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The Canadiens were very opportunistic and the Ottawa Senators not at all in a 4-1 road victory for Montreal on Tuesday night.

Twenty years after the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, survivors, victims' families, police officers and others are fighting what they say is a campaign of misinformation about the federal long-gun registry.

An indigenous delegate at the United Nations' two-week conference on climate change in Copenhagen says time, money and energy is being wasted travelling to the far corners of the world for such talks.

Country music star Keith Urban will be in Cavendish, P.E.I., next summer as the headline act for the 2010 Cavendish Beach Music Festival.

RCMP Cpl. Al Boulianne has been found not guilty on two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.

Elevated levels of trihalomethanes have been detected in the city water in three areas on Saint John's west side, officials said Tuesday.

Thousands of aboriginal people with diabetes suffer unnecessary foot amputations because the federal government won't pay for them to have proper shoes, says the head of a Manitoba medical outreach program.

An Edmonton doctor says he may have to resort to legal means to have his name removed from the watch list kept by the Canada Border Services Agency.

Alberta's delegation to the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen would welcome "an ambitious agreement" to reduce greenhouse gases, provincial Environment Minister Rob Renner says.

Residents of a mostly English-speaking Ontario community are petitioning Canada Post after their postmaster lost her job because she can't speak French.

Two Bathurst men were taken to hospital in critical condition after a highway accident that started with the loss of a wheel in the northern New Brunswick city Monday.

James Delorey, the Nova Scotia boy who died Tuesday after surviving two days lost in the woods, left a big impression on those who knew him as well as those who never met him.

Officials with McCain Foods Ltd. have been talking to the P.E.I. government about training dollars for employees during an upcoming shutdown of their Borden-Carleton plant.

The government isn't legally blocked from giving documents on possible Afghan detainee abuse to a parliamentary committee, according to a legal opinion given to Liberal defence critic Ujjal Dosanjh.

A woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a 2004 homicide will spend at least 14 years in prison.

The Calgary Zoo has welcomed a baby giraffe, born early on Saturday morning.

Life on the streets of Edmonton, as seen though the eyes of the homeless, is on display at an inner-city social services agency.

Workers at forestry company Tembec's newsprint mill in Pine Falls, Man., are expressing some relief over news the mill is up for sale.

Two former special-needs workers who abandoned two disabled women in a van while they watched a film at a Winnipeg theatre won't face criminal charges, police said on Tuesday.

The Nova Scotia boy rescued after spending two frigid nights in the woods has died.

A union representing Newfoundland and Labrador oil industry workers wants to know why the company that flies hundreds of their members to work has grounded their Sikorsky S-92A choppers frequently since October.

Montreal's snow-removal equipment is getting older and less reliable, according to a study obtained by Radio-Canada.

Alberta will be sending much more than elite athletes to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, a provincial official announced Tuesday.

Many flu vaccination clinics across Ottawa will be closing their doors for the season on Saturday afternoon.

Charges have been dropped against a young Dartmouth man who was involved in a deadly street fight last summer.

Eastern School District officials called the police on Tuesday after students at Queen Charlotte Intermediate School in Charlottetown complained about online comments allegedly made by another student.

Ski hills, hardware stores, garages and the city's snowplow fleet are getting ready for the Ottawa region's first snowstorm of the season.

The former chief of the Red Pheasant First Nation in Saskatchewan has been sentenced to eight months in jail for orchestrating a vote-buying scheme that won him a 2005 election.