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Bruce Heyman is stepping down as the top representative of the United States government in Canada, forced out of his post alongside other political appointees as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.

The whopping $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw was claimed by a single ticket sold in Quebec.

Lawyers for a Calgary judge who asked a sex assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her “knees together” say his behaviour was based on “ignorance” and removing him from the bench should be a last resort.

The daughter of a Newfoundland man shot by a police officer spoke through tears Monday as she described her late father as a funny, vocal man with a big heart who lovingly raised her alone.

Lawyers for convicted killer drunk driver Marco Muzzo are arguing the family of three and grandfather who died at Muzzo’s horrific collision shouldn’t be entitled to the $25 million they are seeking because of Muzzo’s stiff criminal sentence.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to give his year-old cabinet a facelift on Tuesday, shifting some weak ministers, promoting strong performers, bidding adieu to some veterans and injecting new blood as his government braces for Donald Trump’s imminent ascension to the U.S. presidency.

Internal Parks Canada emails show how the final days of the search for HMS Terror last September — ending in a discovery that should have been pure triumph — degenerated into secrecy and recrimination.

Winnipeg police announced their presence last week on College Avenue was in connection with an investigation into alleged trafficking of emulsion explosives.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to give his cabinet a makeover today, and sources tell The Canadian Press that his shuffle could involve up to a third of the positions.

Dumped from the Trudeau cabinet, Saint-Laurent-Cartierville MP Stephane Dion is quitting politics.

Yards from where workers finished the cleanup from the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting, a girl was reunited Tuesday with the teddy bear she left behind while fleeing.

A quarter of a century after gaining notoriety as the driver who killed Olympic champion Victor Davis, Glen Crossley was back in court Tuesday — and once again in the media spotlight.

A new report suggests some of Canada’s worst traffic bottlenecks are serious enough to compare with those in major American cities like New York and Los Angeles.

The Canadian government is “simply not up to the overall challenge” of fending off cyberthreats on its own and must partner with the private sector and the United States to tackle the problem, warns a federally commissioned report.

A Liberal MP and the Liberal Party of Canada President were among the group of friends that joined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family for a New Year’s holiday at the private island in the Bahamas owned by the billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader, the Aga Khan, the National Post has learned.

After touring the oilsands around Fort McMurray with local First Nations Tuesday morning, Oscar-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda is set to speak at a Greenpeace conference in Edmonton Wednesday morning.

TRACADIE, N.S. — Hundreds of mourners packed a 200-year-old Nova Scotia church today for the funeral of a former soldier and the mother he shot to death.