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Good karma has repaid a homeless Calgary woman who returned a purse containing a large sum of cash to its rightful owner.

A skier and snowmobiler died in two separate avalanches in B.C. over the weekend.

Victor Lyon may just be a prince among men.

NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar has introduced a bill and a campaign to challenge the mining of minerals linked to armed conflict in the Congo.

A baboon ran amok inside the basement of Winnipeg's MTS Centre on Tuesday.

After winning an online poker tournament last month, a Peterborough man got to take his die-hard Montreal Canadiens fan of a father on a once-in-a-lifetime hockey road trip.

Lululemon Athletica, the Vancouver-based clothing company that issued a massive recall last week for see-through yoga pants, denies reports customers are being asked to bend over to prove their tights’ sheerness when making a return.

Maclean’s columnist Barbara Amiel says former Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson offered to “bed” her husband, former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black, in exchange for an interview.

I have thousands of songs sitting on my iPod. I don’t actually know how many, because under the strict rules I stupidly came up with for this 1963-style trip, I can’t listen to any of them.

Police need a wiretap order to seize your text messages, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

A growing number of emergency room visits and deaths attributed to prescription drugs has prompted the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse to launch a national strategy to re-educate the public on the dangers of misuse.

Some students make volcanos for their science projects. Others make styrofoam-and-coat-hanger solar systems. Fourteen-year-old Maya Burhanpurkar chose to challenge one of Isaac Newton’s founding laws of physics, and it’s earned her a spot at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Ariz.

A new study supports the stereotype of the computer hacker -- most are antisocial man-children who live in their parents' basements.

A decision is due Thursday afternoon on whether MPs will be allowed to vote on a motion to condemn discrimination against girls through sex-selective abortion.

Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae is promising to stay in the background after the party crowns its new leader April 14.

Elections Canada says it needs sweeping new powers to successfully investigate robocalls and prosecute those involved in deceptive or misleading communications with voters, such as those used during the last federal election in May 2011.

The federal Liberal leadership race is shaping up to be decided by a relative handful of paid-up members of the party and an army of so-called supporters herded on to the voters list by left-wing advocacy groups that favour the kind of electoral co-operation ideas put forward by candidate Joyce Murray.

A homeless man who killed Toronto Sgt. Ryan Russell by striking him with a stolen snowplow was not criminally responsible due to his psychotic state, a jury ruled Wednesday.

NDP MP Fin Donnelly said he is disappointed his private member's bill to ban the importation of shark fins to Canada was killed at second reading Wednesday.

A gambling addict rolled snake eyes in his lawsuit against the Montreal Casino for failing to enforce his self-imposed gambling ban.

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