Prime Minister Stephen Harper is gambling that an opposition pushing an unpopular carbon tax will steer Canadian voters to the right in Tuesday’s election and bolster his hold on power.

The Canadian dollar posted its steepest one-day decline against the U.S. greenback Friday, dropping by 4.5 American cents.

Environmentalists are taking the Canadian government to court, demanding it use the country’s Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia.

A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a judge threw out the original charges.

The Canadian Grand Prix was dropped from the 2009 calendar on Tuesday, leaving North America without a Formula One race.

A federal judge in South Dakota has dismissed an indictment against a Canadian accused of killing an American Indian activist in 1975.

A Canadian man wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his 4-year-old niece filed a $12 million lawsuit Thursday against the disgraced pathologist whose testimony played a key role in sending him to prison.

A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.’s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including “democracy.”

The Ontario government said Wednesday it would compensate victims after a judicial inquiry concluded poor oversight and the inadequate training of a Canadian pathologist led to the wrongful convictions of several people accused of killing children.

A young Canadian man accused of plotting to storm Parliament and behead the prime minister was found guilty Thursday of knowingly participating in a terrorist group.