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Mother calls for strict sentence in son's 2016 death in Halifax jail cell
HALIFAX - The mother of a man who died in a Halifax police jail cell in June 2016 has asked a judge to impose the "strictest penalty possible" on two special police constables found guilty of cri...
Aug 12, 2020

Innu Nation files human rights complaint over Ottawa's child protection funding
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Innu Nation has filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging the federal government spends more money removing children from their homes as opposed ...
Aug 12, 2020

Carleton ends student placements with police over failures to address racism
OTTAWA - Carleton University's criminology school says it will no longer place students to work with police forces and prisons as a show of solidarity with the movement to address ...
Aug 12, 2020

1 of 2 girls convicted in Slender Man stabbing loses appeal
MADISON, Wis. - One of two Wisconsin girls who repeatedly stabbed a classmate because she believed a fictional horror character named Slender Man would attack her family if she didn't kill the girl lo...
Aug 12, 2020

Australian oilfield buoys Total Energy Q2 report despite North American weakness
CALGARY - Shares in Total Energy Services Inc. are up after it reported a 68 per cent decline in revenue in the second quarter due to a near collapse in oilfield activity in North America but beat ana...
Aug 12, 2020

Media mogul Sumner Redstone dies at 97
Sumner Redstone, who joined his family's drive-in movie chain in the 1950s and used it to build a vast media empire that included CBS and Viacom, has died. He was 97. Under his watch, Viacom became on...
Aug 12, 2020

UK records deepest recession among top economies
LONDON - Britain has suffered the deepest recession among the world's top economies this year, shrinking by a fifth in the second quarter alone when much of the economy was mothballed as part of effor...
Aug 12, 2020

US consumer prices rose 0.6% in July, matching June uptick
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices jumped 0.6% in July as gasoline prices continued to rise. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that the increase last month in its consumer price index matched a 0...
Aug 12, 2020

Canadian men to learn 2022 CONCACAF World Cup qualifying draw on Aug. 19
Canada will learn its 2022 World Cup qualifying path next Wednesday in CONCACAF's preliminary draw. The five highest-ranked teams in the region - Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, Jamaica an...
Aug 12, 2020

Kanye West qualifies as presidential candidate in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Rapper Kanye West has qualified to appear on Arkansas' ballot this fall as an independent presidential candidate, Secretary of State John Thurston said Tuesday. Thurston told West'...
Aug 12, 2020