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A Canadian man jailed in Mauritania who says he hasn't been helped by Canadian officials may receive help from Amnesty International, after initially turning down their assistance.

Talk about justice delayed.

The hopes of former Canadian Olympic rower Adam Kreek and three of his colleagues to complete a 6,700-km journey from Africa to North America were dashed when their vessel capsized Saturday.

The Royal Bank of Canada is denying reports it has hired temporary foreign workers to do the jobs of some of its employees.

China warned against “troublemaking” on its doorstep, in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, and the United States said it was postponing a missile test to help calm high tension on the divided Korean peninsula.

Two days after a man armed with a shotgun opened fire inside a Gatineau daycare, information has begun to trickle out about those at the centre of the tragedy.

A scathing legal judgment has found the federal government improperly awarded multi-billion dollar contracts, turning a blind eye as the winning bidders used "insider knowledge" and a cozy relationship with evaluators to enrich themselves.

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A Canadian couple was viciously attacked and robbed at their vacation villa in Turks and Caicos, according to a local report.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper saluted former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as "a giant among leaders," after learning of her death Monday.

Brian Mulroney, a Cold War ally of Margaret Thatcher who died on Monday, recalled an aggressive, articulate and well-prepared colleague who, he said, transformed Britain into a superpower.

Police say customer service representatives were “bamboozled with blood” after a man allegedly cut himself with razor blades to pull off a series of frauds.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently tweeted a picture of his cat Stanley as part of his #dayinthelife series of tweets. But he's hardly the only "amicus animalibus" or friend to animals. In recent years many famous leaders have looked to their pets for comfort and here is a look at some of them.

The NDP is inspired by "radical left" ideologies which include calls for Canada to restore ties to Tehran, says Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

The lawyer for alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta will ask for the first-degree murder charge to be downgraded, he told court Monday.

More than five years after Robert Dziekanski died at Vancouver International Airport, the BC Coroners Service has classified his death as a homicide.

After reports surfaced that the Royal Bank of Canada is replacing Canadian employees with foreign workers, one expert says the blame lies with the government's temporary foreign worker program, not the bank.

A trio of teen girls accused of forcing others as young as 13 into prostitution pleaded not guilty to a string of charges Monday, including human trafficking, sexual assault, robbery and making child pornography.

As a new poll indicates B.C.’s premier is on very shaky ground with voters only a week before election season officially launches, Christy Clark is pledging nearly $600 million to the province’s schools for earthquake upgrades.

A friend of the man killed in a daycare shooting in Gatineau, Que., last week says the director of the daycare had romantic feelings for her pal.

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