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Canada's first-ever national standards for medical wait times will suggest patients get radiation cancer treatment within four weeks, a hip replacement in no more than six months and a non-emergency cardiac bypass in as little as 14 days, health...

"In elections, normally people don't want to focus as much on these issues that divide them," Tory said, referring to controversial subjects such as same-sex marriage...

Ballots cast by Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan will be flown by military aircraft back to this country in time to be counted for the Jan. 23 federal election, say military officials. Capt...

Environment ministers agreed on Saturday to a road map to extend the Kyoto Protocol climate pact beyond 2012, breaking two weeks of deadlock at UN talks aimed at curbing global warming...

The provincial government is expected today to introduce its long-awaited legislation to reform the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)...

THE world would be condemned to a "hot death" if it did not pursue so-called clean coal technologies and attempts to tackle global warming should not come at the expense of economic growth, according to federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell...

EDMONTON -- A brutal killing of a young man Friday morning could mark the start of a drug war, says a source who knows details about the homicide...

The kidnapping of four Christian activists has prompted a surge in interest from people seeking to join the organization that sent the hostages on their mission to Baghdad...

A 59-year-old Canadian woman traveling with her husband on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was reported missing, heightening safety concerns in an industry already being scrutinized by U.S. lawmakers...

New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord says it's dangerous for Liberal Leader Paul Martin to play up the menace of separatism and paint his party as the only saviour of a united Canada...

A UN conference on global warming ended yesterday with a watershed agreement by more than 150 nations -- an unwilling United States not among them -- to open talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases...

So Paul Martin has made a sweeping announcement: Ban all handguns! There will undoubtedly be those who believe that this will somehow aid in reducing gun violence — just like the Firearms Registry was supposed to...

There had been no word in Iraq by early Sunday from militants holding four Christian peace activists, including two Canadians – even though they had threatened to kill the captives if their demands weren't met by a Saturday deadline...

During the election campaign, we're asking you to rate the political parties' ad campaigns. (Watch them here.) Here's what you had to say about the early ads...