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Lawyer for Tony Accurso appealing his client's guilty verdict as well as sentence
MONTREAL - A lawyer for former Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso is appealing his client’s conviction on fraud and corruption charges as well as his four-year prison sentence. Marc Labelle ...
Jul 10, 2018
Documents offer glimpse of federal plans to promote upcoming poverty strategy
OTTAWA - Newly released documents suggest the federal Liberal government plans to sell its forthcoming poverty reduction strategy as an all-encompassing exercise that will be greater than the sum of i...
Jul 10, 2018
Ottawa to spend $70 million on Atlantic health information service: premiers
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. - The federal government will spend up to $70 million to create a new electronic health prescription service for Atlantic Canada, which will also give residents access to their pers...
Jul 10, 2018
Montreal suburb passes summer-long ban on leaf blowers after heated debate
BEACONSFIELD, Que. - Tensions erupted in a Montreal suburb after councillors voted to pass a contentious summer-long ban on leaf blowers. Protesters gathered with signs outside city hall in Beaconsfie...
Jul 10, 2018
Ronaldo leaving Real Madrid to join Italian club Juventus
Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving Real Madrid to join Italian club Juventus in a move expected to benefit the Portugal forward’s tax return. Juventus said Tuesday it paid 112 million euros ($131.5 mi...
Jul 10, 2018
'Pothole Man' on a mission to protect drivers in rural Newfoundland
TWILLINGATE, N.L. - For years, drivers along Newfoundland’s Road to the Isles thought the orange circles around the highway’s notorious potholes were put there by the Department of Transpo...
Jul 10, 2018
Group says 78 women, girls, killed across Canada in last six months
OTTAWA - A research group is hoping to draw more attention to femicide - the killing of women and girls - by publicly disclosing the names of Canadian victims. The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Ju...
Jul 10, 2018
Bighill, Sinopoli, and Wilder named CFL top performers for Week 4
TORONTO - Winnipeg linebacker Adam Bighill, Ottawa receiver Brad Sinopoli and Toronto running back James Wilder Jr., are the top performers for Week 4 of the CFL season. Bighill registered six total t...
Jul 10, 2018
Everyone’s fed up, so what do we do about it?
Through everything I'm reading on the current state of homelessness, addiction, mental health, camps and safe consumption sites in our community, there is a common theme. We are all fed up - really, r...
Jul 10, 2018
Parents of Humboldt Broncos player killed in crash sue truck driver, bus maker
REGINA - The family of one of the Humboldt Broncos players killed in a highway crash has filed a lawsuit alleging a semi-truck driver with inadequate training failed to stop at a flashing stop sign at...
Jul 10, 2018