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A memorial garden in Brampton was constructed to remember the 109 passengers aboard an Air Canada flight that perished in an accident 43 years ago.

Taking a hard landing while performing at the Calgary Stampede rodeo Sunday has seriously injured a Canadian Forces skydiver.

One cyber-law expert says Canadians should think about what they do online, as the government could be making notes.

A 28-year-old Toronto man was stopped and fined twice within 14 minutes on Sunday for using his cellphone while driving, police say.

Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who killed his severely disabled daughter, no longer has to participate in one-on-one psychological counselling as part of his parole, the Parole Board of Canada said in a decision Monday.

The Prime Minister's Office was accused Monday of working with the Conservative party to protect a senator now at the centre of a RCMP breach of trust and fraud investigation.

Quebecor, owner of Sun Media newspapers, websites and QMI Agency, is offering up some help to those recently affected by tragedies in both Canada's East and West.

Police said they have found eight more bodies in Lac-Megantic, bringing the death toll to 13. The death toll could rise as high as 50, they told a media update Monday afternoon.

With the long-time sheriff riding into the sunset, a lot of people in crime and criminal justice are wondering just who will be riding in to be Canada’s next top lawman?

Locked securely inside you sits the most valuable and private data you'll ever know — your own biological blueprint.

The short length of track, nestled in a dark pine and birch forest in Quebec, is a regular overnight stop for freight trains hauling crude oil and other raw materials across North America.

Search and rescue workers combing the waters of a lake in northern British Columbia for a man presumed drowned last month recovered the body of another man who drowned 29 years ago.

It appears Toronto was pummelled with record-breaking rainfall Monday - topping to levels the city saw during Hurricane Hazel nearly a half-century ago.

The fire and explosion in the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic could be North America's worst rail disaster since 1989 if the final death toll matches worst fears. Thirteen people were confirmed dead and 37 missing, with hopes fading that any would be found alive.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' decision to become a private citizen gives Prime Minister Stephen Harper more wiggle room to retrofit a cabinet in need of a makeover after several resignations.

The case involving two British Columbians charged in the attempted bombing of the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Canada Day will be heard in the Supreme Court.

A Memorial Vigil honouring 161 Canadians who died in Afghanistan was unveiled Tuesday at Parliament Hill's Hall of Honour.

A dancer asked to leave the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's school two months ago says he doesn't have hard feelings -- he understands why they took issue with his moonlighting in gay pornography.

You have a better chance of having a piano fall on your head than you do contracting HIV through oral sex, an HIV expert has testified.

The deadly derailment in Lac-Megantic dramatizes the hazards of carrying oil by train. But such accidents are very rare and no form of transport is entirely safe. So we should be asking not whether trains should carry oil but how much oil they should carry instead of pipelines.

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