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Saskatchewan native leaders hand over financial control of troubled school


SASKATOON - Saskatchewan aboriginal leaders say they have agreed to hand over financial control of the troubled First Nations University of Canada to the University of Regina.

Chief Guy Lonechild of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations said Tuesday that the decision could prompt ...


Man named in police shootout, slain officer knew each other, residents say


A man suspected of trading gunfire with police in an incident that saw an officer shot and killed was identified Tuesday as 70-year-old Fred Preston, a former reeve of a small community that residents say the slain officer was raised in.

Preston, of Sundridge, Ont., remained in critical ...


Coke charge dropped as ex-Tory MP Jaffer pleads guilty to careless driving


ORANGEVILLE, Ont. - A former Conservative MP once known for his tough stance on drugs received a "break" when cocaine possession and drunk driving charges were withdrawn in a plea bargain, an Ontario judge said Tuesday.

The deal, which saw Rahim Jaffer convicted of the lesser offence of ...


Changes made at Alberta Children's Hospital after report into series of errors


CALGARY - Alberta health officials say they've made changes after an independent review into a string of mistakes at a Calgary children's hospital last year, including two drug overdoses and a child given the wrong breast milk.

But the head of the group that did the review says more ...


Invalid death certificate puts BC couple in African adoption limbo


VANCOUVER -A B.C. couple has been separated for months after its effort to adopt twin boys from Ghana turned into a bureaucratic nightmare.

Andrea Bastin, a filmmaker from Bowen Island near Vancouver, has been living in the West African country since August as she tries to convince the ...


Tories should take Jaffer lesson to heart, dump minimum sentences: experts


OTTAWA - Justice Minister Rob Nicholson should take a long, honest look at the Rahim Jaffer case and apply its lessons to the Conservative criminal justice agenda, the head of the John Howard Society said Tuesday.

"It's really easy to disparage discretion for judges - until you need it," ...


Harper government survives first budget vote in Parliament


OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government has survived its first confidence test of the new session of Parliament.

The House of Commons voted 214-84 on Tuesday to reject a Bloc Quebecois amendment to the federal budget.

That amendment would have forced the government ...


Key Senate post up for grabs, but Tories take a pass


OTTAWA - The Conservatives have passed up a chance to seize control of a key Senate committee that they regularly attack for stalling or watering down government bills.

Now that the Tories hold more seats in the upper chamber than the Liberals, they can reconfigure committees to reflect ...


Stranded seal pups popping up on beaches of ice-free Gulf of St. Lawrence


MONTREAL - An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups.

The conditions have led to numerous sightings of fuzzy, days-old critters wallowing on beaches, where many wait to ...


Ontario doctor being sued over mastectomies wants hospital privileges back


WINDSOR, Ont. - A Windsor, Ont., doctor at the heart of a controversy over mistaken mastectomies wants her hospital privileges back.

Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital is going to hold a hearing to determine whether Dr. Barbara Heartwell will be reinstated as a surgeon.

A panel of seven ...


B.C. government says Blackmore brought polygamy prosecution on himself


VANCOUVER, B.C. - A B.C. religious leader who has admitted to having multiple wives brought a highly publicized and ultimately unsuccessful prosecution upon himself by openly practising polygamy, says the provincial government.

In a statement of defence filed in a civil lawsuit, the ...


Wife of fallen officer speaks emotionally at funeral, calls him her 'hero'


MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The wife of a Toronto-area police officer who died following a car collision while on duty gave him an emotional goodbye Tuesday, calling him her hero.

Erin Ochakovsky described her husband, Peel region Const. Artem (James) Ochakovsky, as a loving husband and father and ...


Analysis shows TB 185 times more common among Inuit


A national analysis of health data suggests tuberculosis is 185 times more common among Canada's Inuit than it is among the mainstream population - and getting worse.

"The trend is the escalation in the rate and that's what we need to be concerned about, particularly as the trend in the ...


Federal budget child-care tax break causes new headache for feds


OTTAWA - The federal budget's key anti-poverty measure cures one headache and causes another.

Changes to the tax treatment of the $100-a-month Universal Child Care Benefit to help single-parent families "will create new inequities," says the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, an ...


Woman spends savings in lengthy N.S. battle to preserve life of impounded dog


HALIFAX, N.S. - Francesca Rogier says she remains unbowed in her legal battle to preserve the life of a mixed-breed dog that faces euthanasia after it attacked other canines, despite exhausting $30,000 in savings on lawyers and putting her architecture career on hold.

The 50-year-old ...


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