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Quebec man faces manslaughter charge in death of 5-month-old baby girl
ST-JEROME, Que. - A 24-year-old Quebec man faces charges of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death after a baby girl was found unconscious inside a home west of Montreal. Police found the ...
Feb 11, 2019
Ontario Tories attack student unions in fundraising email
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford accused student unions of getting up to “crazy Marxist nonsense” as he appealed for donations to his Progressive Conservative party in a fundraising email sent ...
Feb 11, 2019
Trial dates tentatively set for Lethbridge man accused of sexually assaulting 13-year-old
LETHBRIDGE – A 38-year-old Lethbridge man, accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, and multiple child pornography offences will stand trial early next year. At Court of Queen’s ...
Feb 11, 2019
PBS' 'Finding Your Roots' looks into political leaders' past
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., hopes this season of his popular PBS series “Finding Your Roots” helps a divided U.S. see how all Americans have unique family l...
Feb 11, 2019
Opera singer, husband appear in court on sex assault charge
HOUSTON - A renowned Michigan opera singer and his husband have appeared in a Texas court to face charges of sexually assaulting another man in 2010. University of Michigan professor and countertenor ...
Feb 11, 2019
CBC's Joe Schlesinger remembered for compassionate reporting, esteemed career
TORONTO - Longtime CBC foreign correspondent Joe Schlesinger, who spent decades covering war zones and global events that shaped history, has died after a lengthy illness. A spokesman for the public b...
Feb 11, 2019
Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet sidelined three weeks with thumb injury
Toronto Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet is expected to miss at least three weeks with a partial ligament injury to his left thumb. VanVleet will wear a splint for three weeks, the team said in a sta...
Feb 11, 2019
Appeal court upholds stiff sentence for Canadian trying to join terrorist group
TORONTO - An Ontario court has dismissed an appeal from a man convicted of trying to join a Somali-based terrorist organization, saying stiff penalties are necessary in such cases to deter similar wou...
Feb 11, 2019
Privacy commissioner finds doctors snooped in Humboldt Broncos patient records
REGINA - Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has found several people inappropriately gained access to the electronic health records of the Humboldt Broncos team members involved in a deadly bus...
Feb 11, 2019
Bezos probe concludes mistress' brother was Enquirer source
WASHINGTON - Private investigators working for Jeff Bezos have concluded that the brother of the Amazon CEO’s mistress leaked the couple’s intimate text messages to the National Enquirer, ...
Feb 11, 2019