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Weeks before Stephen Harper named some of his closest Tory friends to the Senate, his cabinet quietly approved a flood of appointments to federal boards that also rewarded party faithful.

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — The RCMP have finished their search of two sites in northern British Columbia for the remains of 25-year-old tree-planter Nicole Hoar — but they wouldn’t say what, if anything, they had found.

OTTAWA — Michael Ignatieff seems destined to emerge from a Liberal caucus retreat this week feeling something like a pushmi-pullyu.

OTTAWA — Weeks before Stephen Harper named some of his closest Tory friends to the Senate, his cabinet quietly approved a flood of appointments to federal boards that also rewarded party faithful.

Two former members of the Canadian Forces were charged with cocaine trafficking following separate, wide-ranging investigations by military police.

Police are playing down speculation their search of a rural Prince George acreage is connected with the so-called Highway of Tears murders in northern B.C.

A New Brunswick man was given a conditional discharge and eight months of probation Friday for threatening to assault an elementary school teacher who stopped the daily playing of the Canadian national anthem.

A Canadian soldier has suffered a non-combat related gunshot wound on the main NATO base in Kandahar city.

LONDON, Ont. — A woman who should have celebrated her 24th birthday on Thursday with family in this southwestern Ontario city is instead stuck in Scotland, the latest Canadian stranded in a foreign country and getting little help from Canadian staff abroad.

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Mounties in British Columbia are remaining tight-lipped as they search a property near Prince George as part of what they call one of their “historical homicide” investigations.