A jury in B.C. has awarded a teenager $60,000 after it found Victoria Police officers violated her rights by restraining her to the door of her jail cell.

Women who are vitamin D deficient when they are diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to have their disease spread and are more likely to die than those with adequate vitamin D levels, new research says.

Canada's housing market is expected to continue to cool off throughout this year and into 2009, a Bank of Nova Scotia report says, bringing balance to the market for the first time in a decade.

There are signs that efforts are shifting from looking for survivors to dealing with the dead in quake-ravaged areas of China. Officials estimate the death toll will reach 50,000.

The Conservative government's much-touted 20-year defence plan is raising questions about its actual cost. The Tories have given various figures for its actual costs. Critics claim they may be playing with the numbers.