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• Severe Attawapiskat conditions worsened by fire emergency, evacuation
• Football fans of all stripes descend on Regina for 101st Grey Cup
• Murder victim's mom opposes new trial for convicted killer
• Can Justin Trudeau continue his winning ways on byelection Monday?
• Canada 'deeply skeptical' about historic deal with Iran: Baird
• Harper approved plan to compel Duffy to repay expenses: PMO
• Authorities monitor Jewish sect under investigation for alleged child neglect
• What the Wright-Duffy documents reveal about key players in scandal
• Former Canadian arms negotiator blasts Ottawa's cluster bomb bill
• Saturday Night Live takes another kick at the Rob Ford can
• First Nations exposed to pollutants in Ontario's 'chemical valley'
• Calgary strep victim's mother 'will be held accountable,' say police
• Harper’s Brandon letter, the demon weed and Justin Trudeau
• David Suzuki beset by doubts and doubters in final stretch
• 'Are we going to be home soon?' Saskatoon couple can't bring adopted son to Canada
• Why seniors shouldn’t get discounts
• Legal pot in U.S. could cause problems for Canadian travellers, experts warn
• Flaherty to opposition: Send only no-cost, no tax ideas on budget

Severe Attawapiskat conditions worsened by fire emergency, evacuation Posted: 24 Nov 2013 12:17 PM PST About 70 residents from the Attawapiskat First Nation should be ensconced in Kapuskasing hotel rooms by now. The evacuees were flown nearly 400 kilometres south on Saturday, after fire destroyed the former mining-camp trailers that served as their temporary homes. … Continue reading →

Football fans of all stripes descend on Regina for 101st Grey Cup Posted: 24 Nov 2013 10:07 PM PST REGINA - Fans of the Saskatchewan Roughriders football club were hugging each other and high-fiving strangers in downtown Regina after the team won the Grey Cup on Sunday. The championship was held at Mosaic Stadium, the Roughriders' home. It was the first time the Riders played in the Grey Cup at home. More than 44,000 football fans, most decked out in green and white, descended on Mosaic Stadium to see the game in person.

Murder victim's mom opposes new trial for convicted killer Posted: 24 Nov 2013 08:18 PM PST The mother of murdered Winnipeg teen Candace Derksen hopes the Supreme Court of Canada will help provide her with the closure she needs.

Can Justin Trudeau continue his winning ways on byelection Monday? Posted: 23 Nov 2013 10:38 PM PST Monday is byelection day in Canada: voters in four ridings head to the polls to elect new members of Parliament. If the opinion polls are any indications, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's impressive winning streak will continue. Continue reading →

Canada 'deeply skeptical' about historic deal with Iran: Baird Posted: 24 Nov 2013 10:40 AM PST You can count Canada on the list of countries that are not convinced about the efficacy of this weekend's historic nuclear deal in the middle east. Early Sunday, the so-called P5 (the United States, Russia, China, Germany, France and the … Continue reading →

Harper approved plan to compel Duffy to repay expenses: PMO Posted: 24 Nov 2013 03:31 PM PST OTTAWA - What exactly went down on Feb. 22, 2013, when the prime minister's chief of staff approached him about how to deal with the Mike Duffy Senate expenses headache? A) Nigel Wright meets with Harper and conceals the details of an agreement with Duffy, but then tells other staff in the Prime Minister's Office that the PM has approved the deal. Stephen Harper's spokesman Jason MacDonald spoke to a variety of media outlets on Sunday to lay out in detail Harper's account, in the wake of a release of an RCMP affidavit on the affair. MacDonald said when Wright and Harper met that day, Wright sought approval to "compel" a stubborn Duffy to repay his contested housing expenses — at that time estimated at only $32,000.

Authorities monitor Jewish sect under investigation for alleged child neglect Posted: 24 Nov 2013 03:04 PM PST Authorities were planning a Monday meeting to address the case of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that abruptly left Quebec for Ontario last week. Members of the group, known as the Lev Tahor, are under investigation by social services in Quebec for alleged child neglect. Denis Baraby, director of youth protection for Quebec's Laurentians region, says there are concerns about the health and education of the children and the hearings were to ensure child services had regular access to the families. The children were home schooled and "not even capable of doing basic math."

What the Wright-Duffy documents reveal about key players in scandal Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:12 PM PST New documents are providing fresh insights into behaviour of a high-powered cast of characters

Former Canadian arms negotiator blasts Ottawa's cluster bomb bill Posted: 24 Nov 2013 12:33 PM PST OTTAWA - Canada's former chief negotiator of the Convention on Cluster Munitions says the Harper government is betraying the trust of other countries by inserting a controversial clause in the treaty's ratification bill. Earl Turcotte, who quit the federal public service in protest over the issue, levels the allegation in a written submission to the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, which is holding hearings on the bill. Bill C-6 faces widespread international condemnation, including from the normally neutral International Committee of the Red Cross, because of a clause that would allow the Canadian Forces to be involved in the use of cluster bombs in joint operations with non-treaty signatories such as the United States. Turcotte says he gave assurances to Canada's international partners during the negotiations that it would not use a section of the treaty that allows interoperability with non-party states as a "loophole" to use cluster bombs.

Saturday Night Live takes another kick at the Rob Ford can Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:34 AM PST NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. - Saturday Night Live couldn`t resist a few more Rob Ford punchlines. During last night`s Weekend Update segment fake news anchor Cecily Strong had fun with the Toronto mayor`s recent admission to City Hall reporters that he had smoked crack. She noted Ford said that he would`ve admitted to smoking crack sooner if they`d asked him 'Have you smoked crack?' rather than 'Do you smoke crack?' — "And much sooner if anyone had simply asked, 'Would you like some crack?'" She said "During a Toronto city council meeting in which members stripped Rob Ford of most of his powers, the controversial mayor charged the gallery and ran over a female council member — before he was finally brought down by the third dart."

First Nations exposed to pollutants in Ontario's 'chemical valley' Posted: 24 Nov 2013 08:50 AM PST Members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation living on a reserve near Sarnia, Ont., have long suspected harmful chemicals were behind an unusually low male birth rate and slew of other reported health issues. Now, tests performed by a McGill University professor suggest mothers and children are being exposed to higher-than-average levels of harmful hormone-blocking pollutants. While the study doesn't prove that the pollutants are to blame for earlier research that found baby girls outnumbered boys by a two-to-one ratio in the community, it does suggest a possible link. The reserve at the centre of the study is located near a patch of southern Ontario that some environmental activists call "chemical valley."

Calgary strep victim's mother 'will be held accountable,' say police Posted: 24 Nov 2013 11:55 AM PST Calgary police have charged Tamara Sophia Lovett with negligence and failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of her 7-year-old son, who they allege died after she tried to treat his strep infection with holistic remedies.

Harper’s Brandon letter, the demon weed and Justin Trudeau Posted: 24 Nov 2013 01:41 PM PST This is extraordinary: a letter from a sitting prime minister to voters on the eve of a by-election.

David Suzuki beset by doubts and doubters in final stretch Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST In his final stretch, the world's most famous environmentalist is beset by doubts and doubters

'Are we going to be home soon?' Saskatoon couple can't bring adopted son to Canada Posted: 24 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Waheeda Afridi was proud when she became a Canadian citizen nearly a decade ago, but now feels only anger and frustration over a bureaucracy that she says has abandoned her and her adopted son overseas. The Saskatoon woman and her husband, unable to have children of their own, became guardians of her nephew in Pakistan shortly after he was born there in 2010. But the family has been unable to bring the boy to Canada. Caught in the middle of changing and confusing Canadian rules around the adoption of Pakistani children, Afridi hasn't been back to Saskatoon since she and her husband first went to Pakistan to get the child three years ago.

Why seniors shouldn’t get discounts Posted: 24 Nov 2013 01:52 PM PST Seniors today are among the richest, most comfortable people in the country. (That's why.)

Legal pot in U.S. could cause problems for Canadian travellers, experts warn Posted: 24 Nov 2013 09:15 AM PST VANCOUVER - Todd Spaits believes his home state of Washington could one day be the Amsterdam of the United States, with everyone from die-hard pot heads to the curious but uninitiated visiting for the novelty of legally buying and smoking marijuana. When pot sales begin next year in Washington, where citizens voted in 2012 to legalize marijuana, anyone 21 years or older will be able to purchase and possess an ounce of pot, whether they're residents of the state or have come from farther afield. But legal experts warn anyone heading into the United States planning to indulge in legal marijuana could run into problems if they disclose those plans at the border, with customs officers who enforce federal, not state, laws able to use information about travellers' pot smoking habits to turn them away or even bar them from entering indefinitely. "It is illegal at the border, because the border is run by the federal government and the federal government still considers it a controlled substance," says American immigration lawyer Len Saunders, who is based in Blaine, Wash.

Flaherty to opposition: Send only no-cost, no tax ideas on budget Posted: 24 Nov 2013 06:04 PM PST OTTAWA - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is once again asking opposition parties for their best ideas on the upcoming federal budget, but only if they cost the government little or no money, or don't involve raising taxes. Flaherty's traditional pre-budget letter to the opposition was issued Sunday, and like last year's missive, it makes clear that only "low to no-cost ideas to grow the economy" will be considered. Flaherty has made it a point of personal pride to eliminate the deficit — now at $17.9 billion annualized —in the 2015 budget cycle, a goal analysts say he will easily achieve barring an unexpected and sharp economic reversal. The date, an election year, has important political implications because it would allow Prime Minister Stephen Harper to campaign on some costly promises he made in 2011, to be implemented only once the books were in the black.

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