Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has reversed Canadian policy, quietly directing Canada's spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake.

Investigators in Ontario are trying to determine the cause of a collision between a flatbed truck and passenger van that killed 11 people ? most of them migrant workers from Peru ? but it's suspected one of the vehicles missed a stop sign.

Wal-Mart says it will spend $750 million to add 4.6 million square feet of retail space and 14,000 jobs in Canada this year.

With the summer driving season approaching, energy analysts expect the cost of gas to rise by between five and 20 cents per litre across the country.

A wide field of Canadian talent is in contention for Canada's Juno Awards, with City & Colour, Dan Mangan, Drake, Feist, Hedley and Nickelback earning a leading four nods apiece.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with assault with a weapon after a 14-year-old girl's hair was set on fire in a Saint John school's classroom.

A Newfoundland teacher who sprayed one of her students with air freshener has been suspended with pay from her job, according to a statement from the school board responsible for Twillingate Island Elementary School.

Seven former waitresses at Casino New Brunswick are filing a discrimination complaint with the provincial human rights commission after being fired based on what they say is their appearance.

The family of the lone survivor of a murder-suicide in Alberta in December is getting a new home on P.E.I. from Habitat for Humanity.