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An autopsy has confirmed that the human remains found near Orangeville, Ont., on the weekend are those of Sonia Varaschin....
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Quebec cabinet minister Claude Béchard has died after a public battle with cancer....
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The federal government is partnering with Crime Stoppers to enlist the Canadian public's help in detecting and reporting signs of potential human trafficking....
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An Inuit family says a box that was hidden for over 80 years in the Arctic contains logbooks linked to the doomed Franklin Expedition....
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B.C.'s Labour Relations Board has upheld a ruling that will see close to 200 people receive millions of dollars in termination pay....
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Members of Winnipeg's Somali community are looking for answers after two young men were pulled from a car at gunpoint in an apparent case of mistaken identity....
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Quebec's public hearings into euthanasia began on Tuesday in Montreal, with testimony from several groups holding differing views on the controversial issue....
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Former B.C. cabinet minister Blair Lekstrom says Premier Gordon Campbell needs to tell British Columbians he's retiring from politics, and the sooner he does so the better....
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Two people were taken to hospital in Ottawa and a Natural Resources Canada building was evacuated after a hydrogen fluoride leak in a lab....
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A 911 call was made to Calgary's Public Safety Communications centre in February from a man alleging that Dustin Paxton had threatened him....
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David Folker has been charged in a St. John's court with murder in the death of his girlfriend, Ann Marie Shirran, who was reported missing in mid-July....
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A former programs officer for the federal heritage ministry has been charged with fraud and breach of trust in connection to money granted to a Winnipeg-based aboriginal arts collective run by her and her family, RCMP said Tuesday....
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A 12-year-old girl is in hospital and a 16-year-old boy is in custody after an alleged sexual assault Monday afternoon in northeast Calgary that was witnessed by eight other young people....
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Dozens of drug squad officers have launched seasonal raids on marijuana grow-ops in Nova Scotia....
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A man is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday in connection with the death of Ann Marie Shirran, the St. John's woman who had been missing since mid-July....
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A garbage processing plant in Surrey, B.C., is in lockdown after an unknown gas suddenly filled the facility early Monday, causing eight workers to fall ill....
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Two men were killed when a small plane crashed shortly after it took off near Lumby, B.C., police say....
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A teenager is dead after a bizarre accident involving an all terrain vehicle....
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A forensic autopsy will be performed Tuesday on human remains found just east of Orangeville, Ont., with results expected no earlier than the next day on whether they are from missing nurse Sonia Varaschin....
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An 86-year-old Winnipeg man missing for five days in rugged terrain east of the Manitoba capital has been found alive and in good condition...
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Nova Scotia Power crews have restored power to nearly all customers who were without electricity since Hurricane Earl hit the province on Saturday....
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The body pulled from a Quebec lake is that of Gervais Munger, co-owner of a major junior hockey team, a family spokesman has confirmed....
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Canada's union leaders are turning their attention to the public sector this Labour Day as deficit-obsessed governments put the squeeze on their workers....
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A year after Hilary Bonnell disappeared from a northern New Brunswick First Nation community, the teenager's mother says her pain is unbearable....
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New Brunswick's New Democratic Party is demanding pay equity legislation covering the private sector, Leader Roger Duguay announced on Monday....
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Alberta's health minister says the construction of a hospital east of Edmonton is just the latest example of medical projects being put on hold because of the economic downturn....
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A Charlottetown company is working on a new way to use smart phone technology to track lobster catches....
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People living in a southwest Calgary neighbourhood can expect to start getting their mail again on Tuesday despite an aggressive family of hawks still being in the area....
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Hurricane Earl has left thousands in Atlantic Canada without electricity....
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Compared to the Maritimes, Newfoundland and Labrador got off pretty easy when it came to Hurricane Earl....
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The remains found near Orangeville, Ont., on Sunday are human but police will not make a direct link with a woman who has been missing from the town since last Sunday....
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Two people were killed and one injured Sunday in a head-on collision on Highway 20 near Drummondville, Que., about 80 kilometres northeast of Montreal....
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The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has confirmed that human remains found in a wooded area are those of a woman who went missing in July....
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Fishermen will get one last chance to catch B.C. Fraser River sockeye before the Fisheries Department begins shutting down the fishery on Tuesday....
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An Alberta woman has been awarded $650,000 as part of a 19-year human rights battle - the longest running complaint in the province's history....
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Spirits remained high Sunday that a Manitoba senior declared missing by RCMP this weekend would be found safe and sound....
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A bone found by a missing persons search team on the western outskirts of Regina is not from a human, police say....
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New Brunswick's Liberal Party is promising a February statutory holiday if elected Sept. 27....
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David Johnston, Canada's governor general-designate, paid a visit to Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Sunday for his first official audience with Queen Elizabeth....
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The Canadian International Air Show took flight over Toronto Sunday after Saturday's scheduled opening was cancelled due to high winds....
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With the new school year around the corner, parents of asthmatic children are bracing for the "September spike."...
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Authorities in Los Angeles hope DNA testing can clear up a 70-year-old mystery with links to British Columbia....
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An 18-year-old woman is dead and her 21-year-old sister is charged with manslaughter after a fight at their Winnipeg home....
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A moose on the highway led to a crash that killed one person, police say....
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Parents hoping to get their children a spot in a French immersion school in the Lower Mainland are finding spots tough to come by, and the problem could get worse, advocates say....
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The Toronto Air Show was cancelled Saturday due to the weather, a spokesman for the organization said....
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Someone killed Toronto businessman Paul Maasland, whose body was found in Bracebridge, the Ontario Provincial Police say....
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Dustin Paxton must undergo a psychiatric evaluation as he awaits trial on charges of forcible confinement and assault in two separate cases, a Calgary judge says....
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Earl swooped into New England waters Friday night as a tropical storm after sideswiping North Carolina's Outer Banks, where it caused flooding but no injuries and little damage....
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It could be days before a fuel tanker carrying 9.5 million litres of diesel is dislodged from a sandbar in the Northwest Passage....
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