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PETA is giving fur coats to the homeless.

Vancouver Liberal MP Joyce Murray appears ready to join a crowded field of candidates for the leadership of the federal Liberals.

Harvey Locke says sentiments expressed by Liberal David McGuinty helped dunk his campaign, but absolved Justin Trudeau for similar anti-Alberta comments.

A NDP MP with a history of Twitter outrage and shooting from the lip is leaving the Twitterverse after another profanity-laced thumb tirade, but won't be disciplined for his latest meltdown.

Canada's top court ruled Thursday that under certain circumstances a Muslim woman can wear a veil during court testimony.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is satisfied that Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney was not dabbling in partisan politics when Carney spent a week last summer vacationing at the Nova Scotia home of a Liberal MP.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is Canada's sixth longest serving finance minister and if you measure his time on the job by looking at the country's balance sheet, you would hardly think he came into it as a fiscally conservative deficit-hating hawk.

First Nations face a "life-and-death situation" and Canadians should call on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take immediate action, Assembly of First Nation National Chief Shawn Atleo warned Thursday.

Visibly upset and flanked by her two sons - ages 11 and 16 - Ikea monkey owner Yasmin Nakhuda left a courthouse in Oshawa Thursday as Justice Brown reserved his decision on the possibility of temporarily returning Darwin to her.

Remy Couture, the Quebec special effects artists charged with corrupting morals, was found not guilty Saturday.

Justin Trudeau addressed his critics head-on during a heavily criticized keynote speech at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference Saturday, saying he respected their right to “express their opinions.”

If you're still doing your Christmas shopping, you are part of the 3%.

OTTAWA — More than 2,000 aboriginal protesters took a “dire” call for change to the nation’s capital on Friday in a bid to pressure the government to meet and discuss treaty rights and “crises” plaguing First Nations communities.

What do a Western University engineer, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and a toilet have in common?

Churchgoers at Montreal's St. Edmund parish on Sunday largely refused to comment publicly on the child pornography charges against their former Deacon, William Kokesch.

Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau was only half right when he invoked Wilfrid Laurier during his closely watched speech to the Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference in Toronto, an expert on Laurier said Sunday.

A six-month-old infant was killed when a small aircraft crashed in Nunavut on Saturday evening.

The bodies of four young people whose car plunged into a river in New Brunswick early Saturday morning have been recovered.

For a party on life support, any sign of life of life is a sign of hope.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2012. There were plenty of acts of kindness and small miracles both close to home and abroad. Here we take a look at some of the moments that made us smile and feel good about ourselves and our neighbours.

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