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Canada's economy is expanding at its fastest annualized rate in six years, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.

The Prince and Princess of Wales' first visit to Canada in 1983 is still remembered as a turning point for those who encountered the couple. Diana, who turned 22 while visiting Edmonton, was seen as warm, welcoming and unpretentious, a welcome change in the Royal Family.

A Saskatchewan paddler who came across a canoe abandoned on the Hayes River by a pair of German tourists says they were neither prepared nor properly equipped to paddle the rocky northern Manitoba waterway.

A controversial program placing armed police officers in 36 of 75 Toronto schools has been put on hold after activists complained they were intimidating. The program began in 2008 after a 15 year old was shot inside a school.

Montreal police rescue an 18-month-old girl found alone in a burning apartment building early today. Her babysitter has been arrested and could face a charge of criminal negligence.

Macdonald was not perfect, and — typical Canadian — never pretended to be. There no doubt that some of his policies brought grievous harm, but he excelled during his era. Canadians should remember that.

The head of the Tír na nÓg Forest School said he's withdrawing his proposal to city council to gain access to a building in Rockwood Park.

The U.K. is stiffening the rules large companies must follow, in an effort to rein in executive pay and bolster the input of ordinary employees in the running of their firms. The changes are expected to nudge Canada in a similar direction.

The call by a teacher's union to strip the name John A. MacDonald from any Ontario schools has generated a lot of debate. But so far none of the schools have changed their signs, including one in Sudbury.

Sensing a shift in where digital evidence can hide, forensics examiners are looking beyond smartphones and laptops to a new crop of internet-connected sensors.

The recent torching of a car belonging to the head of the Quebec City mosque, where six worshippers were killed in January, suggests a small minority remains committed to poisoning Quebec society with racism and xenophobia, says a prominent Imam.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's promise to build a high-speed rail corridor between Toronto and Windsor by 2025 is receiving push back by a group of farmers in the Township of East Zorra-Tavistock, west of London, Ont.

Many Canadians are outraged by this proposal, even suggest that their history is being erased. The irony here is that if anything has been erased, it's the dark legacy of people like John A. Macdonald and the policies of genocide they helped create, which have been essentially ignored by Canada's education system.

Shelburne County locals are complaining about a four-metre-tall fence Cooke Aquaculture has started to build around a property that once was a dumping ground for unused equipment.

Twice in the last three months, Maxime Bernier has watched someone else walk away with the job he wanted. But as the MP from Quebec's Beauce region prepares to take on the role on Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's team, he's not complaining.

The case of former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will be back in an Edmonton courtroom on Thursday, where he will seek to ease his bail conditions, including a prohibition on contacting his controversial older sister.

A flooded chemical plant in a small town outside of Houston is poised to explode, a spokeswoman for the French company that owns the plant says, though the timing and the extent of the danger are not clear.

The United States on Thursday flew some of its most advanced warplanes to South Korea to take part in bombing drills aimed at intimidating North Korea, after Pyongyang fired a midrange ballistic missile over Japan earlier this week, South Korea's military said.

A five-storey building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai, killing 16 people and injuring 30 others on Thursday, after torrential rains lashed the country's west. More than a dozen people are feared trapped in the debris.

Residents of northern British Columbia are reacting to news Greyhound Canada wants to pull out of the region, leaving people in small communities with few options to travel affordably.

A Vancouver Island man who was put on life support after he was struck by a softball has died from his injuries.

For the people of Wasagamack, a remote northern Manitoba community evacuated because of encroaching fires, the only way out is by boat.

A provincial byelection will be held in the Quebec City area to fill the seat vacated by longtime Liberal Sam Hamad in April.

Yukon MP Larry Bagnell says the Prime Minister will be at a casual get-together outside the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Friday evening.

The City of Vancouver says Quebec is setting a “great precedent” with its new lodging tax on Airbnb hosts.