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Mayor discouraged after latest violence in Belleville, Ont., area
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - The mayor of Belleville, Ont., is discouraged by an escalation of violent crime in the city and the Quinte Region of eastern Ontario. Two males were taken to a Belleville hospita...
Warm, dry weather in Manitoba reduces flooding threat to a trickle
WINNIPEG - Residents of Fargo in North Dakota may be battling rising waters, but officials downstream in Manitoba are more optimistic. Provincial forecasters say recent warm, dry weather has dimini...
Police confident they can track down two men who robbed a dying elderly woman
TORONTO - Police may make an arrest as early as today in the case of an unconscious elderly woman who was robbed of $7,000 in jewelry just moments before she died at a Toronto hospital. There are t...
Canadian bookworms shouldn't expect parity on the price of books
TORONTO - Bookworms north of the border shouldn't expect to pay the same prices as their American neighbours if the Canadian dollar hits parity with the U.S. greenback. Susan Dayus, executive direc...
Afghan army dropout rate poses 'challenge'to Canada's exit strategy
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - They are supposed to be our exit strategy. But the latest Canadian government quarterly assessment raises concern about the number of soldiers leaving the Afghan National Ar...
Government stonewalling over Afghan documents mocks Parliament: opposition
OTTAWA - The opening shots have been fired in the Commons in what could become a bitter war over Parliament's right to know and the government's right to keep secrets. Opposition MPs have fumed for...
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