flying the coop.

Federal officials were searching the country for a possible temporary replacement for a bridge that collapsed along the crucial Interstate 5 corridor, but Washington Gov. Jay Inslee cauti...

The man accused of driving his vehicle into the patio of a southside restaurant, killing a two-year-old boy, was granted bail Friday.

While Edmonton police continue to crack down on texting and driving, drivers and carmakers are shifting toward using hands-free technology to make calls while on the road. But that cellul...

Mayor Rob Ford broke his week-long silence Friday to deny he smokes crack cocaine and to lambaste the media for judging him without evidence.

Ottawa Race Weekend organizers says they have learned from the Boston Marathon attacks and have a solid security operation.

Seven months after hurricane Sandy ravaged the New England coastline from Maryland to Connecticut, U.S. and Canadian climate scientists are predicting another banner season for the giant ...

Three people have been pulled from the water after the Skagit River Bridge on the I-5 in Washington State collapsed and sent vehicles into the water below Thursday. Washington State offic...

After two years of fundraising, students at Hillcrest High School have raised enough money to build a school for rural children in Ecuador.

The man accused of driving his vehicle into the patio of a southside restaurant, killing a two-year-old boy, was granted bail Friday.

Crews were still putting out hot spots at an abandoned building downtown Friday morning, hours after the blaze threatened to destroy a neighbouring structure.

A woman charged with killing her seven-year-old son three months ago was found fit to stand trial Friday in an Edmonton courtroom. Psychiatric assessments performed by two doctors were en...

A Spruce Grove truck driver carrying an oversized load struck a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending approximately one-third of the bridge and two vehicles...

Police are launching a formal investigation following an internal review into an arrest on Whyte Avenue where police punched a suspect before charging him.

Greater Victoria is not in danger of losing provincial funding for the region’s sewage megaproject, says Premier Christy Clark.

Divers, boats and a helicopter are being used today as the search is expanded for the body of a teacher killed in a car crash along with her husband north of Kamloops on Sunday.

Vehicle break-ins in the West Shore have dropped sharply in the wake of a large property crime bust that resulted in four arrests and the recovery of about $75,000 in stolen items, police...

B.C. Transportation Minister Mary Polak vowed Tuesday to consider further improvements to the Malahat, including medians in the area where three people narrowly avoided serious injury in ...

Two weeks ago, Shelley Fillipoff put everything on hold and flew from Ottawa to Victoria, B.C., where, day by day, she searches the city streets. She plans to stay there until she finds h...

Reporters Patrick Maloney and Chip Martin look at this week in politics. This week: Mayor Joe Fontana's lawsuit and where to put a casino in London.

Results from Day 2 of the WOSSAA Track and Field Championships at TD Waterhouse Stadium.

It’s a sweet mystery that has Huron OPP abuzz.

OPP are reminding people to be careful around cold water after the police along with the Canadian Coast Guard had to help a windsurfer in trouble.

Singer-songwriter and ukulele ace Marty Kolls knows where the Grickle Grass festival grows — the London Children’s Museum. And, in the imagination where Dr. Seuss references to the Lorax,...

Investigators are probing a garage fire that broke out on Hall Avenue Friday afternoon.

Responding to a spate of suspicious fires in recent weeks, the Windsor police arson unit has made another arrest, this time for a garage fire in the 400 block of Parent Avenue.

Ontario's Ministry of the Environment has been notified following a dump truck collision near the Herb Gray Parkway at Howard Avenue and Highway 401.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — The Washington State Patrol has confirmed that an Edmonton-area trucker was at the wheel of a semi that struck a bridge on a busy interstate highway, sending p...

An alleged cocaine smuggling fugitive, on the run for a decade after skipping bail in Windsor, now sits in a Texas jail awaiting extradition after he was busted with two high-powered fire...

A bridge collapse that sent cars and drivers tumbling off a four-lane interstate and into a frigid river in Washington state may have been caused when a semi-trailer truck crashed into th...

Over to you, Claude Julien.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford broke his silence Friday to deny he uses crack cocaine.

It has been a week without parallel in modern Canadian political history when it comes to the ethics of our political class -- and while the Conservatives are reeling the most, reporters ...

Most people can wash their hands, get into a car, or open a door without much trouble.

A 29-year-old from Martensville is dead after a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 16.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, once a staunch supporter of a reformed federal Senate, has given up the fight.

The Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo will celebrate its 100 year anniversary at a centennial fair Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. To mark the occasion, The StarPhoenix looks back throug...

That's quite a party the Saskatoon Blades are throwing. The hosts left early, and the guests are sticking around.

Saskatoon police are seeking information on a suspicious man who allegedly approached three young girls in a park.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford broke his silence Friday to deny he uses crack cocaine.

It has been a week without parallel in modern Canadian political history when it comes to the ethics of our political class -- and while the Conservatives are reeling the most, reporters ...

Parks Canada and friends are employing cut-throat tactics to save a threatened species of fish near Lake Louise.

The man murdered in a Gleichen home last weekend is believed to have been out with a woman he met on a dating website when he was attacked.

Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid...

A 29-year-old from Martensville is dead after a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 16.

Two Saskatoon teens are facing charges in connection with an incident that led to the lockdown of two Saskatoon high schools and the Shaw Centre.

Gordon Barnhart, a historian, former Saskatchewan lieutenant-governor and former clerk of the Canadian Senate, among other things, says he is saddened by the controversies around Senate e...

Canada’s telecommunications regulator hit the Wildrose Party with a $90,000 penalty for breaking federal rules with phone calls to Alberta households in 2011 and 2012. Wildrose part...

Three people have been pulled from the water after the Skagit River Bridge on the I-5 in Washington State collapsed and sent vehicles into the water below Thursday. Washington State offic...

Washington, D.C. – Liberty Counsel Action pledged its full support to HR 1797, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a bill to provide protection for unborn children 20-weeks or o...

Let’s just be honest. Democrats never liked the War on Terror. They never really supported it. There were a lot of reasons for this. Some were partisan - they just didn’t want to support ...

Israel had been disgraced, defeated, degraded, and almost destroyed. Their spirit was dying. They had been humbled by the Philistines, a nation made up of five cities along the Mediterran...

OPINION,—The following is submitted by Peter LaBarbera:

What do the prodigious artists Professor Ken Howard, James Horton, Peter Brown, Patrick Cullen and George Devlin have in common? That is aside from being at the top of their game, of course.

British royal Charles, Prince Of Wales was involved in a mid-air drama on Thursday (23May13) when his helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing due to a technical fault.

Bradley Cooper is relieved he found Hollywood success in his 30s, insisting he would have gone off the rails if he had shot to stardom as a young adult.

British-Irish boyband One Direction have landed a book deal.

Newlywed rocker James Righton is adamant his high-profile marriage to Hollywood A-lister Keira Knightley will never distract from his career in music.

Dame Helen Mirren has called on her fellow Brits to rally behind a military support charity after a soldier was brutally murdered on the streets of London on Wednesday (22May13).

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations that he was seen on a cellphone video smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine.

Washington State police say an Alberta trucker was responsible for hitting a steel beam precipitating a bridge collapse on one of the busiest routes in the American northwest.

Royal Bank has promised it will never outsource a Canadian job to a foreign worker solely to save money.

Canada ranks third last among economically advanced countries in the amount of paid vacation time it guarantees its workers, a new U.S. study indicates.

The Council of Canadians is calling on the Conservative Party to make a list of everyone who had access to its electoral database during the last federal election and turn the informatio...

Niagara Regional Police are calling on members of the public to check in on their female family members, co-workers with unexplained absences and neighbours as they try to identify a woma...

A Toronto man who believes John Diefenbaker may have been his father thinks there's no point testing a recently discovered lock of the former prime minister's hair.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney chafes at any suggestion his hands may be tied on monetary policy.

Americans are getting their first chance Tuesday to read an ex-Navy SEAL's controversial eyewitness account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, with demand for the book making it an ...

Jean Charest tried to boost the spirits of Quebec’s Liberal Party loyalists on Tuesday as voters cast their ballots in an election that could end his party’s nine-year reign.

World stocks racked up more losses on Monday on deep-rooted jitters about the U.S. ratings cut, but signs the European Central Bank was buying Italian and Spanish debt gave some respite t...

Finance chiefs from the world's industrial powers pledged on Sunday to take whatever actions were needed to steady financial markets, spooked by the political wrangling in Europe and the ...

The U.S. housing crash has lured some marijuana growers to move their operations south of the border, according to an internal RCMP report obtained by the Vancouver Sun.

British police arrested more than 100 people overnight in London after shops were looted and officers attacked in a second night of violence that followed some of the worst disorder seen ...

Saudi Arabia recalled its envoy to Damascus and the Arab League condemned violence in Syria, leaving President Bashar al-Assad further isolated.

OTTAWA — NDP leader Tom Mulcair has turfed a Quebec MP from his shadow cabinet for failing to pay nearly $60,000 in provincial taxes. Actor-turned-NDP-MP Tyrone Benskin owes money t...

From the very start of the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy – which, thanks to severe morning sickness, was marked with all the fanfare of salmonella poisoning – the mes...

OTTAWA – More than two dozen senior officials and diplomats in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government monitored information about a Toronto artist over her cr...

As the Senate-expenses affair rocks Parliament Hill, it seems the right moment to point out some of the red chamber’s redeeming qualities.

Electoral fraud occurred during the last federal election, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday, but there is no proof that it affected the outcomes in six ridings at issue, so the ele...

A key satellite positioned to track severe weather in the eastern United States has failed, just as the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is about to start.

A bridge collapse that sent cars and drivers tumbling off a four-lane interstate and into a frigid river in Washington state may have been caused when a semi-trailer truck crashed into t...

Toronto Police are crediting advances in forensic identifying technology for the arrest of a man in a 22-year-old child sexual assault cold case.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's own executive committee has written a letter urging him to address the crack cocaine allegations that have dogged him for a week now.

Alessandro Taloni, a former jet-setting Mafia associate who ran a $1 billion cross-border drug ring, pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking in a New York court.

TORONTO, May 24, 2013 /CNW/ - The United Steelworkers joins the B.C. Federation of Labour in welcoming the Royal Bank of Canada's (RBC) announcement of a Supplier Code of Conduct restrict...

BRANTFORD, ON, May 24, 2013 /CNW/ - The Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Sciences (OAMRS), whose Members are the experts in performing mammographic examinations whether for breast...

MONTREAL, May 24, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Modulis, a leader in business VoIP solutions with Asterisk, is pleased to announce that a final agreement was signed today for the acquisition of the...

NORTH VANCOUVER, BC, May 24, 2013 /CNW/ - On behalf of the Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister for La Francophonie, Andrew Saxton, Parliamentary Secretary ...

MONTREAL, May 24, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - To launch the summer season, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) is presenting a critical overview of the work of Michel de Broin. The fir...

A weak economy—and the promise of higher taxes—should have sunk Obama. Instead, he walked on water.

HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case

Chrysler seeks tax incentives on vacant Ind. plant

Explosives co. faced scrutiny before La evacuation

Media mogul Diller sells TripAdvisor shares

American International Group Inc. plans to list its Asian life insurance unit, AIA Group Ltd., on Oct. 29, aiming to raise about $15 billion US in Hong Kong, sources familiar with the de...

BEST OF BNN: Movie stars aren't the only ones converging on Toronto for the International Film Festival. BNN's Rubina Ahmed-Haq reports on the business of buying movies.

BEST OF BNN: In corporate governance circles, Ira Millstein is a house-hold name. BNN's Howard Green sits down with Millstein - a long-time advisor to General Motors who helped the compa...

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Despite the success Nazem Kadri has had this season, Toronto Maple Leafs management sees many improvements the young forward can make.

It's manager John Gibbons' job to make his team click, and bringing the Blue Jays together off the field is good place to start.

Devils winger David Clarkson loves coming home to play in Toronto, so how might that sway his pending unrestricted free agency this summer?

"I don't know highlights or no, but pretty good goal,” says Evgeni Malkin of this comeback-night beautybeauty. Yes, highlight, Geno. Watch.

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Toronto mayor's denial lobs the ball back to the media

A transcript of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s statement to media Friday afternoon (video below):...

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Halloween might kick off the season of scary movies, but if you have young children, October 31st is a horror show of its own. For most people, raising children is the scariest thing they...

WASHINGTON - Health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee spec...

It appeared as though Elliotte Friedman couldn’t believe what he had just seen. With the Chicago Blackhawks down 1-0 in the third period Thursday night... It appeared as though Elliotte F...

Bulk purchasing of pharmaceuticals has attracted significant attention of late as Canada's provinces work to balance access to medicines and their benefits with budgetary realities. Unfor...

HALIFAX - Two employees who were suspended following an alleged incident in which a child's mouth was taped shut during an after-school program in Halifax... HALIFAX - Two employees who w...

A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said Friday she broke down in tears this week after tracking down her parents, who had long lost hope of finding her...

If North Korea's new leader is looking for advice on how to carry on his family's dynasty, he could turn to Rahul Gandhi, who is on a quest to become the fourth generation of h...

Protesters gathered Saturday outside a town hall in southern China to appeal for the release of people detained during demonstrations over a planned power plant expansion, a witness said.

A new survey shows people in poorer countries send text messages more often than those in wealthier countries. Men in Spain and Germany access the Internet on their phones twice as much ...

The National Center on Family Homelessness said 1.6 million children were living on the streets of the United States in 2010 or in shelters, motels and doubled-up with other families. Th...

TORONTO - Premier Dalton McGuinty wants Ontario voters to believe he won't raise taxes again if the Liberals are re-elected Oct. 6, but he wouldn't say the words Monday as he launched hi...

TORONTO - Gilary Massa's high school art class began buzzing with speculation the day a student rushed in to announce that "somebody bombed America." Amid her horror Massa had one hope w...

TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. - Residents in Trois-Rivieres, Que., spent Labour Day cleaning up after a small tornado ripped through the city Sunday night.

TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. - Residents in Trois-Rivieres, Que., spent Labour Day cleaning up after a small tornado ripped through the city Sunday night.

HALIFAX - Staving off deep job cuts and protecting workers' rights will be the main battlefronts for labour groups in the coming months, union leaders said Monday as they gear up for wid...

Walgreen's Makes Big Announcement Getty Images With 7,890 drugstores throughout the US and Puerto Rico, it's already the nation's largest drug store chain. Now, it's getting bigger. What...

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Cruel Thing She Said to Adopted Son A&E Pat's adopted son Chris asked her a common question when he was a little kid -- & she reacted so outrageously that he hasn't recovered. What still...

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Allen's Estranged Son Takes a Big Jab Getty Images / AP Since Woody Allen married Soon-Yi, his relationship with Ronan has been tense -- and his son reminded everyone on Father's Day. Sa...

The collapse of a road bridge over a river in the north-west US state of Washington was caused by an oversized lorry's crash, say officials.

President Barack Obama tells US Navy graduates they must help end a culture of sexual assault that is tarnishing the image of the military.

A 1938 comic featuring the debut of Superman that was discovered in the wall of an abandoned home could set a new auction record, a dealer says.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has denied allegations from a major Canadian newspaper he was caught on camera smoking crack cocaine.

A 20-year-old American appears in a US court, accused of stabbing his relatives to death in the Czech Republic and setting fire to their bodies.

Canada's leadership on food security and nutrition is contributing to the reduction of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in developing countries. The Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister o...

Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider disc...

Canada and Mexico say the rules will unfairly hurt their livestock trade with the United States.

Interim coach Colin Miller named a highly inexperienced 18-man roster for Canada's upcoming friendly versus the Central Americans, headlined by veteran Julian de Guzman.

Some Ottawa residents received letters from Canada Post asking them to consider accepting flyers and coupons.