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The revelation that Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy as a preventative measure against cancer stoked heated discussion this week, but one prominent cancer researcher says it demonstrates the need to make genetic testing available to all Canadians.

The capital felt a magnitude 5.2 earthquake Friday morning much less than a 5.0 earthquake in 2010, even though both were about the same distance away.

Allegations that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been caught in a video smoking crack cocaine has prompted several online crowdsourcing campaigns aimed at raising $200,000 to buy the footage.

John Guenther looks over a city map in his office. He stepped down as the City of Revelstoke's Director of Planning this week.

Planned route of coal barges from Fraser Surrey Docks' proposed direct transfer coal export terminal to a transhipment point on Texada Island, where coal would be loaded onto ocean-going ships.

Shawville, Que., Mayor Albert Armstrong thought a large truck had slammed into the three-storey brick walls of City Hall.

I was always quite proud of the Canadian political system during the time I lived in Britain, especially when their Parliament was mired in some scandal involving Rupert Murdoch or the cleaning of ancestral moats.

Under brightening skies Thursday, the Irving Forest Products sawmill held its Log Suppliers Open House, the 15th annual event to show their appreciation to those who supply the mill with logs.

A recent study in Ontario shows it costs a district at least an extra $75,000 a year to create a new French immersion class.

Elijah Harper, who became a symbol of power for Canadian aboriginals when he helped scuttle the Meech Lake constitutional accord, has died.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, May 16, 2013.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, speaks on cell phone shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz TMA-07 space capsule about 150 kilometres southeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Tuesday, local time.

Sen. Mike Duffy leaves Parliament Hill following a meeting of the Senate Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration committee on Parliament Hill in early May in Ottawa.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cabinet have taken a strong approach against the Iranian Regime but experts say it's more rhetoric than action.

The success of a project launched last fall to track the Island's urban red foxes has a University of Prince Edward Island researcher planning the next stage.

Senator Mike Duffy is listed as being on Senate business during the last federal election on two days when documents show he was campaigning for the Conservatives in the Greater Toronto Area.

As well, research on cattle, previously done in Lethbridge, Alberta, will be consolidated with the existing research office in Swift Current.

IBIS technology was developed by the Montreal-based Forensic Technology. It is used by police in Canada, the United States and in countries around the world.

When you hear the words "land claims" relating to Canada's First Nations, you might only think about contentious cases that have been sensationalized in the media over the years.

Ontario's Andrea Horwath and Thomas Mulcair really needed British Columbians to lead by example by handing the reins of their province to the NDP.