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The E. coli-stricken XL Food plant got the green light to resume operations Tuesday, but federal inspectors said it'll be some time before full confidence is restored.

A Senate committee wants to put some seal in your meal as part of a kill program to save Atlantic cod.

The federal government's slow response to rapidly growing cybersecurity threats has left Canada vulnerable to hacker attacks by organized crime, terrorists and foreign states, the auditor general's latest report says.

Federal convicts are hurting themselves three times more than they did five years back, according to a report by the country's Corrections Investigator.

When Toronto Sun columnist Tarek Fatah created an online petition on Change.org to nominate Malala Yousufzai for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, he did not imagine the support it would generate from Canadian politicians and even a federal minister.

A 23-year-old man accused of murdering two and wounding five in the Eaton Centre shooting rampage was sentenced to one year in jail for raping a former lover who sheltered him two years ago.

Transit officials in Toronto must take seriously the security risks that will come with having cellphone service in underground subway stations and tunnels, a Canadian terrorism expert says.

The Keystone XL Pipeline will likely be approved, but a timeline depends on who wins the upcoming U.S. presidential election, former prime minister Brian Mulroney said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper just happened to be in the area when he noticed Patrick Sullivan and Jocelyne Potvin posing for their wedding photos on Saturday and decided to congratulate them.

Bilingualism has all but stalled in Canada, with the only real increase coming from French Quebecers who learned to speak English, according to new census data released by Statistics Canada.

A receptionist says it was either luck or a guardian angel that saved her life when an out-of-control minivan smashed through the front of a store and crushed her desk.

With a stuck climbing rope and nothing to protect him from pounding snow, a B.C. man endured a horrendous night huddled against the world’s largest granite monolith in Yosemite National Park.

The Supreme Court of Canada will deliver a historic ruling Thursday morning which could, for the first time in the court's history, overturn an election result.

Quebec separatists reacted with fear and concern Wednesday at new data that shows the percentage of francophones in Montreal is declining.

A 31-year-old member of Canadian Forces Base Shilo is accused of soliciting a woman to join him in acts of bestiality — just days after he was arrested for the same offence.

When Frank Rose and another man picked up some cool brewskis from The Beer Store in Elliot Lake, Ont. — after closing time — they left behind a trail, court heard Wednesday.

Police are investigating after a woman walking her dog in an alley found a human head in a cardboard box.

The ‘Millennium Bomber’ - Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian-born Canadian citizen - was re-sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in prison, according to local reports, after his earlier sentence of 22 years was deemed too lenient.

The Conservatives agreed to send their hefty second budget bill to a number of parliamentary committees on Wednesday, but opposition MPs say this is far from enough.

The woman who was followed and fatally stabbed on her way home from work Tuesday morning appears to have been randomly singled out by a crazed knife-wielding man.

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