Here’s a little mystery for Globe and Mail readers to ponder. Did the Conservative government of Canada – the same government that tried so hard a year ago to prevent money from flowing to movies they considered obsene – actually give a Montreal...

Nodar Kumaritashvili, the 21-year-old Georgian luge slider who was killed in a horrifying high-speed crash while training on Friday, told his father that he feared the track on which he later died. (Warning: link contains disturbing images.)

Canada’s Copenhagen nightmare may be coming true. A draft proposal published at the climate-change summit Friday for the countries in the Kyoto Protocol, the only international greenhouse-gas reduction treaty, calls for five years to be added to...

Canadian opposition leader Jack Layton has promised support for a new visa office in Mumbai and official status for the Punjabi language in Canada if he becomes prime minister after the Oct 14 polls.Jack, whose New Democratic Party (NDP) has fielded a...

At a rally last week she quoted former Secretary of State Madeline Albright...albeit from bon mot inscribed on her Starbucks Mocha cup. Palin said it was providential how that quote got printed on that cup just in time for her to read it.

Alberta gamblers contributed $2.3 billion to the province’s economy in 2006, of which more than $1.6 billion went into government and charity coffers, says a study released Tuesday. Of that figure, $1.3 billion went into the Alberta Lottery Fund,...

North America could be the darkest continent on earth if citizens honour their pledge to Earth Hour, a global campaign that calls on the world to raise awareness about climate change by switching off lights between 8 and 9 p.m. on Saturday. Canadians...

Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really...