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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's 10th budget features a $2.9-billion deficit and no dramatic cuts or tax increases. Here are some highlights.

The pilot-instructor of a tandem hang-gliding flight that killed a woman two years ago has been sentenced to five months in jail and banned from participating in the sport for three years.

The 2014 budget includes more than $1 billion in new infrastructure spending for cities – going almost entirely to Montreal and Windsor.

The feds aren't ready to kick the habit of spending more money than taxpayers give them, but Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says they're almost there.

A Tim Hortons store is liable for over $69,000 after hot soup caused a "personal tsunami" of pain in a Montreal woman's mouth, a judge has ruled.

Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who spent time detained in Guantanamo Bay, was reportedly transferred from a maximum-security prison in Alberta to a medium-security facility in the same province.

An illegal poultry market may be to blame for the H5N1 death of an Alberta woman.

Hoard 'em if you got 'em.

Two teen boys accused of murdering two sisters and one of the girl's boyfriends had planned even more murders, the Crown said Wednesday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper won't specifically say if the Conservatives will keep an election promise from the 2011 campaign to introduce income splitting after the federal budget is balanced -- something expected next year.

Residents of Innisfail, Alta., weren't happy to hear about their new neighbour, terrorist Omar Khadr, who was transferred to a medium-security jail there.

The latest Canadian soldier to die in an apparent suicide was reportedly facing sex charges.

Three families have launched a lawsuit alleging their teenage kids were bullied and mistreated at an unlicensed youth treatment centre run by Employment Minister Jason Kenney's brother.

Drug use, dark clothes and dark thoughts - two Quebec teens showed radical personality changes leading up to the triple murders that landed them behind bars, friends tell QMI Agency.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper made fun of Justin Trudeau for the second consecutive day on Thursday, for the Liberal leader's earlier claim that the "budget will balance itself."

Details of Liberal MPs' and senators' expenses from October to December of last year will be made public soon, but that may be the last time the public sees expense details from the former Grits in the red chamber.

Canadians will have to wait until next year to find out if the Conservative government will keep a 2011 election promise on income splitting, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

While Alberta's welfare rolls sit last in Canada, Ontario's have become the country's second-highest, say University of Calgary researchers.

Rob Ford’s recent trip to Vancouver is lingering like a bad hangover.

The man who orchestrated the infamous Mayor Rob Ford crack video used the same cellphone camera to record a second, shorter video where he gloats over his achievement, sources have revealed to the Toronto Sun.

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