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Halifax constables given suspended sentences and probation for 2016 inmate death
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge on Monday handed two special constables with Halifax police suspended sentences with three years probation in the June 2016 suffocation death of an inm...
Aug 17, 2020

Five things to know about the Conservative party leadership race, ending Sunday
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party will announce the winner of its leadership contest on Aug. 23. Nearly 269,500 people are eligible to vote for the new leader, which is roughly 10,000 ...
Aug 17, 2020

Next Conservative party leader best not take Alberta for granted: MPs
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner is warning whomever her party elects as their new leader this weekend needs to be prepared with robust policy for the West. Rempel Garner, an Alberta MP...
Aug 17, 2020

Cancelled season just the latest financial challenge for CFL
Financial challenges are nothing new for the CFL. The league has faced problems across the country - and even in the United States in the 1990s - many times the past few decades. While thing...
Aug 17, 2020

In 'The 24th,' police brutality and unrest, 103 years ago
NEW YORK - The sole photograph related to the Houston Riot of 1917 shows 64 Black soldiers sitting with arms folded and legs crossed behind a rope. Their sheer number, in a courtroom otherwise populat...
Aug 17, 2020

Police called when B.C. little league finds it bank accounts emptied of $230,000
COQUITLAM, B.C. - A little league baseball club in Metro Vancouver says it has contacted RCMP after discovering hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from its accounts. A statement posted by the pr...
Aug 17, 2020

Barcelona fires coach Setién 3 days after 8-2 loss to Bayern
BARCELONA, Spain - Barcelona fired coach Quique Setin on Monday, three days after the team's humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The decision was announ...
Aug 17, 2020

MISSING: Amelia Firth, 21, of O'Chiese First Nation
UPDATE [AUG. 31] - Amelia Firth has been located and there are no further concerns for her well-being. Maskwacis RCMP thank the the public for their assistance.
Aug 17, 2020

2 men indicted in 2002 killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay
NEW YORK - Two suspects have been indicted in the 2002 killing of hip hop artist Jam Master Jay, which until now had been one of New York City's most notorious unsolved killings, two law enforcement o...
Aug 17, 2020

NewsAlert: New Brunswick election called for Sept. 14
FREDERICTON - Premier Blaine Higgs has called an election in New Brunswick for Sept. 14. It will be the first province to go to the polls since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Higgs threatened la...
Aug 17, 2020