Canada News Headlines - Reuters

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Alberta beef cow that is Canada's most recent case of mad cow disease was found dead on a farm and was destroyed without entering food or animal feed supplies, a spokesman with the Canadian government said on Thursday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian health officials have approved the use of the medical isotopes created at a Polish nuclear reactor, a move that will help ease a shortage of the materials used in millions of diagnostic tests, health products provider Covidien said Thursday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper adopted a more upbeat tone than usual when discussing the economy on Thursday, saying the nation was recovering with a growing sense of optimism.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A federal budget last week did little to boost the fortunes the Conservatives, who still only have a slight lead in public support, according to a poll released on Thursday.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Restart of the Chalk River medical isotope-producing nuclear reactor has been delayed until at least May because of the complexity of ongoing repairs, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd said on Wednesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar hit its highest level in almost five months against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, helped by firm oil prices, the prospect of rising Canadian rates and speculation it will return to parity with the greenback.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Internet retailer Amazon.com has smashed up against Canadian pride in its efforts to open a distribution center in Canada, as booksellers grumble that it can't understand the role of Canadian culture.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The rate of tuberculosis among Canada's 55,000 Arctic Inuit people is catastrophically high and much more must be done to combat the lung disease, activists said on Wednesday.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

DENVER (Reuters) - Mikael Samuelsson's hat-trick inspired a stirring fightback for the Vancouver Canucks in a 6-4 victory over Northwest Division rivals the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian wheat exports stand to gain from Brazil's move to triple non-hard wheat tariffs against the United States, a Canadian Wheat Board official said on Tuesday.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A Canadian judge on Monday dismissed a jury as it was about to hear the perjury trial of Inderjit Singh Reyat, who is accused of lying in court about an Air India bomb plot 25 years ago, saying he feared the panel may have been tainted.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - WestJet Airlines Ltd launched its long-awaited loyalty program on Monday, hoping to win and keep more customers at a time when airline travel is starting to recover after a bruising slowdown.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Efforts to pry open the culturally sensitive Canadian media industry to more foreign ownership took a new turn Monday when Amazon.com sought federal approval to start a new business in Canada.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The federal bureaucracy will shrink over the coming years as a result of budget curbs, the government said on Monday, prompting one opposition party to predict a major fight over the civil service's future.

TORONTO (Reuters) - AbitibiBowater Inc has reached a tentative labor deal affecting about 4,000 workers, bringing the newsprint maker closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection, the company and union said on Sunday.

ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) - The Montreal Canadiens overturned a three-goal deficit to beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 in a shootout on Sunday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will list al Shabaab -- a Somali-based Islamist militant group which recently pledged allegiance to al Qaeda -- as a "terrorist group" to prevent it from operating or seeking funds, the Canadian government said on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Hockey League on Friday sued former Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes, seeking to recover more than $61 million over the trucking magnate's management of the struggling franchise.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Ottawa's plan to shift responsibility of environmental assessments to Canada's main energy regulator fails to address fundamental problems surrounding major oil and gas projects, a green think tank said on Friday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Tim Hortons Inc unveiled a fresh strategy on Friday to take on Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts in the U.S. market, saying it would open hundreds of new American cafes that break the mold of Tim's iconic Canadian coffee shops.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The high probability of major spring flooding along the Red River in North Dakota and Minnesota is little changed from last month, the United States National Weather Service said on Friday.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Regulators on Thursday conditionally approved TransCanada Corp's plan for a C$200 million ($194 million) pipeline, the first federally regulated shale gas transport system in Western Canada.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's minority Conservative government outlined plans to rein in a record-large deficit on Thursday, presenting a budget that lets it keep its grip on power for now.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Liberal Party will not support the budget unveiled by Canada's Conservative government on Thursday, but it will not bring down the government, party leader Michael Ignatieff said.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will spend $35 million over two years to help develop new technology to produce medical isotopes after prolonged problems at the country's Chalk River nuclear plant curbed supply, the federal budget said.