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The charred remains of Dave Watling’s SUV and travel-trailer are still scattered along the highway near Bassano, southeast of Calgary.

The Stephen Harper Conservatives said Tuesday they're ready to consider letting Canadians kick in extra to the Canada Pension Plan accounts.

Rescuers were clearing rocks to free nine miners trapped more than half a mile (1 km) underground at IAMGOLD Corp's Westwood gold mine in Quebec on Tuesday after a rockfall, a company spokesman said.

Former foreign affairs minister John Baird, who used to be an Ottawa-area MP, has a new job as senior adviser at Bennett Jones, a Canadian law firm with 380 lawyers. The company announced the appointment in a press release dated May 26.

A lawyer for Canada Post says the Crown corporation should be “immune” to a Hamilton bylaw which would effectively give the city control over the placement of community mailboxes.

A so-called false killer whale stranded on a B.C. beach last year will stay at the Vancouver Aquarium after the government decided that should be its permanent home.

The 15-year-old son of the Canadian consul general in Miami who faces murder charges from a botched drug deal will seek to be released on bond at a hearing Wednesday in Miami.

If there’s one thing Blair Gaboury has learned, it’s that “it’s brighter outside of the closet.”

The mother of a five-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by a “sick and twisted” man who also planned to drug and kidnap her child says she lives in a scarier world today.

CALGARY -- More than a thousand animals were removed from a home deemed uninhabitable in the largest ever seizure by the Calgary Humane Society.

Thousands of Albertans evacuated from their communities due to wildfires have been allowed to return home, but a province-wide fire ban is still in place due to the dry weather.

Banning incandescent light bulbs and plastic bags is a waste of time, suggests a new report from the Fraser Institute.

Federal prisons are "significantly" overusing solitary confinement to handle inmates -- a practice that is particularly harmful to those suffering from mental illness, the Correctional Investigator of Canada says.

A university student who sought help after a sexual assault was instead sexually abused by the doctor who was supposed to help her, a regulatory college said Thursday.

Transport Canada has now recalled almost two million vehicles due to risk of exploding airbags. The agency updated its list Thursday to add what appeared to be another 1.2 million vehicles that were built with Takata airbags.

The tampon tax is dead.

A pregnant Regina woman with severe pain in her right hand was sent home without treatment from a hospital ER, but returned the next day and learned it might need to be amputated, her family says.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay is expected to announce his retirement from politics Friday afternoon.

A trucker is accused of drunk driving and hit and run after four engineering grads from Calgary were injured — one critically — in a head-on crash in Las Vegas Wednesday night.

Peter MacKay, the politician, leaves the Tories with a long list of accomplishments and accolades. So does Peter Mackay, the lover.

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