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Teachers knew half of the kids on ill-fated canoe trip had failed swim test:TDSB
TORONTO - Two teachers knew that nearly half of the 32 students they accompanied on an ill-fated canoe trip earlier this summer had failed a required swim test but allowed them to go anyway, the Toron...
Aug 17, 2017
Immigration board to audit process for reviewing long-term detention
TORONTO - The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada says it will carry out an independent audit of the process used to reassess the long-term detention of permanent residents and foreigners after tw...
Aug 17, 2017
Canadian schools reluctant to embrace later bell times despite mounting research
TORONTO - A wave of international research suggesting delaying high school start times would have health and academic benefits for students has not yet crested in Canada. Several individual boards and...
Aug 17, 2017
Legal deal over harsh CIA interrogations marks a milestone
SPOKANE, Wash. - A settlement in a landmark lawsuit against two psychologists who helped design the CIA’s harsh interrogation methods used in the war on terror marked the first time the agency o...
Aug 17, 2017
Barcelona van attack kills 13 in agonizing repeat for Europe
BARCELONA, Spain - A van veered onto a promenade and barrelled down the busy walkway in central Barcelona on Thursday, swerving back and forth as it mowed down pedestrians and turned a picturesque tou...
Aug 17, 2017
Cash family: Keep Johnny's name away from 'hateful ideology'
NASHVILLE - The children of Johnny Cash are asking white supremacists and other hate groups not to wear or use the country singer’s name or image. In a lengthy Wednesday night Facebook post from...
Aug 17, 2017
Nova Scotia's Liberal government to table budget shelved by election Sept. 26
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government will next month re-introduce a budget shelved because of its May 30 election call. The budget will be tabled Sept. 26, five days after the legislature ...
Aug 17, 2017
Pikangikum First Nation to be connected to Ontario power grid by next fall
The federal government announced up to $60 million in funding Thursday to connect a remote northwestern Ontario First Nation to the province’s power grid. Pikangikum First Nation, a community ne...
Aug 17, 2017
Search for missing Sylvan Lake boater turns to recovery
A man who went missing after the boat he was in capsized on Sylvan Lake Sunday afternoon is presumed dead. Cpl. Laurel Scott with RCMP Media Relations confirms a search and rescue mission for the 43-y...
Aug 17, 2017
Raw feelings close to the surface at Fox over Trump remarks
NEW YORK - A Fox News Channel anchor whose reaction to President Donald Trump’s comments on Charlottesville spread widely says she feels threatened but not deterred after a flood of angry respon...
Aug 17, 2017