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Former B.C. mayor sentenced to two years less a day for sexual offences

December 4, 2019 - 7:45pm

SMITHERS, B.C. — British Columbia's prosecution service says the former mayor of Burns Lake has been sentenced to two years less a day for sexual offences involving four boys under the age of 16.

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Man guilty of breaking woman's arms in road rage attack appeals conviction

December 4, 2019 - 6:45pm

EDMONTON — An Edmonton man found guilty of breaking a woman's arms with a crowbar in a road rage attack is appealing his conviction.

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Estranged wife of alleged killer has home vandalized in B.C., man sentenced

December 4, 2019 - 4:44pm

PENTICTON, B.C. — The son-in-law of a man killed earlier this year in Penticton, B.C., was sentenced to probation Wednesday for vandalizing the home of accused killer's estranged wife.

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Inuit sharing ancient knowledge of ice, sea and land with social media app Siku

December 4, 2019 - 3:44pm

HALIFAX — A social media app geared towards the outdoor lives of Inuit launched Wednesday with features that tie traditional knowledge to smartphone technology.

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Trudeau-Trump trip-ups: A brief history of bumps in the leaders' relationship

December 4, 2019 - 2:44pm

OTTAWA — The latest snafu in the relationship between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump played out on the public stage of an international summit on Wednesday. But the leaders of two of the world's closest allies have had their prickly exchanges before.

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Scheer warns Liberals his Tories are watching as Parliament prepares to return

December 4, 2019 - 1:44pm

OTTAWA — Opposition Conservatives are looking ahead to the return of Parliament Thursday as an opportunity to change the channel after weeks of very public party in-fighting around the future of leader Andrew Scheer.

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Ottawa's plan on missing and murdered Indigenous women due by June: Bennett

December 4, 2019 - 1:44pm

OTTAWA — The Liberal government will release its national action plan to respond to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by June 2020, says Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett.

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Wilkinson says carbon price hikes won't be decided until 2022

December 4, 2019 - 1:44pm

GATINEAU, Que. — The federal Liberals will not make a decision about hiking the carbon price beyond $50 a tonne for at least another two years, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says.

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Quebec chief justice postpones speech to Jewish law society over Bill 21 concerns

December 4, 2019 - 12:44pm

MONTREAL — Quebec's chief justice, who is hearing a case seeking a suspension of the province's secularism law, will no longer be speaking to an association of Jewish lawyers in Montreal following allegations of bias.