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Convicted torturer Dustin Paxton will face a dangerous offender hearing beginning July 15, after the Crown received ministerial approval to proceed with such a bid.

As French troops launched their first ground assault on al-Qaida-linked fighters in Mali, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird met with the envoys of Mali, France and Côte D'Ivoire in Ottawa.

The Supreme Court of Canada said in a ruling Thursday that it's not a crime for a man to threaten to kill his girlfriend if that's the way he normally talks to her.

Three teenagers spent a night in jail for allegedly plotting to kill classmates and school board officials.

Police showed off a massive find of pot, rifles, drugs and cash at a news conference here Thursday, seized in searches across southern Ontario.

The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Thursday an attempt to have the Wheat Board's monopoly reinstated.

The godfather of the Montreal Mafia is sitting under the hot Caribbean sun in the days before anti-corruption hearings that have him on the witness list.

Yet another study has found that a Canadian dollar boosted by high oil prices isn't a big factor in manufacturing declines, but NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair isn't buying it.

A 13-year-old boy is accused of choking a teacher while trying to remove her clothes in a classroom Wednesday.

A man who pricked holes in his girlfriend's condoms to get her pregnant will take his case to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Jim Flaherty denies he broke any rules or guidelines in writing to the federal broadcast regulator to support a radio station application from Durham Radio, a company in his constituency.

Canada's top court will rule Friday on the case of a battered woman who hired a hit man to kill her abusive estranged husband after police ignored her pleas for help.

If there are any Canadians among the hostages taken by Islamist terrorists at an Algerian natural gas plant Wednesday, officials in Ottawa say they don't know about it.

Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro distanced himself from a statement his office issued attacking a Postmedia reporter who wrote about the investigation into his campaign finances.

The Queen has reportedly rejected an appeal from Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, who has been on a protest to try to get Gov. Gen. David Johnston to jointly meet with aboriginal leaders and Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the same time.

Police in this city are launching an investigation into so-called legal weed that’s being sold in some convenience stores and head shops across Canada.

There was plenty of time to turn before a B.C. ferry crashed into an island and sank seven years ago and killed two people, a Crown prosecutor said Thursday on the opening day of the trial for the operator allegedly responsible.

A day after saying he did nothing wrong, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty received a slap on the wrist from the federal ethics commissioner for a violation of conflict of interest rules.

Zellers doesn't want to be Canada's Facebook friend anymore, but customers are taking the opportunity to vent about everything from rude clerks to not-so-great "liquidation" prices before the company shuts down its page for good Monday.

The Bank of Canada has barked up the wrong maple tree with its new plastic banknotes, using a foreign Norway maple leaf as the emblem on the notes instead of the sugar maple that the country has on its national flag, an eagle-eyed Canadian botanist says.

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