One man is dead following a hostage taking in Kamloops, B.C. on Thursday night that ended with an explosion destroying a family home.

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg took the company public on Friday but the stock price briefly flirted with crossing below its IPO price.

The release of German-Canadian former arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber from a Munich prison has been confirmed by a German court, according to a media report.

It has been a long night for Quebec politicians, who have been debating special legislation aimed at cooling tensions in the 14-week student strike since Thursday evening.

A night on the town had a shocking ending early this morning when a man allegedly used a stun gun on a Halifax bar worker after he was caught in a restroom stall with a woman.

Misconduct charges are expected against 45 Toronto police officers involved in the G20 summit two years ago, including five senior officers, one of them the commander who gave the notorious order to “kettle” protesters.

Most fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods cost less than foods high in fat, sugar and salt, U.S. agriculture department study says.

China’s rapidly expanding navy has provoked a shift in U.S. strategic interests to the Western Pacific and Canada is probably going to be dragged along, Brian Stewart writes. Beijing is not amused.

Mitt Romney is vowing to approve TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline on his first day on the job if elected president of the United States in November.

Canadians will be able to view a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, though the viewing gets better the further west in the country you are.

G8 leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, are convening at Camp David in Maryland. Take a virtual tour of the highly secretive facilities.

A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice.

Opinion polls suggest more Canadians would rather the crown pass directly from Queen Elizabeth to Prince William than to his dad, but unless fate or some sort of constitutional intervention throws a curve, Charles will become king of Canada someday.

Thousands of students are protesting in Montreal’s downtown, angered by the Quebec government’s announcement that it would suspend the current semester for many college and university students until August.

Administrators at the University of Quebec in Montreal suspended undergraduate law classes after a chaotic showdown with protesters Wednesday.

Poor planning by various levels of police, along with orders by a Toronto deputy police chief to “take back the streets,” are to blame for the more than 1,100 arrests during the 2010 summit, says the province’s top civilian police watchdog.

The opposition is demanding to know what steps have been taken to address security concerns over foreign companies operating in Canada’s telecommunications industry, in the wake of a CBC News report about a Chinese firm’s contracts in Canada.

Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie has been suspended four games after hitting an umpire with his helmet. The Langley, B.C., native will appeal the suspension.

UN special rapporteur for food Olivier De Schutter has sparked a debate over whether Canadians have trouble affording to feed themselves, with the government arguing he’s wasting his time and advocates for the poor urging a national strategy.

New charges were laid this week against two men accused of plotting terrorist attacks in Canada following the 2010 terrorism investigation dubbed Project Samossa.