Quebec's education minister has formalized a promise to ban prayer rooms and other religious practices in the province's public schools. A North Carolina man shot and wounded a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbours and the girl's family -- another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial reasons. Canada's only rare earths mining company is pausing all construction at its Saskatoon processing facility