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In the late 1980s, after Jean Pigott had run the National Capital Commission for five or six years, reporters assigned to cover her began to play a game they jokingly called Find Jean’s Nasty Twin...

The intensification of Ottawa’s established neighbourhoods in recent years has been good for the city and even better for those particular neighbourhoods.

Detroit celebrated the resurgence of the U.S. auto industry Monday as a renewed sense of optimism — along with a dose of glamour and glitz — returned to the Motor City’s annual auto ...

The Oakland Raiders fired coach Hue Jackson on Tuesday after just one season at the helm in the first major move since Reggie McKenzie was hired as general manager.

Crystal Beshara rises above cuteness and nostalgia.

Canadians believe obesity is by far the most important health issue facing children and youth.

See the latest in gadgets, from a Wi-Fi video baby monitor to a Bob Marley iPod dock, at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Britain gave the green light for a high-speed rail network linking London, Birmingham and cities further north, delighting business groups but angering opponents along its route who say it is unneeded...

Light to moderate marijuana smokers show no signs of lung damage, in contrast to cigarette smokers, according to results of a study conducted in the United States.

Hell hath no fury, like a victim of discrimination, as Staubach Ontario Inc. learned recently following a seven-year human-rights nightmare.

It sounds like an email scam: Make thousands from your home without doing any work! But a popular online service is allowing exactly that, by matchmaking desperate drivers with people willing to rent ...

Smaller houses? Bigger condos? The death of chocolate brown kitchen cabinetry and the triumph of tangy tangerine wallpaper? We chat up experts near and far for what to expect on the home front in 2012...

One of Ottawa’s most beloved personalities, Jean Pigott, has passed away at age 87 in the Grace Manor. The former National Capital Commission chair and business woman was part of a family that has...

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Calling floor-crossing "detrimental to democracy," the official Opposition is challenging the Liberals to a byelection after rookie New Democrat MP Lise St-Denis announced Tuesday she is switching stripes...

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A Montreal woman accused, along with her husband and son, of murdering four family members, told jurors she lied to police in a bid to save her eldest son.

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The Canadian Forces has acknowledged that military equipment being shipped back from Afghanistan has...

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The Canadian government says it has helped secure the release of the passport of a University of Ottawa...

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A $2.25-million cheque for a new youth residential drug treatment facility was handed over Tuesday during...

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Canadians believe obesity is by far the most important health issue facing children and youth.

The former Kate Middleton, now known as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, turned 30 Monday amidst excited...

As public hearings began Tuesday into Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, First Nations groups came...

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government was blasted Tuesday with allegations it is intimidating witnesses...

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Members of the northern Ontario reserve of North Spirit Lake say they are devastated after a small plane crashed Tuesday outside their community, killing four and injuring one.

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A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles at a house on the outskirts of the town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, killing at least three militants, local intelligence officials said.

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