Canada News Headlines - AFP

MONTREAL (AFP) - Canadian police said Thursday they broke up a ring of traffickers bringing in illegal drugs and weapons from the United States.

OTTAWA (AFP) - The hockey stick used by Canadian Sidney Crosby to score the winning goal in the Winter Olympics men's hockey final has been found in the hands of a Russian collector, sources said Thursday.

SAO PAULO (AFP) - Canada's Bombardier has won a 22 million dollar contract for signaling systems for an electric railway system in the Peruvian capital, a company official told AFP Thursday.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Sergei Afanasiev, the owner of the world's biggest private collection of ice hockey-related memorabilia, returned Olympic gold medallist Sidney Crosby's "golden" stick, local media reported Thursday.

VANCOUVER (AFP) - The cauldron of the Paralympic Winter Games will blaze to life in this western Canadian city Friday, starting the competition between athletes with disabilities from 45 countries in a games running parallel to the Olympics.

OTTAWA (AFP) - The trade surplus unexpectedly rose to 799 million Canadian dollars (776 million US) in January, despite slowing exports, a government agency said Thursday.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Four-time champions Pakistan slumped to an embarrassing 3-2 defeat by Canada on Thursday to finish last for the first time in the men's field hockey World Cup.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Two Australian teenagers have been charged over a vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist who was knocked out of his wheelchair and battered with a metal bar, police said on Thursday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Lawmakers, a beauty queen and guests crammed into Canada's parliamentary restaurant to dine on seal meat Wednesday to show solidarity with hunters fighting a European ban on seal products.

OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian dollar, or loonie as it is affectionately called here, is likely to soar above parity with the US greenback this year, experts at a Canadian bank said Wednesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Tuberculosis is ravaging Canada's Arctic with infections among Inuit peoples doubling since 2004 and rates now 185 times higher than non-natives, an indigenous group said Wednesday.

KAMPALA (AFP) - Uganda will next month decide which international oil firm will carry out production and development of its nascent petroleum industry, an energy ministry official said Wednesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's ethnic makeup will greatly change in the next 20 years as the number of non-Europeans or "visible minorities" rises to nearly one-third of the population, a government agency said Tuesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada plans to eliminate some 1,500 tariffs on manufacturing inputs, machinery and equipment by 2015, affecting some five billion dollars in imports, officials said Tuesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Parliamentarians are to dine on seal meat on Wednesday to show solidarity with seal hunters wrestling with a European Union ban on seal products and the loss of a key market.

OTTAWA (AFP) - The jury in the perjury trial of the only person ever convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings was dismissed on Monday with a new panel to be chosen at a later date, local media reported.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - Canada's governor general, Haitian-born Michaelle Jean, said Monday during a visit to her quake-shattered birth country that the "destruction is unbelievable."

OTTAWA (AFP) - The US government is quietly seeking a way to repatriate the youngest Guantanamo inmate, Canadian Omar Khadr, local media said Monday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada has listed the Somalia-based hardline Shebab militia as a terrorist organization, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Monday.

KVITFJELL, Norway (AFP) - Canada's Erik Guay won the men's super-G here on Sunday to record just his second career victory and two years after his maiden triumph.

MONTREAL (AFP) - Haitian-born governor general Michaelle Jean will mark International Women's Day on Monday in Haiti, as the impoverished nation struggles to rebuild two months after a crippling earthquake.

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AFP) - Olympic hero Sidney Crosby scored his first two goals since the gold medal winner for Canada to seize the National Hockey League lead and help Pittsburgh beat Dallas 6-3 on Saturday.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Minnesota Wild left wing Derek Boogaard was issued a two-game suspension on Saturday by the National Hockey League for a kneeing incident in the team's 2-1 shootout loss Friday to Edmonton.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Defense Minister Peter MacKay will visit Canadian troops involved in aid efforts in Haiti on Saturday and Sunday, the military announced on Friday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian group Tim Hortons announced an ambitious expansion plan on Friday to open 900 new coffee and donut shops in the United States and Canada within three years.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Rogier Hofman and Taeke Taekema scored two goals apiece as the Netherlands routed lowly Canada 6-0 for their third successive win in the men's field hockey World Cup on Friday.

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) - Ottawa announced plans to balance its budget within five years, starting with an ambitious paring of the budget deficit to just 3.1 percent of economic output in fiscal 2010-2011.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's government vowed Thursday to balance its budget within five years and shrink a ballooning budget deficit to 3.1 percent of economic output in the 2010-2011 fiscal year.