The Mexican celebration of Day of the Dead came to a conclusion on Sunday with music and dance at the Harborfront Center in Toronto.

The Day of the Dead celebration began on Saturday as hundreds of Mexican-Canadians roamed around the Harborfront Center to enjoy "grave" festivities.

New York city is to host a five-month festival of theatre, film, music and dance from seven Central and Eastern European countries celebrating the part played by the arts in the demise of Communist dictatorship.

The combined U.S. law enforcement assault on the Mexican-based drug cartel La Familia resulted in arrests of 1,186, seizure of mountains of drugs, guns, cars and even marine vessels. $36 million in cash was also grabbed during Project Coronado

Small mom-and-pop pot growers in the U.S are having more of an effect against drug cartels from Mexico than the War on Drugs ever has, according to law enforcement.

On Saturday the Harbourfront Community Centre in Toronto hosted their 15th Anniversary Celebration. The celebration shows the strong community ties that have been formed in the area.

Mexican Independence Day festivities in Mexico and the United States started this weekend and run all week, celebrating Mexican independence from Spanish rule.

Late Wednesday night a group of gunmen broke into a Mexican rehab clinic to 'take out' some of the patients. On Friday the mayor of Mugica was arrested in connection to drug trafficking. Such is the state of the drug wars in Mexico.

Canadian Doctors for Medicare hosted a celebration of Medicare in Canada. The speakers included Roy Romanow, former Saskatchewan Premier and Commissioner on Health Care in Canada.

Inside the Veracruz, Mexican home of municipal police commander Jesus Antonio Romero laid the bodies of five who had nothing to do with the legal system nor the drug trade. Romero's wife and four children were slain along side him in a pre-dawn attack.

Pres. Obama will be meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in August to discuss "a broad range of issues," according to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

Today was Canada's 142nd anniversary as a nation, and the cool wet weather in Guelph didn't keep anybody back! At least a few thousand people came out to Guelph's Riverside Park to take part in festivities.

Federal agents arrested 92 police officers accused of working in conjunction with the Zetas, a gang of assassins employed by the infamous Gulf Cartel in Mexico.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has proposed a 10-billion-U.S. dollar "green fund" to be administered by the World Bank.

Mexican drug smugglers are topping even themselves as they invent new ways to smuggle cocaine into the United states. Stuffing it inside frozen sharks should but won’t win some sort of prize.

Around 18 people, including two Mexican soldiers, were killed Saturday night. The Mexican Ministry of Defense said the gun battle took place in Acapulco between organized-crime suspects and the Mexican army.

Israel will start using the term “Mexican flu” instead of “swine flu” because pork is banned by Judaism. Two men in Israeli have been hospitalized after they complained of swine flu-like symptoms.

The idea was to do a story on the Mexican flu outbreak. But the reporting quality is now news in its own right. Sixty-one people are said to have died from a disease “genetically identical” to a new form of swine flu.

There has been a train crash in Mexico. The accident happened earlier today when two commuter trains crashed into each other.

Mexican officials have launched a campaign to convince visitors that Mexico is a safe place despite reports of drug violence. Read on for at least one side to the story based on facts available.