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Arguably the most dramatic motion in London political history will be debated Monday and one of its driving forces just wants the thing over with.

Savers will get a little extra room to sock away cash in their tax-free savings account (TFSA) next year, as the feds increase the $5,000 annual contribution limit for inflation.

A Timmins man has passed away after spending the last 22 years of his life in a coma.

New Liberal leadership candidate Joyce Murray launched her bid Monday by promoting legalized pot, a price on carbon and affirmative action in cabinet.

Justice Charles Hackland's eagerly awaited decision in Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's conflict-of-interest case was handed down Monday morning.

Like a scene right out of the Trailer Park Boys, an RCMP chopper and two police dogs helped chase down two young Nova Scotia men who allegedly made off with a tractor-trailer packed with more than $200,000 worth of booze last weekend.

Six major drug companies can now roll out knockoff versions of OxyContin despite warnings from doctors, pharmacists, police chiefs and provincial health officials.

The Salvation Army warehouse boss recently dismissed after $2 million worth of donated toys and other goods vanished now faces three criminal charges.

What appears to be two bodies are behind police tape after a shooting Monday morning at the front door of Executive Inn in Burnaby, B.C.

Maj. Darryl Watts, the Calgary army reservist charged with manslaughter in an Afghan training exercise, testified Monday he was not the officer in command of the firing range.

Even as Phoenix Sinclair's home life grew increasingly volatile, to a point she was spending large amounts of time being cared for by her father's friends, a Winnipeg Child and Family Services (CFS) worker said she didn't actively investigate those people to ensure the little girl's safety.

Mob boss Vito Rizzuto and his right-hand man will be must-see TV when they take the stand at the Charbonneau Commission, but it likely won't happen before the new year.

The Oxford Crown attorney's office dropped several charges against a 72-year-old Woodstock man accused of stalking two local men.

Conservative Erin O'Toole was expected to capture the race for MP in the Durham riding in one of three federal byelections held Monday, three months after former Tory cabinet minister Bev Oda resigned.

When the polls close Monday evening in three by-elections across the country, many in the nation's capital believe the results will tell us a great deal about the popularity of Stephen Harper's Conservatives or which party has the early lead to carry the anti-Harper banner in the 2015 general election.

Perhaps the surest sign that the Conservatives were the big winners in a trio of byelections Monday was that New Democrats, Liberals, and Greens spent the day arguing amongst themselves that they did better against the governing party.

Harvey Locke says sentiments expressed by Liberal David McGuinty helped dunk his campaign, but absolved Justin Trudeau for similar anti-Alberta comments.

Sloppy legal wording by the secretive Board of Internal Economy allowed Gilles Duceppe to misuse tax dollars on Bloc Quebecois affairs.

The New Democrats are accusing the Tories of playing partisan politics with a bill that would give the world's poorest countries easier access to Canadian generic drugs.

The feds plan to unveil regulations to boost vehicle fuel efficiency and to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, but critics question the timing of the Tuesday announcement because a UN climate change conference is underway.

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