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A police dog was stabbed as officers tried to apprehend two suspects caught in the act of stealing a vehicle in Saskatoon, police said.

People in Winnipeg won't be able to get an H1N1 flu shot until next Thursday because of a vaccine shortage, the regional health authority announced late Friday.

A 48-year-old carpenter pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Friday in the death of corrections worker Natasha Cournoyer, whose body was found in early October in east-end Montreal.

Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc says the province's decision to open special vaccination clinics is largely responsible for helping it distribute more of the H1N1 vaccine than any other province.

Decision time for delegates to Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party convention arrives Saturday morning, when they begin voting in a leadership review of Premier Ed Stelmach.

The struggling Action Démocratique du Quebec Party has lost two of its MNAs including a challenger who was narrowly defeated in the party's leadership race last month.

The Edmonton man accused of killing an RCMP officer in Hay River, N.W.T., in 2007 plotted to silence a witness afterward, a jury in Yellowknife heard Friday.

The top levels of both BC Ferries and TransLink require a major restructuring to give them more accountability, greater transparency and better oversight, according a new report by B.C.'s comptroller general.

Demoltion work has begun on one of Vancouver's oldest public housing projects - the landmark Little Mountain development - ending a years-long long campaign to save it.

Dr. John O'Connor has been cleared of the last of four complaints laid by Health Canada during his tenure as a fly-in doctor in Fort Chipewyan, Alta.

The visiting Toronto Maple Leafs overcame a two-goal deficit to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Friday during a battle between the two worst teams in the NHL.

Iqaluit RCMP are seeking the public's help in finding two men who robbed a female delivery driver at gunpoint behind a local restaurant Thursday night.

Parents who suspect their children have swine flu are putting so much pressure on the emergency room at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver that officials are asking families to keep their children home unless they have severe symptoms.

Whitehorse city officials are looking for ways to lower the costs of shipping old cellphones, computers and other electronic waste out of the Yukon.

A central Alberta man has been criminally charged in the death of a teen who was killed when a pen-like device used to scare off bears went off in a truck and struck him with a bullet.

A Montreal woman who was severely beaten at the Snowdon Metro station says she is pleased her assailant will have to spend time in prison.

A countrywide campaign is underway to get more young people interested in agriculture to counter a rapid decline in the number of Canadian farmers over the past several years.

Three Vancouver teenagers are facing charges after a 16-year-old boy was stripped, beaten and assaulted with a stun device as part of an apparent extortion attempt in Richmond, B.C.

Firefighters have battled two more suspicious house fires in Sydney Mines, raising the total to six in a week.

Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie did not deliberately mislead the legislature when he denied claims that he was in negotiations to privatize Yukon Energy Corp. assets, Speaker Ted Staffen has ruled.

Some First Nations governments near the Dempster Highway are unhappy with the Yukon government's new hunting restrictions for the Porcupine caribou herd, which include a ban on hunting female caribou and a limit of only one bull per hunter.

Nova Scotia RCMP suspect a horse found dead in South Maitland was shot.

Jubilant supporters of Toronto's winning bid for the 2015 Pan Am Games are calling the event a boost not only for athletics in Ontario but for everyone living in and around Canada's largest city.

It won't be until after the H1N1 pandemic passes that the province looks into why and how some hospital executives got flu vaccine shots before many others in priority groups, according to Ontario's Health Minister.

A 61-year-old woman in the Outaouais region of west Quebec has died of a swine flu infection, health officials reported Friday.

Alberta children under 10 with chronic health conditions and parents of babies will be able to get a swine flu vaccination, starting Tuesday.

The former president of a used car company, who was involved in a high-profile, high-speed chase in Ottawa in September, pleaded guilty to fraud in a Kingston court Friday.

Tim Ryan, the founder and program director of the theatre arts program at Grant MacEwan University, died Thursday night after being in hospital for several days.