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Leaping lemur surprises Florida trooper during DUI arrest
SANFORD, Fla. - A lemur surprised a Florida Highway Patrol trooper when it crawled from a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck that had been stopped for driving erratically and hitting other cars. D...
Dec 07, 2018
Man charged in deaths of two Edmonton children, serious injury to their mother
EDMONTON - A man charged in the deaths of two young children in Edmonton was ordered by the courts earlier this fall not to have contact with their mother after an earlier assault. Ashton Brian Laflec...
Dec 07, 2018
Feds to let court decide on releasing cabinet secrets to Norman lawyers
OTTAWA - The federal government says it will let a judge decide whether to release thousands of pages of cabinet secrets to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s lawyers, who have argued the records are ne...
Dec 07, 2018
Canada to learn Women's World Cup first-round foes at Saturday's draw in Paris
Canada coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller learns his team’s road map at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup on Saturday at the tournament draw in Paris. Heiner-Moller will carry the Canadian colours ...
Dec 07, 2018
Michigan's medical chief to stand trial on Flint charges
LANSING, Mich. - Michigan’s chief medical executive will stand trial on involuntary manslaughter and other charges in a criminal investigation over the Flint water crisis, a judge ruled Friday, ...
Dec 07, 2018
Quebec says Ottawa owes it $300 million for costs related to refugee influx
MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault said he made progress during Friday’s first ministers’ meeting on his demand that the federal government pay $300 million in compensation to cove...
Dec 07, 2018
'Avengers 4' gets a title, trailer and new release date
LOS ANGELES - The fourth “Avengers” movie finally has a title. Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Co. said Friday that the highly anticipated, and closely guarded, conclusion to the “...
Dec 07, 2018
Canadian moguls star Mikael Kingsbury picks up 50th World Cup win
RUKA, Finland - The season-opening World Cup moguls event in Ruka has been the site of some of the biggest moments of Mikael Kingsbury’s accomplished career. It’s where the Canadian freest...
Dec 07, 2018
Fractured care system ill-equipped to deal with abuse at Halifax orphanage
HALIFAX - A new report from an ongoing public inquiry into decades of abuse at a Halifax-area orphanage says a fragmented system of care wasn’t equipped to address the needs of children who were...
Dec 07, 2018
Red Deer area unemployment numbers continue to drop
RED DEER- Stats Canada has released the Red Deer area unemployment numbers for November. The jobless rate was 5.4 per cent last month, a big drop from the October rate of 6.3%. The provincial rate las...
Dec 07, 2018