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A day after police charged an Ottawa music teacher with sexual assault, as many as three more women have come forward.

Vets at the U of C have diagnosed Canada’s first fatal case of feline H1N1, but the dean of the college says it shouldn’t cause worry for local pet owners.

Mourners across the city have been targetted in a string of residential robberies that occur while they are out saying their final goodbyes to a loved one.

The federal government has launched an investigation into claims that dozens of Canadian ironworkers were replaced with temporary foreign workers at an oilsands project north of Fort McMurray, Alta.

Canada has condemned a law currently making its way through the Afghan parliament amid mounting concerns over negotiations between the country's president, Hamid Karzai and the Taliban.

A non-profit organization in Vancouver that distributed several thousand crack pipes two years back as part of a pilot program to protect addicts from overdosing and diseases, has sparked controversy for installing crack pipe vending machines in the city.

An addiction worker behind Canada’s first crack pipe vending machines has shot back at the government’s lack of support, saying if they “really cared about people, they would at least fund detox and treatment programs.”

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Former Quebec premier and Parti Quebecois leader Jacques Parizeau is deeply concerned over his province's deteriorating economy.

P.E.I.'s coastlines will erode over the next 90 years and 1,000 homes are in danger of literally falling into the ocean, according to new research out of the University of Prince Edward Island.

The RCMP said Monday that three former federal tax officials are among seven people who have been arrested in an alleged bribery scam.

Mayor Rob Ford admitted he lied for months about smoking crack cocaine because he was “embarrassed.”

An elderly Scarborough man and an Ottawa woman were killed in a home invasion in Mexico over the weekend.

A pregnant Victoria, B.C., woman declared brain dead and kept alive on life-support for six weeks gave birth to her son Saturday but passed away the following day.

The federal government has signed an agreement with Quebec to pay half of the bill for costs associated with the Lac-Megantic train derailment, QMI Agency has learned.

Researchers hit the "motherload" when they discovered a new fossil site in a B.C. national park.

Friends of a Montreal woman who was attacked by a polar bear while working in Manitoba are hoping strangers will help her pay her medical transportation bills.

A judge has ordered a Montreal hospital to pay an ex-con $18,607 after his temperature was taken with a rectal thermometer while he was handcuffed to a bed.