About 7,000 country music fans attended the 16th annual Merritt Mountain Music Festival – 5,000 fewer than expected as organizers capped attendance this year to try and stem rowdyism.

Canada could play a crucial role in helping alleviate the international energy crisis if it continues to expand Alberta oilsands production and considers allowing exploration off B.C.’s pristine coastline, says a senior official with the International Energy Agency.

Prices for new homes in Canada rose 4.1 per cent in May from a year earlier, the slowest pace in almost six years, led by weakening markets in Alberta and British Columbia, Statistics Canada said Friday.

Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month’s Olympics and September’s Paralympics.

A cheer went up at 8 a.m. outside the first store in Vancouver to sell the hotly awaited Apple G3 iPhone as more than 100 people flooded through the doors hoping to get their hands on the new phone.

Olympic windsurfer Nikola Girke discusses training and the Beijing Olympics.

Olympic windsurfer Zac Plavsic discusses his training and the challenges windsurfers face in Beijing.

Olympic sailor Mike Leigh discusses the challenges of the Beijing Olympics

Canada’s Susan Nattrass, the oldest woman trap shooter in Olympic history, takes a bead on her sixth Olympics in Beijing.