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Courier ordered to pay damages after stallion sperm shipment loses its potency
HALIFAX - A multinational courier has been ordered to pay damages for taking two days to deliver stallion sperm after a Halifax adjudicator found customers were justified in expecting overnight servic...
Kayla Derkach Sep 20, 2017
Eight stories in the news for today, Sept. 20
Eight stories in the news for Wednesday, Sept. 20 --- PACKED DAY AWAITS PM TRUDEAU IN NEW YORK Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a packed agenda today in New York City as he prepares for his speech on...
Kayla Derkach Sep 20, 2017

Trudeau meets world leaders, promotes Canada for Security Council seat
NEW YORK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau found himself in a whirlwind, 10-meeting day in New York City on Wednesday as he prepared Canada’s campaign for a temporary seat on the United Nations Se...
Kayla Derkach Sep 20, 2017
Four candidates vying to lead new Alberta party face off in first debate
CALGARY - The four men vying for the leadership of Alberta’s new United Conservative Party focused their attacks on Alberta’s NDP government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rather than e...
Kayla Derkach Sep 20, 2017
'Deeply sorry:' Calgary man who strangled wife, buried body in home gets 7 years
CALGARY - A man who strangled his wife and concealed her body after enduring what he described as years of domestic abuse has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Allan Shyback will get credit for...
Kayla Derkach Sep 20, 2017
Utilities commission seeks more data on Site C before final recommendation
VANCOUVER - The BC Utilities Commission has released a preliminary report into the future of the controversial $8.8-billion Site C dam project in the province’s northeast. But the commission sai...
Kayla Derkach Sep 20, 2017

Fallen RCMP officer the 'consummate Mountie': Acting commissioner
MONCTON, N.B. - Hundreds of RCMP officers in red serge filed sombrely into a New Brunswick church to pay tribute to a Mountie killed last week when he stopped to help stranded motorists change a flat ...
Kayla Derkach Sep 20, 2017
Ex-Mountie who smuggled narwhal tusks to be sentenced
BANGOR, Maine - A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer accused of smuggling narwhal tusks across the border is due to be sentenced for money laundering. Prosecutors say Gregory Logan, of Sain...
Kayla Derkach Sep 19, 2017
Florida treasure hunter finds Winnipegger's championship ring after hurricane
WINNIPEG - A treasure-hunter who hit the beaches of Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma found something that a Winnipegger lost about four years ago - a championship football ring. Tom Shay say...
Kayla Derkach Sep 19, 2017

Important for new leader to have seat in the House of Commons: Mulcair
OTTAWA - Outgoing NDP leader Tom Mulcair says it is important for his successor to have a seat in the Commons - an issue playing out in the current battle to replace him. Ontario legislator Jagmeet Si...
Kayla Derkach Sep 19, 2017

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