The feds hope a new initiative that requires drug labels to use "plain language" will reduce the number of hospitalizations.
Drug labels must have 'plain language': Health Minister
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Feces sandwich led to cop's arrest: Source
A police officer accused of leaking sensitive information to Hells Angels associates first raised suspicions after human feces was found in a colleague's sandwich.
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Crown will oppose bail for Pamela Porter
The wife of the former head of Canada's spy watchdog arrived in Quebec provincial police headquarters Friday morning to be booked in a $22.5-million bribery scam.
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Former top general Walt Natynczyk to run Canadian Space Agency
Retired chief of the defence staff Walt Natynczyk landed a new job Friday as head of the Canadian Space Agency.
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SCOC: Employers can't subject unionized employees to random breathalyzer tests
An employer can't randomly perform breathalyzer tests on unionized workers, Canada's top court ruled Friday.
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Retired senator Raymond Lavigne begins jail sentence for fraud
As Senate spending scandals continue to swirl on Parliament Hill, a retired senator convicted of filing bogus travel expenses quietly began serving a six-month jail sentence last week.
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Charity asks Justin Trudeau to return speaking fee after event bombs
An East Coast charity has asked Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau to return a $20,000 fee he was paid to speak at an event in 2012 that flopped.
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Tories use probe to dodge Senate questions
Conservatives used a criminal investigation into the Prime Minister's Office to clam up Friday about the $90,000 cheque at the centre of the widening Senate spending scandal probe.
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11 years for N.S. man who chained, rape teen boy
The man who kidnapped a 16-year-old boy, drove him to a remote Nova Scotia shack, then chained him in a room and repeatedly raped him for 10 days will be sentenced Friday.
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Canada agrees: Assad has gassed Syrian opponents
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada has joined allies like the U.S. and France who believe the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad have gassed their own people, rebels who are trying to topple the Assad regime.
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Baird still wary after moderate wins Iranian election
So-called moderate Hassan Rohani has won Iran's presidential election according to the Islamist theocracy's interior minister, but that doesn't change Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird's view of Iran's government.
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Murder-suicide highlights growing problem of elderly depression
Abe Hajjar watched as the bodies of his best friends were carried from their home, an elderly couple who couldn't cope any longer.
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Handwriting skills falling to the side, but educators say that's a shame
Patti Moran used to get props for her penmanship. Often, in fact.
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Former madam warns against legalizing brothels
A former madam warns that organized crime — not sex trade workers — will reap the benefits if Canada’s Supreme Court legalizes brothels.
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3 seniors arrested in plot to attack armoured cars
Police arrested three men in their 60s of plotting to attack cash-carrying armoured vehicles.
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Trudeau's 180-degree speaking fee reversal
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has done a complete reversal on the speaking fees he raked in from charities in the five years since he was elected MP in his Montreal riding.
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Putin backing Syrian 'thugs': Harper
As Syria's civil war bloodbath continues, Prime Minister Stephen Harper fired a salvo at Russia's government in a full-fledged war of words.
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175,000 Que. construction workers set to strike
Construction sites across Quebec will shut down midnight Monday as 175,000 unionized workers go on strike after contract talks failed, union leaders said Sunday afternoon.
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Three injured in Edmonton home explosion
Two teenagers and a man were taken to hospital with serious burns after a small explosion rocked the basement of a home in north Edmonton Sunday.
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Seven injured after fire tears through Edmonton apartment
Seven people were hospitalized, including a young child, after a fire tore through a downtown Edmonton high-rise apartment building Sunday.
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