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Center Mike Fisher coming out of retirement, will join Preds
NASHVILLE - Mike Fisher insists he never thought of returning to the NHL and that watching players come out of retirement always bugged him. Fisher can add his name to that list. He and the Nashville ...
Jan 31, 2018
Injured veterans ask Supreme Court to hear case on disability pensions
OTTAWA - A group of six disabled veterans wants the Supreme Court of Canada to weigh in on their fight with the federal government over the re-introduction of lifetime pensions for those injured while...
Jan 31, 2018
Owner receives letter granting dog unemployment benefits
SAUGATUCK, Mich. - Michael Ryder had been approved for $360 every week in Michigan unemployment benefits - until the state learned he’d been dogging it at the Detroit-area restaurant chain where...
Jan 31, 2018
Insurer must pay $237K in legal costs to elderly woman awarded $20K
TORONTO - An insurance company that played litigation hardball with an elderly car-accident victim has been ordered to pay $237,000 to cover the legal costs she incurred in winning a $20,000 settlemen...
Jan 31, 2018
Boeing waiting for written rationale for Bombardier win to decide next steps
MONTREAL - Aircraft giant Boeing Co. will wait for the U.S. International Trade Commission to publish the reasons for its trade dispute decision favouring Bombardier before deciding next steps, includ...
Jan 31, 2018
Bakers, grocers involved in 16-year price-fixing conspiracy: Competition Bureau
At least $1.50 has been artificially baked into the price of a loaf of bread during a 16-year-long bread price-fixing conspiracy involving the country’s largest bakery wholesalers and grocery re...
Jan 31, 2018
#Metoo movement prompting sexual-assault survivors to break silence to family
It was just this past Christmas that a prickly family conversation about the burgeoning #metoo movement led one Nova Scotia woman to do something she didn’t expect: speak out about her own traum...
Jan 31, 2018
Grande Prairie man facing child sexual exploitation charges
A Grande Prairie man faces child sexual exploitation charges and officers believe there could be more victims in northern Alberta and as far away as Australia. Jonathan Karl Bruenig, 34, was arrested ...
Jan 31, 2018
US prosecutors won't retry Menendez on corruption charges
NEWARK, N.J. - Federal prosecutors decided Wednesday not to retry Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges that ended in a hung jury last fall, lifting the legal cloud hanging over the New Jersey Democ...
Jan 31, 2018
Drivers say safety arms at crash site seemed to malfunction
CROZET, Va. - The safety arms at a railroad crossing where a train carrying Republican lawmakers slammed into a garbage truck appeared to be malfunctioning the day before the deadly crash, drivers who...
Jan 31, 2018