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Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation and the neighbouring village of Loon Lake in northern Saskatchewan have restored their firefighting agreement after two toddlers died in a house fire last month.

His beard a bit longer, his hair a bit wilder, accused terrorist Awso Peshdary made a brief video appearance Thursday from the maximum security wing of the Innes Rd. jail.

The Canadian-made experimental Ebola vaccine was tested on a doctor who was exposed to the disease and it appeared to work as well as researchers hoped, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association says.

A man rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard on Lake St. Clair Thursday said he was walking over the frozen ice from Detroit to Toronto.

OTTAWA — The Rhinoceros Party says it wants to recruit former Toronto mayor Rob Ford as part of its plan for sex and drugs to help the economy.

A United Nations committee has joined the call for Canada to conduct an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced Friday that Canadian survivors of thalidomide would receive $125,000 each in compensation as well as medical support for life.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - President Barack Obama on Friday repeated concerns that the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project will only create "about 300" permanent jobs and poses environmental concerns.

MONTREAL - They say there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes.

A Canadian pastor detained in North Korea has done only humanitarian work there, his church said on Friday as it denied a media report that he had ties to a purged and executed uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Right before he gunned down a young soldier at the National War Memorial and stormed Parliament’s Centre Block, a sober Michael Zehaf-Bibeau looked into a cellphone camera and said his actions were retaliation for Canada’s military role in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mother Nature continues to keep a firm grasp on winter, which means maple syrup producers have no choice but to wait patiently for the sap to begin flowing.

After break-and-enter artist Jesse Whitlock got 18 months behind bars Friday he cast his eye into the courtroom.

Privacy commissioners from across Canada have spoken out against the federal government’s anti-terror bill.

A Quebec man's arrest at the Halifax airport has raised questions about just what the power to search means for border agents.

A traffic stop turned into "probably the most Canadian thing ever," a Winnipeg woman says.

MONTREAL — The federal government is coming under increased pressure to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terror outfit, as more evidence piles up that the group has tentacles in Canada.

A steroid trafficking operation within the Edmonton Police Service has been busted, with two veteran officers facing multiple charges.

Canada has banned the importation of all poultry products from Minnesota, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington due to an outbreak of avian flu in poultry in those states.

CALGARY -- Heavy smoke and ash clouded Calgary's skyline as a construction site went up in flames late Saturday morning.

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