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Coke charge dropped as ex-Tory MP Jaffer pleads guilty to careless driving
ORANGEVILLE, Ont. - Cocaine possession and drunk driving charges against former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer were withdrawn Tuesday after the one-time anti-drug activist pleaded guilty to careless dri...
Harper Tories take post-Olympic bounce over Liberals, leaders fall flat: poll
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 peri...
N.L. health authority says test errors not reported to executives in timely way
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...
SIU identifies Fred Preston, 70, of Burk's Falls as man shot in confrontation that killed officer
LONDON, Ont. - Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has identified the man involved in a confrontation that saw an Ontario police officer shot and killed as Fred Preston, 70, of Burk's Falls. The ...
Ont. premier calls two fallen officers heroes, says they're owed gratitude
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Ontario's premier described two police officers who died in the line of duty in the province in a single week as heroes who, like each of their colleagues, is "owed our gratitude, ...
Quebec government kicks niqab-wearing woman out of class for second time
MONTREAL - A Muslim woman in Quebec is once again being asked by the Quebec government to remove her religious face covering. The Egyptian immigrant made headlines recently when provincial Immigrat...
Minorities to be majorities in two Cdn cities by 2031, Statistics Cda projects
TORONTO - The proportion of visible minorities in Canada, already one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, is set to explode in the coming decades and account for one-third of the po...
Funeral set to begin for Ontario police officer killed in crash
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Hundreds of police officers from across Canada and some from the U.S. have gathered in Mississauga, Ont., this afternoon at a funeral for a fallen colleague. Const. Artem (James...
Ex-Alberta MP Jaffer pleads guilty to careless driving, drug charge dropped
ORANGEVILLE, Ont. - Charges of cocaine possession and drunk driving against former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer were withdrawn Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to careless driving. In convicting Jaf...
Bagging ballistics for fingerprinting all part of job for bomb squad
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 l...
