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A former TV news anchor has pleaded guilty to assault.

Staff at eight major airports across the country will be brushing up on their language skills as the federal bilingualism watchdog prepares to take a closer look at the levels of English and French in Canada's air transport hubs.

Battered and bruised by Enbridge's disastrous Michigan oil pipeline leak in 2010, smaller incidents more recently and ramped up anti-oilsands activism, Canadian pipeline operators are fighting back.

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver no longer talks about "radicals" trying to "hijack" environmental hearings for the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, but he is backing tougher scrutiny for environmental charities.

An American police officer who complained in a letter to a Canadian newspaper about not being able to carry a gun during a trip to Calgary has become the target of another kind of weapon: the tweet.

A Quebec separatist party that is promising to fight foreign takeovers of firms based in the Canadian province is in the lead for the Sept. 4 elections, two new polls showed on Friday.

In a highly unusual move, taxpayer-funded Telefilm Canada has intervened before the CRTC in favour of Bell Canada Enterprise's proposed $3.4-billion takeover of Astral Media — a merger critics say would limit media competition in Canada.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is in Lebanon Friday, where he will meet with Prime Minister Najib Mikati to discuss the ongoing uprising in Syria.

Two years after the Conservatives promised they'd stop the practice of using employment equity laws to block men or white people from applying for some positions in the civil service, the government is still at the commitment stage.

If you're trying to hide a few bucks from the taxman, your best bet may be to head to the Far North.

Alexander Fraser not only captured two American generals in one day during the Battle of Stoney Creek, he also turned the tide of the battle from a British and Canadian defeat into victory.

Save the Children did not waste any time congratulating the federal government for its response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

Cody McClelland has met "a lot of great people" since his kidney transplant in 2010. He can add Quinn Thomas to that list.

An expert panel of coroners will study deaths involving Ontario’s troubled Ornge air ambulance service, the province’s chief coroner announced Wednesday.

Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary are among the top-five liveable cities in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's liveability survey.

A new Abacus Data poll reveals that if there was an election today, the Conservatives would win again.

Worried that all the hard work Canadians did to keep their economy afloat during the recession is at risk of being swamped by sinking European economies, Finance Minster Jim Flaherty called on overseas leaders to step up and plug their fiscal holes.

A Fredericton man is dead after he was shot five times at a resort in the Philippines, police say.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has confirmed we're tantalizingly close to hearing the name of Canada's next top general.

The White House has sunk to an all-time low by telling hundreds of black voters in Virginia that Republicans would put them "back in chains," Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says.

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