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• Canada Reads announces Top 40 non-fiction books
  Based on votes by 10,000 CBCRadio listeners, Canada Reads has announced a 40-title longlist of non-fiction books, which will eventually be ...
• Want a piece of a plane?
  A medical evacuation company that transports more than 300 patients a year across Canada and around the world wants its own aircraft again.Life ...
• Canada ready to get physical with Tonga
  It’s finally down to business for Canada’s national men’s rugby team.After being nothing more than interested observers to the first three days ...
• Strong market sends Quebec restaurant operations far...
  MONTREAL — Quebec isn’t exactly renowned as a hotbed of entrepreneurship. It’s got to the point where politicians and business leaders have ...
• First Air victims’ bodies to be handed over to...
  Nicole Williamson heard crying, made her way over to Gabrielle Pelky and walked her to safety after First Air Flight 6560 crashed in Resolute Bay ...
• NHL Draper retires after 20 seasons, four Stanley Cups
  It was a retirement announcement that easily could have passed for a 10-year reunion for the Detroit Red Wings. Kris Draper was perched at the ...
• True Blood' does not suck
  It was the kind of sudden, unexpected twist that drives details-oriented readers of popular novels over the edge. In the July 10 episode of ...
• Baby, you can't buy my car
  Gender roles are increasingly blurring, but a new survey reveals half of men still believe the car dealership is their exclusive domain. To ...
• Family mourns twins' mysterious death
  Edmonton - Donna Reed woke to a phone call in the middle of the night from a Fort McMurray, Alta., hospital Sunday. Her husband Ben's groggy ...
• Twin brothers from Newfoundland found dead in Fort...
  EDMONTON —Two young men found dead in a Fort McMurray, Alta., park are 17-year-old twin brothers from Newfoundland and Labrador, friends say.RCMP ...
• Habs concentrate on defence at draft
  Montreal Canadiens general manager Pierre Gauthier again loaded up on defencemen at the NHLentry draft on Saturday. After picking Saint John ...
• Star power pushing back against Keystone pipeline
  Washington - A group of prominent North American environmentalists and progressives - including Danny Glover and David Suzuki - are urging ...
• Bishop’s child porn sentencing delayed
  A sentencing hearing for a Catholic bishop who possessed child pornography has been delayed until August.Raymond Lahey was scheduled to be in ...
• Making a mockery of things: Predicting tonight's...
  The futures of more than 200 young hockey players will be determined this weekend in St. Paul, Minnesota. National Hockey League teams ...
• Dole salad recalled over listeriosis fears
  The public is being warned not to eat a brand of salad sold in several provinces because it may be contaminated with bacteria that causes ...
• Ryder, Bruins have tip for Canucks:
  BOSTON — Murphy, one assumes, was an Irishman. His law, therefore, if it were applied anywhere on this side of the Atlantic, would be most likely ...
• Triple price of gas to save planet: climate expert
  Vancouver — Canadians may abhor the rising price of gasoline, but Thomas Stocker suggests the planet might be better off if it soared to “three ...
• Bruins have captured hearts of Boston fans, too
  BOSTON — There is a conceit in Vancouver that winning the Stanley Cup means more to the city; that the emotional investment of Canucks’ fans in ...
• Rome suspension a sign of NHL’s new direction of...
  BOSTON — ­he Vancouver Canucks wanted fairness from the National Hockey League, and don’t think they got it. And that’s understandable, given ...
• Bruins steamroll Canucks, get back in the series
  BOSTON — For a while, it looked like the Vancouver Canucks had the Boston Bruins right where they wanted them. Scoreless after a period in which ...
• Scheduling software a hit with Canadian restaurants
  Winnipeg — A company run by a couple of 30-something former restaurant workers has developed an automated tool that effectively eliminates one of ...
• Reality bites
  VANCOUVER — After an intensive survey, we’ve concluded that the best joke uttered about Alex Burrows’ alleged, but never proven, bite of Patrice ...
• Winnipeg beats odds, gets another big-league team
  WINNIPEG — Back in the spring of 1983, Serge Savard, a handicapper well versed in the language of favourites and long shots, was comparing an ...
• Final thoughts
  VANCOUVER — On the premise that there is no time like the present to start worrying, here are the skeptics’ two main pieces of ammunition in ...
• Sentencing arguments in Raymond Lahey case set for...
  Ottawa — Disgraced Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey is to have a sentencing hearing for his child-pornography conviction on June 24. The date ...
• Website helps track missing kids
  Ottawa — Diana Boland still remembers the day her ex-husband, Gary O’Brien, took their three boys.He called her to say Adam, 14, Trevor, 11, and ...
• A wild one in the Bruins’ den
  BOSTON — The fans and media were baying for Tyler Seguin, but the Boston Bruins wanted to be careful. The No. 2 overall pick from the 2010 NHL ...
• Datsyuk’s a dandy, even when dinged up
  DETROIT — Surrounded by inquisitive media, the guy who one day earlier had lifted up the Detroit Red Wings, put them on his back and carried them ...
• Just say no
  Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman star in “Thor,” opening this weekend. There’s no doubt they make a pretty couple, but we’re thinking Portman ...
• Lightning storm past Capitals
  TAMPA, Florida — Maybe somebody saw the Tampa Bay Lightning on the playoff horizon, looming like a cloud, but nobody saw this. The difference ...