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A commission of experts will be asked to conduct a comprehensive review of all animal-care practices and policies at the Calgary Zoo, the embattled facility's president announced Saturday.

Students in Glace Bay, N.S., are reaching out to those grieving the death of James Delorey, writing letters of sympathy to his family and friends.

Environment Canada is warning people across the Prairies to bundle up for the next several days.

A Toronto neurosurgeon speaking at a Regina seminar about concussions in hockey says the promotion of an aggressive style of play by commentators like Don Cherry is contributing to serious injuries in the sport.

The tenuous unity of federal Liberals will be sorely tested by next year's mayoralty race in Toronto, as the party's national director prepares to throw his hat in the municipal ring.

A cheering, flag-waving crowd of 15,000 people, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, gathered Saturday night on Parliament Hill to welcome the Olympic torch to the nation's capital and turn on 350,000 Christmas lights.

A Regina bylaw is being misused by police as a tool to curb street begging and should be repealed, city administrators are recommending.

Nannies and other home-care workers who come to Canada for jobs would be better protected from abuse and exploitation by their employers under proposed changes to rules governing live-in foreign caregivers, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Saturday.

A 33-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with second-degree murder after his wife's body was found in a west end home last weekend.

Skates, toys and books from a little girl in rural Manitoba have warmed the hearts of locked-out paper mill workers in Pine Falls.

Another 18-year-old man has been charged in connection with a robbery last summer in which a woman nearly died after being dragged by a car.

Winds of up to 133 km/h have restricted travel on the Confederation Bridge between New Brunswick and P.E.I., as well as ferry crossings between P.E.I. and Nova Scotia.

The man who was killed in a work-site accident in Millbrook, N.S., on Thursday has been identified as Kirby Beers, 33, of Chipman, N.B.

Snow is chest-deep in some places after a raging winter storm buried much of Central Ontario, shutting highways and prompting the town of Huntsville to declare a state of emergency.

A nine-unit apartment building in the town of Pictou, N.S., was evacuated early Saturday morning after a boiler exploded, causing a minor fire.

One man is dead and another injured after a military vehicle plunged from a bridge on Highway 892 near Cold Lake, Alta., RCMP said Friday.

The lawyer representing the Montreal Police force at the coroner's inquest into the fatal shooting of 18-year old Fredy Villanueva dismissed suggestions the incident was the result of racial profiling, Friday.

Calian Technologies has seen the value of its contracts with the City of Ottawa skyrocket since the company's founder was elected mayor in 2006.

A storm blasted heavy snow through central Ontario Friday, and was expected to bury some areas waist-deep overnight, forcing the closure of a major highway.

Police in Kamloops, B.C., have arrested a man after sexually graphic letters were sent to elementary schools.