Soldiers lend a hand to flood-weary Quebec residents

Members of the Canadian military arrive to help residents of the flooding in Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu, Que., on May 5, 2011. Residents of the Monteregie region are dealing with record flooding along the Richelieu River and the shores of Lake Champlain.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest stood in the pouring rain beside the swollen Richelieu River on Thursday to express compassion for residents coping with the region's worst flooding on record.

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Montreal police find baby that went missing in stolen car.

Police on Friday located a baby safe and sound that went missing when the vehicle the child was in was stolen.

Judgment Day billboards have been erected acrcoss Canada by California-based Family Radio.

End is nigh come May 21, billboard campaign proclaims

Michael Garcia is a believer.

Guy Turcotte, who has admitted killing his two children, and his estranged wife Isabelle Gaston. Gaston told a packed courtoom on Thursday about the last time she saw her children alive and how she learned of their gruesome deaths at the hands of their father.

Wife of doctor on trial for murder suspected he was gay

A suicidal Isabelle Gaston called her husband three months after he killed their children and asked him why he'd done it, a Quebec...

NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau for Berthier--Maskinongé - Quebec.

NDP rookie's Quebec riding could use some Vegas winnings

If Quebec's newly-elected Ruth Ellen Brosseau had any luck at the Las Vegas slots, there's an organization in dire need of the funds...

NDP MP for Ruth Ellen Brosseau for Berthier-Maskinongé - Quebec.

Vegas-vacationing NDP MP still missing in action

The search continues for Ruth Ellen Brosseau, the New Democrat MP who took a trip to Las Vegas during the election campaign and will...

Three ridings won by Conservatives — two in Ontario and one in Quebec — could change hands because of Elections Canada recounts.

Elections Canada now reviewing 3 riding wins

Elections Canada has ordered another judicial recount of votes in an northern Ontario riding, meaning three Conservative wins — two...

A bomb threat against the Montreal subway system and U.S. embassy in Ottawa in 2004 was a hoax, say the RCMP.

Montreal bomb plot in 2004 was hoax, RCMP says

A 2004 bomb threat against the Montreal subway system and the U.S. embassy was like the majority of threats that the RCMP investigates...

Dolores Soucy holds a picture of her missing daughter Jolene Riendeau, in this May 5, 1999 photo.

Body found of Montreal girl who vanished in 1999

Police in Montreal announced Wednesday that they have found the remains of Jolene Riendeau, a 10-year-old girl who went missing in...

Guy Turcotte, who has admitted killing his two children, and his estranged wife Isabelle Gaston. Gaston told a packed courtoom on Thursday May 5, 2011 about the last time she saw her children alive and how she learned of their gruesome deaths at the hands of their father.

Killer Guy Turcotte's estranged wife suspected he was gay

In a packed and hushed courtroom, Isabelle Gaston recounted Thursday the last time she saw her children alive and how she learned ...

NDP MP Laurin Liu is a McGill University student who admits that until recently she'd barely visited the Quebec riding where she was elected Monday night.

Election of NDP newbies raises questions about democratic process

Often they're university students plucked from campus party associations who run in regions they've never visited. Sometimes they ...

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Members of the Canadian Navy / Marine Canadienne aboard the H.M.C.S. Charlottetown offer warm wishes to wives and mothers back home for Mother's Day.

Wendy Lukasiewiez holds onto CAden, 2, while getting ready to take part in the 33rd Annual Mothers Day Run and Walk. The event took place in downtown Calgary on Sunday, May 9, 2010 with thousands of people coming out to take part.

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Dr. Ron MacCormick's dislike of the fumes given off by zamboni ice rink cleaners led him to consider the effects the machines have on their drivers.

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Dr. Ron MacCormick's dislike of the fumes given off by zamboni ice rink cleaners led him to consider the effects the machines have on their drivers.

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Tim Donovan and John McLaughlin will travel across the country to talk about liberation therapy for MS patients and why the Canadian government should fund it.

The former Antigonish, N.S. bishop pleaded guilty in an Ottawa courtroom to one child porn charge stemming from a 2009 investigation.

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The former Antigonish, N.S. bishop pleaded guilty in an Ottawa courtroom to one child porn charge stemming from a 2009 investigation.

Canada's economy stepped up a gear in April, pumping out a surprisingly strong 58,300 jobs - almost all of them in the province of Ontario and a big portion of them part-time.

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Canada's economy stepped up a gear in April, pumping out a surprisingly strong 58,300 jobs.

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