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Concerns about E.coli prompt ground beef recall in western Canada
OTTAWA – Federal health officials are recalling packages of ground beef produced by Winnipeg-based Cargill Meat Solutions due to concerns about E.coli.
Montreal massacre continues to divide politicians on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA – Twenty-five years after Marc Lepine killed 14 women at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, the massacre is still creating sharp political divisions on Parliament Hill over the nature of the crime and the proper response to it.
Slain Vancouver-born actress asked dance teacher not to judge rapper husband
VANCOUVER – The first question Stephanie Moseley's former dance teacher asked the Vancouver-born actress when the cable TV star last dropped by her old studio was about her gleaming engagement ring.
Little girl who met duchess Kate in 2011 dies after battle with cancer
CALGARY – A young Alberta cancer patient whose timid embrace of the Duchess of Cambridge captured hearts around the world has died.
B.C. wines available at grocery stores on April 1
VICTORIA – Home-grown British Columbia wines are getting their own shelf at provincial grocery stores this spring.
Study involving UBC scientist says Chinook salmon could be wiped out by 2100
VANCOUVER – New climate-change research involving a University of British Columbia scientist predicts that one of the West Coast's most prized salmon stocks could be wiped out over the next 85 years.
Facing criticism, Hasbro plans to replace Play-Doh tool that looks like a penis
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – It was an embarrassing Christmas for Nivea Cabrera after she was accused by her fiance's mother of giving her 5-year-old granddaughter a sex toy. A mortified Carbrera asked the child where she got the penis-shaped plastic cylinder.
Terminally ill Detroit-area teen gets wish fulfilled with Eminem visit, dies the following day
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – A terminally ill Detroit-area teenager who was surprised by a visit from rapper Eminem has died.
Prentice pans talk of Alberta recession; calls the suggestion an ‘outlier’
CALGARY – Premier Jim Prentice is scoffing at a suggestion by the Conference Board of Canada that Alberta is likely to face a recession as crude prices continue to plunge.
1,500 copies of latest Charlie Hebdo issue available in Canada on Friday
TORONTO – The Canadian distributor for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo says 1,500 copies of the latest issue — which features a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover — will be available in different parts of the country Friday.
Defrocked Arctic priest says he’s sorry for sex abuse of children
IQALUIT, Nunavut – A defrocked priest who abused a large number of Inuit children has told a judge that he's sorry for his crimes and won't commit any more.
Women denied equal pay and promotions at Castlegar mill: human rights complaint
CASTLEGAR, B.C. – The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will hear a complaint made a former human resources manager at a Castlegar, B.C., pulp mill who says she and other female supervisors were denied equal pay and promotions.
For late figure skating great Toller Cranston, art was ‘terrifying obsession’
TORONTO – Once Toller Cranston left the ice behind, he focused his restless creative ingenuity on art — an all-consuming enterprise that he wryly referred to as his "terrifying obsession."
Canadian woman dies at retreat in Peru after drinking tea in ceremony
Avid traveller Jennifer Logan had finished a job teaching English to women in Saudia Arabia, and was visiting family back in Canada, when she set off last month for her next adventure in Peru.
Teamsters serve strike notice on CP Rail; could walk off the job Sunday
MONTREAL – The union representing 3,300 locomotive engineers and other train workers at Canadian Pacific Railway has issued strike notice to the company.