Canada News Headlines - AFP

OTTAWA (AFP) - The main opposition party has made significant gains in public opinion and is now virtually tied with the ruling Conservatives going into the next session of parliament, according to a poll released Thursday.

LONDON (AFP) - Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil said Thursday it would buy a 50-percent stake in six exploration licences in Kenya and Ethiopia, expanding its reach in east Africa.

TORONTO, Canada (AFP) - "No kite flying allowed," reads a bright yellow sign in a Toronto park where the city's South Asian community used to gather to practice the sport they introduced to the country.

NEW YORK (AFP) - American boxer Bernard Hopkins is scheduled to fight Jean Pascal for the World Boxing Council light heavyweight title December 18 in Quebec.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The trial of the sole Westerner detained at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is set for mid-October, but a US expert said Wednesday the jury is likely to face new questions before it can resume.

VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - Officials in Canada will spare the lives of some two dozen bears rounded up on the site of an illegal marijuana operation shut down last month, authorities told AFP.

KINSHASA (AFP) - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is opening an investigation into alleged embezzlement involving a Canadian mining firm, First Quantum Minerals, an official said Tuesday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's Potash Corp on Tuesday accused suitor BHP Billiton of sowing "doubt and confusion" among its customers over its future, after BHP's hostile bid was rejected last week.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A Canadian soldier died Monday at the Landstuhl hospital in Germany after being airlifted to the American facility for injuries sustained in Afghanistan, the military said.

OTTAWA (AFP) - The defense lawyer for one of four suspects in an alleged Canadian terror plot accused police on Monday of detaining his client on unrelated charges to further their terrorism investigation.

MONTREAL (AFP) - A cruise ship struck an uncharted rock in the Arctic Ocean over the weekend forcing the evacuation of more than 100 passengers and crew, tour operator Adventure Canada said Monday.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India on Monday gave the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone a 60-day reprieve on a threat to ban its messaging services, saying it would test proposals by the firm to give law enforcers access to data.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India gave the makers of BlackBerry a 60-day reprieve Monday as it reported headway in a bid to settle a security standoff that could have seen key features of the smartphone shut down this week.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Mining giant BHP Billiton has played down the prospect of making a higher offer for Canadian fertiliser maker Potash Corp, saying its 40 billion US dollar takeover bid was the only one on the table.

MONTREAL (AFP) - The body of an American mountain climber has been discovered in the Rocky Mountains in Canada's western Alberta province, 21 years after he disappeared, Canadian media reported Sunday.

MONTREAL (AFP) - A high-tech expedition has been forced to suspend its efforts to create a detailed map of the wreckage of the Titanic because of the approach of Hurricane Danielle.

OTTAWA (AFP) - One of two Canadians arrested after police in Australia cracked an alleged pedophile porn ring operating on Facebook was a teacher at a prestigious school in Vancouver, police said Friday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A fourth member of an alleged terror cell was arrested in Canada on Friday, as friends and relatives of another accused challenged police statements that he is a radicalized jihadist.

KAMPALA (AFP) - Uganda has repossessed an oil field that was jointly controlled by Anglo-Irish Tullow and Canada's Heritage because the firms failed to renew their license, a minister told AFP Friday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - The three men arrested over a terror plot in Canada were in possession of bomb-making materials and at least one has links to a group fighting Western forces in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A third suspect in a terror plot linked to senior Al-Qaeda figures was arrested on Thursday, federal police told a press conference.

WINNIPEG, Canada (AFP) - Japan's Ai Miyazato, fresh off a victory in Portland, Oregon, heads into the Canadian Women's Open in Winnipeg Thursday clinging to the top spot in the world rankings of women's golf.

ROSIA MONTANA, Romania (AFP) - It's a rare day when a mayor balks at proposals that his town be entered on the World Heritage List next to such illustrious sites as the Taj Mahal

VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - A book banned for sale aboard western Canadian ferries because a naked boy adorns the cover has drawn worldwide attention with critics crying censorship.

MONTREAL (AFP) - A global nuclear energy renaissance has reignited interest in uranium mining in Canada, the world leader in the sector, but also apprehensions by some who fear radioactive pollution.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's prime minister observed military maneuvers in the Arctic on Wednesday while touting sovereignty over the far north, one day after fighter jets chased Russian bombers along its northern frontier.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Sockeye salmon, which mysteriously vanished last year prompting a government inquiry, are expected to return to Canada's Fraser River this month in numbers not seen since 1913, officials said Wednesday.

LONDON (AFP) - BHP Billiton's annual profits more than doubled on the back of surging commodities demand, it said Wednesday, one week after launching a 40-billion-dollar hostile bid for Canadian fertiliser firm Potash.