Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier Aerospace declared that its board has given the nod to expand its Global aircraft family.

As per reports, the aircraft details regarding the new Global aircraft family will be disclosed on October 18, at the National Business Aviation Association convention and exhibition in Atlanta.

Guy C. Hachey, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bombardier Aerospace, stated, "Our commitment to offer innovative new products goes beyond being the industry leader."

India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas have breezed in to the semifinals of ATP Montreal Masters after crushing Polish pair of Mariusz Frystenberg and Marcin Matkowski in straight sets at Montreal, Canada on Saturday.

The third seeded pair of Bhupathi-Knowles outclassed their sixth seeded Polish opponents 6-3 6-4 in the quarterfinal of the ATP tournament with prize money of USD 3,000,000.  
 

Montreal  - Canadian authorities on Thursday charged an Afghan immigrant, his wife and their oldest son with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of three Montreal sisters and an older female relative.

Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, all sisters, were found dead with Rona Amir Mohammed, 50, in a submerged car on June 30 in the historic Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ontario.

Montreal - In Canada's first ever trial for war crimes committed abroad, a court Friday found a Rwandan refugee guilty of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Following six months of deliberations, Quebec Superior Court Justice Andre Denis found Desire Munyaneza guilty of all seven charges against him that included genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Munyaneza, 42, faces a possible life sentence.

Previous studies have shown various harmful effects of smoking during pregnancy on the baby. Recent research has revealed that smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of delivering physically aggressive children.

Universite de Montreal researcher Jean Seguin, one of the lead researchers in the study, said, "What's new about this study is that we can pick up the link (between smoking and physical aggression) in children as early as 17 to 42 months of age."

Montreal  - The HD age dawned three years ago in the video game world and brought novel gaming concepts, breathtaking graphics and crystal clear sound. Video games had never seemed closer to reality. And then something happened: the technological prowess of the consoles was also harnessed to revive ancient classics of video gaming. That means that today's Xbox, Playstation and Wii aren't just showing off the latest in visual fireworks, but now also have been put to work on long-lost, but well-loved classic titles as well.

That includes a new iteration of the Prince of Persia game, designed to return the series to its roots. It's been almost 20 years since the prince first stumbled his way through dank dungeons to rescue his beloved princess.

Montreal  - Former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff took over the
reins of Canada's opposition Wednesday with a stern warning for Prime
Minister Stephen Harper
- shape up or fail the grade.

Speaking in Ottawa after he was named interim leader of the Liberal
Party, Ignatieff said he was ready to topple the minority Conservatives
and enter into a governing coalition with the socialist New Democratic
Party (NDP) if he didn't like Harper's budget, which is expected to be
tabled when Parliament resumes on January 26.

Montreal  – Voters in Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec elected a federalist provincial government Monday, handing the Liberal Party of Quebec a slim majority.

Premier Jean Charest's Liberals, who are not connected to the federal Liberal Party, won 66 seats in the 125-seat provincial legislature, with 42 per cent of the popular vote.

Charest, whose party held 48 of the 125 seats in Quebec's provincial parliament, called for early elections in the hope of securing a mandate at a time of economic crisis.

"In this period of economic uncertainty a lot of Quebecers recognized the need for stability and they reinforced our team by electing a majority government," Charest said.

Montreal - In a stunning reversal of political fortunes, the leader of Canada's official opposition, Stephane Dion, was poised to become the country's next prime minister despite having lost the October 14 federal election.

Dion, who just six weeks ago was forced to step down as Liberal leader after the party's worst-ever electoral performance, emerged as the compromise candidate to lead a centre-left coalition formed Monday among the Liberal Party and the socialist New Democratic Party (NDP), aiming to unseat the minority Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Montreal  - Barely six weeks after Canadians elected a minority Conservative government, opposition parties Friday vowed to bring down the Tories.

Elder statesmen from the left-of-centre Liberal Party and the socialist New Democratic Party were discussing a possible coalition government, with former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien and NDP leader Ed Broadbent engaged in talks about a deal.

All three opposition parties - the Liberals, the NDP and the separatist Bloc Quebecois from the French-speaking province of Quebec - have angrily rejected the Tories' economic plan that contained no stimulus package for Canada's slumping economy.

Montreal - A Canadian software developer was found guilty of terrorism charges Wednesday in a foiled trans-Atlantic plot to bomb nightclubs, railway stations and subways in Britain.

Momin Khawaja, a former contract employee of Canada's Foreign Affairs Department, was found guilty of several counts under the Anti-Terrorism Act in the first major test of the controversial legislation rushed into law after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

Montreal - Final results were announced Wednesday in Canada's parliamentary vote, showing Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper back in power, but failing to reach a majority in Canada's 308-seat parliament.

Harper's Conservative Party were elected in 143 ridings, 19 seats since the 2006 election, in Canada's first-past-the-post system, in which a single winner is elected in each constituency.

The opposition Liberals gained 76 seats, followed by the Bloc Quebecois with 50 ridings and the New Democratic Party with 37. Two independent candidates were also elected.

The Conservatives got 37.6 per cent of the vote, followed by 26.2 per cent for the Liberals, 18.2 per cent for the New Democrats and 10 per cent for the Bloc.

Montreal – Prime Minister Stephen Harper came within a stone's throw of a majority government Tuesday as Canadians re-elected a minority Conservative government.

Early returns showed Conservatives elected or leading in 143 ridings, which would be a gain of 16 seats. The opposition Liberals were elected or leading in 75 ridings.

The separatist Bloc Quebecois, which runs candidates only in the French-speaking province of Quebec, was leading in 49 ridings, and the socialist New Democratic Party was leading in 38 ridings.

Montreal - Canadians are expected to elect another minority Conservative government as they head to national polls on Tuesday, the latest opinion polls show.

"We're not talking about a majority," Prime Minister Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party, conceded during a last ditch campaign effort Saturday in southern Ontario.

"There's a million polls. Don't be fooled by any of them. This is a close election," Harper said at a rally in London, Ontario.

Montreal - Canadians will head to polls on October 14 in a national election after Prime Minister Stephen Harper ended weeks of speculation Sunday by pulling the plug on his own minority Conservative government.

Speaking to reporters outside the Governor General's residence in Ottawa, Harper announced that he asked Michaelle Jean, the Queen's representative in Canada, to dissolve parliament.

"Between now and October 14, Canadians will choose a government to look out for their interests at a time of global economic trouble," Harper said after meeting with Jean.

"They will choose between direction or uncertainty; between common sense or risky experiments; between steadiness or recklessness."

Montreal ­ As Canadians brace for an imminent call for elections by the governing Conservatives, the North American nation's sputtering economy, the environment and Arctic sovereignty are emerging as key themes.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, buoyed by polls showing that the minority Conservatives are finally within reach of forming the long- coveted majority in Parliament, is expected to call a federal election any day this week. If he moves to dissolve the Parliament before Sunday, Canadians would go to polls on October 14.

For weeks Harper has argued that new elections are the only way to fix the increasingly dysfunctional" Parliament.

Montreal (Canada), July 26 : A seventeen member Pakistani delegation is among dozens of activists from developing countries who have been denied temporary visas into Canada, and thus will not the World Youth Congress being held in Quebec.

Organisers of the event said the activists failed to convince immigration officials that they would leave the country after the event ends.

The World Youth Congress runs from August 10 to August 21, reports the Globe and Mail.

Montreal - As foreign dignitaries and Canadian politicians gather to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, there will be one conspicuous absence on the guest list.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will lead an international delegation of politicians at a ceremony Thursday morning in the shadow of the castle-like Chateau Frontenac Hotel to salute the arrival of French explorer Samuel de Champlain on July 3, 1608.

Montreal, June 21 : The woman whose revelations toppled Maxime Bernier from his post as Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister will tell her life’s story in an autobiography to be published this fall.

McClelland and Stewart announced on Friday that it would publish the English-version of Julie Couillard’s autobiography.

Montreal-based Les Editions de l’Homme, owned by Quebecor Inc., will come out with the French version.

Couillard shot to prominence when her past ties with members of the Hells Angels were revealed following a relationship with Bernier.

Montreal  - The sixth human foot that washed ashore Wednesday on the Canadian Pacific coast in British Columbia was a despicable" hoax, investigators announced Thursday.

The foot found on a Vancouver Island beach was not human but an animal paw stuffed inside a sock and a size 10 running shoe, British Columbia's coroner's service announced Thursday.

"The coroners service, a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist have all examined the shoe and remains, and determined a skeletonized animal paw was inserted into the shoe with a sock and packed with dried seaweed," the coroners service said in a statement.