A top cabinet minister said on Thursday that a cyber attack on key Canadian economic ministries last month was serious, but will not affect the timing of next month's federal budget.

An elderly Canadian woman in Nova Scotia says she owes her life to her neighbor's dogs who alerted their owner she was choking on her backyard deck. Gert Mombourquette, 76, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Two Canadian federal health inspectors used the wrong equipment to inspect Alberta pigs for H1N1 flu and contracted the virus themselves, a leaked report says. A July 2 Alberta Health Services report obtained by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

A dead whale that was towed from the shore of a seaside town in northern Newfoundland in April has returned with a stinking vengeance, residents said. The carcass washed ashore in the town of Pines Cove at the end of April just steps from the home of Audrey Parill, she told the Canadian Broadcasting

No one really loved the fiberglass sculpture in front of the hospital in Caraquet, New Brunswick, and now it's disappeared, the Canadian town's mayor says. The artwork, which resembled a starfish laying on its side, actually represented a fetus.