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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A painful year has passed since a lost boy in Labrador walked through blowing snow across the sea ice outside Makkovik, hanging on for 19 freezing kilometres for help that never came.

CALGARY - A psychiatrist convicted of sexually assaulting his court-appointed patients was depicted Wednesday as both a frail senior who would suffer in prison and a sexual predator who must be punished. Dr.

HALIFAX - Intelligence and justice officials around the world will be watching Thursday as a navy officer convicted of selling military secrets to Russia becomes the first person to be sentenced under Canada's Security of Information Act. Sub-Lt.

HALIFAX - A pilot program that pairs convicts with canines in Nova Scotia has the Progressive Conservative party barking over the cost.

WETASKIWIN, Alta. - Relatives of a five-year-old boy who was shot dead as he slept in his bed on an Alberta reserve don't want to be part of a sentencing conference for one of three teens who fired the gun.

MONTREAL - A witness at Quebec's corruption inquiry says his engineering firm funnelled hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to political parties in the last decade in the hope of getting an advantage when it came to securing public cont

OTTAWA - Thousands of people waiting to become permanent residents of Canada are angry about a backlog caused by the closure of a Canadian visa office in New York state.

Environmental protection may be a core platform for Justin Trudeau, the perceived front-runner in the race to lead Canada’s federal Liberals, but he's not opposed to oil pipelines from Alberta.

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford ratcheted up the pressure on doctors in contract talks Monday, potentially pitting them against taxpayers by reviving health-care premiums.

MONTREAL - The man charged in Quebec's election-night shooting has been declared mentally fit to stand trial — a decision he called divine will. "Jesus Christ spoke through you, your honour," Richard Henry Bain told Judge Jean-Paul Braun on Monday.