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• Daniel Dale takes legal action against Rob Ford
• Vancouver Police find body in 'suspicious' Fraserview death
• Canada Post stops selling permanent stamps
• Is the media distracted by the Senate scandal?
• CRTC to probe wholesale rates for cellphone roaming
• Manitoba’s small communities push back against force amalgamation plans
• Guelph U student who broadcast suicide attempt charged by police
• Liberals and Conservatives battle for year-end donations
• BoC's Poloz says low interest rates needed to keep deflation at bay
• Lenore Zann, L Word actor turned MLA, alleges cyberbullying
• Iceland has heated sidewalks, why not Edmonton?
• 'Quebec is already independent in its mind,' PQ minister says
• Toronto Coun. Doug Ford denies buying votes with $20 bills he gave to constituents
• Engine fire on an Air Canada Jazz plane forces emergency landing
• Two 'Diefenbabies?' Ex-PM John Diefenbaker sired two boys, families believe
• Furlong says RCMP letter exonerates him in abuse case
• Naughty or nice? Rob Ford attacks Toronto reporter on U.S. sports radio
• Crown ends case against priest in Arctic sex abuse case
• Air Canada plane lands safely after engine fire

Daniel Dale takes legal action against Rob Ford Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:42 PM PST Toronto Star city hall reporter Daniel Dale has taken the first step toward suing Mayor Rob Ford over comments he made in a televised interview with Conrad Black. Dale claims the mayor implied he was a pedophile.

Vancouver Police find body in 'suspicious' Fraserview death Posted: 12 Dec 2013 08:47 PM PST Vancouver Police are investigating a 'suspicious' body found in the 2400 block of Ancaster Crescent near Fraserview Golf Course.

Canada Post stops selling permanent stamps Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:09 AM PST Canada Post has suspended its sale of permanent stamps, in advance of hiking the cost to send letter mail.

Is the media distracted by the Senate scandal? Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:01 PM PST 'It's the media that is distracted by the Senate scandal.' That seems to be the position, at least, of Conservative house leader Peter Van Loan who addressed reporters on Thursday about his government's accomplishments in the fall session of Parliament. Continue reading →

CRTC to probe wholesale rates for cellphone roaming Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:29 PM PST The federal regulator is looking at wholesale rates Canadian companies charge for roaming in its ongoing investigation into why Canadian roaming rates are so high.

Manitoba’s small communities push back against force amalgamation plans Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:14 PM PST The hollowing out of many of Canada's small towns, especially on the Prairies, is forcing some difficult choices. Once vibrant communities have seen their populations shrink as people migrate to large cities in search of jobs and better services. Towns … Continue reading →

Guelph U student who broadcast suicide attempt charged by police Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:54 PM PST Suicide is not a crime in Canada, nor is attempting it, though it will earn someone a psychiatric assessment. But potentially putting others in danger and damaging property in a suicide bid will get the police's attention. That's why police … Continue reading →

Liberals and Conservatives battle for year-end donations Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:53 PM PST There's a political battle brewing in Ottawa as we wind down the year. Both Conservative and Liberal party headquarters are trying one-up each other for fundraising bragging rights in the final quarter of 2013. The Liberals are trying to raise … Continue reading →

BoC's Poloz says low interest rates needed to keep deflation at bay Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:16 AM PST OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says he needs to keep interest rates at historically low levels to head off the risk of a deflationary trap that would have dire consequences for the Canadian economy. The central banker told a business audience at the Canadian Club in Montreal on Thursday that it may take a couple of years before inflation returns to the two-per-cent target, which he called "sacrosanct." In fact, Poloz's speech suggests he could be cutting rates right now if he was not fearful of adding more fuel to an already overheated housing market and near record-high levels of household debt. "Our current monetary policy weighs this risk against the risk of inflation falling even further below target," he said.

Lenore Zann, L Word actor turned MLA, alleges cyberbullying Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:37 PM PST Lenore Zann, a Nova Scotia member of the legislature, has complained to the provincial cyberbullying unit after a high school student tweeted a topless image of her from her acting days, but the teen behind the tweet says he thinks the whole issue has been blown out of proportion.

Iceland has heated sidewalks, why not Edmonton? Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:33 AM PST Should Edmonton be looking at heating downtown sidewalks and streets to clear them of ice and snow in the winter?

'Quebec is already independent in its mind,' PQ minister says Posted: 12 Dec 2013 08:17 AM PST There's a prevailing belief out there — outside of Quebec — that the sovereignty debate is dead or at least on hold. Maybe someone should tell that to the governing Parti Quebecois. Last weekend a Leger poll suggested that support … Continue reading →

Toronto Coun. Doug Ford denies buying votes with $20 bills he gave to constituents Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:22 PM PST The controversial brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been accused of buying votes after he was caught handing out a stack of $20 bills to residents of an Etobicoke public housing building. CBC News recorded Coun. Doug Ford who, … Continue reading →

Engine fire on an Air Canada Jazz plane forces emergency landing Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:57 PM PST NANAIMO, B.C. - Crew members aboard an Air Canada Express turboprop aircraft managed to put out an engine fire before returning to an airport on central Vancouver Island Thursday morning, says a Transportation Safety Board investigator. Glen Friesen, the TSB's acting regional manager, said passengers saw flames in the plane's No. 2 engine at about 7:30 a.m., shortly after the Dash 8-300 took off from the Nanaimo Airport. Russ Burke, chairman of the Nanaimo Airport Commission, said emergency crews surrounded the plane quickly. "All the passengers deplaned out on the runway, and emergency crews from both the airport and the... local fire departments and RCMP all responded," he said.

Two 'Diefenbabies?' Ex-PM John Diefenbaker sired two boys, families believe Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:06 AM PST TORONTO - Twice-married former Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker — always believed to have been childless — may have fathered not one but two sons, leaving progeny scattered across the country, The Canadian Press has learned. About 10 years ago, in Western Canada, the three Goertzen siblings began searching for their biological father, Ed Thorne, who had split from their mom four decades earlier. Stan Goertzen, 52, a retired 32-year member of the Saskatoon police service, found Thorne in Kamloops, B.C. He made a startling discovery. "He says, 'Oh, and my biological family has found me, too'," Goertzen said of Thorne, who died soon after.

Furlong says RCMP letter exonerates him in abuse case Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:26 PM PST VANCOUVER - Former Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong says the RCMP have closed an investigation into allegations of sexual assault against him by a former student and found no evidence to support criminal charges, prompting him to declare he's been "fully cleared" in one of a series of allegations and lawsuits facing him. The allegations stem from Furlong's time teaching in northern B.C. in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which first surfaced in a newspaper article last year. Three people, including Beverly Abraham, have filed lawsuits against Furlong alleging sexual abuse, and the RCMP launched its own investigation into Abraham's claims. Furlong publicly released a letter Thursday written by an RCMP investigator in Prince George, under the heading: "John Furlong — allegation of sexual assault."

Naughty or nice? Rob Ford attacks Toronto reporter on U.S. sports radio Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:21 AM PST Toronto Mayor Rob Ford does not want to call a holiday truce with Toronto media, despite the potential legal ramifications he could face after alluding to one reporter as a pedophile. In fact, he repeated those allegations on a U.S. … Continue reading →

Crown ends case against priest in Arctic sex abuse case Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:43 PM PST IQALUIT, Nunavut - Crown prosecutors have wrapped up their case against a former northern priest facing dozens of charges of sex abuse against Inuit children.

Air Canada plane lands safely after engine fire Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:14 PM PST An Air Canada Jazz turboprop plane bound for Vancouver was forced to make an emergency landing in the Pacific Coast province of British Columbia on Thursday after a fire broke out in one of its engines. Shortly after the Jazz Dash 8-300 aircraft took off from the city of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, the crew was notified of an engine oil issue and flames were seen near one of the engines, Air Canada Jazz said in an emailed statement. Chorus Aviation Inc operates about 120 aircraft for Air Canada, the country's largest airline, under the Jazz Aviation brand. Air Canada's regional affiliate has 27 of the Bombardier-built Jazz Dash 8-300 planes in its fleet, which use two Pratt and Whitney (PW123) turboprop engines.

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