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Bunny Campbell says she was excited, but also a bit frightened to be part of the front-row crowd waiting to greet Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, before Sunday church.

RCMP officers from Ottawa arrested a 37-year-old man in Windsor, Ont., on Friday for allegedly committing an act of genocide in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide in the African country.

The parents of Master Cpl. Jeffrey Walsh, killed in an accidental shooting in Afghanistan in 2006, will receive the Sacrifice Medal on his behalf at an Ottawa ceremony on Monday.

A high-ranking Canadian soldier who is assuming a key role in Afghanistan says Canadians need to temper their expectations ahead of a planned pullout for 2011.

Some people ostensibly working for the Government Of Canada see nothing wrong in turning you over to a foreign government to be tortured and jailed for the supposed "crime" of selling seeds.

There's a breed of Canadian troops who are in a league of their own - adrenaline junkies who feed off the energy they get from embracing the world's most perilous jobs.

The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.

Ida strengthened back into a tropical storm early on Saturday off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and was moving north toward the Cayman Islands, where the government issued a tropical storm warning.

A private funeral for a soldier who strongly supported Canada's role in Afghanistan is to be held Saturday in his hometown of Saskatoon.

Friday, November 6, 2009 at 3:21 p.m. CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Authorities say gunmen have killed a police commander in Mexico's deadliest city, where a dismembered, decapitated body was found hours before.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper walks away following a TV interview with Mike Duffy in Ottawa in February 2007.

Quebec aboriginals have threatened to derail a showpiece plan by Premier Jean Charest's government to develop the province's north, and they're pleading for help from the federal government.

Canadian forces, including MCpl Chris Fernandez, , and MCpl. John Feltham, , rest after a day of anti-Talban operations in intense heat June 13, 2006 in the Panjwai district about 30 kilometers southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Canada's economy shed more than 43,000 jobs last month in a clear indication that the struggling economy is still feeling the aftershock of the deep recession that erupted a year ago.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper walks with Chief of Defence Staff Walter Natynczyk while touring the Dahla Dam in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on Thursday.

Police officials investigate a truck involved in a shootout which killed city police chief Arturo Esparza in Garcia, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov.

PM calls judicial inquiry into disappearing B.C. salmon

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called an inquiry into the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye run.

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Prince Charles and Camilla have arrived at Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, where the Duchess of Cornwall is getting in touch with her Canadian roots.

MPs voted by a clear margin Wednesday to repeal the federal long-gun registry, signalling for the first time since the program was adopted 14 years ago that it is headed for the scrap heap, despite police assertions that it saves lives.

Ottawa - Canadian Press Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 10:52AM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov.