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A Via Rail train from Vancouver arrived in Toronto Saturday morning after a health scare in northern Ontario.

Toronto Blue Jays centre fielder Vernon Wells will miss six to eight weeks with a broken left wrist suffered Friday night in the team's loss to the Cleveland Indians.

Radim Vrbata and Ales Kotalik scored in the shootout as the Czech Republic defeated Belarus 3-2 Saturday in Quebec City at the world hockey championship.

Fire crews were called to a parking lot in St. John's early Saturday morning to tackle two car fires.

Team Canada isn't exactly in a state of turmoil, but there is cause for concern.

Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry could destroy the province's health care system if it runs too long, the justice minister has warned.

For the Toronto Blue Jays, Friday night wasn't pretty.

A chilly spring is being credited for a massive parade of icebergs off Newfoundland, making for what experts say will be a stunning season for onlookers.

Parks Canada will begin equipping national park wardens with side arms by March 2009, the federal government says.

A man has been charged after a bear cub, orphaned when its mother was killed by a car last week, was shot to death near the parking lot of a school in Whistler, B.C.

A man arrested in the armed robbery of a convenience store on Friday has escaped from custody in Mission, B.C.

The Greater Vancouver Zoo in Langley will be holding a memorial ceremony for Jocko, a spider monkey that was killed when thieves broke into a cage with bolt cutters on Tuesday night and likely made off with his mate, Mia.

Brenda Martin, a Canadian who spent more than two years in a Mexican prison before being transferred to Canada earlier this month, was granted parole Friday and released from a southern Ontario jail.

A woman whose mother and sister were shot to death in a B.C. hospital cannot sue the federal and provincial governments for compensation for psychiatric injuries, a B.C. Supreme Court justice has ruled.

Child welfare officials have taken temporary custody of an 11-year-old Ontario boy to ensure he undergoes chemotherapy after his father decided to take him off treatment for his aggressive form of leukemia.

After watching a videotape in court on Friday, the jail guard named in a civil lawsuit against Victoria police recanted sworn statements she made in 2005 that she had been assaulted by a teenaged prisoner.

A former NDP caucus employee who resigned amid a controversy at the legislature will receive more than $130,000 in severance.

Residents of a North Vancouver apartment building badly damaged in a deadly fire Tuesday night were allowed back into their suites for the first time Friday.

Nova Scotia's justice department has been ordered to make dozens of security improvements at the five provincial jails.

The trial of Thomas Svekla on charges of killing two Edmonton prostitutes will not hear any evidence on behalf of the accused, his defence lawyer said Friday.

P.E.I.'s Opposition is calling for the resignation of Tourism Minister Valerie Docherty over what it calls a gala party she hosted in Ottawa.

Six of the dogs seized from an animal shelter in Cape Breton three months ago have been put down, an animal-welfare group says.

A play examining the life and work of 1970s Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash is raising new questions about her death.

An Edmonton doctor has been stripped of his medical licence after the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta found him guilty of inappropriately touching women patients during breast and vaginal exams in 2001.

Electoral officials from across North America will be observing New Brunswick's municipal elections on Monday as the province introduces technology that moves toward electronic voter lists.

The mysterious death of a woman and flu-like symptoms experienced by other passengers on a cross-country Via Rail train that prompted a quarantine on Friday appears to have been a false alarm.

The House of Commons standing committee on Canadian heritage will be holding hearings on proposed changes to CBC Radio 2.

Ottawa residents looking for more information about a development planned for their neighbourhood will soon have access to a database of all development documents submitted to the city.

An Alberta man must serve at least 18 years in prison for killing a teenage girl and dumping her body on the side of a rural road, a judge decided Friday.