After setting sights on creating a heavily modified apple that ‘never browns’ and doing their very best to hide the fact that they are indeed genetically altered, a biotech corporation known as Okanagan Specialty Fruits is now pushing for their new genetically modified apples to hit the market. The company recently submitted an application to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to launch their... 

Strip-tease dancers who planned to bare themselves in Canada will have to take their professional skills elsewhere. Foreign strippers are no longer welcome in Canada, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday. The decision was made in order “to protect vulnerable foreign workers from the risk of abuse and exploitation in sex trade related businesses,” and control human trafficking,... 

Students rally in Montreal, Quebec, against tuition hikes. Massive student protests against tuition hikes in Quebec are degenerating into one of the broadest social crises to hit the Canadian province in three decades. The protests, which began four months ago, are now posing serious challenges to Quebec’s civil society, the state-funded BBC Persian reports. The students never accepted the government’s... 

Syria's Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi The Syrian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement that Damascus expelled the ambassadors of the US, Britain, France, Turkey and some other states. Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi announced the list of expelled diplomats on Tuesday. The expulsions came after Western states expelled Syrian diplomats from their countries last week. The ministry... 

Students protest tuition fee increases on May 30, 2012 in Montreal. Growing protests across Canada against tuition hikes have now spilled over from Montreal to Toronto as talks between student leaders and officials continue in Quebec aimed at ending the 16-week dispute. Protesters on Wednesday gathered in downtown of Toronto in solidarity with their counterparts in Quebec, protesting the high cost... 

Students march during a protest against Bill 78, Montreal, May 26, 2012. Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in the city of Montreal in Canada’s eastern province of Quebec to protest against a controversial law that seeks to restrict protests. Banging pots and pans during the rally on Saturday night, the defiant protesters challenged the recently-passed bill, aimed at limiting the... 

Demonstrators match on May 23, 2012 as they protest student tuition hikes. Over 700 students have been arrested in Canada during the latest night of rallies against tuition fee hikes and the adoption of controversial bill that is widely seen as a tool to limit freedom of speech, association and assembly. ­Police in Montreal dispersed unsanctioned protests and arrested 518 demonstrators on Wednesday... 

Montreal police arresting a protester opposing Quebec student tuition fee hikes, May 20. 2012 Riot police have once again clashed with protesters in Montreal and arrested some 300 people protesting at the new legislation aimed at ending the three months of anti-tuition hikes protests. About 5,000 people took to the streets in the heart of the French speaking Latin Quarter neighborhoods on Sunday in... 

It may soon be a crime to wear a mask in Canada. The Harper government supports a bill proposed by Conservative backbencher Blake Richards that would slam protesters in prison for five years if they wear a mask during a demonstration. The legislation is supported by the Conservative majority and will likely become law. Richards said the bill will give the police more power to prevent property damage.... 

Riot police fired tear gas during a demonstration outside Le Victorin Hotel on May 4, 2012 in Victoriaville, Quebec. At least nine people have been injured and more than 100 others have been arrested during demonstrations against tuition hikes in Canada. The incident happened when demonstrators clashed with police outside the ruling Quebec Liberal Party’s convention on Friday, AFP reported on... 

Canadian film director James Cameron at a seminar on 3D technology and film cooperation during the second Beijing International Film Festival One of the most commercially successful directors in Hollywood, James Cameron the creator of Titanic is eyeing movie and TV co-productions in China. The director shared his plans at Beijing Film Festival. ­Cameron’s movies have been highly successful in China,... 

Canadian police tries to disperse protesters in Montreal, Canada on March 15, 2012. In Canada, at least 150 people have been arrested and several others injured in the city of Montreal after weeks of massive student protests against tuition hikes. The Thursday arrests came as police in riot gear fired tear gas at students participating in an annual protest against police brutality. Police estimate... 

Mysterious sounds have been heard booming from the sky all around the world – in some cases they were so loud they set off car alarms. The unsettling noises were heard recently from Europe to Canada, sounding like groans and powerful horns. In Germany noises coming from the sky were recorded on a video camera and uploaded to YouTube, with car alarms clearly heard going off in the background. The... 

A Via Rail Canada train A train derails in southeastern Canada, killing at least three people. A train carrying 77 passengers has derailed in southeastern Canada, leaving at least three people dead and causing minor damage to several nearby buildings. The incident occurred after two train cars came off the tracks in the city of Burlington on late Sunday. Via Rail Canada, state-controlled corporation,... 

IIPA want sanctions against Canada, Russia, Switzerland and others for weal IP laws The raid that ravaged Megaupload was just the start. A powerful trade group that lists the biggest names in the entertainment biz as its members has called-out dozens of countries in their latest report and is insisting on sanctions against them. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has submitted...