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Saturday, August 10, 2013

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Child pornography charges in Rehtaeh Parsons case of little solace

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 07:36 AM PDT

Rehtaeh Parsons is shown in a handout photo from the Facebook tribute page "Angel Rehtaeh." The RCMP say they have made two arrests in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17-year-old Halifax girl who was taken off life-support following a suicide attempt in April. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-FacebookThe announcement of charges in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year-old Nova Scotia girl who took her own life after photos of an alleged sexual attack were released, was intended to give solace to a grieving family. Scratch that, … Continue reading →


Bedroom dental clinic 'scary,' health officials say

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 06:08 PM PDT

David Wu ran an illegal dental practice out of the bedroom of his home in Burnaby, B.C.Health officials who have reviewed video of a raid of an illegal dental office in Burnaby say conditions in the makeshift bedroom clinic were "pretty scary."


Rob Ford street festival videos lead to 'drunk' speculation

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 05:41 PM PDT

Mayor Rob Ford leaves an Etobicoke gas station at around 1 a.m. on Saturday after walking from his house to pick up a few snacks.A flurry of Rob Ford sightings late Friday night at Toronto's Taste of the Danforth Festival is renewing questions about the mayor's behaviour.


Python experts vexed by questions about New Brunswick tragedy

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 10:50 AM PDT

An RCMP cruiser sits outside Reptile Ocean in Campbellton, N.B., on August 6, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John LeBlancThicker than a man's bicep and longer than two Shaquille O'Neals, an African rock python can survive on just two or three good meals a year. But when it does decide to eat—an antelope, perhaps, or maybe a monkey—the chosen meal has no chance.


Why Kevin Page is not going away

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 10:05 AM PDT

Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page in the dressing room of the Nepean Raiders peewee hockey team, which he coaches in his free time.At his going-away party in March, Kevin Page, the first and so far only parliamentary budget officer (PBO), was presented by his staff with the parting gift of a T-shirt emblazoned with three words: "unbelievable, unreliable, incredible." These were adjectives Finance Minister Jim Flaherty used a year earlier to describe Page's work after the budget officer had suggested, contrary to the government's argument, that the Old Age Security system was sustainable.


PQ rally shooting victim still lives in pain

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 08:59 AM PDT

PQ rally shooting survivor speaksDave Courage, shot during a Parti Québécois election victory rally last September, says he feels like he has been been abandoned.


Funeral for two brothers killed by python hears how boys touched people's lives

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Noah and Connor BartheCAMPBELLTON, N.B. - Two brothers who were tragically killed by a python while they slept at a friend's home during a sleepover were remembered Saturday for how they touched others during their short lives.


Bitumen leak cleanup underway near Cold Lake, Alta.

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 07:39 PM PDT

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. president Steve Laut said the company could have done more to communicate with the local community.The president of an oilsands company now cleaning up a serious leak near Cold Lake, Alta., says his company should have done more to communicate with the public.


Baird hopes 'decency will prevail' at Sochi Olympics

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 07:16 PM PDT

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird holds a news conference in Ottawa on May 29, 2013. Canada announced it was closing its embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Sunday, tightening security amid a widespread terrorism and travel alert triggered by the U.S.A spokesman for Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said on Saturday the closure is a security precaution. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian WyldForeign Affairs Minister John Baird says he is concerned about Canadian athletes going to the Olympics in Russia because of the country's anti-gay law, but that a boycott isn't being considered by Canada


‘Let’s go party,’ Mayor Rob Ford demands in street festival video

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 06:17 AM PDT

Rob Ford is envious of Winnipeg's new football stadiumA video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford acting in a bizarre manner appeared online late Friday night. Actually several videos. Three videos of Ford were uploaded by YouTube user Adrian Sosa, who says he ran into Ford at the Taste … Continue reading →


Men’s rights attracts angry young men

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 10:47 AM PDT

When Earl Silverman was found dead, hanging from the rafters of his garage after an apparent suicide, those who knew him best said he had died from indifference. For the last five years, Silverman had owned Canada's only shelter for men, taking battered husbands and their children into his own house in Calgary so they could escape abusive wives.

Ontario PCs allege threats after calls for Tim Hudak review

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 05:38 AM PDT

Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak tours a robotics plant in Ottawa Tuesday, July 23, 2013.Some Ontario Progressive Conservative riding members say they have been threatened and harassed since filing motions in favour of a leadership review for Tim Hudak.


Fire forces dozens of tenants out of building

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT

Flames were 'licking the sky,' according to one witness.More than 50 people are out of their homes after a fire destroyed a large part of an apartment complex in Lower Sackville.


Search for lost Franklin expedition ships to resume

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 06:04 PM PDT

Skulls of members of the Franklin Expedition, discovered and buried by William Skinner and Paddy Gibson in 1945, at King William Island, N.W.T. (now Nunavut), are shown in this photo from the National Archives of Canada Collections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/National Archives of CanadaScientists will be heading back to the Canadian Arctic this weekend to continue the search for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, ships that were lost after becoming trapped in the ice during the 1845 Franklin Expedition, Parks Canada says.


Government closes B.C. park to prevent "rainbow gathering" of hundreds of people

Posted: 10 Aug 2013 04:46 PM PDT

PORT MCNEILL, B.C. - Hundreds of campers who had planned to live off the land for a month in a northern Vancouver Island provincial park are being forced to go elsewhere.

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