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CALGARY - Calgary police say two charges of first-degree murder and one charge of second-degree murder are pending in the disappearance of a five-year-old boy and his grandparents.

CALGARY - Calgary police expanded their search for a missing boy and his grandparents to a garbage dump Wednesday, as the man they consider a person of interest in the case learned he could be released from custody as early as Friday.

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is asking people to provide their Social Insurance Numbers during test runs for the 2016 census, part of an effort to make the survey data more reliable.

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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. David Johnston are marking key moments in the country's history as part of this year's Canada Day celebrations.

VANCOUVER - The Mountie overseeing the investigation into the murders and disappearances of women and girls along British Columbia's so-called Highway of Tears says his officers have a number of "strong suspects," but they have yet to uncover enough

OTTAWA - For the first time, the Supreme Court of Canada has recognized a First Nation's title to a specific tract of land - a historic decision with major implications for contentious energy projects like the Northern Gateway pipeline.

VANCOUVER -- Stanley Park could become a training ground for civil disobedience aimed at thwarting the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project as early as this summer, the head of an environmental group said Wednesday in Vancouver.

VANCOUVER - It took mere minutes for foes of the Northern Gateway pipeline to vow that the pipeline will never be built, despite the go-ahead from the federal government on Tuesday.

OTTAWA - The federal government is giving a conditional green light to Enbridge Inc.'s controversial $6.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project between the Alberta oilsands and the B.C. coast.