Store-bought costumes may be decreasing in price but many holiday enthusiasts are still insisting on crafting their own creations. They say Halloween is a time for the do-it-yourself movement to take centre stage. more »
Flush with cash and an election on the horizon, the Saskatchewan government is lowering its provincial sales tax to five per cent from seven per cent. more »
U.S. health officials say it's safe to assume the tainted E. coli spinach outbreak is over given that a month has passed without any new incidents of illness. more »
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled the Quebec Order of Pharmacists can pursue its investigation into allegations that some of its members received kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. more »
A top recording industry executive on Friday said the music CD is dead and that recording labels must become more innovative if they hope to sell the discs in the future. more »
Members of the P.E.I. Environmental Health Co-op are upset Charlottetown workers have been removing yard signs raising the ill effects of pesticides as a municipal election issue. more »
Canada Post will assess more than 800,000 rural mailboxes across the country to determine whether they meet new safety standards established by the Crown corporation. more »
The cellphone-only crowd is not yet large enough and their views not different enough to affect the accuracy of traditional political polling, a new study suggests. Not yet, anyway. more »
Ontario's watchdog is launching an independent investigation into how the province's lottery corporation protects the public from theft and fraud.
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A Sony-made battery in a Fujitsu laptop overheated and gave off sparks, injuring the user, as a Fujitsu worker was visiting to retrieve the laptop as part of the company's recall of Sony batteries, a Fujitsu spokesman said Friday. more »
