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The licence for Quebec's only operational nuclear power plant expired Friday, and the provincial government said it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 50 years to dismantle the reactor.

After taking their movement to the Manitoba legislature and other prominent public spaces in the past few weeks, supporters of the First Nations Idle No More are poised to step up their activism with a possible traffic blockade at Winnipeg's major intersection on New Year's Eve.

A Quebec Court judge ruled that a man who posed as an immigration consultant was guilty of 54 counts of violating the province's immigration act.

A U.S. couple has made a public appeal for the safety of their sick, pregnant daughter and her Canadian husband who went missing in Afghanistan two months ago and are feared kidnapped.

The federal privacy commissioner is poised to launch a full investigation into a security lapse that lost the private information of about 5,000 Canadians.

Afghan military and police forces will soon begin the next stage in their takeover of NATO responsibilities to stare down Islamist forces still waging a campaign of violence.

The day after a B.C. woman raised more than $2,500 for her family in Syria, she says crowdsourcing site Indiegogo shut down her donation page citing U.S. sanctions against the war-torn country.

On the 20th day of her headline-making hunger strike, Attawapiskat First Nations chief Theresa Spence invited MPs and senators to join her at her teepee to discuss the government's omnibus budget bill and her objections to it.

On the eve of 2013, a new study found most of the world is generally happier than last year, and many are hopeful for a better economic picture — except in much of Europe, where the gloomy outlook persists.

A controversial blockade at Aamjiwnaang First Nation continues despite attempts to reach a peaceful resolution this week.

It may be New Year's Day, but Gary Doer isn't sleeping in.

It seems Prime Minister Stephen Harper and aboriginal demonstrators remain at a stalemate after weeks of blockades, protests and a high-profile hunger strike in Ottawa.

A seven-minute train ride has ended with one man dead and another facing a murder charge.

After a banner year, Solomon Friedman and Brian Lilley discuss the state of gun laws in Canada.

The federal government is trying to build a wall around Canada's study permit system for international students to block fraudsters and other criminals.

Governor General David Johnston sends his best New Years wishes to all Canadians.

A Surrey, B.C., man is charged in the slashing of almost 500 SkyTrain seats.

A 27-year-old man is accused of spitting in his 77-year-old grandmother's face because she refused to give him money on New Year's Eve and then fighting with police during his arrest.