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A total of $120 million in provincial and federal aid will go toward rebuilding Lac-Mégantic's downtown area and help business owners get back on their feet. More...

Ontario's liquor board has sweetened an already sweet deal for the federal government and foreign diplomats as it chops the prices they pay for beer, wine and booze almost in half. More...

Jean-Pierre Duclos, 56, fled around 2 p.m. today while being escorted from the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines federal penitentiary to the Verdun Hospital for an unspecified medical condition. More...

The federal government is set to expand a program that gives priority hiring to injured veterans following recent federal cuts, CBC News has learned. More...

Some police forces on Montreal's North Shore are concerned about how the province will fight organized crime once federal funding for mixed police squads runs out at the end of March. More...

AP - A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried to create fairer results, but the differences don't line up with the party of the president who appointed the judges, despite any impressions that Republicans or...

A Tory MP who serves as the prime minister's point-person on allegations of fraudulent calls to voters during the last federal election says his party doesn't know whether a former staffer who resigned last week had anything to do with the calls. More...

The Conservative Party does not need to look into "robocalls" made during the last federal election any further, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says. More...

The robocall controversy appears to be broadening, with opposition parties claiming the number of ridings affected by voter-suppression calls in the last federal election is greater than first thought. More...

A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent over $1.1 million in the past two years, but has yet to mediate anything, CBC News has learned. More...

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says her First Nations community wants help to move its people forward, but isn't looking for charity or to be taken over by the federal government. More...

A Federal Court of Canada judge has set aside the 2010 Natuashish band council election in Labrador, saying the vote "was not conducted in accordance with the principles of natural justice." More...

AP - Ron Paul wants to legalize pot and shut down the Federal Reserve. He thinks the federal government has no authority to outlaw abortion, no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and no justification to print money unless it's backed up by gold bars. More...

AP - The federal government's decision to stop an Arizona sheriff from checking inmates' immigration status will allow criminals to be released into the community, Maricopa County's top prosecutor said Friday as he asked the president to order Homeland Security officials to restore access to...

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says the federal government is breaking the law by withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol. More...

AP - Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can't afford enough heating oil to stay warm. More...

At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security. More...

Using a portable kit to be able to quickly analyze human DNA collected in the field for investigative and forensics purposes has been a long-time dream for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), law enforcement and the Department of Defense (DoD). More...

In a wide-ranging discussion Friday with President Barack Obama's top science advisors, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra warned of the dangers of open data access and complained of "an IT cartel" of vendors. More...

The federal agency that regulates banks, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), has finally released an update to its 2005 guidance on Internet banking authentication. This has been awaited since a draft of the document was leaked last winter. More...