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OTTAWA - Canada's top judge says there is slow but sure progress toward more timely justice in Canadian courts after years of backlogs and delays. Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner says thing...

MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner has ruled the hypothermia death of Gilles Duceppe's 93-year-old mother last January was accidental, but video footage of the woman trying to re-enter the luxury senior...

OTTAWA - Crime Reduction Minister Bill Blair says more must be done to address gun violence, but he's also signalling that no new measures will be taken before the fall election. Steps could - an...

WORCESTER, Mass. - A Massachusetts woman who lived in a home where authorities found the remains of three dead babies has been cleared of second-degree murder. A judge said Thursday that prosecutors d...

ST. LOUIS - Missouri's only abortion clinic, already facing the threat of losing its license, says it will defy the state by refusing to perform a required pelvic examination days before an abortion. ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's largest school board has voted to delay application of Quebec's controversial new secularism law for at least a year to allow for consultations with parents, unions ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces were searching for answers Tuesday after an Ontario-based soldier was killed during a parachute-training exercise in Bulgaria. Bombardier Patrick Labrie, a soldier based o...

OTTAWA - The federal government's 10-year housing strategy may not be as effective as promised when it comes to easing Canada's housing crunch, the parliamentary budget officer warned Tuesday&nbs...

The bad news is that the populations of more than one-quarter of Canada's bird species are declining, many rapidly. The good news is that about the same number are increasing - proof, says a ...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Mark Warawa has died after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. The B.C. politician represented the riding of Langley - Aldergrove, outside Vancouver...