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• Facebook apologizes for dating website ad featuring photo of Rehtaeh Parsons
• Australian media reports that mother who drowned two young sons commits suicide
• Health warning over E. coli after one person dies and others are sickened
• PQ opens door to 'improving' controversial religion plan
• Trudeau taps byelection star Chrystia Freeland for economic advice
• Video: Quebec Liberals want 'truth to come out' about corruption
• Senate communications comes under microscope in midst of transparency scandal
• Battle of the Redfords: Alberta premier slams Hollywood legend over anti-oilsands video
• Opposition parties make most of parliamentary prorogation
• Markham, Ont., firefighter dies in unprovoked café attack
• $35M settlement reached in Huronia abuse lawsuit
• Quebec Liberals HQ raided by anti-corruption investigators
• Man pleads guilty to driving van into Alberta school, killing 11-year-old girl
• ‘Anonymous’ attacks N.S. NDP over social media use during election
• Was it justified to fire three firefighters over sexist behaviour?
• New Zealand crews search for Canadian couple after parts of van found in river
• Starved boy's aunt 'didn't pay that much attention' as he died, inquest hears
• Kids' watchdog says it's a miracle abused girl branded 'evil child' survived
• Human-trafficking trial hears woman forced to work long hours for no pay
• Court blames Vancouver cyclist for accident that left him in pain and depressed
• Victims' families object to Quebec committee's quest for role in MMA bankruptcy
• Canada housing market has calmed: finance minister
• Vale hit with record fine for Canadian mine deaths

Facebook apologizes for dating website ad featuring photo of Rehtaeh Parsons Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:06 PM PDT HALIFAX - Facebook apologized Tuesday for featuring an ad for a dating website that used a picture of Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17-year-old Nova Scotia girl who died after attempting suicide in April.

Australian media reports that mother who drowned two young sons commits suicide Posted: 17 Sep 2013 11:22 PM PDT EDMONTON - There are media reports in Australia that a woman convicted of manslaughter in the drowning deaths of her two sons in a small Alberta town has committed suicide.

Health warning over E. coli after one person dies and others are sickened Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:49 PM PDT VANCOUVER - One person has died and three others have fallen ill after consuming cheese produced at a farm in Salmon Arm, B.C., that the BC Centre for Disease Control said is connected to an E. coli outbreak.

PQ opens door to 'improving' controversial religion plan Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:31 PM PDT MONTREAL - The Parti Quebecois says it could amend its controversial values charter based on public input it receives before submitting the minority-accommodation plan to the legislature.

Trudeau taps byelection star Chrystia Freeland for economic advice Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:49 PM PDT OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau has tapped star byelection candidate Chrystia Freeland to help craft economic policy for the Liberal platform in 2015.

Video: Quebec Liberals want 'truth to come out' about corruption Posted: 17 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT The Quebec Liberal Party admits its offices were raided by the province's anti-corruption police unit. But party leader Philippe Couillard says he wants the party to be judged by its current leadership and conduct, not its past.

Senate communications comes under microscope in midst of transparency scandal Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:49 PM PDT OTTAWA - A bipartisan move is afoot to look at retooling the multimillion-dollar Senate communications directorate, a body that has come to be seen as part of the larger transparency problem inside the upper chamber.

Battle of the Redfords: Alberta premier slams Hollywood legend over anti-oilsands video Posted: 17 Sep 2013 08:54 AM PDT Last week it was music legend Neil Young, this week it's film legend Robert Redford. On Monday, the U.S. based actor added his voice to the anti-oil sands cause via a video on the website of the Natural Resources Defense … Continue reading →

Opposition parties make most of parliamentary prorogation Posted: 17 Sep 2013 11:26 AM PDT You've got to hand it to Canada's opposition parties for finding creative ways to gain some publicity during the prorogue of parliament. Instead of retreating to their ridings, each of the parties is maximizing their down time. The NDP kicked … Continue reading →

Markham, Ont., firefighter dies in unprovoked café attack Posted: 17 Sep 2013 05:36 AM PDT Off-duty Markham, Ont., firefighter Dominic Parker was fatally stabbed "without provocation" at a Toronto café last weekend, and a man now faces a first-degree murder charge, police say.

$35M settlement reached in Huronia abuse lawsuit Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:58 PM PDT TORONTO - For decades, those who lived at an Ontario institution for the developmentally disabled waited for the province to acknowledge the abuse and neglect they said they endured at the government-run facility.

Quebec Liberals HQ raided by anti-corruption investigators Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:09 AM PDT The Quebec political party that launched a sweeping investigation into corruption in the province has been subjected to the scrutiny of its own creation, newly-released information details. The ongoing probe into impropriety between political parties and the construction industry has … Continue reading →

Man pleads guilty to driving van into Alberta school, killing 11-year-old girl Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:33 PM PDT ST. PAUL, Alta. - A man has pleaded guilty to criminal charges after his minivan plowed through the wall of a rural Alberta school and killed an 11-year-old girl.

‘Anonymous’ attacks N.S. NDP over social media use during election Posted: 17 Sep 2013 08:20 AM PDT Nova Scotia is in the midst of a provincial election campaign and, as is often the case, this is the prime time for mud to be thrown against walls. We've got the governing New Democratic Party is a dogfight against … Continue reading →

Was it justified to fire three firefighters over sexist behaviour? Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:31 AM PDT Online comments deemed to be sexist have cost three Toronto firefighters their jobs, but is sexist behaviour a justified means for termination?

New Zealand crews search for Canadian couple after parts of van found in river Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:13 PM PDT HAAST, New Zealand - Police in New Zealand are scouring a river and its surrounding rugged terrain for two missing Canadians after finding parts of the couple's wrecked rental van at the bottom of a steep gorge.

Starved boy's aunt 'didn't pay that much attention' as he died, inquest hears Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:33 PM PDT TORONTO - As a five-year-old boy withered away and died of starvation at the hands of his grandparents, his aunt — who lived under the same roof — says she didn't notice his alarming condition because she "didn't pay that much attention."

Kids' watchdog says it's a miracle abused girl branded 'evil child' survived Posted: 17 Sep 2013 05:24 PM PDT VICTORIA - British Columbia's children's ministry handed cash to a drug addicted, abusive grandfather with 70 criminal convictions to help him pay for an unescorted flight to Saskatchewan with his vulnerable two-year-old granddaughter.

Human-trafficking trial hears woman forced to work long hours for no pay Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:11 PM PDT VANCOUVER - Had she known that she would become an unpaid domestic servant in Canada, she would never have come overseas, an African woman told a human trafficking trial on Tuesday.

Court blames Vancouver cyclist for accident that left him in pain and depressed Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:28 PM PDT Despite public-awareness campaigns and efforts by city planners to separate them, cyclists and motorists still do not play well together. Bikers complain about drivers who intimidate cyclists and squeeze them against the curb, while four-wheelers fume about bikers who ignore … Continue reading →

Victims' families object to Quebec committee's quest for role in MMA bankruptcy Posted: 17 Sep 2013 05:33 PM PDT MONTREAL - The families of several victims of the deadly rail crash in Lac-Megantic, Que., are opposing a bid by a committee involving the Quebec government, municipal authorities and other victims for official standing at a railway's bankruptcy proceedings in the United States.

Canada housing market has calmed: finance minister Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:11 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Tuesday he is less worried about overheating in the housing and condominium markets, despite a mid-year bounce in sales, but he stands ready to intervene if there are signs of an emerging housing bubble. In an interview with BNN television, Flaherty said he meets builders and bankers to discuss the real estate market, meeting the latter this week in Toronto. "It's calming, which is good, especially the condo market which was quite worrisome in Vancouver and Toronto, and a little bit in Montreal also," he said. ...

Vale hit with record fine for Canadian mine deaths Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:07 PM PDT By Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA's Canadian unit has been fined C$1.05 million (US$1.02 million) for a 2011 accident that killed two workers at its mine in Sudbury, Ontario. The fine is the largest ever imposed by an Ontario court for violations of the province's workplace safety law, the provincial government said on Tuesday. Vale confirmed in a statement that it had agreed to plead guilty to three counts of violating the law. On top of the C$1.05 million fine, it will pay a required 25 percent surcharge into a fund that benefits victims of crime. ...

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