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Police have arrested 22 people and rescued two children in a massive bust of suspected child predators that reached across Atlantic Canada.

It was the "thank you" heard across the city and the plate of homemade cookies shared by hundreds of exhausted police officers, all standing guard over the largest evacuation in Calgary history.

An elderly couple is in hospital after their minivan crashed into a 45,000-kg crane and was ripped apart by the machine's tethered wrecking ball.

Quebec can't force Ottawa to hand over long-gun registration data, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.

Police in Hamilton, Ont., are investigating a major fraud in the city's finance department.

A two-year-old boy was in the care of his grandmother when he was left alone in a sweltering car and died.

The family of a woman who died in Sudbury hospital earlier this month says they were barred from seeing her during some of her final hours because they were prolonging her death.

Tony Accurso, former head of one of Canada's biggest construction empires, is in more deep trouble with the taxman.

After a head-scratching vote that saw the Tory-dominated Senate effectively gut a Conservative backbencher’s bill aimed at increasing union transparency, Ottawa insiders were left wondering what just happened.

Cops who hunt child predators say the term "child pornography" needs to be retired and be given a more apt term, such as "child rape."

Consumers get soaked when buying suds in provinces where alcohol is available through numerous private retailers, a new market survey commissioned by Canada’s National Brewers says.

Calgary’s mayor had pointed questions Thursday over the inspection of CP Rail bridges in the city as emergency crews worked to right derailed train cars that could leak petroleum products into the Bow River.

Anita Kamaka had no idea what Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) was when she stumbled across a gold ring with the words embossed in it 40 years ago.

All six train cars were removed safely overnight Friday from the Bonnybrook Bridge in Calgary, ending a tense episode in the city after the cars carrying liquid fuel threatened to spill into the Bow River below when the bridge almost collapsed.

An Oklahoma man has been charged after border patrol officers seized 16 illegal guns and other weapons from a vehicle trying to enter Canada from North Dakota, the Canadian Border Services Agency said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former fixer — who fell from grace after allegations of influence peddling — had his trial postponed Friday after a court heard he has a potentially cancerous growth on his lungs.

Thousands of Calgarians will be out of their homes for a significant amount of time as city crews assess which residences are uninhabitable due to flood damages.

The Senate is threatening to launch legal proceedings against two senators who are balking at repaying some $280,000 in bogus housing and travel expenses claims.