There are chances that certain drugs taken to protect heart might increase the risk of type-2 diabetes. Recently, a study has been carried out by a group of researchers from Canada, which has based its above given study findings after carrying out study on 1.5 million people.

Mr. Mark Carney, top central banker in Canada and the incoming governor of the Bank of England, said in a statement that without `sustained and significant reforms', Europe is in state of stagnation from last ten years. He further added that the Europe can take even half of lessons from Japan on tackling the dangers.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has revealed in a report that an issue with the ECU (Electronic Control Unit) of Honda's Acura TSX sedans has prompted the automaker to issue a recall of 93,000 of its Acura TSX vehicles.

The recall affects Acura TSX vehicles of model years between 2004 and 2008; and covers 76,000 TSX sedans in the US and 17,000 in Canada.

During the course of a news conference with French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault - who is visiting Canada for the first time since taking office in May last year -, Canadian Prime Minister announced five initiatives which will strengthen the Canada-France relations even further.

Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry - which was earlier called Research In Motion (RIM) - has apparently bagged its biggest order ever; with the company, which launched a new lineup of its Blackberry
10 (BB10) handsets in January, recently revealing that one of its "established partners" was buying 1 million BB10 smartphones.

In a recent statement made during the course of a telephonic interview, Ford Motors' spokeswoman Kelli Felker revealed that nearly 196,500 of the automaker's 2004-2007 Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans are being recalled over a corrosion issue.

Felker also said that Ford was also recalling an additional 33,500 vehicles outside the US, nearly all of them in Canada.

Revealing that the early response to the new BlackBerry Z10 handset was quite upbeat, BlackBerry said in a last-week statement that the phone's first day in Canada was the best ever for the company, which had witnessed an almost three-fold increase in the sales of its best first-week performance in the UK.

On Wednesday, Internet search giant Google released a Google Maps update which augments the company's records about ski resort maps; providing information about 38 new ski resorts in the US and Canada.