Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his government will introduce a bill to establish fixed federal election dates every four years, assuming the government isn't defeated in a House of Commons vote.

INDEPTH: Fixing a date with the ballot box

The next election would be in the fall of 2009, he said in a speech in Victoria on Friday.

He said the fixed-date system would prevent politicians from calling snap elections "trying to manipulate the calendar simply for partisan advantage."

Residential schools are closed, but memories linger on healing day

It has taken nearly fifty years for Muriel Betsina to gain self-confidence after the physical and emotional abuse she recalls at the native residential school she attended.

Aboriginal children were taken from their families and put in residential schools.

Inquests ordered in deaths of psychiatric patients

Inquests must be held in the deaths of two patients who died while under restraint at a psychiatric hospital, the Ontario Human Rights Commission has ruled.

Hells Angels store closed in Charlottetown

Police on Prince Edward Island have closed down a store that sells merchandise for the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

Police used dogs during raids at suspected Hells Angels locations on Thursday. (CBC)

Public funeral for Goddard today

Capt. Nichola Goddard, the country's first female combat soldier killed in battle, will be memorialized today in a public funeral in Calgary.

Capt. Nichola Goddard was Canada's first female combat soldier to be killed in action. (Department of National Defence)

Public doesn't care about spat with press gallery: Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says most Canadians don't care about a dispute he's having with the national press gallery in Ottawa.