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Saskatchewan native leaders hand over financial control of troubled school
SASKATOON - Saskatchewan aboriginal leaders say they have agreed to hand over financial control of the troubled First Nations University of Canada to the University of Regina. Chief Guy Lonechild o...
Coke charge dropped as ex-Tory MP Jaffer pleads guilty to careless driving
ORANGEVILLE, Ont. - A former Conservative MP once known for his tough stance on drugs received a "break" when cocaine possession and drunk driving charges were withdrawn in a plea bargain, an Ontario ...
Man named in police shootout, slain officer knew each other, residents say
A man suspected of trading gunfire with police in an incident that saw an officer shot and killed was identified Tuesday as 70-year-old Fred Preston, a former reeve of a small community that residents...
Invalid death certificate puts BC couple in African adoption limbo
VANCOUVER -A B.C. couple has been separated for months after its effort to adopt twin boys from Ghana turned into a bureaucratic nightmare. Andrea Bastin, a filmmaker from Bowen Island near Vancouv...
Changes made at Alberta Children's Hospital after report into series of errors
CALGARY - Alberta health officials say they've made changes after an independent review into a string of mistakes at a Calgary children's hospital last year, including two drug overdoses and a child g...
Tories should take Jaffer lesson to heart, dump minimum sentences: experts
OTTAWA - Justice Minister Rob Nicholson should take a long, honest look at the Rahim Jaffer case and apply its lessons to the Conservative criminal justice agenda, the head of the John Howard Society ...
Harper government survives first budget vote in Parliament
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government has survived its first confidence test of the new session of Parliament. The House of Commons voted 214-84 on Tuesday to reject a Bloc Que...
Key Senate post up for grabs, but Tories take a pass
OTTAWA - The Conservatives have passed up a chance to seize control of a key Senate committee that they regularly attack for stalling or watering down government bills. Now that the Tories hold mor...
Stranded seal pups popping up on beaches of ice-free Gulf of St. Lawrence
MONTREAL - An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups. The conditions have led to numerou...
Ontario doctor being sued over mastectomies wants hospital privileges back
WINDSOR, Ont. - A Windsor, Ont., doctor at the heart of a controversy over mistaken mastectomies wants her hospital privileges back. Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital is going to hold a hearing to determin...
B.C. government says Blackmore brought polygamy prosecution on himself
VANCOUVER, B.C. - A B.C. religious leader who has admitted to having multiple wives brought a highly publicized and ultimately unsuccessful prosecution upon himself by openly practising polygamy, says...
Wife of fallen officer speaks emotionally at funeral, calls him her 'hero'
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The wife of a Toronto-area police officer who died following a car collision while on duty gave him an emotional goodbye Tuesday, calling him her hero. Erin Ochakovsky described...
Analysis shows TB 185 times more common among Inuit
A national analysis of health data suggests tuberculosis is 185 times more common among Canada's Inuit than it is among the mainstream population - and getting worse. "The trend is the escalation i...
Federal budget survives first vote in Parliament
OTTAWA - The Harper government's budget has survived its first test. The House of Commons voted 262-37 today to reject an NDP sub-amendment. The sub-amendment would have forced the minority Cons...
Federal budget child-care tax break causes new headache for feds
OTTAWA - The federal budget's key anti-poverty measure cures one headache and causes another. Changes to the tax treatment of the $100-a-month Universal Child Care Benefit to help single-parent fam...
Quebec woman barred from course for second time over refusal to remove niqab
MONTREAL - A Muslim woman in Quebec has been kicked out of a language course for the second time because of her refusal to remove a religious face covering. The Egyptian immigrant made headlines la...
New analysis shows TB 185 times more common among Inuit, says group
A analysis of national public health data suggests that tuberculosis is 185 times more common among Canada's Inuit than it is among the mainstream population. The data, to be released Wednesday by ...
Highlights of Statistics Canada projection of Cdn diversity in 2031
OTTAWA - Highlights from a Statistics Canada projection of the diversity of the Canadian population in 2031: -About one-third, or between 29 and 32 per cent of the population, could belong to a vis...
Minorities to be majorities in two Cdn cities by 2031, Statistics Cda projects
TORONTO - The proportion of visible minorities in Canada, already one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, is set to explode in the coming decades and account for one-third of the po...
Efforts to restore power continues after eastern N.L. ice storm
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The effort to restore electricity in eastern Newfoundland after a weekend storm is finally winding down. All but a handful of Newfoundland Power customers in the Bonavista region...
Harper Tories take post-Olympic bounce over Liberals, leaders fall flat: poll
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests the Conservative government has restored a crack of daylight between itself and the Liberal Opposition. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey covering a two-week peri...
Alberta Tory backbencher proposes tiaras to pull in tourism
CALGARY - An Alberta government backbencher is floating the idea of the province holding an international beauty pageant to pull in tourism dollars from around the world along with tiaras, high heels ...
Woman spends savings in lengthy N.S. battle to preserve life of impounded dog
HALIFAX, N.S. - Francesca Rogier says she remains unbowed in her legal battle to preserve the life of a mixed-breed dog that faces euthanasia after it attacked other canines, despite exhausting $30,00...
N.L. health authority says test errors not reported to executives in timely way
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland's largest health authority says an internal review into testing errors for cyclosporine at its biochemistry lab in St. John's shows they were not reported to executives...
SIU identifies Fred Preston, 70, of Burk's Falls as man shot in confrontation that killed officer
LONDON, Ont. - Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has identified the man involved in a confrontation that saw an Ontario police officer shot and killed as Fred Preston, 70, of Burk's Falls. The ...
Ont. premier calls two fallen officers heroes, says they're owed gratitude
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Ontario's premier described two police officers who died in the line of duty in the province in a single week as heroes who, like each of their colleagues, is "owed our gratitude, ...
Quebec government kicks niqab-wearing woman out of class for second time
MONTREAL - A Muslim woman in Quebec is once again being asked by the Quebec government to remove her religious face covering. The Egyptian immigrant made headlines recently when provincial Immigrat...
Ex-Alberta MP Jaffer pleads guilty to careless driving, drug charge dropped
ORANGEVILLE, Ont. - Charges of cocaine possession and drunk driving against former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer were withdrawn Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to careless driving. In convicting Jaf...
Funeral set to begin for Ontario police officer killed in crash
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Hundreds of police officers from across Canada and some from the U.S. have gathered in Mississauga, Ont., this afternoon at a funeral for a fallen colleague. Const. Artem (James...
Bagging ballistics for fingerprinting all part of job for bomb squad
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - You won't see bomb squads on the big screen gently putting the makings of homemade explosives into little plastic baggies. Come to Kandahar, however, and you just might. A l...
