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The prime minister is promising a new crackdown on child sexual exploitation with new legislation that targets child molesters, traffickers and sex tourists.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it's unlikely the feds will have to lift a finger in the battle against Quebec's proposed secular charter.

Seeing a man plough his car through a security fence and park next to a passenger plane was not what airport staff expected on an otherwise normal Monday afternoon.

Michael Rafferty didn't like being compared to fellow killer Paul Bernardo.

More than 1,000 questions will go unanswered by the Conservative government as a result of Parliament being prorogued, the NDP says, and so the opposition will host a question period of its own using social media, every day until the House resumes.

A B.C.-made YouTube video calling for higher speed limits has become a viral sensation.

Quebec's Liberal leader confirmed Tuesday that anti-corruption investigators raided his party's headquarters this past summer following allegations of illicit financing.

Cocaine cut with a drug used to deworm cattle is causing people's ears and noses to literally fall off, and their doctors may not even know why, says a group of Canadian physicians.

Police in New Zealand said Tuesday they found a missing Ottawa couple's van in pieces at the bottom of a gorge.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has chosen a newspaper editor and a Bay Street investment consultant to develop the party's "progressive" economic policy targeting the middle class.

It took CBC six years to respond to an access to information request on how the state broadcaster handles overtime payments.

Facebook has banned an advertiser who used Rehtaeh Parsons's photo to promote a dating service, according to media reports.

The owner of an online dating company says he shut down his website after he mistakenly used a photo of Rehtaeh Parsons — a bullied Nova Scotia teen who killed herself — in an ad on Facebook.

A preliminary autopsy report suggests the three men who died in a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crash last week in the Arctic were overcome by exposure to the icy water.

Pot heads are most prevalent in B.C. and Nova Scotia, according to a new survey from Statistics Canada.

Australian news outlets were reporting Tuesday night that a body found beneath a bridge is believed to be that of Allyson McConnell.

Justin Trudeau has called in the army.

Offensive FROSH chants at the University of B.C. were supposed to be building brotherhood, community and allowing students to “come out of their shell,” a new report states.

Tragedy brought the Barrhaven community together Wednesday night as about 150 gathered at the Fallowfield train station to mourn those lost in a tragic bus-train crash.

The top court handed the feds a victory Thursday in its case against a mafioso formerly imprisoned in the U.S. who was seeking to serve the balance of his sentence in Canada.

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