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Foreign home purchases in Metro Vancouver are back to provincial average
VICTORIA - About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C. government int...
Nov 29, 2016
Find Toronto senior not criminally responsible of murder, lawyer argues
TORONTO - A lawyer for a Toronto senior charged with murder urged a jury to find the man not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder, arguing Tuesday that his client suffered from dementia whi...
Nov 29, 2016
Police looking for suspect in alleged sexual assault outside stadium of Grey Cup game
TORONTO - Police are looking for a man they allege sexually assaulted a 32-year-old woman outside the stadium after Sunday’s Grey Cup in Toronto. Toronto police say the incident occurred around ...
Nov 29, 2016
Alberta RCMP nab suspect in bank robbery attempt using tanker truck
CROSSFIELD, Alta. - RCMP in southern Alberta have arrested a suspect after someone tried to break into a bank by driving a large tanker truck into it. Mounties from the Airdrie rural detachment were c...
Nov 29, 2016
Study to test oral cannabis treatment in kids with severe epilepsy
TORONTO - Researchers at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children are poised to begin a clinical trial using cannabis extracts to treat children with severe epilepsy whose seizures can’t be co...
Nov 29, 2016
Downie offers support for special 'Legacy Room' project aimed at reconciliation
HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has formed a partnership with a prominent aboriginal leader to encourage corporate Canada to do more to promote dialogue and reconciliation with aborigina...
Nov 29, 2016
Higher tax revenues help boost B.C.'s bottom line
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s finance minister says a boost in personal income tax revenue contributed to increasing the province’s bottom line for the second quarter. Mike de Jong said in...
Nov 29, 2016
QuickFacts: What you need to know about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project
CALGARY - A quick look at the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project proposed by Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI): Estimated Cost: $6.8 billion Route: 1,150 kilometres between Strathcona County, Alta., eas...
Nov 29, 2016
Ohio State attacker stewed over treatment of fellow Muslims
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University stewed over the treatment of Muslims while apparently staying under the radar of federal law enfo...
Nov 29, 2016

AP source: Cespedes, Mets agree to $110M, 4-year contract
NEW YORK - Yoenis Cespedes is staying with the New York Mets - again. After testing free agency for the second straight off-season, the slugging outfielder agreed to a $110 million, four-year contract...
Nov 29, 2016