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- 3 family members die in early morning blaze in Toronto
Three people who were all members of the same family died Saturday when fire broke out in a townhouse complex in northwest Toronto. - Hundreds attend funeral for doting grandfather killed delivering Christmas cards
Friends and family gathered Friday for the funeral of Hunter Brown, an elderly man who was slain while delivering Christmas cards in Kitchener, Ont. - Byelections in 4 vacant federal ridings set for March
The race is on in four vacant federal ridings as Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday that byelections will be held on March 17. - Arms exports reached record levels in 2003: report
A new report by the federal government shows that in 2003, Canada's arms exports reached the highest level ever recorded. - P.E.I. family left homeless by fire
A Milburn, P.E.I., family is homeless after fire tore through their house Friday afternoon, just as the holiday season begins. - 4-year sentence for online sexual abuser a 'slap on the wrist': Tory
The Ontario Tories called a four-year prison sentence given to a man who sexually abused his young daughter live on the internet a "slap on the wrist," and called on the attorney general to appeal. - Divers turn up no clues in search for missing dad
An RCMP dive team combed the waters at Ball's Creek in Cape Breton but turn up no new clues in the disappearance of Allan Hill, a father of three. - Prince George ice jam growing once again
The ice jam that's causing flooding along the Nechako River in Prince George grew again overnight Thursday. - Man seriously hurt by falling slab of ice
A 49-year-old man is in hospital with serious head injuries after an enormous slab of ice fell from an Ottawa rooftop and crashed down on him. - Quebec police questioning 5 in missing girl case: reports
Police in Quebec are investigating five "persons of interest" in the disappearance of a nine-year-old Trois-RiviГЁres girl almost five months ago. - Elderly woman dies after wandering away from nursing home
An 81-year-old Alzheimer's patient died from exposure on Monday night in Moncton after wandering away from Manoir Notre-Dame retirement home. - Rescue ship reaches sailor adrift in Atlantic
Help has arrived for a sailor aboard a disabled boat drifting in the Atlantic Ocean. - Ottawa school threatened after Christmas song cuts
An elementary school in Ottawa was flooded with hateful and threatening e-mails and phone calls after media reports that it had removed the word "Christmas" from a song to be performed at its Christmas concert. - Ontario saves Ottawa's crack pipe program
Crack addicts in Ottawa will continue receiving clean, free crack pipes next year after the Ontario government agreed to fund the program even though the city doesn't support it anymore. - Bogus Canada Post job ads sought bank info
Canada Post is warning the public about some fake job ads that appeared in the Vancouver Sun at the end of November, and later in the Calgary Sun, the Halifax Daily News and the Kamloops Daily News.