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President Nursultan Nazarbayev. ©REUTERS Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbayev meets Canada’s Foreign Minister John Baird Minister John Baird stressed Canada was looking forward to signing an agreement on peaceful use of nuclear power.
13 ноября 2013
Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird. ©Reuters Kazakhstan and Canada to sign peaceful atom cooperation The Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird will arrive in Kazakhstan with the first official visit on November 13.
11 ноября 2013
Omar Khadr. ©Reuters/Janet Hamlin Canadian 'child soldier' appeals Guantanamo conviction Omar Khadr, the Canadian "child soldier" held for a decade at Guantanamo, appealed his terror conviction Friday.
09 ноября 2013
©Reuters/Stefan Wermuth Gas boom to reshape US role in Asia: study A boom in gas production will reshape the US role in Asia and could fuel new tensions with a growing, energy-hungry China.
08 ноября 2013
'World's first' bitcoin ATM opens in Canada Three young entrepreneurs have opened what they call the world's first ATM able to exchange bitcoins for any official currency.
30 октября 2013
©Reurtes/Stefan Wermuth Canadian court upholds ban on euthanasia A court in Canada's westernmost British Columbia province upheld the nation's ban on euthanasia Thursday.
11 октября 2013
John Forster. Photo courtesy of globalnews.ca Spying not illegal, says Canada eavesdropping chief Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency chief spoke for the first time Wednesday since allegations of spying on Brazil's mining and energy ministry, saying its work is legal and doesn't target Canadians.
11 октября 2013
Canada threatens to pull Commonwealth funding Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has threatened to withdraw funding for the Commonwealth in an escalating row over rights abuses by Sri Lanka ahead of a summit next month.
08 октября 2013
©Reuters/Bazuki Muhammad First-ever global deal struck on airline CO2 emissions A first-ever global deal on curbing the airline industry's rising carbon emissions was agreed Friday.
05 октября 2013
©Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez 'War' on illegal drugs is failing: study The global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis is failing to stem supply, as prices of these drugs have tumbled while seizures of them have risen.
01 октября 2013
Thousands of Romanians protest Canadian mine plans Thousands of people marched against a Canadian company's plans to open Europe's largest gold mine at Rosia Montana, in what has become one of the longest-running protests in post-communist Romania.
01 октября 2013
©Reuters/Chris Wattie Sands of time running out for rare Canadian desert As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada's vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse -- slowly sprouting with vegetation.
25 сентября 2013
©Reuters/Mark Blinch Ailing BlackBerry agrees to $4.7 billion buyout Tech pioneer BlackBerry made a last roll of the dice Monday and agreed to a probable $4.7 billion buyout by a consortium planning to take the struggling smartphone maker private.
25 сентября 2013
Thousands of Romanians in fresh protest against mine project Thousands of Romanians took to the streets on Sunday in a fourth week of protests against a Canadian company's plan to open Europe's largest gold mine in a picturesque Transylvanian village.
24 сентября 2013
Six dead as Canada train smashes into bus Screaming commuters were thrown from a double-decker bus when it ploughed into a passenger train at an Ottawa suburban crossing.
20 сентября 2013
Cronenberg says life, not his films, 'weird' Life, not his films, is "weird and strange," director David Cronenberg said Thursday as the Toronto film festival announced a retrospective of his cold, clinical, and often gory movies.
07 сентября 2013
Iron supplements do not boost malaria risk: study Global health experts have warned against giving iron supplements in areas where malaria is rampant, but a study Tuesday found no rise in cases of the mosquito-borne disease among children who took iron.
05 сентября 2013
A shot from film 'The Fifth Estate' Toronto film festival promises WikiLeaks 'full story' North America's largest film festival opens Thursday with a drama about real life WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, promising the "full story" behind the whistleblower website.
04 сентября 2013
Justin Bieber. ©REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Justin Bieber stopped for traffic offense, again Justin Bieber was stopped for running a stop sign and driving without a license Wednesday, in the Canadian teen sensation's latest run-in with traffic police.
29 августа 2013
Canadian woman steals back stolen bicycle A Vancouver woman earned widespread notoriety Tuesday for stealing back her bicycle from a thief after seeing it advertised online.
29 августа 2013

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