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Former firefighter suing

Jan 20, 2019 / 10:32 am

A lawsuit filed by a former firefighter and paramedic against Syncrude Canada claims the oilsands giant wrongfully denied him benefits and fired him after he...

Several BC lotto winners

Jan 20, 2019 / 8:29 am

No winning ticket was sold for the $17 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket...

Guilty in fiery death

Jan 20, 2019 / 7:55 am

A jury has found two men guilty of manslaughter in the high-profile shooting death of a Winnipeg woman inside a home that was then set on fire. Christopher...

'Bird Box' Megantic outrage

Jan 20, 2019 / 7:46 am

Quebec's culture minister has penned a letter to Netflix's CEO to express the government's outrage over the streaming service's decision to...

Extradition deadline looms

Jan 20, 2019 / 7:43 am

American authorities are facing a key deadline at the end of the month to formally request the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the...

Marches across the country

Jan 19, 2019 / 4:56 pm

Women and their allies participated in marches across Canada on Saturday, from large cities to tiny villages, demanding the advancement of the rights of women...

Olympic harassment suit

Jan 19, 2019 / 3:34 pm

The national governing body for bobsleigh and skeleton has confirmed that former Olympian Kaillie Humphries has filed a harassment complaint with the...

No cash in parents' retrial

Jan 19, 2019 / 7:00 am

A judge on Friday refused requests from an Alberta couple charged in the meningitis death of their son to have their legal fees covered and a retrial delayed....

Trudeau fields questions

Jan 18, 2019 / 8:59 pm

Ottawa's decision to sign the UN compact for migration in no way limit's Canada's sovereignty or ability to choose its own immigrants, Prime...

'Hurricane Hazel' adviser

Jan 18, 2019 / 4:34 pm

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has appointed former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion as a special adviser. McCallion served as mayor of the city west of Toronto...

11 arrested in coke bust

Jan 18, 2019 / 4:30 pm

Israeli police have arrested 11 suspects in Tel Aviv after authorities in Halifax found nearly five kilograms of cocaine in a container headed for the Middle...

Huge poker win to charity

Jan 18, 2019 / 4:27 pm

A Halifax man who won over US$671,000 at an international poker tournament in the Bahamas doesn't plan on keeping a single cent of his unlikely winnings....

Nazi wants citizenship back

Jan 18, 2019 / 1:22 pm

A 94-year-old man found to have lied about his membership in a Second World War Nazi death squad has launched yet another appeal of the government's...

Cdn's indecent act on flight

Jan 18, 2019 / 1:21 pm

A Canadian is accused of performing indecent acts on a flight from Hong Kong to Australia. Australian Federal Police arrested the 28-year-old man on arrival in...

Admitted to killing wife

Jan 18, 2019 / 1:09 pm

A Montreal man on trial for the killing of his ailing wife told a senior nurse at the long-term care facility where she lived that he had suffocated her, a jury...

Still missing in Africa

Jan 18, 2019 / 1:05 pm

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau met Friday with family members of a Quebec woman who has...

Sailor acquitted in rape case

Jan 18, 2019 / 11:56 am

A British sailor accused in an alleged gang rape at a Halifax-area military base has been acquitted. Darren Smalley was charged with sexual assault causing...

Housing state of emergency

Jan 18, 2019 / 8:11 am

The chief and council of Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario have declared a state of public health emergency, citing "profoundly poor conditions of...

Huawei decision coming

Jan 18, 2019 / 7:56 am

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the government's decision on whether to ban Huawei technology from being used in Canada's next generation 5G...

Quebec protects school kids

Jan 18, 2019 / 7:25 am

The Quebec government says it will move to make carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in all of the province's schools. In the meantime, Education Minister...