Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
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Fewer people prescribed opioids but data for all provinces needed: doctor
VANCOUVER - Fewer people in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario were prescribed opioids last year compared with 2013 and the number of patients who began treatment on the pain medication decrea...
Oct 17, 2019
Scheer, Trudeau, Singh haggle over potential minority government outcome
OTTAWA - Four days before Canadians go to the polls, the leaders of Canada's three largest federal parties argued over how the country will be governed if there is no clear winner on election day. Mos...
Oct 17, 2019 Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer participates in a radio interview in Toronto, Ont. Thursday October 17, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Appeal court gives Saskatoon man more prison time for child porn conviction
A Saskatoon man who pleaded guilty to 40 child pornography-related charges has been handed more prison time by Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal. Philip Chicoine was sentenced in 2017 to 12 years. The Cr...
Oct 17, 2019
Roughly 9,000 still without power in Manitoba after snowstorm
WINNIPEG - Slogging through drenched fields and exposed to open prairie in near-freezing temperatures, Manitoba Hydro crews continued to restore power Wednesday to homes and businesses hit by last wee...
Oct 16, 2019
More than 300 charges laid in multi-province human trafficking investigation
The arrests of more than 30 people have dealt a serious blow to an alleged human trafficking ring that is believed to have victimized dozens of women for more than a year, police north of Toronto said...
Oct 16, 2019
Singh invokes memory of Layton as federal leaders make final pitch in Quebec
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh invoked the legacy of his venerated predecessor Wednesday, hoping the memory of Jack Layton - the principal architect of the NDP's best-ever showing in a federal elec...
Oct 16, 2019
Health concerns over vaping cast haze over cannabis market expansion
WINNIPEG - Public health concerns over vaping have cast a haze over expansion excitement in the cannabis market. The production and sale of cannabis derivatives - edibles, extracts, topicals and vape ...
Oct 16, 2019
Just one of many election battlegrounds, Montreal gets love from three leaders
OTTAWA - Montreal is getting attention from the leaders of all the top three federal parties today. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is campaigning hard in Quebec, making numerous stops to try to persona...
Oct 16, 2019 The Montreal skyline as seen from Mount Royal on Nov. 10, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Trudeau, Singh posture for “progressive” votes while Scheer fights in Quebec
OTTAWA - As Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and New Democrat opponent Jagmeet Singh fought Tuesday for the hearts and minds of "progressive" voters, hope sprung eternal for Conservative Leader Andrew Sc...
Oct 15, 2019 Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau makes a campaign stop in Fredericton, N.B., on Oct. 15, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
‘On my mind every day’: Nurse first to arrive at Humboldt crash describes life-altering scene
Vivian York recalls that the debris was still flying when she drove up to an intersection where the Humboldt Broncos’ bus and a semi-truck carrying peat moss had just collided. The nurse was com...
Oct 15, 2019
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