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Toronto homicide squad being revamped under new leader after tough year
Toronto's homicide squad has had a difficult year - the team has had to investigate a record-breaking number of killings in Canada's most populous city, grapple with a rise in deadly gang violence, ad...
Dec 31, 2018
Liberals look to infrastructure bank to finance rural, remote broadband internet
OTTAWA - The federal infrastructure minister says he is looking to connect private backers with some of the country's rural and northern communities to pay for badly needed broadband in...
Dec 31, 2018
Figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond to receive Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Figure skating champion Kaetlyn Osmond will be receiving the highest honour in her home province - the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. Osmond left Marystown, N.L., for...
Dec 31, 2018
Ski program for Indigenous youth expands throughout Western Canada
EDMONTON - A charity that runs cross-country ski programs for Indigenous youth is expanding across Western Canada. Spirit North, which was founded in 2009, started in four First Nation communitie...
Dec 31, 2018
How many drug users who OD'd have brain damage? Doctors say Canada needs data
VANCOUVER - Dayton Wilson's drug-taking routine ended when he overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl, but being able to walk and talk normally are also part of his past as he struggles with brain dam...
Dec 31, 2018
Mike Taylor, keyboardist for Burlington, Ont.-based Walk off the Earth, dies
BURLINGTON, Ont. - The Burlington, Ont.-based band Walk off the Earth has announced the death of keyboardist and vocalist Mike Taylor. In a post on various social media sites on Sunday, the band ...
Dec 30, 2018
Former New Brunswick premier Brian Gallant steps down early as Liberal leader
MONCTON, N.B. - Former New Brunswick premier Brian Gallant is stepping down as leader of the provincial Liberals earlier than planned, saying the party needs to move on and choose a new leader. Gallan...
Dec 30, 2018
'I resolve to do better': Playwright Robert Lepage on 2018 race controversy
MONTREAL - Renowned Quebec director Robert Lepage is promising to be more racially sensitive with his work in the new year after two of his plays in 2018 were widely condemned by member...
Dec 30, 2018
Humboldt Broncos coach steps down during first season after tragic bus crash
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - Nathan Oystrick has stepped down as head coach and general manager of the Humboldt Broncos. The 36-year-old Regina native was hired in July, three months after 16 members of the juni...
Dec 30, 2018
Emails reveal how Ottawa sought to explain PTSD treatment for man who killed cop
HALIFAX - Newly released documents offer a glimpse into how high-level government officials grappled to respond to the revelation that Veterans Affairs was funding the PTSD treatment of...
Dec 30, 2018
