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• Saint Mary's University student leader sorry for sexual assault chant
• Vancouver airport resumes normal operations after thunder, lightning storm
• Federal funds to help restore spill-damaged habitats
• Esme-28 pulled from market, second birth-control pill recalled in 10 days
• Calgary's Saddledome prepares to host concerts, hockey games after flood
• Baird to meet over Syria with Russian foreign minister
• West Vancouver woman’s trial puts human trafficking in spotlight once again
• World’s first enhanced stem cell therapy for heart attacks begins in Ottawa
• Harper stakes firm position on Syria, debt repayment, but G20 consensus unlikely
• Canadians still unsure about Trudeau’s competency: Poll
• Older workers pushing youth out of the job market: report
• $40M meth lab bust one of largest in Ontario history
• Donations from Quebec corruption suspects to federal parties begs investigation
• Is teachers’ union opposition to Quebec values charter a sign PQ policy is in trouble?
• House sales in Toronto, Vancouver leap in August
• Syrian conflict draws in Canadian fighters
• Ontario Tory MPP loses credibility over $21k housing allowance
• Troubled railroad at centre of Quebec disaster could be sold by year's end
• Brian Sinclair ignored by Winnipeg ER: report
• Nova Scotia Leon’s employee files complaint after black statue lynched
• Halifax police investigating black statue hanging incident at Leon's store

Saint Mary's University student leader sorry for sexual assault chant Posted: 05 Sep 2013 02:24 PM PDT HALIFAX - Student leaders at Saint Mary's University were widely criticized Thursday for performing a frosh-week chant glorifying the sexual assault of underage girls that has been part of orientation activities at the Halifax school for years.

Vancouver airport resumes normal operations after thunder, lightning storm Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:10 PM PDT VANCOUVER - Thousands of residents on British Columbia's South Coast are still without power but operations at Vancouver's airport are returning to normal following a thunder-and-lightning storm.

Federal funds to help restore spill-damaged habitats Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:45 PM PDT The federal government has pledged close to $300,000 to help rebuild habitats affected by the 2007 oil spill in the Burrard Inlet.

Esme-28 pulled from market, second birth-control pill recalled in 10 days Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT TORONTO - The company that removed one of its birth-control pills from the market last week due to a packaging error is now recalling a second oral contraceptive.

Calgary's Saddledome prepares to host concerts, hockey games after flood Posted: 05 Sep 2013 02:49 PM PDT CALGARY - An Eagles concert, not a hockey game, will be the first event in the Scotiabank Saddledome after floodwaters destroyed its lower levels in June.

Baird to meet over Syria with Russian foreign minister Posted: 05 Sep 2013 01:38 PM PDT Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird will meet Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, tomorrow in St. Petersburg to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria and the use of chemical weapons in the conflict.

West Vancouver woman’s trial puts human trafficking in spotlight once again Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:51 PM PDT For the second time in a year, a B.C. court is hearing details of alleged human trafficking involving women apparently duped into coming to Canada on promises of good jobs, only to become essentially household slaves. Mumtaz Ladha, a resident … Continue reading →

World’s first enhanced stem cell therapy for heart attacks begins in Ottawa Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:31 PM PDT Scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute have begun a new experimental treatment today, which will use a heart attack victim's own cells in an effort to repair their damaged heart. Harriet Garrow, a resident of Cornwall, is the first … Continue reading →

Harper stakes firm position on Syria, debt repayment, but G20 consensus unlikely Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:49 AM PDT ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is taking a firm position on two controversial issues at this year's G20 summit, with little hope of achieving a wider consensus with his fellow leaders on either front.

Canadians still unsure about Trudeau’s competency: Poll Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:18 AM PDT It's marketing 101: if you say something often enough, people are going to start believing it. For months, every chance they've gotten, the Tories have tried to spread the narrative that Justin Trudeau is "in over his head." Well, it … Continue reading →

Older workers pushing youth out of the job market: report Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:09 AM PDT TORONTO - A new report suggests that a growing number of older workers are taking on part-time jobs, which in turn is pushing up the unemployment rate among teenaged students.

$40M meth lab bust one of largest in Ontario history Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:52 PM PDT Police in Ontario showed off a portion of a $40-million haul of methamphetamines on Thursday, seized from clandestine labs that investigators believe were producing illegal drugs for export.

Donations from Quebec corruption suspects to federal parties begs investigation Posted: 05 Sep 2013 01:38 PM PDT An exclusive report found on Thursday that more than $2 million was donated to federal parties by people who have been charged in Quebec's ongoing corruption sweep, yet very little will be done with that information. Those confirmed donations are … Continue reading →

Is teachers’ union opposition to Quebec values charter a sign PQ policy is in trouble? Posted: 05 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT Media outside Quebec have seized on a decision by a teachers' union to oppose provisions of the Parti Quebecois' proposed values charter as a sign the controversial policy may be in trouble. But that may be premature, given most of … Continue reading →

House sales in Toronto, Vancouver leap in August Posted: 05 Sep 2013 06:51 AM PDT House sales climbed 21 per cent in Toronto and 52 per cent in Vancouver in August compared to the same month last year, as buyers' fears over the tightening of mortgage rules continued to ease and they re-entered the market.

Syrian conflict draws in Canadian fighters Posted: 04 Sep 2013 09:05 PM PDT The mother of a young Canadian man currently in Syria has been asking for months how and why her son ended up there among a group of extremist fighters.

Ontario Tory MPP loses credibility over $21k housing allowance Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:57 AM PDT Ontario Tory MPP Peter Shurman is his party's finance critic. For years, he's railed against the governing Liberals for their haphazard spending, large deficits and government waste. I think it's fair to say that he has now lost all credibility. … Continue reading →

Troubled railroad at centre of Quebec disaster could be sold by year's end Posted: 05 Sep 2013 01:10 PM PDT PORTLAND, Maine - The bankrupt railroad whose runaway train sparked a fire and explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec could be sold by year's end, the company's trustee said Thursday.

Brian Sinclair ignored by Winnipeg ER: report Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:31 AM PDT CBC News has learned that a confidential report into the 2008 death of Brian Sinclair at a Winnipeg hospital shows that four members of the public approached emergency room staff on four separate occasions to report concerns about Sinclair but were "largely ignored."

Nova Scotia Leon’s employee files complaint after black statue lynched Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:06 AM PDT A black employee of Leon's Furniture in Nova Scotia has filed a human rights complaint after he says he was the target of racism from co-workers and managers, including coming to work to find a black statue hung in effigy. … Continue reading →

Halifax police investigating black statue hanging incident at Leon's store Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:51 PM PDT HALIFAX - Halifax police say they are investigating a Nova Scotia man's complaint about a black statue being hung in the office of a furniture store where he worked.

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