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• Pamela Wallin's lawyer threatens legal action against possible suspension
• RCMP defend response at shale gas protest site where explosives seized
• Body of man, 38, found in burned out car
• Ontario woman accused of poisoning 8 children, 1 adult
• Is Elizabeth May’s leadership hurting her party’s future prospects?
• Omar Khadr loses court bid for transfer to provincial jail
• Young man who killed teen girl in B.C. park sentenced as adult to life
• What not to like about the Canada-EU trade deal
• New Brunswick anti-fracking clash could lead to Idle No More’s next big moment
• Government wants to throw away key for 'most heinous' offenders: MacKay
• Supreme Court rules doctors can’t end life support, but debate not over
• Canadian hotels rife with germs
• 2 Nigerian students leaving Canada after year in hiding
• Canadian woman killed after balcony collapses on honeymoon in Mexico
• Canada minister does not see foreign deal limits hurting oil sands
• TransCanada investigates natural gas pipeline leak in northern Alberta
• Finance, health, education all get new ministers in Manitoba cabinet shuffle
• Should governments fund gambling?
• Toronto ranks second on list of cities with the best reputations
• Facebook ban requested for N.S. teen who posted "brutal" assault online
• Guns found in Newfoundland home of double murder-suicide culprit
• Say cheese: EU strikes trade deal with Canada, looks to U.S.
• Canadian court backs patient's family in life-support ruling
• High-risk offender who fled Canada says he just wants to start over

Pamela Wallin's lawyer threatens legal action against possible suspension Posted: 18 Oct 2013 06:22 PM PDT OTTAWA - Sen. Pamela Wallin is preparing to fight a bid by her former party to have her suspended without pay — a gambit her lawyer calls an affront to Canadian democracy designed to help the Conservatives change the channel.

RCMP defend response at shale gas protest site where explosives seized Posted: 18 Oct 2013 10:50 PM PDT FREDERICTON - The RCMP's commanding officer in New Brunswick defended the police response to a shale gas protest where officers seized firearms and improvised explosives, saying Friday that if the Mounties hadn't acted, lives could have been in danger.

Body of man, 38, found in burned out car Posted: 18 Oct 2013 10:14 PM PDT Police are investigating after the death of a 38-year-old man whose body was found in a burned out truck Friday morning.

Ontario woman accused of poisoning 8 children, 1 adult Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:29 PM PDT Christine Allen, a Kitchener, Ont., woman charged in July for allegedly poisoning two children, is facing new charges and now stands accused of poisoning an adult and eight children.

Is Elizabeth May’s leadership hurting her party’s future prospects? Posted: 18 Oct 2013 04:27 PM PDT Last summer, I was one of the few reporters to attend the Green Party national convention on Vancouver Island. What was striking was how much May was revered — not just respected but truly admired — by the party faithful. … Continue reading →

Omar Khadr loses court bid for transfer to provincial jail Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT An Alberta judge has rejected Omar Khadr's wish to serve the rest of his sentence for war crimes convictions in a provincial jail instead of Edmonton's federal maximum-security lockup. Khadr, who spent a decade in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison … Continue reading →

Young man who killed teen girl in B.C. park sentenced as adult to life Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:52 PM PDT SURREY, B.C. - A young man who was just days shy of his 18th birthday when he bludgeoned a 15-year-old girl to death in a suburban park near Vancouver was sentenced Friday as an adult to life in prison — a punishment that prompted cheers in a crowded courtroom as a judge condemned the killer for devastating the young girl's family and leaving a community in fear.

What not to like about the Canada-EU trade deal Posted: 18 Oct 2013 08:16 AM PDT "The biggest deal Canada has ever made." That how Prime Minister Stephen Harper is describing Canada's free trade with the European Union announced, in principle, on Friday. At a press conference, in Brussels, Harper touted the deal as one that … Continue reading →

New Brunswick anti-fracking clash could lead to Idle No More’s next big moment Posted: 18 Oct 2013 11:23 AM PDT A massive clash between RCMP and anti-fracking protesters has Canada's justice minister calling for calm as the eastern New Brunswick incident that saw 40 people arrested and as many as five police vehicles torched prompts sympathy protests across the country. … Continue reading →

Government wants to throw away key for 'most heinous' offenders: MacKay Posted: 18 Oct 2013 03:04 PM PDT OTTAWA - Criminals who are convicted of the worst crimes — such as multiple murders or sex assaults on children — could spend the rest of their lives behind bars, with no chance of parole, under planned federal legislation.

Supreme Court rules doctors can’t end life support, but debate not over Posted: 18 Oct 2013 09:32 AM PDT The Supreme Court of Canada issued a split decision on Friday that found doctors could not remove a patient from life support without consent, it a ruling widely seen to be the heaviest gavel swung in relation to Canada's "right … Continue reading →

Canadian hotels rife with germs Posted: 17 Oct 2013 06:45 PM PDT Experts cringe at sanitary practices

2 Nigerian students leaving Canada after year in hiding Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:28 PM PDT Two Nigerian students living in Regina who've been in trouble with immigration authorities left Saskatchewan Friday.

Canadian woman killed after balcony collapses on honeymoon in Mexico Posted: 18 Oct 2013 08:31 AM PDT An Ottawa-area woman and mother of two young children is dead after she fell when a glass panel on a balcony railing collapsed at a Mexican hotel as her husband was taking photos during their honeymoon.

Canada minister does not see foreign deal limits hurting oil sands Posted: 18 Oct 2013 07:51 AM PDT TORONTO (Reuters) - Limits on foreign purchases in Canada's oil sands do not seem to be causing a drop in investment in the sector, Canada's Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said on Friday. Oliver, visiting China by way of South Korea, said he discussed the new rules with Chinese officials. "I had no indication from anybody that the decline had anything to do with those rules," he said on a call with reporters. "I can't preclude that possibility, but I have no indication that that's the case. ...

TransCanada investigates natural gas pipeline leak in northern Alberta Posted: 17 Oct 2013 03:58 PM PDT CALGARY - Service on a natural gas pipeline that feeds oilsands producers in northern Alberta has been mostly restored after being disrupted by a leak.

Finance, health, education all get new ministers in Manitoba cabinet shuffle Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:33 PM PDT WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger pressed the reset button on his NDP government Friday — demoting his troubled finance minister and dumping three others from cabinet.

Should governments fund gambling? Posted: 18 Oct 2013 07:19 AM PDT Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has pledged $400-million in new funding over the next five years to help preserve the horse-racing industry in Ontario after the government's decision to cancel a slot-machine revenue-sharing deal last year. Should governments be responsible for … Continue reading →

Toronto ranks second on list of cities with the best reputations Posted: 18 Oct 2013 08:40 AM PDT Torontonians might be the subjects of much loathing among Canadians who love to gripe about their rudeness — real or not — but the city just found something else to be smug about: Toronto ranked second on a list of … Continue reading →

Facebook ban requested for N.S. teen who posted "brutal" assault online Posted: 17 Oct 2013 08:01 PM PDT A Nova Scotia Crown attorney asks a judge to kick a 15-year-old girl off social media as part of her sentencing after she pleaded guilty to a ''brutal'' assault that was filmed and posted on Facebook.

Guns found in Newfoundland home of double murder-suicide culprit Posted: 18 Oct 2013 10:13 AM PDT The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says that Brian Dawe was wearing body armour and had an AK-47 assault rifle when he used a handgun to shoot two people dead in Conception Bay South earlier this week before he killed himself.

Say cheese: EU strikes trade deal with Canada, looks to U.S. Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:53 PM PDT By Robin Emmott and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union and Canada agreed a multibillion-dollar trade pact on Friday that will integrate two of the world's largest economies and pave the way for Europe to clinch an even bigger deal with the United States. The deal will make Canada the only G8 country to have preferential access to the world's two largest markets, the EU and the United States, home to a total of 800 million people. ...

Canadian court backs patient's family in life-support ruling Posted: 18 Oct 2013 08:42 AM PDT By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Ontario doctors have no right to unilaterally withdraw life support from a patient if the family objects, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday in a case that centered on a Toronto man who has been in a coma since 2010. The wife of Hassan Rasouli, a Shi'ite Muslim, had objected on religious grounds to the doctors' decision that her husband's life support should be withdrawn as it was of no medical benefit, arguing that if death can be prevented, it should be. ...

High-risk offender who fled Canada says he just wants to start over Posted: 18 Oct 2013 09:15 PM PDT SEATTLE - A convicted high-risk sex offender who eluded police in Saskatchewan and Alberta before crossing the U.S. border says he just wants to start a new life.

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