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Crime down in first eight months of pandemic, but mental-health calls rise: StatCan
OTTAWA - Newly released figures point to a major drop in police-recorded crime during the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Statistics Canada says police services across Canada re...
Jan 27, 2021
Every leader must work to rid health-care system of anti-Indigenous racism: Miller
OTTAWA - Canadians expect concrete measures from politicians to ensure everyone - Indigenous people included - has access to first-class medical treatment, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller sai...
Jan 27, 2021
Order to stand trial in Paris bombing flies in face of evidence, Diab's lawyer says
OTTAWA - A lawyer for Hassan Diab says a French appeal court's order that the Ottawa sociology professor stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of inju...
Jan 27, 2021
Lawyer for accused in ammo transfer to N.S. shooter criticizes lack of disclosure
HALIFAX - A lawyer for one of three people who allegedly supplied ammunition to the gunman who murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia criticized a lack of Crown disclosure as the case started Wednesday.RCM...
Jan 27, 2021
UN experts alarmed by trend toward assisted dying for non-terminal conditions
OTTAWA - United Nations human rights experts are alarmed by what they see as a growing trend to enact legislation allowing medical assistance in dying for people suffering from non-terminal, disabling...
Jan 27, 2021
Northwest Territories RCMP warn of noxious substances found in drug seizure
Police in the Northwest Territories are warning people not to use illicit drugs after two noxious substances were found in drugs seized in Yellowknife.RCMP say they seized crack cocaine, powder cocain...
Jan 26, 2021
No charges in N.B. police shooting of Indigenous man Rodney Levi: Crown
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Public Prosecutions Service announced Tuesday that no criminal charges will be filed against police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Rodney Levi last June.Levi,...
Jan 26, 2021
Couple accused of flying to Yukon for vaccine 'despicable': B.C. minister
VANCOUVER - Public condemnation grew Tuesday of a Vancouver couple accused of flying to a remote Yukon community to get a COVID-19 vaccine, with British Columbia's solicitor general calling their alle...
Jan 26, 2021
Manitoba man to enter plea next month on charges stemming from Rideau Hall incident
OTTAWA - A man accused of ramming through a gate at Rideau Hall while heavily armed is slated to enter a plea in Ontario court Feb. 5.Corey Hurren, a Manitoba military reservist and sausage-maker, fac...
Jan 26, 2021
Quebec City Halloween night stabbing suspect returns to court for brief hearing
QUEBEC - The 24-year-old man accused in the Quebec City Halloween night sword attack appeared briefly before a judge Tuesday. Carl Girouard appeared by video conference in a Quebec City courtroom as t...
Jan 26, 2021
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Canada is getting a taste of FIFA's World Cup demands
Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the orga...
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8:30 - Drivers are yet again feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Prices have climbed almost 20 cents per litre at some st...