Canadian exploration and development company Detour Gold Corp said its Detour Lake gold project in northern Ontario has received a go-ahead from the federal government.
Congress, after months of bitter fighting, is poised to pass Friday a payroll tax cut extension that President Barack Obama argues is vital to the health of the economy.
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In a sign that Canada's resistance to paying into an IMF bailout fund for Europe might be fading, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Thursday the idea would be generally supported if all the Group of 20 nations agreed to pay in more.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the federal government's plan to create a single, national securities regulator, forcing Ottawa to rethink its campaign to replace the current patchwork of provincial watchdogs and regulations.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday caved in to a growing chorus of criticism from both within and outside his Republican party and agreed to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans.
Canada's top court derailed government plans to consolidate a patchwork system of provincial securities regulators on Thursday, ruling that proposed federal legislation violated provincial rights and forcing the government back to the drawing board.
Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol shot its way to the top of the box office Wednesday, collecting a solid $8.6 million, according to early studio estimates.
Facebook revealed its top 10 most popular games played on its social platform this year. Zynga had four games in the top 10, but did not claim the No. 1 spot; Playdom's Gardens of Time had that honor.
A recent report by Department of Environment and Conservation, Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs, shows that the world's largest herd of reindeer, the George River caribou herd in Canada’s eastern province of Quebec, has shrunken in size significantly.
Instances of alleged censorship of Twitter profiles aligned with controversial topics such as Occupy Wall Street, SOPA and NDAA continue to be exposed, and leading Web experts are scrambling to debunk the claims.
Bank of Nova Scotia has applied to re-establish a presence in Cuba and a report says rival Royal Bank of Canada is considering a similar move in the wake of Cuban reforms and a thawing of the country's icy relationship with the United States.
Imperial Oil Ltd said on Wednesday it will go ahead with an C$8.9 billion ($8.65 billion) plan to double the size of its Kearl oil sands project, even as it said total costs for the massive mining operation have climbed by nearly a quarter.
Facebook agreed on Wednesday to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America, after a three-month investigation found that its privacy policies were overly complex and lacked transparency.
Canadian telecom upstart Globalive wants to buy rival Mobilicity but no deal is imminent or indeed likely until the government clarifies rules on foreign ownership and airwave allocation, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
The Toronto Stock Exchange is deferring consideration on whether to accept Crocodile Gold Corp.'s recently adopted poison pill plan so a securities commission can consider the matter.
Canada's main stock index was set to open lower on Wednesday as the initial enthusiasm faded about strong demand at European Central Bank's three-year tender
KGHM, Europe's No.2 copper producer, and Abacus Mining will need to invest $795 million in their joint Canadian copper and gold project Afton-Ajax, according to a feasibility study cited by KGHM on Wednesday.
A trio of astronauts blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Wednesday on a mission to bring the International Space Station back up to full manpower after an August cargo launch accident disrupted flights.
For most people, the holiday season is a time spent with family and friends, but for many it can be a time of intense loneliness. Scammers count on that.
A survey from the United States and Canada found 40 percent of police officers had symptoms of a sleep disorder, including sleep apnea and insomnia.
Immigrants founded or cofounded almost half of 50 top venture-backed companies in the United States, a new study shows, underscoring some of the high stakes in potential immigration reform.
