Four more ready-made sandwich brands were added early Tuesday to a massive voluntary meat recall in connection with a deadly listeriosis outbreak across Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said.

Ontario's New Democrats say the province's Liberal government was told more than four years ago they should set up a separate food inspection agency for Ontario.

The average Canadian employee was paid about $789 a week in June but had less buying power than a year earlier, the latest federal figures suggest.

Stephen Harper has asked Gov. Gen. Micha�lle Jean not to attend the Paralympic Games in Beijing, in a move further suggesting the prime minister will pull the plug on his current minority government and trigger a federal election.

The mother and brother of Parminder Saini, the 24-year-old Sunrise Propane employee who has been missing since an explosion at the Toronto plant on Aug. 10, will be allowed to travel from their home in Punjab to Canada.

A Canada-wide search for five men who broke out of a Regina jail Sunday night is causing special concern for some people in Fort Qu'Appelle.

Toronto Blue Jays starter Roy Halladay pitched six strong innings of two-run baseball Tuesday to earn a 6-2 win over Tampa Bay at Tropicana Field, his first against the Rays this season.

Major League Baseball has reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.

Top seed Anna Ivanovic of Serbia needed more than two hours to fend off Vera Dushevin of Russia at the U.S. Open on Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Democratic convention Tuesday night to make an impassioned plea to her supporters to rally behind her rival Barack Obama and propel him to the White House.

Tropical storm Gustav crept toward Cuba Wednesday after slamming the Caribbean as a deadly hurricane a day earlier, killing at least 11 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

The Dalai Lama has cancelled trips to Mexico and the Dominican Republic after he was diagnosed with exhaustion, his spokesman said.