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Health Canada approves three safe injection sites in Toronto
TORONTO - Health Canada has approved three supervised injection sites in Toronto, and local officials expect they will be operational be the end of the year. Necessary exemptions from the Controlled D...
Jun 03, 2017
Remains of First World War soldier from New Brunswick identified in France
OTTAWA - The remains of a New Brunswick man who died while fighting to take a French hillside during the First World War have been identified and will be given a proper burial. The Defence Department ...
Jun 03, 2017
Fake Cheesecake Factory sign sparks buzz in New Mexico city
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A construction site in southern New Mexico, which sparked buzz with a fake sign announcing it as a future home of a Cheesecake Factory, is really a future emergency centre. The Las ...
Jun 03, 2017
Driver accused of tossing kittens says she's innocent
NEW BERN, N.C. - A North Carolina woman accused of throwing three kittens from a car and running over two of them says she is innocent. WITN-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2rkhuvK) that 42-year-old Cecilia...
Jun 03, 2017
3 Ex-Penn St officials get jail terms in Sandusky abuse case
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A former president of Penn State and two other former university administrators were each sentenced Friday to at least two months in jail for failing to alert authorities to a 2001 a...
Jun 03, 2017
Cab company not liable for driver's alleged sex assault on passenger
TORONTO - A taxi company cannot be held liable for the alleged sexual assault of a passenger by one of its drivers, Ontario’s top court ruled on Friday. In dismissing an appeal by the complainan...
Jun 03, 2017
Impact, Red Bulls both needing wins in first meeting since conference semifinal
MONTREAL - For most of their first five seasons in Major League Soccer the Montreal Impact were dominated by the New York Red Bulls, but that all changed with a playoff upset in an Eastern Conference ...
Jun 03, 2017
Small ghost bike for a young Toronto boy: making a memorial for a cyclist
TORONTO - Geoffrey Bercarich has been making “ghost bikes” for fallen cyclists for more than a decade, but he’s never made one this small. At his Toronto home, he stands beside a chi...
Jun 03, 2017
New Halifax passenger ferries to be named for 1917 explosion hero, Mi'kmaq poet
Halifax’s two new ferries will be named after a poet laureate of the Mi’kmaq people and a railway dispatcher who in 1917 warned trains of an impending harbour explosion. The city announced...
Jun 03, 2017
US employers add modest 138K jobs; rate dips to 4.3 per cent
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in May by adding only 138,000 jobs, though the gains were enough to help nudge the unemployment rate down to a 16 year-low. The Labor Department said ...
Jun 03, 2017