Governor General visits Haiti

Michäelle Jean left Canada on Saturday to visit the country of her birth, returning to Haiti for the first time since she became Governor General last fall.

Michäelle Jean, shown attending a ceremony in February 2006, fled Haiti with her family when she was 11. (CP)

Nova Scotia has election fever

Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald will pay a visit to Lt.-Gov. Myra Freeman on Saturday and it's widely speculated that he will to ask her to dissolve the House, paving the way for a mid-June provincial vote.

Rodney MacDonald, shown in Halifax on Friday, became Canada's youngest premier at a Conservative leadership convention in February. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)

Taliban suspects won't be harmed, Harper believes

Canada expects Afghan authorities will live up to their treaty obligations when Canadian soldiers hand over prisoners to them, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says. 

GUMBAD, AFGHANISTAN: A suspected Taliban prisoner is searched, handcuffed, and processed by members of 1st Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry earlier this week. (John D. McHugh/AFP/Getty Images)

4 marines killed in tank accident

Four U.S. marines drowned when their tank fell off a bridge and plunged into a canal west of Baghdad, the military said Friday.

Barred from courtroom, accused killer still serves as own lawyer

A Regina man on trial for murder who's defending himself in court is no longer participating in the trial – at least in person.

PM won't set targets for immigrants

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada needs more immigrants but the Conservative leader stopped short of setting specific target numbers.

Daughters of missing man suing BC Ferries

The two young daughters of the man from British Columbia presumed dead in the March 22 sinking of the Queen of the North are suing BC Ferries, alleging negligence.

A mini-sub captured this image of the sunken Queen of the North. (Courtesy: Transportation Safety Board of Canada)

Sex offender not welcome, N.L. town residents say

Tempers flared at a public meeting in Bishop's Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador on Thursday night, as about 100 people gathered to discuss whether a convicted sex offender should leave town.

Cecilia Zhang killer to learn parole decision

The man who says he kidnapped and killed Toronto schoolgirl Cecilia Zhang will find out today when he's eligible for parole.

Woman accused of helping Alberta murder suspects granted bail

Bail has been granted to a woman accused of helping two murder suspects accused of killing a family in Medicine Hat, Alta., last month.

Harper says Canada 'limited' in what it can do in Darfur

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is trying to clarify his comments about Canada sending troops to Sudan, suggesting that if troops go, there won't be many.   On Wednesday, Harper said a troop deployment to the troubled Darfur region was possible, contradicting Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor, who said earlier in the week that Canada's military is stretched too thin to handle another deployment.

Accused in killing of sex-trade worker appears in court

A man charged with killing a sex trade worker in northern Alberta grinned and waved to the media as he emerged from a police car to appear in court.

Quebec bill would speed up accreditation of foreign professionals

The Quebec government has introduced legislation aimed at making it easier for professionals trained abroad to work in their chosen fields after they immigrate to the province.

Lise Thériault, Quebec's minister of immigration and cultural communities, says she hears tales of those abandoned careers wherever she goes. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press)

Household income linked to children's well-being: StatsCan

The well-being of Canadian children is almost always linked to their family's household income, suggests a Statistics Canada report.

Woman accused of helping suspects in triple murder gets bail

A woman accused of helping two murder suspects in the case of a family slain in southern Alberta has been granted bail.

Quebec teen died of asthma, not nutty kiss

A coroner in Quebec says a severe asthma attack, not a peanut-contaminated kiss, killed a 15-year-old girl in an incident that made headlines around the world last November.

Thousands gather to honour slain Windsor police officer

Under damp and windy skies, a steady stream of mourners filed into a recreation centre in Windsor, Ont., Thursday for the funeral of a police officer killed while on duty a week earlier.

The hearse carrying Const. John Atkinson makes its way through the streets of Windsor, Ont., on Thursday. (CBC)

Solberg hints at lower immigration target

The previous Liberal government's target of 300,000 new immigrants to Canada each year was too high, Immigration Minister Monte Solberg said Wednesday.

Immigration Minister Monte Solberg acknowledges his department faces challenges, including a backlog of applicants and a system that leaves refugee claimants in limbo. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)

Airline complaints range from bad attitudes to bland fruit cups

Air passengers filed about 20 per cent more complaints with the Canadian Transportation Agency last year, griping about everything from the attitude of airline employees to lost baggage.

Government may sue Liberals for sponsorship funds: report

The Liberal Party of Canada could be targeted in a taxpayer-funded lawsuit to recover millions of dollars that went missing in the federal sponsorship program, a newspaper report says.