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Stay warm, Canada. It's still bone-chilling out there for a little while yet.

Montreal police are investigating after an officer was videoed threatening to handcuff a T-shirt-wearing homeless man to a pole during a deep freeze.

With the new year comes change and 2014 marks the year that the U.S. (and effectively, Canada) will no longer import or manufacture 40-watt and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs.

Mounties in Red Deer, Alta., are offering up a cash reward to help capture a teen wanted for a January 2013 homicide.

After months of denying it spies on Canadians, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) now admits it may "incidentally" read or hear Canadians' communications.

Even healthy young people are being attacked by the rising tide of influenza in Alberta, prompting provincial health officials to make a plea for everyone to get the flu shot before hospitals are completely overwhelmed.

No one won Friday's $46 million Lotto Max jackpot. The second Lotto Max draw of 2014 will offer an estimated $50 million jackpot plus an estimated two Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each. The lucky numbers will be drawn next Friday, Jan. 10.

A couple's New Year's Eve celebration came to a halt after making a grisly discovery in a bag of Safeway-brand Spanish peanuts.

Canadian policy-makers should keep a close eye on the recent legalizing of marijuana in two U.S. states before deciding on a direction in the pot debate now raging north of the border, a prominent American drug-policy expert says.

From Alberta to the east coast, Canadians are braving everything that Old Man Winter is throwing at them

A trust fund has been set up for the family of murder victim Julie Paskall as Newton, B.C.-area residents plan a meeting Monday to discuss safety issues in the wake of her Dec. 29 beating death.

A family’s decision to live like it’s 1986 turned out to be a big modern-day attention grabber.

An off-duty naval officer with HMCS Toronto whose body was found Thursday in his hotel room during a port visit in the Seychelles died of asphyxiation, officials say.

The pot-smoking Mountie accused of assaulting a cop has been deemed fit to stand trial after a 30-day psych assessment.

An Alberta man was buried by an avalanche while skiing this weekend near Sparwood, B.C., but his friends were able to dig him out alive.

Two Mounties have been injured in a violent encounter at a rural property near Vegreville, Ata. Monday night.

A Saskatchewan family is crying foul after the RCMP announced it dropped its investigation into allegations a North Battleford teen was bullied before he killed himself in September 2013.

At least three struggling Catholic parishes in eastern Quebec could be in hot water for holding illegal lottery fundraisers.

Conservative Blaine Calkins won the honours Monday as the MP to make the first government cheque presentation of 2014.

Expect some RCMP heads to roll after environmental activists evaded detection and came precariously close to Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Vancouver, says a security expert.

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