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Hunting Violent Assault Suspects In Vancouver

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada

Vancouver police are looking for two men in connection with two unrelated violent assaults. Police say Pedro Perez-Garrido, 46, of Vancouv...

Arson likely at Kelowna, B.C., hotel

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Kelowna RCMP are investigating after a suspicious fire burned three floors of the Coast Capri hotel. Officials say the fire started at abo...

Montreal city crews repairing 9 water mains

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Montreal city crews are repairing nine water mains that began leaking Monday night. The leaks are all over the city, in Hochelaga-Maisonn...

Taxpayers Took A Shower On This Repair Job

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada Politics

Newly released documents that show how replacing a few metres of tile turned into a months-long job and cost almost $30,000 shed some light on how eve...

A Wake-Up Call To Drowsy Drivers

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada

Quebec's automobile insurance board is launching an ad campaign to prompt drowsy drivers to rest before getting behind the wheel. The SAAQ...

No charges for police over hurt woman at Occupy protest

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit does not see reasonable grounds to lay criminal charges against a police officer who took part in an arrest th...

Slain Edmonton teen didn't know accused attacker

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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A 16-year-old girl who died after she was stabbed in the neck during a home break-in Monday in Edmonton did not know the 16-year-old boy charged with ...

Gender equality case nets nurses $150M

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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A group of more than 700 female nurses working in the federal public service have won a $150-million human rights settlement after arguing the governm...

Bev Oda quitting as MP and cabinet minister

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda announced this morning that she is quitting her job as a member of Parliament at the end of the month. ...

Elliot Lake prepares for mall collapse victim's funeral

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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OPP in Elliot Lake say a thoroughfare in the community will be closed for eight hours Tuesday to observe and accommodate the funeral home visitation t...

Did Kenney Backtrack On Refugee Health Cuts?

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada Politics

A group of doctors calling on the federal government to reverse its changes to health coverage for refugees says Citizenship and Immigration Minister ...

Toronto has low crime, not 'no crime,' chief says

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Toronto police Chief Bill Blair says that the city remains a safe place to live, despite an increased number of shootings throughout this year. ...

Jehovah's Witness heart patients do well without blood transfusions

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Jehovah's Witnesses, whose religious beliefs prohibit them from having blood transfusions, had fewer complications and shorter hospital stays than oth...

St-Remi tunnel closed until November

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Manoeuvring around the roadwork in Montreal's southwest neighbourhoods just got more difficult. The St-Remi tunnel connecting Verdun and S...

Orcas spotted off Vancouver's Jericho Beach

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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A pod of orca whales paid a rare visit to Vancouver on Monday, delighting some lucky boaters and beachgoers. About six orcas were first sp...

Actor Andy Griffith dies at 86

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Andy Griffith, the American actor known for the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and legal drama Matlock, has died. He was 86. Paramedi...

RIM not in a 'death spiral,' CEO says

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Research In Motion chief executive Thorsten Heins told CBC "there's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now" and says he is confident th...

Search for Amelia Earhart plane wreckage begins

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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A $2.2-million expedition is hoping to finally solve one of America's most enduring mysteries: What exactly happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart w...

That's One Big Pothole

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada

Manitoba highway crews are scrambling to assess a large crater that has formed on Highway 83 between Roblin and Asessippi Provincial Park over the wee...

BCGEU kicks off summer of strike action

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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Workers at three liquor distribution centres in B.C. were on the picket lines Tuesday in the first of what could be a series of walkouts by the provin...

ATV rider killed in crash near Wakefield

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A 34-year-old man is dead after crashing his all-terrain vehicle near Wakefield, Que. Police in the Outaouais say Daniel Beauregard was ri...

Man dies after Bow River rafting accident

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A man in his 30s is dead after the raft he was in flipped on the Bow River. The man was with three friends, going through the features of ...

Charity runner charged after running on Quebec highway

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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An Alberta man running across Canada for charity spent five hours in an interrogation room and was charged with obstructing police after he used one o...

Another heat alert for Toronto

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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With another week of uncomfortable temperatures on the way, Toronto's chief medical officer of health issued yet another heat alert for the city — t...

TB cases increasing in Nunavik community

CBC | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada
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The number of active tuberculosis cases in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, has risen to 68. The small northern Quebec community of less than 90...