A young woman from Souris, P.E.I. who began a Facebook group that was against the fashion industry's definition of beauty has won a pageant.

Unable to pay airport and supplier bills, Zoom Airlines Inc. is seeking court protection from creditors in Canada and the United Kingdom after its airplanes were grounded in Calgary and Glasgow.

One of Toronto's busiest intersections is now a test track for a new way of crossing the street.

A violent earthquake shook the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, 191 kilometres west of Port Alice, B.C., early Thursday in the latest in a swarm of tremors this week.

The Liberal party is ready for an election if Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls one in the coming weeks, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion said.

A judge is expected to deliver a verdict on Thursday in the trial of an Edmonton man accused of savagely attacking and sexually assaulting his neighbour.

An Ottawa woman has joined a proposed class-action lawsuit against Maple Leaf Foods after feeling ill for almost a month.

Friends and family were preparing Thursday for the funeral of an 89-year-old Ontario woman suspected of dying from listeriosis, a day after a recall expanded to more sandwiches and two Quebec cheeses were pulled from shelves due to an unrelated listeria strain.

A Winnipeg judge has sentenced a 16-year-old boy to 11 years in custody for killing one man and permanently injuring another in two violent attacks a year ago.

Office workers at the St. John's port authority voted unanimously to strike, in a vote held by their union Wednesday evening.

Toronto police have arrested a man and a woman and are searching for three other suspects in the beating death of an unidentified man.

Three small oil spills in the Bay of Fundy have halted the offloading of crude from an offshore buoy at the Canaport facility in Saint John harbour.

Ontario Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowsky says the province doesn't want to set up a separate Ontario food inspection agency.

Fewer young people in P.E.I. are smoking, according to a survey released this week by Statistics Canada.

Six more items were added Wednesday evening to the long list of meat products recalled in the wake of a nationwide listeria outbreak that has claimed 15 lives so far.

An unusually large swarm of tremors is rocking the ocean floor off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Two brands of Quebec-made cheese have been pulled from store shelves after provincial health officials found contamination from a strain of listeria.

Federal inspectors in charge of overseeing health standards at a Maple Leaf Foods processing plant at the centre of a deadly outbreak of listeriosis were doing their job properly, Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Wednesday.

A miscommunication appears to have caused a mobile crane to hit a light rail transit train in northwest Calgary on Wednesday.

While questions continue to be asked about how six men could have escaped from the Regina Correctional Centre on the weekend, some former inmates say they aren't surprised at all.