The good news for Aboriginal Peoples is that their income — personal and community — is on the rise.  The bad news, say aboriginal money managers, is that without a basic knowledge of how to handle newfound wealth it may slip through their fingers.

Canada's history stretches back for more than 15,000 years, full of countless objects, vast landscapes and captivating characters. Capital News Online, with the help of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, looks at nine significant objects from our nation's history and investigates the time, place and people that make the items so integral to understanding our past.

The Government of Canada wants you to eat kosher, and just gave $700,000 to the Montreal Jewish Community Council to develop kosher standards for non-Jewish foods.  L'chaim!

The Macdonald-Laurier Insitute hosted academics Michael Byers and Jack Granatstein in a debate over the role and direction of the Canadian Forces post-Afghanistan. Byers argued that peacekeeping should be the paramount priority of the Canadian military; Granatstein held that protection of national interests through combat readiness should be the military's purpose. You be the judge.

Since 2001, the Canadian government has been sending painters, sculptors, poets and authors to Canadian military bases around the world. These artists use their experiences as inspiration for work that adds a new perspective to war. Capital News attended the unveiling of some of their works in Ottawa.

An athlete. A family man. A survivor. An inspiration. Capital News Online takes you behind the scenes of Canadian icon Rick Hansen's 25 year legacy.

Five players in one court case are fighting over rewriting the rules for gay blood donors in Canada.

The debate over decriminalizing prostitution is back on the front burner with a recent court challenge to Canada's sex-for-sale laws by three women in the trade.

With the new free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia, the flower markets in Ontario and British Columbia are being threatened by imports of Colombian flowers. Capital News talks to professionals in both countries to find out more about the challenges they are facing with Valentine's Day on the horizon.

An editorial published earlier this month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal brought the issue of sex-selective abortion in Canada into the limelight. Now, some are calling for legislative restrictions on aboriton to combat the issue. Others say education is the best way to solve the problem.

A new international children’s rights treaty will give kids the option to “tattle” on their governments to the UN, but only if their government allows them to do so.

Temporary foreign workers make up an important part of Canada's economy, but long wait times means putting their lives on hold while they wait for permanent residency. Recently, Jason Kenney, minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced how the federal government plans to change this.

Six years ago, Zahra Kazemi was beaten to death in an Iranian prison. Today, her son Stephan is fighting both the Iranian government and a Canadian law to get his mother the justice she deserves.

The Department of Justice has proposed changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act that critics say place punishment for someahead of the potential for rehabilitation.

A new program hopes to eliminate the tangled web of tests that foreign-trained doctors have to go through before they can work in Canada. But critics say the real bottleneck is a lack of residency spaces.

Canadian winter athletes are heading to Vancouver with better prospects of reaching the podium. Researchers from universities and institutions across the country are hoping the contributions from the Top Secret program will make a difference.

The debate over decriminalizing prostitution is back on the front burner with a recent court challenge to Canada's sex-for-sale laws by three women in the trade.

In recent years the Chalk River Laboratories' reliability has taken a hit.  Now current and former employees are proposing the federal government make the lab more accessible to all scientists.