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Luka Rocco Magnotta has had paranoid schizophrenia for at least 13 years and risked suffering a relapse of symptoms such as paranoia and auditory hallucinations if he kept skipping his medication, stated a court document released Wednesday.

Two former government researchers could be in a heap of trouble after one of them was allegedly caught with 17 vials of human pathogens on a China-bound commercial flight.

Alleged Parti Quebecois rally murderer Richard Henry Bain learned the date for his preliminary hearing Wednesday after admitting in court that he was at the scene of the shooting.

The owner of a photo and video studio in Brampton, Ont., has a couple of questions for MP Parm Gill.

The federal government has gone to ground over two young Canadian men allegedly involved in a terror attack in Algeria in January.

The Crown is battling two University of Ottawa professors over a 2007 interview about prostitution with alleged body-parts killer Luka Magnotta.

NDP immigration critic Jinny Sims says a list of condemned practices in a handbook for new Canadians, including honour killings and genital mutilation, can be classified as "barbaric" but she is concerned about gender-based violence being coined as "cultural."

Environmentalists like David Suzuki are the biggest problem when it comes to public support for TransCanada's plan to ship Western Canadian crude to eastern refineries, says the president of the Treasury Board.

A man on police's most wanted list here, and whose whereabouts are unknown, may be connected to two local terrorists involved in the gas plant explosion that killed 70 people in Algeria, QMI Agency has learned.

The word among Liberals is that there is no touching the popularity of Justin Trudeau in and around Toronto.

A paycheque from the government is heftier than most.

Police had every reason to fear someone was in distress when they heard what sounded like a woman’s screams coming from the intercom of a Brockville apartment building on Sunday. But when they broke through the door, they found the perp was a parrot.

A Canadian is among three dead after a small plane crashed into a vehicle on an airport runway in the Bahamas, according to local reports.

Nova Scotia's NDP government tabled a surplus budget Thursday, while promising increased health benefits.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd said on Thursday it had discovered a second leak at the site of Wednesday’s derailment in northern Ontario, and estimated that about 400 barrels of crude oil had escaped in total.

OTTAWA - The NDP establishment will take another whack at removing the unpopular term "socialist" from the party's constitution.

Liberals have been steadily gaining steam since 2013 began, but an Ottawa-based pollster suggests the so-called Justin Trudeau effect will be put to the test when he likely takes over as leader next weekend.

The fates of two London, Ont., men connected to two dead Islamic radicals remain a mystery after an RCMP news conference heavy on questions and light on details Thursday.

Canadian officials appear to be struggling to figure out how two London, Ont., men ended up dead in a North African terrorist attack.

Canada’s highest court has ruled in favour of a Chilliwack, B.C., woman who successfully sued her doctor for $3.2 million on her daughter’s behalf for the brain damage suffered during her child's birth.

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