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A group of voters, sponsored by the Council of Canadians, who wanted election results overturned due to illegal use of robocalls, will not take their appeal to the Supreme Court.

The federal Liberals stepped up their own investigation Friday into the Senate spending affair surrounding Sen. Mike Duffy.

Animal rights activists cried foul after Marineland confirmed the death of two of its young beluga whales in recent months.

Vito Rizzuto is once again considered the Don of Montreal, eight months after he was released from a U.S. prison, QMI Agency has learned.

Wearing ear buds and apparently reading, a southern Alberta girl was killed while walking to school Friday after failing to notice an approaching train.

A Quebecer woke up $50 million richer Saturday. In addition, one $1 million prize was won by someone in Ontario

The days of pregnant pigs being confined in cages roughly the same size as their bodies are numbered.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay will head to China Sunday after meeting with key allies in the Asia-Pacific region. But a planned meeting with his Chinese counterpart may not go smoothly.

A group of Canadian academics, journalists, actors and union leaders sent a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper Sunday urging him to remove "unprecedented and unnecessary new powers over Crown Corporations" from Bill C-60.

British Columbia's environment minister says NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's assessment of why the B.C. government nixed the Northern Gateway pipeline project is wrong.

A diaper-clad child trying to cross Essa Road resulted in police busting a grow-op.

Panamanian police say they doubt Arthur Porter is as sick as he claims to be.

Federal political party leaders support the B.C. government's assertion that the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline’s spill response is “not good enough.”

Australian police have stopped searching for a Hamilton, Ont., man missing in a cold and mountainous area of New South Wales -- a reason being he may no longer be alive.

An Ottawa mom is outraged after being kicked off a soccer field because she and her son wouldn’t take shelter under trees during a thunderstorm.

See some amazing photos taken across the country and around the world this past week.

A 22-year-old man shot a fellow camper because he mistook the teen for a bear outside his tent in the middle of the night, police say.

Scandal-ridden Laval, Que., was put under trusteeship Monday after the former administration was accused of running a criminal operation from city hall.

The RCMP has launched a new division to take on "sensitive and high-risk" investigations to safeguard Canada's "political, economic and social integrity."

The Conservative government and NDP opposition are fighting over who loves B.C. Premier Christy Clark more, now that her government has stated Enbridge hasn't satisfied environmental concerns over the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.

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