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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.

The family of a Canadian man who vanished along with more than 200 others after an Air France flight disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean are remembering him as a world traveller who never forgot his roots.

A Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay rejected his U.S. military lawyers Monday at the first session of the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals called under President Barack Obama, complicating his high-profile case and the administration’s timeline for closing the prison.

June got underway Monday with a bang — two of them, actually — for Canadian soldiers deep in the Taliban badlands of southern Afghanistan’s Panjwaii district, more evidence of a seasonal escalation in potentially lethal insurgent activity.