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 Teacher pleads guilty to sexually touching teenA Nova Scotia teacher and soccer enthusiast has pleaded guilty to invitation to sexual touching involving a teen student.
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 Torched corpse of woman found in remote B.C. shelterPolice have identified a body that was found burned in a remote shelter in North Vancouver, B.C.
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 Court hears nude brother repeatedly stabbed sisterHours after repeatedly stabbing his half-sister while naked, a Calgary man called his foster mom saying he didn't know where he was or how he got there, court heard Monday.
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 Website owner defends posting killer Mark Twitchell's pen pal profileAs online profiles go, it's pretty standard -- he is creative, considers himself "insightful, passionate and philosophical with a great sense of humor," and enjoys tennis, chess and clever storytelling. Scroll up, though, and some anomalies surface.
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 Reevely: Federal lawyer Emilie Taman was wrongly forbidden to run for NDP, appeals court rulesThe Public Service Commission has to have really strong and clear reasons for stopping a federal employee from running for office, the Federal Court of Appeal says, and it didn't supply them when it ordered lawyer Emilie Taman not to run for the New Democrats in 2015.
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 'I truly hope prison is very rough for you': Father lashes out at son's killers in courtAn angry Dale Hird lashed out at his son's killers Monday, calling them cowards for their roles in the victim's swarming death.
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 Meryl Streep and Justin Trudeau, two elitists in a podFor the first time this year, and going back to Christmas, Justin Trudeau's itinerary as put out by the Prime Minister's Office no longer has him taking "Personal" time.
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 Rochester scientist counts the plastics in Great LakesScientists have studied plastic pollution in the Great Lakes for years, and now one group is answering the question: What does it all add up to?The short answer: Quite a lot. Matthew Hoffman at the Rochester Institute of Technology used a method already used to estimate how much plastic washes into the Atlantic Ocean.
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 Ottawa woman stranded in Fort Lauderdale returns to familyIt was a belated homecoming at the Ottawa airport Saturday night for passengers who had been trapped at the Fort Lauderdale airport in the wake of Friday's deadly shooting. "It's very emotional," said Barbara Hershorn, 74, after hugging her husband and daughter at the international arrivals gate.
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 Federal government to pay for funerals of four slain in N.S. murder-suicideThe federal government confirmed it will pay for the funerals of four people found dead in a Nova Scotia home last Tuesday.
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 Family in murder-suicide struggled with former soldier's PTSDFormer soldier Lionel Desmond and his wife Shanna were in counselling as the pair struggled to deal with his post-traumatic stress disorder, and she seemed content the day before they died in a murder-suicide, friends and family said.
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 Judge allows Quebec City man to keep his 7-year-old pet crowMoko the crow won't be flying the coop any time soon -- at least according to the bird's owner, who says a Quebec judge has given him permission to keep his pet.
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 U.S.-Canada border crossing south of Montreal reopensA major Canada-U.S. border crossing reopened Friday after a bomb threat forced its closure for a few hours, said a Canada Border Services Agency spokesman.
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 Canadians reported safe after Florida airport shooting that left five deadTORONTO -- Canadian government officials were trying to determine whether any Canadians were among the casualties of a mass shooting Friday in the baggage area of the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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 Federal employment at six-year high in December; region's jobless rate at 6.1%It was good news, bad news in the capital region in December as jobless rates converged at 6.1 per cent on both sides of the Ottawa River.For the Ottawa market, the rate was a small increase from six per cent recorded in November.
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 Three moose make trip to Tim Hortons drive-thruThree wayward moose may have been on the prowl for a caffeine pick-me-up when they showed up at a Tim Hortons drive-thru in St. John's, N.L.
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 Canadian arrested in Turkey for 'insulting' president on social media: lawyerA Canadian woman has been arrested in Turkey for allegedly insulting the country's president in comments posted on Facebook, her Turkish lawyer said Thursday.
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 Dogs who attacked child in Castleridge likely to be euthanizedA four-year-old boy was with his parents visiting family when he was attacked by two German shepherd dogs, according to the City of Calgary.
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 Immigrants most excited about Canada 150 celebrations; Quebecers -- not so muchThe newest Canadians are the ones most pumped up to celebrate the country's sesquicentennial in 2017 according to a survey on Canada 150 events and attitudes posted online this week by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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 2017 list of 'predatory' science journals published, hundreds claim to be CanadianThe annual list of the world's shaky and outright fake science journals is out, and Canada figures prominently, with hundreds of new entries calling themselves the Canadian Journal of one thing or another.
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 'I will fix it,' struggling ex-soldier said before Nova Scotia murder-suicidesA clearer picture is emerging of the former soldier involved in an apparent murder-suicide in Nova Scotia, with his own words on social media revealing a man struggling with PTSD who was trying to get his life back.
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 Family of Montreal woman killed by dog suing canine's ownerThe family of a woman who died after being attacked by a dog says it plans to sue the canine's owner.
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 'This is the year to visit,' New York Times proclaims of CanadaO Canada!The New York Times has picked Canada as No. 1 of 52 places to go in 2017, touting it as "a world unto itself, with cosmopolitan cities, barely explored natural wonders and everything in between" -- plus our "weak" dollar.Thus, "this is the year to visit," the newspaper's travel section proclaims of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
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 Raitt drops gloves in Conservative leadership
[Video]The gloves are finally off in the federal Conservative race, with Lisa Raitt tossing blows Wednesday that she hopes will knock out both Kevin O'Leary and Kellie Leitch.
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 Woman says she was locked in basement, sexually assaultedSaskatoon police are looking for suspects after a woman says she was unlawfully confined in a basement for a number of hours and sexually assaulted.
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