Restructuring costs pulled down first-quarter earnings at information technology outsourcing company CGI Group Inc., the Montreal firm said Monday.

More than 1,000 employees at an Olymel slaughterhouse in Quebec's Beauce region rejected a concession package Tuesday that could have saved their jobs.

For their courage and work to protect human rights, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan and Darfur human rights activist Mossaad Mohamed Ali will share the Swedish Olof Palme prize.

Somalia's president said Tuesday he'll call a national reconciliation conference in an effort to end 16 years of conflict as African Union peacekeepers are poised to enter the country, said a report.

Six paramedics in Kingston, Ont., have been suspended without pay for refusing to accept flu vaccinations.

Canada plans to spend $3.1 million on rural development projects in the volatile province of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

The British government is sending a message that religious people have no role in public life by refusing to exempt Catholic adoption agencies from anti-discrimination laws regarding gay couples, a senior cardinal says.

Canadian Pacific Railway said Tuesday it made $146 million in profit in the fourth quarter, an increase of six per cent over the previous year.

Two window washers were stranded 40 metres above the ground in -28 C weather for two hours early Tuesday after the electric motor on their elevated scaffold malfunctioned.

The newest addition to Toronto's Pearson International Airport, an international pier in Terminal 1, opened for business Tuesday morning.

A Canadian contractor working at a NATO base was found slain in his apartment a month ago in Sarajevo, CBC News has learned.

The New Brunswick forestry industry is feeling a little wary over the proposed merger of two huge forest product companies.

More than 100 traffic lights were still not working in Toronto late Tuesday morning after a power surge caused a brief interruption in power across much of southern and central Ontario.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be "functionally extinct" within decades, warns a leaked portion of a major United Nations report on climate change.

The climax of the Ashura holy festival became an intense focus of sectarian violence Tuesday as assailants targeted Shia worshippers.

Rivals Hamas and Fatah have declared a ceasefire, a move the Palestinian groups hope will end more than a month of deadly fighting in Gaza.

Several women are suing a Toronto surgeon after he allegedly botched their cosmetic procedures.

The Montreal Canadiens retired Ken Dryden's No. 29 during a touching ceremony at the Bell Centre on Monday.

There will be no bail for a 71-year-old Mississippi man charged in the 1964 slayings of two African-American men after a CBC filmmaker and his subject brought the cold case back to life.

A parliamentary committee begins what will be closely watched hearings on the politically charged issue of income trusts Tuesday morning, with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty likely to be the first witness.