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Former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm has been found guilty of defaming the province's one-time conflict of interest commissioner Ted Hughes and ordered to pay $60,000.

The parents of the suspect in the shooting of two RCMP officers near Killam, Alta., have asked the fugitive to turn himself in ? with his father urging him to "swallow your hurt" and come home.

One of the three Canadians picked up by a giant container ship at sea overnight after a storm damaged their Hawaii-bound sailboat is calling their dramatic rescue a "gauntlet of happiness."

As many as five people have died after a tractor-trailer and a passenger vehicle collided outside the town of McLeese Lake, about 350 kilometres north of Vancouver.

Canada is pulling out of a NATO project 20 years in the making that will use unmanned aerial vehicles to collect surveillance.

One of the first people on the scene of the crash that killed 11 people in Hampstead, Ont., on Monday says he is appalled by passersby who gathered at the scene only to record the carnage on their phones.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson came under fire in question period after telling a House committee it's reasonable under some circumstances to fire warning shots.

Seniors and members of the labour movement concerned about changes to Old Age Security staged peaceful sit-ins at the offices of 24 Conservative MPs in Ontario and New Brunswick on Thursday, with additional demonstrations in St. Johns.

Sources say the Cree leader is calling it quits in part due to illness in the family.

The federal government has given a green light to a new paid tourist attraction in Alberta's Jasper National Park called the Glacier Discovery Walk.

Members of Canada's Jewish community are mourning the loss of Rabbi Gunther Plaut, who died Wednesday in Toronto. He was 99.

The concern over income inequality in Canada doesn't take taxation and redistribution into account according to a study released thursday by the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy.

On the heels of Wednesday's "historic" investment deal, Prime Minister Stephen Harper moved on to raise the prospect of something even bigger on Thursday: free trade talks with China.

A senior RCMP officer will lose 10 days pay for misusing an RCMP squad car and his telephone while carrying on a sexual affair with a subordinate.

NDP MP Sana Hassainia says she was asked to remove her three-month-old baby from the floor of the House of Commons. Here's a list of other places where babies have been a problem.