Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called a byelection for March 12 in Toronto-Danforth riding of the late NDP leader Jack Layton, who died last August from cancer.

The City of Toronto and the union representing 6,000 of its outside workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract to avert a work stoppage.

Mark's Work Wearhouse has pulled Caterpillar-brand boots off the shelves of its London, Ont.,-area stores in support of hundreds of local Electro-Motive workers who are losing their jobs.

A public inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair, a five-year-old Manitoba girl who was slain in 2005, could be delayed by the union representing child-welfare workers.

Parents are scrambling to find daycare for hundreds of children attending early-childhood centres that won't be open Monday.

The markets may be hitting RIM hard after its most recent restructuring, but the Ontario community considered synonymous with the BlackBerry isn't letting bad news get it down.

A Canadian imam issued a fatwa Saturday officially condemning honour killings and family violence.

Employees with the Halifax Regional Water Commission – 225 workers in all - could walk off the job with 48 hours strike notice. Talks between the Canadian Union of Public Employees local 227 and the city have reached a standstill.

The Syrian embassy in Ottawa was vandalized overnight when the front of the building was sprayed with red paint.

Police in B.C. have arrested an Edmonton suspect in a case where a man allegedly tried to lure a child by claiming he was Santa.