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13 stranded after ice roads turned to mud rescued, says Manitoba Mounties
WINNIPEG - Mounties say 13 people who were stranded on muddy ice roads in Manitoba have been located and are safe. RCMP say the 13 were picked up by a convoy of 30 semi-trailer trucks that were slo...
Cops say Mtl store killings a professional job; arrest owner on bail violation
MONTREAL - The owner of a boutique where two men were gunned down in a gangland-style hit was placed under arrest while Montreal police Friday probed possible Mafia links to the killings. Police co...
Convicted Somali refugee ordered deported last fall arrested in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - A man who had been ordered out of Canada last fall has been arrested in Winnipeg. Mohamed Said Jama, 39, was arrested Friday on an outstanding immigration warrant by Canada Border Servic...
B.C. avalanche kills one; RCMP believe more possibly buried
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - A massive avalanche in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry on Friday killed at least one snowmobiler and possibly buried an unknown number of others in the second deadly slid...
Report on B.C. avalanche says luck and quick response saved lives
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Only luck and a quick response kept an avalanche in the British Columbia backcountry last weekend from becoming the worst in Canadian history, says a report from the Canadian Avalanc...
Avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C., kills one, injures one and prompts search
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - A massive avalanche in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry on Friday killed at least one snowmobiler, injured another and sparked a search for anyone else caught in the secon...
Another avalanche near Revelstoke B.C. kills one and injuries one
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - One person has been killed and another injured in an avalanche west of Revelstoke, B.C. Police are trying to determine the size of the overall number of people involved in the sl...
Who wants to be an ex-premier? Klein decides to press his luck on game show
EDMONTON - OK, contestants. Fingers on your buzzers. What former Alberta premier is starring in his own game show? If you answered Ralph Klein, you're right. Johnny, tell 'em what they've ...
Man arrested in case of anti-Jewish graffiti spray-painted in Calgary
CALGARY - Police have arrested an 18-year-old man who had been wanted on a Canada-wide warrant over anti-Semitic messages spray-painted in Calgary. Officers in Winnipeg took the man into custody wi...
Alberta man charged in attempted child abduction foiled by citizens
WHITECOURT, Alta. - RCMP have charged an Alberta man in a child abduction that was foiled by onlookers. Police say a man approached a girl at a school playground in Whitecourt on Wednesday, but peo...
Prime Minister Harper announces gym money for Brandon University in Manitoba
BRANDON, Man. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced plans for an $18-million university sports complex in Brandon, Man. The money will be used to build two new gymnasiums in addition to the...
Manitoba government throws Greyhound $3.2M to keep running
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says it will provide Greyhound with $3.12 million to keep the passenger bus service from shutting down for at least a year. Transportation Minister Steve Ashton s...
Police won't discuss Rizzuto ties, but say Montreal shootings professional hit
MONTREAL - Police arrested the owner of an Old Montreal boutique where deadly shootings took place as homicide detectives finished combing through the blood-spattered crime scene Friday. Police did...
Liberals to push Harper on G8 abortion, contraception
OTTAWA - Liberals are hoping to pin down Prime Minister Stephen Harper over where he stands on abortion in his G8 maternal-health initiative for the Third World. The Opposition is to introduce a mo...
Victim identified in London, Ont., fatal hit and run accident; woman charged
LONDON, Ont. - London, Ont, police have identified the elderly pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run accident this week as 93-year-old Thomas David Smith. Police say Smith may have been walking on the...
Harper's press aid pranked by satire show, befriended RCMP suspect on Facebook
MONTREAL - A top aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not making any new friends on Facebook. It's not that Dimitri Soudas is unfriendly - it seems the prime minister's press secretary has been...
Bail granted for 3 men charged by Toronto police with gang sex assault
TORONTO - Three men accused of taking part in gang sexual assaults against four women were granted bail Friday in a Toronto court. Police say the proceedings are under a publication ban. Hyung J...
Hamilton bus driver charged with careless driving after fatal accident
HAMILTON, Ont. - Hamilton police have charged the driver of a bus that hit a woman who later died in hospital. Police say the woman was hit in a crosswalk February 24th by a transit bus making a le...
Dozens of kids, parents rally at Ont. legislature to stop cuts to daycare
TORONTO - Dozens of children and parents rallied at the Ontario legislature Friday to demand the government maintain child-care funding in the upcoming budget. The tots waved signs and threw inflat...
Muddy ice roads a wake-up call, permanent roads needed: Grand Chief
WINNIPEG - Muddy ice roads that have stranded dozens of drivers in the wilderness and prompted 16 northern Manitoba First Nations to declare a state of emergency are proof that permanent all-season ro...
16 more fraud charges for man accused of Ponzi scheme in Windsor, Ont.
WINDSOR, Ont. - There are more charges for a 42-year-old Lakeshore, Ont., man accused of bilking investors through a Ponzi scheme Provincial police have laid 16 additional counts of fraud and one c...
Mysterious bat-killing illness previously seen in the U.S. now in Ontario
TORONTO - A mysterious illness that has killed upwards of 500,000 bats in the northeastern United States has now been detected in the animals in Ontario. The Ministry of Natural Resources is confir...
Border agency looks at giving guns to airport officers
OTTAWA - Canada's border agency is looking at giving guns to officers working at airports. The proposal is part of a broad review of the Canada Border Services Agency's 10-year program to arm 4,800...
Lotto 6-49 jackpot could go even higher than the estimated $41 million
TORONTO - Canadians chasing dreams of financial freedom are pushing Lotto 6-49 sales up dramatically, inflating the $41-million prize to a total that won't be known until the dust has settled on Satur...
Canadian writer Peter Watts convicted in case stemming from stop at US border
PORT HURON, Mich. - A Canadian science fiction writer who authorities say refused to comply during an inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in December has been convicted in the ca...
Hamilton police charge man and arrest two women in alleged fraud ring
HAMILTON, Ont. - Hamilton police have arrested three people allegedly involved in a $1.2-million dollar fraud ring. Police have been investigating reports of mortgage and loan frauds in the Hamilto...
Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig dismisses items found in police raid
EDMONTON - Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig says there are innocent explanations for the articles police seized from his farm in northwestern Alberta in a recent raid. Some of the books on terro...
Supreme Court overturns child-porn conviction, says search was unreasonable
OTTAWA - A botched search warrant and the right to computer privacy featured Friday in a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the child pornography conviction of a Saskatchewan man. By a slim 4-3 m...
Alberta anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig dismisses items found in police raid
EDMONTON - Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig says there are innocent explanations for articles police seized from his farm in northwestern Alberta. The 68-year-old says some of the terrorism book...
Quebec, saddled with $4.7-billion deficit, to table provincial budget March 30
MONTREAL - Quebec's Charest government will present its provincial budget on March 30. The province is saddled with a $4.7-billion deficit this year, and is only projecting a return to surplus in 2...
