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A tornado touched down near Sundre, northwest of Calgary, as people in parts of southern Alberta were warned to watch for more twisters.

B.C.'s representative for children and youth says she was disturbed to learn criminal charges were laid against a former government contractor who was testing the sexual responses of young sex offenders by attaching sensors to their genitals.

Canada's gross domestic product expanded by 0.1 per cent in May as goods-producing industries helped offset a decline in the service sector.

A Calgary security expert with international intelligence experience has been charged with three offences related to child pornography.

Canadian F-18 fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers 450 kilometres east of Labrador Wednesday.

An Iranian-Canadian who has been in a 10-year battle with the RCMP over allegations of discrimination has achieved a key victory in the latest court skirmish.

A Calgary psychiatrist who was facing a single charge of sexual assault against a patient now faces 20 additional counts, police say.

The country's Roman Catholic bishops have added their voices to the chorus asking the federal government not to scrap the mandatory long census form.

The remainder of the performances by the Canadian Forces CF-18 demonstration team were cancelled Friday, one week after one of the jets crashed in Alberta and its pilot was injured.

A new database that compiles government and industry records on Alberta's oilsands shows the industry is a constant source of low-level pollution, says the scientist who pulled it all together.

B.C. officials are likely to halt proceedings on 20 other murder charges after the Supreme Court of Canada denied convicted killer Robert William Pickton a new trial in the deaths of six women.

B.C.'s Solicitor General Mike de Jong says he has yet to decide whether he will call an inquiry into the police investigation of Robert Pickton after police admitted they made mistakes.

A Quebec Court judge has denied bail to a Montreal-area woman who is accused of trying to kill her daughter last month.

More than 150 conservation officers and rangers will be patrolling B.C. parks and campsites over the long weekend, enforcing a campfire ban.

The Canadian Wheat Board is reporting the strongest sales in a decade for the crop year that ends Saturday.

The MS River Rouge tour boat remains lodged on a sandbar, just north of Winnipeg, and officials are trying to figure out how to free it.

A transit rider in Vancouver is resting easier after attendants helped retrieve a $200,000 US cheque lost on the SkyTrain.

A small plane crashes in a home's yard near Truro, N.S., but the pilot and passenger walked away.

A trial date has been set for the Alberta man accused of holding nine people hostage at Edmonton's Workers' Compensation Board building in October 2009.

There will be more guards but no fence at a Winnipeg-area mental health facility where beheader Vince Li has been granted escorted walks.