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MONTREAL — More than 50 years later, Isabel Marcotte still feels the pain of her sister's murder every day. On Sept. 12, 1969, 14-year-old Teresa Martin got off the bus near her home in Montreal's north end after going to a movie with friends.

Canada's minister of mental health and addictions says more doctors across the country should be willing to prescribe a safer supply of drugs to reduce overdoses instead of fearing they will face barriers from their regulatory colleges

The Parole Board of Canada has granted the trucker who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash day parole for six months

VANCOUVER — An attempt to host the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in British Columbia has reached a new milestone after a majority of Vancouver council members voted Wednesday to continue to support the Indigenous-led initiative.

MONTREAL — Quebec's chief coroner, Pascale Descary, has ordered a public inquest into the 2019 killing of a Montreal woman and her two young children.

Hockey Canada says it will no longer use a fund maintained by membership fees collected across the country to settle sexual assault claims

OTTAWA — Federal Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest is pressing the party to decide whether it will hold a third debate for contenders seeking the top job.

A First Nations woman says she is disappointed a 92-year-old priest accused of assaulting her when she was a student at a former residential school did not attend his first court appearance

OTTAWA — Infectious disease experts are at odds over how valuable it is to randomly test travellers arriving in Canada for COVID-19, as the federal government relaunched its mandatory testing program.

WASHINGTON — Canada joined forces Wednesday with the United States in a bilateral effort to push back against what they consider protectionist energy policies in Mexico that violate both the spirit and the letter of North America's new trade rules.