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The Ontario Provincial Police will hold a funeral Friday for the officer fatally wounded Monday in a shootout in southwestern Ontario.

More than 45,000 Canadians could be recognized as status Indians under changes the federal government plans to make to the Indian Act, CBC News has learned.

The owner of a convenience store in western P.E.I. has decided to close for good after a break-in the night after his wife's funeral.

A Canadian diplomat with extensive experience in Afghanistan says she raised the possibility that detainees transferred from Canadian to Afghan custody were at risk of torture back in 2005, but her concerns were ignored.

A co-ordinated investigation into child pornography in Ontario resulted in charges against 35 people across the province, police say.

Dr. Nash Denic has resigned as head of laboratory services at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority after a drug-testing fiasco in which lab officials are accused of reacting to the problem too slowly.

An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach tried on Tuesday to clarify remarks he made about whether he saw images of ducks dying in a toxic tailings lake that were entered as evidence last week in Syncrude's trial on environmental charges in the deaths of hundreds of ducks.

The manager of a Subway restaurant has apologized to a visually impaired Ottawa man who was refused service at the restaurant because he wasn't allowed to bring his seeing-eye dog inside, and advocacy groups for the blind say this happens far too often.

Dr. Barbara Heartwell, the Windsor, Ont., surgeon at the heart of a controversy over unnecessary mastectomies, has asked to have her hospital privileges reinstated.

The New Brunswick government has rejected several hundred names on a 5,500-name petition against the NB Power deal, saying petitions must include signatures to be valid and the names in question were collected online.

Mailouts from MPs, exorbitant Nova Scotia MLA expenses and a Toronto homeless audit are all cited at a tongue-in-cheek awards ceremony meant to highlight questionable government spending.

A Tofino councillor wants to ban fast food franchises and retail chains from the West Coast surf town in order to preserve its uniquely laid back character.

Jurors deciding the fate of Pingoatuk Kolola, a Nunavut man accused of killing an RCMP officer in 2007, remain sequestered for a third day at the Iqaluit courthouse.

A Moncton man, who firebombed a house in exchange for drugs, sending the occupant to hospital for two weeks with serious burns, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

A contest poking fun at free-spending Nova Scotia members of the legislature has landed a Halifax radio station in trouble.

The head of a St. John's-based health authority plagued by a new set of laboratory mistakes says staff may be disciplined for failing to document problems and alert managers

A new poll suggests that Canadians see substantial benefits from the 2010 Olympic Games for Canada, for B.C. and for the city of Vancouver.

The Conservative government was focused on communications as it tried to deal with the growing questions about the treatment of Afghan detainees back in 2007, a document obtained by CBC News indicates.

Drunk driving and drug possession charges are dropped against former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer as he pleads guilty to the lesser offence of careless driving.