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Video shows late activist pleading for change to assisted dying rules
HALIFAX - A new national campaign is honouring a Halifax woman who ended her life with medical assistance, lobbying the federal government to amend Canada's assisted dying rules. Audrey Parker di...
Feb 06, 2019
Virginia AG says he wore blackface at college party
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia sank deeper into political turmoil Wednesday when another top Democrat - Attorney General Mark Herring - admitted putting on blackface in the 1980s, when he was a college stud...
Feb 06, 2019
Quebec agriculture minister says he was wrong to endorse firing of whistleblower
MONTREAL - Quebec's agriculture minister said Monday he went too far when he claimed it was his decision to fire a whistleblowing public servant who had raised concerns about ...
Feb 06, 2019
CP Rail confirms three crew members die in B.C. grain car derailment
FIELD, B.C. - A Canadian Pacific freight train fell more than 60 metres from a bridge near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary in a derailment that killed three crew members, a union representative ...
Feb 06, 2019
Cop who arrested McArthur in 2016 accused of breaching police policy: lawyer
TORONTO - A Toronto police officer involved in a 2016 arrest of serial killer Bruce McArthur is accused of breaching the force's policy on how to handle reports of domestic violence. Sgt. Paul Ga...
Feb 06, 2019
Anthony, Scrubbs headline Canada's basketball team for two games in St. John's
TORONTO - Two-time NBA champion Joel Anthony, and brothers Phil and Thomas Scrubb headline Canada's team for its final qualifying games for this summer's FIBA World Cup. Canada, which has already qual...
Feb 06, 2019
Marner's agent says he'll negotiate with Maple Leafs at end of season
TORONTO - The agent representing Mitch Marner says the slick forward will negotiate a new deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs at season's end. The Leafs have reached new deals with forwards William Nyla...
Feb 06, 2019
Marcia Clark tells familiar tale in new show 'The Fix'
PASADENA, Calif. - Marcia Clark insists she's not reliving her post-O.J. Simpson trial life in the new series "The Fix." Clark co-created the ABC show about a character that viewers who followed the S...
Feb 06, 2019
Ottawa Senators, Colorado Avalanche complete minor-league deal
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have acquired forward Jean-Christophe Beaudin from the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for forward Max McCormick. The Senators are assigning the 21-year-old Beaudin to thei...
Feb 06, 2019
RCMP search for information following armed robbery
Battlefords RCMP are investigating an armed robbery shortly after midnight Tuesday.submitted/Battlefords RCMPThe suspects entered a business on the 1700 block of 100th St. One male was in possession o...
Feb 06, 2019