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Clement Gascon, high court justice who went missing, had panic attack
OTTAWA - Supreme Court Justice Clement Gascon says he suffered a panic attack last week before he briefly went missing Wednesday night. Gascon, who has already announced plans to r...
May 16, 2019
Accused in death of Winnipeg woman found in barrel controlled 5 women: Crown
WINNIPEG - A Crown prosecutor says a man on trial for first-degree murder maintained control over multiple women he lived with through surveillance, drugs and abuse. Perez Cleveland, 46, has pleaded n...
May 16, 2019
Just for Laughs founder asks appeal court to toss class action lawsuit
MONTREAL - Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon's lawyer asked Quebec's highest court Thursday to throw out a $10-million class action lawsuit claiming that the comedy impresario abused at ...
May 16, 2019
Wednesday's Scoreboard
Wednesday's GamesNSRBLLloyd Twins 7, Unity Midgets 3 World Hockey ChampionshipUnited States 6 Britain 3Germany 3 Slovakia 2Switzerland 4 Norway 1Russia 10 Italy 0NHL PlayoffsWestern Conference FinalSa...
May 16, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW staff)
Haechan meets Haechan: K-pop star honoured with zoo namesake
LOS ANGELES - Fans of the K-pop group NCT 127 donated money in January to name a baby pudu at the Los Angeles Zoo after one of its members, Haechan (HECH'-ehn). This week, the human Haechan got to mee...
May 16, 2019
Indigenous teen's treatment while disclosing abuse indicative of 'pattern'
OTTAWA - B.C.'s former child representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says the "heinous" treatment of an Indigenous teenager during a 2012 RCMP interrogation reflects a pattern she has seen o...
May 16, 2019
Toronto FC's Jozy Altidore says competition is fierce with tennis star fiancee
TORONTO - Put a star soccer striker and world-ranked tennis player together and what have you got? One competitive couple, when it comes to Toronto FC's Jozy Altidore and world No. 8 Sloane Steph...
May 16, 2019
NATO researchers consult federal government on foreign election meddling
OTTAWA - A leading NATO researcher says Canadian voters have a duty to think critically about the news they consume as foreign-interference threats loom over the coming federal election. Jan...
May 16, 2019
B.C. legislature clerk in spending scandal retires after wrongdoing found
VICTORIA - British Columbia's top legislative official has retired after a report by a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada found he improperly claimed benefits...
May 16, 2019
UFO researcher Stanton Friedman dies after half-century effort to prove alien life
FREDERICTON - Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the age of 84. The famed UFO researcher died Monday at To...
May 16, 2019