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The BBC is crumbling under the weight of its own monolithic structure, and suffering from the extravagances of its self-indulgent leaders, writes Gill Hornby.

The Quebec government announced Wednesday it will fight Ottawa's move to create a national securities regulator in court.

Canada Budget Officer sees full recovery in 2014

With shaved head, clear-framed glasses and a staid fashion sense, he fits perfectly the role of buttoned-down bureaucrat charged with studying economic entrails and statistical graphs for signs of future shock.

The federal government confirmed Wednesday it will spend $5 billion to purchase new combat vehicles and maintain the existing fleet for the Canadian Forces.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper tours the L'Aquila earthquake site prior to the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy.

Gasoline prices this summer are expected to drop below their current levels, which already seem like a bargain compared to what Canadian motorists were forced to pay a year ago.

Two Canadian soldiers and one other coalition soldier died on Monday in southern Afghanistan when the Griffon helicopter they were aboard crashed during a mission.

Mexico's long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party promised Monday it has learned from the past and changed its ways, a day after midterm elections made it the largest force in Congress again.

A Conservative MP is telling reporters in his Saskatchewan riding that cabinet colleague Diane Ablonczy has been relieved of the tourism portfolio for signing off on a $400,000 grant for Toronto's Gay Pride parade.

A sexually charged film with a provocative title is up for a leading eight Canadian Comedy Awards.

The recession will sink the federal government into a $155.9-billion hole over the next five years and cost hundreds of thousands of Canadians their jobs, the parliamentary budget officer predicts.

For three young Canadian women desperate to make the pilgrimage south and pay respect to Michael Jackson, it was an arrangement so unique the King of Pop himself might have applauded.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was among the hundreds of people who gathered in Regina on Saturday to remember and celebrate the life of former local MP Dave Batters.

Mexico's opposition centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party improved its standing in legislative elections against conservative President Felipe Calderon's party, exit polls showed.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Bon Jovi thrills diners in New York SHOWBIZ JON BON JOVI gave diners in a New York restaurant a special Fourth of July surprise - by standing up to play an impromptu gig.

A music lover since childhood, Peter Tingley has seen dozens of great acts in concert over the years, from the Stones to Pink Floyd and everyone in between.

A marijuana advocate who has described himself as the "Prince of Pot" launched a cross-country farewell tour yesterday before he turns himself in to face drug-related charges in the United States.

The devastated father of three teenage girls killed when their vehicle plunged into an Ontario canal fears the accident could be the result of his eldest daughter's penchant for taking the family car without permission.

Canadians still prefer Obama, poll suggests U.S. President Barack Obama listens to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper hold a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, February 19, 2009.

A Canadian soldier critically injured last month by an improvised bomb in Afghanistan died in hospital in Quebec Saturday.