American aircraft manufacturer Boeing is refusing to back down in a bitter aerospace trade dispute which could financially devastate one of the North's biggest employers.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar faces his first big international test with the arrival of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau in Dublin last night to begin a State visit to Ireland.

While Ireland may remain generally safe for Muslims, the rhetoric of Donald Trump and a right wing attack on a Mosque in Quebec have increased apprehension among Ireland’s Muslim community, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

US bison descendants of a bison herd captured and sent to Canada more than a century ago will be relocated to a Montana American Indian reservation next month, in what tribal leaders are billing as a homecoming for a species emblematic of their traditions.

Ken Taylor, Canada’s ambassador to Iran who sheltered Americans at his residence during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, has died at the age of 81.

A Syrian woman and her two young sons who drowned on a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece were buried in their hometown of Kobani, returning to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.

Despite warnings about an impending attack, the Canadian government failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the Air India bombing off the coast of Ireland in 1985, writes Eddie Cassidy.

Troubled singer Chris Brown has been barred from entering Canada and his concerts in Montreal and Toronto have been cancelled.

Swiss researchers have suspended testing of one of the leading Ebola vaccine candidates after some volunteers reported unexpected side effects.

The Canadian government is to start shipping its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organisation on Monday for possible use in the West African countries hardest hit by the outbreak.

If the Irish mortgage market is to regain credibility then it should copy the Canadian model which has remained stable since the 1950s, according to Angel Mas, president and chief executive of Mortgage Insurance Europe at Genworth.

A ROLLER-COASTER campaign saw Scotland flirt with freedom but finally decide to switch back to safety mode and snuggle up to the south after all.

While the desire to develop drugs and vaccines are appealing and may help save lives, strengthening health systems in developing countries to make better use of existing tools is as important in combating diseases like ebola, writes Celine Gounder.

Alexandra Morton, the David Suzuki Foundation and others have been fighting penned salmon farms along the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.

HOW many birds die as a result of human activities each year?

Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry is looking at options that could include joint ventures, partnerships or a sale of the company as it struggles to survive against stiff competition

About a dozen killer whales that were trapped under sea ice appear to have reached safety after the floating ice shifted on Canada’s Hudson Bay.

About a dozen killer whales that were trapped under sea ice appear to have reached safety after the floating ice shifted on Canada’s Hudson Bay.

A community in Quebec's Far North is calling for outside help to free about a dozen killer whales trapped under a vast stretch of sea ice.

A Canadian man who returned home after spending 10 years at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay is desperate to be a normal, contributing member of society, his lawyer says.

Government support to agriculture in OECD countries fell to 19% of total farm receipts in 2011, according to the latest analysis from the Paris-based think-tank.

THERE’S a generation of Irish parents who are coming face to face with the pain of emigration.

The Canadian government has been toppled by opposition parties.

Canada's three opposition parties said they planned to topple the conservative government in a vote of no confidence in Parliament tomorrow and trigger the country's fourth election in seven years.

CANADA has introduced a string of visa rule changes to cater for a massive increase in Irish applications.

The London market bounced back from earlier losses today triggered by concerns surrounding the sovereign debt crisis in Ireland.

The London market struggled to find direction today as sentiment was weighed down by ongoing fears of a bail out for Ireland’s troubled economy.

CANADA managed to escape the worse effects of the international recession due to tight bank regulation over the last decade and heavy investment in the public sector since 2008, an international economics conference in Croke Park will hear today.

THE effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine was an unprecedented challenge, experts said yesterday.

Pamela Anderson has written a personal plea to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, asking the Prime Minister to help her ban the slaughter of baby seals in her native Canada.

Canadian officials defended the start of the annual seal hunt as a financial necessity for isolated communities, as sealers faced pressure from a possible European Union ban.

IN recent weeks Canada has once again brought shame upon itself.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper condemned an opposition plan to gain power by ousting his government in a confidence vote, calling the manoeuvres undemocratic.

Canada’s troubled foreign minister has resigned after it emerged today that he left secret documents at his then girlfriend’s house.

The Canadian government plans to bring charges against a conservation group which it said came too close to sealers as it protested against the country’s annual hunt.

A HUGE political row has erupted in Canada over plans by the Canadian government to appoint a new ambassador to Ireland.

FOLLOWING my column two weeks ago, it was suggested that I was attacking Green Party policies and somehow suggesting there was no basis for conservation, recycling or cleaning up our air and water, and it was even said that I was suggesting that global warming is nonsense.

The head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has apologised to a Canadian who claims he was tortured in Syria after the US sent him there based on false accusations by the RCMP.

THE final leg of Canada’s contentious seal hunt moved to the ice floes off north-eastern Newfoundland and Labrador yesterday, with sealers expected to slaughter a further 234,000 harp seal pups in one day.

Newly-installed Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar said the United States is biased toward Israel, guilty of crimes against the Muslim and Arab world and is widening the rift between the American people and those of the Middle East.

Actress Pamela Anderson has requested a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss Canada’s seal hunt, adding her name to the growing list of celebrities who speak out against the annual hunt, which just got under way.

IRISH animal rights activists yesterday backed French actress Brigitte Bardot's call to ban Canada's annual seal hunt.