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Friday, January 23, 2015

Yahoo! News Canada - Canada Headlines


'Why hurt everyone?' Union challenges CBC mandate to end paid speaking gigs

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 12:16 PM PST

TSX down 2.4%With its credibility under attack, the CBC clearly felt strong measures were necessary. But have they gone too far?


No winning tickets sold for Friday night's $21 million Lotto Max jackpot

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:38 PM PST

TORONTO - No winning tickets were sold for the $21 million dollar jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw.

Edmonton man extradited, faces terrorism and murder charges in New York

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:28 PM PST

The U.S. Attorney's office for the eastern district of New York says an Edmonton man has been extradited and will face terrorism and murder charges. According to the office's website, Sayfildin Tahir Sharif — who also goes by Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa — will face the charges Saturday in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn. The complaint alleges Sharif worked from Edmonton to help a Tunisian man enter Mosul, Iraq, in 2009 and detonate a truck filled with explosives at a military checkpoint, killing five U.S. soldiers.

Canadian accused in Iraq bombing extradited to the U.S.

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 04:35 PM PST

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian man has been extradited to the United States to face federal terrorism charges that he helped orchestrate the April 2009 truck bombing of a U.S. base in Mosul, Iraq, that killed five soldiers, U.S. authorities announced on Friday. Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, 36, is expected to make his initial court appearance in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday to answer charges of murder, conspiring to kill Americans abroad and providing material support to terrorists. Prosecutors accused Isa of working with a militant network that conducted multiple suicide bombings against U.S. military personnel in Iraq, including a truck bombing on April 10, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Marez.

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