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A lberta Premier Ed Stelmach is rebutting comments environmentalist and former U.S. vice-president Al Gore made about Alberta's oil sands to reporters in Toronto this week. “The comparisons he's using are absolutely wrong.

The Canadian dollar rallied by more than a cent against the U.S. currency Wednesday. Federal mediators have called a meeting between Canadian National Railway and the union for its 1,700 locomotive engineers in a move to avert a strike that...

Talison Lithium, producer of almost a quarter of the world's lithium, is seeking to raise as much as A$196 million ($247 million) in an initial public offering in Canada and Australia to pay debt. Talison, which mines lithium in Western...

Dr. David Butler-Jones adives with Halloween around the corner and the increasing panic in ralation to the H1N1 pandemic, that parents do not need to cancel their Halloween plans. This reasuring advice after 2 teens have been killed this week...

According to media research firm SearchIgnite, retailers spent 47 percent more on Microsoft search ads in the fourth quarter of 2009 than they did in the fourth quarter of 2008. Moreover, Microsoft now accounts for 8 percent of all search...

Preliminary tests show three pigs in Minnesota may have contracted the swine flu virus making them the first potential U.S. cases in swine, agricultural officials said Friday...The samples were taken from pigs shown at the Minnesota State Fair between Aug....

Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 8:40AM EST I asked the Globe's excellent Washington correspondent Paul Koring last month to buy an Amazon Kindle and mail it to me. If I had lived in Zimbabwe, or any one of...

The Conservative government will table a bill in the House of Commons tomorrow that would make it mandatory for Internet providers to report to police incidents of pornographic images or live online sex shows involving minors. "The bill will strengthen...

Air Canada has become the first Canadian airline to offer in-flight Internet access to its passengers The airline launched a 10-week trial period Friday during which select flights on the Montreal-Los Angeles and Toronto-Los Angeles routes will offer web surfing....