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'Economic difficulties push us to medicate ourselves with something to placate us and diminish our pain,' says Texas-based therapist Melody Brooke.

Nova Scotia Power's tidal power plant at Annapolis Royal. Mayor Phil Roberts says a 60-per-cent cut to the tax assessment for the towna TMs largest single source of revenue puts the 'very existence of Annapolis ...

After a quiet month since he was acclaimed Liberal leader, Michael Ignatieff and two MPs who specialize in economic policy plan a coast-to-coast "listening" tour, starting in Halifax Thursday and Friday, to ...

OTTAWA The steep plunge in gas prices has prompted the House of Commons to reduce the kilometre rate for MPs who use personal cars for business by a mere tenth of a penny.

Visitors to Toronto's Pearson International Airport have become cornerstone targets for an organization of South American pickpocketers who have established theft rings in some of Canada's largest cities, ...

What makes it special? It's the most spectacular lake in the Rockies and more intimate, beautiful and less-visited than its more famous neighbour, Lake Louise, eight miles to the north.

From rock and roll art to fashion, from European style to boys that take it all off, find it all in Montreal .

Snow drifts and wind chills as cool as -45 are gripping the Prairie provinces where travel warnings are in effect in some areas and plows are trying to clear up to 25 centimetres of new snow in southern ...

Many Maritimers were digging out and waiting for the lights to come back on after a New Year's Day blizzard pounded parts of the region with snow and high winds.

A national plastic bag ban, like the one announced in China in January is generally not considered feasible in Canada.

The fashion world lost Yves Saint Laurent in 2008, and much, much more. The master couturier, who had one foot in the old world of haute couture and another in the modern era he pioneered, died June 1, at age ...

's frequent-flier program and sign two partnerships with global carriers, moves designed to help fill seats even as consumers tighten their travel budgets.

The steady stream of bad economic tidings in recent months that has given way to a cascade of gloomy forecasts for 2009 might make some want to reach for something a little stronger than champagne this New ...

An outspoken Canadian blogger born in Iran has been detained by authorities there for almost two months, prompting worries about his well-being. Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi told reporters in Tehran ...

Toronto immigration workers are rallying to stop the departure to Guatemala today of 18 mostly-female mushroom pickers who were fired from a Blenheim farm a week before Christmas.

Malls across the country teemed with shoppers this past weekend, enticed by boxing-day discounts that were even greater than usual after Christmas.

According to INTERAC, that represents an increase over the 15.6 million transactions reported on December 21st, 2007, last season's busiest holiday shopping day of the year.

The mountains of Canada have nothing on the scenery in Norway. Photograph by: Danylo Hawaleshka/for the National Post Shannon and Patrick Leano have a good thing going.

Bargain-hunters descended by the thousands on malls and stores around the country Friday in search of the best deals of the year.

Canadian airports are up and running again after bad weather from coast-to-coast forced airlines to cancel flights on Christmas Eve, stranding some passengers at the airport.