Maritimes battle snow, freezing rain A winter storm blanketed parts of New Brunswick with snow Friday, followed by freezing rain in the evening, while many parts Nova Scotia saw a bit of snow followed mostly by rain.
Swine flu cases rise in Mexico Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus.
Cruise ship survivors offered $14,454 compensation The company that owns the Costa Concordia — the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany — is offering uninjured passengers €11,000 ($14,454 Cdn) each to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma.
[ Society ] Ian Tyson, singer-songwriter
Singer Ian Tyson on his love of cowboy country.
Federal deficit $17B and falling The federal budget deficit now stands at $17.3 billion, eight months into the fiscal year, the Finance Department reports.
WestJet, Porter take aim at New York Calgary-based WestJet unveiled details of its new service into New York City on Friday and rival Porter Airlines countered by announcing increased service into nearby Newark, New Jersey.
[ War & Conflict ] Life after Auschwitz
Six decades after Auschwitz was liberated, the biggest and most brutal Nazi death camp remains a potent symbol of terror and genocide. More than a million Jews were murdered there, as well as tens of thousands of Poles, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war. When Allied soldiers liberated the complex in Poland in January 1945, they found skeletal prisoners, mounds of corpses, gas chambers and cooling crematoria. Survivors scattered, many to Canada, to rebuild their lives. But the Nazi atrocities they witnessed have echoed through the years along with the cry "Never again."
