The U.S. military confirmed an American soldier is missing and is believed to have been captured by insurgents in Afghanistan. The news came as a major U.S. anti-Taliban offensive got underway.

Calgary-based EnCana, one of the major players in northern British Columbia's rapidly expanding oil and gas industry, has been targeted by a bombing for the fifth time in the past nine months, the RCMP confirmed Thursday.

An analysis from Dale Orr Economic Insight says Canadians will be fighting to recoup what they lost during the recession for several years.

Police say they don't understand how a car carrying a 50-year-old woman and her three nieces ended up in the Rideau Canal. Autopsies might provide some answers, but it won't explain how the car passed through a series of barriers.

Officials say the Air France jet that crashed one month ago did not break up in the air but rather plunged vertically at a very high speed into the Atlantic Ocean.