The food-cart explosion in Vancouver has brought down the walls surrounding high-class cuisine.
A Georgian luger died in a horrific crash on a training run on Friday, casting a shadow as Vancouver opened the Winter Games.
Severed feet are washing up on shore in a whodunnit that has the locals in a Canadian fishing and ferrying community buzzing.
A hot-air balloon caught fire over western Canada, forcing screaming passengers to leap to the ground, some with their clothes in flames, witnesses said. Two people burned to…
Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood are among 15 authors selected as finalists for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, the award’s organisers said on Thursday.…
Canada will spend 30-million Canadian dollars (United States $25,5-million) to preserve the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest, home to aboriginal communities and tall…
Roland Schoeman has the rules of the Pan Pacific Championships to thank for his place in Friday night’s final of the 100m freestyle. The rules of the competition, currently…
In a last-ditch bid to save western Canada’s spotted owls, the emblem of North America’s environmental movement, nature lovers are suing the federal government in court to force…
Foreign big-game hunters will be banished from a vast area of western Canada’s wilderness, local environmentalists said, announcing an unusual purchase of a commercial hunting…
Following just a few simple rules regarding moderate exercise, healthy eating and lifestyle can ensure weight control and lower the risk of disease, say the world’s leading…
Defending champion Vijay Singh shot a three-over-par 73 during the first round of the PGA Canadian Open on Thursday, tying him with 24 others for 71st place. Last year, Singh won…
Dozens of urbanised black bears are making life uncomfortable for residents of the coastal mountain suburbs of Vancouver in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia. The…
Canadian wildlife officers are tracking smugglers in the macabre slaughter and mutilation of 40 bald eagles, which has shaken aboriginal people on Canada’s west coast. The first…
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge defended the Vancouver Organising Committee on Tuesday, saying the Olympic brand needs to be protected from improper use.…
John Schneeberger, the disgraced South African doctor jailed for sex crimes and stripped of his Canadian citizenship, on Monday lost his fight against expulsion from the country.…
A Vereeniging family have won a five-year battle to live in Canada because three of them suffer from a potentially fatal skin condition which makes them allergic to sunshine. The…
CANADIAN police on Wednesday arrested a 78-year-old man under an extradition request from Italy, which convicted him in absentia for World War II crimes, including torture and…
A British Columbia pig farmer was charged with four additional murders on Wednesday, bringing to 15 the number of women Robert Pickton is suspected of killing.
American filmmaker Michael Moore’s ”Bowling for Columbine,” a movie that plumbs the depths of violence in America, has won, along with two other films, the People’s Choice Award…
Efforts to stem the trade of ”conflict diamonds” are still needed, even if fighting has eased in the African countries where they are produced.
