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VICTORIA - One person is dead following a float-plane crash off Vancouver Island.

A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria, B.C., says the crash took place off the west side

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says a Canadian is among those killed in a spate of recent sectarian violence in Iraq.

A string of attacks in the middle eastern country has killed more t

MONTREAL - Quebec's alleged election-night shooter has waived his right to a preliminary hearing and will head straight to trial.

Richard Henry Bain will face 15 charges including first-degree murder

OTTAWA - The Conservative government says people are already starting to ask about the new Canada Jobs Grant it began heavily promoting with TV ads last week.

Kellie Leitch, the parliamentary secreta

OTTAWA - Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he was contacted by police in 2011 because of an alleged bribe offered many years earlier by a now-controversial mayor.

Mulcair says he didn't go to polic

TORONTO - Canadians face a significantly lower risk than their American neighbours of finding themselves in the path of a tornado, but should still be prepared to face the worst if mother nature decid

OTTAWA - The Liberals in the Senate are trying to trigger special parliamentary hearings in the hopes of forcing the prime minister's former top aide and other Conservatives to testify.

Liberal Senat

EDMONTON - The mother of a toddler killed when an SUV crashed into a restaurant patio wept and trembled as the man charged in youngster's death appeared in an Edmonton court.

Richard Suter (SOO-ter),

QUEBEC - Quebec's Coalition party has suspended one of its legislature members amid allegations of illegal financing while he was in municipal politics.

Leader Francois Legault says he has suspended

OTTAWA - A Mountie who was once part of the famed Musical Ride is suing the national police force, alleging she was sexually assaulted, harassed, repeatedly doused in cold water and dragged through ho