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Patrol officers investigating a shots-fired call at a Surrey, B.C., townhouse made a gruesome discovery on Sunday.

The lawyer for a Quebec man whose lawsuit against the search and rescue team in Golden, B.C., forced it to shut down says some good can come of the court action.

Search crews are scouring the area between Anchorage, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon, for a missing plane with two people on board.

While National Aboriginal Day was marked across the country Sunday with celebrations of culture and community gathering, in Saskatoon there was a sombre tone as survivors of Indian residential schools were honoured.

The Conservative government wants to give police greater powers to eavesdrop on Canadians in cyberspace, but civil liberties advocates aren’t convinced the changes are justified.

TORONTO — The city known for its cleanliness may be in for stinky start to summer as thousands of Toronto municipal workers went on strike Monday morning after contract talks failed.

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff wants the Canadian embassy in Tehran to help those injured in the Iranian government’s crackdown, but Foreign Affairs says it can only offer refuge to people in exceptional circumstances.

The inquiry into the RCMP’s confrontation with Robert Dziekanski is on hold until September after a potentially explosive email between RCMP brass surfaced just as closing submissions were about to begin.

Several naked people and others clad only in towels were forced to flee from an early morning fire at a club for Montreal swingers.

Abousfian Abdelrazik’s long ordeal is almost over.