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The sex trade is just waiting to open countless legal bordellos if Canada's top court upholds a challenge to this country's prostitution laws, an anti-prostitution coalition warned Wednesday.

Police in British Columbia have uncovered a Hells Angels-linked underground marijuana grow-op where pot plants were being grown in bunkers made from buried shipping containers while, above ground, the property was made to look like a hobby farm.

Canada's waste watchdog will have to wait for his invite to sniff around Senate expenses to determine whether a spending scandal is confined to a handful of rogue legislators.

The contamination of beef at an Alberta processing plant last year that sickened 18 people was caused by a lax attitude toward food safety by government and plant staff, an independent report on the incident said.

An Edmonton woman who drove onto a sidewalk and struck her cheating ex-boyfriend with her car — breaking his leg — was acquitted of all charges on Wednesday.

Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the CBC, is re-branding itself and dropping all reference to Canada in its new name.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Wednesday proactive didn't meant retroactive when it comes to opening the books on his MPs' spending.

The government will roll out legislation Thursday which would significantly raise the bar for groups wanting to set up injection sites where illegal drugs can be used with medical oversight, clean equipment and without consequence.

After officially losing her seat to B.C. NDP candidate David Eby in Point Grey-Vancouver, Premier Christy Clark has chosen to run in Westside-Kelowna.

Dumping chicken manure at a makeshift camp to drive away homeless people has resulted in an apology from the City of Abbotsford, B.C.

Mayor Rob Ford’s crack cocaine scandal is still making for late-night laughs.

An attempt by a Conservative backbench MP to force the federal government -- and specifically the CBC -- to give Canadians more information about how it spends tax dollars was derailed by his own side Wednesday.

The Canadian Hurricane Centre is warning Canadians on the Atlantic Coast to brace for a wet low-pressure system this weekend as tropical storm Andrea, a newly formed storm west of Florida, makes its way north.

An Edmonton man who claims to be a Freeman — a member of a society of extreme libertarians who don't recognize laws or taxes — has been fined $171,339 for fraudulently trying to obtain an income tax refund.

Canada's public sector integrity commissioner says the former CEO of one of Canada's busiest border crossings misused public money and breached the Crown corporation's code of ethics by awarding two managers excessive severance payouts totalling more than $650,000.

Anyone looking to open a facility where drug addicts can use illegal substances in a safe environment will find themselves facing tough new criteria after the government introduced its Respect for Communities Act.

The federal waste watchdog is free to snoop around Senate expenses alongside an RCMP review into a spending scandal that cost the prime minister's chief of staff his job and could lead to criminal charges.

Heritage Minister James Moore slammed the CBC on Thursday for its decision to re-brand its French-language service in a way that dropped "Canada" from the name.

Unchained from party discipline, newly independent MP Brent Rathgeber unleashed his wrath Thursday on the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) that he said would tell him how to vote, what to say in the Commons, and what to do in committee.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomed Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring back to the Conservative caucus Thursday after he was found not guilty for refusing to provide a breath sample to police.

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