Toyota's quarterly profit more than quadrupled to 121 billion yen ($1.5 billion Cdn), and the automaker gave upbeat forecasts as it recovers from a sales plunge caused by the tsunami in Japan last year.

New figures contained in the 2011 census show the number of Canadians living in condos has nearly quadrupled in five years.

The U.S. president installed his nominee to head a new consumer watchdog agency, bypassing Senate Republicans, who he said held the appointment "hostage" for almost six months.