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Montreal area home sales hit eight-year high for September, rising six per cent
MONTREAL - The real estate market in Greater Montreal matched September’s heat wave with sales reaching an eight-year high for the month. The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says 2,893 reside...
Oct 06, 2017
Cape Breton man posts unsettling image of brother before he succumbs to overdose
HALIFAX - The stark image shows a 50-year-old man with short, dark hair motionless in a hospital bed, eyes closed and a plastic breathing tube extending from his mouth. He could be sleeping, or in a c...
Oct 06, 2017
Six stories in the news for today, Oct. 5
Six stories in the news for Thursday, Oct. 5 --- STUDY: WATCHING HOCKEY CAN BE HARD ON THE HEART A new study suggests the excitement of watching one’s favourite hockey team, either live or on TV...
Oct 06, 2017
Ontario to tackle ticket scalper bots, home warranties, real estate rules
TORONTO - Ontario is seeking to strengthen consumer protection rules around home warranties, ticket sales, real estate practices, and travel services in an omnibus bill introduced Thursday. Changes to...
Oct 06, 2017
Technology companies clash on cross-border flow of digital data under NAFTA
OTTAWA - Some Canadian information technology companies are pushing back at warnings that the personal information of Canadians is being compromised in the renegotiation of the North American Free Tra...
Oct 06, 2017
Canadian shot in head at Vegas concert begins long trip home
LAS VEGAS - Braden Matejka, a Canadian who was shot in the head in the weekend attack on a country music festival, left Las Vegas Wednesday on a 22-hour road trip back home. Matejka, a heavy duty mech...
Oct 06, 2017
Calgary opens up drive-thru voting booth for its municipal election
CALGARY - That’ll be one mayor and two aldermen, but sorry, no fries with that. Less than two weeks before Calgary’s municipal election, the city has opened up a drive-thru voting booth at...
Oct 06, 2017
Female prisoners escape prison, recaptured in downtown escape room
EDMONTON - Looking for escaped convicts? Try an escape room. That was the scenario earlier this week when two female prisoners jumped a fence and went on the lam from the Edmonton Institution for Wome...
Oct 06, 2017
Children's representative calls for youth mental health system in B.C.
VICTORIA - A 17-year-old boy who took his own life on the grounds of a children’s hospital in Vancouver didn’t get the mental health treatment he needed from the time he was two years old,...
Oct 06, 2017
Business applauds Alberta consideration of private cannabis retailing option
CALGARY - Business leaders are welcoming Alberta’s decision to not decide yet whether recreational cannabis will be sold through private or government owned retail shops when it becomes legal ne...
Oct 06, 2017