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Cathy Rice couldn't contain her excitement Sunday morning as she witnessed the faithful streaming into St. Francis Xavier Mission in Kahnawake, near Montreal, to celebrate the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha.

The popularity of the federal Conservative government will be put to the test next month in by-elections in three provinces.

A British Columbia philanthropist plans on leaving convicted terrorist Omar Khadr money in his will.

Donning a mask and a costume may not grant you super powers, but for one Windsor man, it shows that you don't need super strength or x-ray vision to do what's right.

A top U.S. official has confirmed that secrets Canadian Navy spy Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Delisle sold to Russia included American intelligence.

In the wake of the biggest meat recall in Canadian history, Health Canada announced it will review the science around the process of mechanically tenderizing beef to determine what, if any, precautions should be taken when handling and cooking it.

Steven Boone categorically denied having HIV after having unprotected sex with a teen boy, his trial on charges he tried to infect sex partners heard Monday.

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz accused opposition MPs of "fear mongering" Monday as MPs debated a food safety bill that passed in the Senate last week.

Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto had direct access to City Hall through two engineers who played golf with him at a Caribbean resort, a public inquiry heard Monday.

A former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper will go on trial for influence peddling next summer, almost exactly a year after news broke of the charge being laid by the RCMP.

The federal government is working on new rules for firms controlled by foreign governments that want to take over Canadian companies, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday.

Accusations a former liberal cabinet minister paid for his son's $20,000 wedding tab with government money has renewed calls for recalcitrant MPs to open their office expenses to microscopic scrutiny.

Quebec NDP MP Romeo Saganash has requested a leave of absence to deal with a "dependence on alcohol" after the former leadership candidate was kicked off a plane due to intoxication.

The surviving suspect accused of kidnapping, chaining and raping a teenaged boy in rural Nova Scotia will appear in court Tuesday.

Cancer has claimed Harvie Andre, a two-decade Calgary Tory MP and fierce critic of the National Energy Program.

A representative of a taxpayer watchdog group appeared before a parliamentary committee on Monday to support a bill set to require First Nations leaders to publish salaries online.

Laid off workers at the shuttered meat packing plant in Brooks, Alta., are hopeful they’ll be back at work in a week.

Environmentalists, native leaders and union officials joined ordinary citizens on the lawn of the B.C. legislature in Victoria, B.C., Monday to protest the Northern Gateway pipeline project.

An international group of investors representing $2 trillion in oilsands investments is concerned that provincial and industrial environmental policies are too lenient and could become a financial problem.

Premier Dalton McGuinty is hanging up his political hat.

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