Vancouver police are appealing to the public to identify six Stanley Cup rioters who viciously attacked Robert Mackay as he tried to prevent a horde of rioters from looting The Bay on the night of June 15.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s incremental approach to Senate reform resulted in another modest advance Tuesday when Canada’s first female elected senator was sworn in. “It’s step by step,” said Alberta Energy Minister Ted Morton, who attended the ceremony along with friends and family of Betty Unger, the former registered nurse who ran in the 2004 Alberta senator-in-waiting election.

Tourism Calgary will be launching a regional, national and international marketing campaign with a new slogan and brand in an effort to generate more visitor revenue to the city. The organization will use the slogan ‘Be Part of the Energy’, which was created by Calgary Economic Development last year to market the city to labour and business in other parts of Canada.

Auditor General Michael Ferguson admits he had a hard time stomaching some criticism he faced last summer, following his appointment, for not being able to fluently speak both of Canada’s official languages.

Despite the loss of 17 lives and the disappearance of another 15, a large majority of Canadians say the Costa Concordia sinking won’t discourage them from booking a cruise, according to the results of a new poll.

After detailing a broken police culture in the Vancouver Police Department and the RCMP that may have allowed women to die needlessly in the city’s Downtown Eastside, Vancouver Police Det. Const. Lori Shenher broke down on the stand at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Tuesday.

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We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. It’s easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isn’t is recyclable—there isn’t a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite. Amazonian Mushroom Eats Indestructible Plastics.

A day of choppy trading in Toronto on Tuesday ended with a small gain for Canada’s benchmark stock index, which rose 4.16 per cent for the month.

Vancouver police have released these images of unidentified women suspected of crimes during the Stanley Cup riot on June 15, 2011. More images available at the police website at https://riot2011.vpd.ca/

Standard & Poor’s is warning that Canada and other G20 countries could face credit downgrades if they don’t control expected increases in health-care costs as the average age of their population rises.

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After detailing a broken police culture in the VPD and the RCMP that may have allowed women to die needlessly in the Downtown Eastside, Vancouver police Det. Const. Lori Shenher broke down on the stand at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. After completing her testimony, Shenher gave an emotional personal impact statement. Shenher told the hearing about her personal grief and shock upon hearing that Robert Pickton’s pig farm was finally being searched, long after an investigation into him apparently had gone stale due to communication problems, lack of resources and turf wars within the VPD and the RCMP, according to her testimony.

Canada is reducing its diplomatic staff at its embassy in Damascus to a skeleton crew amid mounting unrest in Syria, says Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.