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Canada will take in 200 Syrian refugees "most in need of urgent protection" over the next two years.

The homicide unit is investigating the death of a three-year-old girl who was left alone in an oven-like SUV, police say.

As the city lifts the local state of emergency Thursday, hundreds of Calgarians may have to wait a year to move back to flood-damaged homes.

Canada is urging calm in Egypt after the country's military toppled President Mohamed Morsi's government Wednesday.

It was a terrorist plot involving pressure cookers and rusty nails — a scheme allegedly hatched by a recovering addict with a methadone prescription and a man with an extensive criminal record ranging from robbery to assault.

To some who knew her, terrorism suspect Amanda Korody was a chameleon. She was bright and creative. A guitarist and singer. But she was also a troubled young woman whose external identity was often shaped by who she was closest to.

The mob of reporters and photographers that swept through the suite of a Surrey, B.C., couple charged in the alleged Canada Day terror plot had no legal right to snoop through their home on Wednesday, according to the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA).

The Senate will be docking the salary of embattled Sen. Patrick Brazeau by 20% until the $48,000 he claimed in inappropriate housing and travel expenses is fully paid off.

Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella explains why he thinks Stephen Harper’s time as prime minister is almost over.

The young Montreal woman attacked by a lion at an animal refuge in South Africa says the lion just wanted to play and she holds no ill will towards it.

One of the suspects in a Canadian bomb plot is a former drug user with a history of violence, a self-styled "Muslim Punk" who also wrote songs about his love for Satan.

Junior foreign affairs minister Diane Ablonczy, who was elected in the Reform wave in 1993, announced Thursday she won't seek re-election.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in no rush to replace his government leader in the Senate after Marjory LeBreton quit Thursday in the midst of a spending scandal being investigated by the RCMP.

Two weeks after southern Alberta’s devastating floods, Calgary is no longer under a state of local emergency but recovery and relief efforts remain the city’s main priority, officials say.

Human rights and civil liberties groups are intervening in a former sociology professor's bid to block his extradition to France in connection with a deadly 1980 synagogue bombing.

Two canoeists found clinging onto a rock for roughly 16 hours in the middle of the Athabasca River are now back on dry land.

The RCMP believe Sen. Mike Duffy is a fraudster who tried to feather his nest at the expense of taxpayers and Conservative Party donors, according to police documents filed with the Ontario Court of Justice.

Most Canadians surveyed in an online poll conducted for QMI Agency believe the RCMP needs reforms and closer oversight in wake of recent allegations of abuse and misconduct inside and outside its ranks. But about the same percentage still stand by our iconic national police force.

She was a fresh RCMP officer, straight out of Depot when she was posted to a remote location for her first job.

The founder of a South African animal refuge says Montreal teenager Lauren Fagen has only herself to blame for getting mauled by a lion earlier this week.

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