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The number of prisoners harming them-selves in federal penitentiaries has almost tripled in the last five years, a new study from the federal correction investigator says.

The Coroners Service of British Columbia is reporting a death following an avalanche in the province's northwest.

The tough-on-crime Conservative cabinet is taking a hands-off approach to a Diamond Jubilee medal being awarded to a repeat offender jailed for harassing women over abortion.

Failure to help injured ex-soldiers among problems cited in report

The federal government has filed a statement of defence in one of several sexual harassment lawsuits filed by female RCMP officers, denying the allegations and suggesting the courts aren't the appropriate venue to air such complaints.

Toronto police have released security camera video taken moments before a woman was stabbed to death while walking home from work Tuesday morning.

Young female police officers who went undercover are being credited with the arrest of a 15-year-old boy following an investigation into 16 sex assaults that have terrorized a Toronto neighbourhood since mid-August.

Foreign delegations at international forum fight back, saying Canadian minister is meddling in their affairs

A 24-year-old Nanaimo man was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison, followed by two years' probation, in the shooting death of his father on the Canada Day weekend of 2010.

The Foreign Affairs Department broke government rules by handing two sole-sourced security contracts, worth $15 million, to a British government agency for Canada's Afghanistan and Pakistan missions, The Canadian Press has learned.