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A Quebec man's double life as a newly converted jihadist is under scrutiny now that he and his soldier target are dead, as family and law enforcement try to find out why he followed ISIS kill commands.

A southeastern Ontario girl who was just eight years old when she saved her sister's life received a Medal of Bravery Tuesday.

Slitting a cat’s throat during a sex ritual with his then girlfriend should land a city man up to 20 months in jail, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Canada Post has come under fire for severing ties with a Canadian company and awarding the contract for its new community mailboxes to a U.S. manufacturer.

Luka Magnotta met a British journalist to discuss kitten-killing videos six months before the death of Jun Lin, and later warned he would kill people, Magnotta's murder trial was told.

The lawyer for the man who ran down two soldiers south of Montreal this week, killing one of them, described her client as a "very calm, even friendly" man.

Canada raised its domestic terrorism threat level from low to medium late last week, but there was no specific threat that triggered the change, a government spokesman says.

Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office is warning all political parties that while the federal treasury is about to overflow with billions in surpluses, any major tax cuts or new spending programs could plunge the country back into deficit.

A 40-year-old woman has been charged with six counts of concealing the body of a child after infant remains were discovered in a storage locker here Monday afternoon.

An arrest has been made after at least two people were shot in a hail of gunfire on Parliament Hill and the nearby cenotaph.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was with Julian Fantino in a caucus meeting when gunfire erupted at Parliament Hill, the Veterans Affairs Minister told the Toronto Sun Wednesday.

American authorities reacted with sympathy and shock Wednesday as the violent events unfolded in another political capital north of the border.

Canada's political class united Wednesday to condemn "an act of hatred and brutality" that left a Canadian Forces soldier dead.

Shocked bystanders ducked for cover Wednesday when a gunman opened fire at the National War Memorial, killing a soldier guarding the monument before storming the Parliament Buildings.

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was a doting father, an animal lover and a proud soldier who dreamed of serving his country since he was barely a teenager.

Photographer Pete Thorne explains his beautiful and charming photos that capture the old soul beauty of senior dogs:

An city woman accused of a terrorism hoax owned up Wednesday to lying to authorities about her sister's fiance being a terrorist because the family disliked him.