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Sudden spike in prison violence 'a problem right across the country'
HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, i...
Dec 12, 2016
Parliamentary budget office digging into Super Hornet fighter jet costs
OTTAWA - Six years after ripping into the Conservative government’s cost estimates for F-35 stealth fighters, Parliament’s budgetary watchdog says it is digging into the “interimR...
Dec 12, 2016
Feds ease rules on supervised drug injection sites, mail inspections at border
OTTAWA - The federal government is adopting a public-health approach to its drug control strategy, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Monday as she unveiled proposed new measures that would open the d...
Dec 12, 2016
Four stories in the news today, Dec. 12
Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 12 --- NEW STUDY SAYS DAYCARE COSTS FAR OUTPACING INFLATION The cost of child care fees in some of Canada’s major cities has skyrocketed over the past t...
Dec 12, 2016
Pre-winter storms move eastward across the country
TORONTO - The official start of winter may still be a week and half away, but The Great White North is already living up to its namesake. Snow began falling in southern Ontario Sunday night and contin...
Dec 12, 2016
Son asks convicted killer: 'Travis Vader, where are the bodies of my parents?'
EDMONTON - Married for 57 years, they were kindred spirits and called each other darling. Lyle McCann, 78, was known for his patience, a retired long-haul trucker who liked to play cribbage and watch ...
Dec 12, 2016
Girl who was subject of Amber Alert found safe in Hamilton, mother charged
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Police say a nine-year-old Ontario girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and her mother has been arrested. Niagara regional police say they found Layla S...
Dec 12, 2016
Suspect in Egypt chapel bombing had 2014 run-in with police
CAIRO - The young man suspected of blowing himself up inside a Cairo chapel during Sunday Mass, killing at least 25 people, had been arrested and beaten by police two years ago after allegedly taking ...
Dec 12, 2016
Plane crash survivor from Brazil recounts final moments
RIO DE JANEIRO - A survivor of a plane crash in Colombia that killed 71 people says the pilot did not tell passengers to fasten their seatbelts right before the aircraft smashed into a hillside. Brazi...
Dec 12, 2016
Waterton preparing for busier than usual year
WATERTON LAKES — A busy parks season will likely be even busier next year, as Canada celebrates its 150th birthday. Parks Canada has waived entry fees during 2017 for national parks, national hi...
Dec 12, 2016