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Conservatives gathered Monday night to mourn the passing of a key architect in their rise to power - and to brace for the toughest test Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has faced since taking office on a promise to clean up politics in the national capital.

A Hudson Bay walrus that was shot, stuffed and became one of Canada's star attractions at an 1886 colonial exhibition in Britain - winning admiration, it's said, from Queen Victoria herself - has been moved from its fake-ice pedestal at a London museum for the first time in more than a century to headline a contemporary art show exploring the ... (more)

As he grapples with a growing scandal over Senate expenses, Prime Minister Stephen Harper faces another potential flashpoint as the House of Commons resumes sitting: The political debate over abortion is far from over.

Judge Steve Anthony Coroza of the Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines was appointed to the position last April 29 by Canada's Department of Justice.

An expert on parliamentary rules says the Senate has the power to turf a senator from the chamber, as long as a majority approves the expulsion.

Meteorologists at AccuWeather.com say the majority of Canadians can look forward to a more "typical" summer this year, when hot spells will be interspersed with cooler periods.

Brad Deering, 42, was shot outside his home in Escazu, near the capital San Jose, Costa Rican police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

The heads of Alberta's ruling Tory party and opposition parties weighed in on British Columbia's election results, offering kudos to the re-elected Liberals and opening the door for renewed talks on proposed pipeline projects.

Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games - currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial - that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers.

A group that includes some prominent Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper 's chief of staff, Nigel Wright, resigned today amid an ethics probe of his role in repaying housing expenses claimed by Conservative Senator Mike Duffy.

Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper salutes supporters from the steps of the legislature in Winnipeg, June 22, 1990 after refusing the debate on the Meech Lake accord go any further.

A three-story pile of petroleum coke along the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont., on April 20, 2013.

The revelation that Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy as a preventative measure against cancer stoked heated discussion this week, but one prominent cancer researcher says it demonstrates the need to make genetic testing available to all Canadians.

The capital felt a magnitude 5.2 earthquake Friday morning much less than a 5.0 earthquake in 2010, even though both were about the same distance away.

Allegations that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been caught in a video smoking crack cocaine has prompted several online crowdsourcing campaigns aimed at raising $200,000 to buy the footage.

John Guenther looks over a city map in his office. He stepped down as the City of Revelstoke's Director of Planning this week.

Planned route of coal barges from Fraser Surrey Docks' proposed direct transfer coal export terminal to a transhipment point on Texada Island, where coal would be loaded onto ocean-going ships.

Shawville, Que., Mayor Albert Armstrong thought a large truck had slammed into the three-storey brick walls of City Hall.

I was always quite proud of the Canadian political system during the time I lived in Britain, especially when their Parliament was mired in some scandal involving Rupert Murdoch or the cleaning of ancestral moats.