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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is apparently ready to make hockey equipment cheaper in the federal budget he'll table this afternoon.

Now this must be a place where you can be free from red tape.

Another prop in the anointment of Justin Trudeau excused himself Thursday from the sideshow the Liberal party calls a leadership race.

A burial program for Canada’s destitute former soldiers is finally getting a funding boost in the 2013 fiscal plan.

A self-styled adventurer from Quebec rescued nine Russian skiers in the French Alps.

What a mixed bag of cargo we are. The No. 1 Via Rail train is running from Toronto towards Vancouver.

Eighty-one percent of Canadians support a shark-fin import ban, according to a poll conducted before a Commons vote on a bill pushing the move.

Opposition parties took aim at the government's budget Thursday and accused the Conservatives of using window dressing to camouflage re-announcements in the fiscal blueprint.

Conservatives marched in lockstep with the NDP and Liberals to deem a Tory MP’s motion to condemn discrimination against girls through sex-selective abortion non-votable.

A woman's body has been pulled from a vehicle that sped off a ferry off Vancouver Island on Wednesday.

A Via passenger train struck and killed a pedestrian west of Strathroy-Carodoc, Ont., Thursday.

A top Conservative Party staffer testified in court Thursday morning related to accusations against Luka Magnotta that he threatened the prime minister.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled his eight budget Thursday, a document widely expected to address a skilled labor shortage and manufacturing sector woes.

One of the men who escaped a Quebec prison last Sunday dangling from a helicopter said he felt like Superman as he soared over the barbed-wire fence.

Michael Dube can’t give an exact date when Canada was at its best. But he can ballpark it – before there was a Canada.

Sen. Patrick Brazeau's lawyers were granted a postponement in his sexual assault case Friday so they could seek the disclosure of further evidence from the Crown.

Firefighters found a four-year-old girl hiding under her bed early Friday while a fire tore through her home in north Montreal.

Despite a frantic, last-minute push by the Liberal party to sign up voters for its leadership race, the party appears set to have fewer voters for its race than the NDP did last year.

Columnist Thane Burnett is making his way from Halifax to Vancouver on the search for what Canadians think was our best year.

Now this must be a place where you can be free from red tape.

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