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The woman who carried out last week's mass shooting in California with her husband had attended an Islamic religious school, or madrassa, founded by a Pakistani scholar who now lives in Canada, intelligence officials and the school said Monday.

Canada's 42nd Parliament got down to business Monday, with the often-promised new era of civility sounding a lot like a brittle rehash of the federal election campaign.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- The man accused of shooting a Mountie during a traffic stop in Kamloops, B.C., one year ago has been ordered by a judge to stand trial.

An Air France flight from San Francisco to Paris was diverted to Montreal after an unspecified anonymous threat, and the passengers landed and disembarked safely before authorities declared it a false alarm.

Eight months into his criminal trial, Sen. Mike Duffy is taking the witness stand to testify in his own defence.

In a dramatic example of how climate change is altering the Arctic landscape, a small northern lake has fallen off a cliff after bursting through the melting earthen rampart that restrained it.

Around 300 Syrians are expected to be in Canada by Saturday as the long- awaited first flights under the Liberal plan to resettle thousands of refugees from the war-torn region finally touch down on Canadian soil.

Controversial Quebec legislation on assisted dying will become law on Thursday, says the province's health minister.

VANCOUVER -- A much-loved sea otter that won the hearts of Vancouver Aquarium's staff and visitors while recovering from gunshot wounds has died.

The prospect of a terrorist cyberattack on an airplane struck federal intelligence analysts as more pie-in-the-sky than a real possibility, newly released documents show.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has had a busy month. He circumnavigated the globe, for instance, leaving Ottawa on a Friday and touching down, in order, in Germany (to refuel), in Turkey (for a G20 summit), in India (to refuel), in the Philippines (for an APEC summit) in Alaska (to refuel) and back to Ottawa on the subsequent Friday.

The national privacy watchdog says federal agencies must put more rigorous safeguards in place to protect sensitive personal information -- especially when that data is on an easy-to-lose memory stick.

A second-degree murder charge has been withdrawn against a man in the death of his infant son because a key piece of evidence, the baby's brain, cannot be found, says Newfoundland and Labrador's Justice Department.

A new report says child-care costs have increased across the country, but some regions are feeling the pinch much more than most.

Canadian scientist Arthur McDonald was formally presented Thursday with his Nobel Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, but received a prized gift earlier in the week from one his idols, former Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin.

The RCMP says media reports from Switzerland about possible threats against Canadian cities are being taken very seriously.

Conservatives turned up the rhetoric and the heat Thursday, accusing Justin Trudeau's government of making the country -- and members of the military in particular -- look weak with their plan to pull CF-18s from combat against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

A Canada without maple syrup? Say it ain't so!

Outfitted in new winter coats and clutching their yawning 16-month-old daughter in the wee hours of Friday morning, a Syrian refugee family on the first large government flight began their new life in Canada -- or, as they call it, "paradise."

Newly released documents show the federal government concluded the CBC didn't break any labour laws months before a critical report detailed how the broadcaster failed to address troubling behaviour by former radio host Jian Ghomeshi.

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