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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the 2016-2017 New Year’s Eve was “150 years in the making and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ring in the New Year together.”

A snowplow driver from Calgary has died after police say he lost control of the plow and it rolled into a ditch.

An octogenarian, with the words “Happy 2017” scrawled across his body in permanent marker, took the inaugural leap into the Atlantic Ocean in one of the first polar bear swims of the year.

A man diagnosed with schizophrenia who says he was forcibly injected by a health worker in the back of a car is suing Newfoundland’s largest health authority.

At first whiff, the traffic and grime of Montreal’s busy downtown may not seem like the best inspiration for a luxurious perfume, but Claude-Andre Hebert begs to differ.

Global Affairs Canada says a Canadian has died in Thailand.

A Milton woman has been identified as one of the victims of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, according to media reports.

This winter, Postmedia’s Tom Spears looks at what makes our coldest season tick. It’s a series we call The Science of Winter, and today we grab a magnifying glass to find out why those tiny black dots on top of the snow are moving. Yup, even snow has bugs.Winter, the insect-free season, is nothing of the kind.

A friend of an Ontario woman killed in an attack on a Turkish nightclub remembers her as a happy person who was always smiling.

A young Ontario woman who had recently moved to Europe with her fiance died on New Year’s Day after falling off a mountain path during a hike near the Italian-Austrian border.

New Brunswick prosecutors say they will ask the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal a court ruling overturning Dennis Oland’s murder conviction — while the defence says it may ask the top court for an outright acquittal.

Lawyers are to present final arguments today in the sentencing hearing of a man convicted of killing two missing Alberta seniors.

Edmonton police say charges are pending against a man after what investigators are calling an impaired driving incident that left a number of vehicles damaged.

Almost three-quarters of veterans using medical marijuana will feel the impact this spring when the federal government imposes a new limit on the amount of weed for which it will pay.

RCMP are at a home in northeastern Nova Scotia investigating the discovery of four bodies inside.

A Kurdish group says a Canadian man fighting Islamic State militants in Syria has been killed.

A spot on Forbes magazine’s top-30-under-30 list is just the latest accolade for 19-year-old inventor Ann Makosinski.

How did it go wrong? Let the experts count the ways.

Corporate behemoths Walmart Canada and Visa have declared a truce in their dispute over merchant fees, allowing Walmart customers in Manitoba and Thunder Bay, Ont., to resume using the credit card beginning Friday.

Police came to the rescue of Louis, a one-year-old puppy, after he got stuck in a hole in the ice of the Gatineau River, in the Wakefield area days before Christmas.

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