Ralph Goodale

Authorities in the U.S. say a Somali refugee accused of attacking a police officer and running down four pedestrians in Edmonton was ordered removed from the country in 2011 by an immigration judge.

Provincial and territorial ministers of justice and public safety are urging the federal government to hurry up on solving court delays and slow down on legalizing pot.

Canada's public safety minister says the federal government is anxious to legalize marijuana by next summer despite police services saying there's zero chance they'll be ready.

"There are mixed feelings in our community on what we think they should be doing and shouldn’t be doing," said Cornwall Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy.

Water is rushing into Lake Ontario at "close to record-high values for this time of year," complicating an effort begun in June to drain the lake at "unprecedented" rates.

The federal government is promising more funding to support residents affected by raging wildfires in British Columbia as some of the thousands of people displaced prepare to return home.

Canada's spy agency is facing questions about its workplace culture amid allegations that senior officials foster a prejudice and distrust for Muslims employees.

Is it true, as Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said, that the government had virtually no chance of defending itself from Khadr's $20-million lawsuit?

The federal government’s long−promised counter−radicalization centre is now open, but the appointment of a special adviser to shape a national strategy could be months away.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has unveiled a bill that gives increased powers to Canada's electronic spy agency.

The bills will — at the very least — signal the government's intention to fulfil key promises, but they are unlikely to be debated by MPs in any serious way until the fall.

"The pace at which these issues are arising is clearly accelerating, one of the consequences we believe of the phenomenon of climate change," said Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.

Someone in Ottawa was using a device that mimics a cell phone tower to spy on any user that unwittingly connects to the network, gaining access to data and phone calls on the person's device.

The U.S. wants information identifying, to the extent possible, who the asylum seekers are, where they came from, what travel documents were in their possession & how they obtained them, Goodale said.