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More than a month after it was shuttered in the midst of the country's largest-ever beef recall, the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alta., resumed operations Monday.

A shallow quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 was recorded off British Columbia on Canada’s west coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.

As Canada and the U.S. increasingly co-operate to watch maritime borders, authorities are using hi-tech radar systems to track the baddies.

A Toronto-area woman pleaded guilty to the lesser charges of manslaughter Tuesday for killing her two infant children at their family home in London in the U.K. last May, British media report.

Carl St. Cyr confessed to a jury Tuesday that it was him and not Toby Land, who is on trial for murder, who stabbed their roommate with a samurai sword.

While health spending continues to climb in Canada, it’s growing at a slower rate, as debt-saddled provinces try to cut the fat, a new report has found.

The director of the Canadian Conference of the Arts is hoping for a miracle.

Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay was present at a meeting in which two other officials discussed illicit campaign financing, his former organizer said Tuesday.

Stolen and deliberately damaged property is a $1.9-million problem in the federal civil service.

Killer ex-doctor Guy Turcotte, found not criminally responsible for killing his two children, is allowed unescorted leaves from a mental hospital and was photographed at a recent family outing while smiling and holding a baby.

Opposition parties reiterated calls for an outside audit of Canada's food safety system on Tuesday - a recommendation also made by an independent investigator who probed the 2008 listeria outbreak.

Despite claims the economy is recovering, the number of Canadians relying on food banks increased last year, a continuation of an uncomfortable trend since the recession of 2008.

Post-tropical storm Sandy weakened as the system moved inland and blew itself out Tuesday, and residents of southern Ontario and Quebec were left to pick up the pieces.

An Ontario judge says a police officer showed “utter stupidity” by flirting with a woman following her arrest for drunk driving, but found the woman guilty anyway.

Two Canadians are dead and thousands are without power as post-tropical storm Sandy diminishes.

Despite recent honour killing cases in Canadian courts, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney shows little appetite for stricter screening of prospective immigrants to Canada.

Justin Trudeau's leadership juggernaut is keeping other candidates from jumping into the race, a Liberal MP says.

The NDP to-do list if it forms government grew Wednesday with a promise to scrap an agreement with China that Prime Minister Stephen Harper says would create jobs and protect billions in investments.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is trying to change the mix of immigrants coming to Canada by favouring foreign students and temporary foreign workers already in the country.

Taxpayers are on the hook for $4,000 for a Statistics Canada census taker who damaged a hotel room.

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