TORONTO - The Toronto Stock Exchange surged ahead Friday, encouraged by gains from the U.S. markets, after data showed the world's largest economy may be in recovery.

TORONTO -- North American markets will focus this week on the release of the latest minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve for any clues on when the world's largest economy will taper off its aggressive monetary stimulus program.

SASKATOON - Canada's food watchdog is planning to impose tougher rules to deal with the threat of E. coli in slaughterhouses. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will strengthen E. coli testing in federally inspected ...

A controversial application to open a coal mine in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island has been rejected as inadequate by the B.C.

Scott Mills of JukeboxPrint.com says someone's been mailing drug packages using the company's name. Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG , Sunday Province.