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California harassment investigations cost taxpayers $1.8M
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Legislature racked up more than $1.8 million in legal costs from sexual harassment investigations during 2018 and the first month of this year when at least nine cu...
Mar 10, 2019
Saturday's Scoreboard
WHL Moose Jaw 6, Regina 1Saskatoon 6, Swift Current 1Medicine Hat 4, Brandon 2Lethbridge 7, Calgary 4Red Deer 8, Kootenay 4Kamloops 2, Kelowna 1Prince George 5, Portland 2Seattle 2, Everett 1Spokane 6...
Mar 10, 2019 SATURDAY MARCH 9
FAST action is required for diagnosing a stroke
The recent death of actor Luke Perry has increased the focus on strokes.Perry, 52, died Monday after suffering a massive stroke five days earlier.Dr. Brett Graham, a stroke neurologist with the Saskat...
Mar 10, 2019 : Glenn Hicks
'Don't talk to each other:' Inside Manitoba's child protection hearings
WINNIPEG - A nervous father walks into a courtroom and sits down. Over the next few minutes, he's quiet as two lawyers discuss his children and decide on the Indigenous family's future. "It's rea...
Mar 10, 2019
'A matter of principle:' Family of slain CFL player files lawsuit against bar
CALGARY - The family of a pro football player gunned down outside a Calgary bar has filed a lawsuit against the nightclub and its staff alleging they let a disagreement over a spilled drink escal...
Mar 10, 2019
Ontario mulls single-use plastics ban in waste diversion strategy
TORONTO - Ontario is weighing a ban on single-use plastics as part of a broader strategy to send less waste to landfills. Nearly a tonne of waste per person in Ontario is generated each year, and the ...
Mar 10, 2019
Oland in financial bind before dad's death, but denies debt was motive to kill
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Dennis Oland has denied his personal financial problems were a motive to kill his multimillionaire father, Richard, but there's little doubt he was caught in a severe money crunch o...
Mar 10, 2019
B.C.'s plans to expand civil forfeiture program called unconstitutional
VANCOUVER - Eight years have passed since David Lloydsmith learned British Columbia's Civil Forfeiture Office wanted to seize his modest two-bedroom bungalow, but he says the panic and anger that grip...
Mar 10, 2019
Finland's centre-right government resigns
COPENHAGEN - Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila's centre-right government resigned Friday after the governing coalition failed to agree on and push through a planned social and health reform. "I take ...
Mar 10, 2019
Crown to proceed by direct indictment against accused Fredericton shooter
FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of fatally shooting four people in the city last August is one step closer to a possible trial. Matthew Raymond is charged with four counts of first-d...
Mar 10, 2019