Toronto health officials told Canada’s food inspection agency to warn the public several days before it announced a link between Maple Leaf deli meats and a deadly nationwide listeriosis outbreak, CBC News has learned.

The Toronto stock market broke a five-day losing streak in a wild up-and-down session Wednesday as traders reacted to efforts by central banks to cut interest rates.

In just one week, almost 2.7 million Canadians have registered on a list of people who no longer want to receive calls from telemarketers.

The tally of civilians killed by U.S.-led air strikes on an Afghan village in August has more than quadrupled, according to the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East.

Stéphane Dion says the Conservative party’s distortions of him in attack ads gave him an advantage during last week’s two televised leaders’ debates.

Jack Layton is accusing Canadian banks of greediness for not passing the full benefits of the central bank’s interest-rate cut on to customers.

Aboriginal groups are concerned that a federal government bureaucrat who is not aboriginal has been chosen to be the new executive director of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

A Cariboo, B.C., man who was attacked by a bear says he used a stick to put up the fight of his life after he realized he was likely in a fight to the death.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko abandoned the search for a functioning governing coalition on Wednesday, dissolved parliament and called an early election.

Stephen Harper’s suggestion that investors should look for potential “buying opportunities” amid falling stock markets shows his lack of concern for Canadians’ fears over the global economic crisis, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion and NDP Leader Jack Layton said Wednesday.