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Canada must press Washington to help the sinking auto industry while extracting promises from the sector that it will become sustainable and competitive, federal Liberal leadership hopeful Bob Rae said Friday.

The provincea s Special Investigations Unit has cleared a York Regional Police detective of committing a criminal offence in the May shooting of a man in Toronto, yorkregion.com has learned.

Up to 15,000 litres of molten tar poured into a Brampton storm sewer yesterday morning after a roofing job at a shopping plaza went wrong.

Nearly 60 Canadian auto-supply workers in southwestern Ontario were told their plant is closing next year and being relocated to Brazil.

At least 760,000 Canadian kids - about one in nine - are growing up poor, says a new report that calls on the Harper government to follow the lead of some provinces and take action.

MONTREAL Not everybody in Canada is terrified by the prospect of U.S president-elect Barack Obama reopening the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Police are searching for three thugs who burst into a central Oshawa home and terrorized a couple in what's being described as a home invasion-style robbery.

As he stood filling the tank of his Jeep at a downtown Toronto gas station for 79.3 cents a litre Wednesday, Chad Pegelo seemed unimpressed by the recent drop in pump prices.

Fire safety officers were today investigating the cause of a house fire which left a man hospitalised in Hamilton this morning.

The Jean-Paul Riopelle 1951 canvas "Sans titre " is shown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ho-Heffel TORONTO - A drip painting by late Montreal artist Jean-Paul Riopelle drew a winning bid to the tune of $1.4 million at the ...

Bob Rae's tempestuous term as premier of recession-ravaged Ontario during the early 1990s could be a big liability if he's chosen to lead the federal Liberals, a new poll suggests.

A man from Windsor, Ont., who was jailed after cutting off a dog's ears and suffered a somewhat similar fate behind bars has been moved to another facility.

A Brampton taxi driver has been released on $51,000 bail after his arrest in the weekend hit-and-run death of Mandeep Bhagtana.

Toronto emergency service has confirmed the bodies of three women and one man have been found at a home in northern Scarborough.

Talk about the family jewels. The Bronfman family offered a reward and launched a website today in the hopes of recovering the $1 million in jewelry stolen from their Bathurst St.

Straight from my inbox to you. From Niagara-on-the-Lake: The Shaw Festival's 47th season came to a close on November 16 with attendance 6% ahead of last season.

Chrysler Financial Canada said Tuesday it will close its business centre in Calgary immediately, followed by its Montreal and Windsor, Ont., offices in April 2009.

The alleged ringleader of a large-scale drug-smuggling operation that straddled the Canada-U.S. border remained at large Tuesday following an RCMP-assisted bust in upstate New York, authorities said.

Queen's University has cancelled its traditional fall homecoming for the next two years, citing an 'unprecedented number' of charges, violent incidents and injuries at this year's event.

The plan proposed by councillors Christine Leadman and Clive Doucet would extend the O-Train to Gatineau immediately and put light rail from Blair to Baseline within five years.