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Two key Conservatives on a powerful Senate committee orchestrated the whitewash of a critical report into Sen. Mike Duffy's inappropriate use of tax dollars to soften its findings, opposition MPs said Thursday.

A Federal Court judge has ruled a crime was committed in the last general election but the case is still a whodunit.

Hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by the Christian Brothers reached a financial settlement Thursday.

A sports car enthusiast claimed he couldn't find his car -- a Porsche -- on a B.C. Ferry bound for the Lower Mainland so he left without it and took the bus.

A Cuban court on Thursday wrapped up the first day of testimony in the graft trial of a Canadian businessman whose prosecution is part of a corruption crackdown that has shaken the country’s foreign business community.

The Stephen Harper administration is stonewalling the Nigel Wright-Mike Duffy scandal with typical icy contempt. But their non-response invites a series of questions they not only cannot answer but, fatally, seem not to have asked.

Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought.

Qatar has withdrawn its bid to relocate the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to the Middle East from its current location in Montreal, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird confirmed Friday.

Alessandro Taloni, a former jet-setting Mafia associate who ran a $1 billion cross-border drug ring, pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking in a New York court.

The government was hounded Friday over allegations the Prime Minister's Office steered key Tories on a secretive Senate committee to doctor a report into the Mike Duffy spending firestorm.

National Revenue Minister Gail Shea only has to walk across the aisle in the House of Commons if she wants to root out unpaid taxes.

A local truck driver is shaken but otherwise unhurt after a Washington state bridge collapsed behind his tractor-trailer on Thursday, sending cars and drivers plummeting into the cold river below.

Police in Vancouver have issued a public warning after a dog was hooked in a vicious animal trap on a hiking trail.

The Canadian government has quietly revoked the passport of a Quebec doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. Medicare system of $375 million — before he's even had a trial.

The United Steelworkers, Canada's largest union, congratulated the Royal Bank of Canada for promising not to hire foreign workers to replace Canadians and not to outsource jobs.

Snow, ice and minus-degree temperatures are hampering the search for a Canadian man missing in the Australian Alps.

The NDP’s support for the Liberals’ provincial budget is a one-off and not the start of an alliance designed to last through to the next scheduled election in October 2015, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Friday.

The building is brand new and as big as a football stadium. But at a cost of $880 million, are the new digs for the country's secretive cryptology agency a good deal for taxpayers?

It certainly doesn't feel like mid-spring in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

The scandal-plagued Senate has a cheerleader in Justin Trudeau after the Liberal leader said he wouldn't abolish the chamber because it's to Quebec's gain over other provinces to keep the lights on.

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