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A coroner's inquest into the schoolyard death of a 12-year old St. Eustache, Que., boy began Tuesday with the emotional testimony of the boy's mother.

Federal scientists are set to map the ocean seabed in the central Arctic this month, as Canada continues to gather data to help claim more Arctic territory under an international treaty.

A baby girl's body began to shut down hours after swallowing a lethal dose of methadone in her Calgary home, a manslaughter trial has heard.

Jurors in Iqaluit have ended a second day of deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of Pingoatuk Kolola, who is accused of shooting an RCMP officer in Kimmirut, Nunavut.

General practitioners in Quebec are demanding a wage increase they say would bring them closer in line with the province's medical specialists and would make it easier for Quebecers to find a family doctor.

Terry Ryan, who managed the Cape Dorset artists' co-op in Nunavut and is now director of Dorset Fine Arts in Toronto, has been honoured for his 50 years of work in promoting Inuit art.

A farm lobby group is asking Members of Parliament to keep quiet during campaigns for director positions on the Canadian Wheat Board.

The coroner overseeing the inquest into the death of Fredy Villanueva rejected a request to have the police officer involved in the shooting demonstrate how easily he could have been disarmed.

A Manitoba sex offender that RCMP say is a high-risk to violently re-offend has walked away from his halfway house and is currently unlawfully at large, police said on Tuesday.

It's finally snowing on Vancouver's Cypress Mountain ski hill but not enough to ease concerns that the El Nino weather pattern B.C. is experiencing could lead to water shortages and forest fires this summer.

The province has deployed its arsenal of ice-cutting equipment to the Red River north of Selkirk to tackle potential ice jams from forming as Manitoba's flood season quickly approaches.

The Quebec government says it may use the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to block students from accessing to English public schools through a legal loophole.

The priest who conducted a funeral service for a 21-month-old foster child who died in Edmonton last week has called on the Alberta government to better protect children.

The provincial government is signing agreements with a number of First Nations in Saskatchewan to allow them to levy their own liquor taxes on reserves.

The Oilers' goaltender charged with drunk driving in Arizona last month faced the media in Edmonton Tuesday, but refused to talk about the charges.

The president of the province's nurses' union is speaking out against what she says are rollbacks in the new contract proposal tabled by Alberta Health Services at the start of negotiations Monday.

The parents of a seven-week-old baby girl who died in a Halifax hospital last July, are now facing manslaughter charges in her death.

Police and Workplace Health and Safety are investigating how a flagman directing traffic around a fog-shrouded crash near Morinville was himself killed a short time later.

The husband of a woman who claims two off-duty RCMP officers sexually assaulted her has told a Yukon Supreme Court judge that he regrets not accompanying his wife to the party where she met the Mounties.

A woman has died after her vehicle collided head-on with a tractor-trailer in north Etobicoke Tuesday afternoon.

A Yukon outreach agency that provided counselling to hundreds of former Indian residential school students may have to shut down this month because its federal funding has been cut.

Researchers in Alberta have successfully tested a new viral approach to treating prostate cancer in a small number of men.

There will not be a public inquiry into the police shooting death of a man in a Cape Breton First Nations community, Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry says.

Damp, foggy weather is causing problems for Manitoba Hydro.

Bait cars are now on Calgary Transit's park-and-ride lots, a move police and transit officials hope will curb auto theft.

A review of drug testing errors in Newfoundland and Labrador finds that Eastern Health Authority staff didn't react quickly enough when problems administering cyclosporine were first identified.

A Penticton, B.C., teenager has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of a 25-year-old man from Windsor, Ont.

The list of processed foods being recalled because of salmonella fears continues to expand as authorities in Canada and the U.S. track down tainted products.