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Solitary confinement persists in federal prisons despite new system, reports find
TORONTO - Prisoners are still being held in harmful solitary confinement despite a revamped system implemented after the courts struck down the previous regime as unconstitutional, according to two re...
Nov 19, 2020
Thompson has torn Achilles tendon, expected to miss season
SAN FRANCISCO - Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson has suffered a torn right Achilles tendon and is expected to miss the upcoming season, the team said Thursday. The team said in a tweet that a...
Nov 19, 2020
Border officer can't recall where idea to collect Meng's phone passcodes came from
VANCOUVER - The border officer who led the examination of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport before her arrest two years ago says he can't recall whose idea it was to collect the pas...
Nov 19, 2020
'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize
LONDON - Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for "Shuggie Bain," the story of a boy's turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won the pr...
Nov 19, 2020
Prince Albert drug trafficker receives 20 month jail sentence
A 25-year-old man will serve jail time in connection to a drug bust in Prince Albert last January.Austin LaFond was sentenced to 20 months, after entering guilty pleas Wednesday morning at Prince Albe...
Nov 19, 2020
Woodbine Entertainment announces that jockey has tested positive for COVID-19
TORONTO - A jockey based at Woodbine Racetrack has tested positive for COVID-19.Woodbine Entertainment made the announcement Thursday, but didn't divulge the identity of the jockey. As per the per the...
Nov 19, 2020
Daughter of 89-year-old in Saskatoon care home worries about quality of care amid COVID-19 outbreak
A 62-year-old Dalmeny area woman has removed her mother from a Saskatoon area care home after she says she became worried about the quality of care she had been receiving over the last few weeks.The w...
Nov 19, 2020
Federal figures on COVID-19 aid provide window into who needed the help
OTTAWA - Newly released data on emergency COVID-19 aid shows that some of the country's highest income earners used a key benefit for workers. The $2,000-a-month Canada Emergency Response Benefit paid...
Nov 19, 2020
Alek Minassian fantasized about mass shootings, court hears
TORONTO - A psychiatrist at the trial of the man behind Toronto's van attack says Alek Minassian had a long history of fantasizing about shooting other people.Dr. Rebecca Chauhan, who was hired by the...
Nov 19, 2020
Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison in college bribery case
BOSTON - Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison on Thursday to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters' way into college, officials said. Giannulli's wife, "Full...
Nov 19, 2020
