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A former Edmonton Catholic junior high school drama teacher owned up Friday to having sexual contact with a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old student.

Ever wonder why the roads sometimes look like garbage? It could be that they're actually made from it. And that could be hurting our infrastructure costs in a big way.

In the end, there was no great mystery surrounding the remaining 18 seconds of shaky cellphone video shot by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau moments before carrying out his Oct. 22 rampage.

More than 7,000 people in Hamilton high-fived for Haiti Friday night and wound up in the Guiness Book of World Records.

Thousands of protesters across Canada marched against the Conservatives’ anti-terror bill, aimed at beefing up police and security agencies powers.

Climate change isn’t going to live or die on the approval of controversial pipeline projects like Keystone XL, Calgary’s mayor told a U.S. cable news network.

A police dog made history in B.C. Thursday when it helped a child sexual assault victim testify at trial.

Impaired driving is the suspected cause of a crash Sunday on a B.C. highway in which two cyclists and a car passenger were killed.

An Egyptian prosecutor says Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and his colleagues doctored protest footage and brought large sums of money into the country.

One of Canada's SARS experts says health-care workers here need to be on guard for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) after at least 17 people in South Korea were diagnosed with the virus in recent days.

A formal apology from the prime minister in 2008 was a major step in acknowledging and trying to repair the damage the Indian Residential School system inflicted on Canada's Aboriginal peoples.

There’s a dirty little secret behind washing your clothes.

Revelations that 6,000 or more children died in residential schools under mysterious conditions will turn an already dark period in Canadian history into an even more abhorrent one.

EDMONTON — A man from B.C. and a woman from Ontario are charged with first-degree murder in a December Strathcona County case where an Ontario man was slain and his vehicle burned.

OTTAWA -- A request to have a judge order the Senate to hand over a confidential report about expense claims from some senators threw a wrench into the criminal trial of Mike Duffy as it resumed Monday.

There, on Page 6 of the Nanton News, is the damning confession.

Terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was shot 31 times in Parliament Hill's Centre Block and died from a bullet to the back of the head, according to CBC sources who have viewed a police report to be released Wednesday.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report makes 94 wide-ranging recommendations to repair the relationship between Canada's indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

A federal policy of forcibly separating aboriginal children from their families and sending them to residential schools amounted to "cultural genocide," a six-year investigation into the now-defunct system found on Tuesday.

It looks like Central Canada is in for another dreary summer, while the West will be basking in heat again, according to The Weather Network's forecast for the next three months.

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