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Canada Shooting – A gunman shot and killed a soldier at an Ottawa war memorial before entering parliament buildings and opening fire in dramatic scenes in Canada’s capital on Wednesday. Ottawa police reported shootings at two locations and the Ottowa Hospital reported that it had taken in three patients, the soldier and two others who it described as being “in …

A soldier standing guard at the Canadian War Memorial was shot Wednesday morning by an armed man who then fled toward Parliament Hill. There were unconfirmed reports of more shots fired inside the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. The Hill was quickly locked down as police officers swarmed the scene.

A young woman was murdered Tuesday evening in Longueuil. Police say the woman, who has not been identified but appears to be in her twenties, was attacked around 10 p.m. Tuesday while on a bicycle path between Chambly Rd. and Normandie St.

Police have released video stills taken from security camera footage in an appeal for help to identify six suspects in an attack that put a teenager in a coma. Police say the teenager had got out of a cab on York St. at about 1:30 a.m. when a group of six men approached him. According to police, the men “punched, …

Police say they’ve discovered the bodies of several babies in Winnipeg. CBC reports the bodies were found in a storage locker.

Jenni Byrne, Stephen Harper’s deputy chief of staff, told the court she knew something was wrong when she was going through a partially opened package delivered to the party’s headquarters and was overcome by a “very bad smell.”​

Parti Quebecois MNA Bernard Drainville appears ready to enter his party’s leadership race, left vacant since Pauline Marois quit the leadership after the April election. Drainville, who entered politics in 2007 after a career at Radio-Canada, was the minister in Pauline Marois’s government who handled the doomed charter of secular values.

The man who allegedly struck two soldiers with his car in Quebec and was killed after a police chase had become “radicalized” and was known to federal authorities, the Prime Minister’s Office said Monday.

Regina police used a taser and the canine unit to finally arrest man who ran early Monday morning after officers tried to pull over a vehicle that went through a four-way stop.

White Butte RCMP are looking for a vehicle involved in a hit and run on early Sunday morning that stuck a citizen and an RCMP Constable.

Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod wants to take the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party back to the future. That was the message Sunday as MacLeod officially announced her bid to become party leader before 300 cheering supporters at the National Arts Centre. She joins four other contenders campaigning for the May 9 vote to succeed Tim Hudak, who resigned following June’s provincial …