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A public inquiry into the Bernier-Couillard affair is imperative now that the former foreign affairs minister says he can't remember leaving classified documents at his ex-girlfriend's home, Liberal Leader ...

The first of 400,000 trees are being planted to form a "green wall" in protest of the fence the U.S. is building along the border with Mexico.

U.S. authorities helped facilitate a $32,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez..... Erika Posselt, a Mexican national described ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has condemned what he calls a corrupt election in Zimbabwe and may be prepared to announce sanctions against the country.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed international trade minister David Emerson as new foreign affairs minister even as his predecessor Maxime Bernier, who quit following revelations he had left classified ...

Paul Barry, president of Newcastle Printing in Miramichi, N.B., reacting to measures to curb outmigration, says he is unhappy with ACOA funding to another printer nearby - The Canadian Press MIRAMICHI, N.B. - ...

Quebec provincial police allege a baby only a few months old was one of the victims of an international child pornography ring that operated over the Internet.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's director of communications, Sandra Buckler, announced Thursday that she is stepping down.

A Montreal man with alleged terrorist links won a round Thursday in his long-running legal fight to remain in Canada.

Mexico and the United States have a twisted relationship. Dysfunctional: Each country likes to blame the other for its problems, and neither is eager to accept responsibility.

David Emerson was promoted Wednesday to the prestigious Foreign Affairs portfolio and may now be in line for another prime ministerial favour: a safe new riding in which to run in the next election.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Breaking with years of secrecy, Mexico's drug gangs are battling it out in public with audacious hit-lists and threats on banners strung up on streets as drug murders ...

This is the first time the Conference Board has ranked 14 small and medium-sized CMAs together in the same outlook.

A Mackenzie Delta town 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle was Canada's hot spot yesterday.

Momin Khawaja, centre, is shown in an Ottawa courtroom on Monday in this sketch.

The cabinet shuffle was triggered by the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who stepped down as foreign affairs minister on May 26.

Suspected drug hitmen killed six people in Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico on Tuesday, the latest in a killing spree that has left 41 people dead in the city since the start of the weekend, police said.

The death of a teenager who fought mental demons for months without help in segregation was as preventable as it was tragic, says Canada's prison watchdog.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper brandished his credentials as a Quebec nationalist on Tuesday as he tried to sell his brand of "open federalism" amid the province's Fete Nationale celebrations.

Last weekend Barack Obama delivered an unusual speech to a black church in Chicago.