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Magnotta has unlikely sympathizer

Jul 26, 2012 / 10:00 pm

It's a word the mother of dismembered Chinese student Jun Lin never thought she'd associate with the man charged with murdering her son in brutal...

Provinces agree to generic solution

Jul 26, 2012 / 9:40 pm

Canada's premiers and territorial leaders agreed to buy generic drugs together and standardize certain health-care practices as they try to cut soaring...

Toronto mayor denies far-right link

Jul 26, 2012 / 9:23 pm

A prominent Liberal strategist has managed to give Toronto's mayor the kind of publicity every politician likes to avoid. Warren Kinsella posted a picture...

NFLD, 1st Nations in hydro dispute

Jul 26, 2012 / 2:50 pm

Premier Kathy Dunderdale pushed back against an aboriginal group in Newfoundland and Labrador that is threatening to shut down the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric...

Nude judge inquiry exposes evidence

Jul 26, 2012 / 11:52 am

The inquiry into a Manitoba judge whose nude photos appeared on the Internet may be halted over complaints that the inquiry committee is biased. Sheila Block,...

Clark calls for end to feud with feds

Jul 25, 2012 / 8:00 pm

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark used a meeting of the premiers Wednesday to push for talks with Alberta and Ottawa to resolve a dispute over her demand...

Ex-student leader to run for PQ

Jul 25, 2012 / 7:31 pm

With or without the tiny felt red square that has come to symbolize student defiance in the province, activist-turned-politician Leo Bureau-Blouin says his...

Saskatchewan's loose moose issue

Jul 25, 2012 / 11:20 am

REGINA - Saskatchewan is considering allowing hunters to kill more moose, fearing the animal's growing population roaming the rolling southern prairie is...

Canadian teen drowns in Puerto Rico

Jul 24, 2012 / 9:01 pm

Authorities in Puerto Rico have found the body of a 17-year-old Canadian who drowned after attending a wedding in the U.S. territory. The search-and-rescue...

Crime rate as low as it was 40 yrs. ago

Jul 24, 2012 / 6:35 am

Statistics Canada says the rate of crimes reported to police in Canada its as low as it was in 1972. The agency says police services reported nearly 2 million...

Falcon flys free of garbage duty

Jul 23, 2012 / 6:49 pm

Rare bird alert, a falcon has flown the coop! A company from Victoria doing work in Winnipeg says one of its falcons has gone AWOL. Pacific-Northwest Raptors...

Former Mountie found dead in cell

Jul 23, 2012 / 6:44 pm

A former Mountie who was infected with HIV when he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy has died in a British Columbian prison. Warren Allen, 54, was found...

Man dies after raft goes over waterfall

Jul 22, 2012 / 9:20 pm

A whitewater rafter has died in an accident south of Calgary. RCMP say the 35-year-old man was rafting with four friends on the Highwood River on Sunday...

Premiers seeking common ground

Jul 22, 2012 / 2:00 pm

Canada's premiers will try to forge a common front when they meet this week to discuss a range of contentious issues, including health care, energy and the...

Bullied bus monitor plans to retire

Bullied bus monitor plans to retire

Jul 22, 2012 / 2:00 pm

An American school bus monitor who was verbally abused and tormented by students is now mulling over what to do with her embarrassment of riches. A video...

Trillions spent on fragile recovery

Jul 22, 2012 / 1:00 pm

Few are noting the occasion, but about now Canada and the rest of the world should be celebrating the third anniversary marking the end of the Great Recession....

Jun Lin remembered at memorial

Jun Lin remembered at memorial

Jul 21, 2012 / 3:00 pm

The parents of Jun Lin took part in an emotional public memorial on Saturday as Montreal's Chinese community gathered to remember the student two months...

Crash kills RCMP officer

Jul 21, 2012 / 8:40 am

An RCMP officer was killed in western Saskatchewan on Friday when his police cruiser hit a moose. Mounties say Const. Derek Pineo, 38, was the only person in...

Hells Angels converge on Saskatoon

Jul 20, 2012 / 10:25 pm

About 500 Hell's Angels members from across the country are gathering in Saskatoon for the weekend and so far there haven't been any problems. The...

The mystery of the 113-year-old woman

Jul 19, 2012 / 8:37 pm

A mystery has emerged about the identity of a Saskatchewan woman who could be not only the oldest person in the province, but one of the oldest in the world....

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