B.C. government says Blackmore brought polygamy prosecution on himself
James Keller, THE CANADIAN PRESS
9 Mar, 2010 0 0
VANCOUVER, B.C. - A B.C. religious leader who has admitted to having multiple wives brought a highly publicized and ultimately unsuccessful prosecution upon himself by openly practising polygamy, says the provincial government.
In a statement of defence filed in a civil lawsuit, the province sai
Federal budget child-care tax break causes new headache for feds
Heather Scoffield, THE CANADIAN PRESS
9 Mar, 2010 0 0
OTTAWA - The federal budget's key anti-poverty measure cures one headache and causes another.
Changes to the tax treatment of the $100-a-month Universal Child Care Benefit to help single-parent families "will create new inequities," says the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, an Ottawa-based th
Harper Tories take post-Olympic bounce over Liberals, leaders fall flat: poll
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9 Mar, 2010 0 0
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests the Conservative government has restored a crack of daylight between itself and the Liberal Opposition.
The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey covering a two-week period ending Sunday puts Conservative support at 33 per cent, the Liberals at 29 and NDP at 16.
Con
N.L. health authority says test errors not reported to executives in timely way
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9 Mar, 2010 0 0
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland's largest health authority says an internal review into testing errors for cyclosporine at its biochemistry lab in St. John's shows they were not reported to executives in a timely manner.
"It is a serious breach of hospital policy," Eastern Health CEO Vickie Kami
Bagging ballistics for fingerprinting all part of job for bomb squad
Steve Rennie, THE CANADIAN PRESS
9 Mar, 2010 0 0
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - You won't see bomb squads on the big screen gently putting the makings of homemade explosives into little plastic baggies.
Come to Kandahar, however, and you just might. A lesser-known part of the bomb squad's job in southern Afghanistan is to collect evidence from any pl
Memorial service Friday will mark one year since deadly chopper crash off N.L.
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9 Mar, 2010 0 0
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A memorial service Friday for the victims of a deadly helicopter crash off Newfoundland will mark the one-year anniversary of the tragedy.
The evening ecumenical service will be held at the Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in St. John's. Seventeen of the 18 people ab
RCMP say car stolen at Halifax airport while unsuspecting owner unloads luggage
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9 Mar, 2010 0 0
HALIFAX, N.S. - A man unloading luggage from his car at the Halifax airport wound up taking an unexpected road trip when the vehicle was stolen early today.
RCMP say another man jumped in the parked car and sped off toward Halifax. Cpl. Joe Taplin says it's believed the thief had just arrived at
Three-quarters of Canadian employers expect payrolls to remain stable
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9 Mar, 2010 0 0
TORONTO - A recent survey of more than 1,900 Canadian employers found that 17 per expect to see higher payrolls in the second quarter of 2010.
That compares with six per cent of respondents who anticipate a smaller workforce and about three-quarters who expect to stay the course. The survey was
Jury to resume deliberations Tuesday in Nunavut Mountie murder trial
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IQALUIT, Nunavut - An 11-member jury was expected to resume deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of a Nunavut man charged with first-degree murder for the slaying of a Mountie in a tiny Arctic community on Nov. 5, 2007.
The five women and six men did not reach a verdict after deliberating for o
Wife of fallen officer speaks emotionally at funeral, calls him her 'hero'
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The wife of a Toronto-area police officer who died following a car collision while on duty gave him an emotional goodbye Tuesday, calling him her hero.
Erin Ochakovsky described her husband, Peel region Const. Artem (James) Ochakovsky, as a loving husband and father and said
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