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Bid by Allan Legere for parole prompts debate over whether release laws need review
Serial killer Allan Legere is permitted to keep seeking parole - and that has federal politicians and a former jailer suggesting release laws may need to be changed to ensure he doesn't succeed. The p...
Jan 14, 2021
Former Taekwondo Canada coach found guilty of sex-related offences involving student
TORONTO - A high-level taekwondo coach gradually took control of a teenage student's life, abusing his position of trust as he began a years-long stretch of escalating sexual assaults that culminated ...
Jan 14, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: Trump's big-tent coalition of the deluded
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSEMBLED a ragtag rabble of misfits into "Trump's Army".The disgraced president was able to unite marginalized groups in a way no other president has done. Believers in alien abdu...
Jan 14, 2021
Wife of Nunavut man who died from COVID-19 pleads with people to get vaccinated
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The wife of a Nunavut man who died from COVID-19 after contracting it in his community is urging the territory's residents to get vaccinated. Diane Sammurtok's husband Luki died in ...
Jan 14, 2021
24 years after Reena Virk's murder, parole board continues Kelly Ellard's release
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The 38-year-old woman convicted of murdering teenager Reena Virk near Victoria in 1997 will be allowed to continue her day parole. The Parole Board of Canada has released its ruling...
Jan 14, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic has forever impacted life of Montreal Alouettes star and his family
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever left its mark on Montreal Alouettes linebacker Henoc Muamba and his family. Mamba's mother-in-law, Elizabeth Tweneboah, died in June after contracting the novel coron...
Jan 14, 2021
Gov't watchdog: DOJ failed 'zero tolerance' management
WASHINGTON - Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 "zero tolerance" border policy would result in family separations but pressed on with prosecutions even as other ag...
Jan 14, 2021
Supreme Court to examine limits on conditional sentencing
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of a law that prevented a judge from allowing an offender to avoid jail by imposing a conditional sentence for certain crimes. T...
Jan 14, 2021
Canadian forward Tyler Pasher returns to MLS with the Houston Dynamo
Canadian forward Tyler Pasher is back in Major League Soccer, signing with the Houston Dynamo from the USL Championship's Indy Eleven. The 26-year-old from Elmira, Ont., scored 23 goals and added six ...
Jan 14, 2021
Hydro says lights back on for 220K customers after windstorm hits southern B.C.
VANCOUVER - Power has been mostly restored in southern British Columbia affected by this week's powerful windstorm. An update from BC Hydro says lights are back on for 220,000 customers affected Tuesd...
Jan 14, 2021
