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Focus on human smuggling ring

Dec 5, 2012 / 8:28 am

Five groups of recently arrived Romanian nationals are suspected by Canadian border officials of being part of a human smuggling ring. Eighty-five people who...

Marathon for MPs over budget bill

Dec 4, 2012 / 7:42 pm

Efforts by opposition parties to amend the Conservative government's latest omnibus budget bill culminated with around six hours of voting Tuesday. Bill...

Sawmill will be rebuilt in Burns Lake

Sawmill will be rebuilt in Burns Lake

Dec 4, 2012 / 3:44 pm

The burned-out sawmill that was the lifeblood of a small northern BC town will be rebuilt, even as the prosecution considers charges into the deadly explosion...

Father of 3 slain children thanks locals

Dec 4, 2012 / 3:39 pm

The father of three slain Quebec children has thanked the small community where he resides for their support. Patrick Desautels met with media this afternoon...

CP tells employees to hit the rails

Dec 4, 2012 / 2:45 pm

Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) says it will eliminate some 4,500 jobs by 2016 and expects more than a third of those to come by year-end as the struggling railroad...

Charges laid in 'found head' case

Dec 4, 2012 / 11:53 am

Four men have been arrested in three murder cases in Alberta and Saskatchewan, including one in which a head was found by a passerby in an Edmonton alley in...

Killer report - homicide rate jumps

Dec 4, 2012 / 9:32 am

Police reported 598 homicides in Canada in 2011, 44 more than the year before and the first increase in homicide in three years, Statistics Canada said Tuesday....

Bats, snakes among species in danger

Dec 4, 2012 / 6:54 am

As the 10th anniversary of the federal Species At Risk Act approaches, dozens of animals and plants have been added to the list considered at-risk. The...

Toronto: And the mayor came back . . .

Dec 3, 2012 / 12:00 pm

The mayor of the country's largest city will not have to fight to stay in office while he appeals his ouster for violating conflict of interest laws....

Iran suspends Canadian's death

Dec 3, 2012 / 11:54 am

Ottawa says it welcomes reports that Iran has suspended the death sentence for a Canadian resident. The published reports have not been confirmed. A...

Alberta political scandal

Alberta political scandal

Dec 3, 2012 / 10:00 am

The speaker of the Alberta legislature is expected to rule as early as today on a motion that Premier Alison Redford misled the assembly. The motion was made...

Graham James case back in court

Dec 3, 2012 / 8:07 am

The prosecution in the Graham James case returns to court in Winnipeg this morning to try to appeal the two-year sentence the former hockey coach was handed for...

Snowy owls become snowbirds

Dec 3, 2012 / 7:14 am

Snowy owls from the Far North are wowing bird lovers in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. About two dozen of the wide-eyed Arctic birds of prey have taken...

Salmon virus burned Fed resources

Dec 2, 2012 / 8:30 pm

Reports that a potentially lethal salmon virus had been found in the waters off British Columbia last year drew a fast, co-ordinated response from the federal...

Three children found dead in Quebec

Dec 2, 2012 / 6:02 pm

Three young children from the same family have been found dead in a Drummondville, Que., home. Quebec provincial police are calling the deaths suspicious. The...

Senators plea to merge the Maritimes

Dec 2, 2012 / 2:00 pm

The age-old idea of merging the three Maritime provinces has been resurrected despite an overwhelming lack of political will from an array of government levels....

Feds reject building code changes

Dec 2, 2012 / 11:15 am

A federal commission has rejected proposals to change Canada's national construction codes to better protect communities from destructive wildfires. The...

N. Ontario community declares crisis

Dec 2, 2012 / 10:45 am

A year after the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat jarred the country's conscience with its deplorable housing conditions, the reserve next door...

Two men charged in teen's death

Dec 1, 2012 / 7:32 pm

The sister of a 19-year-old student who was shot in a university parkade in Surrey, last year says her family can finally start to grieve now that two men have...

Judge tosses out shark fin law

Dec 1, 2012 / 6:23 pm

An Ontario Superior Court judge has struck down Toronto's ban on shark fins. Justice James Spence said in a ruling Friday that a city bylaw banning shark...

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