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Long-term expats denied the right to vote in federal elections expressed delight Thursday after the Supreme Court of Canada said it would take on their case.

Mason Macri's parents thought things were going "amazingly well" after teams of specialists in Houston, Toronto and London attacked the boy's rare cancer with a specialized treatment and very powerful chemo drugs.

Four men have been charged after a 14-year-old girl said she was sexually assaulted at a house party in Nova Scotia.

Canada's 600,000 Metis and non-status Indians are indeed "Indians" under the Constitution, the Supreme Court of Canada declared Thursday in a long- awaited landmark decision more than 15 years in the making.

The Liberal government's point man in the Senate says he needs more than $800,000 from the upper chamber to effectively do his job.

The federal government has introduced a long-awaited and controversial new law spelling out the conditions in which seriously ill or dying Canadians may seek medical help to end their lives.

WASHINGTON -- The Canadian government promises a multi-front fight against tax evasion amid widespread frustration following the leak of offshore account details in the so-called Panama Papers.

Three Ontario families have launched lawsuits against a U.S.-based sperm bank and its Canadian distributor, alleging they were misled about their sperm donor's medical and social history, which included a criminal record and significant mental illness.

A social media campaign in southern British Columbia may have helped rescue a stubborn cat from a perilous perch.

The headlines are lurid. The trials sensational. The crimes beyond horrific. A passenger beheaded and cannibalized on a bus. A student dismembered and sexually defiled. Children snatched, sexually assaulted and murdered. Sex workers stalked and killed.

OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down two federal laws from the previous Conservative government's tough-on-crime agenda, ruling both to be unconstitutional.

A mother accused in her toddler's death from bacterial meningitis says his face "just kept getting bluer and bluer" as she desperately tried to get him to breathe the day he was rushed to hospital."He'd stopped breathing again and so I did the CPR again and I did a couple of chest compressions and he started to breathe.

Montreal police say they've arrested three men in connection with a widely shared video illegally filmed in the city's subway system.

A correctional officer has testified to finding an Ontario inmate lying in a pool of blood at Stony Mountain Institution.

OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down two federal laws from the previous Conservative government's tough-on-crime agenda, ruling both to be unconstitutional.

WATERLOO, Ont. -- Self-described geek Justin Trudeau seized an opportunity with both hands Friday to deliver an impromptu lesson on quantum computing to some of the smartest theoretical physicists -- and possibly not so smart reporters -- in the country.

Islamist militants in the Philippines say they'll kill a pair of Canadian hostages on April 25 if their ransom demand isn't met.

Manitoba's Progressive Conservative leader is defending spending one-fifth of his time as Opposition leader in Costa Rica.

British Columbia's Independent Investigations Office is stepping in to probe a crash that killed a Mountie after revelations that police were trying to stop a suspect vehicle minutes before the collision.

A Saskatoon man who pleaded guilty in March to making and possessing child pornography will end up spending an additional two years less a day behind bars.

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