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16.05.2008
OTTAWA - Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean has formally unveiled the new, Canadian Victoria Cross, or VC - the highest possible award for battlefield bravery.
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16.05.2008
INVERNESS, N.S. - A harbour blockade remained in place in the tiny fishing community of Inverness, N.S., Friday as angry fishermen continued to demand a share of the local crab quota.
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16.05.2008
TORONTO - There will be no public inquiry into the legal saga that ultimately saw Robert Baltovich acquitted of murdering his girlfriend 18 years ago, Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley said Friday.
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16.05.2008
CALGARY - Calgary's mayor says thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral of Cpl. Mike Starker, a city paramedic and reservist who was killed in an ambush in Afghanistan May 6.
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16.05.2008
OTTAWA - Youth homicides reached their highest point on record in 2006 as the crime rate among young people aged 12 to 17 climbed three per cent from 2005.
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16.05.2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A joint Canadian and Afghan army patrol was attacked Friday by a suicide bomber, southwest of Kandahar.
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16.05.2008
OTTAWA - Forcing violent young offenders to prove they should not face adult prison terms violates their constitutional rights, a deeply divided Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday.
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16.05.2008
SYDNEY, N.S. - Guards at the Cape Breton Correctional Facility were refusing to work Friday over the discovery of asbestos in the provincial jail where about 80 inmates are being held.
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16.05.2008
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A former Newfoundland school board official is facing fraud and related charges following an investigation into an international student exchange program.
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16.05.2008
TORONTO - The RCMP is challenging an order that it pay an expelled cadet $500,000 and give him another chance at joining the force.
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