B.C. wood carver shot dead by Seattle police
News that a talented aboriginal Vancouver Island wood carver was shot dead by police in Seattle has shocked the man's friends and family.
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Consumers looking beyond grocery stores for their meat
Meat from the grocery store just doesn't taste right to Melissa Gauthier. Raised in tiny Kapuskasing in northern Ontario, the 26-year-old civil servant has hunted moose, hare and partridge with her father since she was a child.
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Hair-raising find could indicate men's heart attack risk
Just a small snippet of hair may hold the key to predicting a person's risk of heart attack months in advance, according to a new Canadian study.
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Car flips, plummets down into Vancouver excavation site
A man was taken to hospital after the car he was driving flipped and plummeted several storeys down into a construction excavation site Thursday afternoon.
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SW Calgary mail on hold after hawk attacks letter carrier
An overprotective hawk in the city's Bayview area has put a stop to mail delivery after continuously attacking the Canada Post carrier who resorted to wearing a helmet which was then broken by the raptor.
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Extending bar closing hours recommended for Jasper Avenue
The City of Edmonton should look at letting bars stay open longer after last-call, creating a police unit devoted to entertainment zones, and licensing buskers as part of efforts to deal with issues created by the growing nightlife district on Jasper Avenue.
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Gallery: Exercise Mountain Man
Teams of soldiers from Canadian Forces Bases in Edmonton and Shilo compete in the
50 km Exercise Mountain Man challenge at Hawrelak Park.
Approximately 300 Edmonton and Shilo-based soldiers will prove their physical and mental stamina in this grueling challenge. While carrying a 15 kilogram rucksack, they will face a two-part footrace of 31.6 km and 5.6 km respectively, a 3.2 km canoe portage, and finally a 10 km paddle down the North Saskatchewan River.
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Austin O’Brien students pay tribute to popular classmate
Because it was Friday, Aug. 13, Adam Stewart thought the text message was a practical joke.
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Veteran Canadian astronaut Hadfield to command space station
He'll be in charge of the $135-billion International Space Station, orbiting the Earth 400 kilometres up, but Chris Hadfield wouldn't dare disobey his wife and shave off his moustache.
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Former provincial justice minister files countersuit against Que. Premier Charest
The personal hostilities between Marc Bellemare and Quebec Premier Jean Charest escalated yet again Thursday as Bellemare filed a counter lawsuit against Charest that seeks $900,000 in damages.
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Enbridge announces new Athabasca oilsands pipeline expansion
Enbridge announces a $185 million expansion to its Athabasca oil sands pipeline system - the second in less than a week - to accommodate new volumes from Cenovus' Christina Lake project.
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Eskimos link-in-the-chain mentality stressed in the dressing room
There was a bit of a running gag going around certain e-mail circles on bye week that the reason the palatial Edmonton Eskimos dressing room was designed in a circular form was that it’s easier to point fingers at each other, what with the dismal 1-6 start and all.
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Extending bar closing hours, licensing buskers recommended for Jasper Avenue
The City of Edmonton should look at extending bar closing hours, creating an entertainment zone police unit and licensing buskers to help deal with issues created by the growing nightlife district on Jasper Avenue.
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Harper blasts 'bizarre' Bloc complaints over park passes
Prime Minister Stephen Harper ridiculed the Bloc Quebecois Thursday over its complaint that he engaged in federalist propaganda earlier this year by sending a letter to Grade 8 students throughout the country inviting them to use a free pass to visit national parks.
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Franklin expedition logbooks to be unearthed
The search for the logbooks of the ill-fated Franklin expedition — the Holy Grail of Arctic exploration history — has taken on new life.
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Class-action suit filed over G20 protests
A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday, involving 1,150 people with links to the massive G20 protests in Toronto earlier this summer.
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Boom of prison expansions underway to meet expected flood of inmates
The federal government is rolling out plans in recent days to spend $105 million on new cells at three prisons in Western Canada and one in Nova Scotia.
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Carson Lake drowning victim from Bashaw
Police have identified a Bashaw man found dead Monday from an apparent drowning in Carson-Pegasus Provincial Park.
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Edmonton star pass-catchers rest for Calgary
It was a dwindling, but very productive Edmonton Eskimos receiving corps that took to the artificial turf at Commonwealth Stadium for practice Thursday morning.
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