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OTTAWA — It’s been a long time coming, but Sarah Stott is literally taking her first steps on the road to recovery.

Coast Guard vessel CCGS Ann Harvey ran aground off the coast of Newfoundland on Wednesday and none of the 28 people on board were injured.

The federal government has denied Mohamed Fahmy's request for a passport, despite its repeated calls for the Canadian journalist's freedom as he goes through an internationally criticized retrial in Egypt.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair says enough with senator stall tactics, the auditor general should release his report into the upper chamber's spending scandal as soon as possible.

Canada's decision to extend its military mission against Islamic State forces by another year means the total cost of the operation will be at least $528 million, Defense Minister Jason Kenney said on Wednesday.

The father of an Ottawa teen shot dead during an apparent drug deal gone bad in Miami said he and his wife are 'devastated' at the news.

Jamie Gillman says Wednesday would have been the worst day of his life if not for Jan. 29, when he was pummelled by a TTC transit enforcement officer at Union Station.

A three-year-old boy found wandering the streets of Winnipeg alone was safely returned to his parents Friday morning.

A fisherman caught a 17-lb lobster with claws bigger than his head off the coast of Nova Scotia last week.

The Crown has filed a notice of appeal in the case of an Ontario trucker who was found not guilty murdering a woman who bled to death from a vaginal wound in an Edmonton hotel.

A mother was sentenced Thursday to house arrest for fracturing her baby’s ribs while breastfeeding because she became frustrated with the child and tightened her squeeze.

Five young Cree hunters died in a fire Wednesday in the Lake Mistissini area in northern Quebec.

Canada declined a U.S. invitation last week to jointly announce climate policy cooperation with Mexico, with Ottawa saying it has not yet finalized its own domestic strategy, sources from both countries familiar with the discussions said on Thursday.

The 15-year-old son of a Canadian diplomat from Ottawa is charged with threatening to kill a police officer, on top of a murder rap, after a gunbattle in Miami that left her other son dead.

Air Canada is giving $5,000 to each passenger from the plane that crash landed at the Halifax airport last weekend.

The Canadian ship HMCS Whitehorse helped intercept more than 5,200 kilograms of cocaine of the coast of Costa Rica, the Department of National Defence says.

Hanane Mehdi was taking the subway to work in downtown Montreal on Tuesday, as she does every day, when she says she was the victim of a racist attack.

Less than a year after nearly dying in a paragliding crash while vacationing in France, Col. Sean Boyle of CFB North Bay is ready take over as Canadian air task commander of Operation IMPACT in Iraq.