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Canada is lifting a nearly 30-year-old ban on gay men giving blood, though for the time being only those who are abstinent will be allowed to donate.

By Phil Melnychuk - Maple Ridge News Published: May 22, 2013 3:00 AM Updated: May 22, 2013 3:11 PM Families facing the burden of high home costs could have a cheaper option if they don't mind buying an older, smaller home, then making it an energy-smart building.

It's now confirmed that a tornado touched down in Ontario on Tuesday. Environment Canada confirms that an EF2 twister touched down near Fenelon Falls, more specifically in the community of Glenarm.

Members of the Headstones Dale Harrison, Hugh Dillon, Trent Carr and Tim White are shown in a handout photo.

McMunn & Yates Building Supplies, the Dauphin-based independent lumber and hardware store that has provided a Manitoba-owned retail presence in small-town Manitoba since the early '70s, has agreed to acquire most of the assets of the struggling McDiarmid Lumber Ltd.

Two men are now facing first-degree murder charges in the death of Tim Bosma, the Hamilton father who took two men on a test drive and never returned.

Mark Smich was arrested Wednesday, Hamilton Police announced at a press conference.

Hamilton police have made a second arrest in the case of Tim Bosma, a 32-year-old father who was killed after going on a test drive with two men.

On the viral YouTube video that propelled him to a measure of fame, the disheveled itinerant dubbed "Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker" describes himself as a "home-free" surfer and musician with roots in West Virginia.

Omeed Ahmadzai, 24, was among three brothers arrested early Saturday morning following an alleged sexual assault of a woman in the Entertainment District.

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne appears before the legislature's justice committee at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Tuesday April 30, 2012.

Police have laid another sexual assault charge against an Oshawa man already charged with sexually assaulting a child after a second complainant came forward.

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The choir group at Cawthra Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ont., will spend the better part of the month trilling the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" - but as a rare chance to sing at the band's Air Canada Centre gig approaches, the song's message doesn't really ring true.

The lawyer for the man accused in the killing of a Hamilton, Ont., father found dead after taking two men on a test drive says his client is being unfairly maligned by "speculation" surrounding the case.

Lakehead University researcher Mat Leitch has been mapping the inherent properties of underutilized tree species in northwestern Ontario to assist companies looking to source quality wood.

A Thunder Bay crew worker gets a pump going Monday in the flooded yard of a First Street residence.

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The Ontario government and police are investigating a long-term care facility after a hidden video camera captured an elderly woman with dementia being abused by her caregivers.