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Canada's health minister urged Canadian parents on Tuesday to take advantage of public health care and vaccinate their children.

A heavy-footed cab driver was caught travelling 126 km/h over the speed limit in Nova Scotia this week, RCMP said.

The union that represents 3,300 rail workers across the country gave Canadian Pacific a strike deadline of Sunday.

Canadian seniors receive around three times more government spending than younger generations, according to a new study.

Initial test results reveal that a mother and child who arrived from West Africa earlier this month and quarantined overnight in southwestern Ontario do not have Ebola.

Newly minted Liberal MP Eve Adams announced Wednesday she would seek her party's nomination in the Toronto riding of Eglinton-Lawrence, where she would go up against Finance Minister Joe Oliver.

Four prominent members of the arts communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan were among the five killed in a highway crash north of Regina Tuesday.

A 29-year-old Nova Scotia man — a repeat sexual offender — has been charged with Internet luring after he allegedly contacted six girls and arranged to meet them, RCMP said.

An Inuit school board in northern Quebec with a 73% dropout rate billed taxpayers $23,000 to send four officials on a junket to Hawaii, QMI Agency has learned.

Two-thousand east-end Montrealers are digging themselves out after a snow-removal company suddenly went out of business.

VANCOUVER -- A 64-year-old Burnaby, B.C., woman wants to be the first to receive a physician-assisted death after years of suffering from a disease that has rendered her both paralyzed and in extreme pain.

A Pickering mother who lost a young daughter to a blood infection a little over two years ago is lashing out against those opposed to measles vaccination after her newborn was possibly exposed to the virus at a doctor’s office in Markham.

CALGARY -- The body of Sgt. Mark Salesse, lost in a Feb. 5 avalanche while on an ice-climbing exercise near Banff, Alta., has been recovered, Mounties have confirmed.

Independent investigators are probing the death of a suspect whom Mounties Tasered during an arrest for allegedly stabbing a dog Wednesday afternoon in Chilliwack, B.C., police say.

A second union representing workers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd has given notice that it may go on strike just after midnight on Saturday.

OTTAWA -- RCMP officers acted outside of the law when they conducted warrantless searches and seizures of firearms during the southern Alberta floods of 2013, according to an independent report.

Canadian troops were forced to return fire on ISIS fighters in Iraq once since Jan. 26.

So this is how an alleged terrorist goes hunting for new recruits in Canada: Take them for dinner, chat them up at the mosque and show off your new "safe house" in Toronto, all while insisting the Qur'an justifies the murder of innocent women and children.

Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy has been released on bail from prison in Cairo, Egypt.

An outbreak has been declared at Nova Scotia's Acadia University after a second student hospitalized with meningitis was found to have the strain that killed the first student, the province's chief public health officer said Friday.

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