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Convictions for ecstasy to Australia duo

  Photo: Contributed - photobucket.com File photo Two British Columbians have been convicted of trying to smuggle nearly eight kilograms of ecstasy to Australia more than three years ago. Canada Border Services Agency officers at Vancouver International...

Hey Dude! Stop chuckwagon races

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Tommy Lee of the band Motley Crue is pictured before a tribute to the band to launch the 4th Annual Sunset Strip Music Festival in West Hollywood, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. Lee has written a letter to the Alberta premier...

Request to Cop killer at mental hospital

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Richard Kachkar is shown in an undated photo taken from a Facebook page. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook The lawyer for a man found not criminally responsible for killing a Toronto police officer with a snow plow is...

Vets leave Korea & lost buddies behind

  Photo: Contributed North Korean soldiers stand on steps overlooking the border village of Panmunjom, North Korea, which has separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. (AP / David Guttenfelder) A group of aging Korean war...

Neighbour recalls terror suspect conflict

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. The apartment building where lived is shown in Montreal on Thursday April 25, 2013. An ex-neighbour recalls several confrontations with one of the men charged in an alleged terror plot because his prayers would keep him awake...

Fire chief apologizes to black firefighters

  Photo: Contributed Halifax Fire Chief Doug Trussler apologized today on behalf of the Halifax Regional Municipality and the fire department after a complaint was filed with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. Halifax's fire chief issued an...

Canadian priest shot at bank in Haiti

  Photo: Contributed - YouTube Delmas district of Port-au-Prince Police in Haiti are investigating the killing of a Canadian who was shot to death as he left a bank in the Caribbean nation's capital. Police inspector Aladin Jean-Louis says that...

Drugs found on Bieber's tour bus

  Photo: Contributed - CBC Canadian singer Justin Bieber shakes hands with a fan on March 31 in Berlin. (Gero Breloer/Associated Press) Swedish police say they have found drugs on board a tour bus used by Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber. Police...

Canadian dies with aid of doctor in Zurich

  Photo: Contributed - CBC A Winnipeg woman who went to Switzerland to end her life has died with the aid of a physician. A family friend says Susan Griffiths, 72, died peacefully this morning at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich. She suffered from multiple...

6/49 to cost more

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Lotto 649 tickets are shown in Toronto in a recent photo. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. says it will make more people millionaires each week starting this fall.The lottery agency is creating a new $1 million prize for...

East Coast seal hunt continues

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Hunters kill a harp seal during the annual East Coast seal hunt in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence around Quebec's Iles de la Madeleine on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan A ruling...

Two other suspects in terror plot

  Photo: CTV Terror suspect Chiheb Esseghaier arrives at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS) An alleged terror plot to derail a passenger train on a Via Rail track involved two suspects in...

Justice minister to tackle cyberbullying

  Photo: CTV Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 23, 2013., as he is joined by Leah Parsons, second from right, mother of Rehtaeh Parsons and her partner Jason...

Train plot suspect's 2nd day in court

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two men accused of plotting a terror attack on rail target, is led off a plane by an RCMP officer at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto on Tuesday April 23, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris...

Mr. Speaker's FB status: embarrassed

  Photo: Contributed The Speaker of the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature apologized Tuesday for concluding that an NDP politician was in contempt for being a member of a Facebook group where someone else posted an allegedly threatening comment against Premier...

Derailed suspects dispute charges

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two men accused of plotting a terror attack on rail target, is led off a plane by an RCMP officer at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto on Tuesday April 23, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris...

Alleged al-Qaida plot suspects in court

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Chiheb Esseghaier appears in court in Montreal on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in this artist's sketch. Esseghaier and Raed Jaser were arrested and charged Monday in what the RCMP said was the first known al-Qaida terror plot in...

Cottage country flooding

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Resident Ben Piels walks past a sandbagged home on Bobcaygeon Rd. in Minden, Ont., on Monday, April 22, 2013. A state of emergency was declared Saturday for this central Ontario town following rapid snow melting and heavy rain....

Canadian vets spy N. Korean troops

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Canadian Korean War veteran John Danilko takes a photo of the Joint Security Area along the border between the Republic of Korea and North Korea Tuesday April 23, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld The winter-wasted...

Daughter of killer tells story

  Photo: Contributed File: Phoenix Sinclair An inquiry into the death of a Manitoba girl has been told there were bruises on her body a year before she died. The inquiry is examining how child welfare failed to protect Phoenix Sinclair from being...