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EDMONTON — A conservative columnist, politician and publisher whose magazine was once a leading voice of Canadian conservatives has died. The Edmonton Sun says Link Byfield died of cancer at 63, attributing the information to his son, Colman Byfield.

ST. ALBERT, Alta. — An Alberta Mountie severely wounded on Saturday was not expected to live, the RCMP said Sunday as the force’s commissioner expressed dismay over the criminal background of the man police believe responsible for the shooting.

OTTAWA - National Defence has been looking at ways to introduce more stringent oversight of its intelligence operations, but "fiscal restraint" may prevent the department from implementing the preferred option.

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency was left with egg on its face after slapping a lien on the wrong person. A new document shows the CRA registered a lien against a home owned by a person with the same name as someone else who owed taxes.

OTTAWA - A promise to 10,000 Syrian refugees that they will be able to find safe haven in Canada in the next three years needs to be backed up by a better system to get them here, advocates said Wednesday.

OTTAWA - Talk about an expensive birthday party invitation. Recently released federal spending figures show advertising promoting Canada's 150th birthday — two years from now — has cost nearly $12 million, so far.

Series of heart attacks — including hospital trip to Victoria — led to huge bills

OTTAWA - In 2011, Mylene Freeman became a New Democrat member of Parliament almost by accident. In 2015, she intends to be elected on purpose.

OTTAWA — The Senate has passed a private member’s bill on Lyme disease, the first Green party bill to ever pass both houses of Parliament.