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A ballooning population of aboriginal Canadians reached 1.4 million in 2011, or 4.3% of the total population, according to new numbers released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday.

A non-venomous five-foot snake could have terrorized a local neighbourhood if not for the quick actions of Winnipeg police.

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting gathered on Parliament Hill Wednesday to defend the independence of the CBC, which they say is under attack as the government proposes to bring union contracts of Crown corporations under Treasury Board control.

A suspicious package that shut down the Mackenzie King Bridge Tuesday evening contained items typically found in an improvised explosive device.

Chad Klepaychuk forgot.

Quebec's anti-corruption unit, UPAC, carried out the biggest raids in its history Thursday, arresting 37 people including Gilles Vaillancourt, the former mayor of suburban Laval, Que.

Some 200 New Brunswick homes were evacuated Wednesday night due to a forest fire wreaking havoc in the Perth-Andover region.

Four police officers caught on video beating up a teenage robbery suspect were hit with criminal charges Thursday.

Two of the suspects in the Via Rail bombing plot discussed alternative plans to poison the air or water to kill up to 100,000 people, according to U.S. Department of Justice documents.

More Rizzuto crime syndicate members have turned up dead, this time in the family's native Sicily.

Thousands of participants in the annual March for Life brought the issue of abortion back to the lawn of Parliament Hill on Thursday.

Three senators who billed taxpayers nearly $200,000 in bogus housing claims won't face any disciplinary action beyond being asked to return the money.

The children of four women who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside while Robert Pickton prowled the streets are suing the convicted serial killer, his siblings, the B.C. government and various Metro Vancouver police agencies.

Anti-pipeline activists who compare U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline to Abraham Lincoln's push to end slavery are getting under the skin of Canada's natural resources minister.

Police investigators are trying to locate $15 million of hidden money in offshore bank accounts tied to the former mayor of Laval, Que., who was arrested Thursday and charged with gangsterism.

Another round of 800 federal civil servant layoffs were issued Thursday.

Three children whose killings led to murder charges against their mother had been drowned, according to a coroner's report obtained by QMI Agency.

Conservatives were urged Friday to call the RCMP to investigate housing claims made by three senators that totalled nearly $200,000.

Raynald Desjardins, a lieutenant-turned-rival of crime boss Vito Rizzuto, will stay behind bars pending his trial for a 2011 Mob murder, a judge ruled Friday.

Laval University wouldn't confirm or deny on Friday that a man currently registered as a master's student in its chemical engineering program is the same person charged with terrorism offences in the U.S.

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