Shelley Jordan

WASHINGTON – At age 3, Angelica Lopez is helping to break a sound barrier for deaf children.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 at age 16 with her epic song of teenage angst, "It's My Party," and followed it up with the hits "Judy's Turn to Cry," and the feminist anthem "You Don't Own Me," died Monday. She was 68.

TORONTO – It's 1942 and a group of Allied agents are training at a top-secret facility — not in Europe, but on the shores of Lake Ontario.

TORONTO – The Canadian dollar was higher Tuesday amid a higher tolerance for risk on financial markets despite concern about Greece's future in the eurozone.

MONTREAL – Unifor says it will hold a strike vote among its 4,800 members at CN Rail.

TORONTO – The Canadian dollar continued to advance Wednesday amid increasing doubt that the Bank of Canada is set to deliver another interest rate cut.

OTTAWA – Getting Canada's Aboriginal Peoples, the provinces and territories and the federal government to gather together in the same room is no small feat.

VANCOUVER – As time ticked toward a crucial deadline, a British Columbia man accused of plotting to bomb the provincial legislature on Canada Day warned his wife that an Arab businessman who was helping them with their plan would turn into a monster if they fell short, their trial has heard.

MONTREAL – Police in Quebec are investigating after envelopes containing white powder were sent to the riding offices of at least two federal ministers.

OTTAWA – Canada's ambassador for religious freedoms says he thinks it's important that Canadians are having a debate about the place of the niqab in society.

GATINEAU, Que. – Cable and satellite service providers will soon have to offer consumers an "entry-level" television service, at a cost of no more than $25 a month.

VANCOUVER – The disastrous collapse of the Mount Polley mine tailings pond in B.C.'s Interior last year has spurred new provincial environmental requirements for similar operations.

LONGMONT, Colo. – The gruesome case of a woman accused of cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and removing her unborn baby girl is reviving a highly-charged debate in the U.S. over when a fetus can legally be considered a human being.

TORONTO – Consumers could see Internet costs edge higher as cable companies look to maintain profits in light of a ruling that forces them to unbundle television channels.

EDMONTON – RCMP say a teen has been arrested in Alberta and charged with terror-related offences.