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Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., will suspend the sales voluntarily in the United States, the FDA said. A company spokesman would not say how profitable the drug is. The announcement that the FDA plans to suspend US sales of the drug came after ...

Turning up the pressure, Canada Post announces it is moving to three times a week delivery in most cities because rotating strikes have slashed mail volumes in half.

The province's stock market watchdog has launched an investigation into Sino-Forest Corp., the TSX-traded Chinese forestry company that is accused of exaggerating its sales and assets.

Globalive Communications Corp. won a court appeal that secures the wireless carrier's right to continue operating in Canada to compete with larger operators including Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI/B) ...

Canadian wireless carriers charge their customers more for wireless data outside their home country than phone companies in any other market, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

MONTREAL - Home construction in the Greater Montreal Area soared 10 per cent last month, year over year, fueled by an unprecedented level of condo starts, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

VANCOUVER - The Nature Conservancy of Canada is stepping into the sale of carbon credits, earning $4 million with the largest forest carbon-credit project in North America.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index marked its seventh straight loss on Wednesday, falling to its lowest level since early January as fears over the global economy intensified and metal prices weakened.

One day after security firm Sophos alerted Facebook users that Facebook may be using facial recognition to identify them in pictures, the social networking site said on Wednesday that it could have handled the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The world's biggest video game publishers, in a surprise move after years of rocky relations with Nintendo, threw their weight behind the Japanese company's new Wii U console this week.

A dream born at the height of the Cold War is becoming a reality as the rarified world of pure chemistry declares the discovery of two new elements.

Computerworld - With only a few hours left to go on World IPv6 Day, Facebook, the world's largest social network, reported that it hasn't had any trouble.

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Poor, first-time mothers in BC can soon be partnered with a public health nurse to guide them through the first two years of their child's life.

Shoppers Drug Mart is one distributer - Loblaws is the other - that has had to pull some medicines from its shelves after a recall was announced Tuesday.

The phone calls have become more frequent as news is reported on the C. difficile outbreak at the St. Catharines General Hospital.

The Spanish medical team completed their laps in the Heart and Stroke Foundation s annual big bike ride in Elliot Lake in first place for the third consecutive year on Saturday.