Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Law that allows domestic violence records to be released ‘patchy’ in the U.K.
Hollie Gazzard was 20 years old when she was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend at the hair salon where she worked in Gloucester, England. Court heard her killer, Asher Maslin, had a history of dome...
Dec 11, 2018 Hollie Gazzard, 20, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2014 at the Gloucester, U.K. salon where she worked. (RIP Hollie Gazzard/Facebook)
‘My nightmare began again’: Close call as bus carrying Humboldt crash survivor rear-ended
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press CALGARY - A terrifying ordeal for Humboldt Broncos survivor Ryan Straschnitzki this past week as the bus carrying him home from physiotherapy was rear-ended by a ...
Dec 09, 2018
Shoppers Drug Mart granted licence to sell medical marijuana online
TORONTO - Shoppers Drug Mart has been granted a licence to sell medical marijuana online. Health Canada's list of authorized cannabis sellers and producers has been updated to reflect that the pharmac...
Dec 08, 2018
Little results from first ministers meeting, but at least nobody stormed out
MONTREAL - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has moved the goalposts on Canada's climate-change plans, asking Ontario to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions more than Ford had ...
Dec 07, 2018
First ministers’ meeting likely to be most fractious, least productive for PM
MONTREAL - Manitoba's Brian Pallister is warning that nothing will be accomplished at today's first ministers' meeting if premiers insist on expanding the agenda to discuss a laundry list of issues. "...
Dec 07, 2018
Liberals drop contentious anti-abortion test for summer jobs funding
OTTAWA - Contentious wording in Ottawa's summer jobs program that tied pro-abortion beliefs to funding eligibility is being dropped after a backlash to what was styled last year as a values test. Inst...
Dec 06, 2018
Bear cub, rescued near mother’s body, dies unexpectedly in wildlife refuge
TOFINO, B.C. - A British Columbia wildlife refuge says staff are upset and shocked after a bear cub that was rescued near his mother's dead body this spring died unexpectedly in his enclosure. The bea...
Dec 04, 2018
Canadian astronaut lifts off on Russian rocket en route to International Space Station
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques blasted through the skies over Kazakhstan early Monday in what appeared to be a seamless launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket bound for the Interna...
Dec 03, 2018
Brian Mulroney remembers George H.W. Bush as ‘a great friend of Canada’
Canadian politicians past and present offered their condolences on Saturday following the death of former U.S. president George H.W. Bush, with former prime minister Brian Mulroney calling it "an enor...
Dec 02, 2018
Canada Post considering ‘legal options’ amid protests at sorting facilities
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Canada Post says protesters blocking mail from flowing in and out of one of the country's busiest postal hubs are violating a court order, and the Crown corporation is "considering...
Dec 02, 2018
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