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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday he wants to ensure the temporary foreign work program operates “on the basis of Canadians first” in light of concerns raised about permits granted to Chinese miners at a B.C. coal mine.

As yet another Remembrance Day approaches, it seems unfathomable that a group of severely-maimed veterans of Afghanistan are forced to sue our government for being treated like yesterday's news.

A Toronto woman hammered her 70-kilogram American bulldog with a mop in a desperate bit to save her boyfriend after it tore off one of his testicles, police said Wednesday.

Bibles may not be in the curriculum, but they are on the agenda for a B.C. board of education after a parent complained about the permission slip to distribute a Gideon Bible to Grade 5 students.

Anyone attempting to trick law enforcement by wearing a mask during an illegal gathering could be treated to a decade-long prison sentence, according to a Tory backbencher's bill that was passed in the House of Commons on Halloween.

A bloodied 19-year-old woman told her neighbour she stabbed a knife-wielding man who broke into her apartment while she slept and sexually assaulted her Thursday morning.

Student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, who steadfastly refused to condemn months of student violence, was found guilty Thursday of contempt of court for inciting protesters to ignore back-to-school injunctions.

More than 1,000 police officers from Quebec, Ontario and B.C. swooped down on a biker-linked drug ring that imported drugs from Mexican cartels, police said.

The police officer who sent a flirty text to a woman he’d arrested for impaired driving is under investigation by the professional standards officer, Sarnia's top cop said.

While Canada struggles with whether to join the big boys by buying the F-35 for the Air Force, the Chinese are developing a second stealth fighter jet.

The campaign staffer at the centre of voter suppression allegations in southwestern Ontario is speaking out after eight months of silence.

A woman in Peterborough, Ont., is demanding $25,000 in compensation from her neighbour because her teenage son is playing basketball too loudly in the driveway.

Treasury Board President Tony Clement's MP pension reform victory lap garnered only lukewarm applause from key watchdogs Thursday.

A 19-year-old woman somehow wrested a knife away from a man who broke into her room Thursday in a brutal sex attack that has stunned residents of a west Ottawa apartment.

Catholic parents rallied to cancel a high school trip to Ohio after some said it would have seen students going door to door in support of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The Calgary owner of a cache of firearms was overcome with emotion Thursday when a judge asked why he was voluntarily giving up his guns.

A Pacific Centre security guard has been fired and two others suspended after a cellphone video captured a disabled man being thrown to the ground in the mall.

The Aids Committee of Ottawa (ACO) is livid with the guilty verdict handed to Steven Boone on Wednesday for attempted murder and administering a noxious substance -- HIV -- to his sexual partners.

Federal Conservatives were cheering the destruction of hundreds of thousands of gun registry records Thursday night, the culmination of what has been a core campaign promise by the Tories for a decade.

A Surrey acupuncturist has been fined more than $20,000 and had his practice suspended for allegedly running a brothel at his clinic.

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