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As rescue workers recovered the bodies of three men killed in an avalanche Saturday near Golden, B.C., family and friends confirmed the identities of the victims, who all hailed from central Alberta.
 
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The percentage of offenders in Canadians prisons who are granted parole has dropped steadily as the Harper government fills up posts on the National Parole Board with like-minded conservatives.
 
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Mike de Jong speaks to the media at SFU Harbour Centre on Thursday. Today is the cutoff date forLiberal leadership candidates to sign up new party members.

Decision time looms for Liberal leadership

The B.C. Liberal recruitment drive is over -now it's decision time.


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After exchanging letters for years,  Michelle  Sauve, of Lisle, Ontario, married former death-row inmate (his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2005) Justin Wiley Dickens in 2006.

PRISON PEN PALS

In April 1999, convicted murderer Justin Wiley Dickens was sitting on Texas' death...

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ALBERTA'S 'LAST BLACK COWBOY'

Leon Clarence Jamerson decided to drop out of school in Grade 3. He approached his...


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Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe.

Bloc pushing issues that hit home for separatists and federalists

As talk of a federal election simmers and political parties turn up the volume, it’s hardly a surprise that the Bloc Quebecois recently presented the federal government with a $5-billion shopping list of demands.

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Canada's International Aid Minister Bev Oda.

Memo only altered to signal direct decision from Oda: Tories

An aide to International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda stamped her automated signature on a bureaucratic memo in 2009 because she was travelling and scribbled the word “not” on it to signify she was rejecting the advice from her bureaucrats, the Conservative government says.


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Pipeline blast evacuates northern Ontario town

A natural-gas pipeline explosion in northern Ontario forced the evacuation of much of a small town late Saturday night, according to provincial police.


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A new composite sketch of a woman, known only as Jane Doe.

Police release old sketch to identify Pickton-linked Jane Doe

Bill Wilson was selling homemade whirligigs from a roadside stand near Mission, B.C., and stopped to fill his water bottle in a small creek when he spotted something that resembled an old bowl. He used his bottle to flip over the object. It wasn’t a bowl. Staring up at him was half of a human skull.ain.


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Cops dragged, injured after stopping driver

Two Montreal police officers suffered minor injuries when they were dragged 10 to 25 meters after they stopped a motorist on Sunday afternoon.

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