Shelley Jordan

OTTAWA - To those who know Kevin Vickers, there was little surprise that the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons and former RCMP officer would be the one to intervene in Wednesday's attack on Parliament Hill and reportedly shoot an assailant. Friends and family of the former long-serving RCMP officer said it is in his...

OTTAWA – The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at the National War Memorial before opening fire in Parliament said she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

ATTACK BY 'TERRORIST' ON PARLIAMENT HILL WON'T WEAKEN CANADA'S RESOLVE: HARPER

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market tumbled more than 200 points Wednesday as markets gave back a chunk of gains collected over the previous four days of solid, triple-digit advances. The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 235.64 points to 14,312.07, led by falling resource stocks as prices for oil hit a two-year low. Losses picked up...

OTTAWA – Downtown Ottawa is a place where hundreds show up to do yoga on Wednesdays on the Parliament Hill lawn, where the sidewalks empty at dusk and the few remaining panhandlers cheerily bid late commuters a good night.

A gunman shot and killed a soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday before being shot dead in Parliament Hill's Center Block. Some immediate fallout:

HALIFAX - Canadian Forces bases across the country have been ordered to consider increasing security levels after shootings on Parliament Hill and at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Maj.-Gen. Christopher Coates says bases have been asked to take "precautions appropriate to their environments" to ensure the safety and security of personnel, equipment and buildings....

WINNIPEG – Police have charged a woman who was renting a storage locker where the remains of six babies were found, but they say it could be months before they know who the infants were or how they died.

VICTORIA – The clerk of British Columbia's legislature says some provincial politicians were warned this week about heightened security concerns from officials in Ottawa.

OTTAWA – A Canadian honour guard who witnesses said was shot twice "point blank" by a gunman at the National War Memorial has died, while police continue combing a locked-down national capital for other potential threats.