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• Former New Brunswick city councillor waives right to...
  Donnie Snook is facing eight charges including sexual interference with a child under 16, possession of child pornography and making child ...
• Morrissey’s latest novel ‘Livvy Higgs’...
  By Jessica VitulloTORONTO — Donna Morrissey never saw herself as a writer. She was a high school dropout, went to university for social work when ...
• Biologists call for action to stop multiple oil, mud...
  Incidents posted online by the federal-provincial regulator suggest there were 39 leaks of various oils and the synthetic mud used for ...
• New EI rules take aim at frequent users
  The changes to the employment insurance program will impact all jobless Canadians who apply for benefits, but will hit hardest so-called repeat ...
• Pope defrocks Lahey
  ANTIGONISH, N.S. — The Pope has defrocked a Roman Catholic bishop who was convicted earlier this year of importing child pornography into ...
• St. John’s mayor says Occupy tents will be removed...
  By Sue Bailey ST. JOHN’S — Tents belonging to some of the most persistent Occupy protesters in North America will be removed Wednesday ...
• With home-building waning, non-residential permits...
  By Julian BeltrameOTTAWA — House-building intentions continued to slow in March, but the construction industry as a whole still looked strong ...
• RCMP denies report suggesting Newfoundland was slow...
  The Mounties and a Labrador search co-ordinator are refuting a media report suggesting the province was slow to help in the search for a missing ...
• Shaun Majumder shows emotional side in new HBO...
  By Bill Brioux Sure, there are clips of Majumder on stage telling funny stories about his past as well as riding the tour bus with pal and ...
• Nova Scotia-based seafood company High Liner Foods...
  LUNENBURG, N.S. — Frozen seafood company High Liner Foods has announced it will close two plants in Burin and Danvers, Mass., laying off more ...
• Fortis increases Q1 earnings to $121M; revenue off...
  Fortis said net earnings attributable to common shareholders in the three months ended March 31 were $121 million or 64 cents per common ...
• Nova Scotia premier vows Muskrat Falls review, even...
  By Keith Doucette HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier promised Wednesday he would introduce regulatory changes if necessary to ensure that the ...
• Alberta man plans cross-Canada run to raise money...
  ST. JOHN’S -- A 23-year-old Alberta man is planning to run across Canada to raise money for a hospital in Edmonton.Curtis Hargrove of Cold Lake ...
• Buchans Minerals announces exploration deal with...
  WINDSOR, N.S. — Buchans Minerals Corp. said Monday it has an agreement with Minco pls that will see the Ireland-based, U.K-listed concern invest ...
• ’One of the kindest gentlemen:’ pastor killed in...
  FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — A pastor killed in a fiery crash in northern Alberta is being remembered as someone who was a mentor to young people and ...
• Payroll earnings up 0.2 per cent in February: StatsCan
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees rose to $886.45 in February, up 0.2 per cent from ...
• Newfoundland man dies from injuries after ATV crash
  ST. JOHN’S — A Newfoundland man who was found unconscious after an all-terrain vehicle crash last week has died.RCMP say the 44-year-old from ...
• Value of Canadian farmland rising except in...
  TORONTO — The latest farm value report from Farm Credit Canada says the average value of Ontario farmland increased by 7.2 per cent during the ...
• Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions...
  ST. JOHN’S — The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it went above and beyond its goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2010.As ...
• Halifax stop a moving one for some passengers on...
  By Adam Scotti HALIFAX — One of two cruise ships that are scheduled to rendezvous at the site where the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic ...
• Author’s fictional Titan hit iceberg years before...
  By Michelle McQuigge TORONTO — It was the largest ship of its day, described by its creator as “the greatest of the works of men.” Its seafaring ...
• Father perished on board Titanic after kidnapping...
  By Adam ScottiHALIFAX — Michel Navratil picked up his sons from his estranged wife with the hope of giving them a new life in America, but ...
• Toronto author profiles Titanic’s first-class...
  By Victoria AhearnTORONTO — They survived the sinking of the Titanic but once they came ashore, some Canadians found themselves in a new kind of ...
• Cable ships accepted grim task of recovering victims...
  By Adam Scotti HALIFAX — The morbid task of recovering the remains of the Titanic’s passengers didn’t fall to those who responded first ...
• Titanic tragedy led to scientific understanding of...
  By Alison AuldHALIFAX — When Steve Blasco peered through the gloom and gazed upon the Titanic a dozen years ago, he saw the fabled ship as both a ...
• Man surrenders peacefully after armed standoff in...
  HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. — Police in Labrador say an armed standoff earlier today has ended peacefully following more than two hours of ...
• City where Titanic cast off marks 100th anniversary...
  By Cassandra Vinograd LONDON — Exactly 100 years from the day when the ill-fated Titanic sailed from Southampton, the English port city is paying ...
• Newfoundland gives $200,000 to mark 100-year...
  CAPE RACE — The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is giving more than $200,000 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Titanic ...
• Identity of Titanic’s ’unknown child’ a sad...
  HALIFAX — Little Sidney Leslie Goodwin was laid to rest in Halifax’s Fairview Lawn Cemetery nearly a century before anyone knew who he was.The ...
• Tragedy of the Titanic triggers changes at sea,...
  By Diana Mehta TORONTO — They’re 100 years apart but key moments are remarkably similar — a ship taking on water, passengers fleeing their cabins ...