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The father of an inmate who broke out of a Quebec jail via helicopter last winter says he's "floored" to hear that his three other sons have been arrested in the daring plot.

The widow of fallen Ottawa bus driver Dave Woodard says she is sure the accident "wasn't his fault."

Homeowners are worried about a kilometre-long line of parked tanker rail cars that are the same obsolete models that crashed and burned near the Maine border on July 6.

The coroner says a man's body was left to decompose for "probably months" in a Hamilton, Ont., home while three families resided there.

Justin Trudeau was forced to apologize after taking a jab at used car salesmen, but in true Trudeau fashion, he took a swipe at Ezra Levant instead.

Officials at Health Canada circumvented the health minister Friday when they approved a program that would enable the government to provide heroin to junkies.

Only in the wacky world of the government would it make sense for one government agency to pay a Crown corporation money to do the job that they are already funded to do.

The Parti Quebecois will be doing a lot of pushing in the coming weeks in anticipation of a December provincial election, said QMI Agency political analyst Jean Lapierre.

Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservatives will call a judicial inquiry into Rehtaeh Parsons' death -- if they're elected next month.

Two Canadian activists arrested by Russian authorities have not been heard from in more than two days, according to Greenpeace.

Greenpeace is urging supporters to pressure the Russian government to free activists on board one of its ships that was seized by the Russian Coast Guard.

World leaders descending on the Big Apple this week for the United Nations' annual gabfest can expect the Mideast to take centre stage.

Quebecers rid themselves in the 1960s of Catholic Church oppression and the charter of values represents the next step towards a full liberation from religion, protesters told QMI Agency on Sunday.

Moments after his record-setting run in the 100-metre final of the 1988 Olympics seized a global spotlight, sprinter Ben Johnson grabbed an oversized Canadian flag to wave before the world.

The tranquillity of Alberta's rocky mountains in autumn: it seems incompatible with tears over a terrorist bloodbath more than half a world away.

It is now up to an Edmonton judge as to where former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr should serve the remainder of his eight-year murder sentence.

The staggering cost of southern Alberta's flood has set the Canadian record for the costliest natural disaster, surpassing $1.7 billion.

A Vancouver veteran is filing a human-rights complaint against a New Brunswick fitness centre after he says his service dog that assists him for post-traumatic stress disorder wasn't allowed in.

A bright young light with a career "brimming with promise."

Canada stands with Kenya in its fight against terrorism and will continue to work with international partners, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday after a deadly weekend attack at a Nairobi mall that saw at least 62 killed, including two Canadians.

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