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The family of a Gatineau man who was shot to death in his driveway by a police officer is demanding a public inquiry.

A Gold Rush-era steamboat that was found on the bottom of a Yukon lake this year has been named National Geographic's top archeological find of 2009.

]A Calgary family with lots of holiday cheer is upset a grinch has stolen several inflatable snowmen from their front lawn.

The Olympic torch arrived in the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon, held high by Canadian figure-skating legend Barbara Ann Scott.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is offering a $50,000 reward for information about a human skull that was found near St. John's in 2001 and that they believe is from a homicide victim.

Specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs might soon be patrolling Metro Vancouver's buses and SkyTrains just in time for the Olympics, but that has some Muslims concerned.

A suspect has been arrested in a recent Molotov cocktail attack on a cafe in east-end Montreal.

The first winter snowstorm of the season that hit southern Ontario and Quebec a day earlier moved across to the Atlantic provinces on Thursday.

Some City of Winnipeg workers are concerned about the use of global positioning systems to keep track of their vehicles.

The Transportation Safety Board has determined that a small plane owned by an Edmonton engineering firm was overloaded when it crashed east of Edmonton in March 2008, killing five people.

The Manitoba government is protecting two tracts of northern boreal forest along Hudson Bay that are the summer home to polar bears, caribou and several bird species.

The federal government must hold a public inquiry into the handling of Afghan detainees before international bodies begin their own probe into the issue, NDP Leader Jack Layton said.

The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal from the B.C. government concerning evidence it obtained while trying to recover more than $6-million in legal fees from a man acquitted in the Air India bombings.

There are signs a phenomenon known as Olympic aversion is hitting the travel industry in B.C., even though the 2010 Winter Games are still more than two months away.

A 46-year-old woman in Sarnia has been charged with failing to provide the necessities of life after she allegedly left her 16-year-old son unconscious for 14 hours before calling 911.

A mother in Calgary gave birth to a baby girl in an SUV after icy roads, traffic jams and falling snow made it impossible to get to a hospital on time.

There were no working smoke detectors in a home west of Quebec City where two girls were killed in a fire on Thursday, police said.

People living in the circumpolar North should be exempt from mandatory greenhouse-gas cutbacks, according to the head of an international Inuit organization.

After 15 months of staying at the Moncton SPCA's shelter, Chance the dog finally got his chance to find a new home.

A 19-year-old man has been convicted of several charges related to the shooting of an off-duty Windsor, Ont., police officer during an attempted carjacking in Detroit early this year.