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HALIFAX -- A preliminary inquiry for two people accused of plotting to open fire at a Halifax shopping mall heard its first day of testimony on Tuesday.

A three-year-old boy who illegally parked his plastic, red motorcycle on the waterfront in Halifax, N.S., was photographed while he received a parking ticket from a police officer and the tot’s reaction is priceless.

A Senate committee is calling on the federal government to outlaw membership in a terrorist group.

A B.C. Conservation officer has been suspended without pay after he reportedly refused an order to put down two bear cubs last weekend.

A second horse has been euthanized as a result of injuries suffered during the chuckwagon competition at the Calgary Stampede.

Medical marijuana users can legally consume other forms of the drug beyond the traditional dried version under new Health Canada rules that follow a recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada.

It's not every day a dinosaur gets named after you, so Canadian fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda celebrated in a unique way.

Officials at Canada Post have issued a recall on a stamp featuring Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, because of a geography error.

The case of a Newfoundland man charged in the stabbing of a young soccer player will be back in court on July 30.

A food truck selling a posh hot dog for $100 at the Calgary Stampede has sold out after just one day.

A lawyer for Dalhousie University says many of the dentistry students disciplined for participating in a misogynistic Facebook group are now employed as dentists.

The heat wave across British Columbia has pushed temperatures in some waterways to 19 degrees, just one degree below the point where the Department of Fisheries and Oceans predicts there could be damaging effects on fish.

Calgary Stampede officials have made the unprecedented move of eliminating a competitor because of the alleged mistreatment of his horse.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the government will react with "strong fiscal discipline" to the "downturn" in the Canadian economy, which he blamed on the recent turmoil in the global economy.

An Ontario teen got special treatment aboard a navy ship in Halifax on Friday night.

The prime minister of Ukraine will be in Ottawa this week for talks with the Harper government.

A man and his 10-month-old daughter have been killed in a two-vehicle crash in central Alberta.

Staff at an Edmonton bar have no doubt added to their good karma by donating a hefty tip from a satisfied customer.

A Quebec judge rejected Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd's challenge to a settlement for victims of the Lac-Megantic crude-by-rail disaster on Monday, helping clear the way for compensation payments.

The lead investigator of an RCMP sting wanted a pair of British Columbia terrorism suspects out of their home and away from the distractions of drugs and video games to keep them focused on their bomb plot, a court has heard.

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