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Officials at U.S. border seize 75 firearms hidden inside pickup truck
COUTTS, Alta. — Border officials in Alberta have seized a cache of guns hidden inside a vehicle trying to get into Canada.
Officers found 75 firearms, including 48 handguns, stowed inside a pickup truck at the Coutts crossing on Tuesday. READ
Crown wants six years in prison for Graham James
The Crown outlined Wednesday how convicted pedophile and former junior hockey coach Graham James would groom his victims for the sexual abuse to come, then hold them in his sway by threatening to take away the hockey they so dearly loved. READ
America’s Most Wanted fugitive nabbed in Montreal after decade on lam
A convicted child molester who has been on the run from U.S. authorities for a decade, and was featured on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted,” has been captured in Canada. READ
Minister defends pension reform but does not address seniors’ poverty concerns
The federal government is stepping up its rhetoric to justify plans to cut public pension benefits, but remains silent on how it will address seniors’ poverty. READ
Harkat lawyer seeks end to security certificate process
A lawyer for Mohamed Harkat says the security certificate process being used to deport the Algerian refugee is unconstitutional. READ
Veterans minister promises better information
Canada’s veterans affairs minister says former soldiers who are denied disability benefits will no longer be given vague or unclear reasons for the decision. READ
NDP ranks swelled to record 128,000 during leadership race
Membership in the federal NDP has swelled by more than 50 per cent since the start of the party’s leadership contest last October. READ
RCMP called in over ‘threats’
The RCMP say they’ve not yet decided whether they will launch a full investigation into threats made against Public Safety Minister Vic Toews connected to the introduction of an online surveillance. READ
Veterans ombudsman wants more information about benefit rulings
A report on how former soldiers are told whether they’ve qualified for disability benefits is the start of a wide-ranging look into problems plaguing veterans’ care, the veterans ombudsman says. READ
Crime bill will put more natives behind bars, says AFN chief
The Assembly of First Nations accused the government of undercutting its own plans to improve conditions on reserves with the Conservatives’ tough new crime bill. READ
Environmental assessment changes put health, safety at risk: critics
A group of environmental lawyers, doctors and academics says the federal government will endanger health and safety if it curtails the environmental assessment process in a “haphazard” way. READ
‘Dirty oil’ label prompts trade complaint against EU
Canada is threatening to take Europe to the world’s trading body if it persists in trying to single out oilsands crude as dirty oil. READ
Experts call for national strategy to fight addiction
Addiction experts are applauding Ontario’s new restrictions on OxyContin and the drug replacing it, but say the country needs a national strategy to tackle widespread abuse of prescription painkillers. READ
Six-vehicle crash injures five, started with logging truck
les stopped for a train in northwestern Alberta. READ
Quebec couch ’surfer’ killed, friend faces three criminal charges
A youthful weekend stunt gone tragically wrong has resulted in three criminal charges against a 21-year-old Quebec man. READ
Thousands of Quebec students strike over tuition-fee hikes
Tens of thousands of Quebec post-secondary students are now on strike against tuition-fee hikes. READ
Cdn-owned, U.S. firms set up PACs to fundraise for Congressional races
OTTAWA — Political action committees affiliated with companies based in the United States but owned by Canadian corporations are pouring money into this year’s U.S. House and Senate races. READ
Toronto archbishop named cardinal
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict on Saturday brought 22 Catholic churchmen, including Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins, into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor. READ
Pope to declare Mohawk woman buried in Quebec saint
VATICAN CITY — A Mohawk woman buried in Quebec will become the first Native American saint at a ceremony in October. READ
Coroner identifies bones of Vancouver man who vanished 25 years ago
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Coroner’s Service has solved the 25-year-old disappearance of a Vancouver man and along with it, another floating-foot mystery. READ
