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• Get ready to spring forward: Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday morning
• Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people, including 2 Cdns
• Car collides with semi on Perimeter Highway
• Ex-Mountie charged in eight cases of sexual assault against B.C. minors
• Former Conservative public safety minister Vic Toews named to Manitoba court
• Outcry ensues as committee nixes inquiry into missing Aboriginal women
• Top court rules man who sabotaged condom was guilty of sexual assault
• Transgender woman's jail treatment prompts complaints
• U.S. general’s comment further clouds viability of F-35 fighter for the RCAF
• Canada orders railways to boost grain shipments to ease logjam
• Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois plays down job losses in Quebec
• Canada undoing years of progress by abruptly expelling soldiers, Russian official says
• Newspaper apologizes for cartoon comparing Harper gov't to Nazis
• Air Canada may hike fares, fees due to low dollar
• Owner of nearly 180-year-old hockey stick puts historic artifact up for sale
• Elderly dementia patient slips hospital, takes cab 80 km
• Teenaged Tim Hortons employees help rescue service dog
• Video captures chaos following York University student shooting
• PQ push for majority government expected to play out in limited areas of Quebec
• Canadian guilty of sexual assault after piercing condoms

Get ready to spring forward: Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday morning Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:08 PM PST Here we go again. It's time to suffer through weeks of adjusting our circadian rhythms just for an 'extra' hour of daylight for the next nine months. Daylight Saving Time for 2014 starts at 2 a.m. local time, on Sunday, … Continue reading →

Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people, including 2 Cdns Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:47 PM PST KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people — including two Canadians — lost contact over the South China Sea early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later. Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said at a news conference that Flight MH370 lost contact with Malaysian air traffic control at 2:40 a.m. (18:40 GMT Friday), about two hours after it had taken off from Kuala Lumpur.

Car collides with semi on Perimeter Highway Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:40 PM PST A female driver and a child are in a Winnipeg hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the car they were in collided with a semi-trailer on the Perimeter Highway southwest of the city on Friday night.

Ex-Mountie charged in eight cases of sexual assault against B.C. minors Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:21 PM PST A former Mountie who spent 14 years policing Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia has been arrested and charged in eight historical cases of sexual assaults against minors. Alan John Davidson, 58, was arrested in Calgary on Thursday and charged with … Continue reading →

Former Conservative public safety minister Vic Toews named to Manitoba court Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:26 PM PST OTTAWA - Vic Toews, whose time as one of Stephen Harper's tough-on-crime cabinet lieutenants earned him a reputation as a bare-knuckled partisan fighter, has been named to the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench. Long touted for a judicial appointment, Toews was formerly a Manitoba Conservative cabinet minister when he ran and won federally in the riding of Provencher in 2000 as a Canadian Alliance candidate. But it was during his tenure in cabinet — Prime Minister Stephen Harper made him justice minister in 2006, president of the Treasury Board the following year and public safety minister in 2010 — where Toews earned his notoriety. "Vic Toews is a symbol of everything that's wrong with this government's attitude towards ethics," said NDP critic Charlie Angus, who described the appointment as "really questionable."

Outcry ensues as committee nixes inquiry into missing Aboriginal women Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:04 AM PST A highly anticipated all-party Parliamentary committee report has raised the ire of opposition parties and First Nations groups across the country. The report on curbing rates of violence against Aboriginal women released Friday makes 16 recommendations.

Top court rules man who sabotaged condom was guilty of sexual assault Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:50 AM PST The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it is not OK to punch holes in condoms to intentionally get your girlfriend pregnant so she doesn't leave you when she realizes what a moron you are. That is … Continue reading →

Transgender woman's jail treatment prompts complaints Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:42 PM PST A transgender woman arrested in Cornwall last month was housed with men at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre before being transferred to the women's section, according to a group that advocates for women in the justice system.

U.S. general’s comment further clouds viability of F-35 fighter for the RCAF Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:39 PM PST The suitability of the controversial F-35 jet fighter as a replacement for the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18s is getting even murkier, if that's possible. The fighter-replacement program has been thrown into limbo already over cost issues and development … Continue reading →

Canada orders railways to boost grain shipments to ease logjam Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:59 PM PST By Rod Nickel and David Ljunggren WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government took the drastic step on Friday of forcing the country's two major rail companies to each ship at least 500,000 tons of grain per week to ease a massive backlog that is hurting farmers. Record crops of wheat and canola, along with frigid weather, have overwhelmed Canadian National Railway Co and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd , resulting in overdue orders for tens of thousands of grain cars. "Farmers are becoming increasingly frustrated by the continued poor performance of the railways. The railways dropped the ball.

Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois plays down job losses in Quebec Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:52 PM PST MONTREAL - Pauline Marois juggled sovereignty and the economy Friday as she reacted to major job losses in the province and a decision to allow Enbridge to boost the capacity of an Ontario-Montreal pipeline. While she played down the loss of 25,000 jobs in Quebec last month, the Parti Quebecois leader said sovereignty would help the province in dealing with situations such as the pipeline. The National Energy Board has required Enbridge to ensure the project is "safe and environmentally sensitive." "If we were independent, we could decide what Enbridge has to do with this project."

Canada undoing years of progress by abruptly expelling soldiers, Russian official says Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:49 AM PST Ottawa's decision to boot a handful of Russian soldiers out of Canada over their country's actions in Ukraine isn't going over well in Moscow. CTV News reported the government informed nine Russian military personnel who were in Canada on training … Continue reading →

Newspaper apologizes for cartoon comparing Harper gov't to Nazis Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:57 AM PST A community newspaper in Nova Scotia has issued an apology for publishing an editorial cartoon, this week, which included a Nazi flag flying over Parliament Hill. @Dakneez @cr8tiveCandy pic.twitter.com/TOlYTCefBM — Tyler Cameron (@tylercameron) March 6, 2014 After national media attention … Continue reading →

Air Canada may hike fares, fees due to low dollar Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:56 PM PST Air Canada is considering new fees and fare increases to make up for a weaker Canadian dollar, Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu has told Bloomberg news service.

Owner of nearly 180-year-old hockey stick puts historic artifact up for sale Posted: 06 Mar 2014 02:20 PM PST BERWICK, N.S. - The owner of a sports artifact purported to be the world's oldest hockey stick is putting the item up for sale. Mark Presley of Berwick, N.S., bought the nearly 180-year-old stick in 2008 from a retired barber in North Sydney, who had displayed it in his shop for over 30 years. Presley paid $1,000 for it but will be looking for much more than that when the 10-day selling window closes next week. The monetary value of the stick is unknown as Presley has not had it formally appraised.

Elderly dementia patient slips hospital, takes cab 80 km Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:07 PM PST A New Brunswick family is angry that an elderly relative with dementia was able to slip out of a Fredericton hospital Tuesday afternoon and take a taxi to his stepdaughter's home 80 kilometres away.

Teenaged Tim Hortons employees help rescue service dog Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:28 AM PST Thanks to two fast-acting teenagers, Monty the service dog is back on the job. His owner, Sue Anderson, shared the story with CTV Ottawa. "There's so many stories you hear about bad choices teenagers make," Anderson said, "that you don't … Continue reading →

Video captures chaos following York University student shooting Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:22 AM PST A graphic video shot in the wake of a deadly shooting inside Toronto's York University captured the chaos that followed an apparently random act of violence. Two women were rushed to hospital late Thursday after gunfire struck one and injured … Continue reading →

PQ push for majority government expected to play out in limited areas of Quebec Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:41 PM PST MONTREAL - The key to a Parti Quebecois majority government could lie in 10 per cent of Quebec's ridings where the party lost electoral nail-biters just 18 months ago. An analysis by The Canadian Press reveals that Premier Pauline Marois's minority PQ fell short in 13 of the province's 125 electoral districts by fewer than five percentage points in September 2012. These near-miss ridings are scattered across southern Quebec, with six concentrated on the edges of Montreal and one within city limits. Among the others, one is found in the western Quebec area of Outaouais and another near Quebec City, while the province's southeastern corner and its central Mauricie region each have two.

Canadian guilty of sexual assault after piercing condoms Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:14 AM PST By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday upheld the sexual assault conviction of a Nova Scotia man for poking holes in his condoms before having consensual sex with his girlfriend in order to try to make her pregnant. Craig Jaret Hutchinson's girlfriend, whose name the court has protected, said she had agreed to sex as long as it was with a condom so that she would not get pregnant. The country's top court held 7-0 that while she may have consented to sex, she had not consented to unprotected sex, and that by poking holes in the condoms first, he had committed sexual assault. "We conclude that there was no consent in this case by reason of fraud... Mr Hutchinson is therefore guilty of sexual assault," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote in arguments joined by two other justices.

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