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HALIFAX - Intelligence and justice officials around the world will be watching Thursday as a navy officer convicted of selling military secrets to Russia becomes the first person to be sentenced under sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s Security of Information Act. Sub-Lt.

HALIFAX - A pilot program that pairs convicts with canines in Nova Scotia has the Progressive Conservative party barking over the cost.

WETASKIWIN, Alta. - Relatives of a five-year-old boy who was shot dead as he slept in his bed on an Alberta reserve don't want to be part of a sentencing conference for one of three teens who fired the gun.

MONTREAL - A witness at Quebec's corruption inquiry says his engineering firm funnelled hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to political parties in the last decade in the hope of getting an advantage when it came to securing public cont

OTTAWA - Thousands of people waiting to become permanent residents of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ are angry about a backlog caused by the closure of a Canadian visa office in New York state.

Environmental protection may be a core platform for Justin Trudeau, the perceived front-runner in the race to lead sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s federal Liberals, but he's not opposed to oil pipelines from Alberta.

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford ratcheted up the pressure on doctors in contract talks Monday, potentially pitting them against taxpayers by reviving health-care premiums.

MONTREAL - The man charged in Quebec's election-night shooting has been declared mentally fit to stand trial — a decision he called divine will. "Jesus Christ spoke through you, your honour," Richard Henry Bain told Judge Jean-Paul Braun on Monday.

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has waded into the national unity swamp, with proposed legislation specifying that a bare majority Yes vote would be sufficient to trigger negotiations on Quebec's secession from sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½.

SHERBROOKE, Que. - A Quebec man is accused of being a drunk-driving offender — for the 17th time. Maurice Larrivee allegedly showed up at a grocery store last Sunday morning to buy a case of two dozen beers at 8:45 a.m.