WATERLOO REGION (Jul 4, 2009) -- Canada Post has issued its annual appeal calling on pet owners to make sure their dogs are under control when the mail is being delivered. Last year, 132 attacks involving dogs cost Canada Post 140 lost work days in Ontario outside of Toronto. These included 12 incidents in the Kitchener area, resulting in 17 lost work days.

TORONTO: Canada's finance minister said Friday that the country's economic recovery will likely be modest and job losses will mount into 2010 even after growth has begun.

TORONTO -- Canada's finance minister said today that the country's economic recovery will likely be modest and job losses will mount into 2010 even after growth has begun....

CBC - Montreal-born author Ian Halperin's new book Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson has been snapped up by a major French publisher, which will distribute 100,000 copies of the unauthorized biography.

The Edmonton Sun - A violent sexual offender has just been freed from a correctional facility after serving a two-year sentence for attempted abduction of a child, warn city police.

The Edmonton Sun - An Edmonton man who masterminded a business fraud that cheated eight Manitoba "investors" of nearly $1.5 million has been sentenced to six years in prison

North Korea's secretive military regime has fired seven missiles off its eastern coast, in an act seemingly timed to coincide with Independence Day in the United States.

Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops and wounding several more in a two-hour battle, officials said.

Pope Benedict has urged leaders of the Group of Eight countries meeting next week in Italy to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's poor from the effects of the economic downturn.