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1 hr ago | The Georgia Straight

Health Canada to lift some restrictions on blood donations from men who have sex with men

Blood donor screening will be changed from asking potential male donors if they have had sex with a man "even once, since 1977" to the past five years.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

6 hrs ago | The Windsor Star

Windsor fugitive arrested in Texas after a decade

Mexican citizen Jacobo Peters Fehr who was a fugitive from Canadian courts for about 10 years but arrested in mid-April in the town of Lubbock.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Texas, Drugs, US News, Illegal Immigration

Thu May 23, 2013

Squamish Chief

Federal Court upholds 2011 election results in 'robocall' ridings

The Federal Court has rejected a bid to overturn the results in six federal ridings from the 2011 election - but both sides are claiming victory in the so-called robocalls affair.

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Canada.com

Federal judge confirms election fraud in 2011 vote

Electoral fraud occurred during the last federal election, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday, but there is no proof that it affected the outcomes in six ridings at issue, so the elections will not be overturned.

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Edmonton Journal

Federal court finds fraud in six ridings in last election

Electoral fraud occurred during the last federal election, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday, but there is no proof that it affected the outcomes in six ridings at issue so the elections will not be overturned.

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Canada.com

Drug cartel member pleads guilty to murder, attempted murder of 2 US agents in Mexico

A Mexican drug cartel member pleaded guilty Thursday to the killing and wounding of two U.S. agents in Mexico, and the guilty pleas of three other men were unsealed in connection to the shooting.

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Related Topix: World News, Mexico,

Hawkes Bay Today

CHARGED: Former Napier city councillor Peter Beckett is accused of killing his wife. PHOTO/FILE

A pre-trial hearing for a former Napier man accused of murdering his wife in Canada has been adjourned.

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Canada.com

Report calls for decriminalizing both 'hard' and 'soft' drugs

The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle drug abuse, a B.C.-based national coalition of drug policy experts argue.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Canada, World News

Regina Leader Post

Jockeying starts over making the Senate more accountable

Senators should disclose their expenses just as cabinet ministers do, the top Conservative in the Senate says, meaning the details of every trip and every receipt could be made public.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Paul Martin

CBC News

Family of Ontario man missing in Australia pleads for army help

Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car May 13 in a village near an Australian national park.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Canada,

Weyburn This Week

Canada and Pacific Alliance trade bloc size each other up for trade prospects

The leaders of Canada and the Pacific Alliance will be sizing each other up today to see if Canada might be a good fit with the nascent Latin American trade bloc.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Stephen Harper, Colombia,

Wed May 22, 2013

Weyburn Review

Heavy rain, run-off-swollen waterways could mean southern Interior floods

Homeowners in low lying areas over a wide section of B.C.'s southern and southeastern Interior are being urged to brace for flooding.

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Related Topix: Weather, Canada, World News,

The Province

Video: Harper outlines what he knew, when, on Senate scandal

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he was not consulted by his chief of staff before Nigel Wright paid $90,000 to Sen.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, World News, Peru, Canada

Canada.com

Prime Minister Stephen Harper flees scandal: As damage control goes, this was a train wreck

Should Alberta's Wildrose party ever choose to launch a federal wing, Tuesday's tragi-comedy on Parliament Hill will serve as a helpful point of germination.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Canada, World News

The Winnipeg Free Press

'Quality Balls' doc profiles Winnipeg-born comedy veteran David Steinberg

David Steinberg arrives at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, University of Chicago

The Waterloo Region Record

Canada lifts lifetime ban on gay men giving blood, some restrictions remain

Canadian Blood Services says men who have not had sex with other men within the last five years will be allowed to donate blood when the new policy comes into effect this summer.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Sex Scandal

Brandon Sun

Housing slowdown to worsen, cost 150,000 jobs, says mortgage group

Canada's housing market is slowing dramatically in terms of both sales and construction, dragging down economic growth and putting some 150,000 jobs at risk in coming years, a mortgage industry association warns in its spring report.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Canada, World News,

CBC News

Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart crack jokes about Rob Ford

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's woes over crack cocaine allegations are providing plenty of late-night television fodder for Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and other comedians south of the border.

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Related Topix: Drugs, The Daily Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Jimmy Kimmel, Canada, World News

CBC News

Judge scolds 'flabby, sad generation' for skipping jury duty

The chief justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court is demanding to know why 95 people, or 40 per cent of prospective jurors, were not in court Tuesday for the start of a five-day trial.

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CBC News

Senate debates expense audits amid greater scrutiny

The Senate is debating reports about the living and travel claims of three senators who have all been ordered to repay inappropriately claimed money.

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