A customer on a WestJet flight from Toronto to Edmonton says there were some tense moments as he and others helped the crew subdue an unruly passenger.
Passengers help subdue unruly man on WestJet flight headed to Edmonton
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Fentanyl involved in 9 overdoses within 20 minutes in B.C. town: Police
DELTA, B.C. — It’s a miracle that no one died after nine people overdosed within a 20-minute period on what are believed to be drugs laced with fentanyl, a police chief in British Columbia says.
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Alan Kurdi's death had disproportionate effect on Canada: observers
It’s been one year since the image of a drowned toddler lying face down on a Turkish beach turned the eyes of the world to the Syrian refugee crisis, but observers say the powerful portrait of human suffering did little in the long term to alleviate the hardship in the conflict-torn region.
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Want free land? Work for this Cape Breton store for 5 years and you'll get it
They’re offering free land and a job to anyone interested in working at the family roadside general store — and two Cape Breton businesswomen say they’ve been swamped with replies.
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Stranded for days, frightened pooch rescued from side of rocky cliff
A lucky, but tired dog is back with his family after rescuers plucked him from the side of a sheer cliff where he had been stranded for days.
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Smoked meat and basketball: Trudeau takes lighter approach to connect with China
With the higher-stakes political discussions behind him, Justin Trudeau’s week-long mission to foster Canadian-Chinese relations adopted a lighter tone Friday.
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Lovers get 3 years for plotting to murder their spouses
Two lovers who were convicted of plotting to kill their spouses in Saskatchewan have each been sentenced to three years in prison.
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Holy spud? Quebec seniors say they've found a potato with divine message
The residents of a Quebec seniors’ home say a potato they believe has a divine message is bringing them strength and comfort.
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After hundreds of complaints, regulator examines new trimmed-down TV packs
OTTAWA — The national broadcast regulator and the country’s four biggest television service providers are in for an earful this week over the rollout earlier this year of so-called skinny-basic TV.
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WATCH: Family of B.C. black bears can't figure out how hammock works
With rain forecast for later in the day, Neville Judd planned on doing some late-summer gardening Sunday morning, until a mother bear and her cubs altered those plans.
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Hermine expected to lose steam as it hits Canadian waters
Hermine twisted hundreds of miles
offshore in the Atlantic Ocean on
Monday, creating large waves in some
southern New England beach waters that
lured in surfers despite the rough
surf and rip currents that kept most
beachgoers away on the last day of the
holiday weekend.
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New funding rules will weaken community TV, group warns CRTC
Canada’s community TV stations want their money back.
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'They beat me, they sodomized me'; Survivors of Ontario’s ’training schools’ say their suffering is being ignored
Survivors of a shadowy chapter in the
history of Canada’s prison system say
the legacy of the alleged abuse they
endured as children is being ignored, if
not erased.
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Government to stop using ISIL, will refer instead to Daesh
OTTAWA — The Liberal government will no longer refer to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and will instead call the group by a different, potentially insulting name: Daesh.
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Arguments begin in appeal of trucker's acquittal in Cindy Gladue Edmonton motel death
Alberta prosecutors are set to begin appeal arguments today in the acquittal of an Ontario trucker who was charged with killing an aboriginal woman.
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Enbridge to buy Spectra Energy in deal worth $37 billion
Enbridge Inc. plans to buy Houston-
based
Spectra Energy Corp. in an all-stock
friendly deal worth $37 billion that
they say would create the largest
energy
infrastructure company in North
America.
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Piece of World Trade Center tower enroute to Gander as a thank-you
Fifteen years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City continues to thank the people of Gander, N.L., for opening their arms to thousands of stranded travellers.
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CRTC: Many question value of basic TV packages
The country’s broadcast regulator says it’s clear not all Canadians like the trimmed-down TV services mandated earlier this year.
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Anti-debt youth group booted from campus for ‘unsanctioned activism’
The anti-debt student group Generation Screwed had just kicked off its Debt Clock Tour at Laval University on Wednesday when it was kicked off campus for “unsanctioned activism.”
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B.C. couple who faced terror charges still pose a threat to public: Crown
VANCOUVER — A Crown lawyer says a
British Columbia couple found guilty
of masterminding a terrorist plot but
then freed when a judge ruled they had
been entrapped are still a danger to
the public.
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