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The Parti Quebecois tabled a "Dying with Dignity" bill Wednesday that, in a Canadian first, would allow patients to seek a doctor's help in ending their lives.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in no mood Wednesday to respond to questions about the Senate spending scandal that forced his chief of staff to resign.

Embattled Sen. Mac Harb apparently owes more than four times more in housing expenses than previously reported.

The federal privacy watchdog says she's confident Canadian intelligence agencies are following the letter of the law when handling the personal information of citizens.

A lawyer representing a female former RCMP officer alleging on-the-job harassment intends to pressure Prime Minister Stephen Harper to come to the table and negotiate a settlement.

Brian Whitlock took a baseball bat and smashed Captain the German shepherd over the head at least three times before dropping his pet in a Vancouver dumpster last summer.

Stephen Harper became just the second sitting Canadian prime minister to speak to British legislators at the Palace of Westminster here Wednesday with a speech that stressed the deep ties and common bonds that unite the two countries.

Saskatchewan is sending some ancient feces to Washington.

A mother pulled her Grade 9 son out of a private school in Watertown, N.Y., alleging staff bullied him for being Canadian.

Many street-gang members turned to crime as early as nine years old and remain on the wrong side of the law into adulthood, a conference was told Thursday.

The effort to strip Canadian terrorists of their citizenship will have to wait while the NDP ties up a parliamentary committee in procedural wrangling.

The NDP leader pulled a line out of Reese Witherspoon's playbook, asking an RCMP officer: "Don't you know who I am?"

Two Senate scofflaws have less than a month to return more than $280,000 in bogus living allowances or face having their $135,000 salaries docked.

The RCMP has begun a criminal investigation into the $90,000 transaction between Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff and Sen. Mike Duffy to repay bogus housing claims.

Canada's top legal minds poked holes Thursday in arguments put forward by lawyers arguing both for and against upholding this country's prostitution laws.

Pamela Mattock Porter, the wife of the former head of Canada’s spy watchdog, was extradited to Canada from Panama late Thursday to face charges of money laundering and conspiracy.

A massive guns and drug bust by 17 police agencies in Toronto, the GTA and Windsor early Thursday netted 43 suspects, $572,000 in cash and millions more in narcotics.

Via Rail and the The Canadian Auto Workers union reached a contract after intense, last-minute bargaining in Montreal to avert a strike that was set for midnight Friday.

A dozen Canadian soldiers have joined the search for a Hamilton, Ont., man missing for more than a month in a cold and mountainous area of southeastern Australia.

A review of events leading up to the suicide of Nova Scotia teenager Rehtaeh Parsons has been released, calling for changes to school curriculum, policy and mental health services.

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