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Lac-Megantic, Que., is already talking about running the rails out of town. So are other communities across Canada who fear a similar deadly rail crash in their backyards is just a matter of time.

Is this any way to treat a best friend? As of Friday, Canada's largest trading partner and closest ally is without a representative in Ottawa, and the post will remain vacant for at least several months.

Green guru David Suzuki's controversial comments expressed in Parisian newsweekly L'Express is sparking debate on immigration policy in Canada.

Toronto startup AeroVelo wins the 33-year-old AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition.

Pascal Charest says he would have preferred to die with his partner and their two young daughters.

Oddsmakers on Friday were trying to determine the timing of a cabinet shuffle after the tragic train derailment in Quebec forced Prime Minister Stephen Harper to postpone a front-bench makeover this week.

Montreal-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin is suing its former vice-president for allegedly stealing company money to bribe members of the deposed Libyan regime of Moammar Gadhafi.

Marissa Whalen led a tragic life in her two short years on Earth before it was cut short. Now her killer is awaiting sentencing and her mother is awaiting trial, also facing a second-degree murder charge.

Five more bodies have been pulled from the wreckage in Lac-Megantic, Que., bringing the official death toll to 33, provincial police said Saturday afternoon.

The Russians are coming! Again!

High River’s local officials are again spearheading their own flood recovery, but provincial resources will remain in place to help the municipality pull out from the crisis.

Just because David Suzuki claims Canada is "full" and shouldn't accept any more immigrants doesn't mean Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is ready to criticize him.

Plus ça change and all that.

Canadian nudists were part of an attempt to set the record for the world's largest skinny-dip on Saturday.

A man who lost his son, two daughters-in-law and an employee in the tragedy at Lac-Megantic, Que., says he wants the railroad to open as soon as possible.

Like a coach prepping his team for a tough season, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to change up his front bench Monday.

A Quebec mayor said he was using "dark humour" when said on his radio show that he enjoys running over stray cats with his pickup truck.

A toddler was in stable condition Sunday night after falling from his sixth-floor balcony and landing on concrete.

A Canadian man convicted and jailed in Mauritania for "terrorist conspiracy" in the West African nation will soon be freed after a court reduced his sentence on appeal, judicial sources said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper shuffled his cabinet Monday, bringing in eight new faces, including four women, and moving other key ministers to new jobs.

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