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Roundup of Nova Scotia campaign news
HALIFAX – (NSElxn-Health) Health care continues to dominate debate in the Nova Scotia election campaign.…
Families of missing, murdered women urge critics to get behind national inquiry
OTTAWA – Bernie Williams says she and other indigenous women have already been to hell…
CBC says Subway chicken investigation at heart of lawsuit was fair
TORONTO – The CBC says it gave Subway plenty of opportunity to refute the findings…
Man arrested in case of dog found buried alive near Montreal that later died
MONTREAL – Quebec provincial police say a man has been arrested for animal cruelty in…
Mayors across Canada urge federal government to lead on overdose deaths crisis
VANCOUVER – Mayors across Canada are calling for federal leadership on the “national emergency” of…
Poll indicates steep drop in Sask. Party support after unpopular budget
REGINA – Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he knew budget decisions were likely to hurt…
Blood spatter expert testifies he found blood on gun seized from Sandeson’s safe
HALIFAX – A blood expert testifying at the murder trial of a Halifax university student…
City costs for Vancouver 4-20 marijuana protest more than $245,000
VANCOUVER – This year’s 4-20 marijuana day of protest in Vancouver cost the city more…
Hair stylist Rinaldo, made famous by Mila Mulroney’s bob, dead at 82
OTTAWA – An Ottawa hair stylist whose scissors tended to the tresses of some of…
As they turn 83, surviving Dionne quintuplets seek secure funding for birthplace
SAINT-BRUNO-DE-MONTARVILLE, Que. – Cecile and Annette Dionne have just two items on their wish list…
RCMP still looking for boy’s remains 38 years after he was murdered
STEINBACH, Man. – RCMP have issued an appeal asking for the public’s help in finding…
Body-slamming the press: Gianforte skirmish marks spike in media hostility
WASHINGTON – A reporter being slammed into the ground by a Republican politician, prompting criminal…
Investigation in fatal military parachute accident looks at training, procedures
YORKTON, Sask. – A report on the death of a search-and-rescue technician in a parachute…
Former military medic gets nine months in prison for inappropriate breast exams
OTTAWA – A former military medical technician convicted of conducting inappropriate breast exams on female…
Top court hears federal government’s appeal on residential school records
OTTAWA – Lawyers for the federal government and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation…
Liberals fork over another $30 million to keep Canada at F-35 table
OTTAWA – Canada has quietly paid another $30 million toward development of the F-35 —…
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McNeil pressed on broken promises at second Nova Scotia campaign debate
HALIFAX – Tory Leader Jamie Baillie cast himself Thursday night as the only man who…
Nigel Wright broke ethics rules during Duffy affair, watchdog report says
OTTAWA – Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s one-time chief of staff was never prosecuted for…
Voters in Bernier’s hometown say they like the man more than the party
SAINT-GEORGES, Que. – In Beauce, a region of rolling hills, entrepreneurs and pick-up trucks south…
Pipemakers in Regina vote to give union executive power to call strike
REGINA – Hundreds of unionized workers at Evraz North America’s steel plant in Regina have…
Maud Lewis painting ‘Black Cats’ sells for$36,800 at Consignor Art Auction
TORONTO – A Maud Lewis painting has been sold for well above its pre-auction estimate…
Thirty herons killed at nesting site in Vernon, B.C., after powerful windstorm
VERNON, B.C. – More than two dozen great blue heron chicks and one adult bird…
Ontario community’s work to prevent turtles, snakes being killed on roads a model for others
A rural Ontario community’s work to prevent endangered reptiles from being killed on a 3.6-kilometre…
That’s Saint John not St. John’s: Sea Dogs shake off branding blunder at MemCup
WINDSOR, Ont. – The Saint John Sea Dogs shook off an embarrassing branding blunder at…