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Man and woman rescued by Rocky RCMP after raft capsizes
No one was injured after an inflatable boat capsized in a dangerous section of the North Saskatchewan River over the long weekend. On Sunday at 5:30 p.m., Rocky RCMP were conducting a pro-active patro...
May 23, 2017
Ottawa to announce crackdown on boats abandoned on Canadian coasts
HALIFAX - Sunken sailboats, derelict ships and rusted out bulk carriers: The abandoned stuff of Maritime pursuits left to sully the country’s coastline seem as inescapably tied to our oceans as ...
May 23, 2017
Suspended lawyer arrested in stolen property bust in Rimbey
A man well-known to local police is now back in custody. Police attended to a home in Rimbey on May 4, looking for the resident who was wanted on two outstanding warrants. Instead, they found two stol...
May 23, 2017
Neighbor charged in Ohio fire that killed 5 kids, 2 adults
AKRON, Ohio - A neighbour of a family that died in a house fire was charged Tuesday with intentionally setting it ablaze, killing two adults and five children. Stanley Ford, 58, was charged with aggra...
May 23, 2017
Police: Hall of Famer Cortez Kennedy found dead
ORLANDO, Fla. - Hall of Fame defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy has died in Orlando. The Orlando Police Department confirmed that the 48-year-old Kennedy was found dead Tuesday morning. Police public inf...
May 23, 2017
Congressman quits post in GOP group over health care bill
WASHINGTON - A New Jersey Republican congressman who helped push the House health care bill to passage quit his post Tuesday as a chairman of the chamber’s moderate Tuesday Group, criticizing co...
May 23, 2017
Petition to ban caleches in Quebec City has more than 34,000 signatures
QUEBEC - A petition to ban caleches in Quebec City has more than 34,000 signatures after two incidents involving horses on the weekend. Local police say the first occurred when a horse suddenly took o...
May 23, 2017
New Zealand race car driver Dixon calls robbery a big "contrast"
TORONTO - It was intended as a celebration but turned into a nightmare. Two days after he was robbed at gunpoint, IndyCar driver Scott Dixon reflected on the harrowing experience that was a big “...
May 23, 2017
Supreme Court urged to clarify law on journalist source protection
TORONTO - Protection for a journalist’s sources currently exists in legal void that needs filling given the importance of media to our democracy, a new application to the Supreme Court of Canada...
May 23, 2017
Quebec byelection poster denouncing Canadian multiculturalism upsets some people
MONTREAL - A candidate in a Quebec provincial byelection has triggered controversy with a campaign poster that criticizes Canadian multiculturalism and shows a photo of a woman wearing a niqab. Alexan...
May 23, 2017