Human Resources Minister Diane Finley announced details this morning about the government's planned changes to employment insurance that would tighten the rules for Canadians collecting the benefit.

The Ottawa woman who has become the country's best-known advocate for organ donation holds her first news conference since undergoing a double-lung transplant.

The morning after nearly 700 people were arrested in protests in Montreal and Quebec City, Jean Charest announced he has replaced his top aide with his former right-hand man.

New York City police say a person who's in custody has implicated himself in the death of Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' faces on milk cartons.

The Canadian government's plans for its bill to give law enforcement greater powers over consumer internet information may be on hold, but a consumer group isn't giving up the fight against lawful access.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird will be the main speaker at a Washington, D.C., event celebrating religious freedom, but the event sponsor's hardline stance on same-sex marriage and homosexuality is at odds with Baird's support for gay rights around the world.

The rate of avoidable deaths in Canada has fallen sharply in 30 years, according to a new report.

A new online poll suggests the health of the economy is the top priority for Canadians, ranking ahead of a crackdown on gun, gang and drug crime.

The decision to withdraw NATO troops from Afghanistan by 2014 is a daring gamble, Brian Stewart writes. But it is time to aim for "good enough" and leave the fighting to the Afghans.

The unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule performs a practice lap around the orbiting lab and checked out its communication and navigation systems.

A Toronto woman who died on Mount Everest did not heed warnings for her to turn back, according to the Nepalese tour company who organized her expedition.

When engineers and other workers at Canadian Pacific Railway walked off the job early Wednesday, they set off a strike that could affect coal mines, farms, auto manufacturing plants and maybe even the local Canadian Tire.

The Canadian Pacific Railway strike means more than 2,000 non-striking unionized CP employees will be laid off, a spokesman for the company said Wednesday, as the federal labour minister said she may force an end to the work stoppage.

Inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary are rewarded for good behaviour by being thrown to the bulls, so to speak, but prisoners and authorities say the opportunity to participate in a rodeo helps calm what was once "the bloodiest prison in America."

European Union leaders have concluded their latest summit with few concrete steps to fix the Continent's festering financial crisis even as the potential for a messy Greek exit from the euro appears to be rising.