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Police have formally laid charges against Abdulahi Hasan Sharif in connection with a pair of attacks on Edmonton’s streets Saturday night.

Former astronaut Julie Payette took the formal oaths of office Monday as she became the country’s 29th Governor General in a traditional ceremony on Parliament Hill.

The Immigration and Refugee Board says a team set up to hear refugee claims from a surge of irregular border crossers this summer has heard about 300 cases.

A Conservative MP whose beliefs on abortion prompted her Liberal counterparts to walk out of a hearing last week won’t be heading up the status of women committee after all.

An Okotoks mother was one of the victims killed in a shooting attack in Las Vegas Sunday night, family members have confirmed.

New research from Canadian scientists suggests life on Earth began in warm little ponds after meteorites splashed into them about four billion years ago.

The police chief of the Vancouver Island community of Oak Bay has undergone surgery for a broken clavicle and ribs after he was attacked by a deer.

A man accused of attacking a police officer and mowing down four pedestrians with a U-Haul truck made his first appearance in provincial court Tuesday in Edmonton.

Leaving a pile of dog feces on a bylaw officer's desk turned out to be a crappy joke.

The Parti Quebecois is calling on the TVA television network to sanction a political commentator who suggested he’d rather hunt Quebec separatists than squirrels.

The NDP government is weighing whether to set up government-run stores to sell marijuana in Alberta or leave the market to private retailers once recreational cannabis is legalized next year.

A moose was captured on surveillance cameras strolling through a Calgary train station in the northwest are of the city early this morning.

Escape rooms are interactive adventure games, not hideouts for fugitives on the lam.That's what two female inmates discovered when they were arrested at Sidequests Adventures Inc. at 10190 104 St. on Monday evening.Jonathan Liaw, co-owner of SideQuests Adventures Inc., said two women came in and asked what an escape room was about and wanted to see

The stark image shows a 50-year-old man with short, dark hair motionless in a hospital bed, eyes closed and a plastic breathing tube extending from his mouth.

TransCanada is cancelling plans for its Energy East pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects.The company suspended its application on Sep. 7 for 30 days on the $15.7-billion route that would carry Alberta oilsands product from Hardisty to Saint John.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood quietly with his head down Wednesday as families expressed extreme anger toward him about the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

CALGARY — Hudson Mack says he doesn’t know the cost of his Victoria-based son’s intensive medical care after being shot Sunday at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, only that he’s sure it’s already “catastrophic.”

The federal government has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to survivors of the '60s Scoop for the harm suffered by Indigenous children who were robbed of their cultural identities by being placed with non-native families, The Canadian Press has learned.

Many Canadians say they're open to having a Sikh prime minister, such as the newly minted NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, but don't feel their friends and family are as open-minded.

A barber from western Quebec is drawing widespread praise for going out of his way to accommodate a young client with autism.

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