Boy, 14, charged after suspect pulls knife in Saskatoon high school
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SASKATOON - A 14-year-old boy has been charged with a weapons-related offence after allegedly pulling a knife on three people in the hallway of a Saskatoon high school.
Police say shortly before noon, three boys followed the teen into the school and confronted him.
Investigators say the 14-ye
No sympathy for Guergis 'hissy fits': Tory matriarch Deborah Grey
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12 Mar, 2010 0 0
OTTAWA - If beleaguered Conservative minister Helena Guergis was hoping for sympathy from her political sisters, former party matriarch Deborah Grey was fresh out.
Guergis, minister of state for the status of women, was a no-show Friday at a panel on women in politics at the Manning Centre's ann
Calgary police officer won't be charged for shooting suspect at car wash
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CALGARY - The head of an agency that investigates police says a veteran Calgary officer will not be charged in the shooting death nearly a year ago of a suspect at a car wash.
Travis Douglas Oakes was under surveillance for an ongoing investigation involving auto theft.
When police tried to a
Northern judge sentences Mountie murderer to 'living death'
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IQALUIT, Nunavut - A Nunavut man convicted of killing an RCMP officer didn't utter a single word as a judge sentenced him to "a living death."
Justice Robert Kilpatrick told a packed courtroom Friday that he had no option but to send Ping Kolola, a 39-year-old father of six, to prison for life w
Quebec soccer coach pleads guilty to 26 sex-related charges involving children
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LONGUEUIL, Que. - A soccer coach near Montreal has pleaded guilty to 26 sexual-assault charges on 13 young male players.
Thierry Massimo, who is in his early 40s, entered the pleas in a courtroom in Longueuil Friday.
The charges involve luring children on the Internet and having them engage i
Free news on Net fails as business model for traditional news outlets: nsiders
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12 Mar, 2010 0 0
MONTREAL - Media industry insiders are acknowledging that offering free news on the Internet has failed as a business model for traditional journalism outlets.
Karen Dunlap, head of the Poynter Institute, says advertisers are not buying spots on news sites in the way newspapers and broadcasters
Dennis Skulsky stepping down as head of Canwest's publishing division
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TORONTO - Dennis Skulsky is stepping down as head of the publishing division of Canwest Global Communications Corp. in what he described Friday as a "very personal decision" that does not signal any change in strategic direction for the company, which is up for sale.
Skulsky, president and CEO o
Injured vets carry the Paralympic flame as relay's final day honours military
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - Paul Franklin can still vividly remember lying on the ground after a suicide bomber destroyed the armoured jeep he was driving in Afghanistan four years ago.
Parts of the army medic's body were on fire, and he could see the bottom half of his left leg sitting a few feet away.
Plea by two N.S. brothers charged with hate crimes expected in April
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WINDSOR, N.S. - Two brothers charged with hate crimes after a cross was burned in the yard of an interracial couple in Nova Scotia are scheduled to enter pleas on April 19.
Nathan Rehberg, 20, and Justin Rehberg, 19, appeared briefly in court in Windsor on Friday.
The case was put over becaus
B.C. cop killer denied parole even after three decades behind bars
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - Even after three decades behind bars, a National Parole Board panel says a B.C. cop killer cannot be released, even for a few hours.
The panel rejected Friday Steven LeClair's request for full parole, day parole or even unescorted temporary absences.
The board said that desp
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