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No liability for harm caused by '60s Scoop, federal government set to argue
TORONTO - At-risk aboriginal children placed in non-aboriginal homes during the so-called ’60s Scoop may well have suffered harm by losing their cultural identities but the federal government ca...
Nov 30, 2016
A look at the case at the heart of the Judge Robin Camp controversy
CALGARY - An inquiry committee of the Canadian Judicial Council has recommended federal Justice Robin Camp lose his job for asking a sexual assault complainant in a 2014 trial why she couldn’t k...
Nov 30, 2016
Pilot told Colombia controllers 'no fuel' before crash
MEDELLIN, Colombia - The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel and desperately pleaded for permission to land before crashin...
Nov 30, 2016
Bitumen knowledge gaps too great to assess risk of ocean spill: study
Not enough is known about the impact oilsands bitumen could have on ocean plants and animals to assess the risks of moving it through marine environments, according to a new study. “Basic inform...
Nov 30, 2016
Phillips calls pipeline decision "good day" for Alberta
ALBERTA – The province’s environment minister says Ottawa’s approval of two of three pipeline projects means it’s a good day for Albertans. “Tidewater access for our oil,...
Nov 30, 2016
Lawsuits challenge abortion restrictions in 3 states
NEW YORK - Planned Parenthood and its allies filed lawsuits Wednesday in North Carolina, Missouri and Alaska challenging laws that they view as unconstitutional restrictions on abortion. The restricti...
Nov 30, 2016
PC teen sworn in as youngest-ever member of Ontario's legislature
A homeschooled teenager was sworn in Wednesday as the youngest-ever member of the Ontario legislature, but his socially conservative views threaten to make him the Progressive Conservatives’ pro...
Nov 30, 2016
Halifax asks judge to reject class action lawsuit over Africville
HALIFAX - On the shores of the Bedford Basin - where a thriving black community once stood before it was bulldozed by the City of Halifax - lives a man who still refuses to leave Africville. “Un...
Nov 30, 2016
Photo radars to stay on Quebec roads despite court ruling tossing evidence
QUEBEC - Photo radar machines are to remain on Quebec roads despite a recent court ruling that rejected evidence obtained from one, the provincial government said Wednesday. Quebec court Judge Serge C...
Nov 30, 2016
Obama welcomes 4 Nobel Prize laureates, minus Dylan
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama welcomed four recipients of the Nobel Prize to the White House on Wednesday. Singer Bob Dylan wasn’t among them. Obama used the Oval Office meeting to send a ...
Nov 30, 2016