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MONTREAL - Quebec is investing nearly $100 million over five years to fight the sexual exploitation of minors. Public Security Minister Genevive Guilbault told reporters today $79.2 million will go to...

Jeanette Westbrook says being sexually abused as a child will haunt her for the rest of her life. The perpetrators used eight-millimetre film, she said, but over time, abusers can transfer footage to ...

OTTAWA - Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion says former Liberal MP Yasmin Ratansi violated Parliament's conflict of interest code when she hired her sister in her constituency office. Dion says Ratansi co...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government introduced legislation Tuesday to strengthen the protection of French in Canada as part of the biggest overhaul to the Official Languages Act in more than three decades...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - An appeals court in Slovakia has dismissed a lower court's acquittal of a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist and his fian...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 8:35 p.m. Yukon health officials are reporting 12 new cases of COVID-19. Yukon's acting chief medical officer of health, Dr. Cat...

OTTAWA - The federal lobbying commissioner says government agencies and officials faced a record barrage of pitches in the last year from groups trying to shape the country's pandemic response. Tuesda...

OTTAWA - Key government decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic might be lost to history because of a sudden shift to new technologies and long-standing poor record-keeping practices, the federal infor...

Ontario is committing $10 million over three years to identify, investigate and commemorate burial sites on the grounds of former residential schools in the province. The funds will also go toward cul...

OTTAWA - The Bloc Qubcois is taking a second stab at getting MPs to recognize Quebec's right to unilaterally change the Constitution in line with proposed reforms to the province's language law. Leade...