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Eight young men who were in a car that plunged into the Reversing Falls in Saint John are lucky to be alive, say police.

Manitobans have been less generous when opening their wallets to help victims of a cyclone in Burma than they have when donating to previous disasters.

An Air Canada plane travelling from Vancouver to Ottawa had to make an emergency landing in Winnipeg Monday night after smoke was detected in the cabin.

A Victoria police officer who helped handcuff and tether an intoxicated teenage girl defended his actions in court Monday in the B.C. capital.

A public funeral will be held Friday for the latest Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan, the family of Cpl. Michael Starker has announced.

An Ottawa woman credits a group of young passersby with saving her husband's life after the family car fell off its jack and crushed him as he was working beneath it outside an east end home.

A five-alarm fire broke out just before 5 a.m. ET on the balcony of a triplex apartment building on Jeanne d'Arc Street.

Labour unions appear before the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday to argue the federal government has been improperly spending billions of surplus dollars in the unemployment insurance fund.

Danny Williams was wrong to critique the tone and speed of the judicial inquiry investigating flawed breast cancer testing, John Gomery says.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder after a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed at an alternative school in Cornwall, Ont., Monday.

Ontario Transportation Minister Jim Bradley is looking at limiting driving privileges for older motorists, instead of a total licence suspension when a doctor says they could be a danger on the road.

Older vehicles in P.E.I.'s fleet of school buses could be hurting the health of school children, says the Island's Green Party, and the Ontario Public Health Association agrees.

Premier Danny Williams denies that he is trying to intimidate Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry, even as he criticizes how the inquiry is operating.

File this under weird BC history. The harpooning of Moby Doll.

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AG calls tightened requirements a 'good move' but cites report that says opposite.

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On Monday there was a great example of social media, and Twitter in particular, being both a great breaking news source and a viral carrier.

Keynes is back. After being considered wrong, and consigned to the past, his theories — conceived to fight the depression of the 1930s — have become current again.

Calgary Zoo officials were in shock Monday after the sudden death of nearly all of the zoo's stingrays over the weekend.

The Parti Québécois held onto two Montreal strongholds and the Liberals kept a western riding in three provincial byelections Monday that did not change the balance of power in the legislature.