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Feds to announce payout of up to $800M to Indigenous victims of '60s Scoop
TORONTO - The federal government has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to survivors of the ’60s Scoop for the harm suffered by Indigenous children who were robbed of their cultural i...
Oct 06, 2017
Halifax warship returns from hurricane-scarred Caribbean islands
HALIFAX - Standing on the rear deck of the Canadian warship HMCS St. John’s, Howard Shillingford shook his head as he recalled the sound hurricane Maria made when the Category 5 storm descended ...
Oct 06, 2017
Watchdog investigating Waterloo regional police after 2 die in collision
FREELTON, Ont. - Two people were killed in a southern Ontario highway collision on Thursday after a car being chased by police crashed into a transport truck. The incident in rural Hamilton is being i...
Oct 06, 2017
Quebec Superior Court rejects cabbies' demands, rules deal with Uber legal
MONTREAL - Quebec’s traditional taxi industry suffered another blow on Thursday after the province’s Superior Court rejected its demands to have Uber’s operations declared illegal an...
Oct 06, 2017
Ont. man who sexually abused daughters, nieces, deemed dangerous offender
An Ontario man who sexually abused his young daughters and nieces over close to a decade will spend an indeterminate amount of time behind bars after a judge found he was in denial about his pedophili...
Oct 06, 2017
A by the numbers look at the federal government's problem-plagued payroll system
OTTAWA - The federal government’s Phoenix payroll system left thousands of civil servants underpaid, overpaid or not paid at all after it went live in February 2016. Some of the numbers released...
Oct 06, 2017
Quebec man charged with 1st degree murder in partner's slaying southwest of Montreal
SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Que. - A Quebec man who is accused of killing his partner and wounding a provincial police officer was arraigned on five charges on Thursday, including first-degree murder. Q...
Oct 06, 2017
Purported Nova Scotia beer bandit inspires Cape Breton band to write song
SYDNEY, N.S. - A purported Cape Breton beer bandit named Terry whose alleged exploits became famous in a Facebook post last week has inspired a namesake song that has itself now gone viral. It started...
Oct 06, 2017
N.S. opens door to new energy ventures among world's highest tides in Fundy
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has opened the door to small tidal technology ventures in the Bay of Fundy, giving them broad access to test their projects amid the world’s highest tides. Energy Minister ...
Oct 06, 2017
Calgary court told brothers who raped teen 'fell through the cracks of life'
CALGARY - A defence lawyer says the world has always been pitted against two brothers with fetal alcohol syndrome who repeatedly sexually assaulted a teenage girl they randomly abducted at a bus stop....
Oct 06, 2017