The defence of Mohammad Momin Khawaja suffered a setback Thursday when the judge in his Ottawa terrorism trial decided hearsay evidence entered in the Crown's case against him will remain "in play" for now.

The federal and Ontario governments have signed a deal that commits $6.2 billion for roads, bridges, broadband internet service and other infrastructure improvements in the province over the next six years.

The man Chinese authorities accuse of killing a B.C. model in Shanghai earlier this month says he stabbed Diana O'Brien after she hit him and knocked him to the floor, reports a Shanghai television news program.

Canadian police have arrested several people, including a customs agent, suspected of smuggling cocaine and marijuana over the border between Quebec and the U.S.

A Montreal couple struck by lightning while camping on a remote Quebec island are lucky to be alive, a leading climatologist says.

Ontario Provincial Police have used an emergency provision of the Criminal Code that circumvents the normal need for court approval of telephone wiretaps three times since 2002, a spokesman said.

Fort McMurray RCMP arrested 11 Greenpeace activists for trespassing at the Syncrude Canada Ltd. Aurora oilsands site at around 12:30 p.m. MT Thursday.

Winnipeg's chief of police said the death of a 17-year-old teen after he was shocked with a Taser by police was a tragic event, but denied Wednesday the youth was a victim of racial profiling.

Calgary police are considering publicly releasing the names and photos of members of organized crime groups if they pose a threat to the safety of the public.

An OPP officer pretended to be a news reporter at a Mohawk protest that prompted the closure of a major rail line and Highway 401 in eastern Ontario during last year's Aboriginal Day of Action, CBC News has learned.

A family of eight near Iqaluit may not have escaped a devastating house fire alive Thursday, if it wasn't for the constant barking of Butch, their pregnant family dog.

RCMP are investigating after two people found human remains in a barrel in cottage country near Lac du Bonnet, Man., Wednesday morning.

The administrator of an Edmonton clinic that has erroneously sent private medical files to an Edmonton woman's home fax machine said Thursday that it can't be helped.

Three children were sent to hospital with cuts Wednesday night when a rear side window of the car they were in was shattered by a rock thrown from an Ottawa overpass.

A changing climate may someday shrink water supplies in Arctic communities, said a researcher at a climate symposium in Iqaluit.

The man Chinese authorities accuse of killing a B.C. model in Shanghai earlier this month says he stabbed Diana O'Brien after she hit him and knocked him to the floor, reports a Shanghai television news program.

More than 40,000 people are expected to pack the small village of Pemberton, about a 25 minute drive north of Whistler, B.C., for one of North America's biggest music festivals of the summer.

Investigators with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team say they have received information indicating that a missing Burnaby man met with foul play.

Major League Soccer's board of governors has approved plans to expand by two teams by 2011, commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday.

The federal government and Nature Conservancy Canada have announced a plan to preserve 550 square kilometres of remote valleys, mountains and lakes in the southern interior of British Columbia that may save an endangered herd of mountain caribou.

A Fraser Valley city council has sent a message to local promoters of mixed martial arts events that they are not welcome.

Cancelled CBC crime drama Intelligence is being marketed to U.S. cable networks after being turned down for further development at Fox, according to its Los Angeles producer.

BC Ferries may have to consider cutting service in off-peak periods to reduce costs, Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon says.

A staff shortage at the Northern Health authority's only residential drug treatment program has temporarily forced the facility to shut its doors, according to internal memos obtained by CBC News.

The SPCA in Surrey, B.C., has seized a homeless man's dog because it bit a stranger - but the dog's owner says his pet was just trying to protect him.

Police have spoken to a witness and the owner of the car involved in a Surrey hit and run that killed an elderly couple who were on their way home from their daughter's engagement party earlier this month.

The Peruvian government has declared a state of emergency at the site of a mine owned by a Vancouver company, saying its toxic chemicals are at risk of tainting the capital's water supply.

RCMP in Langley, B.C., are hunting a man they believe attacked a 91-year-old woman in a break-in early Tuesday morning.

The Supreme Court of B.C. has acquitted a Vancouver man in a double murder dating back more than two decades.

The B.C. Ferry Commission has given BC Ferries the green light to implement another major fuel surcharge on Aug. 1.

Calgary police are considering publicly releasing the names and photos of members of organized crime groups if they pose a threat to the safety of the public.

A safety audit of Calgary's Deerfoot Trail confirms that speeding is the most common violation, while rear-end collisions make up the majority of crashes on the busy roadway.

Fort McMurray RCMP arrested 11 Greenpeace activists for trespassing at the Syncrude Canada Ltd. Aurora oilsands site at around 12:30 p.m. MT Thursday.

Firefighters will hose down two high-rise buildings in downtown Calgary on Friday as part of a training exercise.

Ryan Dinwiddie allayed any doubts in his first start of the season for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday night, throwing for 450 yards and the winning touchdown with just 12 seconds left.

The Alberta government is appealing a court decision that threw out a traffic ticket against a francophone trucker because it was written only in English.

Prep work has begun on rebuilding boulevards and replanting trees along Calgary's Memorial Drive as part of the city's plan to revitalize the historically significant area.

The government of Alberta has declared Sept. 6 as a special day to showcase the province's artists, performers and writers and community events.

Three giant Calgary-based energy companies reported much higher second-quarter revenues Thursday because of higher oil and natural gas prices, but their profit pictures vary, depending on their individual circumstances.

School boards across Alberta say they need more teachers who are deaf to help the province's students with hearing impairments but the community is divided over what they should be learning.

Some Calgary physicians say they're being gagged by the health region and told that they cannot speak to the media, CBC News has learned.

Canadian and U.S. scientists have zeroed in on the cause of the aurora borealis, tracing the shimmering northern lights to the way the "tail" of the Earth's magnetic field snaps back into shape in response to the solar wind.

WestJet Airlines Ltd. said Wednesday it plans to disable the credit-card readers on self-service ticket kiosks at 28 Canadian airports amid an investigation into the kiosks' security.

Heart patients in Alberta will get the health care they need more quickly with the aid of patient navigators who will guide them through the system, the province announced Wednesday.

Fort McMurray RCMP arrested 11 Greenpeace activists for trespassing at the Syncrude Canada Ltd. Aurora oilsands site at around 12:30 p.m. MT Thursday.

The Alberta government is appealing a court decision that threw out a traffic ticket against a francophone trucker because it was written only in English.

Edmonton city council has narrowly voted down the controversial $750,000 leaning glass pyramid that was to have been built in northeast Edmonton as the new welcome sign to the city.

One person has died in a head-on collision Thursday between a dump truck and a pickup truck near Leduc.

A day after mourning the loss of Edmonton native Nancy Cooper, her family is returning to North Carolina on Thursday morning, prepared for a nasty custody battle with the slain woman's husband.

The mother of the toddler wounded in a drive-by shooting in Hobbema supports the idea of a gun amnesty in the community.

A motorcyclist was killed Thursday morning near the Fort McMurray Airport.

The administrator of an Edmonton clinic that has erroneously sent private medical files to an Edmonton woman's home fax machine said Thursday that it can't be helped.

Canadian and U.S. scientists have zeroed in on the cause of the aurora borealis, tracing the shimmering northern lights to the way the "tail" of the Earth's magnetic field snaps back into shape in response to the solar wind.

School boards across Alberta say they need more teachers who are deaf to help the province's students with hearing impairments but the community is divided over what they should be learning.

The government of Alberta has declared Sept. 6 as a special day to showcase the province's artists, performers and writers and community events.

Heart patients in Alberta will get the health care they need more quickly with the aid of patient navigators who will guide them through the system, the province announced Wednesday.

RCMP are looking for a young man in connection with a reported case of sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl at a playground in Leduc, Alta., Tuesday evening.

Personal and confidential medical information belonging to other people continues to arrive at the home of an Edmonton woman, despite her efforts to stop the flow.

Two young men have been charged after a police pursuit last week near Meeting Creek, Alta., that ended only after an officer fired shots at the suspects' car.

RCMP are investigating after two people found human remains in a barrel in cottage country near Lac du Bonnet, Man., Wednesday morning.

The public caught a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the Winnipeg Police Service Thursday as testimony at the Taman Inquiry focused on the force's professional standards unit.

Winnipeg Transit is warning bus riders to expect delays Friday morning due to job action by its drivers.

Ryan Dinwiddie allayed any doubts in his first start of the season for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday night, throwing for 450 yards and the winning touchdown with just 12 seconds left.

Winnipeg's chief of police said the death of a 17-year-old teen after he was shocked with a Taser by police was a tragic event, but denied Wednesday the youth was a victim of racial profiling.

The Canadian Country Music Association released its list of nominees for the fans' choice award Thursday and for the first time in years Terri Clark is not a contender.

Canadian and U.S. scientists have zeroed in on the cause of the aurora borealis, tracing the shimmering northern lights to the way the "tail" of the Earth's magnetic field snaps back into shape in response to the solar wind.

Winnipeg officially has one less radio station, after the CRTC on Thursday pulled the licence of a former campus instructional station.

Winnipeg police are investigating after shots rang out in the North End early Thursday morning.

A teenager from Gretna, Man., who was reported missing after a weekend camping trip has been found.

No one was hurt and no structures were damaged when a tornado touched down in southwestern Manitoba early Wednesday evening.

A Montreal couple struck by lightning while camping on a remote Quebec island are lucky to be alive, a leading climatologist says.

Canadian police have arrested several people, including a customs agent, suspected of smuggling cocaine and marijuana over the border between Quebec and the U.S.

Major League Soccer's board of governors has approved plans to expand by two teams by 2011, commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday.

The Quebec family of two soldiers killed in a traffic accident this week have spoken out publicly for the first time about the tragedy.

Two large waterspouts were visible over Montreal Wednesday as a severe thunderstorm approached the island.

In a long-awaited decision that may have significant consequences for Canadian sealers, the European Union on Wednesday moved to ban imports of products derived from seals that are inhumanely killed.

More than 80 people were forced to flee their homes in central Quebec after a downpour drenched the region early Wednesday.

Adam van Koeverden, the reigning Olympic and world champion in the 500-metre kayak singles, was chosen Wednesday as Canada's flag-bearer for the Beijing Olympics.

French citizens living in Canada will elect their own deputy in France's National Assembly during the country's next general election.

Election spending laws could change in Quebec as the province's chief electoral officer ponders new rules for campaigning on the World Wide Web.

A small Quebec town is in mourning after two brothers - both Canadian soldiers recently back from Afghanistan - died in a car crash Tuesday.

The Montreal Impact tied host Toronto FC 1-1 to claim the Canadian Champions League title at BMO Field on Tuesday.

The waterways of several Canadian cities saw substantial increases in toxic ammonia levels last year, and the prime culprit in at least two cases, according to municipal officials, is household urine.

A woman has been awarded $280,000 by the Quebec Superior Court after doctors misdiagnosed her with a fatal form of cancer.

Quebec police will increase roadblocks and radar operations to tackle speeding and drunk driving, which they say have caused a higher-than-average number of highway accidents this summer.

Canadian police have arrested several people, including a customs agent, suspected of smuggling cocaine and marijuana over the border between Quebec and the U.S.

More than 120 cows have died in a fire in northern New Brunswick.

If NB Power's executives are able to reach 10 performance targets they'll be eligible for bonuses that could amount to up to 25 per cent of their salaries.

New Brunswick conservationists are demanding to know why a Fredericton businessman was apparently given permission to develop a property that includes a wetland.

The search for a man who disappeared after jumping into the gorge at Grand Falls, N.B., has been called off indefinitely.

The same day Fredericton's Science East centre found its missing White's tree frog, it received the offer of a new exotic amphibian.

After disappointing results on a recent audit on the accessibility of downtown Fredericton, the New Brunswick Paraplegic Association is launching a project to educate local businesses on how to improve access.

Work has started on a 36-kilometre bypass that was promised more than 30 years ago for the Marysville area of Fredericton.

Police in Bathurst have called off an investigation that was spurred by a prank pulled by two teenaged girls.

A tree frog that went missing from Fredericton's Science East has reappeared.

A woman whom New Brunswick is claiming as its own is among the top three in line to win the title role of Maria von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Toronto production of The Sound of Music.

A killer known as the Monster of Miramichi will not be transferring prisons, says New Brunswick Public Safety Minister John Foran.

AA New Brunswick RCMP officer has been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.

Newfoundland and Labrador's fuels regulator slashed maximum prices for all grades of gasoline on Thursday.

Three giant Calgary-based energy companies reported much higher second-quarter revenues Thursday because of higher oil and natural gas prices, but their profit pictures vary, depending on their individual circumstances.

The former president of Labrador's Inuit government has pleaded not guilty to a sexual assault charge.

The New Democratic Party is fighting a federal government decision to allow the dumping of toxic waste in an eastern Newfoundland freshwater pond.

A popular strip of nightclubs in St. John's that normally draws thousands of partygoers is now attracting something else: outdoor residents.

When Jill Whitaker opened an e-mail message last week, she assumed it was a message about her account from her internet provider.

A hospital in western Newfoundland was forced to close its intensive care unit last weekend, with a union official warning of more troubles ahead because of ongoing staffing shortages.

Police in central Labrador have responded to a rash of car thefts this week, all of them involving unlocked vehicles.

A witness at Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry has testified that information on testing problems had changed substantially by the time it reached government.

Police and the Canadian Coast Guard have recovered the body of a man in waters northwest of St. John's.

Husky Energy has reported record second-quarter revenue and profit.

Fort McMurray RCMP arrested 11 Greenpeace activists for trespassing at the Syncrude Canada Ltd. Aurora oilsands site at around 12:30 p.m. MT Thursday.

The largest union in Newfoundland and Labrador just got a wee bit bigger.

A plan by the council of an eastern Newfoundland town to rid it of sign pollution has ended up in court after one of its biggest tourist operators refused to go along.

Inuit leaders swiftly condemned the European Union on Wednesday for proposing an import ban on products derived from seals that it deems to be inhumanely killed.

More than 100 people gathered along Yellowknife's Frame Lake Trail on Thursday afternoon to say goodbye to former mayor Pat McMahon.

A family of eight near Iqaluit may not have escaped a devastating house fire alive Thursday, if it wasn't for the constant barking of Butch, their pregnant family dog.

A changing climate may someday shrink water supplies in Arctic communities, said a researcher at a climate symposium in Iqaluit.

At least one recreational vehicle park in the Yukon is seeing fewer tourists than usual this summer, with soaring gas prices to blame for keeping tourists away.

Canadian and U.S. scientists have zeroed in on the cause of the aurora borealis, tracing the shimmering northern lights to the way the "tail" of the Earth's magnetic field snaps back into shape in response to the solar wind.

The Ta'an Kwach'an Council has lost its bid for some prime property in Whitehorse, after another Yukon First Nation won the territorial government's land sale in court Wednesday.

Inuit leaders swiftly condemned the European Union on Wednesday for proposing an import ban on products derived from seals that it deems to be inhumanely killed.

At least two forest fires in the Northwest Territories are creating delays and reduced visibility on area highways Thursday.

The City of Yellowknife wants to be compensated for land at the Giant Mine site that will not or cannot be cleaned up, Mayor Gordon Van Tighem said Wednesday.

Staff at the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton are getting ready to host an encampment this weekend to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the second and final siege of the historic site.

The Nova Scotia government has decided not to lay charges relating to a pair of forest fires that happened near Halifax in June.

Two crew members on board a container ship in Halifax have been charged with smuggling child pornography into Canada after agents from the Canada Border Services Agency seized two laptops they say contained graphic images of young boys and girls.

A sealer from Cape Breton says the European Union's recent proposal to ban imports of products made from seals who are inhumanely killed is unclear about what constitutes a cruel method of hunting.

Police are investigating the second bank robbery in Halifax in two days.

A decline in food donations coupled with an increase in demand has forced Feed Nova Scotia to plead to the public for more donations.

The provincial government lifted the ban on open fires in the woods Wednesday after more than a month's worth of rain fell earlier in the week. The fire ban was imposed on July 9 due to the lack of rain and extreme dry conditions in woods across the province.

Halifax Regional Municipality has put out a tender for the construction of two high-speed ferries after the union at the local shipyard said the city had rejected its offer to build and lease them.

Ontario Provincial Police have used an emergency provision of the Criminal Code that circumvents the normal need for court approval of telephone wiretaps three times since 2002, a spokesman said.

A police officer wants the City of Ottawa to levy small fines against drivers who forget to lock their car doors.

The defence of Mohammad Momin Khawaja suffered a setback Thursday when the judge in his Ottawa terrorism trial decided hearsay evidence entered in the Crown's case against him will remain "in play" for now.

Major League Soccer's board of governors has approved plans to expand by two teams by 2011, commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday.

People in Rockland are mopping up after what officials are calling a once-in-50-years deluge.

Three children were sent to hospital with cuts Wednesday night when a rear side window of the car they were in was shattered by a rock thrown from an Ottawa overpass.

Residents of Ottawa's rural Gloucester area say they worry their drinking water could be contaminated by a new composting facility set to open this fall near Hawthorne and Rideau Roads.

The federal and Ontario governments have signed a deal that commits $6.2 billion for roads, bridges, broadband internet service and other infrastructure improvements in the province over the next six years.

An OPP officer pretended to be a news reporter at a Mohawk protest that prompted the closure of a major rail line and Highway 401 in eastern Ontario during last year's Aboriginal Day of Action, CBC News has learned.

A 46-year-old man was electrocuted by a 7,200-volt hydro line near Bancroft, Ont., after climbing a hydro pole Wednesday night.

Ottawa bus drivers are vehemently against allowing pets on public transit, the union representing the drivers says.

The e-mail system at an Ottawa university was crippled this week by cyber criminals who tricked a user into providing access to a university e-mail account.

A passenger train running along the Ottawa River between Pembroke and Ottawa would breathe new life into the region, an economic development group says.

The last surviving Canadian who served in the First World War was born in Sydenham, Ont., 108 years ago Wednesday.

A woman has lodged an accessibility complaint against Ottawa's public transit company after it barred her ferret - which her doctor likens to a guide dog - from the city's public buses.

Gasoline prices on P.E.I. are going down another 5.5 cents per litre. That puts the price drop at 11 cents this week.

P.E.I. women who have just left prison will soon have access to more resources to help them start new lives.

Efforts to market P.E.I. to both adult and family tourists could lead to appealing to neither, says the director of UPEI's Tourism Research Centre, but some tourism operators disagree.

A Seacow Pond man is dead after the motorcycle he was driving crashed into a car in western P.E.I. Wednesday evening.

A sealer from Cape Breton says the European Union's recent proposal to ban imports of products made from seals who are inhumanely killed is unclear about what constitutes a cruel method of hunting.

After turning down three contract offers, P.E.I. potato farmers voted to accept the fourth from Cavendish Farms Wednesday night.

The committee trying to raise money for a new wellness centre for Canada Games events in Montague, P.E.I., says it's making progress in securing some extra money for the project.

A joint unit of the RCMP and Charlottetown police will lay a drug charge following the arrest of three men on Grafton Street on suspicion of robbery.

Officials at Charlottetown's Queen Elizabeth Hospital have declared the outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria under control.

Two cases of late blight, a fungus that is potentially devastating to potato crops, have been confirmed in fields in P.E.I.

"We have failed miserably in addressing your concerns," Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee said at a public meeting Tuesday, apologizing for rowdiness surrounding the Festival of Lights.

Early numbers from P.E.I.'s spring lobster fishery suggest landings are up over last year, the provincial fisheries department reported Wednesday.

A man in his 50s who was shot by police near the hamlet of Mayfair, Sask., on Wednesday morning has been transferred to a Saskatoon hospital from North Battleford, CBC News has learned.

The variety of mosquito that spreads the West Nile virus has turned up in Saskatoon and Regina for the first time this year, health officials say.

The Saskatchewan community of Indian Head will be a fine stand-in for the fictional town of Mercy in the upcoming third season of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a producer of the CBC-TV series said Thursday.

The case of a 40-year-old Regina man charged in his father's death will go to trial, a Saskatchewan judge ruled Wednesday.

The City of Prince Albert wants to put a limit on roadside memorials that mark fatal accident sites, but it's struggling to decide on a reasonable length of time.

Unionized workers at three Saskatoon-area potash mines could go on strike as early as Friday, the United Steelworkers union says.

The federal and Ontario governments have signed a deal that commits $6.2 billion for roads, bridges, broadband internet service and other infrastructure improvements in the province over the next six years.

Ontario Provincial Police have used an emergency provision of the Criminal Code that circumvents the normal need for court approval of telephone wiretaps three times since 2002, a spokesman said.

A woman who recently told the CBC the immigration department wanted to break up her family by deporting her sons to different countries once tried to sell a kindey to pay her legal fees.

Dwayne De Rosario of Scarborough, Ont., scored the winner as David Beckham and the MLS all-stars trimmed West Ham United 3-2 at Toronto's BMO Field on Thursday night.

Toronto has now set a rain record - 273 millimetres so far this summer - erasing a decades-old mark.

The Toronto Blue Jays benefited from timely hitting and solid pitching from Roy Halladay in a 7-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles - one of two wins on Thursday.

Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove is pushing the federal government to take steps to help the "horrible situation" in the country's auto industry after Chrysler announced 1,000 job cuts worldwide.

Mike Weir shares the early lead at the Canadian Open in Thursday's opening round in rain-soaked Oakville, Ont.

A strike is underway at the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries in Toronto.

The demotion of Jesse Litsch was just a bump in the road in the young pitcher's development, Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi said Thursday.

Police have expressed shock over the number of stolen bicycles they have recovered - well over 2,000 - as part of an investigation in Toronto that continued Wednesday with search warrants executed at three west-end locations.

Peel Regional Police have identified a body found in a Mississauga park as 31-year-old Karina Neff.

Major League Soccer's board of governors has approved plans to expand by two teams by 2011, commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday.

The mother and sisters of Jordan Manners, the teen who was shot and killed in a Toronto school more than a year ago, survived a hail of gunfire outside their home late last week, police said.

Though he was told the Queen hadn't read his Commonwealth Prize-winning novel The Book of Negroes, Canadian author Lawrence Hill said he was pleasantly surprised by all her questions about the book when he met the monarch Thursday.