Montreal - Canadians will head to polls on October 14 in a national election after Prime Minister Stephen Harper ended weeks of speculation Sunday by pulling the plug on his own minority Conservative government.

Speaking to reporters outside the Governor General's residence in Ottawa, Harper announced that he asked Michaelle Jean, the Queen's representative in Canada, to dissolve parliament.

"Between now and October 14, Canadians will choose a government to look out for their interests at a time of global economic trouble," Harper said after meeting with Jean.

"They will choose between direction or uncertainty; between common sense or risky experiments; between steadiness or recklessness."

Ottawa - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Sunday called early parliamentary elections for October 14.

Kabul - Three Canadian soldiers under NATO command were killed and five wounded in a fight with Taliban insurgents in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, officials said Thursday.

The soldiers' armoured vehicle was attacked Wednesday while they were conducting a security patrol in the Zherai district, the Canadian Defence Ministry said.

The latest deaths bring to 96 the number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime and the forces' deployment to the insurgency-plagued country in 2002.

Ottawa, September 3: A team of researchers has reported that massive pieces of Canada’s northern ice shelf broke away in early August, and are now floating free in the Arctic Ocean.

According to a report in the Globe and mail update, the 50-square-kilometre Markham shelf, located on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, is now floating free in the Arctic ocean along with a larger portion of the Serson shelf.

Montreal ­ As Canadians brace for an imminent call for elections by the governing Conservatives, the North American nation's sputtering economy, the environment and Arctic sovereignty are emerging as key themes.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, buoyed by polls showing that the minority Conservatives are finally within reach of forming the long- coveted majority in Parliament, is expected to call a federal election any day this week. If he moves to dissolve the Parliament before Sunday, Canadians would go to polls on October 14.

For weeks Harper has argued that new elections are the only way to fix the increasingly dysfunctional" Parliament.

International Film Festival which is starting from 4th of September to last till 11th September in Toronto, has extended an invitation to Anees Bazmeen and his gang to attend the event with their Blockbuster Film Singh is King, and  has also invited Anil Kapoor, the well known Jhakas star of Bollywood.