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"It's appalling and incomprehensible."

In the early hours of Saturday, July 6, 2013, a 74-car train carrying crude oil derailed in the town of Lac Megantic, Que.

A former Canadian soldier has filed a grievance against the military, claiming he was turfed instead of being treated for a debilitating bacterial disease.

A man accused of killing three Mounties and injuring two others in a shooting rampage last month has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric assessment.

The husband of a 48-year-old diver who died this week is urging anyone along the St. Lawrence River to be on the lookout for her missing equipment.

From a prison cell, serial sex killer Paul Bernardo has charmed and manipulated an attractive, university-educated woman into planning to marry him, QMI Agency has learned.

It is the end of an era for one "vexatious litigant" who managed to turn a relatively minor criminal charge into a seven-year appeal the Supreme Court finally put to rest Thursday.

The frantic first hours, followed by days of waiting.

A city woman planning to marry Paul Bernardo seems an unusual case of someone seeking both fame and comfort, says the author of a book on women who choose killer husbands.

A long-distance truck driver who attacked and sexually assaulted two local men while he was drunk and high on cocaine was sentenced to prison on Thursday.

Paul Bernardo could get married while in prison, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'd be consummating it with a conjugal visit, according to a criminal lawyer.

As our friends south of the border celebrate the Fouth of July, we take a look at some famous Canadians born in the U.S.A. Take our quiz and see if you can guess the famous American import!

A man who fell asleep next to a northern Ontario trail woke up to a bear biting his hand, police say.

LAKEFIELD, Ont — When Tim Rollwagen got hit by lightning this week, he didn't think twice about tweeting about it, until he realized that's how his wife might find out.

MONTREAL — A Quebec mother posed as her 12-year-old stepdaughter for four weeks on Facebook to catch an alleged pedophile, QMI Agency has learned.

The Federal Court says the Conservative government's denial of health services to refugee claimants is unconstitutional because it's "cruel and unusual" and discriminatory.

A 19-year-old woman is dead and a 20-year-old Ottawa woman is in an induced coma after police say bad pills were taken at local raves in Ottawa over the Canada Day weekend.

Dozens of police officers and volunteers were Saturday searching the area around a southwest home where a Calgary family disappeared from.

The last Liberal Justice Minister was Irwin Cotler, a scholar and professor revered, even by his political opponents, as one of the world's foremost human rights lawyers.

Police in Halifax were warning residents to be extra cautious after receiving reports of people being injured by blowing debris and falling tree branches as a post-tropical storm swept across Atlantic Canada.

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