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Quebec soccer coach pleads guilty to 26 sex-related charges involving children

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A soccer coach near Montreal has pleaded guilty to 26 sexual-assault charges on 13 young male players. Thierry Massimo, who is in his early 40s, entered the pleas in a courtroom i...

Mom, daughter, 14, killed in E. Ontario; 18-year-old faces murder charge

BELLEVILLE, Ont. - A teenager faced first-degree murder charges in the deaths of a mother and her daughter at their family home in the small eastern Ontario community of Mountain View, police said Fri...

Canadian dollar jumps as Canada adds roughly 21,000 jobs last month

OTTAWA - Prospects for a sustained economic recovery brightened considerably Friday on news Canada created 60,000 full-time jobs last month and fresh evidence the U.S. domestic economy is advancing. ...

RCMP say they couldn't urge Halifax police to speed up probe of officer

HALIFAX, N.S. - A Nova Scotia RCMP superintendent says the force couldn't ask another police agency to speed up an investigation into one of its officers because of potential interference. Chief Su...

B.C. cop killer denied parole even after three decades behind bars

VANCOUVER, B.C. - A man who shot and killed four people, including a Richmond, B.C., Mountie, 30 years ago won't be getting out of prison. A National Parole Board panel has rejected Steven LeClair'...

Mom, teen daughter killed in eastern Ontario; teen faces murder charges

BELLEVILLE, Ont. - Police say a teenager will be charged with killing a mother and her daughter in the small eastern Ontario community of Mountain View. They say the 18-year-old suspect from nearby...

N.L. premier calls offshore chopper crash sad day in province's history

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Premier Danny Williams said Friday was a sad day in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador as people mark the first anniversary of a fatal helicopter crash. Seventeen people di...

Nova Scotia Liberal quits politics, but few reasons given for departure

HALIFAX, N.S. - A popular provincial Liberal abruptly resigned his Nova Scotia seat Friday under somewhat mysterious circumstances, saying only that he could no longer fulfil his duties and responsibi...

Police confirm two dead, one injured in Edmonton car dealership shooting

EDMONTON - Employees and customers of an Edmonton car dealership were struggling to deal with a shooting Friday morning in which two men were killed and a third man sent to hospital. Police said sh...

Ontario Const. Vu Pham remembered at his funeral as modern day hero

WINGHAM, Ont. - The widow of a provincial police officer who died after being shot on a rural southwestern Ontario road says she has had visions and nightmares of being at his funeral. Heather Pham...