Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has closed the door on decriminalizing illicit drugs to combat a national overdose crisis but British Columbia’s addictions minister says unprecedented deaths are a “wake-up call” to reconsider that stance.
Justin Trudeau says no to decriminalizing drugs to combat overdose crisis while B.C. addictions minister open to idea
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Derek Saretzky appeals conviction in gruesome Crowsnest Pass murders
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Prominent Calgary terrorist Farah Shirdon confirmed killed in Iraq
American defence officials have confirmed a
Calgarian who took up arms with the Islamic
State was killed over two years ago.
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Waterton ordered evacuated due to wildfire danger
WATERTON, Alta. -- Prepare for the worst, hope
for the best.
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Teen who lost mother to grizzly chased by bear herself
The daughter of an Alberta woman who died in a grizzly bear attack in 2005 says she now has a better sense of how her mom felt in the moments before she died thanks to her own run-in with a notorious bear.
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Invictus: The name means “Unconquered” — and that’s what they are.
They’ve lost limbs or suffered horrific wounds.
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Healing with the Invictus Games
In one of Al McFarlane’s ghastly recurring nightmares, a thirsty little girl is walking down a dirt road. She’s holding a plastic pop bottle cut in half and is using it as a glass to drink water from the stagnant puddles.
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Canada's ex-poet laureate Pierre DesRuisseaux accused of plagiarizing Tupac Shakur among others
One of Canada’s former poet laureates is being accused of plagiarizing the works of well known English-language authors in a book that has since been taken off the shelves.
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Trudeau says criticism over social issues in NAFTA talks shows Conservatives just don't get it
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the biggest pushback to including issues such as gender equality in discussions over the North American Free Trade Agreement has come not from the United States but from within Canada.
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Nova Scotia town covers Cornwallis Bridge sign as petitions circle to rename river
A debate sweeping the country over the naming of monuments and places after contentious historical figures has found a new flashpoint in rural Nova Scotia.
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Canada's police say zero chance they'll be ready for July 2018 Liberal pot timetable
Canada’s police services say there is zero chance they will be ready to enforce new laws for legalized pot by next summer.
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'Best candidate': Dog enters race for mayor’s office in St. John’s
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A celebrity candidate has entered the mayoral race in St. John’s, N.L. — one with fur and four legs.
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Evacuations and lost homes as wildfire races north
PINCHER CREEK — It was the scenario everybody prepared for but hoped would never happen.Lashing at the western boundaries of Waterton Lakes National Park since Friday, the Kenow wildfire's devastating journey across the continental divide tore a fiery path through the beloved southwestern Alberta park — mercifully sparing much of the townsite.
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Double murderer Gary Otte sang Christian hymn before execution
An Ohio man convicted of killing two people in back-to-back robberies in suburban Cleveland in 1992 was executed Wednesday as family members of his victims looked on.
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'We will not be ready': Liberals 'anxious' for pot deadline despite police pleas
Canada’s public safety minister says the federal government is anxious to legalize marijuana by next summer despite police services saying there’s zero chance they’ll be ready.
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PM's Aga Khan trip cost more than $215Gs: Report
Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $215,000 for the prime minister's jaunt to the Bahamas over the Christmas holidays, CBC reports.
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Fentanyl anti-overdose drug naloxone free at Quebec pharmacies
The Quebec government will make available free of charge an opioid overdose counter-effect drug, naloxone, as it struggles to avert the same kind of drug crisis rocking other provinces.
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Liberal MP Arnold Chan dies at 50 after battle with cancer
Liberal MP Arnold Chan has died of cancer.
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RCMP illegally snooped mobile phones with Stingray device: Watchdog
The RCMP illegally scooped up mobile phone data half a dozen times using controversial Stingray devices, the federal privacy watchdog says.
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Ranchers blame exploding shell for grass fire that killed 160 head of cattle
BINDLOSS, Alta. — When the residents of Bindloss wake up in the morning, they often don’t take in the rising sun.
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