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Normand Lester speaks at the launch of his new book in Montreal on January 9, 2006.

Police and arson investigators are on the scene to determine the cause of death and the cause of the fire.

A Canadian man is facing charges that he stalked the brother of Jennifer Lawrence after authorities say he repeatedly insisted that the man put him in touch with the Oscar-winning actress so he could protect her, according to court documents.

It was dubbed the "deal with the devil," one that could see a notorious Canadian pedophile set free following his latest crimes against two young Prairie boys.

A retired West Vancouver police officer has been stabbed to death in Mexico, as two other Metro Vancouver families issue pleas for help to find relatives missing in the popular holiday destination.

In the cold of the early morning light, the enormity of the problem facing commuters after the collapse of the Skagit River bridge on the busy Interstate 5 corridor is just sinking in.

Kinder Morgan Canada's proposal to increase the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline calls for 30 oil tankers a month to load up with Alberta crude at its terminal in Burnaby, B.C., - up from about one per week.

Former Mexican drug lord Eduardo Arellano Felix, the last of four brothers captured or killed in connection with a once-powerful Tijuana-based cartel depicted in the Oscar-winning film "Traffic," pleaded guilty to U.S. drug charges on Friday.

As the federal ethics commissioner readies for a look at Stephen Harper's former right-hand man, Mary Dawson is reminding Canadians her office can only look so far.

A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major route between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the interstate into the river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror.

On Tuesday, besieged with questions about The Great Senate Scandal, Stephen Harper didn't answer the questions that Canadians wanted answered.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged for the first time Thursday that "perhaps" he could have responded more quickly to the news that his trusted chief of staff had footed the $90,000 bill for Sen.

Blood donor screening will be changed from asking potential male donors if they have had sex with a man "even once, since 1977" to the past five years.

Mexican citizen Jacobo Peters Fehr who was a fugitive from Canadian courts for about 10 years but arrested in mid-April in the town of Lubbock.

The Federal Court has rejected a bid to overturn the results in six federal ridings from the 2011 election - but both sides are claiming victory in the so-called robocalls affair.

Electoral fraud occurred during the last federal election, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday, but there is no proof that it affected the outcomes in six ridings at issue, so the elections will not be overturned.

Electoral fraud occurred during the last federal election, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday, but there is no proof that it affected the outcomes in six ridings at issue so the elections will not be overturned.

A Mexican drug cartel member pleaded guilty Thursday to the killing and wounding of two U.S. agents in Mexico, and the guilty pleas of three other men were unsealed in connection to the shooting.

A pre-trial hearing for a former Napier man accused of murdering his wife in Canada has been adjourned.

The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle drug abuse, a B.C.-based national coalition of drug policy experts argue.