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Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join some 60 world leaders flooding into South Africa this week to pay their respects to Nelson Mandela.

See some of the best photos photos taken across the country and around the world last week.

DNA evidence was used for the first time in a Canadian courtroom in Edmonton 25 years ago.

Mayor Rob Ford offered to do a urine test for Conrad Black.

The driver who crashed a school bus full of teenagers in Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Que., on Monday morning was reportedly feeling unwell when he got behind the wheel and died several hours later in hospital.

The Mounties now lead a national human trafficking enforcement team, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said.

Canada is asking the United Nations for a bigger territorial slice of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans - and the potential bonanza of resources the deep waters hold.

Parliamentarians this week will consider the merits of a private member's bill that would revoke the pensions of misbehaving colleagues.

The government breached international ethical standards when it made a policy change that will cut access to heroin for addicts who were receiving it as part of a clinical trial, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) says.

A Canadian man says Samsung is trying to silence him for posting a YouTube video claiming one of its phones caught fire.

The feds spend more than $10.5 billion annually on Canadian aboriginal communities, according to a new study from the conservative Fraser Institute.

Canadian leaders past and present gathered with leaders from around the world to honour and remember the life of beloved South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela at a rain-drenched public memorial in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

A pot-smoking Mountie from New Brunswick who gained national attention for his public use of the drug now stands charged with assaulting a peace officer.

Conservatives blocked opposition's attempts Tuesday to learn how e-mails critical to the investigation into the Senate spending scandal vanished for many months before mysteriously resurfacing.

A day after the U.S. government dumped its last shares in General Motors at a $10-billion loss, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s office confirmed there’s no rush to sell the Canadian stake in the automaker.

The Conservatives hinted Tuesday that Russia should check its Arctic rhetoric after President Vladimir Putin pushed plans to beef up his country's military presence in their northern waters.

On the heels of the Canada Post announcement, here's a look back at other things that seemed like they would never go away but the next generation will never know.

MPs have taken an early Christmas break, clocking out a few days before the already shortened sitting was scheduled to end.

Suspended Sen. Patrick Brazeau won't be joining the parliamentary press gallery.

Chris Hadfield's cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity made the top 10, but he just couldn't compete with a group of costumed, singing and dancing Norwegians explaining what a fox says for the top YouTube video of the year in Canada.

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