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If you ever need to plow your driveway in a hurry, consider getting a freight train to do it.

China has detained a Canadian man on suspicion of stealing and prying into state secrets, and released his wife, also a Canadian, from custody on bail after holding the couple without charge for months, China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

Police say a 16-year-old Winnipeg boy has been charged after chasing down and stabbing a hammer-wielding teen who had broken into his family’s home Tuesday afternoon.

The man who kept an illegal rock python that strangled New Brunswick brothers Noah and Connor Barthe has been arrested.

A 46-year-old woman operating a recruiting agency in North York is accused of preying on numerous immigrant workers, mostly in the Philippines, and bilking them out of more than $1.5 million, Toronto Police said Thursday.

Veteran Jim Holt has stage 4 cancer, two months to live -- and a $61,000 medical bill.

TORONTO -- A fifth case of measles has been diagnosed in Toronto, the city's public health agency confirmed Thursday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz ended his trip to the U.S. capital Thursday with a threat that the federal government is ready to pull the trigger on retaliatory tariffs over U.S. country of origin labelling (COOL) regulations.

Canada and its allies in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance are expected to develop a "counter-narrative" to prevent the recruitment of would-be jihadist terrorists among their populations.

Eleven of Canada's highest-profile jihadi terrorists, terror suspects and alleged extremists have ties to the Muslim Students Association, a security conference has heard.

A bus full of young figure skaters and their parents crashed on the icy roads of Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L., late Thursday, sending all 55 people on board to hospital.

In a recent Abacus Data poll on the three main party leaders, people said who they would rather have give them financial advice, look after their kids, chose the best movie and even figure out how to survive in the wilderness. Here are the results.

MONTREAL — A teacher has been suspended, and an angry mother has filed a police complaint, after a child was allegedly taped to a chair at a Montreal elementary school.

The European Union on Friday announced plans to toughen its 2009 ban of commercial seal hunt products.

Quebec economic development minister Jacques Daoust, who publicly denounced companies looking for handouts last fall, applied for and received a $5,000 grant from his own government for a winery in which he holds a majority stake.

More than two decades after denying ALS sufferer Sue Rodriguez's request to end her life with the help of a doctor, the Supreme Court shifted gears Friday and unanimously struck down Canada's assisted suicide ban.

"To whom much is given, much is required."

The Canadian government will extend the life of the Chalk River, Ont. nuclear reactor until 2018, a news release from Minister of Natural Resources Greg Rickford said on Friday.

Ontario nurses can play a crucial role in designing new laws around physician-assisted death following Friday’s Supreme Court ruling on the matter, the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario says.

Someone in Ontario is $50 million richer today.

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