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House Speaker Andrew Scheer shunted the problem of whether to suspend two Tory MPs under the Elections Canada microscope for possible overspending during the last campaign to a Commons committee.

Drug maker Pfizer will pay $4.8 million in compensation to Canadians who tried to commit suicide after being prescribed a drug to treat seizures.

Two woman guards at a sprawling north-end Montreal jail were caught in romantic relationships with inmates, and one quit rather than break up with her bad-boy beau.

A man convicted of drug trafficking will get a new trial because the testimony of a cop who pretended to arrange a deal on the suspect's cellphone should not have been admitted, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair began Parliament's summer break by boasting about blocking a Conservative effort to strip Canadian citizenship from convicted terrorists.

Political veteran Bob Rae exited stage left Wednesday, bowing out of the federal scene to focus on his legal work in mediation.

In response to a question about negotiating with the Taliban, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau mistook a CBC reporter for a Sun News reporter.

A Tory MP wants the federal ethics watchdog to take a closer look at Justin Trudeau's speaking gigs.

Canada’s leaderless second-largest city will try a second time to appoint an interim mayor who can stay out of trouble until the fall elections.

MPs fled to their ridings Wednesday, leaving a stench richer than the smoke wafting from the annual pork barbecue along the pedestrian mall a short walk from Parliament Hill.

After admitting to fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust earlier this week, disgraced Nova Scotia Independent MLA Trevor Zinck finally took the hint and resigned from his seat.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair did a victory lap Wednesday after his party's motion to consider replacing the secretive board that handles all the financial and administrative matters for MPs passed in the House.

Residents of Turner Valley, Alta., are being warned to move indoors and stay there after a sour gas pipeline ruptured Thursday.

Canada's top court dismissed an appeal Thursday by a Libyan citizen to stay in this country after having his residency application rejected on national security grounds.

The coroner has ruled the death of a Vancouver woman found in a hotel water tank in Los Angeles in February as an accidental drowning.

Provincial police said two bodies were found in the ashes of a fireworks factory that exploded Thursday morning southwest of Montreal.

The RCMP has opened a criminal investigation into a second senator over housing and travel expenses.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau says he wasn't wearing his MP hat when he accepted paid speaking gigs.

Conservative Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu says he will co-operate if the Senate ethics officer decides to investigate his conduct, which was the subject of a letter penned Thursday by Liberal Sen. Celine Hervieux-Payette.

A state of emergency has been declared in the Town of Canmore as heavy rain has caused flooding.

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