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While Vancouver and Toronto chill out, Montreal home sales post best July in 8 years
MONTREAL - Forget Vancouver and Toronto - Canada’s hottest housing market these days may be Montreal. The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board released data Friday showing that 3,075 homes were so...
Aug 04, 2017
780 overdose deaths have B.C. officials urging people to not use drugs alone
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s health officials are considering plans to offer an overdose reversing drug online and urging drug users not to use alone after an 88 per cent increase in deaths. C...
Aug 04, 2017
Man who trademarked name of his own county hands it over to council
An Ontario man who managed to trademark the name of the county he lives in says he has decided to relinquish the trademark to the local government. Michael Stinson caused a stir among Haliburton Count...
Aug 04, 2017
November 2018 trial date set for man accused in deaths of woman and her daughter
CALGARY - A three-week jury trial for a man accused of killing a Calgary woman and her five-year-old daughter is scheduled to begin in November 2018. Edward Downey is pleading not guilty to two counts...
Aug 04, 2017
Amanda Knox: Woman in texting suicide case deserves sympathy
LOS ANGELES - Amanda Knox, the American exchange student convicted and later cleared of a murder in Italy, is offering her support to a Massachusetts woman convicted of manslaughter for encouraging he...
Aug 04, 2017
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked ...
Aug 04, 2017
Charges officially dropped against Arthur Porter, two years after his death
MONTREAL - Criminal charges against the doctor accused of committing what Quebec authorities described as the biggest corruption fraud in Canada’s history have officially been abandoned, two yea...
Aug 04, 2017
Workers at Mississippi Nissan plant casting ballots on union
CANTON, Miss. - Workers at a Nissan auto assembly plant in Mississippi are voting on whether they want the United Auto Workers union to bargain for them. Voting among roughly 3,700 production workers ...
Aug 04, 2017
At least 2 killed in car bomb blast in Somalia's capital
MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least two people were killed in an apparent car bomb blast on a major street in Somalia’s capital Friday evening, police said, just hours after the U.S. military confirme...
Aug 04, 2017
Struggling Impact look for home win over Orlando to end losing run
MONTREAL - If the Montreal Impact are going to turn their season around, now is the time. The 10th-place Impact (6-8-6) play five of their next six games at Saputo Stadium, beginning with a meeting Sa...
Aug 04, 2017