Deception detection: Victoria interrogators sniff out liars

Does the suspect avoid eye contact or become angry during a particular question? Do they talk about their missing loved one in the past tense, as if they know he or she is dead? How does the suspect react when shown evidence linking them to the crime?

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Opposition asking wrong questions of Oda: government

Opposition MPs should have asked different questions of embattled International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda if they weren't satisfied with the answers she gave to a committee last year, the government said Friday in Oda's defence.

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Most Canadians fear sovereignty sellout in border talks with U.S., poll finds

Two-thirds of Canadians fear Prime Minister Stephen Harper will "compromise" by giving up too much power over immigration, privacy and security to get a deal with the United States on border controls, a new poll has found.

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• Harper, Obama agree to integrate border, creating security and trade perimeter
• Harper slams U.S. travel fee
• Congressmen urge 'freight fee' on Canadian imports to pay for U.S. roads
• Mulroney to Harper: Stick to guns on continental security, trade negotiations
• Canada, U.S. security perimeter has long historical precedent

Tobacco warning labels to appear on interior and exterior of package

Health Canada released Friday a new set of bigger and more graphic health warnings for cigarette packages that will require tobacco companies to overhaul both the inside and outside of packs.

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• Ottawa will increase warning size
• Anti-smoking crusader's family lauds use of death-bed image
• Some quitters could use a helping hand

Common-law partners must share wealth after breakups: Supreme Court.

The nation's top court has weighed in on the breakups of unmarried couples who live together, concluding that a partner who gets rich at the expense of the other in a relationship must share what he or she accumulates.

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