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Cigarette butts biggest scourge along Canada's shores, cleanup results show
VANCOUVER - While the plastic bag is often vilified as the prime polluter of Canada's coast, a nationwide clean-up effort has found that a type of trash many Canadians toss without a second thought is...
Mine worker killed after rock shifts, burying him 300 metres down
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - An employee of a mine north of Belleville, Ont., is dead after being buried under shifting rock early Wednesday morning. Provincial police say rock shifted in the Canada Talc min...
Maple Leaf expands recall of packaged meats, temporarily closes plant
TORONTO - Maple Leaf Foods is expanding a recall of its packaged meats and temporarily closing a Toronto plant that prepares the products. A number of the affected products are part of a listeriosi...
Cigarette butts biggest scourge along Canada's shorelines, cleanup results show
VANCOUVER - Cigarette butts - not plastic bags - are the biggest litter scourge along Canada's shorelines. Staff at the Vancouver Aquarium and TD Bank organize a yearly volunteer effort to clean up...
Winnipeg police officer charged with sex assault on 11-year-old boys
WINNIPEG - A veteran Winnipeg police officer who also worked for a government child welfare agency has been suspended following allegations of sexually assaulting two 11-year-old boys. Kenneth Jack...
Audit of major propane facilities to be completed this week: TSSA
TORONTO - The Technical Standards and Safety Authority says an inspection of all propane facilities in the province with a permanent storage capacity "in excess of 5,000 U.S. gallons" will be complete...
McGuinty vows to be vocal about Ontario's plight in next federal election
KITCHENER, Ont. - Premier Dalton McGuinty vowed Tuesday to remind Ontario voters in the next federal election that Ottawa is shortchanging the province, just as Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a ca...
Someone posing as victim's relative tries to cash in on Manitoba bus beheading
WINNIPEG - Someone claiming to be a sister of the young man stabbed and beheaded on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last month has been trying to use the horrific killing to collect money. The unidenti...
Mutated fish caught in lake downstream of Alberta's oilsands
FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. - Information about a mutated fish caught downstream from Alberta's oilsands region will be sent to a joint government-industry group that monitors the health of rivers and lakes...
Hundreds remember Master Cpl. Josh Roberts as 'good soldier' at funeral
SASKATOON - A man referred to as a "soldier's soldier," who not long ago carried the casket of a comrade slain in Afghanistan, was remembered Tuesday by hundreds of mourners in Saskatoon. About 700...
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