Conrad Black and two of his co-defendants have filed their defence with the U.S. Supreme Court as they prepare to take their fight against fraud convictions to the country’s highest court.

OTTAWA — The Harper government says it will release new guidelines this week as part of its flu pandemic strategy to “protect” Canadian workers who deliver critical services, such as paramedics, ambulance attendants, police officers and firefighters.

OTTAWA — Jennifer Snell pulled up in a vintage 1957 Rolls Royce Saturday at Notre Dame Basilica as her husband-to-be, Ottawa Senators centre Jason Spezza, and hundreds of guests waited inside.

TORONTO - Canada’s economic horizons are brightening even though the federal government sunk $7.5 billion deeper into its gaping fiscal hole in April and May, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday.

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is declaring the recession essentially over in Canada and projecting the economy will bounce back at least twice as strongly as in the United States.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Boyle, a singer who became a global star with a show-stopping performance on “Britain’s Got Talent,” has said in a television interview that her sudden fame was like a “demolition ball.”

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has brightened its outlook for the Canadian economy, saying Tuesday it now thinks this year’s downturn won’t be as deep as previously forecast and 2010 growth will be stronger.

LONDON (AFP) - Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man and World War I veteran who put his longevity down to “cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women”, died Saturday at the age of 113.