Video streaming has already gone mainstream, largely through the success of Netflix. This week brings the debut of Shomi, a Canadian-only service available exclusively to Rogers and Shaw customers.

A nine-year-old boy who ended up in Niue after being allegedly kidnapped by his father in the US leaves the island today to be reunited with his mother. Billy Hanson spent sixty days crossing the Pacific in a 38 foot yacht with his father and pet kitten.

Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley are early winners at the 48th Annual CMA Awards.

Colorado voters have rejected Amendment 67, a proposal to add “unborn human beings” to the state’s criminal code, a measure that some feared could ban abortion. The amendment failed with 1,166,843 “NO” votes and 649,099 “YES” votes, with 92 percent of counties reporting.

Ontario is taking action to protect communities from invasive species through prevention, early detection, rapid response and eradication of invasive species in the province.

Amazon.com Inc. is raising the ante in Canada’s e-commerce battle by offering same-day shipping in Toronto and Vancouver just as retailers head into the crucial holiday shopping season. Toronto, the biggest metropolitan area in Canada, is an obvious pick for the Seattle-based ecommerce giant.

This may not be the world’s coolest golf cart. And it certainly isn’t the best golf-themed crime-thwarting vessel. But we can say without a doubt, this right here is the world’s fastest golf cart. The Plum Quick Racing team set out to conquer the “Golf Cart World Speed Record” (because that’s a thing) at Darlington Dragway in South Carolina last …

Marijuana legalization won in Alaska, DC, and Oregon, but when can you smoke pot legally?

Bank of Nova Scotia says it will cut 1,500 jobs — two-thirds of them in Canada — and also write down its investment in Venezuela, while setting aside more funds for loan losses in the Caribbean.

An emotional Miriam Toews won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for “All My Puny Sorrows” Tuesday night, saying she hopes the heart-wrenching and personal novel about a writer dealing with her suicidal sister will help spark dialogue about such issues.

There is finally light at the end of a long tunnel in an ongoing international adoption that’s reached four years. A Saskatoon couple has been struggling to bring their adopted son over from Pakistan.