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RCMP arrest suspect in the murder of 14-year-old girl on walking trail in Alberta

EDSON, Alta. - People in the small resource town of Edson, Alta., began to lower their guard on Wednesday after RCMP announced the arrest of a male suspect in the murder of a 14-year-old girl killed o...

Quebec politicians unimpressed by Harper speech to Canadians

MONTREAL - Quebec doesn't need anti-sovereigntist rhetoric from the federal government while it copes with the global economic crisis, Premier Jean Charest said late Wednesday after hearing Prime Mini...

Full text of speeches from the televised addresses

OTTAWA - The full text of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's live televised address Wednesday: Good evening. Canadians take pride in our history as one of the world's oldest continuous democrac...

Harper expected to ask Gov. Gen. to suspend Parliament

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper prepared for an all-or-nothing meeting with the Governor General by telling Canadians in an extraordinary televised appeal that the opposition coalition poised to topple his go...

Dion beset by technical woes in taped address

OTTAWA - In the battle of the airwaves Wednesday, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion showed up almost an hour late and a few pixels short in his duel with the prime minister he hopes to replace. Dion was...

Tragic mistake or cold-blooded plot? Closing arguments in triple-murder case

CALGARY - It will soon be up to a jury to decide whether Jeremy Steinke was an intoxicated, lovestruck suitor who acted on impulse in slaying his young girlfriend's parents or whether he was a predato...

Canadian Hells Angels biker indicted on federal gun charge in U.S.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A Canadian member of the Hells Angels who was acquitted of attempted murder in a state court for a gunfight with rivals was indicted Wednesday in federal court of unlawfully having...

Harper to meet Governor General early Thursday

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to meet with the Governor General early Thursday in a bid to save his government. Harper's office announced the prime minister will confer with Michaelle J...

Harper calls opposition coalition a threat to democracy

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper made an extraordinary televised appeal to Canadians Wednesday night in an effort to turn public opinion against the opposition coalition, calling it a threat to the economy - a...

Charest warns federal politicians against bashing Quebec sovereigntists

MONTREAL - Premier Jean Charest has warned federal politicians against attacking the Bloc Quebecois and engaging in Quebec bashing as they verbally slug it out in the political clash on Parliament Hil...