Sen. John McCain urged the world on Tuesday to learn from past mistakes as it passively observes Syria's bloody civil war while Canada's defence minister, Peter MacKay, stood by the Canadian government's decision against arming the Syrian rebels.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a petition to review the murder case of an anti-abortion extremist who is also suspected in the shootings of three Canadian doctors.
Refugee numbers around the world are at their highest level since 1994, the United Nations refugee agency reported Tuesday in a sobering look at global displacement.
Alberta's top court has ruled a man who violently attacked two women in southern Alberta is a "loaded gun with a hair trigger" and must be jailed indefinitely.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 27 people. Among the dead was a newly elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities said.
Canada has publicly been called on the carpet by the European Union for holding up free-trade talks. EU trade spokesman John Clancy took the unusual step Tuesday of criticizing Canada as the G8 summit in Northern Ireland came to a close.
Researchers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto are working on what they call a new class of "sharpshooter" drugs that they hope will slow the growth of a number of forms of cancer tumours.
Montreal’s interim mayor Michael Applebaum has announced his resignation, a move that comes just one day after he was arrested on corruption and conspiracy charges.
Police in Edmonton have withdrawn an Amber Alert for a nine-month-old baby girl they believed had been abducted by her mother. They say the mother and child have been found and the baby is safe.
