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Federal Liberals say the Harper government is in denial about the negative impact of oilsands development on Alberta's freshwater supplies.

INUKJUAK, Que. - Larry Audlalak wasn't quite three years old when his family finally gave in to the insistent promises of the RCMP officer and left their comfortable lands along Hudson Bay's northern coast for the frigid unknown of the High Arctic. The memory is with him yet. "It was very bad,"

Canada has no need for a moratorium on offshore drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico spill because the current risk of an accident is low, according to a Senate report released Wednesday.

Fire officials in B.C. have issued several new wildfire evacuation orders as an approaching storm front threatens to worsen the situation.

MONTREAL - A man told to cover up his Bob Marley T-shirt at an amusement park plans to file a human-rights complaint against the facility. Brunaud Moise alleges that security guards at La Ronde theme park in Montreal ordered him to turn the shirt inside out or leave the premises. Moise, who is

OTTAWA - The Mountie in charge of the RCMP's firearms program has been replaced. The shift comes just weeks before Parliament resumes debate of a Conservative private member's bill that would kill the national long-gun registry, raising questions about the timing. Both the Harper government and

SHERBROOKE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say a teenager might face murder charges in the death of an 82-year-old woman. Rejeanne Pelletier-Charette's body was found in a wooded area east of Montreal on Tuesday night. The discovery came just hours after a 16-year-old boy was charged with

TORONTO - Should every Canadian have the right to Google, stream YouTube videos, and tweet their random nothings from the comfort of their own home? The non-profit Public Interest Advocacy Centre says we should, and is calling on the federal government to follow the lead of Finland and

MARYSVILLE, Calif. - Ted Nugent says he should have been better informed about California game laws after pleading no contest to misdemeanour charges of deer-baiting. Nugent said on his website Wednesday that he takes full responsibility for the hunting incident televised on a February episode...

Ottawa paramedics and OC Transpo special constables were responding to a bus collision at the Cyrville Transitway station near the St. Laurent Shopping Centre on Wednesday afternoon that left a few people with minor injuries.

A special cash reward in the disappearance of a missing elderly couple from Alberta is growing by the tens of thousands of dollars.

A new director general has been named to replace RCMP Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak as the head of the Canadian Firearms Program, the RCMP confirmed Wednesday.

A new director general has been named to replace RCMP Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak as the head of the Canadian Firearms Program, the RCMP confirmed Wednesday.

VANCOUVER - Five women who were on board a cargo ship that docked in British Columbia last week will remain in detention at least a little while longer. The women, who are being housed with their children at a youth detention facility in Burnaby, took part in an Immigration and Refugee Board...

Blackouts sweep through nation, taking a particularly hard toll on Muslims observing Ramadan in sweltering heat

As a daily labourer in this lush stretch of rich, loamy farmland, Ganga Singh has spent most of his life helping to build schools, hospitals and other local buildings.

A military helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon just outside the Shearwater Canadian Forces base near Halifax.

The Canadian Forces will review several contracts it has with private security companies in Kandahar following an order from President Hamid Karzai that the firms cease operations in Afghanistan.

In Canada, advocating for victims of crime is apparently an Irish thing.

An outraged Public Safety Minister Vic Toews called it "offensive and unacceptable" that a group of federal inmates was allowed to order and wear T-shirts with an upside-down Maple Leaf as part of a Prisoner Justice Day protest.