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It took 20 years, but the wheels of justice have caught up with a man who abducted his kids in 1993 and took them halfway across the globe.

Police-reported crime in Canada continues to drop, with 2012 the crime rate at the lowest level since 1972, according to data released Thursday from Statistics Canada.

A 27-year-old man is in custody after a man was severely burned in a fireball attack, police said.

Canada's top court Thursday upheld the acquittal of a Cambridge, Ont., man accused of murder after a drug deal turned sour.

The third man accused in the case where a teenage boy was kidnapped, raped and held captive in a Nova Scotia cabin will be tried by jury.

Authorities have identified a Canadian suspect in the deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria last year.

Provincial police raided the Quebec offices of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Thursday amid a criminal investigation of the derailment disaster in Lac-Megantic.

An Edmonton webmaster charged with corrupting morals has jumped bail, according to cops.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's pot legalization stance may be a hit with the Grit grassroots, but not so with the governing Conservatives, the pontiff, and at least one international ally.

A day after 2-year-old Anna Gibson and 3-month-old Nicholas Gibson were found drowned in a bathtub in their Winnipeg family home, a long line of yellow police tape leading from the front door to the nearby Assiniboine River is the only hint as to the whereabouts of their wanted mother.

Mounties believe former Liberal Sen. Mac Harb committed breach of trust — a criminal offence — by fiddling his expense claims over the course of the past 10 years, newly-obtained court documents show.

Out with the old and in with the new.

Russian vodka is being sent to the gulag by at least two Vancouver nightspots who refuse to serve brands from where Vladimir Putin calls home to protest Moscow’s recent repressive laws against homosexuals.

A 37-year-old man has been charged with mischief for allegedly hitting golf balls over the Trent-Severn Waterway and into a neighbour's backyard.

The search for the chairman of the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway may soon be coming to an end.

Canada's robocall cops have handed a New Democrat MP a hefty ticket.

Gore website operator Mark Marek is back in police custody after a tip led to his arrest in Leduc on Friday.

London, Ont., native Aaron Yoon is reportedly back in Canada, after spending 18 months in a north African prison on terrorism-related charges.

A hiker is recovering in hospital from bite wounds and broken bones after he was mauled by a polar bear while he slept in his tent in a northern Labrador park early Wednesday.

Police tape was removed from around the home of Lisa Gibson on Friday, but police remained on scene with a dive team deployed to the Assiniboine River as the search for the mother reached Day 3.

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