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Quebec provincial police say a six-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe.

The deputy mayor of a northern New Brunswick city says changes to a Halloween bylaw that banned trick-or-treating for teens over the age of 14 and set a 7 p.m. curfew for anyone in costume don’t go far enough.

How he toys with them yet again.

A renowned American museum and an Inuit government have received an award for returning Inuit bodies that had been dug up and taken for scientific study.

Controversial Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak has been removed from all Senate committees following remarks about First Nations which have been widely condemned.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a speech to the United Nations on Thursday to probe a source of national shame: the historic struggles of Canada’s Indigenous peoples.

You don't often see Luke Skywalker showing interest in a world leader's sartorial choices. Let alone their socks. But it's not everyday that the Prime Minister of Canada wears wookie socks to a major function.

Leslie Black, the Saskatchewan man who viciously beat homeless woman Marlene Bird before setting her on fire, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

A senior Canadian defence official told a business crowd in Banff that North America is "a bit less secure" than it once was as new threats are posed by violent extremist groups, the behaviour of certain countries and the advent of long-range missiles.

The former CEO of Tim Hortons denies he provided confidential information to one of Canada’s national newspapers after the coffee-and-donut chain’s parent company commenced legal action against a rogue group of franchisees it alleges were Don Schroeder’s informants.

When Jeff Skevington’s parents used to take the family camping in Algonquin Park, they needed to stop the car halfway and buy windshield washer fluid because of all the squished bugs. But Canada is actually running out of bugs. Skevington is now 52, and his windshield rarely hits bugs today.

TROUT RIVER, N.L. — Politics is a different kind of blood sport in the tiny western Newfoundland town of Trout River.

A child porn investigation started in Switzerland has found its way to Winnipeg and led to the arrest of a 24-year-old man in St. James.

The Liberals are blaming the previous Harper government for the failing grade they received in an independent audit of compliance with the Access to Information Act, saying the Conservatives left behind a badly damaged system.

The federal Liberals are working on an apology for the Canadian government’s decision in 1939 to turn away a boat of German Jews hoping to seek asylum in Canada, The Canadian Press has learned.

A government bill that is supposed to increase transparency for Canadians would actually do the opposite, the federal information watchdog said Thursday.

A national, universal pharmacare program that all but eliminates all out-of-pocket expenses for Canadians who need to fill their prescriptions could slash the overall price tag for drugs in this country by more than $4 billion a year.

The Canadian government’s new cultural strategy all but snubs so-called legacy media, industry experts say, and left out some key measures that could have given a boost to struggling newspapers expected in the lead-up to the long-awaited announcement.

Ismael Habib’s strong loyalty to the principles of the Islamic State as well as the lack of evidence supporting his prospect for rehabilitation justified a nine-year prison term, a Quebec court judge said Friday.

A Canadian special forces soldier has been awarded the Medal of Bravery in connection with a deadly friendly fire incident in Iraq in 2015 that killed one of his comrades.

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