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Equifax revises down to 8,000 number of Canadians affected in data breach
Equifax Inc. said Monday that it has revised down the number of Canadians affected by its high-profile data breach and now puts the number at about 8,000 customers. The company previously estimated th...
Oct 02, 2017
Halifax urged to tread carefully on 'complex' re-think of Cornwallis
Halifax council will embark on the delicate task of choosing the people who will rethink how the city honours its founder, a difficult process that will attempt to disentangle Edward Cornwallis’...
Oct 02, 2017
Yukon judge says former Speaker not guilty of sexual assault and assault
WHITEHORSE - Former Speaker of the Yukon legislative assembly David Laxton has been found not guilty of both sexual assault and assault. Territorial Court Judge John Faulkner says in a written ruling ...
Oct 02, 2017

The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Monday, Oct. 2 --- TWO CANADIANS AMONG DEAD IN VEGAS: Two Canadians were among dozens of people killed in Las Vegas when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of thousands ...
Oct 02, 2017
CBS fires lawyer for social media comment on Las Vegas
NEW YORK - CBS has fired a corporate lawyer who said on social media about the Las Vegas mass shooting that she wasn’t sympathetic because “country music fans often are Republican gun-tote...
Oct 02, 2017
Nobel literature prize: Honoring the elusive 'ideal'
STOCKHOLM - When Alfred Nobel established the literature prize in his name, he perhaps could have benefited from an editor. The terms of his will leave the prize’s exact intentions tantalizingly...
Oct 02, 2017

Refunds in limbo after Lil Wayne skips concert
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The refunds promised to fans of rapper Lil Wayne after he refused to pass through a security check to enter a South Carolina arena and skipped the concert have been thrown into questi...
Oct 02, 2017
Las Vegas attack is deadliest shooting in modern US history
At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 wounded when a gunman opened fire on an outdoor music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Authorities ha...
Oct 02, 2017
Man who killed NFL star's son taking case to high court
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The case of a man serving life in prison for killing the 2-year-old son of NFL running back Adrian Peterson in South Dakota is going before the state Supreme Court. Joseph Patterso...
Oct 02, 2017

Trump sticks to sombre script, refuses to join guns debate
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump stuck to a sombre script Monday after at least 59 people were shot dead in Las Vegas, condemning the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history as an “act o...
Oct 02, 2017