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Three Canadian cities to be featured on latest global Monopoly game

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:25:16 +0000

TORONTO - Three Canadian cities have earned a place on the latest edition of Monopoly. Fans have voted Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto onto the board for Monopoly Here and Now: the World Edition. M...

Audit of major propane facilities to be completed this week: TSSA

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:40:43 +0000

TORONTO - The Technical Standards and Safety Authority says an inspection of all propane facilities in the province with a permanent storage capacity "in excess of 5,000 U.S. gallons" will be complete...

Winnipeg police officer charged with sex assault on 11-year-old boys

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:40:40 +0000

WINNIPEG - A veteran Winnipeg police officer who also worked for a government child welfare agency has been suspended following allegations of sexually assaulting two 11-year-old boys. Kenneth Jack...

McGuinty vows to be vocal about Ontario's plight in next federal election

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:41:00 +0000

KITCHENER, Ont. - Premier Dalton McGuinty vowed Tuesday to remind Ontario voters in the next federal election that Ottawa is shortchanging the province, just as Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a ca...

Mutated fish caught in lake downstream of Alberta's oilsands

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:18:12 +0000

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. - Information about a mutated fish caught downstream from Alberta's oilsands region will be sent to a joint government-industry group that monitors the health of rivers and lakes...

Someone posing as victim's relative tries to cash in on Manitoba bus beheading

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:18:13 +0000

WINNIPEG - Someone claiming to be a sister of the young man stabbed and beheaded on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last month has been trying to use the horrific killing to collect money. The unidenti...

Election rumblings grow louder as Harper again questions if House productive

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:47:44 +0000

HAMILTON - The drumbeat of a possible federal election campaign grew louder Tuesday as Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed to spend the next few weeks contemplating whether to send Canadians to the po...

Victoria Police undercover unit busts seven members of Red Scorpion Gang

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:47:43 +0000

VICTORIA - Police say an undercover sting operation called Project Mongoose broke a notorious Vancouver gang's attempts to set up a crack-cocaine business in Victoria where users call their dealers fo...

Hundreds remember Master Cpl. Josh Roberts as 'good soldier' at funeral

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:47:45 +0000

SASKATOON - A man referred to as a "soldier's soldier," who not long ago carried the casket of a comrade slain in Afghanistan, was remembered Tuesday by hundreds of mourners in Saskatoon. About 700...

Sex predator leaves Quebec court in ambulance before sentencing

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:25:00 +0000

ST-JEROME, Que. - A man convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old he lured on the Internet had to be taken from court Tuesday in an ambulance after he fell ill. Allan Tirado, 46, was crying an...

Vancouver's quadriplegic mayor to carry torch in Beijing Paralympic Games

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:32:28 +0000

RICHMOND, B.C. - In a bittersweet bookend to his single term as Vancouver's mayor, quadriplegic Sam Sullivan will participate in the torch relay at next month's Paralympics in Beijing. Sullivan, wh...

Annual Thetford Chicken Massacre angers animal rights groups

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:32:31 +0000

MONTREAL - The Thetford Chicken Massacre, with its hatchets, booze and bloody headless fowl, has ruffled the feathers of animal welfare activists. Animal rights groups are condemning the summer rit...

Expert says Taliban attack aimed at public opinion, Harper not sure

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:32:29 +0000

OTTAWA - The Taliban ambush that killed 10 French soldiers Tuesday was aimed at influencing public opinion in much the same way militants attempted to drive Canada out of the Afghan war, says a defenc...

More pain and loss coming as Atlantic forestry sector adjusts: report

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:54:34 +0000

FREDERICTON - A new report on forestry in Atlantic Canada says there will be more pain and loss before the industry finishes its transformation into a leaner, more competitive sector. According to ...

N.S. dike system needs major work to hold off rising seas, changing climate

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:54:31 +0000

HALIFAX - When engineer Con Desplanque was working on Nova Scotia's dike system in the 1960s, the phrase "climate change" wasn't part of anyone's vocabulary. "We never figured on a rising sea level...