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Canada will lift its controversial visa requirement for Mexican visitors before the end of the year, while Mexico has agreed to end long-standing restrictions on Canadian beef imports, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The shipwreck of a Canadian schooner that sank off Lake Ontario's central New York shore nearly 150 years ago has been discovered.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- A Sikh man in Kamloops, B.C., is being called a hero after he used his turban to help save a woman from the frigid North Thompson River in the province's southern Interior.

Vancouver-based Lucara Diamond Corp. has failed to sell the tennis-ball sized diamond it discovered at its Botswana mine last November.

A man wanted in an attack in which a Winnipeg hotel employee's ears were bitten off is in custody.

The federal government has officially listed microbeads as a toxic substance, giving it the ability to ban the plastic beads used in cleansers.

When the P.E.I. businessman arrived at the group home in Charlottetown to pick up his daughter, two solemn RCMP officers were waiting for him.

OTTAWA -- Nathalie Lambert was just a child in a poor neighbourhood in Montreal when she walked through the doors of the skating rink across the street.

It's been more than 20 years since Toronto police used facilitated communication to accuse David Lehman of sexually abusing his autistic, non-verbal son.

VANCOUVER -- The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned the government's approval of a controversial pipeline proposal that would link Alberta's oilsands to British Columbia's north coast.

Sen. Patrick Brazeau is to appear in Gatineau on Tuesday on new charges of drunk driving and refusing to submit to an alcohol test.While refusing to identify the senator by name, Sûreté du Québec spokesman Marc Tessier confirmed Thursday that "a 41-year-old man was arrested April 3 on Highway 148 in the municipality of Mayo" after the SQ was called.

OTTAWA -- The federal government is launching a task force to study the legalization and regulation marijuana use.

It wouldn't be Canada Day without legions of red-and-white Maple Leaf flags being waved with patriotic gusto, fireworks displays lighting up the sky and musical celebrations across the country. But specially branded cigarettes?

Philippine troops on Saturday dug up what they believe is the body of Canadian hostage Robert Hall, who was beheaded by Abu Sayyaf extremists more than two weeks ago in the south after a ransom deadline lapsed.

The family of an American woman reported missing in Afghanistan in 2012 with her Canadian husband said they got a letter from their daughter in the last year, and they pleaded for mercy from the couple's captors.

The union representing postal workers says it has presented Canada Post with new offers, and workers won't be striking before Wednesday at the earliest.

SASKATOON -- A man convicted of grisly murders in British Columbia and Manitoba has been found dead in a Saskatchewan psychiatric facility.

WINNIPEG -- The names of the two victims killed in a fatal plane crash near Winnipeg have now been released by 1 Canadian Air Division and the Canadian NORAD Region headquarters in Winnipeg.

An Ontario woman who started a family with another inmate and earned two degrees while serving a life sentence for killing a child has once again been given a taste of freedom, though it may be short-lived.

A 16-year-old girl has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with what Saskatoon police are investigating as the city’s ninth homicide of 2016.

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