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Mattias Weinhandl scored from a scramble in the crease to give Sweden a 3-2 overtime victory over the Czech Republic in a quarter-final thriller at the world hockey championships at Quebec City on Wednesday afternoon.

Paced by Derek Roy's hat trick, Canada overwhelmed Norway 8-2 in the quarter-finals of the world hockey championship on Wednesday afternoon in Halifax.

Ecologists in Quebec are welcoming a new provincial decree that creates 23 protected nature reserves containing more than 18,000 kilometres of land.

Chinese-Canadians are beginning to organize local aid and donations for the victims of Monday's massive earthquake in Sichaun province while a Toronto Liberal MP wants the federal government to commit $10 million to relief efforts.

Longueuil police have identified human remains found in the trunk of a burning vehicle last week as those of Yvon Leblanc.

A small amphibious plane has been raised to the surface of Lac Simon for the first time since it crashed half a century ago.

A Quebec man faces several criminal charges for allegedly luring a 13-year-old into a sexual liaison via the internet.

The Liberal government says new school board legislation will make the administrative bodies more accessible and more accountable to parents.

Quebec City is cracking down on a flourishing underground hotel industry.

Four sealers are facing a total of 17 charges of breaking the rules of the seal hunt during 2007, CBC News has learned.

A jury has been selected for Basil Parasiris' murder trial in the shooting death of a Laval police officer.

Hydro-Québec will hand out 500 MW of wind power contracts to aboriginal promoters and outlying community developers, the government said.

Labour unions appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday to argue the federal government has been improperly spending billions of surplus dollars in the unemployment insurance fund.

Sections of the westbound side of Highway 20 on Montreal's West Island were shut to afternoon rush-hour traffic Tuesday because of a major accident.

Heavy, long-term pot smoking might raise the risk of developing a stroke or heart attack, a new study found.

The federal government has named the two final members of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is to begin its work June 1.

It is costing Canadian taxpayers about $2 million a year to house the only prisoner at a special federal facility for foreign nationals who pose an alleged security risk to Canada, federal documents show.

A group of Quebec psychiatrists who treat prisoners are threatening to boycott provincial jails if the province doesn't improve what they call "inhuman" infirmary conditions.

The Montreal Children's Hospital is taking part in a major international study on autism.

A five-alarm fire broke out just before 5 a.m. ET on the balcony of a triplex apartment building on Jeanne d'Arc Street.