Former aboriginal leader who called Jews a disease dead at 76
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SHELLBROOK, Sask. - David Ahenakew, a former Saskatchewan aboriginal leader who was stripped of the Order of Canada for calling Jews a "disease", has died in hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 76.
Lawrence Joseph, chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, said Ahenake
Crews gain upper hand on natural gas well blowout and fire in northwestern Alta
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12 Mar, 2010 0 0
HYTHE, Alta. - A blowout and fire that erupted at a natural gas well in northwestern Alberta Feb. 24 have been capped.
Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board says in a release that crews have regained control of the well after working for several days to stem the flow of gas from the site
Greyhound Canada investigates after passengers left on side of highway
Steve Lambert, THE CANADIAN PRESS
12 Mar, 2010 0 0
WINNIPEG - Greyhound Canada apologized Friday after more than a dozen passengers were left on the side of a northern Manitoba highway in near-freezing weather.
The apology did little to soothe aboriginal leaders, however, who demanded an investigation.
"There used to be a time when we were as
No sympathy for Guergis 'hissy fits': Tory matriarch Deborah Grey
Jennifer Ditchburn, THE CANADIAN PRESS
12 Mar, 2010 0 0
OTTAWA - If beleaguered Conservative minister Helena Guergis was hoping for sympathy from her political sisters, former party matriarch Deborah Grey was fresh out.
Guergis, minister of state for the status of women, was a no-show Friday at a panel on women in politics at the Manning Centre's ann
Calgary police officer won't be charged for shooting suspect at car wash
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12 Mar, 2010 0 0
CALGARY - The head of an agency that investigates police says a veteran Calgary officer will not be charged in the shooting death nearly a year ago of a suspect at a car wash.
Travis Douglas Oakes was under surveillance for an ongoing investigation involving auto theft.
When police tried to a
Northern judge sentences Mountie murderer to 'living death'
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12 Mar, 2010 0 0
IQALUIT, Nunavut - A Nunavut man convicted of killing an RCMP officer didn't utter a single word as a judge sentenced him to "a living death."
Justice Robert Kilpatrick told a packed courtroom Friday that he had no option but to send Ping Kolola, a 39-year-old father of six, to prison for life w
Quebec soccer coach pleads guilty to 26 sex-related charges involving children
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12 Mar, 2010 0 0
LONGUEUIL, Que. - A soccer coach near Montreal has pleaded guilty to 26 sexual-assault charges on 13 young male players.
Thierry Massimo, who is in his early 40s, entered the pleas in a courtroom in Longueuil Friday.
The charges involve luring children on the Internet and having them engage i
Man appears in court on two Ontario killings
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BELLEVILLE, Ont. - An 18-year-old suspect is due to appear in an eastern Ontario court today in connection with the slayings of a mother and her daughter.
Police say the teen faces first-degree murder charges.
Police found the bodies of Tracy Hannah, 46, and her 14-year-old daughter Whitney a
Adil Charkaoui says civil suit against govt is about restoring reputation
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MONTREAL - A simple "sorry" and an offer to pay his legal fees might have sufficed, but Adil Charkaoui said he didn't even get that courtesy from the federal government.
So the Moroccan-born Montrealer who was accused by Ottawa of being a terrorist and who spent several years living under tight
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