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The plastic in your wallet is getting a brain. To combat fraud and encourage more consumers to shop online with more confidence, Visa, MasterCard and Canadian banks are upgrading more than 60 million credit and debit cards by adding a 13-millimetre square chip.

In a ruling that has left the country's employers breathing easier, the Supreme Court of Canada has thrown out a landmark $100,000 award in punitive damages to a fired Honda Canada employee who was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome.

A government-appointed panel of experts has called for a major overhaul of competition laws to ease the path for foreign firms to buy Canadian companies and remove restrictions on domestic enterprises.

Leading the way on climate change could put B.C. firms at a competitive disadvantage, says a Vancouver environmental lawyer.

Canada's highest court on Thursday scolded the country's spy agency for destroying evidence about a man fighting deportation over alleged terror links, in the government's second loss in a high-profile security case this week.

The federal government has announced more funding to help rebuild a prison in Kandahar City that was attacked by a suicide bomber and leading to the escape of more than a thousand prisoners.

There's trouble brewing in Tim Hortons land, with dissatisfied franchise owners perking up and revealing a side of the coffee shop chain Canadians are unfamiliar with.

Space hardware manufacturer COM DEV has announced a $7-million program to develop its own micro-satellite platform, a move away from the company's traditional niche as a supplier of sensors and subsystems for other satellite makers.

The day after a spectacular commando-style prison break staged by the Taliban at southern Afghanistan's biggest prison, the manhunt for hundreds of fugitives -- both militant insurgents and common criminals -- continues with door-to-door searches and roadblocks across Kandahar City.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says Pakistan's new government is not preventing Taliban insurgents from crossing the border with Afghanistan as foreign powers hoped it would.

A judge has ruled that the rights of the Jehovah's Witness parents of sextuplets born in Vancouver were not violated when doctors administered blood transfusions to the premature babies.

A report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, released yesterday, analysed 2005 figures from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The report found that out of the 30 member countries, Canada ranked 23rd in terms of the number of doctors for every 1,000 people.

"Some are increasing much more dramatically than we are," Mr. Milke said. "We don't seem to be making much progress."

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is under pressure this weekend to contribute a sizable portion of his shrinking budget surplus to an international fund meant to help poorer countries buy green technology.

Canada, one of numerous countries pledging money at a conference here aimed at ramping up western government and public support for the Afghanistan mission, won't follow through on its promise to end its military role in Kandahar in 2011, an Afghan parliamentarian predicted Thursday.

At their apex in the 1940s, Canada's Indian residential schools housed 9,000 children. Three times as many aboriginal children are currently in government care in Canada, with 5,200 in British Columbia alone.

Corporations are devoting considerable resources to deal effectively with the looming shortage of information technology workers.

Digital technology is putting the power of a computer onto credit and debit cards to help cut down on fraud.

When most Canadians open their kitchen cupboards, they're sure to find at least one product packaged in a container made with bisphenol A.

The controversial chemical, expected to soon be designated a toxic agent by the federal government, is a mainstay of products consumers use every day -- from water and baby bottles to liners in food and beverage cans to sealants used in dental fillings.

Elections Canada alleges the Conservative Party of Canada deliberately violated federal elections law by spending about $1.1 million over its national limit on media advertising and deliberately filed misleading statements in its official returns.

It was here in southern Alberta, a century ago, when Canadians first learned of U.S. plans to take our water supplies.