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Canada’s long-time finance minister announced his resignation Tuesday, after steering the G7 nation through the Great Recession and back to a balanced budget forecast for next year. Jim Flaherty, 64, said he informed Prime Minister Stephen Harper on…

Seal-hunters must have the same rights as fishermen, Canada’s Environment Minister Leonoa Aglukkaq insisted Monday, as her country battled a Brussels’ trade ban at the WTO. Speaking on the sidelines of a World Trade Organization appeal hearing on the…

One of South Africa’s two polar bears has died at the Johannesburg Zoo, leaving its mate now believed to be the only polar bear in Africa, a veterinarian said Wednesday. Geebee, the 29-year-old polar bear, came from Canada and had long survived the…

Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially broke ground Wednesday on the US$185 million first all-season highway to Canada’s Arctic coast, which it is hoped will open up resource development in the far north. The extension of the Dempster Highway is to…