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The body of a notorious murderer and former Hells Angels member, who escaped from a minimum-security federal prison north of Montreal, has been found, authorities said.

At least six Greenpeace activists, including Canadians Paul Ruzycki and Paul Alexandre, have had their jail time in Russia extended to two months while authorities investigate a protest at an oil platform and allegations of piracy.

Police say a naked man terrorized staff at a Spruce Grove, Alta., tanning salon before putting on some clothes and assaulting four people, including two at a nearby daycare.

As his sex-killer son settles into his new prison cell thanks to the pending closing of his old home, Paul Bernardo’s father says in his opinion Karla Homolka should still be locked up behind bars, too.

Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro faces four charges under the Canada Elections Act.

After weeks of soul-curdling testimony from young teen schoolgirls pimped out to johns, two of the three girl teens accused of operating an underage sex ring entered surprise mid-trial guilty pleas Thursday.

Behind the limestone walls of Kingston Penitentiary have lived some of the country's best-known and most-reviled criminals.

The places are synonymous with violence, depravity and dread. Attica, Rikers, Sing Sing, San Quentin, Alcatraz: Legendary lockups south of the border where survival — not necessarily rehabilitation — is often the goal.

The family of a woman who died in a Quebec ER this summer, after waiting for 13 hours to see a doctor, says it is considering a lawsuit.

Punch drunk from revelation after revelation, there is one over arching question that seems to be ricocheting around the city.

David Menzies details Justin Trudeau's most recent gaffes on marijuana statistics and in expressing admiration for China's government.

Mayor Rob Ford will essentially be mayor in name only after Monday.

Talking politics with B.C.'s 'marijuana mayor'

The city's blue-collar workers have skimmed hundreds of thousands of dollars from parking meters over the past several years, QMI Agency's investigative bureau has learned.

A new government sex-ed guide for P.E.I. parents says it's "natural and healthy" for young kids to touch the private parts of "familiar adults."

Premier Kathleen Wynne is telling Mayor Rob Ford to pay attention to the advice of his fellow members of council.

Nicholas Swaby was a standout athlete playing football not that long ago at an Etobicoke high school under the tutelage of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

A publication ban has been lifted from the names of six Conservative political staffers to whom Michael Sona bragged about misdirecting Liberal voters to wrong polling stations in the 2011 election.