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The Justice Department says a majority of people who responded to an online survey earlier this year felt that purchasing sexual services should be a criminal offence.

A 17-YEAR-OLD girl who was suspended from her school for refusing to change out of short shorts has started a social media campaign calling on people not to shame girls for their bodies. Lindsey Stocker, who attends Year 11 at Beaconsfield High School in Quebec, was singled out in class last month because her shorts did not adhere to the …

RCMP are seaching for a person who shot a 59-year-old Burnaby man who was participating in a randonneur road cycling event near Spencers Bridge early Sunday morning.

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu labelled the oilsands “filth,” arguing production is motivated by “negligence and greed,” and that climate change will be the 21st century’s moral struggle.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper nominated Daniel Therrien as the next Privacy Commissioner of Canada. If approved, Therrien would take over from the interim Privacy Commissioner Chantal Bernier, who has been serving in this role after the previous Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart’s term ended in December 2013.

Three British airmen who disappeared on a training flight during World War II will finally be given a fitting burial after their crashed plane was discovered on a remote mountainside in Canada. The Avro Anson twin-engine aircraft went missing on October 30, 1942, failing to return from a navigation training flight from the southern tip of Vancouver Island.

Police in London, Ont. say a 10-year-old boy has been placed in foster care after an investigation determined that he had been locked in a bedroom in “filthy conditions” for a period of 18 to 24 months. The London Police Service was contacted by the Childrens’ Aid Society (CAS) of London and Middlesex to assist in a welfare check of …

Dozens of teen girls were sent home from school in Labrador City, N.L., for violating the school’s dress code. Students say school officials went class to class in Menihek High School on Wednesday to check what students were wearing. If it wasn’t up to snuff with the school board dress code, they were sent home.

One male has been declared dead after an industrial accident in Vaughan, York Regional police say. The incident happened on Doney Crescent in the Keele Street and Highway 7 area.

On May 29, 1914, the Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River in eastern Quebec after colliding with the Norwegian cargo ship SS Storstad; of the 1,477 people on board the Empress of Ireland, 1,012 died. (The Storstad suffered only minor damage.)

They can’t breathe fire or fly, but a group of dragons are going to make a new home at the Calgary Zoo. Loka, the oldest Komodo dragon in captivity at 28-years old, has already arrived from the Toronto Zoo.