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The government’s new anti-terror bill proposes significant new powers for police and CSIS, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper insists jihadists, and not his bill, are the real threat to Canadians’ freedoms.

A Ryerson University student running for a position with the school's student union is coming under fire for allegedly condoning the recent killing of two police officers in New York.

VANCOUVER - A massive spill from a dam containing mine waste in British Columbia last August was caused by a flawed design for the embankment, which did not properly account for the geology of the region, an independent panel said on Friday.

OTTAWA — Canada's premiers are set to roll out their national energy strategy, P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz said yesterday at the conclusion of the annual meeting of provincial first ministers.

MONTREAL - A halfway house that cost taxpayers $2.1 million and is located in a remote part of Quebec currently holds just a single resident.

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A $40,000 fundraiser for former MP Dean Del Mastro didn’t break any rules, the commissioner of Elections Canada has ruled.

An Ontario cottager who saved a man who'd fallen through the ice on Friday says there was only one tool used in the rescue: a household mop.

The son of Manitoba Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh has pleaded not guilty to robbing a bank, arguing he was delirious after weaning himself off a prescribed anti-depressant.

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien says he is concerned that the government’s new anti-terror bill does not respect the privacy rights of Canadians.

A Vancouver Island mother is dead and her seven-month-old son is in critical condition after they ended up in a fast-flowing river near Courtenay, B.C.

It was a rare wildlife encounter that came a little too close for comfort for a Canmore man.

A petition calling for an Alberta woman allegedly involved in the largest animal cruelty case in the province to be banned from owning animals for life has garnered thousands of signatures.

Canada’s foreign minister called terrorism “the great struggle of our generation” during a visit to Boston Saturday.

Yellow Pages will cease home delivery of its phone books to some areas in Canada.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says he's in talks with his Egyptian counterpart and is hopeful Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy will be released from prison soon.

A winter storm that moved over southern Ontario and the Atlantic provinces over the weekend blanketed most of eastern Canada with snow on Monday, causing treacherous road conditions, delays and closures.

Two Nova Scotia students have died in the last two weeks after suspected cases of meningitis, but public health officials say the deaths are not linked.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to visit Ottawa next Monday.

Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser plotted to derail a Via Rail train between New York and Toronto in 2012 at Jordan, Ont. or Highland Creek in Scarborough but their terror group was infiltrated by an FBI undercover agent, the Crown alleged in its opening statement.

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