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OTTAWA - Health Canada offered hints Tuesday about the government’s plans for legal pot, including, plain packaging and stern, stark health warnings like those found on tobacco products. The dep...

OTTAWA - Auditor general Michael Ferguson has taken his first close look at the federal government’s problem-plagued pay system known as Phoenix. Here are some numbers from the report: 290,000: ...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A Quebec provincial police officer will have to stand trial in the death of a five-year-old boy. Patrick Ouellet filed a motion asking that a charge of dangerous driving causing deat...

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber detonated his pickup truck loaded with explosives, killing 32 people on Tuesday evening at a marketplace in an Iraqi town contested by both the central government in Baghdad...

UPDATE [Dec. 6] – Red Deer RCMP advisre that Tina Desjardine has been located and thank the public for their assistance.

TORONTO - Ten years ago Michael Gervers visited an ancient church cut into the side of a cliff in a remote region of Ethiopia. The history professor with the University of Toronto had been hunting dow...

BEIJING - China’s former top internet regulator and censor is being investigated by the ruling Communist Party’s anti-corruption arm, the agency said Tuesday. The party’s anti-graft ...

OTTAWA - Some taxpayers may be filing tax returns using erroneous information supplied by the Canada Revenue Agency, the federal auditor general warned Tuesday after tabling an audit that found just g...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is struggling to track the impact of its historic effort to resettle upwards of 40,000 Syrian refugees, the federal auditor general concluded Tuesday in his fall report...

OTTAWA - Some of the key findings from the fall 2017 report of federal auditor general Michael Ferguson: - It is going to take years and “much more” than the original projected $540 millio...