Dozens of people crowded a jetty today at Halifax's naval base as the navy submarine HMCS Windsor returned home from a nearly five-month deployment in the Mediterranean.

Provincial police say they laid nearly 700 charges against transport truck drivers during a day-long blitz on Ontario's roads last week.

Police say a Toronto-area PhD student who went missing last month has been found dead in the Niagara region.

Police say two men are in hospital with serious head injuries after their car was surrounded and they were allegedly beaten with baseball bats early Wednesday morning. 1

A special prosecutor is set to ask British Columbia's Court of Appeal to overturn the acquittal of a former leader of a polygamous community who was found not guilty of taking a girl across the border for a sexual purpose.

A man accused of pushing another man in front of a train at a busy Toronto subway station did not have any interaction with the victim before allegedly shoving him to his death, police said Tuesday after the 57-year-old appeared briefly in court. 7

A community in Alberta is mourning after a toddler fell into a private lake and drowned. 1

A Montreal mother is furious after learning her six-year-old's math teacher threatened to cut her child's fingers off with an axe. 1

The first court challenge of an Alberta law that bars schools from telling parents about their children's involvement in gay-straight alliances echoes some of the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage more than a decade ago, says one LGBTQ advocate.

School trustees in Regina have voted to change the name of a school over concern that it honours a man who was a driving force behind the residential school system in Canada.

All full-time female faculty members at the University of Guelph will be getting a raise after a salary review found they were being paid less than their male colleagues.

Five British Columbia families have been left in limbo after their bid to adopt children from Japan was derailed by the federal government, refusing to issue visas to allow them to bring their kids to their new home. 1