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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...

Lawmakers in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan voted Wednesday to ban the use of hand-held cellphones by motorists. The measure, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2010, not only outlaws talking on hand-held cellphones and similar devices while driving, it...

The number of new cases of H1N1 influenza in many communities across Canada appears to be levelling off, federal health officials say. The president of the Canadian Medical Association is calling for a national debate on what health services should...

A new law will limit the activities of "secondary" ticket resellers in an effort to give people a fair crack at purchasing tickets to events, Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan says. Contending there are too many situations where fast sellouts...

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...

Consumer Product Safety Commission has conceded that the agency has not been "acting as quickly as it should" on crib safety problems. Interviewed on morning news shows in the wake of the largest-ever recall of cribs, Inez Tenenbaum pledged that...