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ABBOTSFORD - The lawyer for a senior British Columbia RCMP officer says his client intends to plead not guilty to assault charges laid after an alleged off-duty altercation in Abbotsford in July. RCMP...

VANCOUVER - An environmental charity says it has reached an agreement with the federal and British Columbia governments as well as other private and public sector partners to conserve 45,000 hectares ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia woman sentenced to life in prison for strangling her 12-year-old daughter is being granted six months of day parole. Penny Boudreau killed her daughter Karissa in 2008, claim...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued significant rainfall warnings for low-lying parts of southwestern British Columbia, just one day after heavy rain triggered more flood warnings and on top of ...

OTTAWA - The federal government's 'Buy Canadian' policy takes effect today and Ottawa says it will fundamentally change the way it purchases goods and services. Announced earlier in the fall, the stra...

OTTAWA - The National Council of Canadian Muslims says a delegation of Canadians that includes six members of Parliament was denied entry to the West Bank at the Israeli border Tuesday morning. Israel...

Canada Post says the millions of Canadians who write to Santa Claus with their wish lists will get a response this year. A month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers last year meant Old Sain...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... McGuinty 'confident' Canada will hit NATO spending targets Defence Minister David McGuinty says he's confiden...

OTTAWA - Canada is injecting tens of billions of dollars into defence as it looks to ramp up spending to levels not seen since the Cold War - both to meet its NATO commitments and to juice the domesti...

Four months, 50 applications, two interviews, no job. The story of 21-year-old political studies graduate Lauren Hood might sound familiar to others in her generation. "In my mind, after completing th...