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The RCMP say alcohol is believed to have been a key factor in a brawl that broke out between parents of opposing hockey teams at a children’s tournament in southern British Columbia.

A plus-size women's clothing store has apologized to an employee after it fired her for using "fat" to describe customers.

A Quebec aboriginal man who repeatedly burned a five-year-old girl with a cigarette, leaving permanent scars on her face, arms, legs and genitalia, has been given a lenient sentence after a judge determined he is a “collateral victim” of residential school abuse.

OTTAWA -- Quebec MP Maxime Bernier has formally launched his bid to lead the federal Conservative party.

VICTORIA -- A Saskatchewan man is accused of forcing his way into the home of two young women on Vancouver Island and sexually assaulted one of them earlier this year.

The Liberal government has launched one of the most expensive items in last month’s federal budget — a $2- billion post-secondary infrastructure fund that wasn’t even mentioned in the party’s election platform.

MONTREAL -- Amnesty International blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday for suggesting his government needs to tread warily in its bid to help secure the release of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.

VICTORIA -- Reports of two young sisters being stranded midway through a bus trip at a remote Interior depot in the middle of the night is "completely and totally unacceptable," says British Columbia's transport minister.

The Liberal government won't be taking a permissive approach to medically assisted dying in long-awaited new legislation to be unveiled as early as next week, The Canadian Press has learned.

Islamist militants on a remote Philippines island have again threatened to execute a pair of Canadian men if ransom isn't paid soon.

Several hundred people packed into a church today to pay their final respects to former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre and five of his relatives.

There is one winning ticket for the $50 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw -- and it was sold in Kelowna, B.C.

Tom Mulcair delivered what could turn out to be the speech of his political life Sunday, making one last pitch to the New Democrat faithful to allow him to stay on as leader.

After an increasing number of young people attempted to take their lives in a remote northern Ontario First Nation last week, the chief and council have declared a state of emergency.

In political terms, it was a quick and clean kill of Tom Mulcair's leadership of the federal NDP, by his own party.

A large fire at a fish plant has led to the evacuation of many people in a small community in eastern Newfoundland.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The defence is to call its first witness today at the trial of a former Alberta couple charged in the death of their toddler son from bacterial meningitis.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (TSX:CP) has given up on its attempt to merge with Norfolk Southern Corp, a move that had been resisted by the Virginia-based railway company.

About 400 people are contesting the amount of money they're getting for moral damages from the $460-million Lac- Megantic victim and creditor settlement fund.

OTTAWA -- Canada will focus on controlling the spread of material that could be used by terrorists to create nuclear weapons as its contribution to the world's "stalled" disarmament efforts, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion says.

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