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The Greyhound bus in which Vince Li attacked and dismembered fellow passenger Tim McLean last summer should be taken off the road out of respect, the victim’s mother said Thursday.

David Jacobson, a Chicago lawyer and key fundraiser for Barack Obama during his run for the White House, has been named the U.S. ambassador to Canada.

Lawyers for the family of a young man beheaded on a Greyhound bus are considering taking those determining the killer’s fate to the Manitoba Court of Appeal.

Sam George was remembered Wednesday as an ordinary man who fought an extraordinary battle in forcing a public inquiry into the fatal police shooting of his aboriginal activist brother, Dudley George, at Ipperwash Provincial Park.

OTTAWA — Rookie cabinet minister and rising star Lisa Raitt will keep her job despite a political uproar over a security breach involving secret government documents.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says the party will decide next week whether to try to bring down the Harper government and plunge the country into a mid-summer election.

Aboriginal elders are making sure that Mother Earth is on side with the construction of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

new report reveals that a large majority of Canadian kids are failing to meet recommended guidelines of daily physical activity.

The lawyer representing a Vancouver high school student who police say had a hit list of students and teachers is rejecting suggestions police may have prevented a Colombine-style massacre.

British forces have killed an alleged Taliban leader in southern Afghanistan, British and Afghan officials said Tuesday, in what they claimed was a major victory against the insurgency there.