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The new Liberal government is making good on a promise to resurrect the mandatory, long-form census which was killed by the Conservatives, but is vague on the details of how people will be persuaded to fill it out.

Canada's new Liberal government backs TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline, but does not want the project opposed by environmentalists to spoil relations with the United States, Foreign Minister Stephane Dion said on Thursday.

Canada's chastened Conservative legislators picked Rona Ambrose as a new interim leader on Thursday to help rebuild the party after they were driven from government in last month's election.

He didn’t just kill her. Paul Faria harassed Vicky Doyle and chased her around the house to lay a “ferocious” beating on her, the Crown says.

The federal Conservatives have chosen Alberta MP Rona Ambrose as their interim replacement for former leader Stephen Harper.

When the Harper family got together to eat dinner, it wasn't about quail eggs or rare oddities—no, it was more typical Canadian fare.

For some, Remembrance Day means heading down to the local cenotaph to pay their respects to our veterans.

As the Liberals rush to fulfil their headline election vow to siphon more from the rich to give to the middle class, it remains up for debate just how much the plan will help Canada's limping economy.

A former Nova Scotia cabinet minister says he unintentionally misstated when he was made aware of a parliamentary privilege that he contends prevented him from appearing in court for the trial of a woman accused of assaulting him.

A species of invasive, disease-carrying mosquito has been found in British Columbia -- the first such discovery in Western Canada.

The Obama administration has rejected Calgary-based energy giant TransCanada's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

When doctor John McCrae went to war, he not only helped put broken soldiers back together on the battlefield, he wrote what became the most famous Canadian poem of the First World War. A hundred years after In Flanders Fields was published, doctor/soldier/author Kevin Patterson writes about doctors at war and how much has, and hasn’t changed.

Canada's recent Nobel laureate Arthur McDonald has won another big science award: the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments Monday on whether all sex acts with animals should be considered bestiality -- and therefore declared illegal.

The federal department in charge of retirement benefits has quietly been reviewing its protocols amid concerns that military spouses were wrongfully being rejected for old age security payments.

The RCMP believes it has "come to a dead end" in its probe of where Parliament Hill shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau got his gun -- one of the most vexing questions about the events of Oct. 22, 2014.

The Great Lakes have claimed thousands of ships since European explorers began navigating the waters in the 1600s, but few have captured the public's imagination as has the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior.

The new Trudeau government will have to contend with bigger-than-expected baseline deficits in the coming years as it rolls out its promised spending plans, the federal budget watchdog says.

Dropping his pants in front of a neighbour has earned a Kamloops, B.C., man 140 days in jail.

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