Naming a baby is always a momentous occasion. The name must be suitable, reflecting the parents beliefs and cherished family members as well as hopefully providing the baby with a name that serves the child well all its life.

At a meeting of G20 finance ministers being held in St Andrews, Scotland, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken of how a global levy on their transactions could help make banks more accountable to the taxpayers who have bailed many of them out.

It's not often when any level of government takes steps to respond to the concerns of protesters. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper's move to hold a judicial inquiry into the loss of BC's sockeye salmon has garnered the approval of many Canadians.

In August, a woman from Squamish, B.C. was abducted and repeatedly sexually assaulted. In September, a man broke into two homes in Ladysmith, B.C. In one, a woman was brutally attacked. Cops accuse Shaun Funk of being the suspect.

Swine Flu has resulted in the hospitalizations of 661 people in Canada, including 120 children, in a one week period. Since April 2,440 people have been hospitalized with 443 in ICU. 737 outbreaks are reported, 710 of them in schools.

A woman known only as Alice has suffered an attack of amnesia after having intercourse one August morning with her husband, Scott.

Toronto has been awarded the Pan Am Games in 2015. Winning the spot to host the sports competition could make it easier for the Canadian city to host a Summer Olympics.

A court in the Shinyanga region of northern Tanzania this week sentenced to death four men convicted of killing a 50-year-old albino man whose body parts the killers believed to have magical powers.

The first Ars Audet happens Friday Nov. 5, 2009 at the beautiful Berkeley Church in Toronto, and brings together various elements of art, from actors to opera singers to comedians.

Elvis Stojko, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, released the first single from his new album "100 Lifetimes" yesterday. It marks the beginning of the skating champion's music career.