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OTTAWA — Canada has no overall policy or legislation to govern the use of hired guns in war zones, much to the alarm of human-rights groups and opposition parties who say the country has been left dangerously exposed.

WINNIPEG — Racist slogans and symbols written on the skin of a young girl last year may have been just the “tip of the iceberg” in terms of what she was being taught by her parents, a psychologist testified Tuesday.

OTTAWA — The courts should not force Canada to ask the United States to return Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay, federal lawyers argued Tuesday.

A foiled terror plot targeting the Toronto area sought to destabilize the economy by attacking targets including the Toronto Stock Exchange with three truck bombs set off over several days — possibly starting on Sept. 11, a court heard Monday.

A six-year-old girl from the Toronto area and two Quebecers have increased to 16 the number of Canadians to die after contracting swine flu.

OTTAWA — Disturbing. Disappointing. Harmful. Infuriating.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty took a major step toward the establishment of a national securities regulator on Monday, creating an advisory office to draft legislation for it.

Two long weeks of stink rose from Toronto sidewalks and children’s parks seven years ago and now, on the same weekend that summer dawns, those stomach-churning aromas threaten to return.

Cavendish Farms, one of North America’s biggest french fry producers and a member of the Irving group of companies, officially opened a new bio-gas plant Friday at its potato processing operations in Prince Edward Island.

A single sentence contained in an e-mail between RCMP brass in the weeks after Robert Dziekanski died has derailed a public inquiry, raising questions yet again about the testimony of four police officers and prompting calls for further investigation of the national police force.