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Stronach lawyer arguing some complainants in sex assault trial coached by Crown
The defence lawyer of Frank Stronach is arguing that some of the complainants in the sexual assault trial of the Canadian businessman were coached by Crown prosecutors before they testified.
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Award-winning documentary Agatha’s Almanac captures 92-year-old’s life on ancestral Manitoba farm
Amalie Atkins’s award-winning documentary offers a glimpse into the colour and texture of the life of her 92-year-old aunt, Agatha Bock, as she works an ancestral farm in southern Manitoba.
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Former law school dean wanted on Canada-wide arrest warrant now disbarred in U.K.
A former University of Manitoba law school dean found to have misspent more than $600,000 from publicly-funded university coffers and is wanted by Winnipeg police on a Canada-wide arrest warrant, has been disbarred from practising law in his native U.K. Just over two years after the Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) disbarred Jonathan Black-Branch following…
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You can now get a prescription for nature access if you live in Hamilton, here’s how
The PaRx program, an initiative that allows healthcare providers to prescribe nature passes to patients, is now available for Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) sites.
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Posthaste: How the U.S. dollar stole the Canadian dollar’s petrocurrency thunder
The Canadian dollar has yielded its petrocurrency status to the United States dollar due to the latest global energy crisis, says one currency analyst. “The shale revolution turned the United States into the world’s largest oil and natural gas producer, meaning energy price swings now feed more directly into American trade balances, capital flows and…
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Safety, politics and education costs were key reasons why this U.S. family moved to Windsor
Marissa Pfautz, her husband and four of their children came to Windsor, Ont., from Chicago, Ill., in August. She says it was for a handful of reasons. And as the CBC’s Jason Viau reports, according to one immigration lawyer, more people are looking to move to Canada from the U.S. over the past few years.
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Volkswagen Beetle removed from rock face in Squamish, B.C.
A group claiming to represent a group of anonymous University of B.C. engineering students took credit for suspending the car last week, as part of a long-running tradition of pranks.
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Man threatens girl with knife at Windsor bus stop, police allege
The accused also made disparaging comments about the victim’s skirt, according to authorities.