Shelley Jordan

MINSK, Belarus – A cease-fire took hold Friday night in eastern Ukraine after the president’s representative signed a deal with Russian-backed separatists in an effort to bring an end to nearly five months of fighting.

OTTAWA – Canada's economy unexpectedly shed jobs in August thanks to heavy losses in the private sector, raising the eyebrows of economists who widely expected a modest gain in Statistics Canada's flagship monthly report.

TORONTO – GSK, Canada's largest flu vaccine supplier, will not be able to fill about 30 per cent of its Canadian order for the upcoming 2014-15 flu season, the company said Thursday.

BERLIN – Visit any tourist destination, and you're bound to see individuals and groups taking photos of themselves for sharing on social media. It's a declaration to the world that they were there.

TORONTO – Facebook is being more proactive in ensuring its users fully understand their privacy settings and who can see their posts.

VANCOUVER – British Columbia's teachers' strike is sailing into uncharted waters, with no resolution on the horizon for the turbulent dispute that has delayed the start of the school year for the first time in provincial history.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81.

LONDON – As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors.

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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – Open fires will be allowed again throughout parts of northern British Columbia starting Friday, thanks to cooler and wetter weather.

OTTAWA – Federal security officials are resisting pressure to reveal how many people are on Canada's no-fly list, arguing the information could help terrorists plot a catastrophic attack on an airliner.

TORONTO – A proposed class-action lawsuit has been launched against two chemical companies that make pesticides widely blamed for massive bee deaths, a growing concern in Europe and North America.

VANCOUVER – Virgin Atlantic is dropping its only Canadian destination, Vancouver, when summer seasonal service ends Oct. 11. The service operated five flights per week.

TORONTO – Just two weeks ago the international president of Medecins Sans Frontieres insisted she didn't want to be quoted saying military hospitals should be deployed to West Africa's Ebola zone to bolster the woefully undermanned response efforts there — even though she herself raised the possibility.

VICTORIA – A new report that pleads with the B.C. government to invest in the fight against domestic violence highlights a brutal set of statistics in the province for 2014.

As the celebrity photo-hacking scandal has made clear, privacy isn't what it used to be.

VANCOUVER – B.C. Premier Christy Clark is weighing in from the sidelines of social media on the government's feud with striking teachers while classes in public schools are delayed for another day.